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Social Studies 7 -- Africa
- African Animals
- South African common mammals
- Endangered species
- African wildlife reserves
- African People and Culture
- African peoples (ethnic groups)
- The Diversity of the African People
- Geography, climate, environment, history, people
- Information about various African countries
- Languages of Africa
- Problems of Africa
- General information about countries in Africa
- BBC profiles of African countries; choose a country
- South African botanical gardens
- Online almanac – search the country – find the resources and products
- K-12 teacher site with resources on Africa
- Social Studies 8 -- Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Inventions
Chinese Inventions - Reach site
Ducksters ancient Chinese inventions
Top Ten Chinese Inventions
History of Acupuncture
Chinese invention of abacus
Chinese invention of seismograph
Chinese Invention of Compass
Chinese Invention of Fireworks
Chinese Invention of Gunpowder
Fireworks
Chinese invention of kites
Chinese invention of paper
Chinese invention of porcelain
Chinese invention of tea
History of Silk in China
Making Umbrellas in China
Ancient Man
Ancient China
Egypt
- Guardian’s Egypt
- Mummies of Ancient Egypt
- Hieroglyphics
- History for Kids! – Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Biography
- Ancient Egyptian Society
- Egyptian Weapons
- King Tut's Tomb
- Mummification
- Akhenaten
- Hatshepsut
- Ptolemy I
- Pyramids
- Ramses II
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Greece
- History for Kids! -- Ancient Greece
- The Acropolis
- Alexander the Great
- Ancient City of Athens
- The Ancient Olympics
- Ancient Greek History
- Achimedes
- Aristotle
- Biographies - Ancient Greece
- Cleisthenes
- Delian League
- Peloponnesian War
- Greek Democracy
- Greek Democracy - Development
- Greek Historians
- Greek Mathematicians
- Greek Philosophers
- Greek Gods
- Greek Myths
- Greek Theater
- Herodotus
- Leonidas
- The Parthenon
- Plato
- Pericles
- Persian Wars
- Science in Ancient Greece
- Socrates
- Sparta and the Spartans
- Spartan Society
- Themistocles
- Thucydides
- Virgil
- Women in the Ancient World
Rome
- Roman Republic
- Roman Republic - defined
- Roman Army - Legion
- Biographies - Ancient Romans
- BBC-Ancient History-Romans
- Carthage
- Mr.Dowling.com – Ancient Rome
- First Triumvirate
- The Gladiator
- Hannibal
- History Link 101 - Ancient Rome
- The Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
- Influence of Roman Architecture
- Boudicca
- Augustus Caesar - Mr. Dowling
- Augustus Caesar - Ancient.eu
- Julius Caesar -Soc. Studies for Kids
- Julius Caesar - Ancient.eu
- Justinian
- Constantine
- Hadrian
- Marc Antony
- Decline of the Roman Empire
- First Triumvirate
- Pax Romana
- Plebians
- Plebians, Patricians and Slaves
- Punic Wars
- Roman Army
- Roman Civil War
- Roman Emperors - biographies
- Roman Expansion
- Roman Legal System
- Roman Mythology
- Roman Technology
- Roman Theater
- Slavery in Ancient Rome
- Spartacus
- Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History/Rome
- Trajan
- UNRV -Roman Empire Site
Assyria
Babylonia
Mesopotamia
Middle Ages
- Attila the Hun
- Black Plague
- Charlemagne
- Crusades
- Genghis Khan
- History Link 101 - Middle Ages Biographies
- Joan of Arc
- Leif Ericson
- Life of the Prophet Muhammad
- Muhammad
- Nostradamus
- The Vikings
- Vlad the Impaler
- William the Conqueror
Miscellaneous Topics and People
- King Asoka
- Jesus: Frontline From Jesus to Christ
- The Life of Jesus
- King David
- Marie Antoinette
- St.Paul
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Mayans
West African Kingdoms
Kingdom of Mali
Kingdom of Ghana
Songhai Empire
Social Studies 7 -- Asia
- Angkor Wat
- Aswan Dam
- Atomic Bomb/Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Beijing
Buddhism History - Caste System in India
- The Dalai Lama
- The Dead Sea (Israel)
- Dubai
- Ganges River
- Indira Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Hinduism History
- Hong Kong profile
- Islam History
- Kamikaze
- Korean War
- Mao Zedong
- Marco Polo
- Mecca
- Sikh Religion History
- Suez Canal
- Tibet
- Vietnam War
- Japan Baseball
- Ikebana: Japanese flower arranging.
- India: festivals
- Jade
- Japanese Festivals
- Japanese New Year
- Kabuki Theater
- Kite Festival
- Kite History
- Martial Arts
- Samurai Warriors
- Samurai Weapons
- Terra Cotta Warriors
- Forbidden City
- Forbidden City museum
- Great Wall of China
- The Silk Road
- History of Silk
- Genghis Khan
- Tea Ceremony
- Tea cultivation
- Sumo
- Mother Teresa
- Japanese Culture
- Chinese Culture
- Chinese Dragons
- Three Gorges Dam
- Potala Palace
- Dragon Boat Festival
- Traditional Clothing - China
- The Kimono
- Dance, music and theater of Bali
- Traditional Clothing - India
- Asian Animals
- Bengal Tiger
- Tiger
- Giant Panda
- Komodo Dragon
- Mount Everest
- Taj Mahal - History
- Taj Mahal - PBS
- Chinese Inventions
- Chinese Medicine
- Chinese Musical Instruments
- Jerusalem Holy Sites
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Dome of the Rock
- Petra
- Hagia Sophia
- Himeji Castle
- Ramadan
Social Studies 7 -- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965
- Civil Rights Movement
- Harlem Renaissance from Library of Congress
- Harlem Renaissance - Art
- Harlem Renaissance - overview
- Harlem Renaissance - Music
- Ku Klux Klan
- March on Washington
- Pathfinder on the Civil Rights Movement
- King Institute Encyclopedia
Pathfinder and suggested lessons on Dr. Martin Luther King
Social Studies 7 -- Civil War Personalities
- People of the Civil War
- Civil War Trust - Biographies
- America's Civil War
- Civil War Generals
- Civil War Spies
- People of the Civil War
- Clara Barton
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Belle Boyd
- John Brown
- George Armstrong Custer
- Jefferson Davis
- Frederick Douglass
- Loreta Janeta Velazquez
- Emma Edmonds
- Emma Edmonds - quotes
- William Lloyd Garrison
- General A.P. Hill
- Lewis Hayden
- Stonewall Jackson
- Robert E, Lee
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
Social Studies 7 -- Holocaust
For a timeline of Holocaust events, see the following websites:
- http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
- http://www.remember.org/educate/mtimeline.html
- http://www.neveragain.org/time.htm
- http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/timeline/
For information on people of the Holocaust:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
Website about non-Jewish victims
Forgotten victims of the Holocaust including Poles and Slav
Eyewitness accounts including those of liberators, perpetrators, survivors, rescuers and members of the resistance
Links to websites about victims including gypsies, deaf people and Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Holocaust: crimes, heroes and villains
Information about the resistance during the Holocaust
Accounts of “righteous gentiles” who risked their lives to save Holocaust victims
Look at the sites below for information on the Nuremberg Laws:
- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurlaws.html
- http://www.shoaheducation.com/nuremberglaws.html
Exact text of laws
For causes of the Holocaust look at:
Article on racial prejudice, stereotyping.
Nazi racism article
History of the Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Center website
Beyond the pale: Nazis and the Holocaust
For lessons to be learned from the Holocaust, look at:
The Holocaust History Project contains documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including articles addressing the issue of Holocaust-denial
The Courage to Remember the Holocaust exhibit at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Social Studies 6 -- Inventors and Inventions
- A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries - PBS
- Inventor Hall of Fame: searchable database
- Alexander Graham Bell – Telephone
- Henry Bessemer – Steel making
- Bessemer Process
- Clarence Birdseye – Quick Frozen Foods
- Milton Bradley - Board Games
- Louis Braille – Braille
- Willis H. Carrier – Air Conditioner
- Josephine Cochran - Dishwasher
- Samuel Colt - Revolver
- Jacques Cousteau – SCUBA
- Gottlieb W. Daimler – Car
- John Deere – steel plow
- George Eastman - Box camera
- Thomas Edison – Light bulb, phonograph
- Michael Faraday - Generator
- Philo Farnsworth - Television
- George W. Ferris – ferris wheel
- Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
- Henry Ford – assembly line
- Robert Fulton – Commercial Steamboat
- Ruth Handler - Barbie Doll
- Grace Hopper – COBOL
- Elias Howe - Sewing Machine
- William Kellogg - Breakfast Cereal
- Lewis Latimer – Light Bulb Filament
- John H. Loud - Ball Point Pen
- Guglielmo Marconi - Radio
- Cyrus McCormick - Reaper
- Garrett Morgan - Gas Mask
- Garrett Morgan - Traffic Signal
- Samuel F.B. Morse - Telegraph
- Samuel Morse - Telegraph - impact
- Alfred Nobel - Dynamite
- Rose O'Neill - Kewpie Doll
- Elisha Otis - Elevator Safety Brake
- William Roentgen - X-Rays
- Jonas Salk - Polio Vaccine
- Christopher Latham Sholes - Typewriter
- Igor Sikorsky - Helicopter
- Levi Strauss - Blue Jeans
- Thomas Telford - Suspension Bridge
- Alessandro Volta - Electric Battery
- Madame C.J.Walker - Hair Care Products
- George H. Wheeler - Escalator
- Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin
- Wright Brothers- Airplane
Social Studies 7 -- Latin America
Science 6 -- Natural Disasters
- Earthquake Museum - Famous earthquakes
- Significant Earthquake Index -USGS
- Chile Earthquake - 2010
- Haiti Earthquake - effects
- Haiti Earthquake - facts
- Loma Prieta Earthquake
- Loma Prieta Earthquake - more facts
- Loma Prieta Earthquake - USGS
- Natural hazards from the USGS
- National Severe Storms Laboratory - Severe Weather Primer
- How volcanoes work - historic eruptions
- Eyjafjallajokull Volcanic Eruption of 2010 in Iceland
- Hawaiian volcanoes
- Mount Pinatubo volcano
- Mount Pinatubo more
- Mount St. Helens Volcano
- Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii
- Volcanoes from the US Geological Survey
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration page
- NOVA Online: Floods
- Blizzard of 1888
- Iran Blizzard 1972
- Storm of the Century Blizzard - March 1993
- Northeast Blizzard - 2010
- National Weather Service: Major Winter Storms
- Tornadoes
- Historic tornadoes
- Flint-Beecher Tornado - 1953
- Joplin Missouri Tornado - 2011
- Moore, Oklahoma Tornado - 2013
- Tri-State Tornado - 1925
- Waco Tornado - 1953
- Palm Sunday tornadoes
- Palm Sunday tornadoes - U.S. Tornadoes
- Bhola Bangladesh Cyclone - 1970
- Odisha Cyclone - 1999 India
- National Hurricane Center
- Historic hurricanes
- Hurricane Andrew
- Hurricane Isabel
- Hurricane Katrina - effects
- Hurricane Katrina - facts
- Hurricane Mitch 1998 - facts
- Hurricane Sandy - facts
- Ice Storm 1998 - Northeast U.S.
- Indian Ocean tsunami
- Turkey Tsunami - 1999
- Ecuador-Columbia Earthquake - 1906
- Japan Earthquake - 2011
- Kashmir-Pakistan Earthquake - 2005
- Nepal Earthquake - 2015
- Tangshan China Earthquake - 1976
- Tsunami site - BBC
- Typhoon Haiyan - facts
Social Studies 7 -- National Parks
- National Park System website: search for your park .
- PBS national park profiles from the Ken Burns documentary series.
- National Parks foundation website with details on some of the parks.
- The National Parks Conservation Association website.
Science 7 -- Science Careers
- Careers at Kids.gov: federal government site
- NASA Space Careers
- Science Careers from the American Physiological Society
- United States Department of Labor -Occupational Outlook Handbook
- National Council for Minorities in Engineering - career information
- American Society for Engineering Education
- Kids4Research - Careers in animal research
- Ecological Society of America - environmental science careers
- American Society for Microbiology - What do microbiologists do?
- National Institutes of Health - Explore health and medical careers
Science 8 -- The Planets
- Space Facts
- The Nine Planets
- NASA Solar System Exploration
- Planet Images from NASA
- National Geographic - Planets
Language Arts 6 -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
- About the 1963 Birmingham Bombing
- Birmingham Public Library webpage on 16th St. Baptist Church Bombing
- Civil Rights timeline
- Greensboro Sit-Ins
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute Encyclopedia
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- National Park Service webpage on the Birmingham church
- The Little Rock Nine and school desegregation
- Sit-ins, Marches, Boycotts from the Library of Congress
- Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Language Arts 6 -- Women's History
- History of women’s suffrage
- National Women’s History Project biography resource
- Biographies of notable women at about.com
- Women presidents and prime ministers of the 20th century
- Women of influence in American History
- Comprehensive women’s history research guide
- National Women’s Hall of Fame
Social Studies 7 -- World Leaders
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Washington
- Rosa Parks
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jesse Owens
- Thurgood Marshall
- Jackie Robinson
- Babe Ruth
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Henry Ford
- Walt Disney
- Sam Walton
- Mother Teresa
- Princess Diana
- Desmond Tutu
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Anne Frank
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Dalai Lama
- Simon Bolivar
- Indira Gandhi
- Winston Churchill
- Thomas Edison
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Albert Einstein
- Oprah Winfrey
- Nelson Mandela
- Malcolm X
- Jane Goodall
- Cesar Chavez
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Muhammad Ali
- Harriet Tubman
- Frederick Douglass
- Christopher Columbus
- Confucius
Works Cited
Works Cited Guide – MLA Format
Linwood Middle School Media Center
**Works cited page should be double spaced both between and within entries.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: (General)
Author of article Last Name, First Name. (if listed) “Title of
article.” Name of Encyclopedia . Copyright date.
Examples: “Dinosaur.” World Book Encyclopedia . 2002.
Nice, Alex T. “Rome, Ancient.” World Book Encyclopedia . 2006.
BOOKS WITH ONE AUTHOR:
Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Book . City of
Publication: Name of Publisher, Copyright date.
Example: Streissguth, Thomas. Communications: Sending the Message .
Minneapolis: The Oliver Press, Inc., 1997.
BOOKS WITH TWO AUTHORS:
Author’s Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name of
other Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Name of
Publisher, Copyright date.
Example: Pandell, Karen, and Barry Bryant. Learning from the Dalai Lama.
New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 1995.
BOOKS WITH MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS:
Author’s Last Name, First Name, et al. Title of Book .
City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Copyright date.
Example: Jones, Claire, et al. Pollution: The Air We Breathe . Minneapolis,
Lerner Publications Company, 1974.
BOOKS WITH NO AUTHOR:
Title of Book . City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Copyright
date.
Example: World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006. New York: World Almanac
Books, 2006.
MAGAZINE:
Author of article Last Name, First Name. (if listed) “Article Title.”
Name of the Magazine Day Mo. Year: inclusive page number.
Example: Romano, Andrew. “He’s One of Us Now.” Newsweek 8 Feb. 2008:
38-41.
Databases:
Author of article (if listed). “Title of Article.” Name of database
(source) . Other relevant info. (when available) Date
accessed – Day Mo. Year .
Examples:
Harris, Laurie Lanzen. "Thomas Edison." Biography for Beginners. 2006:166-183. SIRS
Discoverer . SIRS Discoverer on the Web. Linwood Library Media Center, North
Brunswick, NJ. 5 Jan. 2009 http://www.proquestk12.com
Swezey, Kenneth M. "Edison, Thomas Alva ." Encyclopedia Americana . 2009. Grolier
Online. 5 Jan. 2009 http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0138710-00 .
Bunsen, Matthew. "Cicero." Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire ,
Revised Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2002. Ancient
and Medieval History Online . Facts On File, Inc. 12 Feb.
2008 http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?
ItemID=WE49&iPin=ERE0&SingleRecord=True
Kiffel, Jamie. “The Legend of the Samurai.” National Geographic
Kids Jan/Feb 2004:30-31 Middle Search Plus 12 Feb. 2008
“Mummification.” Guardian’s Egypt . 12 Feb. 2008
PARENTHETICAL CITATION
In MLA documentation style, sources are acknowledged by inserting brief parenthetical citations in the text, which refer directly to the Works Cited Page at the end of the paper. The parenthetical citation that concludes the following sentence is typical of MLA style.
Ancient writers attributed the invention of the monochord to Pythagoras, who lived in the 6th century B.C. (Marcuse 197).
Note that the parenthetical precedes punctuation.
The citation (Marcuse 197) tells readers that the information in the sentence was taken from page 197 of a work by an author named Marcuse. The book would appear in the Works Cited page as follows:
Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments. New York: Harper, 2000.
A citation contains only enough information to enable readers to find the source in the Works Cited.
–If an author’s name if mentioned in the text, only the page number appears in the citation: (197).
-If more than one work by the author is in the Works Cited, a shortened version of the title is given: (Marcuse, Survey197).
-If an entry in the Works Cited has no author and is listed by title, the title (if brief), or a shortened version is used for the parenthetical.
-As the entry appears in the Works Cited must be how it is used in the parenthetical. When abbreviating the title, begin with the word by which it is alphabetized in the Works Cited.
Example: (Population 176) would be the parenthetical used when referring to the following title in the Works Cited.
Population of the Ancient World . New York: Little Publishers, 1998. (book has no author)
All information included here is from:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.