• Great Sites for Teaching About…Poetry
  Some of the best sites on the web about poetry.

Jedediah Smith, American West explorer and fur trader, born (1799)

• The American West
  This site has an enormous amount of information to cover and does it very well. The site focuses on the "old West" and includes information on cowboys, Native Americans, pioneers and pioneer towns, explorers and more.

Gustave Dore, French illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner), born (1823)

Jacques & James Montgolfier, French brothers who were pioneer balloonists, born (1745)

Carl Sandburg, American poet (The People, Yes) and biographer of Lincoln, born (1878)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Poetry
  Some of the best sites on the web about poetry.

Lou Harris, American pollster (Lou Harris Poll), born (1921)

• Primaries, Voting, and Elections
  Education World looks at decisions of primary importance and elects to explore the voting process! Lesson plans, Internet sites, and curriculum ideas will help your students understand the impact of this year's Election.

E.L. Doctorow, American novelist (Ragtime) born (1931)

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States died at age 60 (1919)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
  Some of the best sites on the web about Teddy Roosevelt

Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk who did pioneering research on the hereditary characteristics of genetics, died at 61 (1884)

• Science Center 9-12
  Resources and tools from our Science Center

Louis Braille, French educator who developed reading system for the blind, died (1852)

• Reading Without Seeing: Louis Braille and the Braille Alphabet
  Students learn about Louis Braille and the Braille alphabet and explore some of the challenges people with impaired vision might face

Isaiah Bowman, geographer and co-founder of the Geographical Review, died at 71 (1950)

• A World of Geography
  Take your class on a field trip to The Mighty Mississippi, the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian Pyramids and thousands of other places ... on the Internet!

Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer, died at 54 (1993)

New England Anti-Slavery Society organized in Boston (1832)

Maria Montessori opened her first Montessori school in Rome, Italy (1907)

• Preservice Educators Center
  Learning theory and related resources from our Preservice Educators Center

New Mexico became the 47th U.S. state (1912)

• Information : The Fifty States of the United States
  The site lists all 50 states with most of their features (flag, song, bird, motto etc.) and their capitol cities.

Telegraph first demonstrated by Samuel Morse (1838)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
  Best sites on the web about inventors

Joan of Arc, French visionary peasant girl who led the French forces to initial victories over the English and was ultimately accused of heresy and burned at the stake (decreed a Saint by Catholic Church in 1920), born (1412)

• Heroic Activities to Celebrate Heroes!
  Everyone has a hero -- someone to look up to or admire. This week, Education Word offers ten lessons that will get students thinking about their heroes.
• Great Sites for Teaching about Heroes
  Best sites on the web about heroes