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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.
- Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
Organization: The Newberry Library (Chicago)
"Welcome to Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms. This resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. Inside are high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history. Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula." The Newberry Library (Chicago)
- The Nobel Peace Prize
Organization: Nobel Web AB
"Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frederic Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time. In addition to humanitarian efforts and peace movements, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts, and arms control." Read about past winners and this year's recipient, U.S. President Barack Obama. (Nobel Web AB)
- Thanksgiving... in Space
Organization: NASA
"The Thanksgiving meal in space is not as traditional as it is on Earth. There is turkey, but it comes in a foil package, which affects the way that the main course is served. In 2001, Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin gave a demonstration of how the ISS turkey is cut. Culbertson used a pocketknife, rather than a carving knife, to open the package containing the rehydrated turkey." (NASA)
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