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Recipes on the Oregon Trail
With information gathered from a wide variety of primary resources, this site offers not only recipes that pioneers and homesteaders used, but also tips on packing a wagon for a cross-country trip, and other words of advice for wagon...
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Charles in Space: Charles Simonyi Returns to Space
Join Dr. Charles Simonyi on his space mission to the International Space Station in 2009. The first private explorer to complete a second mission to space shares highlights of the spaceflight, including videos, photos, and interviews...
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The Experiment in International Living
This international organization promotes intercultural learning through home-stays, educational group travel, study abroad, language training, au pair, and other cultural immersion programs.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Frontier Life: "Hardship Without Glory": Life on the Trail
From the PBS series, "Frontier House," read about the struggles that pioneers experienced as they made their ways west to new lands via wagon trains.
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Worldwide International Student Exchange (Wise)
The Worldwide International Student Exchange Foundation is an excellent source of exchange opportunities for short-stay or long term experiences traveling and living abroad. Offers a range of farm, ranch, city environments as well as...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...
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Ithaka: Cultural Study Program in Greece
Ithaka offers a rigorous experiential and academic work/study immersion in Greek culture. The study is inter-disciplinary, covering the main areas of culture and learning from ancient times to the present day. It is accessible to the...
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Historic Trails: Oregon/california Trails
Find a map of the Oregon Trail and California Trail and click Historical Trails tab to discover the hardships and daily grind of traveling on the Oregon Trail.
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Emigrant Wagons Roll Westward
This resource is an excerpt from the memoirs of David Arthur of his traveling to Oregon by wagon train with his parents. It was originally published in an Oregon newspaper in 1889.
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Working Abroad
WorkingAbroad/VWIS (Voluntary Work Information Service) is an international networking service for volunteers, workers and travellers on volunteer projects in over 150 countries worldwide. On this site, you will find professional and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Let's Get It There Fast
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate how aircraft have decreased the amount of time it takes to transport people and cargo. Students will compute the time it takes to travel between two cities for several modes of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Photography and Railroads
From the 1850s, photography and the railroad each offered new experiences to people who had never before traveled great distances. Photographs were used to allay fears of potential travelers.
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Glacial Geology of Arlee Valley, Montana Trip for Hs Teachers
This field trip designed for HS science teachers with little or no formal training in geosciences, acquaints participants with the glacial geologic record of a small topographic basin in western Montana. The trip focuses on the landforms...
Read Works
Read Works: Nj Physics Professor Has the 'Right Stuff'
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about Dr. Greg Olsen, the third private citizen to travel to outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University of Phoenix
At the University of Phoenix, you can earn your bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree any way you want to on campus, online, or in certain areas using a combination of both, which we call FlexNet. The University of Phoenix has grown to...
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Job Monkey: Cool Jobs
JobMonkey helps you find seasonal or year-round jobs working for employers who can offer you unique opportunities to travel the world, have fun, and earn good money doing it.
NASA
Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Mae C. Jemison
Official NASA biography of astronaut, Mae C. Jemison, the first African American woman admitted into the astronaut training program.
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Sir Francis Drake
Read about Sir Francis Drake's attacks on the Spanish treasure ships and "silver trains" in the Caribbean and Central America.
Digital History
Digital History: Life on the Trail
Read what life was like for the pioneers traveling west in wagon trains, especially along the Oregon Trail.
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Triumph and Tragedy: Women's Voices From the Oregon Trail
Here is the story of the women and their families who traveled on the Oregon Trail. Much of the story is told in the words of women who were actually on the trail.
Curated OER
Hungarian Immigrants Standing on the Platform in Front of a Train, 1920
The train allowed for immigrants to travel to Western Canada and for supplies and goods to be traded back and forth across the country. This website looks at role trains played in expanding the nation westward after the last spike in 1885.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Do You Become a Commercial Airline Pilot?
Learn about the training, certifications, and costs associated with becoming a commercial airline pilot.
Lingolex
Lingolex.com: Learn Spanish: Railway Vocabulary Vocabulario Sobre Trenes
This site provides a comprehensive look at the kind of terminology and phrasing that would be used when riding or bordering a train. These words and phrases are ideal for travel.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Parallel and Intersecting Lines: A Collision Course?
Students act as civil engineers developing safe railways as a way to strengthen their understanding of parallel and intersecting lines. Using pieces of yarn to visually represent line segments, students lay down "train tracks" on a...
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