Harnett County Schools

Web Page Listing Based on Teacher Identified Instructional Themes

 

Compiled for Harnet County Schools
February 22, 1998

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Levels		 Theme Web Site Name Web Site URL
Grades K-5 Animals Yahooligans' page on animals http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Oddities/Animals/
  The Animal network http://animal.discovery.com/
  Animal Resources -- Sea World http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld/infobook.html
  Davis' Farmland * http://www.davisfarmland.com/
  U.S. National Park Service Information Center http://ice.ucdavis.edu/US_National_Park_Service/
  Transportation The Directory of Transportation Resources http://dragon.princeton.edu/~dhb/index.html
  Boomerang Box * http://www.apl.com/boomerangbox/
  First Flight http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/
  Yahooligans' page on Airplanes & Flying http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Oddities/Airplanes_and_Flying/
  Cars & History at the Sloan Museum http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/sloan/
  Dental Health/ Nutrition The Virtual Dentist http://www.virtual-dentist.com/
  Dental CyberWeb http://www.vv.com/dental-web/patients.html
  Dental Health Links http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/denthealth.html
  Dinosaurs/ Reptiles Yahooligans' Dinosaur page http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Oddities/Animals/Dinosaurs/
  Dino Russ' Lair http://128.174.172.76/isgsroot/dinos/dinos_home.html
  Dinosaur Reference Center http://www.crl.com/~sarima/dinosaurs/
  Dinosaur Images http://web.syr.edu/~dbgoldma/pictures.html
  Easter Easter Theme Pages http://www.bushnet.qld.edu.au/~sarah/spec_ed/easter.html
  Heather's Happy Easter Page http://www.shadeslanding.com/hms/easter/index.html
  How to make Ukrainian Easter Eggs http://www.isisnet.com/amorash/ukregg.htm
  Easter is Approaching http://www.ok.bc.ca/TEN/easter/easter.html
  Economics

Simple Machines

 Center for Economic Education http://www.coba.wright.edu/cee/index.htm
  Classroom & Curriculum Resources http://dent.edmonds.wednet.edu/IMD/economics.html
  Economics Resources for K-12 Teachers http://unicron.unomaha.edu/dept/econ/ecedweb/teach.htm
  Inquiry Almanak -- Simple Machines http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html
  Simple Machines from Bill Nye the Science Guy http://nyelabs.kcts.org/nyeverse/episode/e10.html
  Work is Simple with Simple Machines http://www.ed.uri.edu:80/SMART96/ELEMSC/SMARTmachines/machine.html
  Elements of Machines: Simple Machines http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
  Space (Solar System) Aero & Space: Comic book by NASA http://graphix2.larc.nasa.gov/gs/samples/multi/022/022_00.html
  Yahooligans' Space Pages http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Oddities/Space/
  Views of the Solar System English: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/homepage.htm

Spanish: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/span/homepage.htm
  The Nine Planets http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
  J-2 Space http://www.j-2.com/space.htm
  Meteor Showers http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/meteor_shower.html
  Birds Bird Watching http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/Birdwatching.html
  Carolina Raptor Center http://www.charweb.org/organizations/science/raptorcenter/
  Local Bird Field Study -- JasonVIII * http://www.jason.org/fieldstudy/
  Bird On http://birdcare.com/birdon/
  The Birdfeeder http://www.sover.net/~terrapin/birdfeed.htm
  Plants The Plant Tracker http://www.axis-net.com/pfaf/
  Rock City Gardens http://www.seerockcity.com/educ3.html
  USA United States Facts http://cube.ice.net/~edbear/USfacts.html
  U.S. Census Bureau Data Maps http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/index.html
  American Memory (Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
  The American West http://www.AmericanWest.com/
  Historical Maps of the United States http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html
  National Register of Historic Places http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrhome.html
  Today in History http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/
  Energy Energy Ed Online http://www.energyed.ecw.org/
  Energy Sites & Related Links http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/energy.htm
  Circus CircusWeb http://www.circusweb.com/
  Insects Amazing Insects http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/groveland/insect.proj/insects.html
  Ant Boys http://www.heatersworld.com/bugworld/
  NanoWorld Image Gallery: The Wonderful World of Insects http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/images_1.html
  St. Patrick's Day Customs & Traditions of St. Patrick's Day http://wilstar.net/patrick.htm
  Irish Folk Songs and Ballads http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~declaris/ballads/songs.html
  Lucky Leprechaun's Lane http://usacitylink.com/lucky/default.html
  A Wee Bit O' Fun http://www.nando.net/toys/stpaddy/stpaddy.html
  St. Patrick's Day: History & Myths http://www.mcleansboro.com/features/stpaddys.htm
  North Carolina Heritage Preservation North Carolina http://www.presnc.org/dhtml.html
  North Carolina -- Related Links http://www.mlushistory.com/nc/nclinks.htm
  North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources http://www.dcr.state.nc.us/dcr/dcrhome.htm
  Ocean life Explore the World Below http://www2.msstate.edu/~ves1/index.html
  Oceanography Resources on the Internet http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
  Ocean Books http://www.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/lesson/language/books.htm
  Explore the Ocean http://www.nmns.edu.tw/earth/03.html
  SchoolNet Ocean Site http://www.schoolnet.ca/manuals/virtualprod/ocean/
  Titanic Titanic: A Voyage of Discovery http://www.geocities.com/Baja/8334/
  Historical Titanic Photographs http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Dunes/6188/historicalpix.htm
  The Original Titanic Homepage http://www.gil.com.au/~dalgarry/
  Sunken Treasures The American Treasure Hunt Society http://www.treasurehunt.org/
  Mother's Day Mother's Day Messages from Kids http://kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/Mother_s_Day.html
  The Mother of all Mother's Day Web Sites http://www.tiac.net/users/ebbjr/mothers.html
  The Story of Mother's Day http://www.holidays.net/mother/story.htm
  Leprechauns Irish Legends http://www.aurora.komvux.norrkoping.se/crumlin/remain/01/legends.htm
  Zoo Animals Yahooligans' List of Zoo Web Pages http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Oddities/Animals/Zoos/
  Electronic Zoo http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/classroom/kids/e-zoo/
  Zoo in the Wild (Italian) http://www.edv.it/ZOO/index.html
  Farm Animals Davis' Farmland http://www.davisfarmland.com/
  Barnyard Buddies http://www.davisfarmland.com/
  Groveland Farm http://www.impossibledream.com/sheep/
  Gardens Garden.Com http://gardening.com/Default.htm
  KinderGARDEN http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kinder/index.html
  TeleGarden http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/garden/
Grades 4-5 Nutrition Kids Food CyberClub http://www.kidsfood.org/
    Food Finder http://www.olen.com/food/
    National Center for Nutrition & Dietetics http://www.eatright.org/
    5 A Day Homepage http://www.dole5aday.com/
    10 Tips to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity http://ificinfo.health.org/brochure/10tipkid.htm
  Piedmont (Stories) Division of Archives & History (NC) http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/
  State Library http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/
  Revolutionary War US Historic Documents (18th Century) http://www.law.uoknor.edu/ushist.html#1700
  Revolutionary War: A Journey Toward Freedom http://library.advanced.org/10966/
  Arbuckle's Fort: An Archaeological Adventure http://web.mountain.net/~ghs/fort.html
  The American Revolution: On-Line http://users.southeast.net/~dixe/amrev/index.htm
  Revolutionary War http://www.multied.com/revolt/
  Loyalist & British Songs of the Revolution http://www.erols.com/candidus/music.htm
  First Aid Active First Aid Online http://www.erols.com/candidus/music.htm
  Basic First Aid Procedures http://expage.com/page/lacieking
  First Aid Online http://www.prairienet.org/~autumn/firstaid/
  Bike Safety Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute http://www.bhsi.org/
  Bicycling Safety http://www.cam.org/~skippy/sites/cycling/SafetyLinks.html
  Mountain (legends, crafts, pottery) Carolina Clay http://www.cclay.com/
    North Carolina Festivals Calendar http://www.southfest.com/festival_list/n_carolina.html
    Celebrating the hand and the handmade in western Carolina http://www.story-works.com/cml/handmade.htm
  Civil War The Valley of the Shadow Project http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
  American Civil War http://californiacentralcoast.com/commun/map/civil/
  American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
  Civil War Archives http://www.civilwararchive.com
  Civil War in Miniature http://Civilwarmini.com/
  Civil War Poetry & Music http://www.erols.com/kfraser/
  Civil War Timeline http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
  WWII The Nazi Olympics: 1936 http://www.ushmm.org/olympics/index1.html
  NAZI History: Historic Perspective http://www.nsdapmuseum.com/
  Homefront Pictures: 1938-1944 http://rs6.loc.gov/fsowhome.html
  To War or Not to War http://saul.snu.edu/syllabi/history/s97projects/towar/
  World War II: an Online History http://www.cyberplus.ca/~chrism/
  World War II Photo Gallery http://www.visitorinfo.com/gallery/military.htm
  Middle America Guide to Central America http://www.greenarrow.com/welcome.htm
  Project Central America http://www.adventureonline.com/pca/
  Yahoo Links to Central American Countries http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Latin_America/Central_America/Countries/
  South America Yahoo Links to South American Countries http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Latin_America/South_America/Countries_and_Regions/
  Ancient Civilizations of the Andes http://www.rain.org/~pjenkin/civiliz/civiliza.html
  Secrets of the Maya Glyphs http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/bureau/
  South America Cybertour http://www.wp.com/virtualvoyager/
  Amazon Adventure http://vif27.icair.iac.org.nz/
  Amazon Rain Forest http://pilot.msu.edu/user/golebie1/isb202/amazon.htm
  Weather & Climate El Niņo Instructional Module http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/home.rxml
  El Niņo Theme Page http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html
  Yahooligans' Links to Weather Disaster Pages http://www.yahooligans.com/The_Scoop/Current_Events/Past_Current_Events/Weather_and_Disasters/
  Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/index.html
  Atmospheric Optical Effects http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/optics/html/optics.html
  The Weather Unit http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html
  The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
  Monthly Averages of Temp & Precip Southeastern States http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc/region_avg_info.html
  Historical Climate Data for Southeastern States http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc/climate_calendars.html
  Current Data & Forecasts* http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/interact.html
  Rain Forest The Jungle http://www.bcrescue.org/rainforests.html
  Rain Forest Alliance http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
  Rain Forest Workshop http://kids.osd.wednet.edu/Marshall/rainforest_home_page.html
  Toucan Sam's Rain Forest Encyclopedia http://www.toucansam.com/
  West Indies French West Indies http://www.cieux.com/~philip/fwi.html
  French West Indies Net http://WWW.fwinet.com/
  Gold Rush The Gold Rush http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/
  California Gold Rush Bibliographies http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/goldrush/GoldTOC.htm
  Memoir of the California Gold Rush http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~scring/index.html
  A Gold Rush Timeline http://www.acusd.edu/~jross/goldrush.html
  Gold Rush: Museum of the City of San Francisco* http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/masonrpt.html
  Matter Matter http://science.coe.uwf.edu/SH/Curr/matter/matter.htm
  Rocks Rockhound's Information http://www.rahul.net/infodyn/rockhounds/rockhounds.html
  Mineral & Gemstone Kingdom http://www.minerals.net
  Mineralogy Database in HTML Format http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/
  Solar Energy Chris and Grant's Solar Page http://www.teleport.com/~chrisdb/project/
  Maine Solar House http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/wlord/index.html
  Solar Energy Resources http://www.rt66.com/rbahm/
  20th Century Yahoo's Links to 20th Century History http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/20th_Century/
  Historical Atlas of the 20% Century http://www.infi.net/~mwhite28/20th-cen.html
  Canada Yahoo's Links to Things Canadian http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Canada/
  Canada's SchoolNet http://www.schoolnet.ca/
  SchoolNet Digital Collections http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/english/index.htm
  SchoolNet's History Page http://www.schoolnet.ca/lang_soc/hist/
  Environment Science and the Environment - Electronic News Summary Magazine http://www.cais.com/publish/
  North Carolina Big Sweep http://www.landmark-project.com/bigsweep/
  Eddie the Eco-dogs' Home Page http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/eddy/
  EnergyQuest http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/
  Treasured Earth Network http://www.ten.org/
  Famous Scientists Physics Quotes -- Free Downloads* http://www.wisbechg.demon.co.uk/quotes/
  Famous French Scientists http://www.ambafrance.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_index.html
  Famous Scientist Report http://www.caiu.k12.pa.us/hannaweb/chem/fsrlinks.htm
  Famous Scientists Class Activity http://www.ilstu.edu/depts/labschl/ep/vol5/famsci.htm
  Famous Computer Scientists http://www.cs.hmc.edu/computer_scientists.html
  African Americans in the Sciences http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html
  A&E's Biography http://www.biography.com/
  Pirates Beej's Pirate Image Archive http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/pirates/
  The History of Piracy http://www.filmzone.com/cutthroat/highseas/highseas.html
  Isle of Tortuga http://huizen.nhkanaal.nl/~wastrel/
  Pirates of the Caribbean http://icarus.cc.uic.edu/~jdrege1/toby/pirates/pirates.html
  Wild Women and Salty Dogs http://www.discovery.com/DCO/doc/1012/world/history/2pirates/2pirates.html
  Principals of Flight Aeronautics Learning Laboratory http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/princ1.htm
  Aeronautics Education http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/observe/exhibit/planes/planes_0.html
  "Egypt Game" Student Activities http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/egyp/egypsg1.html
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/egyp/egypsg2.html
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/egyp/egypsg3.html
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/egyp/egypsg4.html
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/egyp/egypsg5.html
  Poetry Yahoo Poetry Anthologies http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/Anthologies/
  Contemporary American Poetry Archive http://camel.conncoll.edu/library/CAPA/
  The Internet Poetry Archive* http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/
  The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/poetry/
  Drug Abuse National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Statistics http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDACapsules/NCIndex.html
  Street-wise Drug Abuse Prevention http://home.earthlink.net/~nodrugs/
  History since the Civil War Civil War/Reconstruction http://socialstudies.com/1/15items.html
  The History Channel: 19th Century US http://www.historychannel.com/traveler/hotlist/us19.html
  The History Channel: 20th Century US http://www.historychannel.com/traveler/hotlist/us20.html
  Measurement Measurement Converter http://www.mplik.ru/~sg/transl/
  Metric Converter http://www.web-partners.com/ParaGliding/metricconverter.htm
  Dictionary of Units http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
  Constants & Equations Page http://www.stott.demon.co.uk/index.htm
  Tall Tales, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolutions http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cdaae/fairy/
  Fairy Tales Links http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cdaae/fairy/links.htm
  Yahoo's Links to Fairy and Folk Tales http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/Fairy_Tales___Folktales/
  Colonial America Colonial America http://houck.salkeiz.k12.or.us/houck.website/cool.sites/ss/Colonial.America/colonial.america.html
  Colonial America Resources http://www.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/his341/colonialamer.htm
  US History -- 1600 to 1775 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
  Spiders Yahoo's list of Spider Resources http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Zoology/Animals__Insects__and_Pets/Arachnids/
  Arachnid Section: University of Copenhagen http://www.aki.ku.dk/zmuc/ento/arachnid/arachnid.htm
Grades 6-8 Japan Kids' Eye View of Japan with Kristi Yamaguchi http://www.kteh.org/productions/docs/kidseye.html
  Kid's Web Japan http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/
  Japan -- A Country Study http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html
  Major Events in Japanese History http://www.io.com/~nishio/japan/history.html
  Exploring Japanese Feudal System http://www.holdit.com/hidden/
  Endangered Species Endangered: Exploring a World at Risk http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Expedition/Endangered/index.html
  Duke University Primate Center http://www.duke.edu/web/primate/index.html
  Wild Things http://www.cris.com/~cheeta/
  Electricity Alliance for Competitive Electricity http://www.afce.org/
  Scientific American: Beyond Batteries http://www.sciam.com/explorations/122396explorations.html
  Magnetism Science of Magnets http://buerkle.arc.leon.k12.fl.us/MAG/magtext.pg14.html
  Understanding Magnetism http://school.discovery.com/spring98/programs/understanding-magnetism/index.html
  Magnetism http://school.discovery.com/schoolstore/tlces/technologyatwork2/magnetism/index.html
  Plate Tectonics Plate Tectonics http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/introduction.html
  Plate Tectonics is Expansion Tectonics http://www.kwluckert.com/
  Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/plate_tectonics/rift_man.html
  National Earthquake Information Center* http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/current_seismicity.shtml
  Central Europe Central Europe Online http://www.centraleurope.com/
  Asia Yahoo's Listing of Asian Country Sites http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Asia/Countries/
  Asian Art Connection http://www.asian-art-connection.com
  Ask Asia http://www.askasia.org
  Antebellum South & Slavery Virtual Antebellum Richmond http://malthus.morton.wm.edu/~srnels/antrichf95/
  A Slave's Story http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=AnoSlav&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed
  Excerpts of Slave Narratives* http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
  Olympics XVIII Winter Olympic Games http://www.nagano.olympic.org/
  2000 Summer Games: Sydney http://www.olympic.org/games/sydney/
  96 Years of Women in Olympics http://www.feminist.org/other/olympic/intro.html
  Ancient Olympics http://olympics.tufts.edu/
  Women's Suffrage Movement Women's History Resources http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/rel.htm
  Progressive Era: 1879 -- 1920 http://www.northpark.edu/acad/history/WebChron/USA/ProgressiveEra.html
Grades 9-12 Genetics Genetics http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6915/
  Genetics Information http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5363/
  Glossary of Genetic Terms http://www.gdb.org/Dan/DOE/prim6.html
  Natural History of Genes http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/
  Quantitative Genetics Resources http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zbook/book.html
  GDB Human Genome Data Base http://gdbwww.gdb.org/
  Gene Location Database http://cedar.genetics.soton.ac.uk/public_html/
  Search by Gene Name/Symbol http://gdbwww.gdb.org/gdb-bin/fg/genes
  The Depression Black Thursday: October 24, 1929 http://sac.uky.edu/~msunde00/hon202/p4/nyt.html
  The Great Depression http://trinculo.educ.sfu.ca/pgm/depress/greatdepress.html
  Many Causes of the Great Depression http://www.escape.com/~paulg53/politics/great_depression.shtml
  Post World War II Adam's Cold War Report http://www.ctbw.com/king.htm
  Cold War International History Project http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm
  Hot Links on the Cold War http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html
  Volcanoes Volcano World http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
  NASA Investigation Volcanology Team http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/
  USGS Volcanology Resources http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/volcano.html
  Volcanoes of the World http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/volc_of_world.html
  Biomes Biomes http://www.papcs.com/ms/biomes.html
  The Water Biome http://www.chicojr.chico.k12.ca.us/sp/Water/WaterBiome.html
  Grassland Biome http://www.southafrica.net/tourism/grassland.html
  San Diego's Marine Biome http://gsh.org/jeffweb/97/marine.html
  Contemporary American Authors The Literary Menagerie http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~egcash/
  Author Indexes http://www.bookwire.com/index/author-indexes.html
  Career Exploration Yahoo's Listing of Career Fields http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Employment/Recruiting_and_Placement/Career_Fields/
  Career Mosaic http://www.careermosaic.com/