Research Links

1. Northwest literature (for the NW literature class)

2. Pacific Northwest List (which included non-fiction for the PNW Class)

3. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards site for best new PNW books.

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  Pacific Northwest Library Association

• Sasquatch 2001 Nominations

• Young Readers' Choice Book Award Nominees

• Environmental Information Cooperative at WSU-Vancouver
  14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave.
  Susan Duncan Email: duncan@vancouver.wsu.edu
  Telephone: 546-9510
  
• Classroom presentations on Care for Air (grades 4-12), Groundwater Protection "Enviroscape"(grades 3-12) and Toxic Teens (grades 6-8) free
• Teacher workshops call for information, usually $5 each
• Teaching Kits free

Water Resources Education Center

• Field trip may include hands on activities, tours of exhibit hall or wetlands free
  Beverly Walker Email: bev.walker@ci.vancouver.wa.us
  Telephone: 696-8478 Public Events:
  
• Earth Day
• Sturgeon Festival free

Clark County Environmental Services - Solid Waste

• Mother Nature's garden Puppet Show (grades 3-4) free Sally fisher Email: sally.fisher@co.clark.wa.us
  Telephone 397-6118 ext4939
• Classroom presentations on River Rangers (grades3-4) free
  Cindy Meats Email cindy.meats@co.clark.wa.us
  Telephone: 397-6118 ext 4584
• Technical Assistance Visitsto help your school start or improve a recycling program free
  Sarah Skinner Email: sarah.skinner@co.clark.wa.us
  Telephone: 397-6118 ext 4300

Clark Public Utilities - EnviroCorp

• Salmon in the Classroom Program
  Jennifer Olsen Email: salmonintheclassroom@evergreenfisheriespark.org
  Telephone: 992-8594

Waste Connections, Incorporated

• Classroom presentations on recycling and waste reduction (grades K-12)
  
• Field trips available to West-Van Materials Reovery Center (grades 3 & up) free
  Ginger May Email: ginger@columbia-resource.com
  Telephone: 694-4858 ext 302

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  Mathematics	People
  The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive Biographies Index; History Topics Index; Famous curves index; Mathematicians of the day; Search the archive	Biographies of Women Mathematicians
  St. Andrews	Index of Mathematicians [Pictures Only]
  Amazon City Museum	4000 Years of Women in Science
  The Math Forum Ask Dr. Math; Discussion Groups; Problems of the Week ; Teacher2Teacher; Web Units & Lessons	Past Notable Women in Math

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  Media

  
  

  Books	ESD	Newspapers
  Radio	Television	Weather

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  Books

  
  

  Amazon.com	Follett	Heinemann Telephone: 8900 793 2154 Fax: 800 847 0938 88 Post Road West P.O. Box 5007 WEstport, CT 06881
  Powells

• Text Book Publishers

• Troll Book Fairs Warehouse Sales
  4215-95th Street SW Suite C, Bldg #2
  Tacoma, WA 98499
  1 800 414 - 1411
  Directions
  From South
  I-5 North to 512. Go West towards Lakewood. Right on South Tacoma Way. Left on 100th Street. Go right on Lakeview Avenue. Left at Industrial Park sign onto 95th Street, S.W. Troll is in the 1st building on your right.
  Cash, Check or Purchase Orders Only (No Credit Cards, Phone or mail orders.)

• ESD 112
  When you open to the Web Catalog, you are given four options:
  1. Search Full Catalog
     Presents a menu to help you narrow your search of the catalog. You can search by keyword, subject, title, series, format, grade level, copyright and more. Currently there are over 12,000 titles.
  2. Mediagraphies
     Reveals selected groupings of the catalog. One of these, "What's New in the Collection," displays a list of the most recently added titles to the collection. If you are looking for our newest materials to see how they can add value to your teaching, this is the place for you. Because the list is updated weekly, you're guaranteed to be browsing the latest offerings.
  3. Go to Order Form
     The first tiime you need to log-in as a registered client. See the building media coordinator for your client code and enter it. Enter your initial password (your building's phone number without aarea code) and then choose a new password. This new password is the one to use in the future. Click "OK" and you're ready to book materials. Click "Help" for complete, step-by-step insturictions on the booking process. If you already booked on the Web before, continue using the password you've already chosen.
  4. Medianet Options
     Allows you to check your bookings, change your password, browse recent Web improvements, and more.

  You can also order materials as an unregistered user. Please include your first and last name, school name, and either a phone number or email address. We then receive this email and book the items for you. Ordering in this manner does not allow you to immediately know if you'll receive the items on the dates requested.

  As you are searching and locate a title you find interesting, click on it. You'll see a brief description along with other relevant information. If you do not want to book it, click on "Back." If you decide you do want to book that title, click "Pick" and the Order Form (Media Shopping Cart) appears.

  Click "Submit" to actually book the items before you log-out.

  If you have questions or want to order over the phone, please contact us at:
  phone: (360) 750-7505
  fax: (360) 750-9142
  e-mail: media.esd112.wednet.edu

  Information needed to order media:
  School #
  All teachers have assigned numbers for their accounts on web
  loggin = number assigned
  psswrd =
  

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  Television Programming

  
  

  AT & T Learning Network	Discovery	History Channel
  Lightspan.com Online learning for school and home	Local Stations	PBS

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  AT & T Learning Network

  Online teacher professional development classes.
  Cable services and programming for K-12 schools - Cable in the Classroom Resources
  Community guide to Information Technology
  AT & T Foundation Grants

  History Channel

  • History Channel Classroom Index

  • History Channel Classroom Calendar

  Local Stations

  • KATU TV Channel 2

  • KOIN TV Channel 6

  • KGW TV Channel 8

  PBS

  • PBS

  • PBS Signal Online

    • For Educators
    My login =
    pswrd =
    Signal Calendar

  • PBS TeacherSource
    A growing inventory of more than 1, 300 free lesson plans, teacher guides and online student activities. The expanded PBS TeacherSource offers a profusion of new content and features, including easier access to curriculum , professional development and community resources provided by PBS stations across the country.
    Correlates each of its classroom activities to national and state curriculum standards, PBS Teacher Source aggregates the services PBS and its member Stations provide to educators, and help teachers learn effective ways to incorporate video and the Internet in the classroom. Most of the offerings relate to PBS's programing and group them into five subject areas
    • Arts & Literature
    • Math
    • Science & Technology
    • Social Studies
    • Health & Fitness
    Includes subject, grade level and keyword searches.

  • PBS Teacher Previews

    A free weekly and season e-mail newsletter identifying educator-focused Web content as well as PBS programming.

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  People	Places
  Biography.com - database of 20,000 paragraph-length biographies	C.I.A's Homepage For Kids
  Biographical Dictionary quick identification of a name	Center for Columbia River History
  Lives links to biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories
  Inventors	History Channel
  Martin Luther King, Jr.	Society and Culture
  Mr. Showbiz
  Albert Einstein An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, highlights the life, scientific discoveries, and humanitarian activities.

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  Sports

  • Homework Central Sports Dictionary

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  History, Politics & Government

  Inventions	Facts in American History	Location
  People in American History	Time	American Wars

  People in American History

  • American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection
    University of Washington Library and Library of Congress have combined to put together a site with hundreds of photographs and documents. Arrangement is by topic and you may browse through the photograph collection.

  • Chickasaw Nation
    Primary Documents
    Letters, treaties, diaries from the late 18th century on... An outstanding online collection of primary resource materials, much of it suited to K-12 applications. In a recent revisit (2/98) I clicked on A list of witnesses to be summoned in the case of the Choctaw Nation vs. John T. Pitchlynn, charged with the murder of Littleton Henderson Love. The basic information and testimony of the witnesses is online and could be used for historical simulations and one-act plays.

  • Columbus and Navigation

    Inventions

  • Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center
    for the Study of Invention and Innovation

  • Smithsonian
    Type in the word - Inventions - and 319 possible links for connection to sites on inventions will be displayed.

    Facts in American History

  • An Abridged History of United States

  • FirstGov
    Coming Fall 2000.
    Welcome to the future home of FirstGov, a U.S. Government website that will provide free rapid access to government information and services to the public.

  • US History Reference Site

  American Wars

  • Civil War

    Korean

  • U.S. Military Korea

  • Korean War Commenmoration

  Time

  • Time and Dates

  • DAY
    • Any Day in History

    • This Day in History

  • DECADES

  Politics

  Government

  • Your Government Wants You
    There is informatin galore awaiting you at the following sites. Whether you are doing a project or just want to learn a lot, you can do it here.
    • Welcome to the Citizen's Guide to U.S. Government Resources

    • FedStats Home Page

    • Welcome to FedWeb.com

    • GovSpot

  • Three Branches of Government
    This is the ultimate site about the U.S. government.

  • Core Documents of the USA
    From the Bill of Rights to Supreme Court decisions, you can find it all here.

  • NARA
    The National Archives and Records Administration is the government agency responsible for overseeing the management of federal government records. Lots of good stuff here; check the exhibit hall and the Internet resources.

  • Your Congress
    In the spirit of Thomas Jeffereson, this is a service of the U.S. Congress through its library. There is a lot of congressional and political information here.

  • All the Presidents
    C-SPAN knows presidents. They're all here for your reading and listening pleasure.

  • Every President is listed at these sites. And as a bonus, check the last site: every inaugural speech eveeer given.
    Presidential Libraries IDEA Network

    Grolier Interactive Presents The American Presidency

    PBS The American Experience/The Presidents

    Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States.

  • The White House
    Everyone should make a trip to Washington, D.C. to the the White House. If your can't get there today, this is the next best thing.
    
    • Welcome to the White House

    • First Ladies

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    Science

    • Why Files

    • OMSI

    • Reek's Mad Scientist Lab
      Science Links; Lab News;
      Crazy Q&A; Glossary

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    Technology

    
    
    • Evaluating Web Pages

    • ColorCenter!
      Choose colors from the palette. Select Background, Text, Link, Active Link, Visited Link or Texture to set the corresponding colors/textures. The current link colors are shown on the right. The current BODY tag is shown below.

    • Presenters Online
      Students and teacher will find help to develop good visual presentations. This site provides links to presentation training materials and a number of useful free resources. The sections on bad delivery habits and using color in multimedia presentations are worthwhile for all students. The resources section provides a complete clip art collection for education and a number of well-designed PowerPoint templates.

    • Images 1
      Need an image for a project on Australia? Look at the Images 1 web site. This site contains over 20, 000 historical and contemporary images dealing with Australia. The database can be searched by keywords and with Boolean operators. The images are high quality and represent a wide range of topics. An easy link to a reprint permission form is found inthe copright section of the page.

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