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Website Spotlight: Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
For all you History 12 and IB History students out there: here’s a very informative website about the Holocaust
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The Memory Project is Canada’s largest online oral history archive. It’s completely searchable and very easy to navigate—another great resource for Socials or History projects.
Click here to be redirected.
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Prehistoric Crocodile Discovered
A Univ. of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed “Shieldcroc” due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today’s crocodiles. Its discovery provides scientists with additional information about the evolution of crocodiles and how scientists can gain insight into ways to protect the species’ environment and help prevent extinction. The discovery was published this week in the journal PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science).
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Prehistoric-Crocodile-Discovered-020212.aspx
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The BC Archives is searchable, too! You can look up images, moving pictures, records of immigration, and more! This is a great resource for Social Studies and History projects; click here to be redirected to the BC Archives website.
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Continuing on our theme of February as Black History Month, click here for a great link to the National Museum of African Art where you can search many collections (for free!) and view African sculptures, mosaics, textiles, and more.
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Did you know that the Royal BC Museum in Victoria contains over 7 million objects? Now you can view a bunch of them online by using newly developed search engines!
Click here to be directed to RBCM’s search collection website.
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Have you ever wondered what some of the most famous Americans have looked like? F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, or Harriet Tubman? Now you can search the National Portrait Gallery’s collection online! Click here to visit their website.
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February is Black History Month
Click the link above to go to a great interactive Website where you can learn about the history of Canada’s Black communities.
Some sections include: Enslavement, Forgotten Stories, Caribbean and African Immigration, Identity and Assimiliation, and much more! Check it out!
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n472_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Hemiptera
Les insectes
Paris,J. Rothschild,1878.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79300For the next week, the weather forecasters predict sun and blue skies! Although it might still be a little too cold for insects to be out, why not take a break from studying for those midterms and go bug hunting while enjoying the great outdoors?
(via scientificillustration)
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Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Happy Belated Eid / Etc! Homework Club is on break until school reopens—enjoy your holiday!