Learn about your assigned research topic by visiting the links below. Are you unable to find the information you are looking for? If so, please ask Mrs. O'Keefe for help.
Ancient & Classical Cultures: Egyptians, from Multnomah County Library
Click on "Egyptians" and find a lengthy list of links to timelines, webquests, museums, and other interesting sources of information about life in ancient Egypt.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Life in Ancient Egypt
Take the virtual tour of "Life in Ancient Egypt", and learn about its geography, daily life and culture, gods and religion, and funerary customs.
Ancient Egypt Online
Learn about the daily life, hieroglyphics, pharaohs, and gods of Egypt at this site.
Pyramids: The Inside Story, from NOVA
Learn about the people who built ancient Egypt's pyramids, how they were constructed, and the pharaohs for whom they were intended at this site.
Mr. Dowling's Ancient Egypt Page
If you are looking for information about the Nile, the Rosetta Stone, pharaohs, or Cleopatra, this site is a good place to begin your research.
Anthony's Egyptology and Archaeology
Among this site's many features are a directory of ancient Egyptian gods, a chronology of the pharaohs, and a biography of Tutankhamen.
Mrs. Donn's Lessons & Activities: Ancient Egypt for Kids
Visit this site for information about geography & the Nile River, hieroglyphics, mummies & the afterlife, famous pharaohs, women in ancient Egypt, and much more.
Kings and Queens: Dynasties of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, from Mark Millmore's Discovering Egypt
The Hieroglyphs: The Writings of Ancient Egypt
This nice site also features information about the religion, government, and monuments of ancient Egypt, as well as a timeline.
THE NILE RIVER
Nile: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(At the contents listing, click on "Role in the founding of Egyptian civilization".)
Egyptian Civilization. Geography: Nile Valley, from the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corp.
GODS AND GODDESSES
BBC Ancient History: Ancient Egyptian Gods Gallery, by Barbara Waterson
(Also see Sacred Animals of Ancient Egypt Gallery.)
The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, from Ancient Egypt, by the BBC.
Ancient Egypt: the Mythology, created and maintained by April McDevitt
The Goddesses and Gods of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt Antiquities, from Tour Egypt, by InterCity Oz, Inc.
DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, from Minnesota State University's EMuseum
Mr.Donn's Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
SOCIAL CLASSES IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Ancient Egyptian Social Life
Learn about the classes that made up ancient Egypt's "social pyramid", from pharoah to soldiers, farmers, and tomb builders, at this site. (Also visit this site to learn about the religions and mythology, hieroglyphics, and art of ancient Egypt.)
The Social Classes in Ancient Egypt
Learn about the social classes - including the nobility, scribal class, working class and outcasts - that comprised ancient Egypt's social structure.
ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE ARTS: MUSEUMS
The British Museum: Egypt
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Egyptian Art
Egyptian Museum: Official Site
The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Web Resource, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, from the National Gallery of Art
Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Solar System: Selected Resources
SELECTED SITES
Windows to the Universe
Begin your research at this great site, searchable in both English and Spanish, and featuring information at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, to learn about "Our Planets", "Our Solar System", and "Astronomy & the Universe".
The Planets
This terrific Enchanted Learning site provides a general description of each of the planets, including relative size, a discussion of inner (those planets that orbit close to the sun) vs. outer (those planets that orbit far from the sun) planets, temperature, density, mass, gravitational force, and a day on each of the planets (a day is the length of time that it takes a planet to rotate on its axis (360%) ). It also features a table of information about each of the planets, including distance from the sun, period of revolution around the sun, period of rotation, mass, diameter, apparent size from earth, temperature and number of moons. An interactive puzzle on the solar system and "Find It", a quiz about the planets, can also be found at this site.
Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer, hosted by the Astronomy Department at Cornell University
This wonderful site is loaded with helpful information about "Our Solar System", "Our Universe", "Observational Astonomy", and much more. Each subject includes an extensive list of questions that have been asked and answered, and links to other great information, as well as a search feature.
Views of the Solar System, by Calvin J. Hamilton
Learn about the sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and much more at this site.
Cool Cosmos
This site features information, images and games. Move your cursor to "Cosmic Kids", and "Ask an Astronomer", play games (including Concentration, Slider Puzzles, Hangman, Hide and Seek, Word Search, and others), see videos, and more.
An Overview of the Solar System
This site provides general information about the sun, the nine planets, satellites of the planets, and more, as well as links to images of the planets, and other related sites. (Be sure to scroll down the entire page, so that you don't miss any of the useful links available!)
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System, by Bill Arnett, offers an overview of the history, mythology and current scientific knowledge about the planets and moons in our solar system, and features text, images, some movies, and references to related information.
NASA: for Students (Grades 5-8)
Visit this rich site, with links to such resources as Solar System Exploration, Planets, and much more, or enter your own term(s) into the search field. (See NASA's Planetary Fact Sheets, too.)
NASA's Space Place
Visit this fun and informative site, available in English and Spanish.
(Click on cool subjects to find information about the "Planets and the Solar System".)
BBC Science & Nature: Space
Learn about the sun, planets, moons, asteriods, comets and much more at this site.
Virtual Solar System
This National Geographic site's virtual solar system tour includes profiles of the sun and each of the planets, and overviews of comets, asteroids and meteoroids.
Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
This resource offers a great deal of information about the solar system, including the planets, as well as asteroids and meteorites, comets, planetary orbits, rings, satellites and more.
Solar System
This site, featuring easy-to-understand text, includes information about the sun, the planets, the moons of our solar system, asteriods and comets.
Our Solar System
This helpful ScienceMonster.com site offers lots of information organized into such categories as "Vital Statistics" (average distance from the Sun, diameter, mass, temperature, # of moons/rings (if any), length of day, and length of year), "Can I Live There?", "How Much Would I Weigh There?" (featuring a nice built-in weight calculator), and much more.
Our Solar System
This StarChild site, created in conjunction with NASA, provides information about the solar system, as well as about each of the planets. (This site offers two reading levels. These links, to information about the solar system and each of the planets, challenge the reader with more sophisticated text.)
How Planets and Satellites got Their Names, by Fact Monster, from Information Please
(Be sure to also visit Fact Monster's The Solar System.)
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
Search this terrific wiki to find a detailed article (featuring links to many other helpful resources) on virtually any topic, or click on one of the links available below, to learn more about the solar system.
Solar System
Sun
Moon
Inner Planets (or "Terrestrial Planets") - those planets that are closer to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
Outer Planets (or "Gas Giants") - those planets that are farther away from the sun: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Animals in Space
BRAINPOP VIDEOS
(Ask an IMC staff member for the User Name and Password you'll need to use BrainPOP.) Check out these BrainPop animated movies:
"Planets of the Solar System: What's Your Favorite Planet?"
"Jupiter: Why Do They Call It a 'Gas Giant'?"
"Milky Way: There's No Galaxy Like Home!"
"Sun: Good Day, Sunshine"
"Venus: Earth's Weird Twin"
"Solar System: Planetary Madness"
"Mars: Are There Really Martians?"
"Neptune: The Other Blue Planet!"
"Uranus: a Gas Giant on Its Side!"
"Eclipse: It's Dark, But Don't Go To Sleep"
"Satellites: Orbital Helpers!"
Space Today Online: Stories of Our Solar System, edited by Anthony R. Curtis, Ph.D.
This wonderful online news magazine is loaded with information "covering space from Earth to the end of the universe."
USGS: Astrogeology Research Program
the-solar-system.net: The Solar System in Pictures
Visit this site to find lots of information, as well as great pictures.
PRINT RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE IMC
Books about the solar system can be found under the Dewey decimal numbers 520 to 525. (Please remember that when many students are working on the same or similar projects, you may each borrow one book about the subject overnight, and are asked to return your book early the next morning. In this way, classes visiting the IMC to research their topics may use these resources during the day. Thanks for your cooperation!)
SELECTED REFERENCE COLLECTION RESOURCES:
New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2000 (REF 031 New)
New Book of Popular Science Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2002 (REF 500 New)
This terrific six-volume subject encyclopedia provides in-depth information about the solar system, as well as each of the planets. Use the index to find the correct volume and pages for information.
World Book Encyclopedia of Science: vol. 4 - The Planet Earth. Chicago, IL: World Book, 2001 (REF 500 Wor)
World Book's Young Scientist: vol. 6 - Planet Earth/Water. Chicago, IL: World Boook, 2001 (REF 500 Wor)
The Solar System, by Robin Kerrod. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 2000 (REF 520 Ker) (Volumes in this set include Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, The Sun, The Moon, Planet Earth, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.
Windows to the Universe
Begin your research at this great site, searchable in both English and Spanish, and featuring information at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, to learn about "Our Planets", "Our Solar System", and "Astronomy & the Universe".
The Planets
This terrific Enchanted Learning site provides a general description of each of the planets, including relative size, a discussion of inner (those planets that orbit close to the sun) vs. outer (those planets that orbit far from the sun) planets, temperature, density, mass, gravitational force, and a day on each of the planets (a day is the length of time that it takes a planet to rotate on its axis (360%) ). It also features a table of information about each of the planets, including distance from the sun, period of revolution around the sun, period of rotation, mass, diameter, apparent size from earth, temperature and number of moons. An interactive puzzle on the solar system and "Find It", a quiz about the planets, can also be found at this site.
Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer, hosted by the Astronomy Department at Cornell University
This wonderful site is loaded with helpful information about "Our Solar System", "Our Universe", "Observational Astonomy", and much more. Each subject includes an extensive list of questions that have been asked and answered, and links to other great information, as well as a search feature.
Views of the Solar System, by Calvin J. Hamilton
Learn about the sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and much more at this site.
Cool Cosmos
This site features information, images and games. Move your cursor to "Cosmic Kids", and "Ask an Astronomer", play games (including Concentration, Slider Puzzles, Hangman, Hide and Seek, Word Search, and others), see videos, and more.
An Overview of the Solar System
This site provides general information about the sun, the nine planets, satellites of the planets, and more, as well as links to images of the planets, and other related sites. (Be sure to scroll down the entire page, so that you don't miss any of the useful links available!)
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System, by Bill Arnett, offers an overview of the history, mythology and current scientific knowledge about the planets and moons in our solar system, and features text, images, some movies, and references to related information.
NASA: for Students (Grades 5-8)
Visit this rich site, with links to such resources as Solar System Exploration, Planets, and much more, or enter your own term(s) into the search field. (See NASA's Planetary Fact Sheets, too.)
NASA's Space Place
Visit this fun and informative site, available in English and Spanish.
(Click on cool subjects to find information about the "Planets and the Solar System".)
BBC Science & Nature: Space
Learn about the sun, planets, moons, asteriods, comets and much more at this site.
Virtual Solar System
This National Geographic site's virtual solar system tour includes profiles of the sun and each of the planets, and overviews of comets, asteroids and meteoroids.
Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
This resource offers a great deal of information about the solar system, including the planets, as well as asteroids and meteorites, comets, planetary orbits, rings, satellites and more.
Solar System
This site, featuring easy-to-understand text, includes information about the sun, the planets, the moons of our solar system, asteriods and comets.
Our Solar System
This helpful ScienceMonster.com site offers lots of information organized into such categories as "Vital Statistics" (average distance from the Sun, diameter, mass, temperature, # of moons/rings (if any), length of day, and length of year), "Can I Live There?", "How Much Would I Weigh There?" (featuring a nice built-in weight calculator), and much more.
Our Solar System
This StarChild site, created in conjunction with NASA, provides information about the solar system, as well as about each of the planets. (This site offers two reading levels. These links, to information about the solar system and each of the planets, challenge the reader with more sophisticated text.)
How Planets and Satellites got Their Names, by Fact Monster, from Information Please
(Be sure to also visit Fact Monster's The Solar System.)
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
Search this terrific wiki to find a detailed article (featuring links to many other helpful resources) on virtually any topic, or click on one of the links available below, to learn more about the solar system.
Solar System
Sun
Moon
Inner Planets (or "Terrestrial Planets") - those planets that are closer to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
Outer Planets (or "Gas Giants") - those planets that are farther away from the sun: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Animals in Space
BRAINPOP VIDEOS
(Ask an IMC staff member for the User Name and Password you'll need to use BrainPOP.) Check out these BrainPop animated movies:
"Planets of the Solar System: What's Your Favorite Planet?"
"Jupiter: Why Do They Call It a 'Gas Giant'?"
"Milky Way: There's No Galaxy Like Home!"
"Sun: Good Day, Sunshine"
"Venus: Earth's Weird Twin"
"Solar System: Planetary Madness"
"Mars: Are There Really Martians?"
"Neptune: The Other Blue Planet!"
"Uranus: a Gas Giant on Its Side!"
"Eclipse: It's Dark, But Don't Go To Sleep"
"Satellites: Orbital Helpers!"
Space Today Online: Stories of Our Solar System, edited by Anthony R. Curtis, Ph.D.
This wonderful online news magazine is loaded with information "covering space from Earth to the end of the universe."
USGS: Astrogeology Research Program
the-solar-system.net: The Solar System in Pictures
Visit this site to find lots of information, as well as great pictures.
PRINT RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE IMC
Books about the solar system can be found under the Dewey decimal numbers 520 to 525. (Please remember that when many students are working on the same or similar projects, you may each borrow one book about the subject overnight, and are asked to return your book early the next morning. In this way, classes visiting the IMC to research their topics may use these resources during the day. Thanks for your cooperation!)
SELECTED REFERENCE COLLECTION RESOURCES:
New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2000 (REF 031 New)
New Book of Popular Science Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2002 (REF 500 New)
This terrific six-volume subject encyclopedia provides in-depth information about the solar system, as well as each of the planets. Use the index to find the correct volume and pages for information.
World Book Encyclopedia of Science: vol. 4 - The Planet Earth. Chicago, IL: World Book, 2001 (REF 500 Wor)
World Book's Young Scientist: vol. 6 - Planet Earth/Water. Chicago, IL: World Boook, 2001 (REF 500 Wor)
The Solar System, by Robin Kerrod. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 2000 (REF 520 Ker) (Volumes in this set include Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, The Sun, The Moon, Planet Earth, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors.
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