Ludlow
High School Library
Ludlow, Massachusetts
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- America's
Favorite Architecture
Maintained by the American Institute of Architects in conjunction with
GoogleEarth, scroll through zoomable photographs of 150 architectural
wonders found in America and learn about America's architectural heritage.
- Art cyclopedia:
The Fine Art Search Engine
The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find
out where the works of over 8,000 different fine artists can be viewed
online.
- Art
History Resources on the Web
Maintained by Sweet Briar College's Professor Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe,
this is an extensive and well-indexed collection of links.
- ArtLex
Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture,
along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great
quotations and cross-references.
- Diego Rivera
Web Museum
A virtual exhibit that provides an in-depth study of the life and work
of one of Mexico's most famous artist. A Spanish version is available.
- International
Sculpture Center
This site provides images and information on hundreds of sculpture parks
and gardens around the world. Also provided is a database featuring the
work of 375 sculptures, and archived articles from Sculpture Magazine.
- Joseph
Wu's Origami Page
This is the ultimate origami site, with extensive resources and information
for K-12 teachers.
- Louvre
Museum Official Website
Presents paintings, Egyptian antiquities, Oriental antiquities, Greek,
Etruscan and Roman antiquities, sculpture, prints, drawings, and objects
d'art. English version; also available in French.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Click on "Collections" to view and search online collections
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- The Art Institute
of Chicago: Art Access
Art Access examines objects from various areas of the Art Institute of
Chicago’s permanent collection to enrich visitors' understanding of their
content, style, and historical context. Included are a variety of online
resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young
people, including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for
the home.
- The Great Buildings
Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents
a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic
images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building
models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous
designers and structures of all kinds.
- The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum in New York City offers extensive resources in
art education for Grades K-12. Visit the "Explore & Learn"
and "Education Resources" sections to find online exhibits and
classroom materials.
- Virtual Exhibition:
Goya
Presents the life of the famous Spanish artist accompanied by illustrations
of his important works. A Spanish version is available.
- Web Gallery of Art
Maintained by Emil Kren and Daniel Marz of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
this on-line gallery contains a collection of more than 10,000 digital
reproductions of European paintings and scepters created between the years
1150 and 1800. Many provide commentaries and biographical information.
- Absolute Shakespeare
- plays, quotes, summaries, essays...
This site provides study guides to 11 of Shakespeare's plays, summaries
to his most famous plays, trivia about the playwright, and more than 130
of the most famous quotes, indexed by play. It also includes online texts
to all of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems.
- Bartleby.com: Great Books
Online
Provides free access to a comprehensive collection of reference, verse,
fiction, and non-fiction works, including an electronic library of major
British and American Authors. The site also offers online access to the
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
- Bibliomania
An online bookstore in the U.K., offers thousands of free e-books, poems,
articles, short stories,and plays. Includes fiction by authors such as
Dickens and Joyce; Sherlock Holmes mysteries; all of Shakespeare's plays;
and short stories by Mark Twain, Anton Chekov, and Edgar Allen Poe.
- Classic Authors.net
/ Great Literature Online
Offers e-texts of work by famous authors from Louisa May Alcott to Walt
Whitman, accompanied by photos and biographical information.
- Communication
Writing Skills Program
Students and professors at Northern Illinois University present writing
tips useful for students in Grades 9-12. The Students' Resources section
is filled with information on plagiarism, use of quotations, and the style
for citing resources.
- Eldritch
Press: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contains extensive information on Hawthorne, including electronic texts
of his books and other writing, information about his life and work, and
links to sites for other famous 19th-century American writers.
- Encyclopedia Mythica
From the site: "The Encyclopedia Mythica is an online encyclopedia
on mythology, folklore, and legends. It currently contains over 7,000
entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings
from all over the world."
- Folklore
and Mythology Electronic Texts
D.L. Ashliman, professor emeritus from the University of Pittsburgh, provides
a vast collection of myths and legends form all parts of the world, and
numerous related themes. It includes an alphabetical index of links to
mythology texts where you can find everything from popular fairy tales
to Russian ghost stories.
- Greek Mythology
- Mythweb
Collection of myths, encyclopedia-style entries on the gods, goddesses
and other mythological figures.
- Greek
Mythology Link
Provides extensive and well-indexed information on all aspects of Greek
mythololgy. This site is the online companion to "Genealogical Guide
to Greek Mythology" and is maintained by Carlos Parada, with contributions
by many other mythology scholars.
- Guide
to Grammar and Writing
Provides guidelines for basic grammar and usage.
- International Debate
Education Association (IDEA)
Offers the Debatabase, a searchable index of potential debate topics and
the different sides to each issue. A great resource for research on controversial
issues.
- Internet Public
Library: Literary Criticism
The Internet Public Library, hosted by the University of Michigan, provides
a collection of hundreds of critical and biographical sites with annotation.
It is international in scope, but emphasizes authors form North America,
the British Isles, and the former British Empire. The collection is arranged
by author, title, and nationality/literary period.
- Internet
Public Library: Shakespeare Bookshelf
The Internet Public Library provides a complete collection of Shakespeare's
plays and sonnets. The site includes links to study guides, a guide to
Shakespeare's monologues, and other high school classroom resources.
- Jane
Austen Information Page
Created by Henry Churchyard, this is the premier Austen site on the Internet.
It contains six full-text annotated versions of her novels, including
an illustrated version of Pride and Prejudice. Suitable for high school
English classes, the site includes articles on and by Jane Austen, numerous
photos, information on the life and times of this celebrated author, online
discussions of film and TV versions of her novels, and other related pages.
- Luminarium:
Anthology of English Literature
Contains a selection of major English authors and their works from the
medieval (1350-1485), renaissance (1485-1603), and early 17th-century
(1603-1660) periods. Each period includes an index of electronic texts,
biographical information, beautiful image, a bibliography, essays, articles,
and related sites.
- Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
This annotated guide to Shakespeare resources, compiled by Terry A. Gray,
includes information on the Bard's works, life and times, theater, criticism,
and the Renaissance. The Shakespeare in Education section provides teaching
aids for middle and high school classes.
- Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant
Paradigm, created by Professor Chuck Guilford of Boise, Idaho, is an interactive
online writing guide and handbook for teachers or students. The guide
explores the "process" approach to writing and covers each step
form choosing a topic to organizing, revising, editing, and documenting
resources. Each section has activities to get users started, complete
with instructions.
- Perspectives
in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
Created by Paul P. Reuben of California State University at Stanislaus,
this is an online research and reference guide to the major movements
and authors in American literature.
- Poetry Out Loud:
National Recitation Project
Website for the National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Foundation's
National Recitation Contest. A good source for finding full text of poems
online.
- Poets.org: The Academy
of American Poets
Includes biographies and photos of more than 400 poets, and nearly 1,000
poems. You can also listen to many of the poems online.
- ProCon.org
A non-profit, non-partisan organization that present information on both
sides of controversial issues.
- RhymeZone rhyming dictionary
and thesaurus
An online dictionary where you can type in words to find synonyms, or
antonyms. It can help middle and high school teachers and students compose
a poem, wrestle with a crossword puzzle, find out exactly where a certain
word appears in a Shakespeare play, or even retrieve pictures associated
with a word.
- SparkNotes.com
Created by Harvard University students and alumni, this is a collection
of free online study guides to approximately 150 literature classics for
students in Grades 6-12. Each guide contains sections on context, characters,
overall summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for
collaborative learning, SparkNotes also provides guides for the works
of Shakespeare and celebrated poets such as Donne, Dickinson, and Keats.
- The Biography
Channel - Bios Search
A&E Television Networks provides an excellent searchable biography
database of more than 25,000 prominent people, including links to additional
resources. To find a biography, enter a name in the box or click on a
letter in the alphabetical listing. The site also offers, on the top menu,
classroom materials and games to accompany the biographies.
- The
Dickens Page
Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, an associate professor of Nagoya University
in Japan, contains a vast collection of sites devoted to Charles Dickens.
Included are photos, biographical information, electronic texts, and recreational
and film information.
- The
Online Books Page
John Mark Ockerbloom's On-Line Books Page is hosted by the University
of Pennsylvania. It contains a searchable index of thousands of online
books freely readable on the Internet, links to repositories of online
texts, and special exhibits of online books. The site is suitable for
K-12 teachers and 6-12 students.
- The Poetry Lovers'
Page
This site provides the complete poetry collections of famous English and
Russian poets. Included are the poems of Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis
Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as the poems of Aleksandr Pushkin,
Aleksandr Blok, and Anna Akhmatova. The site also contains poems submitted
by readers, and features links to a poem of the day and a random poem.
- The Quote Garden
Find a quotation for graduation and other occasions. Use the “Quotation
Index” to locate quotations for specific topics and holidays.
- Theoi Greek Mythology
From the site: "a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in
classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive,
free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous
creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion."
- A Calorie
Counter
Lists nutritional information on many fast food items and rates the best
and worst entries in several categories.
- Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
Health and safety information from the federal government's Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
- DoItYourself.com
Searchable database of articles on all aspects of home improvement and
repair.
- Facts
for Families
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology, these
fact sheets offer information on a range of mental and physical health
issues for children and teens.
- Family
Works - Strategies for Building Stronger Families
The University of Illinois Extension Division offers information on ways
to improve family life.
- Nutrition.gov
Information on food, nutrition and health from the federal government's
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and the National Agricultural
Library (NAL) in cooperation with a panel of food and nutrition expert
advisors from agencies within United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- NutritionData
From the site: "Nutrition Data's continuing goal is to provide the
most accurate and comprehensive nutrition analysis available, and to make
it accessible and understandable to all. The information in Nutrition
Data's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and
food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed
in the footnotes of that food's Nutrition Facts page. In addition to food
composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary
tools to analyze and interpret that data. These interpretations represent
Nutrition Data's opinion and are based on calculations derived from Daily
Reference Values (DRVs), Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs), published research,
and recommendations of the FDA."
- A Passion for
Jazz! Music History and Education
Includes jazz styles, history, definitions, everything jazz!
- CHICO
Instrument Encyclopedia
The Music Heritage Network offers the history (and photographs) of musical
instruments. You can search for your instrument by geographic area, orchestra
section, or the name of the instrument itself.
- Internet Public
Library: Music History 102
A survey of western classical music from the Middle Ages to the twentieth
century for high school students. The guide includes information on more
than 30 composers, music clips, and images of each historical period.
- Jazz Online
Contains reviews, artist bios, music and video clips, events and club
listings, radio links, and more.
- Music
Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience
Explore various styles of music from Bach to rock. The site provides information
on note reading, intervals, scales, chords, snd other useful music education
topics.
- Musicals101.com
Search this site for anything about musicals. Includes musicals on stage,
film, and televison.
- OperaGlass
Provides a variety of opera resources for Grades 9-12. The site includes
1,800 well-known and lesser-known opera composers, with complete opera
lists and links to pages containing information on about 250 operas with
synopses, libretti, performance histories, discographies, and essays.
- Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame and Museum
All things rock 'n roll.
- American Memory
from the Library of Congress
Drawn mainly from the special collections of the Library of Congress,
this site has direct links to photographic, recorded sounds, manuscript,
and early motion picture collections.
- Atlapedia
Provides teachers and students in elementary and secondary schools with
full-color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics
on countries of the world. Includes data for geography, climate, people,
religion, language, history, and economy.
- Biographical Dictionary
Maintained by Eric Tentarelli, this online dictionary provides information
on more than 28,000 people from ancient times to the present, along with
a searchable database and ideas for students and teachers on how t use
the dictionary as a classroom resource.
- Exhibits
Collection -- The Middle Ages
Inspired by programs from The Western Tradition, a video series in the
Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection. Middle and high school students can
find information about religion, homes, clothing, health, arts and entertainment,
town life, and related resources.
- EyeWitness
to History
This site, presented by Ibis Communications, recounts history through
the words of those who lived it. It uses diaries, interviews, newspaper
reports and other first-hand sources to illuminate some of its more mundane
events. Included are: Custer's Last Stand; The Death of John Wilkes Booth;
U- boat Attack, 1916; On Safari with Theodore Roosevelt; Invasion of England,
1066; Carnage at Antietam, 1862; The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170; The
Battle of Gettysburg; The Attack on Pearl Harbor; The Nazi occupation
of Poland; and more.
- Famous
Trials - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder
Famous American Trials: Developed by Doug Linder of the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Law School. The site, suitable for secondary school
students, presents numerous famous trials, including the Leopold and Loeb
Trial, Scopes "Monkey" Trial, the Rosenberg Trial, the Amistad
Trials, the Salem Witchcraft Trials and the Scottsboro Boys Trials.
- History and Politics
Out Loud
Presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership
with Michigan State University. Middle and high school students can hear
some of the voices of American History including Franklin D. Roosevelt,
John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, and others. Included
is a search and browse feature.
- HyperHistory
Interactive timeline with more than 3,000 facts related to science, culture,
religion, and politics. The site, also includes hundreds of color-coded
lifelines of important persons and timelines for the major civilizations,
accompanied by historical maps.
- International Debate
Education Association (IDEA)
Offers the Debatabase, a searchable index of potential debate topics and
the different sides to each issue. A great resource for research on controversial
issues.
- Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court
Media
From the site: The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the
Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete
and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the
installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides
authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality
'tour' of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers
of some of the justices.
- Political
Compass
Take a quiz to identify where your beliefs fall on the political spectrum.
- ProCon.org
A non-profit, non-partisan organization that present information on both
sides of controversial issues
- The American
Civil War Homepage
Contains general resources, graphic images, letters, diaries, and links
to other reference sites.
- This
Day in History
Produced by History Channel.com. this site allows teachers and students
to find information about what happened today, on their birthdays, and
on any other date for a variety of categories. These include: Automotive,
Civil War History, Cold War History, Crime History, Entertainment History,
Literacy History, Old West History, Wall Street History, and World War
II History.
- World
War I The Great War: 80 years on
From the BBC, offers a 10-minute video collage of photos and newsreel
footage, audio interviews of veterans, a selction of soldiers' letters
home, and overviews four major battles.
- World War I: Trenches
on the Web
Features information on people, places, and events that led to one of
the tragic episodes in modern history. The site also inckudes a poster
collection and reference resources.
