The first genocide of the 20th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres.
Presents a colonist's actual account of the boarding and dumping of the tea into the Boston Harbor on December 17,1773.
This site has the story of an anti-Nazi resistance movement in Germany during World War 2 written by one of the participants. Includes primary documents on the trials held after their capture.
This site provides the complete text of Machiavelli's "History of Florence."
Medieval and Renaissance-era scientific instruments are catalogued and displayed. Find references to the makers of the instruments and the ways the tools were once used.
An easy-to-read HTML version of Fielding's novel is offered here.
A site detailing the history of calculus. Many links to informative pages on historical figures. Also links to birthplace maps.
A book about riding a rollercoaster. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
This page discusses in detail what happened to the persecuted Romani people during the Holocaust. It also provides links to further content about lives of Roma and Sinti people during this period.
This incredible site outlines the rise and implementation of the Nazi Party in Germany. While learning about Hitler's transformation of Germany, explore the incredible pictures, audio clips, maps, video clips, and an interactive quiz.
Read about the different types of houses that people live in. Includes audio narration in 23 additional languages with text in English.
In this video segment from WGBH, children experiment with cardboard and build a house for their stuffed animals.
This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.
In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.
This narrated animation from Interactive NOVA: "The Secret of Life" illustrates DNA replication.
Students will recognize similarities and differences of earlier generations in such areas as work (inside and outside the home), dress, manners, stories, games and festivals, drawing from biographies, oral histories, and folklore. Links are provided for the primary sources.
This video segment adapted from FETCH! shows contestants experimenting with different materials to see which is the best insulator and thus best able to keep the lemonade at their stand cool for customers.
Look at all the ways a human body can move. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Shows the many things that children can do to stay healthy. Book includes audio narration in 15 additional languages with text in English.
This resource provides directions for a lab in which students observe changes in a gene pool of bunnies affected by natural selection. Includes PDF resources.