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Works Cited - When you are using someone elses ideas to support your research

Son of Citation Machine

General Geography - A Bit of an Introduction

Latitude and Longitude & Maps

Learn the continents - National Geographic

Brainpop Latitude and Longitude Brainpop introduces the subject

About.com on Important Latitudes and Longitude lines Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, and the Hemispheres

Lessons on Latitude and Longitude Good graphics showing how the degrees are determined (2/08)

Skill builder - Lat. and Long. a quiz to complete the lessons on the previous site

Learn About the Continents - Read the introduction then click on "Learn About the Continents"

About.com on the Basics of Geography a huge collection of site links

Young Persons Atlas Hammond Atlas Discussion of Latitude and Longitude

Where is it? Scroll down on this page, type in a Latitude and Longitude, and a marker appears on a world map. (Note: - (a minus sign) typed on the map signifies South latitude or West longitude)

You Can Get There From Here - How far is it from one location to another?

Interactive Latitude and Longitude Game Kids' Geo.com game- a bit noisy. levels get progressively harder

National Geographic Maps "Xpeditions" Atlas

Crack the Code Activity Use the clues to locate the priceless stolen maps.

Earth History - before humans

Geologic Time Scale Go here for basic info about Periods and Epochs

Table of Geologic Time - scoll down for links to the Epochs of Earth History (and the meanings of their names)

Tour of Geologic Time University of California at Berkeley Online Paleo Museum

Geology: Plate Tectonics A link from the UCMP site above

A Brief History of Evolution Theory Some links for further study

Dinosaurs for K-12 A wonderful collection of links to all kinds of dinosaurs (2/08 some links are dead)

Paul Sereno Dino Hunter The explorer who lead the discovery team on Sarcosuchus imperator

Images of Niger - where Dr. Sereno found Sarchosuchus

Pack the Truck - webquest - Your task is to organize and outfit an expedition to find fossils

All About Dinosaurs Enchanted Learning on saurians

Oceans of Kansas The Great Plains were once a shallow sea, scroll down on the site to find more (2/08 nice graphics and links)

Dinosphere Childrens' Museum of Indianapolis Check out the "Who Should Own the Bones?" Webquest

Prehistoric Life - Pre-human and more

Big Al The Allosaurus Role-playing Game from the BBC - Eat or Be Eaten - some bandwidth problems at times

And then there were Humans - Early humans

Early Human links A collection for middle schoolers

Clovis People - Who were Early Americans

Caveman Challenge - Could you survive?

Iceman Found - F3, turn off your sound before going to this site

Otzi Otzi the iceman ( and info on other mumified remains)

Otzi's last meal - What have we found out about this Neolithic man? What time of the year did he die?

Ancient Man A grade school collection of anthropology links and African geology links for teachers and students

Food 3 mya - How might our food have influenced our evolution?

Primitive Technologies - What were the skills used by early or indigenous peoples to survive?

Flint Knapping Making stone tools, great gallery of different types of stone points and tools

Another Flint Knapping Site techniques and pictures

Casts of Stone Age Points and Tools - Click on the Casts pages for great pictures of stone points (replicas for sale, also)

AtlAtls, anyone? A discussion of the physics of spear-throwers - now legal for hunting in PA.

World Atlatl Association See their Prehistory link for more info. Oh, they've got international rules, too.

Humans in the New World - a Wikipedia article about the various theories of migration

Origami - only humans do it, placed here until the Far East portion of this site is ready, diagrams galore

Ancient History

People of the Ancient World

Famous People of the Eastern Hemisphere - A-Z list of famous people of the ancient world

Famous People of Ancient History

Pre-History

CatalHuyuk - Neolithic village found in Turkey

A place to start - BBC's central links for Ancient Civilizations and other human endeavors

Some diversions - assorted history interactives pertaining to all eras

The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World - Where were they located? Which one still exists?

Mesopotamia - Sumer

Mesopotamia Farming Challenge - what invention permitted farmers to grow surpluses

Mesopotamia - A collection of galleries from the BBC

Ancient Sumer's Contributions - inovations and inventions

Culture of Ancient Sumer - What was life like back then?

Foods of Mesopotamia - What types of foods produced surpluses?

Food - a lengthy article

Write Like a Babylonian - Cuneiform initals translator

Cuneiform translator - Write a message in that ancient language

Hammurabi's Code - Find out what Hammurabi would have done?

Babylonian numerals - cuneiform numbers

Online resources - for Mesopotamia and Middle East (homeschool resource)

Egypt

Famous People of Ancient Egypt - Howard Carter was not an ancient Egyptian

Nile River - view from space. A NASA photo showing the "narrow ribbon" of green along the river and the "fan-shaped" river delta

Amarna at University of Pennsylvania - Online exibit

BBC Egyptian Links -

Silt - a discussion of what it is and where it is found. Silt moves with fast moving water and is depoisited when the water slows or recedes.

Splendors of Anc. Egypt - a museum tour of ancient objects courstesy of the Florida International Museum and the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum

Clickable map - take a tour of ancient sites, click on the images for larger views

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt -daily life in Egypt from St. Petersburg, FL museum link

Daily Life - What was life like back then?

Hair Styles - "You must tell me how your head feels under something like that." - Bob Dylan

Egyptian Numerals - Whole numbers and fractions, compare with the Babylonian number cuneiforms

Write Like An Egyptian - Neferchichi's article on heiroglyphics

Write Your Name in Hieroglyphics - courtesy of University of Penn

Hieroglypics Translator - Just what it says, short phrases, only

The Daily Papyrus - links to heiroglyphs, activities and virtual tours of Egypt - Virtual Egypt

Gods and Goddesses - the British Museum link, read the "Story" then go to "Explore" for information. Click on an image for a larger picture and information

Gods of Ancient Egypt - Information and images of the more important G & G

115 Gods of Ancient Egypt - List of G & G and thier family tree on the left frame of this site, Scroll down on this site for the Myth of Osiris and Isis

Also Gods and Goddesses - Pharoah Neferchichi's site

Gods & † Goddesses - Ancient Egypt Online - scroll down on this link to get infromation about G&G

Mythology Directory - links to G & G and more on the mythology

Mummification - the British Museum link on the topic

Mummies of Ancient Egypt - What? How? Who?

Egyptian Mummies - from Mummy Tombs.com- linked with Otzi

Make a Mummy of Ramoses' body - learn how the Egyptians worked

Valley of the Kings - TourEgypt's site with nice pictures

Saqqara - site of the Step Pyramid and the ancient cemetary near the ancient city of Memphis

Explore the Pyramids - NOVA PBS links

Khufu's Pyramid - TourEgypt's article with images, especially interesting is the one from Cairo looking toard Giza

Pyramid Challenge - use your labor and resources to build a pyramid

Egypt Webquest - an older project idea (many dead links)

Ancient Egypt - Online resources courtesy of the Woodlands Junior School, UK

Food back then - Bread and more

Food - more info here

Food - scroll down for more food references

Recipes - from TourEgypt modern recipes with history

All things Egyptian - click on the A-Z index "F" for "food" or more topics listed alphabetically

Compare Ancient Egypt with other civilizations

The Plateau - Dr. Zahi Hawass' site - His personal site with loads of links

Pharaoh Tutankhamen - Was It Murder?

1. Test your hypothesis - a webquest

2. Further information - did your hypothesis change? (National Geographic)

Eye Witness to History - links to ancient history - make a mummy

Ancient Greece

Famous People of Ancient Greece - including peolpe and Greek heroes

Greek Mythology Scavenger Hunt - click on the links to answer the questions on your worksheet

Who was Heracles? - take notes on this story of Heracles, who was his father, mother, wife, and what did he do in his life?

Heracles - the BBC version

Greek Environment - Why was the sea so important to the Greek people? Why aren't the Greek hills covered with trees?

Ancient Greece - History 102 links

Ancient Greece for Kids - links to facets of Greek life. The Greeks looked for and loved beauty in all things from archtitecture, to art, to politics, to sports and the human form. Many statues of nude humans were carved.

Ancient Greece - From the British Museum - Check out the Explore pages and the Challenge pages

Athens vs. Sparta - act out the conflict with your classmates What was the problem between these two cities? Whay did they misunderstand each other?

BBC Schools Ancient Greece Homepage - click on the left frame of the BBC site to explore different parts of the history of Anc. Greece

The Ancient Olympics - BBC resources on the ancient Olympic Games When were he first games held?? What was the Sacred Truce?

Winged Sandals - use Flash version -- Greek culture and projects

Eye Witness to History - links to life in ancient Greece

Ancient Olympic Games - from the Perseus Project at Tufts University

The Current Olympic Games- Beijing 2008

Eratosthenes and the size of the Earth - At least one Greek knew taht the Earth was round and he calculated its size over 2000 years ago Here's a modern recreation of his experiment "The Erastosthenes Project" and another project from Middlebury College -

Erastothenes and Prime Numbers - a demonstation of his Sieve for finding Prime Numbers, or a short Wikipedia article here

Time keeping with sundials - Sundials on the Internet The Romans lovd the Greek dials and both the Greeks and the Egyptians seemed to have gotten the idea from the Babylonians - take a look at the projects

Ancient Rome

The Ancient Romans - click on the Colleseum to enter the site

Plinian eruptions - the violent eruption type that buried Pompeii - patience while the video loads

Plinian eruption - USGS glossary

Pompeii - Click on the map for the story of 79 A.D., look at the timelilne for Pompeii for more recent facts about the city's discovery

Pompeii - A Virtual Tour - a naval officer's tour and photos of the Bay of Naples and Pompeii. Check the images of the Roman baths with the arrangement of their rooms. The tradition of the baths goes all the way to Bath , England when it was part of the Roman Empire

Pompeii - The Last Day - the Discovery Channel site for their program

BBC Pompeii site -

Eye Witness to Ancient History - links to life in ancient Rome