• Reading Without Seeing: Louis Braille and the Braille Alphabet
  Students learn about Louis Braille and the Braille alphabet and explore some of the challenges people with impaired vision might face.
• Tragedy to Triumph: Helen Keller
• Special Education: Physical Challenges
  In this section you'll find resources on hearing & vision impairments, spinal cord injury, cleft pallete, seizure disorders, and other less pervasive physical challenges.
• Great Quotes
  

Ascension Day

1926-Marilyn Monroe born

Kentucky became the 15th state (1792)

1801-Brigham Young born

1st Public Phonebooth installed (New Haven, CT;1880)

N.A.A.C.P. founded (1909)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
  With the assistance of the Web, you too can incorporate activities that reflect the positive impact black Americans have had on our nation's history.
• Stamp on Black History
  A site based on the US Postal Service's collection of Black History-related stamps. Information includes biographies,activities and art.
• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!
• The History of the NAACP
  90 Years of Making Democracy Work

Tennessee became the 16th state (1796)

International Children's Day

1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass

1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed

• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

1907-Frank Whittle inventor, of jet engine, born

1937-Morgan Freeman actor born

1831 - Sir James Clark, an English navigator and explorer, discovered the magnetic North Pole while on his Arctic exploration.

1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, MA received a patent for his electric voting machine

1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years

• Volcano World
  This site is the ULTIMATE information source about volcanoes.