The Advanced Learning Technologies
project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning utilizes
the most advanced and innovative technologies available to improve teaching
and learning.
"Teachers, make sure
you see the products page at this site." ~Ancient Man
American Memory is a gateway
to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of
the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from
more than 100 historical collections. See wonderful old photographs,
watch old movie clips, listen to speeches and sounds of the past. Almost
anything you can think of to search on can be found here. A couple of searches
that Ancient Man made that produced great results is "Trains" and "Bathing
Beauties". Try these searches yourself. You might also search on a State
name. We searched "New York" and found the following: Nez Perce Chief Joseph
and Buffalo Bill pose with several men, New York, April, 1897. This site
also contains Internet
Resources which is a directory of online reference sources for U.S.
history and social studies.
"American Memory
is the finest website in the world." ~Ancient Man
Some other examples:
Rome, Egypt, France, Teotihuacan, Uxmal
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edited by Edward N. Zalta
A Publication of: The Metaphysics
Research Lab
Center for the Study of
Language and Information
Ventura Hall, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
The Molecular Expressions Website
features acclaimed photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of
optical microscopy. They are going where no microscope has gone before
by offering one of the Web's largest collections of color photographs taken
through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as "photo-micro-graphs").
This site has an Online
Activity Guidebook for Teachers and Online
Activities for Students. How big is big? How small is small?
Be sure to visit the Powers
of Ten page and you will get a new perspective on our universe.
On the Powers of Ten page you will view the Milky Way at 10 million light
years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in
successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside
the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee,
Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf
into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus,
chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and
protons. Also, you can get some very nice wallpaper
for Windows and wallper
for Mac from this site.
~Ancient Man
says, "This is one of the finest sites to come along in quite some time."
WildWatchCams
- by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
The
EagleCam at WildWatchCams - This eagle is very impressive.
They have placed a web-enabled video camera next to a Kent-area bald eagle
nest. The camera sends an updated picture to the web server every five
seconds. What you see depends on whether the eagles are resting, feeding
their young, or out searching for food for their hungry brood. Remember,
all the events are natural.
These are some great photos
of Bighorn Sheep. Every year at about the same time they come to graze.
After a couple of weeks they are gone until the next year.
~photos by Bill Hutson,
webmaster of LetsGoBackAntiques.com.
A popular radio program broadcast
on public radio stations nationwide. The show offers a daily glimpse into
the intriguing world of words and language. You can read transcripts of
past shows, and as of August 2001 you can also listen to audio recordings
of the past programs. You must have RealPlayer® installed to listen.
Ideas, people & events in
the history of liberty. This site is based upon the bestselling book
"The Triumph of Liberty" by Jim Powell. The site examines the history
of liberty from the ancient times to the present. The book, "The
Triumph of Liberty", can be ordered from the site. If you visit LibertyStory.net
we suggest that you be sure to read the page about Liberty as a woman.
The link for Liberty as a woman can be found on the home page or just click
here.
~Ancient Man
There are many poems listed
on this site from amateur and published poets alike. Ranging from romantic
poetry, friendship poetry, to poems about places or events. If you
like poetry - you'll like this place. Note: The site is
huge and sometimes takes awhile to load, so be patient.~Ancient Man
Advice, Artists, CDs, Rewards
& Grants, Resources, and Current Issues for Aspiring Musicians, Bands
and Artists. StarPolish is dedicated to educating and empowering artists,
with an emphasis on artist advocacy and artist development. They are also
committed to supporting the arts by rewarding and highlighting the most
hard-working and deserving artists. StarPolish is a collaborative effort
between artists and music industry professionals.
Need some fun activities for
kids? How about Educational and Homeschool resources? Susan
Teel created the site simply because she enjoys doing it. There are
links to sites each of the Teel family worked on that are just great.
Sarah and a friend created the site "Women in Alaska History."
Caleb and his teammates created "Animals of the Arctic." Matthew
and Ricky also have great stories to tell you and things to show
you. The Teel family of Chugiak, Alaska has put together quite
a fascinating place for you. They have recieved many awards and recognition
from magazines and books. The Teel Family Web Site is well worth
a visit for people of all ages. ~"A five star site!"
This site is dedicated to educating
parents, teachers and our young people about the dangers of the Internet
and how to avoid them. With the help of partners such as nationally
recognized child-psychologist Dr. Larry Kutner, Internet safety expert
and founder of SafetyEd, Colin Hatcher, and social learning software leader
Ripple Effects, we have created a resource for you to find the information
you need when it comes to your family's safety online. The site will
continue to grow over the coming months as we add resources and activities
that help kids to learn.
On February 28, 2001, a magnitude
6.8 earthquake, located some thirty miles below the surface of the earth
and a few miles away from Olympia Washington, moved the ground for a bit
more than half a minute. "A sand tracing pendulum, located at a shop
in Port Townsend called Mind Over Matter, produced some very interesting
patterns."
The WebBrain Search
is the best thing since "sliced bread!" WebBrain.com
- uses the open directory project.
Wait until it fully loads,
then try clicking on Society, then History.
Find Digitized collections
of: Historic American Sheet Music, Documents from the Women's
Liberation Movement, African-American Women, Civil War Women and much more.
Find Exhibits and Student Projects. A new addition is Religious Materials.
Want to do research on papyri from ancient Egypt? The Duke Papyrus
Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri
from ancient Egypt. You can browse the papyri by subject or search by keyword,
and images of each papyrus are available in various magnifications. Background
material about papyri and papyrology introduces the archive.
Ever wonder about the Shelf
Life of Food Storage, Color Therapy, Soapmaking or a Beanbag Toss?
Find it at NurseHealer.com. How about Herbal Preparation Methods,
Polarity Therapy, hundreds of Food Storage Recipes, and even a Texas College
Locator? Find all of this and a hundred times more at NurseHealer.com!
Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen
M., Daniel E. Moerman, and James A. Duke. "The Medicinal Plants of Native
America Database." http://ars-genome.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/WebAce/webace?db=mpnadb.
(Data version June 1995). Want to know how the Native Americans treated
a cold, snake bite and other things? Then go to MPNADB.
Take a look at Earth's night
lights from space. WOW! The image
that you will see is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made
by the orbiting DMSP satellites. Click on the image to see a larger
JPEG image = 2400x1200 pixels. The photo is from the Astronomy
Picture of the Day Archive. Read About
the Astronomy Picture of the Day. And finally this link to the
APOD main NASA site, Astronomy
Picture of the Day, is updated daily.
PlacesNamed.com is a unique,
hypertext collection of geographic and other reference information. It
is mostly based upon publicly-available United States Government databases.
Find out some great facts here, example (1): Johnson is the 2nd most
popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.810%;
percentile is 1.816 [SourceCBN]. example (2): Johnson, Arkansas,
United States [City]; population was 599 in 1990; housing units was 257
in 1990; location is 36°8'N 94°10'W; land area is 3.06 square miles
(1,960 acres); FIPS code is 35500 [SourceCBP]
Over two hundred contributors
write about the individuals, organizations, locations, institutions, and
topics important to Utah history. This landmark volume will provide
an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of the state
for years to come. The authors, who have donated their time to this
project as a gift to Utahns for the state's centennial celebration, comprise
nearly all scholars of Utah history working both within and outside the
state. The 250 historical photographs from the Utah State Historical Society
are also an excellent resource.
The Celebration of Women Writers
recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women
have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters,
biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic
and scientific works. At this site you can Browse by Author Name,
Browse by Century (from 3000BC to the 20th Century), and Browse by Country
(from Albania to Zimbabwe). An example of one of the works at this
site is: Pharaohs
Fellahs and Explorers, by Amelia B. Edwards, Copyright, 1891, by HARPER
& BROTHERS.
Foretelling
Eclipses Becoming a Prophet Is
Easier than You Think an article by William
H. Calvin
If you are in a tight spot,
you may find yourself wishing for a solar eclipse to turn day into night,
as in _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_. If you knew
the eclipse was going to happen (but others didn't), you could pretend
to "command the heavens". While Mark Twain's solar eclipse was an
invention, his inspiration was probably a real-life incident involving
Christopher Columbus in 1504, where the explorer "stole the moon" to get
himself out of a similarly sticky situation in Jamaica. Article continued
here...
The goal of the KTC is to educate
the public, and to be a resource for spotters on the subject of severe
weather and tornadoes, in hopes of saving more lives in the years to come.
Click the History/Photos link and you will find some photos and some video
clips of some nasty looking tornados.
Eat
a Bug! Bugfood I: Insect-themed
Food, compiled by Stephanie Bailey, Entomology Extension Specialist
This unit includes several
recipes for insect-themed foods (no insects are eaten).
Buggy recipes may enliven
a party, 4-H demonstration on insects, or an insect or nutrition unit.
These are from the Natural History
Museum, London. These dinosaur data files have been designed so that
they can be printed out and photocopied for educational use in the classroom,
at home or in the Museum itself. The museum has also created some suggestions
for activities you may like to try, and a spreadsheet file in Excel format
containing much of the data in these data files for further classroom work.
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OneLife
- by John Stevenson, BS, MS (retired) A relationship between evolution,
genetics, morality, ethics, psychology, education and culture.
THE PROBLEM
Our entire liberal arts education
system, from which comes the standards for our culture and the education
of our young in that culture, is now mired in an archaic and erroneous
thought pattern: that knowledge can come from the mind of man based on
premises that need no proof and that such knowledge needs no measured verification.
The source of this error lies in the following of philosophers who through
the ages, though gifted, did not have the real and provable knowledge available
that we have today. They taught that truth comes from pure thought and
that all humans are capable of pure thought if properly educated. We have
since learned that the human is not inherently wise and is in fact quite
prone to error, and that he is intelligent only when he follows a rigid
set of thought requirements and procedures. Continued at site.....
A SOLUTION
What is this wonderful and profitable
thought scheme used by the mathematicians, physicists, engineers, artisans
and chemists and shunned by the cultural engineers? The pompous ones in
the scientific group will say 'scientific method'. The term 'absolute skepticism'
is much more descriptive of the process. If an engineer/scientist cannot
prove an idea all the way back to demonstrable and provable truth, and
stand ready to do so, he will not find a supporter anywhere.
Continued at site.....
Very interesting reading.
It causes one to think long and hard about what we think we know. ~Ancient
Man
The
Tree of Life David R. Maddison, University
of Arizona, Coordinator and Editor
A multi-authored, distributed
Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
The Tree of Life is a project containing information about the diversity
of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information
is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all
organisms to each other.
Sacred
Places Produced by Dr. Christopher
L.C.E. Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar,
Virginia
Explore how and why places
become invested with sacredness.
Sacred or holy places are found
in different cultures, past and present, all over the world. Such
places are frequently marked or embellished by architectural structures
and art. This website contains text and images which examine the
nature of the sacred. It also explores how art and architecture serve
to embody or make manifest on both physical and spiritual planes the sacredness
or mystery of a site. For an index to Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe's
other very interesting Websites about Art History, click here.
Everything you ever wanted to
know about the deserts in the USA. Animal of the month, plant of
the month, person of the month, featured articles and places to go.
Also has FREE calendars, desktop pics, e-cards, music, Quicktime VR and
more. Join in the discussions or ask questions through the message
boards. This is the BEST site available today for this subject.
Did you know that women are,
and always have been, scientists? This site lists over 125 names
from our scientific and technical past. They are all women!
For example: Did you know that the original idea and patent that
led to cellular phone technology comes from the movie star, Hedy
Lamarr?
EncycloZine is a concise illustrated
encyclopedic portal covering a wide range of topics in the arts, humanities,
sciences, and technology. It also features games, puzzles, quizzes, and
a gallery of art, fractals, space, optical illusions, and photos.
Take note that once you get into most of the pages, there is a pop-up menu
that can be found in the upper left. This is a very handy item.
~Ancient Man highly recommends this site.
Ancient man is widely presumed
to have discovered glass by accident in a campfire, and subsequently learned
to make it in small earthen furnaces shaped like beehives. Wood was the
energy source and ceramic crucibles were used to contain the compounds
used to make glass. Air to fuel the combustion was allowed to enter through
portals at the bottom and was exhausted through a round vent at the top.
Tools were very simple, and mainly used to draw cane out of the small,
molten blob within the crucible. Click the link for more.....
This is
a must site for anyone interested in Native North American crafts and culture.
The history and techniques of traditional native crafts from all over North
America can be found here. Traditional crafts include feather work,
beading, clay and pottery, porcupine quills, decorations, and stonework.
There are wonderful examples of native crafts and detailed illustrated
instructions on how to make them, where to find the materials, and what
tools to use. This is a great way to study native culture by participation.
There is also an examination of contemporary native crafts.
~
Devorah Stone, The Charlotte Austin Review
This site
has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different
ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians,
civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive
hundreds of years ago and some are living today. One woman of particular
interest to Ancient Man is Dorothy
Annie Elizabeth Garrod, the first woman to do research in Paleolithic
archeology and to study the early man.
Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic:
Studies in the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East and Europe find
out more information
E.
L. Easton This is a great site for
the student of languages! Includes a link to Etymology. Don't
miss this one!
Another great site for the student
of languages! This site includes the following: Areas and countries,
Abbreviations, Languages of special interest, Geographic distribution,
Top 100 languages, Bibliography, Language Name Index, Language Family Index,
Maps.
