Project Links
These links are meant to assist students with ongoing projects.   Please e-mail the webmaster with your own     suggestions.

  Black History

African-American Odyssey Notable African Americans A History of Afro-American physicians in Houston Gale Research: Black History: biographies Black History Quest Patchwork of African American Life The Internet African American History Challenge Black Baseball's Negro Baseball League Underground Railroad Free Black History Resources from Thomson Gale

The Day I Was Born  

• Who, What, When Interactive Historical Timeline
  This is a database of people and events from A.D.to the present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals.

• dMarie Time Capsure: This Day in History.

• The Day I Was Born Online Project

• Online Conversion  find out the day of the week in which you were
  born

• Info Please, Today's Birthday

• Scope Systems Any day

• Science Timeline

Colonial America/ American Revolution          

Trades in Colonial Williamsburg Colonial America 1600-1775 K-12 Resouces Colonial America Links Colonial America from Exploration through the American Revolution Trivilah Colonial America The History Place  Early America

Decades Project

Social Studies Resources, Encyclopedia and Primary  Sources (Use this H.I.S.D. database for biographies, timelines and much more!) www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com Retail Prices of Selected Foods in the Decades 1960's Flashback 1970's Flashback 1980.s Flashback

Famous People in American History
(also see Presidents of the U. S. and General Biography below)       

The History Net Biography menu Historical persons related to American History Biographies for Kids Historychannel.com The American Presidency The White House (presidents and first ladies) American Memory (a wonderful collection of primary sources) The American Colonist's Library (a treasury of primary documents)

General Biography

• Biography.com

• Biographical Dictionary

• Lives, the Biography Resource

• Infoplease: Biography

Harlem Renaissance

 

Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1937 Musicians of the Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance Art of the Harlem Renaissance

     Science Fair     





These websites are excellent for getting ideas for topics and how to produce a good science project. They are not considered "hard" sources.  Students are required to have at least five hard sources (books, journal/magazine, newspaper articles) on their topic.

• All Science Fair Projects.com

• Successful Science Fair Projects

• Science Fair Central

• Science Fair Idea Exchange

• Nearctica: Science Fairs and Projects

• Access Excellence: Science Fair Websites

• Science Fair Information  This link takes you to HISD's website for  rules regarding Science Fair in HISD.
                                          A suggested bibliography format for Science Fair projects is included.
  
  Online Science Magazines/Journals  (articles can be listed as "hard resources.")

• Science Daily

• The Why Files

• Highwire Press free articles
  
   

Science Links

• Internet Directory for Botany (Plants)

• Chemical Elements.com Periodic Table

• Los Alamos Periodic Table

• Webelements Periodic Table

• Solarviews.com/

• NASA- the homepage of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Space Center Houston- provides information about visiting Space Center Houston

Texas Heroes

Lone Star Junction/ Notable Texans     Famous Texans             Handbook of Texas Online

Women's History

Women's History Month Votes for Women "Elizabeth Cady Stanton & The Women's Rights Movement: Declaration of Sentiments" http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/stanton.asp  index.html Encyclopedia Britannica Women in American History http://search.eb.com/women/index.html Library of Congress American Memory Project Votes for Women; Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html Library of Congress American Memory Project Votes for Women; Suffrage Pictures 1850–1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org/collection Scholastic Women Who Changed History http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women Women and Social Movements in the United States http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ Women's Suffrage Tour http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/tour_1.html