Websites to Support the New Curriculum

No websites recommended

Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html

4-2 Explore, Age of Exploration, World Mariners:
http://www.42explore.com/index.htm
(research by topic) 

The Age of Enlightenment, Historical Background:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/lumiere/documents/files/cadre_historique.html

African Slave Trade:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/Slavery101.htm

Electronic Passport, The Enlightenment:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-enlightenment.html

Nature of the Industrial Revolution:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858817.html

The Student’s Friend, Part 2, Unit 2, the 1700s: Age of Enlightenment and Revolution: www.studentsfriend.com/sf/part2see/part2-2.html
(excellent summary of the American Revolution, “Glorious Revolution” and British Parliament, and  French Revolution)

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/#

Electronic Passport, French Revolution:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-frenchrevolution.html

PBS Liberty! The American Revolution:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html

The American Revolution Homepage:
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/INDEX2.HTM

Wikipedia, Origins of Parliamentary Democracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament
#Origins_of_Parliamentary_Democracy

No websites recommended

No websites recommended

The European Voyages of Exploration: The Sugar and Slave Trades:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Trade.html

Metropolitan Museum, Gold of the Indies:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ingd/hd_ingd.htm

Metropolitan Museum, The Portuguese in Africa:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agex/hd_agex.htm

Metropolitan Museum, Europe and the Age of Exploration:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/expl/hd_expl.htm

The Mariners’ Museum, Age of Exploration Timeline:
http://www.mariner.org/age/histexp.html

1492: An Ongoing Voyage:
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html

European Voyages of Exploration: Religion and Exploration:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/relex.html

Renaissance Exploration and Trade, Become a Spice Trader:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/spicetrade/

National Library of Canada, Kids’ Site, Explorers’ Index:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/explorers/kids/h3-220-e.html

National Maritime Museum; Explorers and Leaders:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/facts/explorers-and-leaders/
(Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir John Franklin, John Cabot)

The Mariner’s Museum; Biographies of Explorers and Associated People: http://www.mariner.org/age/biohist.html#jcabot

European Explorers:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm
(select explorer – organized by country of origin)

Christopher Columbus:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excolumbus.htm

Explorers of the World:
http://hpedsb.on.ca/smood/explore/links.htm

Discoverers Web, The Age of Discovery:
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html

ThinkQuest, Explorers’ Hall of Fame:
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/hall_of_fame.html

European Voyages of Exploration, Communicating with Indigenous Populations:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/communicate.html

The European Voyages of Exploration, the 15th and 16th centuries:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/

European Exploration and Colonization, Pacific Islands Context:
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/psc/piceuropean.html

European Exploration of the Southeast and the Caribbean:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/07-exploration/

Medieval Sourcebook, Christopher Columbus, Extracts from Journal:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

Captain James Cook, Extracts from the Journals, The 2nd Voyage, A Voyage toward the South Pole:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/cook2.html

From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents, Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/champlain/voyag.htm

From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 1497 :
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1400-1500/columbus/amerigo.htm

The Avalon Project: Privileges and Prerogatives granted by their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus, 1492:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/colum.htm

Discoverers’ Web, Primary Sources: Additional Instructions for Lt. James Cook:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/secret.html

IMDB Movies, Amistad, Plot Outline:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/

The Connecticut Historical Society, Amistad Exhibition:
http://www.chs.org/exhib/amistad.htm
(interactive historical exhibit on the Amistad incident)

The map onUnited Nations and Decolonization:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization/main.htm

WebQuest News:
http://webquest.org/

Okanagan University College, WebQuests:
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/tltc/tr/webquest/default.htm

Metropolitan Museum, Timeline of art History, European Art in the Renaissance:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=16

The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm

Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html

Art History Resources on the Web, 15th Century Renaissance Art:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html

Art History Resources on the Web, 16th Century Renaissance Art:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH16thcentury.html

Leonardo da Vinci:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

Metropolitan Museum, Timeline of art History, European Art in the Renaissance:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=16

Electronic Passport, Renaissance:
http://www.mrdowling.com/704renaissance.html

PBS, Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance:
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/

Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html

The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm

Virtual Renaissance:
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html

Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html

Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

Sixteenth Century English Renaissance Literature: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/renaissanceinfo.htm

Rabelais:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rabela.htm

Global History, Science and Technology, Introduction:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/science/index.cfm

Andreas Vesalius:
http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/texth.htm

The Galileo Project:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/

History Channel.com, Galileo:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=88151

History Channel, Renaissance:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=109733

Perspective drawing:
http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html

Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare for Kids:
http://www.folger.edu/education/kids/kidshome.asp
(includes Shakespeare Scripts for Kids adapted from excerpts of various plays)

PBS In Search of Shakespeare:
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/theshow265.html
(information on the life and times of Shakespeare and activities to accompany the PBS program series)

No websites recommended

Galileo Tour, Telescope:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/galtele.html

CBC for Kids, History of Invention, Telescope :
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/telescope.html

Sir Isaac Newton:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html

The Open Door Website, Steamships:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/033.html

Inventor Johannes Gutenberg:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/gutenberg.htm

Leonardo, Renaissance Man, Inventor:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/inventor.html

The Great Idea Finder, Inventor Profile:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm

Andreas Vesalius:
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~biology/history/vesalius.html

Antony von Leeuwenhoek :
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html

The Industrial Revolution:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/001.html

No websites recommended