When you're learning about something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to explore" for each topic.
On each page you'll find information, definitions, links, and other resources.
Click a topic to start exploring!
- 1968 (See also 'Vietnam War')
- advertising
- Agent Orange (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity'
- ancient Africa
- animals (see 'creatures of the night', 'prairies', 'trees
- and forests', and 'wolves')
- animal tracks
- apples
- archaeology
- architecture (see also 'shelters')
- armadillo (see 'creatures of the night')
- astronomy
- Aztecs
- baseball (see 'Negro baseball leagues')
- bat (see 'caves' & 'creatures of the night')
- beaver (see 'creatures of the night')
- birds (see also 'creatures of the night')
- black baseball (see 'Negro baseball leagues')
- Branch Davidian Waco siege (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- bridge building
- bubbles
- Buffalo Soldiers
- butterflies (see also 'insects')
- buying a car
- capital punishment
- careers
- castles
- caves
- charts & graphs
- Challenger disaster (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- Chernobyl nuclear disaster (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- Chicago fire (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- Christmas around the World
- Cinco de Mayo
- civil rights (see also 'Martin Luther King Jr.')
- Civil War
- circus
- climate change (see 'global warming')
- clothing (see 'fiber and fabric')
- clouds
- codes, ciphers & secret messages
- collecting things
- colonial life (See also 'pioneer life' and
- 'Revolutionary War)
- controlled burn (see 'fire')
- coyote (see 'creatures of the night')
- creatures of the night (see also 'wolves')
- dance
- death penalty (see 'capital punishment')
- dental care
- Depression, The (see 'Great Depression')
- deserts
- dinosaurs
- disaster, castastrophe, & calamity
- Donner Party (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- dragonfly & damselfly (see 'pond life')
- drawing
- dust bowl (see 'The Great Depression' and
- 'disaster, castastrophe, & calamity')
- earthquakes (see also 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- earthworm (see 'worms')
- Ebola virus (see 'disaster, castastrophe,
- & calamity')
- elections
- English (see writing, journal writing, poetry for kids)
- entrepreneur
- explorers
- Exxon Valdez spill (see 'disaster, castastrophe,
- & calamity')
- farming
- Fen-Phen diet drug (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- fiber and fabric
- figurative language
- fire
- firefly (see 'creatures of the night')
- floodplain (see 'wetlands")
- forest (see 'trees and forests')
- forest fire (see 'fire')
- fox (see 'creatures of the night')
- fractals (see also 'tessellations')
- frog (see 'pond life')
- future
- gardening
- ghosts, ghouls & goblins
- glaciers
- global warming
- Gold Rush
- graphs (see 'charts & graphs)
- grassland (see 'prairies')
- The Great Depression
- Heaven's Gate (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- historical maps (see also 'maps')
- Halloween (see 'ghosts, ghouls & goblins')
- Holocaust
- hurricane
- Hurricane Andrew (see 'disaster, castastrophe,
- & calamity')
- insects
- insects, invasive (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- inventors and inventions
- Japanesse internment camps (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- 'Johnny Appleseed' (see 'apples')
- Johnstown flood (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- journal writing
- jump roping (see 'rope games')
- King, Martin Luther Jr. (see also 'civil rights')
- kite (see 'wind')
- knots
- kudzu (see 'disaster, castastrophe, & calamity')
- Lewis and Clark
- light
- Love Canal (see 'disaster, castastrophe,
- & calamity')
- maps (see also 'historical maps')
- Martin Luther King Jr. (see also 'civil rights')
- Medieval era (see 'castles')
- mealworm (see 'worms')
- millennium
- millennium 2000
- minerals (see 'rocks and minerals')
- money
- moth (see 'butterflies' & 'creatures of the night')
- mountain men
- Mount St. Helens (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- musical instruments
- mysterious & unexplained
- mythology
- Negro baseball leagues
- night (see 'creatures of the night')
- Olympic Games
- opossum (see 'creatures of the night')
- oral history
- Oregon trail
- owl (see 'creatures of the night')
- paleontology (see 'dinosaurs')
- paper making
- pioneer life (see also 'Oregon trail')
- poetry for kids
- pond life (see also 'wetlands)
- pony express
- prairies
- prehistoric creature (see 'dinosaurs')
- raccoon (see 'creatures of the night')
- rainforest (see 'trees and forests')
- Revolutionary War
- rocks and minerals
- rope games
- Salem witch trials (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- San Francisco earthquake (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- simple machines
- shelters (see also 'architecture')
- skunk (see 'creatures of the night')
- snakes
- snow
- solar energy (see 'light')
- star (see 'astronomy')
- storytelling
- teeth (see 'dental care')
- tessellations
- Thalidomide (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
- Three Mile Island (see 'disaster, castastrophe,
- & calamity')
- Tianamen Square massacre (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- Titanic (see 'disaster, castastrophe, & calamity')
- tornadoes
- trees and forests
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- turtle (see 'pond life')
- underground railroad
- Vietnam War (See also '1968')
- Vikings
- volcano
- war (see 'Civil War', 'Revolutionary War', and
- 'Vietnam War')
- weather (see 'clouds', 'global warming',
- 'hurricane', 'snow', 'tornadoes', and 'wind')
- wetlands (see also 'pond life")
- wildfire (see 'fire')
- wind
- windmill (see 'wind')
- witchcraft, Salem trials (see 'disaster,
- castastrophe, & calamity')
- wolves
- woodworking
- worms
- writing
- zebra mussell (see 'disaster, castastrophe, &
- calamity')
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Created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, 1/99 - Updated, 11/00