• Play Ball! Pro Teams Reach Out to Schools!
  From lesson plans to scholarships! Professional baseball's community outreach programs educate and enrich young students. From lesson plans to scholarships, local major- and inor-league baseball teams can offer students more than just a fun day at the ballpark!
• Take Them Out To The Ballgame!
  When baseball fever strikes, these activities from Education World can be the perfect antidote. Included: A stadium full of activities and links to team sites, baseball math sites, cross-curricular projects -- and even the famous Abbott and Costello "Who's On First?" script!

0325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea - Asia Minor

1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain

• 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.

1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

• Happy Anniversary, Hawaii! --- 40 Ways to Teach the 50th State
  Take a tour of this exotic state, examine its wildlife, creep to the volcano's edge, and discover the wealth of culture and diversity that isolation can bring. Aloha!

1861 NC becomes 10th state to secede from US

1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West

• 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.
• Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story
  A lesson plan to discover how Adeline Hornbek, single mother of four, defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a successful ranch under the Homestead Act.

1902 US ends occupation of Cuba

Lindbergh flew NY-Paris - 1st solo flight across Atlantic

• Planes and Trains and Automobiles … and Study Skills!
  "Transport" students to a dozen activities that provide practice in reading maps, schedules, timetables, and more. Included: Four study skills teaching master activities for students!
• Aviations and Aeronautics
  Resources from our database.
• Airplanes and Flying
  Resources from our database.

Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

• Planes and Trains and Automobiles … and Study Skills!
  "Transport" students to a dozen activities that provide practice in reading maps, schedules, timetables, and more. Included: Four study skills teaching master activities for students!
• Aviations and Aeronautics
  Resources from our database.
• Airplanes and Flying
  Resources from our database.
• Celebrate Women's History Month!
  Each March, Education World recognizes women's history month with new classroom teaching resources. This year, we're excited to bring you several valuable tools -- including a Women's History WebQuest, Women of the Century. This WebQuest will challenge your students to work cooperatively as they create a women's history encyclopedia to supplement outdated and sorely lacking textbooks!

1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll

Republic of Cameroon declared

• Area Studies: Cameroon
  Resources from our database.

Viking 1 - Mars landing

• The Two Sojourners
  Mars mission launches opportunity to discover Sojourner Truth.