CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigation. Website documenting the activities of students at the Nieman Enhanced Learning Center, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, who received a grant to fund their project (titled above). The CSI project teaches students to look at cemeteries as primary sources in need of protection and preservation. For more information, see the Introduction page of the website.
Clarence Fisher's Idea Hive task for students to help their future employer find a suitable location for its head office. Students are asked to consider such variables as population statistics, climate, services, geography, and cost of living.
The Imperial History of the Middle East. A 90 second animated visualization that maps who has conquered the Middle East over the course of the last 5,000 years.
"Open Your Eyes" - Four DVD videos regarding the medicinal and other benefits of wild plants of the boreal forest. Features Brenda Gaudry of Barrows, Manitoba. The four videos include: "Nature" (20 mins), "Opportunity" (20 mins), "Your Future" (14 mins), and "The Living Forest" (42 mins).
Links to (2001-2008) issues of "Community Contact" - the bi-monthly newsletter published by Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs.\n\nAlso links to July 2006 & May 2007 back issues of "Northern Links" ("Promoting Healthy Active Living in Northern Manitoba")
A free comic/storyboard creation program. No drawing skills required, just click & drag. Looks interesting. Could be a fun way for students to illustrate social studies/history/ native studies assignments or projects.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods shows a variety of methods for presenting information from complex diagrams to simplistic charts and everything in between. A wonderful tool for social studies/ native studies conceptualizations.
"Africa Unchained" a blog by Emeka Okafor, a New York entrepreneur. His blog is intended to analyze and contribute "to the issues and solutions raised by George Ayittey's latest book 'Africa Unchained."
The Places We Live illustrates the living conditions of people in various parts of the world. This site focuses on slums/shantytowns with excellent photography and audio to show the human side of extreme poverty.
Frontier Centre for Public Policy interview with Dr. Mitch Taylor, a polar bear biologist. Taylor is critical of anthropogenic global warming and it's supposed affect on polar bear populations. The interview reveals a lot of information regarding polar bear and arctic research that has either not be published in the media or has been misrepresented.