Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
Sites designed for K-12 teachers

1. Ancient Greece and You is a site designed by Joe Greenwald, as part of course offered for English, Social Studies or Greek Language credit. It contains course materials (including students' work) and links to other resources.
2. Antiquity for Kids is a site developed by Nancy Sultan, Illinois Wesleyan, with links to a useful resources for school teachers.
3. The Horace Page The Latin Department of Bryn Mawr College has created a WWW site designed to help students and teachers who are reading the new Advanced Placement syllabus in Horace.
4. Diane Arnson Svarlien, Children's Books on the Ancient World: A Selective Bibliography includes titles on Mythology and Literature, Aesop, History and Biography, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Civilization, Near Eastern and Biblical stories, Archaeology, Latin, Modern Greece, and Software.
5. History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers. The purpose of this site is to encourage social studies teachers to use the WWW as an instructional tool. The section on European History sources offers an excellent collection of links to Classical and Medieval resources. The sections on Archaeology, Humanities/Art and Electronic Texts are also useful.

6. Jenny's First and Second Year Latin: Information about this popular Latin textbook (its history, lesson guides and audio materials, the Teacher's Resource Book and other information) is offered via the Brooks School Classics Department Home Page maintained by Thomas K. Burgess.
7. Kentucky Classics Latin teaching page, is maintained by Ross Scaife at the University of Kentucky. The page offers links to important sources of information pertaining to the certification, placement, and practices of Latin teachers.
8. LatinTeach is a web site maintained by Sharon Kazmierski and specifically geared towards Latin teachers. It includes archives of the Latinteach discussion list as well as teaching guides, lesson plan ideas and projects, links to websites owned by Latinteach participants and extensive links to Classics sites, reviews of textbooks, and other material of interest to Latin teachers.
9. Latin Grammar Hotline is a site that offers tutorial service to students with their Latin studies.
10. Latin and Homeric Greek Language Vocabulary Software (grades 4-12) is a series of shareware vocabulary games for K-12.
11. The Latin Page is a site designed specifically for 7-12 Latin instructors. It contains links to software and many interesting and quite useful resources (including audio files, maps, etc.) for the teaching of Latin--regardless of school level!
12. The Medusa Mythology Exam is sponsored by the Maryland Junior Classical League and is open to students of Latin and Greek (grades 9-12) in the United States or Canada. The Home Page of the Medusa Project contains information about the examination and downloadable registration packets.
13. Pedagonet is a search engine (or a "learning resources center") that allows you to search and retrieve information about books, chat rooms, discussion groups, teaching jobs around the world, distance learning courses (offered by Canadian Universities), clipart, webpage creation, postcards and other resources. This site contains a number of valuable links of interest to educators of all grades.
14. The Roman Forum: Exploring an Ancient Market Place. This remarkable and highly reviewed site was put together by three students in Hengelo, Netherlands, as part of the Thinkquest competition which pulls together secondary school students (between 12 and 18 years) from many countries to create educational web sites.
15. The Rome Project is a collection of resources for the study of Rome compiled by Dr. Neil Goldberg, Archaeologist in Residence at the Dalton School. The site is divided into sections (Literature, Military, Archaeology, Political, Philosophy, Drama, Religion) that contain links to a large number of resources.
    

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