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Voices From the Days of Slavery
The site has collected audio interviews from 23 former slaves born from 1932 to 1975. The interviews include remarkable accounts, as well as songs from the fields.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
A thousand images dating from the period of slavery. This collection is for anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
A website from the New York Public Library that commemorates and explores the struggle against slavery and its abolition. Learn about such things as the transatlantic slave trade or family life and social development of slaves.
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Learn all about voting and democracy in America from the beginning to present day. This site offers pictures and lots of interesting insight and information on voting in the United States.
Bonus Links
StarLogo Website
StarLogo TNG is modelling and simulation software that can be freely downloaded from MIT. Using StarLogo students can create rich 3D worlds without the programming barriers that many other software environments have. The MIT website contains tutorials for using StarLogo, and a small bank of lesson resources for Game Programming, Secondary School Maths activities and an epidemic simulation.
Project Bud Burst
Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for student scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers.
Map-a-Planet
Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planets and moons.