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ARKive

With the help of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, this website is creating an awe-inspiring record of life on earth.
http://www.arkive.org/

 

Biome Map of the World

Marietta College Department of Biology and Environmental Science
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/biomes.htm

 

Biomes
A great selection of color photographs of biomes.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/biomes/
 
Blue Planet Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

Earth Floor: Biomes
A quick way to learn about the climate of a particular biome is to look at a climograph. This website will explain how to read a climograph.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/summary.html 

Enchanted Learning
Lots of great links!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/

 

Explore
Check out the live cams and videos of animals on this website!
http://www.explore.org

Introduction to Biomes
An excellent website that is part of the Virtual Geography Department Project and has been prepared for the Physical Geography Working Group of the Project. These materials may be used for study, research and education, but please credit the author and source: susan L. Woodward, The Virtual Geography Department Project and the Department of Geography, Radford University.
https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/

MGBnet
Website of Missouri Botanical Gardens includes:  Biomes of the World,  Freshwater Ecosystems, and Marine Ecosystems.
http://www.mbgnet.net/

 

A Research Guide for Students: Biomes and Ecozones
http://www.aresearchguide.com/biomes.html

worldbiomes.com
This website covers 5 of the major world biomes. "Selected by the SciLinks program, a service of National Science Teachers Association. "

http://www.worldbiomes.com

The World's Biomes
This website created at UCBerkeley includes the five major biomes: aquatic, desert,

forest, grassland and tundra and their subdivisions. 

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

 

World Animal Foundation

A great resource for animal facts.

http://www.worldanimalfoundation.net/animal_facts.html

American Government

The Civil War

Canada

Biomes

Diseases

Greek Myths

Colonial America

Periodic Table of Elements

Llamas

Latin America

Westward Expansion

Country Reports.org
http://www.countryreports.org/

Factmonster.com- Countries of the World
http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html

 

 

Mayan Links

Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fail?

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mayans.html

Mayan History

http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanhistory.html

Mayan Civilization

http://www.indians.org/welker/maya.htm
Mayan Facts
http://www.mayankids.com/
 
Mayan Cities
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/spirits/html/body_maya.html

 

Incan Links

Inca Culture

http://incas.mrdonn.org/
Inca Civilization

http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html
Inca Empire

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/inca-empire/pringle-text
Inca Road System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_road_system


Aztec Links

The Aztecs/ Mexicas

http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm

Aztec Civilization Study Guide

http://archaeology.about.com/od/aztecarchaeology/a/aztec_sg_3.htm
Aztec Civilization
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/
Aztec History
http://www.history.com/topics/aztecs
Aztec Life
http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/
Aztec AfterLife
http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/01185/after.html

 

Aymara

Aymara Language
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pah1003/quechua/Eng/Sounds/Aymara/AymaraOriginsAndDiversity.htm#CentralAymaraJaqaruAndKawki
Aymara People
http://www.minorityrights.org/2405/bolivia/highland-aymara-and-quechua.html
Aymara History
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/46515/Aymara


Yanomami
Survival of Culture
http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/yanomami
Yanomami History
http://www.gymmuenchenstein.ch/stalder/klassen/hie/indigenous/yan.htm
People of the Rainforest
http://library.thinkquest.org/27507/people.htm
Yanomami Culture
http://www1.broward.edu/~hsorkin/Lib-Arts/Projects/Fall2002/Hottinger/culture.html


Pele
Pele Life story
http://www.latinosportslegends.com/Pele_bio.htm
Pele's career
http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/players/player=63869/index.html
Soccer Statistics
http://www.ifhof.com/hof/pele.asp


Bob Marley
Bob Marley's Life Story
http://www.bobmarley.com/life_and_legacy.php
Bob Marley Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/bob-marley-9399524
Bob Marley's  career
http://niceup.com/bmbio.html
A Mini-biography with trivia
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002490/bio

 

Evita Peron
Evita Peron Quick facts
http://www.biography.com/people/eva-peron-9437976
Evita Peron History
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofsouthamerica/a/evita.htm
Evita Peron Her Death and History
http://www.evitaperon.org/part1.htm#.UMD2BGegTTo
Biography
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Per-n-Eva.html


Pancho Villa
History of Pancho Villa
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/panchovilla/p/panchovilla.htm
Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/pancho-villa-9518733
Life Story
http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1305-francisco-pancho-villa


Pirates
Regions Effected by Piracy
http://www.yachtpiracy.org/en/dangerous_regions.htm 


Simon Bolivar
Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/simon-bolivar-241196
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/72067/Simon-Bolivar
Military Career
http://www.militaryheritage.com/bolivar.htm
Fun Facts
http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=45407&PHPSESSID=2ddbf1cd54cdc514ec8e349bbbf5742a


Augusto Pinochet
Military career
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/20thcenturylatinamerica/p/pinochetbio.htm
Pinochet's Biography
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461158/Augusto-Pinochet
Pinochet Legacy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000302.html
Chili's Timeline(includes Pinochet)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1222905.stm


Che Guevara
History
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDguevara.htm
Biography
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/thehistoryofcuba/a/09cheguevara.htm
http://www.biography.com/people/che-guevara-9322774
This Day in History
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/che-guevara-is-executed


Fidel Castro
Biography
http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/p/castro.htm
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/fidel-castro-14.php
Fidel the Activist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDcastroF.htm


Cesar Chavez

Biography
http://www.ducksters.com/biography/cesar_chavez.php
Facts and Timeline
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/cesarchavez.html
Cesar as an Activist
http://www.biography.com/people/cesar-chavez-9245781


Hugo Chavez
Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/hugo-ch%C3%A1vez-193225
Mititary History
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofsouthamerica/p/09HChavez.htm
Timeline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/08/hugo-chavez-timeline


Charles Darwin
The Galapagos Adventure
http://www.galapagosislands.com/blog/charles-darwins-galapagos-adventure/
Darwin in Galapagos
http://www.savegalapagos.org/galapagos/charles-darwin.shtml
Darwin's field notes
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Chancellor_Keynes_Galapagos.html
History of Darwin and Galapagos
http://www.galapagosexpeditions.com/islands/history-of-galapagos-islands.php


Papa & Baby Doc Duvalier
Biography
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Duvalier-Fran-ois.html
Timeline
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/duvalier.html
Reasons why Jean-Claude(Baby Doc) Duvalier is Infamous
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0120/5-reasons-why-Haiti-s-Jean-Claude-Duvalier-is-infamous/Tonton-Macoutes
Biography of Baby Doc
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/174720/Jean-Claude-Duvalier
History
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/22/newsid_2525000/2525501.stm
CIA Involvement in Haiti
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Haiti_CIAHits.html


Amazon River
Physical features
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/18722/Amazon-River
Amazon Extremes
http://www.extremescience.com/amazon-river.htm
Amazon Basin Facts
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/amazonia/facts/basinfacts.cfm
Amazon Fun Facts
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/amazonriver.html
WWF Environmental Initiative
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/

 

Abraham Lincoln Online.Org
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/education/educate.htm

 

About.com, another great site for Civil War photographs
http://712educators.about.com/od/historycw/a/cwphmenu.htm


The Battle Of Gettysburg Resource Collection
http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-the-battle-of-gettysburg-resourcecollection.aspx


Civil War – Educational Technology Center
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/civwar.html

 

Civil War Online Resources
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/annotated_list.html

 

Education World: The Civil War
http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites022.shtml

 

National Park Service: The Civil War
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/index.htm

 

Saving America’s Civil War Battlefields: Civil War Trust 
http://www.civilwar.org/education/students/

 

Selected Civil War Photographs from The Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

 

Social Studies for Kids

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/civilwar.htm
 

Spartacus Educational: USA History: American Civil War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwarC.htm

American Heart Association
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/

 

American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

 

Healthopedia.com: Your Health Encyclopedia
http://www.healthopedia.com/diseases.html

 

HealthyNJ: Information for Healthy Living
http://www.healthynj.org/a-z.html

KidsHealth for Kids
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems

 

KidsHealth for Teens

http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/infections

 

MayoClinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/DiseasesIndex/DiseasesIndex

 

MedicineNet.com
http://www.medicinenet.com/diseases_and_conditions/article.htm

 

National Center for Infectious Diseases: Resources for Students
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/student.htm

 

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.the canadianencyclopedia.com

Travel to Canada - Canadian Tourism Commission

http://www.travelcanada.ca/tc_redesign/app/en/ca/home.do

 

Canada Tourist Attractions from iexplore
http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Canada/Where+to+Go

 

Introduction to the Government of Canada Official Web Site
http://www.canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

 

The Ancient City of Athens
http://www.stoa.org/athens/
This site is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece). It is intended primarily as a resource for students and teachers of classical art & archaeology, civilization, languages, and history as a supplement to their class lectures and reading assignments and as a source of images for use in term papers, projects, and presentations.

 

Ancient Greek Gods, Goddesses, Mythical Creatures & Myths

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html
On this site you will find a list of gods and goddesses with both their Greek and Roman names as well as a brief biography.

Greek Mythology Overview
http://www.messagenet.com/myths/
This site contains a comparison of the Greek and Roman names, and a list of the immortals, with a biography about each.

 

Greek Mythology
http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/greek_myth.html
This website is a great introduction to all of Greek Mythology. It has everything from the stories of it and magical creatures and heroes. This website gathers info from other sources of mythology.

 

Greek Mythology: The Labors of Hercules

http://www.mythweb.com/hercules/

This website tells you about Hercules and his labors. You can read it in Spanish and in English.

 

Greek Mythology Today

http://mythman.com/
This website features a myth for every month. They are: January-Athena, February-Aphrodite, March-Zeus Part I, April-Zeus Part II, May-Hercules Part I, June-Hercules Part II, July-Hercules Part III, August-Golden Fleece, September-Golden Fleece II, October-Golden Fleece III, November-Trojan War Part I, and December-Trojan War Part II. 

 

Greek Mythology
http://www.greekmythology.com
This website has a lot of information about Greek Mythology history. It also has a lot of pictures of the characters, and a family tree of the start of Greek Mythology. This site is a very large site containing 9 branches of important things that happened in Greek history.  You can learn about any god or goddess, creatures, myths, the titans, and much more. You can research many places on where historic events occurred.

 

Greek Mythology
http://www.mythweb.com/
This site covers gods, heroes, topics of today, and the history of ancient cultures in Greece.  Click on "Gods" and you will find an interactive picture of the gods. To find the most important parts on this site, go to "site overview".  You can see short movies on the site, such as a cartoon version of the Odyssey.  

 

Greek and Roman Mythology
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197622.html
In this list, information about gods and goddesses is given under the Greek name; the name in parentheses is the Roman equivalent.

 

Heracles

http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/heracles.html

 

Mythography: Greek Mythology and Art
http://www.loggia.com/myth/content.html
This site features information on gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines and much more.

 

Myths and Legends

http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/

A great site that lets you listen to the stories as well as read them.

 

The Olympian Gods and Goddesses 

http://www.factmonster.info/ipka/A0881990.html

 

Theoi Greek Mythology: Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art

http://www.theoi.com/

The Theoi Project aims to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.

 

 

Winged Sandals

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/default_lowband.htm
Click on "Who's Who" to find a list of the gods.

Breeds of Livestock - Llama
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/other/llama/

 

Llama Question and Answer Page

http://personal.smartt.com/~brianp/

National Geographic: Lewis and Clark
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/


Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition From the Missouri Historical Society

http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/4_0_0/page_4_1_0_0.html


 

 

 

 

Web Elements Periodic Table
http://www.webelements.com

 

Chemical Elements.com
http://www.chemicalelements.com/

 

Environmental Chemistry.com

http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/

 

Jefferson Lab's Periodic Table of Elements
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/

 

Rader's Chem for Kids
http://www.chem4kids.com

 

Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://periodic.lanl.gov/index.shtml

 

Dynamic Periodic Table
http://www.ptable.com/

Pathfinders

American Government, Biomes, Canada, The Civil War,

Colonial America, Diseases, Greek Myths, Latin America, Llamas,

Periodic Table of Elements, Westward Expansion

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