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Middle School Subject Links

 

Art

General
Artlex - Dictionary of Visual Art
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
National Gallery of Victoria
Arts Edge
Web Museum
Victorian Artists Society
Artcyclopedia
Incredible Art Department

Year 7 

Art styles
Asian Arts
Pigments through the Ages		 Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Studies WWW virtual library
Aboriginal Art Online		 Sculpture
*Environmental Sculpture Research Guide*
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Robert Smithson

Year 8

Romanticism in Europe
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Realism
Artlex Art Dictionary

Impressionism
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
Art Access
Impressionists Biographies - Type in an impressionist artist's name in the search field.

Colonial Painting
Picture Australia - Colonial Trail
State Library of NSW

Heidelberg School
Ian Potter Centre - NGV
In the Artist's Footsteps
The Heidelberg School Artists Trail
Picture Australia - Heidelberg Trail

Year 9

Renaissance
Renaissance Art in Italy
Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
    

Year 10

Australian Architecture
What house is that? A guide to Victoria's housing Styles 		Surrealism
Salvador Dali		 Pop Art
Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum
Pop Artists Biographies		  

 



 

Australian and International Studies

Year 10

Australian, state, territory & local government
Australian citizenship
Australian Electoral Commission
United Nations
The Commonwealth
NATO
Australian Treaties Library
Constitutions, treaties and declarations
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Mabo: ten years on
High Court decision on Mabo
Australian Electoral Commission – Indigenous People and the vote
Peoples' Republic of China

 

 
 

Business Studies

Year 10

Economics
 Australian Stock Exchange
Australian Business Online 		Politics
Parliament House Australia
Australian Government's Entry Point		 Legal Studies
 Australasian Legal Information Institute

 

 

 
 

Languages Other than English (LOTE)

Chinese
Chinese New Year
China the Beautiful 
Quia! Chinese game
Huangshanguide
Information about the Yellow Mountain, which is included in the 2002 PEGS China trip
Chinese Linx - Website of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Victoria
Zhongwen - Chinese Characters and Culture
Online Chinese Tools
 Indonesian
Indonesian Directory
Indonesian Timeline
Indonesian Consulate, Melbourne
BBC World News in Indonesian
Indonesian Recipes
 French
Futuroscope 		German
Germanlinx
Grease
Resources and links for German
The German way
Interdeutsch

 

 
 

English

General
Encyclopedia Mythica
Myths and legends
AskOxford

Year 7 

The Silver Donkey
Penguin Author Profile
Contemporary Writers
 A Christmas Carol
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
The Dickens page
The Victorian Web

Year 8

Romeo and Juliet 
Shakespeare's Works
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Official Website of the SIr Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate
BBC - 100 Years of the Hound of the Baskervilles

 Year 9

To Kill a Mockingbird
 Scottsboro Trials 		Julius Caesar
The Julius Caesar Site
 Shakespeare and the Internet
 Shakespeare's Works

 Year 10

Macbeth
Shakespeare's works
Shakespeare and the Internet
 

Geography

General
CIA World Factbook
Lonely Planet
National Geographic
National Geographic Map Machine
Maps of all Countries - Includes quick maps and world maps showing contours and time zones
Population Reference Bureau
The National Pollutant Inventory

Year 7 

Antarctica
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Classroom Antartica
Virtual Antarctica
Animal Diversity Web - presented by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Antarctica - Lonely Planet
South Pole Observatory
Mawson Weather Station
Australia (political boundaries and physical features)
Webdilemma - Antarctica

Exploration
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Quest for the Pole
Different approaches to exploration
BBC History - The race to the South Pole
Roald Amundsen
About Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
About Shackleton
A Voyage of Endurance
Shackleton's Expedition
Robert Scott
About Scott
 

Rainforests
*Endangered Rainforest Animals Research Guide*
 Department of Sustainability and Environment
Amazon Animals

Quest site
Rainforest Conservation Fund
Rainforests of the world

Year 8

National Parks Australia
Parks Victoria 
Australian Alps National Parks
 NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife
Queensland's Parks & Forests
South Australia's Parks & Reserves
Western Australia's National Parks
Northern Territory Parks
Kakadu National Park
Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park

World
U.S. National Parks
GORP : U.S. National Parks
Parks Canada
South African National Parks

Endangered Species
*Endangered Species Research Guide*

*Endangered Rainforest Animals Research Guide*

Threatened Species and Ecological Communities in Australia - Part of the Environment Australia Online web site put together by the Department of Heritage and the Environment 
Bagheera In the Wild - Animal Profiles and Activities
Wildlife Fund Global Network
World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species
Threatened Species - IUCN Red List of threatened species
African Wildlife Fund

Australian Agriculture 
Salinity
Murray-Darling Tour - This site is put together by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission and contains useful information, maps and statistics about this region.

Year 9

Natural Disasters
EMA Emergency Management Australia - See the Disaster Education in Schools area for lots of good information. 
Hurricane Katrina
Natural Disasters
Paleomap Project - Illustrations of the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
Volcano World 		Developing Nations
*Developing Nations in Africa Research Guide*

United Nations Cyberschoolbus - This is a place where you can get a visual overview of what is happening around the world. Important regional and global information is presented in the form of charts and graphs.
Unicef statistics - Find statistical data on individual countries by clicking on a map of the world and choosing from a list of countries in that region. Provides statistics on population, mortality rates, immunization and education.

Year 10

Coastal Geography
 Coastal Sand Dunes
 Melbourne Water
Marine Discovery Centre
Marine Education Society of Australasia
Oceanographic Services
National Oceanographic and
Victorian Coastal Council
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution		 Environmental Studies
Greenpeace
Environment Australia Portal

Water Pollution
Western Australian Department of Water
Melbourne Water

The Ozone Layer
 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

 

 

History

General
Odin's Castle
The Emancipation of Women 1750-1920
Perseus Project - The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond
Best of History Web Sites

Year 7 

Family History
*Family History Research Guide*


Ancient Egypt
*Ancient Egypt Research Guide*
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Guardians Egypt       
The Pyramids
 Ancient Egypt - British Museum web site on Ancient Egypt
Odin's Castle		 Ancient Greece
 Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece - The Bristish Museum
The Ancient Greek World
The Development of Civilization - World History - Greece
Odin's Castle
 Ancient Rome
*Ancient Rome Research Guide*
Roman Empire Webquest
History on the Net - The Romans

Year 8

Vikings
 Odin's Castle
Vikings 		Middle Ages
The Medieval World
The Labyrinth
Middle Ages
The Church
Monks & Nuns
Medieval Religion
Kings, priests, friars, monks, nuns
Medieval Inquisition - Infoplease
Medieval Times - Monks & Nuns
Medieval Times - Inquisition
Medieval Times - Priests
Judaism - Factmonster

Renaissance
*Renaissance Personality Research Guide*
Leonardo Da Vinci

Reformation
The Reformation

Year 9

Aborigines
Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library		 Australia
 Federation Gateway
Convict Tales

Gold
 Gold!
Sovereign Hill
Museum Victoria

Australia at War
*Homefront Research Guide*
Imagining Australia 1914-1918
World War I - Thoughts of home
Anzac Day

Kokoda Trail
Kokoda Track

Year 10

Hot and Cold Wars

World War I
British History 1700-1950
Trenches on the Web
WWI Document Archive
 Australian War Memorial
Australian Lighthorse Association
The Western Front

World War II
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Remembering the Holocaust
Nagasaki
Hiroshima

Cold War
The Cold War - BBC

Rebellions and Revolutions

English Civil War
BBC - Civil War & Revolution
 Civil War - The Open University
The Cromwell Association
History on the Net
 Learning Curve
War - Channel 4
War - Channel 4 - Find out more

American Revolution
Liberty - The American Revolution

Revolution in China
*China Research Guide*
Visions of China: The Red Giant CNN.com
History of China Key Events
Map showing Western Imperialism in China Foreign Powers
The Long March: China 1934-1935
 Path of the Long March
World History Topics: Modern China
The Last Emperor
The Great Leap
Time 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries - Mao Zedong
 Chinese Propaganda Posters

 


 

Information Technology

General
Cooltext.com
  

Year 10

Triumph of the Nerds
Webopedia Online - Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet terms and definitions

 
 

Mathematics

Year 8

Logic puzzles
Statistics Infonation : Choose Countries

Year 9

Pythagoras
An Interactive Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem    
Pythagoras (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

 

 
 

Music

General
 The Fascinating World of Film Music
Andante
Melbourne Symphony
Bob Marley    


 

Physical Education

General
Australian Sports Web - Includes links to the AIS, Australian Sports Commission and Active Australia web sites.
Better Health Channel

 


 

Religion

Year 9

Buddhism Research Guide
Hinduism Research Guide
Islam Research Guide

 

 

 
 

Science

General
Science for Schools  - Collection of links to useful science sites
4000 Years of Women in Science
Bureau of Meteorology
NOVA : Science in the News
The Why Files - Science Behind the News

Year 7 

Water
Water Science for Schools
Melbourne Water

Cells and Microscopes
Cells Alive!
 Molecular expressions - Basic concepts in optical microscopy

Animals
*Invertebrate Animals Research Guide*
The Electronic Zoo Hundreds of links to animal websites

 Reproduction
Human body
The Earthlife web - worlds of invertebrates
The open door web site – animal reproduction
Interactive Body

Year 8

Atomic Theory and Matter
*Elements Research Guide*

Energy and its uses
*Energy Efficient Housing Research Guide*
 Sustainability Victoria
Energy South Australia
CERES Community Environment Park
Origin Energy
Solar House Day
Bureau of Meteorology Low-energy houses
Radio National Sustainable Houses

Webdilemma - Nuclear Energy

Food and Digestion
Human body  

Acids and Bases

Our Planet, Our Solar System and Our Universe
Astronomy Weblinks

Webdilemma- Pluto

Year 9

Body Systems
The heart : an online exploration
Red Gold
Human body
  		 Sexual Reproduction
* Invertebrates
The Earthlife web - worlds of invertebrates
* Birds
Birds - Reproduction
*Fish
A quick course in Ichthyology
SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
* Mammals
The Earthlife web - The placental mammal and reproduction
The open door web site

Year 10

Core Science

Evolution, Genetics and Biotechnology
*Genetics Research Guide*
Access Excellence
Genetic Engineering

The Brain & Maintaining Control
The Amazing Brain
Neuroscience for Kids: Washington
Human body
Brain anatomy
The brain
Parts of the brain
Functions of the brain
Probe the brain
The secret life of the brain
Brain dissection

Memory and learning
Memory
Memory games
How is your memory for faces?
Smell and Olfactory pathways for memory
Experiments to test your sense of smell

The brain and drugs
Close to Home Science: Animations on how drugs work
Neuroscience for Kids: Washington
CNN for Students
This is your brain on drugs

Research Institutions and other Organisations
The Howard Florey Institute
The Centre for Neuroscience (University of Melbourne)
The Multiple Sclerosis Society, Australia
The Myelin Project
The Society for Neuroscience

Elective Science

Astrophysics Weblinks

Sustainability
Alternative Technology Association
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources
Australian Greenhouse Office
CERES Sustainability Centre
Jane Goodall Institute
Landcare Australia Online
National Geographic
Origin Energy
Planet Ark
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Sustainable House Day
Sustainable Living Challenge
World Wildlife Fund
WWF Australia


 

 
 

Visual Communication and Design

General
About Art
Graphic Design Basics
John Lovett Design Principles
2D Design Notes
Tessellation Tutorials
Colour Matters
Eyes on Art

 

 
 

October 7, 2009