Virginia Trekkers
Virginia Trekkers
Travel Virginia with the Virginia Trekkers, a group of hardy teachers, as they trek around the beautiful State of Virginia! Virtually visit areas of geological and historical significance across the five regions: Appalachian Plateau,...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Community Action & Citizen Science: Biomonitoring
Biomonitoring is the term scientists use to describe the use of plants, animals, or entire ecosystems to tell if our environment is polluted. Biomonitoring has been used by biologists and scientists to give us information about our...
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Encyclopedia and Guide to Manchester: The Bridgewater Canal
A history of the Bridgewater Canal built in 1760 and which was "the forerunner of all modern canals". The canal connected coal mines found in Worsley with Manchester England. By clicking on the names you will get biographical details.
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The Industrial Revolution: Changes in Society
A guided website which covers the major aspects of the Industrial Revolution from about 1750 until 1830. Areas such as industry, agriculture are explored.
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Rockmans Trading Post: Welcome to the Mineral Information Finder
During your lifetime, you will use more than a million pounds of rocks, minerals, and metals. Dig through this web site and find out how.
Google
Google Earth: Appalachian Voices
This site contains information about a nonprofit organization that is protecting the resources of the central and southern Appalachian region.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize History: The Industrial Revolution: Causes
An overview of historians' views of the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and of the inventions, inventors, and industries that propelled it.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Alaska, 1919
A map of Alaska from 1914 showing the State capital at Juneau, cities, towns, ports, railroads, submarine telegraph lines, major rivers and lakes, mountains, coastal features, and islands. The map is keyed to show gold placers, gold and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast China, 1971
"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...
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Unesco: United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway...
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Etc: Maps Etc: United States Economic Regions, 1900
A map from 1912 of the United States showing the principal industries of the region. The map is color-coded to show the areas of fishing grounds, industrial centers, coal mining areas, petroleum fields, and iron ore fields. This map...
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Etc: Maps Etc: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, 1858
A map from 1858 of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which surround the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The map shows major cities and ports, rivers, and coastal features. The figures attached to Cities and Towns indicate the number of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North China, 1971
" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Battle of Liao Yang, August 24 to September 4, 1904
A map of the battle site around the Manchurian city of Liao Yang during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Liao Yang was a strategic city along the Port Arthur-Mukden spur of the China Far East Railway that tied to the Trans-Siberian...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Saar Basin, 1919
A map showing the Sarr Basin of western Germany in 1914, formerly an important coal-mining and industrialized area. This map shows major cities, including Saarbruck, Saarlouis, Merzig, and Saarburg, railways, rivers, and terrain of the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Physical and Cultural Geography of the German Empire, 1915
Six maps of the German Empire showing the average rainfall, the major climate zones, metal industrial products and mining (iron, coal, silver, copper, and salt), textile industrial products (silk, wool, cotton, and linen) ethnic groups,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Industrial Sections, 1898
A map from 1898 of the United States showing the Industrial Sections of the contiguous 48 states at the time. "Owing largely to differences in surface structure, climate, and soil, the great productions of our country are confined more...
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Etc: Maps Etc: United States Industrial Sections, 1901
A map from 1901 of the United States showing the product regions by separating the country into "(1) the Northeastern, or cloth-manufacturing section; (2) the Northern, or food-, iron-, and coal-producing, and manufacturing section; (4)...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: New Zealand, 1915
A map from 1915 of New Zealand showing main economic products, major cities and ports, principal railways, terrain, lakes, rivers, and coastal features. This map is color-coded to show the areas of livestock and vineyard production, and...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Commercial Map: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1904
North American commercial activities including: major agricultural crops (barley, corn, wheat, coffee, tobacco, et cetera) and secondary agricultural crops (oranges, lumber, wine); primary mining extraction (coal, gold, silver,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Tierra Del Fuego, 1915
Map of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America, including Punta Arena (the southernmost city of the world), predominant mountain peaks (Mt. Hope, Mt. Darwin, Mt. Sarmiento), the Strait of Magellan, local natural resources...
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Hatfield Mc Coy Feud
The famous Hatfield and McCoy feud is presented, as told from the perspective of Roseanna McCoy. Their story is the "Romeo and Juliet" of Appalachia.
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Hatfield Mc Coy Feud
The famous Hatfield and McCoy feud -- told from the perspective of Roseanna McCoy. Their story is the "Romeo and Juliet" of Appalachia. Great piece of Americana.
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