Geography

Environmental Resource Information Network (ERIN)

Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis)

EcoNet

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Greenpeace International

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

FireNet

Latest Earthquakes

Volcano World

Adventures of Herman

World atlas with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. Includes maps, flags, currency converter as well as climate and time zone information.

Geography (K-3) at EnchantedLearning.com

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/geography.shtml

Geography (K-3): Information, crafts, Quizzes, maps, colouring pages, and printouts related to the seas and various countries including Brazil, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, China, Japan, Mexico and the USA.

The Golden Pipeline

http://www.ntwa.com.au/major/golden-pipeline.shtml

ABC Goldfields-Esperance website

http://www.abc.net.au/goldfields/stories/s591528.htm and http://www.abc.net.au/goldfields/stories/s638384.htm

Provides comprehensive information on a wealth of environmental issues.

http://www.erin.gov.au/

Composting in Schools

Composting offers something for all ages. Primary students will be fascinated by tactile experience, and teens can research the biology, chemistry, and physics of composting.

Yucky Worm World

Wendell the Worm is the host for "yuckiest site on the Internet." In Worm World he explains the worm's role in recycling dead plants.

StudentNet Geography

Internet Resources for Geographers

Nice Geography and GIS servers

These Antartica sites were recently posted by Rebecca Ryan to the group:

http://www.aad.gov.au

http://www.glacier.rice.edu ... (for information related to weather)

http://www.south-pole.com/... (Information on Antarctic explorers)

The World Factbook

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ay.html

Welcome to Live from Antarctica 2

The Best Wildlife Expedition In Antarctica, South Georgia & The Falklands

http://www.cheesemans.com/antarctica/

Virtual Tour - The Poles

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/

Antarctica Links

http://www.coolantarctica.com/

http://www.terraquest.com

http://www.pics4learning.com ... (for photographs of Antarctica)

http://www.antdiv.gov.au

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/antarctica.htm

http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/claypoles

http://www.greenpeace.org

You will also find a Stage Three HSIE unit of work about Antarctica at ...

http://www.ppplus.com.au

Biomes are the world's major ecological communities,classified by climate and native plants and animals.

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html (Earth Floor)

Early Primary will enjoy

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/teacher/biomes/biomes.html

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/  (EO Laboratory)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome  (The World's Biomes)

.Alaska @ National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/greatland/

National Geographic surveys Alaska's Land, Wildlife, History and People. Highlights are the Bear Essentials video (under Wildlife), the Native People feature, and the e-mail postcards available in each section.

The Virtual Tourist

http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/

The World Travel Guide Net

http://www.travel-guide.com/country.asp

The Lonely Planet

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations

WWW Earthquake Locator:

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html

This gives data from the USGS National Earthquake Information Centre within hours of an earthquake having taken place.

Earthquakes

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/ and http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/

and http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/

Volcano World

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Weather

http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html

This server keeps track of leading information facilities of value to researchers in the field of social sciences and humanities.

Australian Social Science Data Archive

http://assda.anu.edu.au/

Learning through Collaborative Visualization

http://www.covis.nwu.edu/

CoVis is a community of thousands of students, hundreds of teachers, and dozens of researchers all working together to find new ways to think about and practice science in the classroom.

Australian Government

Guide to Australia

http://www.csu.edu.au/education/australia.html

Parliament

http://www.aph.gov.au/

Parliament of Australia information.

The Australian Government Directory

http://www.agd.com.au/

Department of Parliamentary Library

http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/hotissues.htm

Australia's Parliamentary Library is finding renewed interest in its

Web site since the introduction of its "E-Briefs", sections that provide useful resources on various hot issues like foreign policy, child protection, maternity leave and media ownership.

E-Briefs offer an introduction to these topics, providing background and commentary. Current topics include: Paid maternity leave, Iraq, child abuse, Mabo, media ownership and digital television.

Australian Government Information

http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/

Australian Federal, State, Territory and Local Government

http://www.gov.au/

Access to Australian Commonwealth Government Information

http://www.fed.gov.au/KSP/

Australian System of Government

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/sys_gov.html

Tasmanian Government

http://www.tas.gov.au

Think History http://www.thinkhistory.btinternet.co.uk/

D-Day, Normandy and beyond http://www.normandy1944.info/

Subject: Best History Websites http://www.besthistorysites.net/

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history.htm

School History

Teacher Resources

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Medieval.htm

An organic encyclopaedia on Britain in the Middle Ages. Each entry contains a narrative, illustrations and primary sources.

Renaissance Secrets

http://www.open2.net/renaissance2/doing/doing.html"

A joint offering of the BBC and Open University, this website explores four mysteries from a historian's point of view.

The Navigators

http://www.abc.net.au/navigators

Digitising History

http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history

1768 The Voyage of the Endeavour

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/voyages/endeavour.html

Endeavour's Scientific Impact (1768 - 1771)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/exploration/endeavour_voyage_01.shtml

A New Foreign Country

http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/alia2000/proceedings/turnbull.blackall.html

The South Seas Project

http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/southseas

Using the Multimedia Tools of the Internet for Teaching History in K-12 Schools

National Standards for History

Powers of Persuasion

China

Soviet Archives Exhibit

The Holocaust "Cybrary"

World War I Trenches on the Web

Australian War Memorial national collection

Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory

Medieval texts

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers

Yahoo! - History Resources

History links

The Perseus Project

Aboriginal sites

• Aboriginal Bird- and Place Names: http://ozbird.com/oz/ozculture/images/aboriginal/names/default.htm
• Your Source to Aboriginal Siteshttp://www.ammsa.com/ammsalinks.html
• AMMSA's online archives: http://www.ammsa.com/dsp_login.asp
• Links to Aboriginal Resources: http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/aborl.htm
• Varied Types of Aboriginal Sites: http://www.koori.usyd.edu.au/students/daleneileeyo/
• Computerised Aboriginal Sites Register: http://www.commandcomputers.com.au/sites.htm
• Aboriginal cultural heritage: http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/culture/abori_00.htm
• Indigenous Links Page: http://www.abc.net.au/message/links.htm

Abu Simbel - http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/abusimbel.html

Part of the Sacred Places site, Abu Simbel is a temple carved out of rock during the reign of Ramses II and covered in great detail here as both art and architecture.

Akhet Egyptology - http://www.akhet.co.uk/index.htm

This is an exhaustive source of information on all things to do with Egyptology;

Ancient Art: Egypt -http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/egypt/egypt.html

The Detroit Institute of Arts looks at the composition and elements of ancient Egyptian art appropriate for Middle Schoolers and higher; links to compare Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Etruscans, Arabian and Islamic arts too.

Ancient Egypt: the Eternal Voice - http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/

http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/egypt/egypt.htm

The McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville presents this wonderful online exhibit of art and artefacts from ancient Egypt.

Greece Unit Study - Here's a good website for teachers of upper primary students.

http://members.aol.com/MrDonnUnits/Greece.html

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt -http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Egyptlife.html

Nobody does history online like Mr. Donn, and here he gives Egypt the royal treatment!

Egypt Antiquities Information - http://touregypt.net/egyptantiquities/

Tour Egypt presents this awesome collection of secondary-level materials on all things to do with life in ancient Egypt. There are materials in science and chemistry, humour, marriage, mythology, writing, religion and so much more.

Egypt Fun Guide - http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/media00.html

Presented by Sea World, this is a great site for elementary students looking at language and hieroglyphics, history and culture through games and activities which will engage them. .

Egyptian Mathematics - http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm

Part of the larger Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt, this page offers basic lessons in the Egyptian number system and then offers several pages full of math problems .

Mysteries of Egypt

http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypte.html

The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents this awesome site based on the IMAX movie made by National Geographic.

Mysteries of the Nile - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/

This virtual exhibit from the NOVA TV series offers excellent educational substance and a visually stimulating appearance. The panoramic 360 degree photos are breath taking, and you've got to love classroom resources.

Odyssey Egypt - http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/homepg.html

The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University offers this look at ancient mummies and pyramids.

Odyssey in Egypt - http://www.website1.com/odyssey/home.html

Imagine being able to immerse your students in a ten week virtual dig in Egypt in which they can follow the excavation of an ancient Egyptian monastery

Pyramids - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Another fabulous NOVA production, Pyramids has less teacher support but it's chalked with so much information and pics you don't want to pass it up

The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html

Djoser was the first pyramid to be built entirely of stone. This site does an amazing job of taking you through the process of building this step pyramid using clickable maps and tours of the individual chambers.

Table of Egyptian Gods and Associates - http://www.mythome.org/egyptian.html

Whether you're extending your social studies unit or looking for comparative mythology in the language arts, this site is a great introduction to Egyptian gods and goddesses.

Tomb of Senneferi

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/tt99/index.html

Senneferi is a lesser known Pharaoh presented on this fabulous student-centred site. It offers an excellent opportunity to study the processes of archaeology through a highly visual page.

Travels with Mousey - http://members.aol.com/egyptmouse/

Hey, if Steinbeck can do it why can't Schreiber? Mousey is a stuffed animal known as the "world's formouseyest Egyptologist," and this is the documented trip Mike Schreiber and Mousey took to Egypt in 1999.

Virtual Egypt - http://www.virtual-egypt.com/

The graphic layout is a little busy, but the activities contained in this site are perfect for elementary students. The timelines, tours and flash movies make this an incredible find.

Wild Egypt - http://touregypt.net/wildegypt/

Wild Egypt is an online safari presenting the flora and fauna of Egypt. Select the Nile, the Land or the Red Sea and begin an expedition to discover the wild life of the region.

Write Like an Egyptian - http://www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi/

It used to be the only site like this was based in France and you were lucky if you could figure out what to do to enjoy the challenge.

You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy! -http://www.salariya.com/web_books/mummy/

Salariya Publishing offers this "web book" that walks students through the entire mummification process.

Politics

PeaceNet

Governments on the WWW

Government Resources

International Government links

Australian Government home page

National Political Index

United Nations home page

Government

CIA World Factbook

Politics.Com

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations