Surfing the Net with Kids: J.K. Rowling
"Often compared to best-selling children’s author Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling is the biggest thing to hit children’s literature since, well, since Roald Dahl. If you enjoy either reading or writing, you’ll want to know more about the British mom who created Harry Potter from her imagination."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Anne Frank
"Anne Frank was just thirteen-years old when she and her family went into hiding behind the Amsterdam office of her father to avoid persecution by Hitler’s Nazis. One of her dearest possessions was the diary she had just received as a birthday present. Anne died of typhus in March of 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but her father survived to publish her diary in 1947. Today, translated into sixty-seven languages, Anne Frank’s diary has been read by millions."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Christopher Columbus
""In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." And his arrival in the West Indies led to enduring links between Europe and the Americas. In the early years of our nation’s history, Christopher Columbus was raised to hero status by writers and historians wishing to create a common memory for our new nation. Five hundred years later, by the quincentennial of 1992, Columbus’ name had become somewhat tarnished. Is Columbus a hero worth celebrating, or was he a cruel imperialist? Discover the debate, and decide for yourself."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Alexander Graham Bell
"Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. March is also the anniversary of his most famous invention: the telephone. In 1875, after receiving a patent for the transmission of multiple telegraph signals on a single wire, Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson, set out to invent the telephone. Success came on March 10, 1876."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Ansel Adams
"Ansel Adams was a twentieth-century photographer known for his black-and-white landscapes, efforts to preserve America’s wilderness, and his association with the Sierra Club. Adams understood how publishing could expand the audience for his work, and much of his popularity is due to the high-quality books and portfolios he published at prices much lower than those of an original print."
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Suffering Under a Great Injustice
"In 1943, Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California that interned Japanese Americans during World War II. This Library of Congress exhibit presents ""side-by-side digital scans of both Adams’s 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints."" To view the photos, follow the link to Collection Highlights."
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Stanton and Anthony Mini Edition
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Stanton and Anthony Papers Online
"Although much of this site from Rutgers University goes beyond what you need for a school report, there are several sections worth visiting. First (under Studies) are Anthony and Stanton biographies, along with a time line of their work. Next (also under Studies) is Child Bibliography, where you’ll find a reading list of sixteen books about women’s suffrage appropriate for elementary and middle-school students. The Frequently Asked Questions page is also great, with answers to some basic questions such as "Why was the vote so important?""
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SmartWriters.com: Paula Danziger Tribute
"Danziger was known for her generosity to aspiring writers, and this tribute site is overflowing with letters from those she touched. It also has a biography outlining the various life events that brought Danziger to writing. ""... it took thirty years, a teaching career and two life threatening car crashes (in two consecutive days) to bring her face-to-face with her ultimate passion writing top quality literature for kids. ’I had always wanted to write,’ Danziger said. ’But after the second wreck, I decided I better do it before I got hit by a bus.’"""
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Seattle Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.
This Seattle Times special is my pick of the day. It covers King’s life with the usual biography and timeline, but it shines in the Perspectives section, which includes Roadways Across America (a look at six streets bearing King’s name), student essays, and class conversations between four third-grade classes. Finish your visit by trying the twelve-question civil rights quiz.
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