Educational Information Sources Online

The Museum Education Consortium of Western New York has collaborated with a number of local organizations to link to each org's websites and listings of educational programs. There are links to the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, Botanical Gardens, Theodore Roosevelt Inagural Site, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Naval & Military Museum and the Buffalo Science Center.

The Odyssey Online site is a very attractive site that has exhibits and activities for the Ancient Civilizations of the Near East, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Africa, and the Americas. It is affiliated with the University of Rochester and Emory University. Click on the different areas to see photos of artifacts, read about mythology, daily life, people, archeology, and death & burial.

I've found several useful sites for studying the Erie Canal. The first site at Epodunk incorporates video, text, music, and photographs into a great tool to teach about the history of the canal as well as teaching kids information literacy skills on the Internet.

The second site at the Library of Congress is useful for studying primary sources (photos, maps, and other documents) related to the Erie Canal. The site has a teacher's guide and a wealth of other information. This site is NOT kid friendly and must be reviewed by a teacher first, and then direct links to the sources you want kids to see, such as in a webquest, would be most helpful to them. Here's a direct link to a page of links to student resources as well.

The Library of Congress THOMAS Site has a number of useful links for classroom activities and lessons related to government.

George Emery at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY has compiled a wonderful listing of timeline links on the web.

The Arts and Sciences Libraries at the University at Buffalo has posted a page of resources for Earth Day this year. Included are the history, global climate change, biodiversity, Love Canal information and links to Internet resources on the topic.

I've just recently started a new resource weblog where I will be posting various online resources and information about the humanities. I found that I was coming across many wonderful online collections and thought they deserved a home of their own. The new blog is called Humanities Web.

You may find a number of links to sites that deal with Memorial Day and lessons, etc., at this site.

Hello Grade 6 :)

You will be using the links below to complete your research on the Middles Ages.

For question 1 on your outline, you will search for the person's name and add the word BIOGRAPHY to your search words.
For example: Marco Polo Biography

Question # 1

For the rest of the questions, you may click on the links below, to find your information.

Question # 2 Part A

Question # 2 Part B

Question # 3 Part A

Question # 3 Part B

Question # 4 Part A & B

Question # 4 Part C

Question # 5

The University at Buffalo has an online exhibition covering the Pan American Exposition of 1901.
The page is called Illuminations.

You may also find a wealth of photos and documents via an online tour at this site.