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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oscar Wilde the Canterville Ghost

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of Oscar Wilde's long short story "The Canterville Ghost." Includes a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the origin of the Ghost Dance movement and the massacre of the Sioux that happened at Wounded Knee. Includes questions for students.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Ghosts of Madagascar

For Students 9th - 10th
Alex Hawes's article, "Ghosts of Madagascar" examines facts and information related to lemurs. He discusses the current troubling status on lemur populations as well as information on the social chain of command within groups of lemurs.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Ghost Faced Bat

For Students 4th - 8th
Ghost-faced bats forage exclusively on large-bodied moths, and are strong, fast fliers. They spend their days in caves or abandoned mine shafts, and emerge soon after dark to fly to the arroyos and canyons where they forage. Learn more...
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Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life: Ghost Ant

For Students 9th - 10th
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Ghost Ants (Tapinoma melanocephalum), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be...
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Other

Field Trip Earth: Ghosts of the Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy the information presented by Field Trip Earth on the Mexican Wolf. Read about the 1998 release of these wolves back into the wild. Learn about this project, the species, and its habitat.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: William Blake's Collected Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected verse collections by William Blake, including Songs from an Island in the Moon, Gnomic Verses, On Art and Artists, On Friends and Foes, Miscellaneous Epigrams, Tiriel, The Book of Thel, The French Revolution, A Song of Liberty,...
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Computer Hope

Computer Hope: Computer Monitors

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete guide to computer monitors including monitor ABCs, dot pitch, ghost/burn effect, resolution, monitor controls, refresh, LCD and video definitions.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: War on the Great Plains: The Last Indian Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the 30-year Indian Wars started and about the battles that were fought over those years. Describes the emergence and growth of the Ghost Dance movement that was initially envisioned by a Paiute medicine man named Wovoka. White...
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Kermode Bear

For Students 3rd - 8th
Offers quick facts on the Kermode bear about physical appearance, habitat, behavior and range. The Kermode bear is also known as the spirit bear or ghost bear.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Jennifer O'connell

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read this biography to learn about Jennifer O'Connell, author and illustrator of the popular children's book Ten Timid Ghosts, and many other books as well. This biography also offers links to a list of books, an author visit kit, and...
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Other

Unconventional Warfare During the Civil War: John S. Mosby's Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about John S. Mosby's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and why he was called the Gray Ghost.
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Other

Iv: Rhyolite Nevada Bullfrog Ghost Towns of Nevada

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical information on the towns of Rhyolite and Bullfrog, Nevada gold mining towns.
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Other

Sonoran Pronghorn the Praire Ghost

For Students 9th - 10th
This online "call for help" focuses on the Sororan Pronghorn and its endangered status. Description information about this animal is followed by its status and what you can do to help.
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Other

A Short History of Copper Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
On this page you will find general information about copper, mining copper, and ghost towns.
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Other

Promotex Online: The Real Ghost in Buick's Past

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about David Dunbar Buick, who started the Buick Manufacturing Company, which ultimately became a basis for General Motors.
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Other

The Haunted Museum: Houdini: A Magician Among the Spirits

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive biographical information about Harry Houdini, supported by many historical photos, can be found here. This site is based on Troy Taylor's book, "Ghosts by Gaslight."
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Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company: Sir George Simpson

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comic strip biography, George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, falls ill and is visited by his dead cousin Thomas' ghost. Thomas says that George has much to account for and takes him on a life journey of images...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: The Silk Road

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover detailed information about the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea. Read stories of wealthy merchants, deadly bandits, fabulous cities, ghosts and genies, and...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: May Wedderburn Cannan, Poet and Mi5 Employee in Wwi

For Students 9th - 10th
May Wedderburn Cannan was a poet and writer - and also, during the the First World War, an employee of MI5. In these extracts from her autobiography, Grey Ghosts and Voices, Cannan remembers what it was like to be a poet in war time -...
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PBS

The West: Sitting Bull Tatanka Iyotanka

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Lakota Indian Chief Sitting Bull who led his tribe in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General George Custer.
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Other

Signal Corps Association: Espionage in the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the murky underground stories of espionage on both sides of the Civil War. The spies were often eccentric, and the raiders ruthless.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides background and texts of numerous poems. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to specific poetry books to find complete text of individual poems.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Maryland

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you know about the Chestertown Tea Party? Why is there the Mason and Dixon line? What is a "Jimmy?" The Library of Congress provides this article of fun facts about Maryland.

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