Each month, our SIRS® WebSelect and SIRS® Discoverer editorial teams scour the Internet for top-quality sites that help teachers teach and students learn. Although no Internet site can supplant a quality research database from our ProQuest K-12 collection, these reviewed and vetted virtual resources offer unique information and interactive content that's sure to be of interest to teachers, librarians, and students.
"People have used talismans, charms and amulets to protect themselves from harm and to promote good fortune since the earliest times... The objects in this tour illustrate the many ways in which magical or powerful objects have been used. Some were worn by the living to avoid common ailments or as charms for good luck or a general sense of well-being. Others were placed in graves and in tombs to protect the dead. There are also objects that were used to protect whole buildings rather than individuals." (THE BRITISH MUSEUM)
"Welcome to the companion Web site to 'Search for a Safe Cigarette.' The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a 'safer' cigarette." (NOVA)
"August 24th 1875--Captain Matthew Webb dived off the end of Admiralty Pier in Dover to start what became the first successful unaided swim across the English Channel. To mark the 125th anniversary of this event, Dover Museum is compiling an online resource--a brief history of Channel Swimming, together with details of the museum's collection relating to swimming the Channel." (DOVER MUSEUM) View this brief history to learn about those who have succeeded and failed to swim the English Channel.
