On
the Web
The following websites have information you might find useful. Due to the ever-changing nature of the Internet, Clairmont Press does not guarantee the reliability of these sources.
GENERAL LOUISIANA WEB SITES:
louisdl.louislibraries.org
The Louisiana Digital Library.
lsm.crt.state.la.us
Louisiana State Museum.
www.crt.state.la.us
Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
www.crt.state.la.us/parks
Home page for the Louisiana state parks and historic sites.
www.doe.state.la.us/lde/index.html
Louisiana Department of Education.
www.kidskonnect.com/Louisiana/LouisianaHome.html
The Louisiana page at the KidsKonnect.com web site, a safe Internet site for kids.
www.geauxto.com/louisiana
Louisiana Social Studies site.
www.legis.state.la.us
Louisiana Legislature.
www.louisiana.gov
Louisiana state government home page.
www.louisiana101.com
A general information web site developed by a Louisiana teacher at Oak Park Middle School that contains a wealth of information.
www.louisianamuseums.org
Home page for the Louisiana Association of Museums.
www.nsula.edu/folklife
Home page for the Louisiana Folklife Center.
www.sos.louisiana.gov/around/brief/brief-1.htm
The secretary of state’s page on Louisiana’s flags.
www.sos.louisiana.gov/museums/museums/museums-index.htm
The secretary of state’s page on Louisiana’s state museums.
CURRICULUM RESOURCES:
rubistar.4teachers.org
This site helps teachers develop and use rubrics.
www.awesomelibrary.org
An Internet library database sponsored by Evaluation and Development Institute, which includes lesson plans dealing with social studies.
www.marcopolo-education.org
The web site for MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom Program.
ECONOMICS RESOURCES:
ecedweb.unomaha.edu/home.htm
The Economic Education Web site provides resources for teaching economics. Contains lesson plans and projects.
www.econedlink.org
This web site of the National Council on Economic Education has lesson plans on current events. The Weblinks tab has links to such sites as the Federal Reserve Banks and the Stock Market Game.
www.e-connections.org
This web site has a number of economics-related lesson plans.
www.fte.org
Web site of the Foundation for Teaching Economics. The Teachers page has lesson plans and curriculum materials.
www.italladdsup.org
This web site helps young people with personal finance. There are five interactive modules – on getting and using a credit card, buying a car, handling a budget, saving and investing, and going to college.
www.themint.org
This web site emphasizes personal financial literacy with an emphasis on “earning, saving, spending, investing, and borrowing.”
GENERAL RESOURCES:
lcweb.loc.gov
The Library of Congress.
lii.org
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet.
www.biography.com
Web site for the popular PBS series.
www.cnn.com
The CNN site. Other news sites include www.reuters.com, www.msnbc.com/news, www.abcnews.com, www.cbsnews.com, and www.foxnews.com.
www.cr.nps.gov
The National Park Service’s Links to the Past page.
www.distinguishedwomen.com
Includes biographies of distinguished women past and present.
www.envirolink.org
The Envirolink Network.
www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
The Superintendent of Documents and the Government Printing Office.
www.interest.com/top100.html
Links to the one hundred most popular newspapers in the country.
www.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library, an online public library of the Internet.
www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
Web site contains information on learning styles.
www.pbs.org
Home page for the Public Broadcasting Service.
www.puzzlemaker.com
Allows users to create various types of puzzles.
www.si.edu
The Smithsonian Institution.
www.vote-smart.org
The Vote Smart site.
www.zillions.org
The Zillions Education Center is sponsored by Consumer Reports. Its purpose is to teach kids how to evaluate ads and see through the hype. There are lesson plans.
GEOGRAPHY RESOURCES:
members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
Geography World web site.
nationalatlas.gov/about.html
The National Atlas of the United States.
www.indo.com/distance
The Distance Calculator gives the distance between two cities and exact latitude and longitude measurements of the two cities.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
University of Texas’s huge collection of maps.
www.nationalgeographic.com (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
National Geographic.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
The CIA's World Factbook.
www.usgs.gov
The U.S. Geological Survey.
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES:
bensguide.gpo.gov
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids.
thomas.loc.gov
Legislative information on the Internet.
www.fedstats.gov
The federal government’s statistical information site.
www.firstgov.gov
A good place to start looking for information on or from the federal government.
www.house.gov
Home page for the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.senate.gov
Home page for the U.S. Senate.
www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information.
www.whitehouse.gov
Home page for the White House.
HISTORY RESOURCES:
docsouth.unc.edu
Documenting the American South web site.
fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
The Historical U.S. Census Data Browser; provides census data for states and counties for the period 1790-1960.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Home page for the Library of Congress's "American Memory" section.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
The Best of History Web Sites features sites for prehistory, world history, U.S. history, art history, maps, and general resources.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp
The “Teaching with Historic Places” page of the National Park Service’s web site.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
An online U.S. history web site. Contains resource guides, an online textbook, encyclopedia, biographies, essays, timelines, and primary sources.
www.earlyamerica.com
Archiving Early America.
www.historychannel.com
The History Channel.
www.ourdocuments.gov
Contains a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration.
www.sohp.org
The Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
www.tntech.edu/history/edocs.html
Contains information on using electronic documents and has links to many historical documents, collections, radio broadcasts, online history books, and more.
www.toptags.com/aama
The Afro-American Almanac, from the slave trade through the civil rights movement to the present.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project at Yale University, documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
HURRICANES:
abcnews.go.com/Technology/HurricaneRita/
ABC News stories and photos about Hurricane Rita, with links to Katrina stories.
katrina.lsu.edu
LSU’s information clearinghouse for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/
NOAA’s web site, which shows extreme close-up imagery of Katrina’s aftermath.
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/rita/
NOAA’s web site, which shows extreme close-up imagery of Rita’s aftermath.
pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i40/8340notw1.html
Article about the effects of Rita on the petroleum and chemical industries.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/22/national/main878583.shtml
CBS News stories about Hurricane Rita and its aftermath with links to Katrina stories.
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/05/katrina/index.html
Stories from the Houston Chronicle, a newspaper in the city that took in many Katrina refugees.
www.epa.gov/katrina/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s web site regarding Hurricane Katrina.
www.fema.gov
The official FEMA web site.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9389157/
Contains images from space of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
www.nationalgeographic.com (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
Official web site of National Geographic magazine, with photos and articles about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
www.nhc.noaa.gov (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
Official web site of the National Hurricane Center.
www.nola.com/hurricane/
The Hurricane Center page at the NOLA.com web site.
www.nola.com/katrina/
Post-Katrina stories about Katrina from the Times Picayune.
www.npr.org/news/specials/hurricane/rita/blog_092405.html (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
National Public Radio’s Hurricane Rita web log
www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/
(note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
Contains a New York Times graphic on the flooding of New Orleans.
www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050927glaser/
Article about media coverage of Hurricane Rita
www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/2005/index.html (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this site)
Red Cross web site contains recent updates about the aftermath of the hurricanes.
www.sciencemag.org/sciext/katrina/ (note: This will open in a NEW window that you will need to CLOSE in order to return to this CD)
Science magazine stories about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
www.usgs.gov/hazards/hurricanes/kat_rit_wil/
Contains before-and-after photos depicting coastal erosion caused by Katrina and Rita in various locations.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/09/23/CU2005092301101.html
Maps and photos of Rita’s path and aftermath, with links to similar photos about Katrina.
www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/
Weather Channel’s 2005 hurricane summary with maps, storm tracks, and links to named storms.
www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/
Full transcript of White House document The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.
