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Be a history detective. Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut. Collect clues to uncover answers to 7 questions about colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove your skills as a history detective by discovering "What's wrong with this picture?"

A well-organized 5th grade teacher's website with links to info about different European explorers.

Covers the following explorers: Cabot, Columbus, Cook, Drake, Magellan,Franklin, Nelson,Peter the Great, Raleigh, Scott, Shakelton

Two fun and educational interactive games: Merchants of the Great Exchange and Whose Lunch is it anyway. Numerous handouts for teachers of this unit.

Great site for using Google Earth in the Classroom

Create population pyramids for any country in the world

Project idea using Google Sketchup for the colonies unit

My World66 is a service where you can create a map of the places you have visited. Choose countries of the world, states, Candadian provinces, or European Countries. Generate the html to place in webpage or right click to copy or save image. Easy to use...no signup.

This website contains information about the northern countries. On this site, you can be a detective, looking at images and writing about and by people of the North to try to discover the story they tell. Or, you can look at exhibits, where other people have told one story based on the same information. But is there only one story to tell? You decide!

Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags. Easily move the map to anywhere in the world. Quikmaps is perfect for: drawing a map to the next soccer game, sketching out a the virtual spanish trip, or telling everyone where you saw the grizzly bear.

Our City Podcast is an audio program for kids and by kids. Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the city they live in (with the help of their teachers or parents).

These enhanced audio files feature special interviews and photos available only to our Web users. Listen to programs on your computer, or download and listen later on your MP3 player. Lloyd Dobyns is your host as you go "behind the scenes" to meet interpreters, chefs, tradesmen, musicians, historians, curators, and more. New Podcasts are added weekly. (To subscribe, paste this url into your podcast software or RSS reader: http://www.history.org/media/rssfeeds_cw.xml).

Nicely organized list of links for students researching Canada.

A wonderful website to see past pictures of your hometown.The Landscape Change Program, at the University of Vermont, is a virtual collection of images that documents 200 years of Vermont’s changing face. We have thousands of views of Vermont as it was and as it is, online and free to everyone.