6th Grade –

Newbery Award Winners

7th Grade –

Victorian England Compare/Contrast Project

Victorian England information (websites):

• Victorian Schools & Education
• Victorian Schooling
• Victorian Toys & Games (entertainment)
• Victorian Games & Toys (entertainment)
• Victorian Occupations
• Victorian Workers (women vs. men)
• Victorian Christmas Traditions
• Victorian Christmas
• Victorian Etiquette
• Working Conditions
• Child Labor

Victorian England (books):

• Victorian Christmas
• Victorian Education
• Victorian Entertainment
• Victorian Holidays and Entertainment
• Victorian Occupations
• Etiquette and Marriage

Present Day information (websites):

• Education (scroll 3/4 of the way down the page to the section, “Modern Day Education”)
• Education in the United States
• Entertainment
• Occupations in America
• Holiday Traditions in the U.S.
• Christmas Traditions in the U.S.
• Etiquette for modern day teens
• Middle School Manners Matter
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (working conditions)
• Working Conditions

Celebrity Values:

• Look to the Stars Website

Decades Project:

• Retrowaste: an online vintage pop culture museum
• The People History: organized by decades and sub-topics
• US Census Bureau: Pop culture timelines by decade

8th Grade –

• Quotations
• Find a Poet
• Poetry 180
• Writing with Writers

Francophone Holidays

• French National Holidays, Festivals, Religious Celebrations

Health Resources

Drug Resources:

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Drugs of Abuse Information
• Phoenix House
• New York Drug Statistics
• Rohypnol
• Drug Facts
• Info on Various Topics
• Addition & Drug Abuse
• Drug Facts
• Drug Facts & Information about the law
• Narcotics Anonymous – for those addicted to Narcotic Drugs
• Statistics & Research
• Alcoholics Anonymous

Diseases:

• Alzheimer’s Association
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• Centers for Disease Control
• CLIC-on-Health
• Healthfinder
• Health Central
• KidsHealth
• Mayo Clinic
• Medicine Net
• MedLine Plus
• WebMDHealth

6th Grade

• Toy Safety: Consumer Product Safety Commission

7th Grade

• Careers: Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Careers: Career Zone NY
• Consumerism: Zillions

All Grades

• Bureau of Labor Statistics  
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Tufts Nutrition Navigator
• Real Food – The Cost of Convenience Guide to DVD

• Professors Freedman’s Math Help
• Ask Dr. Math 
• Joy of Pi

8th Grade Physical Science

Elements

• Interactive Periodic Table by Royal Society of Chemistry
• Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
• The Periodic Table, in pictures and words
• Environmental Chemistry
• Web Elements Periodic Table
• Chemical Periodic Table
• Dynamic Periodic Table
• FactCite – Elements

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Energy

• FactCite – General Database, includes info on all topics
• ScienceFlix – General Database, includes info on all topics
• Energy Resources (easier)
  • Biomass
    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: Biomass explained
    • Britannica: Biomass
    • Energy Kids: Biomass
  • Radiant (solar)
    • Britannica: Radiant energy
    • National Geographic: Solar energy
    • Energy Kids: Solar
  • Geothermal
    • U.S. Department of Energy: Geothermal Basics
    • Energy Kids: Geothermal
    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: Geothermal explained
  • Wind
    • U.S. Department of Energy: Wind energy basics
    • Energy Kids: Wind
    • U.S. Energy Information Adminstration: Wind
  • Hydroelectric
    • U.S. Department of Energy: Hydropower basics
    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: Hydropower
    • Britannica: Hydroelectric power
  • Ocean Tides
    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: Hydropower
    • National Geographic: Tidal Power
    • Marine Energy Basics
  • Nuclear
    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: Nuclear explained
    • Energy Kids: Nuclear
    • National Geographic: Nuclear energy

7th Grade Life Science

Vertebrates

• A-Z Animals
• San Diego Zoo – Animals
• National Geographic Kids – Animals
• Animal Fact Guide
• Gale in Context: Animals
• FactCite – (general info database)
• ScienceFlix – (science database)

Invertebrates

• All About Snails
• Looking for lots of pictures, check out this site!
• Mollusks
• Echinoderms

Diseases and Viruses

• KidsHealth
• WebMD
• Medical Dictionary
• Mayo Clinic
• University of Rochester Medical Center

Cells

• Kids Health
• Earthquake Program/Information

6th Grade Science

National Parks

• National Park Service 

Planet Earth

• Earth Today

Rocks

• Nature of Diamonds
• Mineral Gallery

Rainforest

• Costa Rican Rainforest
• Rainforest Foundation US

8th Grade 

Data Collection Sheet (for Friday)

Mexican/Latino 

1. The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America
2. Mexican | Immigration and Relocation in US History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress (Use the menu on the left and embedded links to focus on specific time periods andevents)
3. Latino Civil Rights Timeline, 1903 to 2006 | Learning for Justice
4. A Tale of Two Schools | Learning for Justice 
   (Mendez v. Westminster case CA Supreme Court decision, a forerunner of Brown v. Board of Education in the fight for school integration)
5. Racism and the Latino Identity in America, 1910-1970
6. FRONTLINE/World Mexico: Border Timeline
7. How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history
8. Cesar Chavez – Quotes, Facts & Death – Biography 
9. Mexican Immigration (login password: empirelink)
10. Obstacles/Challenges

African Americans

1. Black History Milestones: Timeline – HISTORY
2. African | Immigration and Relocation in US History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress (Use the menu on the left and embedded links to focus on specific time periods and events)
3. Discriminatory housing practices are leading to the devaluation of Black Americans
4. The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom | Exhibitions (use the menu under the title to focus on specific time periods)
5. The History of Racism in America | History (use the subtopics and embedded links to focus on specific time periods and events)
6. African-Americans in the American Workforce
7. Why Did FDR’s New Deal Harm Blacks?

Native Americans

1. Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
2. Custer’s Last Stand
3. Wounded Knee Massacre
4. The Lakota Ghost Dance and The Massacre at Wounded Knee
5. Forced Assimilation of Native Children
6. Navajo Code Breakers
7. Poverty Among Natives Today/ Safe Water Access
8. Natives Today Class With U.S. Government Over Oil Pipeline
9. Controversy Surrounding Professional Sports Teams
10. Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
11. American Indian Movement
12. 13 Indigenous Rights Activists
13. Long Accused of Indigenous Misappropriation, Boy Scouts Ask if It’s Time for Change
14. Native Americans Speak Out Against Negative Stereotypes Today  
15. Broken Treaties with Native American Tribes
16. The Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972
17. National Museum of the American Indian: Treaties
18. Navajo Code Talkers
19. Talking Code: Honoring Service: Remembering the Navajo Code Talkers
20. WWII and American Indians After the War
21. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
22. Native American Cultural Revitalization Today
23. How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ through Assimilation 

PRIMARY SOURCE / IMAGES:

1. Dead at Wounded Knee
2. Native Children
3. Navajo Code Talkers

Asian Americans

1. The Chinese on the Transcontinental Railroad
2. The Chinese Exclusion Act
3. Anti-Japanese Sentiment in WWII
4. Executive Order 9066 & Japanese Internment
5. Japanese Internment Camps
6. Fred Korematsu (password: empirelink)
7. Ronald Reagan Issues Apology & Grants Reparations
8. Anti-Asian American Discrimination Amid Pandemic
9. Chinese Exclusion Act
10. Chinese Immigrants and the Chinese Exclusion Acts
11. Chinese Immigration and the Transcontinental Railroad
12. Railroad working conditions
13. Chinese railroad workers
14. Americans, Japanese: Mutual Respect 70 Years After End of WWII

PRIMARY SOURCE IMAGES/ CARTOONS:

1. Thomas Nast Cartoon
2. Chinese Exclusion Act
3. Anti Japanese Propaganda
4. Anti-Asian Sentiment Today

LGBTQ

1. Two Spirit Quotes
2. 14th Amendment
3. Article: Interview with WWII soldier Franklin E. Kameny
4. Article: Stonewall Riots and Harvey Milk
5. Political Cartoon
6. Time Magazine on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and military today
7. Coming Out Under Fire- Gays in the Military
8. Same-Sex Marriage: Supreme Court Decision
9. Biden Overturns Transgender Military Ban
10. Supreme Court on Transgender in the Workplace
11. Transgender Equality: workplace, school, healthcare, military service & where we are today
12. LGBTQ Photos
13. Military Service and LGBT Equality
14. Do-Ask-Do-Tell-Do-Justice-Summit-Report
15. LGBTQ+ Rights Supreme Court Cases
16. Supreme Court Cases that Shaped LGBTQ+ Rights in America
17. 10 Supreme Court Cases that Changed Everything for LGBTQ+ Community

Women

1. 14th Amendment
2. Declaration of Sentiments
3. Seneca Falls Convention
4. Women Who Fought for the Vote
5. NY Suffragists
6. Lucretia Mott
7. Article: 100 Years After Suffrage
8. Article: Equal Pay
9. Article: Women’s Liberation Movement
10. Article: ERA explained
11. Article: Women in Politics
12. Article: Equal Pay Gap Today
13. Cartoons and Images
14. Equal Rights Amendment
15. Women’s Rights

Technology

• Popular Mechanics

Spanish

• Latin American Network Information Center
• ClassZone

Homework Help

• 10 Best Websites to Help with Homework