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Classroom 101 is Youth and Children Net/Streetcats Foundation's web site with exciting, educational projects to do for your class this term. You'll find great homework, study and class resources and ideas for special projects and assignments. Be sure to also see our Kid Surf and High School Central sites and tell your teachers about Class 101 and our teacher's site too!
This is the 150th Anniversary of THE CALIFORNIA GOLDRUSH. Explore how it came about, what effects it had on changing the West forever, and how the City of San Francisco grew. Learn about the lives of the Gold Rush pioneers and explorers.
The Steven Spielberg movie "AMISTAD" told the story, in a dramatic way, of the U.S. slave ships. Explore links to find out what we really know about the history of that ship and the people on it and other ships like it.
Find out in what ways slavery has affected people more than 150 years later and explore the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and those who fought for equality in the United States then and now.
In 1968, during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War and a time of great social change, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING and ROBERT KENNEDY were shot and killed. Why were their lives important? What did they stand for? Are there lessons to learn from the events of the late 1960's? What are they?
In 1962, JOHH H. GLENN became the first American and the second astronaut to orbit the earth in a space capsule. Now, Glenn, a U.S. Senator from Ohio, is getting set to be the oldest person to go into space, aboard a shuttle flight this October. Why? And what was PROJECT MERCURY and why was it so important to our future?
TEEN VIOLENCE, though dropping, has been very high. What causes teen violence? What can be done about it? What's the best way to keep safe? Our Teen Violence site will give you all kinds of information and answers. Also see our new CRIME, COPS AND CROOKS site coming March 14!
(Web links to the people and events in CAPITAL LETTERS will be active in a week so come back to this site. Meanwhile, here are some other great links for cool homework and class assignments.)
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