Would you believe us if we told you we could make an egg bounce without breaking? Check out this experiment. It requires just three ingredients and five easy steps to learn how to bounce an egg.

This site is an account of the North's efforts to establish and maintain a blockade of the southern ports during the Civil War. From "The Blockade and the Cruisers" by James Russell Soley.

Through this activity students become historical detectives and use documents to trace the impact of immigration on the US.

A facsimile of a map from Father Marc Lescarbot of Port Royal (Nova Scotia) around 1609, before the British campaigns in the area to expel the French settlers in 1613. This map shows the entrance to the Port Royal Basin from the Bay of...

A facsimile from a map by Samuel Champlain (1613) of the Port Royal basin (Annapolis Royal), Nova Scotia. The map is keyed to show (A) our habitation, (B) Champlain's garden, (C) road made by Poutrincourt, (D) island, (E) entrance, (F)...

A map from 1919 of the Jamaican capital city Kingston and nearby Port Royal, showing the harbor, forts Augusta, Charles, Henderson, and Passage, railway to Spanish Town, major roads, Hope River, Sandy River, and River Cobre, and coastal...

A road map of Port Jervis, New York, from the 1920 Automobile Club of Rochester, showing the Delaware River, principal roads, railroads and station, bridges, and major landmarks.

Old Port of London Authority building

Moll de la Fusta at Port Vell (Barcelona)

Rambla del Mar at Port Vell (Barcelona)

Port Authority Building (Barcelona)

Porte St-Martin (Paris)

Porte de Paris (Lille)

Porte St-Denis (Paris)

Vieux-Port (Montreal)

Port Vell (Barcelona)

Croatian port

The Piraeus, the Port of Athens (Restoration) - Morey, 1903

Read this short account of the first British colonists to New Zealand arrive at Port Nicholson on Auckland Island.

What's a bean hole bean? What is the closest U.S. port city to Europe? Discover the answers to these questions and more from this Library of Congress fun-fact article.

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they examine transportation in Texas on the highways, at airports, and at ports.

After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...

Did you know that there are more than 1.5 million species of named bugs? You can find so many bugs right in your own back or front yard and you can have some fun of your own playing the two Bug Bingo games.

Instructions for building a rocket at home using basic materials then try a fun experiment to watch your rocket blast off.