• States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
  The results of a Harvard University study on segregation too!

1st Artifical Heart built

• The Human Heart
  Teacher Walter McKenzie tracks down the best of the best Internet resources!
• Human Body: An Online Tour
  The human body is the most fascinating and fantastic machine in existence. No one understands all of its many mysteries; and no single source can do justice to its many parts. This week, Education World tours the Web to find the best "human body" sites. You won't believe what we discovered! Included: Sites for all ages. Activities too!

1st Bridge across the Mississippi River opened (1856)

Astronomy Day

• Astronomy
  Resources from our database.
• Space Sciences
  Resources and tools from our Science Center.

Bram Stoker Born

Christopher Columbus reported on his 1st voyage to the Spanish Court (1493)

• Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
  Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World? Check out these Internet sites and help your students explore the earliest explorers.
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!
• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.

Cook reached the North Pole (1908)

• Take a Brrr-eak for Some Cool Winter Reading!
  Warm up this winter with some cool new books about the North Pole, blizzards, and ice skating. They are among the b-b-best of the new winter b-b-books!

Easter Rising; Irish 1st rebelled against English rule

Electron Microscope invented

• Microbiology
  Resources from our database.

Maple Sugar Festival

• Making Maple Syrup "At Grandpa's Sugar Bush"
  Transport your class to a sugar bush where the sap is flowing. Although this book was written for young children, everyone can learn something new At Grandpa's Sugar Bush. Included: Classroom activities and Internet resources for learning more at all grade levels!

Rice Planting Day (Thailand)

• Political Science: Thailand
  Resources from our database.
• Area Studies: Thailand
  Resources from our database.