5/6s Ancient Greece

Note: Always cite your sources. See my list of helpful links on the "Citations" section opposite. Use the MLA format. This picture is from ClipArt ETC (Florida Center for Instructional Technology) where you will find free clip art for students and teachers.

Online Resources

By the way, do you want to illustrate your research? I found this picture of ancient Athens on Clipart Etc. This is a free source of clipart for teachers and students.

For other copyright-friendly multimedia resources (photos, pictures, sound) look for the section Copyright-Friendly Resources in the right hand column of this blog.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Grolier Online 

Ancient and Medieval World

(Marshall Cavendish Digital)
Early Peoples
(World Book Digital Libraries)
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
(ABC-CLIO)

Web Sites:
Odyssey Online: Greece from Emory University. A fun interactive web site with lots of information about many topics. http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/welcome.html

Ancient Greece from the British Museum http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/

Ancient Greece from BBC Schools http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/classics/classics.shtml An illustrated tour through a variety of topics about life in ancient Greece, including the original Olympic Games, Greek theater, and everyday life in the city of Athens.

Ancient History: Greeks. Another BBC web site http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/

Ancient Greece for Kids. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm Everyday life in ancient Greece

The Ancient Olympics from Tufts University. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/index.html

Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/ Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and religion. Just click on the Greek Mythology link on the left hand side of the home page for Greek gods and goddesses and Greek people.

Mythweb http://www.mythweb.com/ This site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology. There are also links to other web sites about Greek mythology.

The Best of History Websites http://www.besthistorysites.net/ Provides links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes and more. Click on Ancient/Biblical History and then click on Greece.

Print Resources

Our school library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system, which is also used in most public libraries. If you browse along the shelves in the following areas in our library and in your public library you will find some useful books. For example, you can go to: 031 General reference area where you'll find illustrated encyclopedias such as World Book and Colliers Encyclopedia; 292 for mythology; 938 for general books about the history of Ancient Greece.

Here are some useful books about Ancient Greece that are in our school library:

Reference

292.13 JAM The Genealogy of Greek mythology

391 PEN Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Volume I The Ancient World

938 HOR The Horizon Book of Ancient Greece

938 LEV Atlas of the Greek World

Circulating

610 DAW Greek and Roman Medicine

Take One Picture: Joan Miro (1893-1983)

Thanks to a collaboration with the Frances Loehmann Art Center of Vassar College, the children of the lower school are discussing, creating and performing original works inspired by Joan Miro's painting "Birds, Personages and Blue Star" (1950). To learn more about Miro you can take a virtual tour through the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain to see many of Miro's paintings and to learn about the life and art of the artist. The web site is in Spanish but you can read everything in English if you click on the "language" button and select "English."
http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/
You can also see a selection of Miro's paintings and read a short biography of the artist on the web site of the Artists Rights Society.
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Miro.html

Here are some slide shows and videos about Miro and his art.

3/4 African Animals

Online Resources

Grolier Online http://go.grolier.com/ This is a collection of several online encyclopedias: the New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Roget's Thesaurus and the American Heritage dictionary of the English language.
Female ostrich, Masai Mara. Photograph by David Orgel

Web Sites
African Wildlife Foundation http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/otherspecies Search the gallery for information and photographs about species of animals found on the African continent.
Wild Animals A to Z from Discovery Channel's Animal Planet. http://animal.discovery.com/animals/ Searchable comprehensive database of information, photographs and videos of different species of wild animals.
National Geographic Kids: Animals/Creature Feature http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature Search for an animal to find information, see photographs and watch videos.
Seaworld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database http://www.seaworld.org/ Click on "Animal info" for information and photographs about a variety of animals.
Ranger Rick's Kid Zone--National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/kids/ A searchable database of illustrated articles from NWF children's magazines. Just type the name of your chosen animal in the search box at the top of the web page and you will get links to a selection of appropriate articles.
Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ Do a search for your favorite African animal on this site where you'll find facts, illustrations, arts and crafts, worksheets and printable books on topics of all kinds.
Kid Friendly Search Engines (see right hand panel)
Search these sites for kid safe web sites about animals and countries.

Print Resources
Our school library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system, which is also used in most public libraries. If you browse along the shelves in the following areas in the children's books section you will find some useful titles:031 General reference area where you'll find illustrated encyclopedias such as World Book; 500 area for books about wild animals; 900 for books about individual countries. For example, 966.7 for books about Ghana; 968 for books about South Africa; 968.91 for books about Zimbabwe.

21st Century Literacy

The hot topic among librarians as well as educators everywhere is the notion of "21st Century Literacy" and defining the skills that students need to function, succeed and be creative in this new century. The curriculum at our school fully supports the expansion of this new definition of "literacy" and here are some useful links that describe this literacy in some depth.

Standards for the 21st Century Learner from the American Association of School Librarians:
http://aasl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf

A Global Imperative: A Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit from the New Media Consortium
http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/globalimperative.pdf

New Primary-Source Database for Libraries and Schools

A new primary-source database, with on-site search, is now available for schools, libraries, educators and students. Its features include 15,000 images plus documents, narrations, video/audio clips and organized slide shows. Incorporated into the text are also secondary sources, such as links to Google Books.

Group access to the site is free for all schools, libraries, educators and students. Click here for access.
http://www.awesomestories.com/newsletters/february-2009-highlights