• Great Sites for Teaching About…Poetry
  
• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
  You have probably heard the Web compared to a virtual library. In the case of poetry, that statement couldn't be more true. Poets from William Blake to Walt Whitman now have virtual homes in cyberspace.

Clarence Birdseye, inventor of technique for flash freezing food, born (1885)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions

Dalton Trumbo, American writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun), born (1905)

Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, died at 67 (1971)

• 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.

Leon Jaworski Watergate special prosecutor died at 77 (1982)

Noah Webster established New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva (1793)

Doug Engelbart demonstrated the first computer mouse at Stanford (1968)

• Technology Center
  Technology resources and tools

Mary Leakey, archaeologist and anthropologist died in Nairobi, Kenya at age 83 (1996)

• Social Sciences Center
  Resources and tools from our Social Sciences Center

William Travis, leader of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo, born (1809)

• The American West
  This site has an enormous amount of information to cover and does it very well. The site focuses on the "old West" and includes information on cowboys, Native Americans, pioneers and pioneer towns, explorers and more.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope (1993)

• The Space Age
  Join Education World in exploring the vast resources of Space on the web including planets, stars, and space travel!