Cal Young Library - Resources by Subject


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SAM'S CHS RESOURCES BY SUBJECT

IMAGES - Public Domain

MorgueFile
Pics4Learning
Flickr: The Commons

Flickr and the Library of Congress manage this publicly-held photography collection.
Wikipedia: Public Domain Images
Scroll through historical collections to Public domain image meta-resources
LIFE Photo Archive from Google1750s-now
Old Pictures

Audio/Music - Public Domain

Jamendo
dig ccmixter


DEWEY CATEGORIES

Internet resources organized according to the Dewey Decimal System

GLOBAL AWARENESS

United Nations World Food Program
Central Asia Institute (Pennies for Peace)

MATH

All math teachers - Publisher Help Site
Taming Word Problems
Interactive Math Tutorials
The Golden Ratio Webquest
Fibonacci Spiral
The Golden Rectangle

MYTHOLOGY

Greek Myths
Encyclopedia Mythica

PRIMARY SOURCES

Calisphere - American history collections
Library of Congress: American Memory
Library of Congress: America's Story
Library of Congress: Web Guides
Library of Congress: Wise Guides
The National Archives (all subjects)
Teaching with Historic Places
Smithsonian Education (all subjects)
UCLA Institute of Primary Sources

SCIENCE

Encyclopedia of Life
How Stuff Works
Hubble Site
The National Science Digital Library
Scirus - the science search engine

 

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

American History

Library of Congress: American Memory
Library of Congress: America's Story
Library of Congress: Web Guides
Library of Congress: The Teaching with Primary Sources Journal
Calisphere - American history collections
Smithsonian Education (all subjects)
Historic Oregon Newspapers (University of Oregon)

Teaching with Historic Places

Telling America's Story
USA.gov
Wiki Constitution links
Presidents (needs to be updated)

Ancient Civilizations (older resources)

Ancient Africa
Ancient China
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Fertile Cresent
Ancient Islam

Geography and Maps

National Geographic Map Machine

CIA World Factbook - Maps and Country Profiles

An amazing map collection from the University of Texas
Current maps, general maps, historical maps, more!

Atlas from about.com
Extensive world atlas that includes blank outline maps of each country.


Atlas.com

World Atlas from infoplease.com

National Geographic Geography Bee Site


Geography Awareness: Africa! Resources

GeoCube

Japan

A Brief Timeline of Japanese History from about.com
Calisphere
- American history collections
Discover Nikkei*
- Japanese emigrants
History of Japan from Hanami Web

 

 

   

Sam Arnold-Boyd
arnold@4j.lane.edu
Cal Young Middle School
January 20, 2012