Adventure Learning Foundation (ALF) is an Internet-based non-profit organization that provides curricula enhancing materials to educators based on online Adventure Learning Expeditions. Our explorers travel around the World providing "virtual" cultural

If you have ever wondered what it's like to live on the vast Serengeti plains, or experience the intense beauty of a Sahara night, AFRICA will take you there. A joint venture between Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE and National Geographic Television, AFRI

African Voices - by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - This site explores Africa's history and present. Learn about the slave trade, colonialism, and life in modern-day Africa.

Featuring a variety of lesson plans, curriculum units, and other teaching materials categorized by subject area and time period, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature a

A consortium of some one hundred and fifty North American colleges striving to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare a new generation of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies are

Find media materials you can use in learning and teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia

AskAsia.org is an educatonal website for students and teachers covering some thirty countries that comprise Asia today, and featuring materials that stem from early civilizations to current events.

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)-the largest society of its kind in the world-is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facili

The Canela Native Americans of Central Brazil live in grassy, open woodlands with stream-edge forests. They inhabit an area between the wet Amazon basin and the dry Northeast. While most of the Canela's cultural cousins live in the Amazon basin, the water

China Institute in America is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution that promotes the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary Chinese civilization, culture and heritage and provides the cultural and historical

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Learn about the Mexican day of celebration called Day of the Dead, on this site created by 5th grade students at Blackshear Elementary School in Austin, Texas and the Mexic-Arte Museum.

This site, developed by three students from Japan, South Africa, and the USA, offers a compact history of China, with special attention to the Cultural Revolution. The ThinkQuest students come up with a beautifully designed site once again.

On this site, you can explore 7000 years of Egyptian culture and history.

Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) website features innovative and easy-to-use materials for teaching about East Asia at the undergraduate level. Visit www.exeas.org to find teaching units, sample syllabi, links and other resources

In addition to the Center's commitment to undergraduate East Asian studies at the five institutions, we aim to support, encourage, and improve the teaching of East Asian cultures in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, and two- and four-year college

Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 26,000 pages about flags and view more than 48,000 images of flags. The site is fed with news and images posted to the FOTW m

This site explores the ancient seven wonders of the world as well as ranks and describes the world's top travel wonders.

As schools move ever closer to the use of online curricula, Humanities Texas works to place its humanities resources in the hands of teachers and librarians. On this page you will find suggestions for using the Humanities-Interactive website in your class

The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) assists in the coordination of teaching, research, and outreach activities on East Asia. Established in 1979, EASC links the expertise of I.U.'s East Asian area specialists to the local and national needs of business,

"Little Horus is a friend from Egypt, the land of civilization, in the Cyberspace. I am pleased that you children are participating in the use of the Internet. This is an opportunity for you to explore new ideas, frontiers and ways of thinking. It will add"

We welcome you to this space created just for you with information about our wonderful country: Mexico.

This website presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions round the world. Their testimonies offer a personal perspective on change and development.

The British Museum produces this interactive website on Mughal India. Totally Flash-driven, the site is set up to simulate a room filled with various items including a globe, file cabinet, books, and a calendar. When you roll over interactive items in the

Explore the Pyramids, temples, and other monumental architecture of ancient Egypt through riveting 360° photos shot during this NOVA/PBS Online Adventure. With real-time dispatches and digital photos filed from the Nile in March 1999 and from a quarry in

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Use this site to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.

This simulation activity helps learners grasp the complexities of China. Learners join a team and take on a role (foreign investor, human rights worker, museum curator, California state senator, or religious leader ). Learners work together to create a

The Seeds of Change Garden is a hands-on project that emphasizes the rich diversity that can result from cultural exchange. Through the garden that children plan, cultivate, and harvest, they interact with nature and each other. They learn about the simil

Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. Our principal goal is to provide via the Internet

This site presents a three-dimensional reconstruction of a Great Kiva, an architectural feature found in many prehistoric Anasazi communities in the Southwestern United States. This particular model was created using archaeological records from the excava

Building on his original WebQuest, Searching for China, Tom March has fully revised this popular site to provide more scaffolding for student cognition and more effective use of the Inter

One of the challenges of putting together a project on recent history is that so many folks have lived through the era and have opinions about what happened. The Sixties Project is designed not only to be useful to scholars and students, but to provide a

Journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth! Trek down the Amazon river, take in all 2.5 miles of Iguazu Falls, meet nomads roaming the high plateaus of Tibet, explore the glaciers of Greenland, and more.

WWW Virtual Library This site continues the online librarianship of Mr Vern Weitzel, RSPAS, ANU. Between the years 1996-1998 his pioneering Vietnam WWW VL, now preserved in its entirety at the Internet Archive, has catalogued, annotated and kept abreast w

The VietNam Multimedia Archives at Ibiblio.Org. These archives consist of a number of JPEGs and GIFs, MIDI sequences and RealAudio clips, distributed among the following categories

In addition to pictures taken for the government, I took many more of the Vietnamese civilians, particularly children--probably over 1500 images. Recently, I've been reviewing the bulk of this portfolio in an attempt to determine their relevance to the cu

This page presents a war chronology, a list of ways Vietnam differed from other wars, bibliographies of Vietnam War fiction, non-fiction, films, and books presenting Vietnamese and women's points of view on the conflict in addition to links to war sites a

Published in 1939, John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath drew attention to the hardships faced by the "Okies": poor farmers who moved from the Dust Bowl area to California in search of work. While writing the book, John Steinbeck visited Bakersfield

Chinesenames.org has the most comprehensive index of translations of English names, over 40,000 names! No matter you want to find a Chinese name for yourself, your baby or your dog and cat, simply browse our Chinese name dictionary to get the English name