Life of Abraham Lincoln
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Life of Thomas Jefferson
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Library of Congress: Inventing Entertainment
"Because a collection as large as The Library of Congress can be daunting, their online curators created Learning Pages that offer ""tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum."" This Learning Page Collection Connection focuses on the early motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison companies. My favorite clicks are the movie clips such as ""A Day with Thomas A. Edison"" and ""The Great Train Robbery."""
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Leonardo’s Workshop
Reviewed February 6, 2000 by Celeste Clevenger, a reader from Eastern Shore of Virginia who is not affiliated with the site. This is a wonderful site. My six-year old is constantly asking to play again. Someone has changed history and the player of the game needs to travel back in time to the Renaissance and explore Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop in search of clues. Children can examine Leonardo’s art and inventions and discover the spirit of the Renaissance while solving this interactive mystery. I was so surprised that my daughter was able to play this game by herself after we had played together a few times and that she remembered which inventions were Leonardo’s
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Leonardo’s Codex
"The Codex Leicester, written between 1506 and 1510, "" is a lively record of Leonardo’s thoughts. It embraces a wide variety of topics, from astronomy to hydrodynamics, and includes Leonardo’s observations and theories related to rivers and seas; the properties of water; rocks and fossils; air; and celestial light. All of this is expressed in his signature mirror writing, as well as in more than 300 pen-and-ink sketches, drawings, and diagrams, many of them illustrating imagined or real experiments."" On loan from Bill Gates, the Codex is on display at the American Museum of Natural History, and at this website."
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King’s Atlanta: Birthplace of a Leader
""In Atlanta, the streets of the neighborhood that nurtured King on his way to adulthood -- and comforted the adult King through years of struggle -- are open for walking and, in some cases, look much as they might have when King and his family lived on Auburn Avenue." This virtual walk through Sweet Auburn, the "prosperous black neighborhood that was home to King," is enhanced through the use of the IPIX plug-in. Imagine the sensation of stepping into the picture and having a complete 360-degree view. That is what IPIX can do for a seemingly two-dimensional photograph."
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Kidsreads.com: Rowling
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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KidsKonnect: Helen Keller
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Kausal.com: Leonardo da Vinci
"Martin Kausal’s biographical site traces Leonardo’s life from his 1452 birth in a Anchiano farmhouse, just outside the town of Vinci, to his death at age sixty-seven. Be sure to mouse over the photographs, as additional details will pop up when you do. Other highlights include an article exploring Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile, the possibility that Leonardo invented the bicycle and two streaming videos."
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K12: Meet Michelangelo
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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