Australian Museum Online has a collection of arachnids. You can even examine their "feature arachnid!"

Biographical profiles of famous singers in major musical genres. Includes photo and links to snippets of their songs.

Provides photographs and a fact card about the olm, a blind salamander. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, habitat, diet, predators, reproduction, and their population decline.

Students learn the importance of protecting pictographs as part of their geologic heritage by making their own paint using natural ingredients to create art.

John Sloan is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief information...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about iguanas and where they live. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Ten thousand years ago this park had glaciers. What happened to them? How did they affect the landscape? Click on this site and find out.

This resource provides information about bats, and bat conservation.

Interesting facts and sounds of this species are found on this competent site. Choose from a menu of topics that include: cool facts, description, sound, range, habitat, food, reproduction, and conservation status.

At this site, provided by the Contra Costa County Office of Education, you can get the facts on bats and their environment.

Great multi-media site from the National Geographic Society with great information, pictures and video of Vampire Bats. Sections include fun facts, video, audio, a map and send a postcard.

This article from the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust examines the role of farming in Neolithic Wales and England, plus the burial rituals of that time period. Has pictures of burial tombs.

Selected (11) reading passages (grades 7-11) to pair with the autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Fredrick Douglass. Frederick Douglass recounts his experiences as a slave in Maryland, and his treatment at the...

This lesson plan is an adaptation of Activity 92 from Project Learning Tree. Students will research the four prehistoric time periods and compare and contrast them with their lives. By doing this, they will recognize the difference...

The Apollo 11 Stones remain the oldest examples of figurative art from the African continent. Their discovery contributes to our conception of early humanity's creative attempts, before the invention of formal writing, to express their...

Personal ornamentation and engraved designs are the earliest evidence of art in Africa and are inextricably tied up with the development of human cognition. View pictures and read about prehistoric art in Africa.

There is significant debate concerning the development of the Buddha image-where it first occurred, why, and when. This article traces the history of the Buddha image through two centers of artistic production: Gandhara and Mathura.

The monastery typically becomes the spiritual focus of the nearest town or village. In early Buddhism, monastic complexes were created for the monks close enough to a town in order to receive alms or charity from the villagers, but far...

The East Slope of the Acropolis is an area that has not (yet) been the focus of a great deal of archaeological investigation. Early travelers and explorers noted, of course, the very large and prominent East Cave that forms such a...

When most people think of the Acropolis, they probably envision, first and foremost, the temples of Athena (the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, and the temple of Athena Nike) on the top of the citadel. But it is important to realize that the...

A profile of Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819 -1880), the first man to successfully obtain oil from the ground by drilling in 1859. His invention of the drive pipe stopped flooding and cave-ins, and revolutionized the oil industry.

PDF report on Ndaxagua Natural Tunnel in Oaxaca, Mexico. Included are photographs and drawings (some calendar) of cave markings thought to be Chocho, Popoloca, and Mixtec cultures.

A student from a 5th/6th grade classroom in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this illustration of a dwarf dwelling as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. The task given to students was to create a prehistoric cave home in...

Millions of Brazilian free-tailed bats spend their summers in the southwestern United States. Gigantic colonies summer in Bracken Cave, Texas; Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico; and even within the city of Austin, Texas, under the Congress...