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Member Links Are you a member of the Friends of the Memorial Fund? If not, please consider joining and do it! (see the home page for more information). Do you have a web site and wish to link it to the Friends Website? If so, e-mail us at radfordr@att.net. We would be delighted to review your site for LINKing to the Friends Web site. The following sites are for your use. Some have been contributed by former FMFers : Linda Dills, from Kansas discovered this site while researching gardens. 'Great information! http://www.explorejapan.com/land.htm The following site has a host of information about Japan. It is a great resource, particularly for those who are traveling to Japan. http://www.geocities.com/nmsaucier/Japan.html Peggy Steffans whose email address is <psteffen@amphi.comd> developed the following site in January 2001. At that time she was still making changes to the site; however, she gave permission to use it. She has included pictures, text, some quick time movies and PowerPoint Presentations. Some activities for students are included, as well. Because of the large use of graphics, the pages are best viewed in 800 X 600 screen resolution. Feel free to email her if you need technical assistance in making this screen change. http://www.amphi.com/~psteffen/fmf Deb Strother (FMF June 2001, Kagoshima) invites you to come along on her virtual field trip at her Website, which was developed for her students; few of whom are able to travel out of Brown County, Indiana. The site is full of pictures, with some text, and meant to be read as a story of her FMF experience, rather than a diary or journal. www.eagleseyemagazine.com Dr.
Mariell Herold (October 2001), El Paso, Texas, would like to share her
Fulbright Memorial Fund experiences with viewers of this Website. http://utminers.utep.edu/mherold
Amy Claybaugh recommends the MarcoPolo
Website http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/
Marycaye Dover invites you to visit her website, http://www.westvalleyschool.com/dover/
There's new stuff at the FREE Website (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)? Sixteen new resources in the arts,
health, language arts, science, & social studies have been
added to the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
(FREE) website. ==== "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes" examines Jacopo
Bassano's 1545 painting & compares it with other works that also depict the
New Testament story in which Jesus calls Peter to become a disciple. Bassano's painting was one in a long line of "copies,"
or variations on a theme, a standard practice in the Renaissance. Here we see that certain elements -- garments & figure
groupings -- were copied from another work but were altered to achieve greater dramatic effect.
(NGA) "School Tours" features 38 paintings &
sculptures selected from tours designed for students in Grades PreK-3 & 4-12.
Each work is accompanied by an explanation of its significance & is
presented alongside other works related to a theme -- weather, animals
& nature, heroes & heroines, elements of art, the painter, the sculptor, American art, Renaissance art, mythology, & others.
Information is provided about scheduling a school tour &
about more than 150 teaching resources that the Gallery loans (free) to educational institutions, community groups, & individuals.
(NGA) "Virtue & Beauty" features nearly a dozen
portraits of women in Florence created between 1440 & 1540. These paintings,
marble sculptures, medals, & drawings reflect a time when subjects
in art expanded to include not only rulers & their consorts but also
women of the merchant class. (NGA) ====== "Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls" is designed
to help girls learn how to build strong bones. The site features tips on yummy
foods with calcium & fun ways to get the weight-bearing physical
activity that helps build strong bones. Girls can play games, take
quizzes, & learn about bones from an interactive skeleton. (CDC,HHS) ============= "Reading Planet" is designed to help families &
children explore the world of books. It features an annotated list of 1,000
children's books that can be browsed by age group, author, or category (e.g., popular, classic, award winning). Children
can Attention JFMFers the following links are available for those educators interested in writing and publishing. http://www.fwointl.com ======= "The New Millennium Observatory (NeMO)," which
studies interactions between submarine volcanic activity & seafloor hotsprings,
offers a unit called "The Case of the Missing Rumbleometer."
High school & middle school students learn about locating the epicenter of an
earthquake, identifying evidence of a lava eruption, detecting a hydrothermal vent, estimating the age of lava based on animal "Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), K-12
Education" offers resources for learning about earth-friendly approaches to
transportation, including lessons on model solar cars, electric cars, & travel solutions to global warming. (multiple
agencies) ============== "Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative" represents
efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators, & historians of science to make available the form & content of
cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium.
(NEH,NSF) "Federal Reserve Education" describes the history
& structure of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S. founded by Congress in 1913 to provide a safer, more flexible, & more
stable monetary & financial system. The site examines the
Federal "Lessons of Liberty" encourages schools to invite
veterans into classrooms before & after Veterans Day, November 11, 2001, to
share their experiences. The website for this initiative,
announced by President Bush on October 30, suggests activities that schools
& communities can use to observe Veterans Day. It also offers
a Teacher's Guide that includes statistics on America's wars, guidelines on how to display the flag, a history of Veterans Day,
& more. Fourteen essays examine national symbols &
customs such as the U.S. flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, taps, gun salutes, &
the "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the
French Revolution" is an introduction to the French Revolution & an archive of
important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including
more than 300 texts, nearly 250 images, & a number of maps &
songs. Ten essays explore the major topics in the history of the revolution, "The Roman Empire in the First Century," the
companion website for a film by the same title, looks at the leaders, soldiers, poets,
& philosophers, as well as society & daily life in this empire
that rose from the chaos of civil war "to embrace hundreds of
cultures & till the soil from which western civilization would grow."
It includes 8 lessons, a timeline, & an "Emperor of
Rome" game. (NEH) "School: The Story of American Public
Education" is the companion website for a documentary that chronicles the development of
public education in America from the late 1770s to the 21st century.
It provides photos, stories of innovators, & more. (NEH) "The Time of the Lincolns," a companion website to
the film "Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided,"
examines the context & conflicts surrounding the Civil War. Topics include the
partisan politics of the time, the battle for abolition, the Underground Railroad, African American troops, & women's rights.
The site offers soldiers' letters, newspaper articles, & other primary sources, along with a teacher's guide.
(NEH) "Updating the Lewis & Clark Journals" represents
an effort to document today's views of selected Lewis & Clark journal
entries using the methods & standards of 21st century scientists
& scholars. Among topics examined by students: the
Teton Incident (a meeting between Lewis & Clark & Teton Sioux), mapping instruments of the expedition, & Nez Perce Appaloosa horses.
(ED,NPS) Acronyms CDC -- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
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