Homework Resources
Websites for Youth
America's Newspapers- North Carolina
American Library
Services for Children’s Great Web Site
An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863-1910
(Sign-up for a free individual account.)
A smart web site that creates a bibliographic record for you and lets you search for books or articles. You get to choose the format of the bibliographic record, save it, and you can download it.
Bills from the NC General Assembly
Britannica Online Kids Edition
Britannica Online School Edition
Copyright Lessons for the Digital Age
The American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and American Association of School Libraries (AASL) along with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) announce the re-release of copyright lessons plans for middle school students, Grades 6-8. New features include models of collaborative teaching between classroom teachers and school library media specialists and connections to AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1062
This lesson provides a background for students on copyright, fair use,
plagiarism, and paraphrasing. Fair use is discussed, as well as
strategies for paraphrasing and the consequences of plagiarism.
Students as Creators: Exploring Copyright
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1085
Students learn and use strategies for incorporating multimedia resources
in their own works without violating copyright law. Students contemplate
how their own works are protected by copyright law.
Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1088
Students analyze an online multimedia resource as an introduction
to the genre. They then create an original multimedia project.
Copyright Law: >From Digital Reprints to Downloads
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1067
Students look briefly at the history of copyright law and
generalize about how and why it has changed over time. Students then
apply this information to recent copyright issues, look at these issues
from the perspective of a particular group, and create persuasive
arguments to convince others to see the issue from their perspective.
Technology and Copyright Law: A “Futurespective”
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1075
Students review some copyright disputes involving new
technologies. They write newspaper articles predicting the outcome of
current disputes and anticipating disputes that they think may arise in
the future with new technologies or new uses for existing technologies.
Frederick Douglas: From Slave to Leader
Happy birthday, NASA
It’s the big 5-0!!
http://discoveryeducation.com/nasaat50/
International Children's
Digital Library
Library of
Congress: Kids & Families
Native American Primary Resources
Native Americans’ language and ethnology
http://www.native-languages.org
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/topics/nativeamericans/collections/
A branch of the Smithsonian devoted to Native Americans only:
Cornell University has a fine exhibit online of Native American information:
http://nac.library.cornell.edu/exhibition/introduction/index.html
Native American books by and about Native Americans:
http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-natam.html
A bibliographical list for all Maine Native Americans’ information:
http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/Guides/nativeamerican.htm
The University of Colorado at Boulder has an interesting selection of materials about various tribes
Arapahoe | Bannock | Cheyenne | Chippewa | Comanche | Diggers | Hopi | Kickapoo | Kiowa | Nez Perce | Ottawa | Papago | Pawnee | Potawatamie | Pueblo Sheepeater | Sioux | Southern Ute | Uintah | Ute | Zuni
The Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Native American Literature:
http://www.uwm.edu/Library//special/collections/native/nativeamerican.htm
Native American art housed in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art:
http://www.ou.edu/fjjma/home.html
Paper Dolls
Created by McCall magazine, this site has Betsy McCall paper dolls that your grandmother played with as a child, arranged by decades.
from the BillyBear4Kids.com site:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/Amish/PaperDoll.html
Amish paper dolls and clothes
http://www.billybear4kids.com/paperdoll/TeriLee.html
Teri Lee is an early 1900s paper doll with clothes
http://www.billybear4kids.com/paperdoll/July4th.html
Betsy is the 4th of July paper doll
Pierce Family paper dolls
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/alldolls.jpg
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/denver2.htm
Renoir’s Camille
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/pd2a.htm
Renoir’s Marie
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/pd4a.htm
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/mcoat.jpg
Monet’s horse, Goldie
http://www.ushsdolls.com/paperdoll/goldie.jpg
Diana7
http://www.geocities.com/beaureguard_1/Diana7.html?20083
clothes
http://www.geocities.com/beaureguard_1/diana71.html?20083
http://www.geocities.com/beaureguard_1/diana72.html?20083
Primary Search (Children's Magazines)
Science Museums and Nature Centers
Science
Project Ideas: the Brain
(tells what a term paper is, its parts, and how to do it)
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
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USC SHOAH
Foundation Institute
Primary sources for history reports concerning Holocaust survivors