EYEtheseSITES - March 2004

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ERIC coming soon in full text!!!!!

http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/03/03182004.html
The ERIC database is the world's largest education database. Begun in 1966, it is composed of more than one million bibliographic records. The goal of the new ERIC is to provide more education materials quicker, and more directly, to audiences through the Internet. With the new ERIC, individuals will be able to go to one Web site to search a comprehensive database of journal articles and document abstracts and descriptions and, for the first time, directly access full text. The database will include as much free full text as possible, and links will be provided to commercial sources so that individuals can purchase journal articles and other full text immediately.

Websites of Primary Historical Resources for Children
Compiled by Laura Katz Smith, Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Libraries

• Library of Congress, America's Story:
  http://www.americasstory.com/

• American Memory, Historical Collections of the National Digital Library, Library of Congress:
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html,
      and The Learning Page with lesson plans and activities:
      http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
  http://www.ushmm.org/education/,
      and particularly http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/

• National Aeronautics and Space Museum:
  http://wright.nasa.gov/
      and http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/

• Maine Memory Network:
  http://www.mainememory.org/

• Massachusetts Historical Society:
  http://www.masshist.org/welcome/,
      with pages for educators at
      http://www.masshist.org/education/

• Connecticut History Online:
  http://www.cthistoryonline.org/,
      with teacher and student pages at
      http://www.cthistoryonline.org/classroom.html

• New York State Archives Erie Canal Time Machine:
  http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/eriecanal/

• American Museum of Natural History, Digital Library Online Collection:
  http://library.amnh.org/diglib/

• Ohio Memory:
  http://www.ohiomemory.org/

• Chicago Historical Society:
  http://www.chicagohistory.org/

• American Journeys, Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement,
  a project of the Wisconsin Historical Society:
  http://www.americanjourneys.org/.
      Connecting to the Classroom, a website for teachers and students,
      of topics in Wisconsin's history, is at
      http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/classroom/.
      Another Wisconsin history for kids site is at
      http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/kids/

• Minnesota Historical Society, "Forests, Fields and Falls -- Connecting Minnesota":
  http://discovery.mnhs.org/ConnectingMN/

• Nebraska State Historical Society and the Nebraska Department of Education,
  http://ebraskastudies.org

• University of Kansas, Territorial Kansas Online:
  http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=lesson_plans

• Medicine and Madison Avenue (Duke University):
  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/

• Florida State Archives Online Classroom:
  http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/

• Alabama Dept. of Archives and History:
  http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/psources.shtml
      and Alabama Moments in History:
      http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/

• Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections, "The Louisiana Purchase":
  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/purchase/guidelist.html

• Texas Tides: http://tides.sfasu.edu/home.html and Texas Beyond History:
  http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/

• E. H. Danner Museum of Telephony (Angelo State University):
  http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/wtxcoll/verizon_web/

• Oregon History Project (Oregon Historical Society):
  http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/

• Sacramento History Online (Sacramento County Office of Education):
  http://www.sachistoryonline.org/

• Hoover Online! from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum:
  http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/

• Truman Presidential Museum & Library:
  http://www.trumanlibrary.org/kids/

• The Victory Home: A WWII Home Front Ref. Library:
  http://www3.bfn.org/t/tvh.bfn.org/

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum:
  http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm

• International Children's Digital Library:
  http://www.icdlbooks.org/

• The Amazing Time Machine (British Columbia Archives)
  http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/index.htm

• Child's Play (State Library of Queensland):
  http://childsplay.slq.qld.gov.au/

Websites with historical information not necessarily geared toward kids, but perhaps can be used with guidance from teachers. Also includes sites without primary sources:

• History Matters, a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, and the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University:
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

• Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Libraries:
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/

• AdAccess, advertisements from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library:
  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

• FirstGov for Kids:
  http://www.kids.gov/k_history.htm

Other websites of interest to teachers and educators:

• National History Day:
  http://nationalhistoryday.org/03_educators/03.html

• Center for Children & Technology/Education Development Center, "Using Digital Archives to Support Historical Thinking, Picturing Modern America":
  http://www2.edc.org/CCT/publications_design_summary.asp?numPubId=99

• The Education Librarian:
  http://www.educationlibrarian.com/