Phyllis’s Favorites for the CJRLC Blog – June-July 2009

You can find the favorites for April/May 2009 here

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British Museum Online Tours

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours.aspx

Congressional Research Service Reports

http://www.digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/browse/

http://opencrs.com/

http://www.archive-it.org/collections/1078

English Heritage: Stonehenge

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.16465

HubbleSite

http://hubblesite.org/

Black Holes: Gravity’s Relentless Pull

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/

Mathematical Interactivities

http://mathematics.hellam.net/

Mineral Information Institute

http://www.mii.org

The Most Popular Myths in Science

http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/?cat=myths

Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages

http://www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/

Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Webpage

http://www.nancykeane.com/

http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

Nuclear Energy Learning Resources for Schools

http://students.ne.anl.gov/schools/

Robert Krampf’s Science Education Co.

http://krampf.com/index.html

Simon Schama’s Power Of Art

http://www.pbs.org/powerofart

Teaching Mathematical Thinking Through Origami

Origami Links

http://newmedia.purchase.edu/~Jeanine/origami/

Phyllis Anker

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You can find the favorites from March here .

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April 2009

Astronomy Online

http://astronomyonline.org/

College and University Rankings

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm

The Cool Spot

http://www.thecoolspot.gov/

Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/

Discovering Antarctica

http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/

GeoHive: Global Statistics

http://www.geohive.com/default1.aspx

learningscience.org

http://www.learningscience.org/index.htm

Native American History

http://www.nativeamericans.com/NativeAmericanHistory.htm

Oceans Alive

http://www.mos.org/oceans/

The People History

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/

Poetry4kids.com

http://www.poetry4kids.com/

Profiles in Science

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

Silk Road Seattle

http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/

May 2009

American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.

http://www.americanheritage.org/

Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/mesohome.html

Center for Media Literacy

http://www.medialit.org/

Earth Exploration Toolbook

http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/index.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Life of a Vertebrate Fossil

http://paleobiology.si.edu/LVF/

Math Archives

http://archives.math.utk.edu/index.html

Microbial Life - Educational Resources

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/

Periodic Table of Comic Books

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

The Phobia List

http://phobialist.com/

http://phobialist.com/reverse.html

Picturing America

http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/

http://www2.ups.edu/community/tofu/home.htm

Virtual Vaudeville

http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/

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Phyllis’s Favorites for March 2009

You can find the favorites from February here .

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AMA: Atlas of the Body

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html

American Rhetoric

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Artyfactory

http://www.artyfactory.com/

ChemCases.com

http://www.chemcases.com/

CPI inflation calculator

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Historic Government Publications from World War II

http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/hgp/

HyperWar: A Hypertext History of the Second World War

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar

MiddleSchool.net

http://middleschool.net/

Mineral Database

http://www.webmineral.com/

National Geographic: Animals

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals

Nutrition.gov

http://www.nutrition.gov/

World Heritage Tour

http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/

World History Compass

http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/whlindex.htm

- Phyllis Anker

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Phyllis’s Favorites!

Cool Cosmos
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

Coolmath4Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

EarthGuide
http://www.earthguide.ucsd.edu/

Everyday Science Mysteries
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/archive.html

FastWeb: Scholarships, Financial Aid and Colleges
http://www.fastweb.com/

Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/

HippoCampus (Math, Physics, Biology, US History, and more)
http://www.hippocampus.org/

The History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

Larry Ferlazzo, Teacher
(nearly 8,000 categorized links for ELL/ESL)
http://larryferlazzo.com/index.html

Lincoln Bicentennial: 1809-2009
http://lincolnbicentennial.gov/

National Museum of American History: 53 Online Exhibitions
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/category.cfm?category=online

A Passion For Jazz!
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

Thinkfinity: Literacy, Education and Technology
http://thinkfinity.org/home.aspx

- Phyllis Anker
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Have you seen this US News & World Report article which ranks librarianship as one of the 30 best careers for 2009?

And here is the link to their entry on librarianship.

Be sure to check out especially the comments including this one which brings up

LIBRARIANS …. if this is indeed one of the “best careers,” then why are

(1)cities nationwide cutting funding to public libraries causing them to layoff employees and cut days/hours of service to the public plus cutting funds for materials……

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For the past 10 years or so I have been sending out a bookmark with my Christmas letter listing 4 recommended books.  Here are the past eight years worth of recommendations with my very good wishes for a lovely holiday season and joyous New Year! ~ Connie

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American Museum of Natural History: Darwin
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/

American Museum of Natural History: Past Exhibitions
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past/?src=e_p

AmericanPresident: An Online Reference Resource
http://www.millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

The Calculus Page
http://calculus.org/

Class Brain
http://www.classbrain.com/

Collections of Visualizations on Geoscience Topics
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections.html

The Crisis of the Union
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/abolitionism/

FinAid: The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
http://www.finaid.org/

General Chemistry Online
http://hmchem.cubicsci.com/

The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/

Lit2Go: MP3 Stories and Poems (audio and text)
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

Mark Millmore’s Ancient Egypt
http://discoveringegypt.com/index.htm

National World War I Museum
http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org/

Remember Segregation
http://www.remembersegregation.org/

- Phyllis Anker

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Phyllis’s Favorites!

You can find Phyllis’s Favorites for September 2008 here.

Sites For October 2008

America’s HomePage
http://ahp.gatech.edu/default.html

American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

Appetizers & Lessons for Mathematics & Reason
http://www.whyslopes.com/

First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

General Chemistry Online
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

Justice Learning
http://www.justicelearning.org/

Mathematics, Science, & Technology Education: Resources
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/resources.php

The People…Native Americans
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_nativeamerican.php

Strange Matter
http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/

Virtual Instrument Museum
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/

Windows Into Wonderland: Yellowstone National Park
http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/

World History for Us All
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/default.htm

Phyllis Anker, anker@hslc.org

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Phyllis’s Favorites!

Sites For September 2008

Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

Calculus on the Web
http://www.math.temple.edu/~cow/

Color Matters
http://www.colormatters.com/

Constitution Finder
http://confinder.richmond.edu/index.php

Digital History Reader
http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu

EDSITEment (All Web Sites)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
Or select one of the 4 subjects in Subject Catalogue
Tab to Web Sites (or Lesson Plans)
Narrow search by Subcategory and/or grade
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_websites.asp

International Space Station: An Interactive Reference Guide
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/

Liberty’s Kids
http://www.libertyskids.com/

Sci4Kids
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

Thomas (from Library of Congress)
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Water on the Web
http://waterontheweb.org/index.html

Water Science for Schools
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/

Phyllis Anker, anker@hslc.org

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