Are you a student in Tech Ed.'s Architectural Drawing and Model Home Construction class? Please visit the links below to learn more about the history of American residential architecture.
About.com: Architecture - Periods and Styles
About.com: House Styles - a Gallery
Architecture of the United States: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
House of Antiques Hardware: Architectural Timeline 1675-1960
Bartleby.com: American Architecture, from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Architecture for Kids: A History of American Houses
Friday, October 19, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Bridges: Selected Information Sources
Building Big: Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams and Tunnels
Visit this site to learn how these large structures are actually built. This rich resource features interactive labs, engineering "challenges", and "Wonders of the World" - a searchable database with information about well-known bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels throughout the world, as well as information about engineering as a career, for students who may be interested in learning about this fascinating work.
Bridge: From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
This detailed entry includes a comprehensive index to types of bridges, as well as links to information about the four main types of bridges - Beam Bridge, Cantilever Bridge, Arch Bridge, and Suspension Bridge.
eLibrary: Bridge Basics
Select the Topic Search feature, and enter "bridge basics" as your subject, to find many terrific encyclopedia entries, magazine articles and web sites that provide information about the history and construction of bridges, as well as detailed information about bridge types. (Note: You will need to enter your public library barcode in order to log in to this database.)
NOVA Online: Super Bridge
Visit this site to find information about arch, beam, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges.
Bridge Types
This site provides readers with information about arch, beam, swing, lifting, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges.
The Basic Bridge Types
This site offers clear descriptions and nice illustrations of girder, arch, truss, cable stayed, rigid frame and suspension bridges. Each description includes information about typical span length, and the longest example of that type of bridge in the world today.
West Point Bridge Design Contest
Visit this site to learn how these large structures are actually built. This rich resource features interactive labs, engineering "challenges", and "Wonders of the World" - a searchable database with information about well-known bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels throughout the world, as well as information about engineering as a career, for students who may be interested in learning about this fascinating work.
Bridge: From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
This detailed entry includes a comprehensive index to types of bridges, as well as links to information about the four main types of bridges - Beam Bridge, Cantilever Bridge, Arch Bridge, and Suspension Bridge.
eLibrary: Bridge Basics
Select the Topic Search feature, and enter "bridge basics" as your subject, to find many terrific encyclopedia entries, magazine articles and web sites that provide information about the history and construction of bridges, as well as detailed information about bridge types. (Note: You will need to enter your public library barcode in order to log in to this database.)
NOVA Online: Super Bridge
Visit this site to find information about arch, beam, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges.
Bridge Types
This site provides readers with information about arch, beam, swing, lifting, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges.
The Basic Bridge Types
This site offers clear descriptions and nice illustrations of girder, arch, truss, cable stayed, rigid frame and suspension bridges. Each description includes information about typical span length, and the longest example of that type of bridge in the world today.
West Point Bridge Design Contest
Friday, February 17, 2006
Skyscrapers
"Ah, to build, to build!
That is the noblest art of all the arts.
Painting and sculpture are but images,
Are merely shadows cast by outward things
On stone or canvas, having in themselves
No separate existence. Architecture,
Existing in itself, and not in seeming
A something it is not, surpasses them
As substance shadow." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Learn about the history and design of skyscrapers, and about the people who build them, by visiting the links below:
Student Resource Center
This terrific collection features full-text encyclopedias, magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents (including diary entries, letters, and recordings), photographs, maps and other graphics, timelines, and much more.
(Stop by the IMC to obtain the ID you'll need to use this collection.)
Here are examples of the many articles you'll find about skyscrapers:
"Skyscraper". UXL Science. Online Edition. UXL, 2003
"The Birth of the Skyscraper (1878-1899)". American Eras. 1997-1998.
BrainPOP Videos
BrainPOP offers a terrific collection of more than 300 original animated movies, as well as activity pages, timelines, comic strips and other features. Check out "Skyscrapers: the World's Tallest Buildings!" (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User Name and Password you'll need to use BrainPOP.)
SELECTED SITES
All About Skyscrapers
Building Big: Skyscrapers
The Great Buildings Collection, from GreatBuildings.com
How Skyscrapers Work
Skyscraper: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(also see Wikipedia's List of Skyscrapers)
SkyscraperPage
Skyscrapers (from dmoz: open directory project)
DallasSky: Dallas Skyscrapers
New York Skyscrapers: One Hundred Years of High-Rises
World's Tallest Buildings
(from Infoplease.com)
BIG BUILDINGS
30 St. Mary Axe
(Considered London's first environmentally sustainable skyscrapter, this landmark is located in London, England, and was designed by architect Norman Foster, and completed in 2004.)
Other links:
30 St. Mary Axe (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Swiss Re (Swiss Reinsurance Company) Headquarters, City of London, England 1997-2004 (Norman Foster's official project website)
Biography: Norman Foster( from designboom)
Auditorium Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Louis L. Sullivan, and built from 1886-1890)
Other links:
Auditorium Building (from Emporis.com)
Auditorium Building, Chicago (from Answers.com)
Bank of China Tower
(located in Hong Kong, China, designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, and completed in 1990)
other links:
Bank of China Tower (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I.M. Pei (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
This entry features a terrific list of I.M. Pei's projects.
Chrysler Building (located in New York, designed by architect William Van Alen and built from 1928-1930)
Other links:
Chrysler Building (from the SkyscraperPage)
Chrysler Building (terrific photos, part of a digital imaging project by Mary Ann Sullivan)
Commerzbank Tower
(located in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by Sir Norman Foster & Partners, and built from 1994-1997)
Emirates Office Tower (also known as Emirates Tower One)
(located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by the architectural firm Norr Group Consultants, and completed in 2000)
Empire State Building (located in New York, designed by architects Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and built in 1931)
Learn about its history, see the timeline, or take a virtual tour of this monument. (Test your trivia knowledge! In how many movies has the Empire State Building appeared?)
Equitable Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in New York City, designed by architect Ernest R. Graham, and completed in 1915)
Other links:
Equitable Building (from Emporis.com)
Flatiron Building (located in New York, designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in 1902
GE Building at Rockefeller Center (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(Originally called the RCA Building, until RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1988, this landmark is located in New York, was designed by architect Raymond Hood, and built in 1933.)
Other links:
GE Building, originally RCA Building (from nyc-architecture.com)
Raymond Hood (from GreatBuildings.com)
Hancock Place
(located in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by architect I. M. Pei, and completed in 1977)
Home Insurance Company Building
(This landmark, the first building to be supported entirely by a steel frame, is generally considered to be the first skyscraper. Located in Chicago, designed by architect William LeBaron Jenney, and completed in 1885, The Home Insurance Building was demolished in 1931 to make way for the Field Building, now known as the LaSalle National Bank)
Other links:
Home Insurance Building
William LeBaron Jenney (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Headquarters Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in Hong Kong, designed by architect Norman Foster, and completed in 1985)
Other links:
HSBC Headquarters Building, Hong Kong (from Martin Architectural)
Ingalls Building (from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE))
(located in Cincinnati, Ohio, designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm Elzner & Anderson, and completed in 1903)
Other links:
Ingalls Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Ingalls Building (from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning)
Ingalls Building (from Emporis.com)
Inland Steel Building (from Emporis.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1958)
Other links:
Inland Steel Co. (from the The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
John Hancock Center - Chicago
(located in Chicago, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1970)
Other links:
John Hancock Center: Defining Chicago's Skyline
John Hancock Center (from Emporis.com)
Petronas Towers
(located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by architect Cesar Pelli, and built from 1995-1998)
Other links:
Petronas Towers: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petronas Towers (from Emporis.com)
Price Tower Arts Center
(located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and completed in 1956)
Other links:
Price Tower (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Price Tower for the H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1952
Education: What's a cantilever?
Prudential Tower
(Part of the Prudential Center complex, this building is located in Boston, was designed by the architectural firm Charles Luckman and Associates, and completed in 1964.)
Reliance Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Daniel Burnham, and upper stories completed in 1894-1895 (the base was completed in 1890))
Other links:
Chicago Landmarks: Reliance Building
Reliance Building (from Emporis.com)
Daniel Burnham (from Answers.com)
Seagram Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in New York City, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and completed in 1958)
Other links:
The Midtown Book: The Seagram Building
Seagram Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
Design Within Reach: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sears Tower
(located in Chicago, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Sears, Roebuck & Company, and completed in 1973)
Other links:
Sears Tower
Taipei 101
(located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners, and completed in 2004)
Other links:
Taipei 101 (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Taipei 101 Tower in Taipei, Taiwan (from About.com)
Tokyo City Hall
(located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzo Tange, and completed in 1991)
Other links:
Tokyo City Hall (from GreatBuildings.com)
Kenzo Tange: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 1987
Transamerica Pyramid
(located in San Francisco, California, designed by the architect William L. Pereira, and built from 1969 - 1972)
Other links:
About the Pyramid: the Transamerica Building
United Nations Secretariat Building (from Emporis.com)
(located in New York, designed by Wallace Harrison, Le Corbusier, and others, and completed in 1952)
Other links:
United Nations Headquarters (photographs)
United Nations (home page)
United Nations headquarters (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Woolworth Building (located in New York, designed by architect Cass Gilbert ("Father of the Modern Skyscraper") and built from 1910-1913)
World Trade Center (from Emporis.com)
(Located in New York City, designed by the Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki, and completed in 1973, the World Trade Center was destroyed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.)
Learn about the history and construction of this former New York City landmark, as well as the devastation caused by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This site also offers a great deal of information about the plan for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.
Other links:
Minoru Yamasaki (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Minoru Yamasaki Quotes (from BrainyMedia.com)
That is the noblest art of all the arts.
Painting and sculpture are but images,
Are merely shadows cast by outward things
On stone or canvas, having in themselves
No separate existence. Architecture,
Existing in itself, and not in seeming
A something it is not, surpasses them
As substance shadow." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Learn about the history and design of skyscrapers, and about the people who build them, by visiting the links below:
Student Resource Center
This terrific collection features full-text encyclopedias, magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents (including diary entries, letters, and recordings), photographs, maps and other graphics, timelines, and much more.
(Stop by the IMC to obtain the ID you'll need to use this collection.)
Here are examples of the many articles you'll find about skyscrapers:
"Skyscraper". UXL Science. Online Edition. UXL, 2003
"The Birth of the Skyscraper (1878-1899)". American Eras. 1997-1998.
BrainPOP Videos
BrainPOP offers a terrific collection of more than 300 original animated movies, as well as activity pages, timelines, comic strips and other features. Check out "Skyscrapers: the World's Tallest Buildings!" (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User Name and Password you'll need to use BrainPOP.)
SELECTED SITES
All About Skyscrapers
Building Big: Skyscrapers
The Great Buildings Collection, from GreatBuildings.com
How Skyscrapers Work
Skyscraper: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(also see Wikipedia's List of Skyscrapers)
SkyscraperPage
Skyscrapers (from dmoz: open directory project)
DallasSky: Dallas Skyscrapers
New York Skyscrapers: One Hundred Years of High-Rises
World's Tallest Buildings
(from Infoplease.com)
BIG BUILDINGS
30 St. Mary Axe
(Considered London's first environmentally sustainable skyscrapter, this landmark is located in London, England, and was designed by architect Norman Foster, and completed in 2004.)
Other links:
30 St. Mary Axe (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Swiss Re (Swiss Reinsurance Company) Headquarters, City of London, England 1997-2004 (Norman Foster's official project website)
Biography: Norman Foster( from designboom)
Auditorium Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Louis L. Sullivan, and built from 1886-1890)
Other links:
Auditorium Building (from Emporis.com)
Auditorium Building, Chicago (from Answers.com)
Bank of China Tower
(located in Hong Kong, China, designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, and completed in 1990)
other links:
Bank of China Tower (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I.M. Pei (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
This entry features a terrific list of I.M. Pei's projects.
Chrysler Building (located in New York, designed by architect William Van Alen and built from 1928-1930)
Other links:
Chrysler Building (from the SkyscraperPage)
Chrysler Building (terrific photos, part of a digital imaging project by Mary Ann Sullivan)
Commerzbank Tower
(located in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by Sir Norman Foster & Partners, and built from 1994-1997)
Emirates Office Tower (also known as Emirates Tower One)
(located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by the architectural firm Norr Group Consultants, and completed in 2000)
Empire State Building (located in New York, designed by architects Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and built in 1931)
Learn about its history, see the timeline, or take a virtual tour of this monument. (Test your trivia knowledge! In how many movies has the Empire State Building appeared?)
Equitable Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in New York City, designed by architect Ernest R. Graham, and completed in 1915)
Other links:
Equitable Building (from Emporis.com)
Flatiron Building (located in New York, designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in 1902
GE Building at Rockefeller Center (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(Originally called the RCA Building, until RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1988, this landmark is located in New York, was designed by architect Raymond Hood, and built in 1933.)
Other links:
GE Building, originally RCA Building (from nyc-architecture.com)
Raymond Hood (from GreatBuildings.com)
Hancock Place
(located in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by architect I. M. Pei, and completed in 1977)
Home Insurance Company Building
(This landmark, the first building to be supported entirely by a steel frame, is generally considered to be the first skyscraper. Located in Chicago, designed by architect William LeBaron Jenney, and completed in 1885, The Home Insurance Building was demolished in 1931 to make way for the Field Building, now known as the LaSalle National Bank)
Other links:
Home Insurance Building
William LeBaron Jenney (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Headquarters Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in Hong Kong, designed by architect Norman Foster, and completed in 1985)
Other links:
HSBC Headquarters Building, Hong Kong (from Martin Architectural)
Ingalls Building (from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE))
(located in Cincinnati, Ohio, designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm Elzner & Anderson, and completed in 1903)
Other links:
Ingalls Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Ingalls Building (from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning)
Ingalls Building (from Emporis.com)
Inland Steel Building (from Emporis.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1958)
Other links:
Inland Steel Co. (from the The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
John Hancock Center - Chicago
(located in Chicago, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1970)
Other links:
John Hancock Center: Defining Chicago's Skyline
John Hancock Center (from Emporis.com)
Petronas Towers
(located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by architect Cesar Pelli, and built from 1995-1998)
Other links:
Petronas Towers: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petronas Towers (from Emporis.com)
Price Tower Arts Center
(located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and completed in 1956)
Other links:
Price Tower (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Price Tower for the H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1952
Education: What's a cantilever?
Prudential Tower
(Part of the Prudential Center complex, this building is located in Boston, was designed by the architectural firm Charles Luckman and Associates, and completed in 1964.)
Reliance Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
(located in Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Daniel Burnham, and upper stories completed in 1894-1895 (the base was completed in 1890))
Other links:
Chicago Landmarks: Reliance Building
Reliance Building (from Emporis.com)
Daniel Burnham (from Answers.com)
Seagram Building (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(located in New York City, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and completed in 1958)
Other links:
The Midtown Book: The Seagram Building
Seagram Building (from GreatBuildings.com)
Design Within Reach: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sears Tower
(located in Chicago, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Sears, Roebuck & Company, and completed in 1973)
Other links:
Sears Tower
Taipei 101
(located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners, and completed in 2004)
Other links:
Taipei 101 (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Taipei 101 Tower in Taipei, Taiwan (from About.com)
Tokyo City Hall
(located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzo Tange, and completed in 1991)
Other links:
Tokyo City Hall (from GreatBuildings.com)
Kenzo Tange: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 1987
Transamerica Pyramid
(located in San Francisco, California, designed by the architect William L. Pereira, and built from 1969 - 1972)
Other links:
About the Pyramid: the Transamerica Building
United Nations Secretariat Building (from Emporis.com)
(located in New York, designed by Wallace Harrison, Le Corbusier, and others, and completed in 1952)
Other links:
United Nations Headquarters (photographs)
United Nations (home page)
United Nations headquarters (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Woolworth Building (located in New York, designed by architect Cass Gilbert ("Father of the Modern Skyscraper") and built from 1910-1913)
World Trade Center (from Emporis.com)
(Located in New York City, designed by the Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki, and completed in 1973, the World Trade Center was destroyed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.)
Learn about the history and construction of this former New York City landmark, as well as the devastation caused by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This site also offers a great deal of information about the plan for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.
Other links:
Minoru Yamasaki (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Minoru Yamasaki Quotes (from BrainyMedia.com)
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Learning About Robots
SELECTED SITES
Amazing Robot Museum: a Tribute to the Robots in Entertainment
Visit this site for an interesting decade-by-decade overview of notable robots seen on the stage, in television, and in film, throughout the 20th century.
BattleBots IQ: the Smart Sport
Learn about Battlebots IQ's National Robotic Competition (including a table top category, open to middle and high school teams) at this site. Learn about the history of the Battlebots competitions by clicking here.
Lego Company Web Site
MIT Leg Laboratory
Learn about the legged robots, including "one-legged hoppers, bipedal runners, bipedal walkers, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots", created at MIT's Leg Lab.
Museum of Science
Visit this site often to learn about current and future exhibits, courses, workshops, and other programs. (Looking for something good to read? Check out "Book Club for the Curious", and find suggested books about science and technology!)
Robot: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This terrific resource offers information about the history (as well as a literary history), contemporary use, current development and future possibilities for the innovative use of robots in society. Be sure to click on "Fictional Robots and Androids", a chronological list of robots featured in literature, television, and film. (Might robots one day displace or compete with humans? Visit this site to find out!) Also, be sure to look at a list of robotics competitions.
Robot Information Central
This site features a mammoth list of links and FAQs.
robots.net: Robomenu
Visit this site, where robot builders share their creations via the web. (Click on the "Projects" link, and learn about interesting ongoing and completed projects.)
Used-Robots.com
Are you building a robot? Are you looking for parts? Find what you're looking for at this site.
MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
MiddleSearch Plus
This easy-to-search database features the full text of 140 magazines selected for middle school students, including the following science and engineering magazines: Discover, Odyssey, Popular Science, Science News, and Science World. (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User ID and Password you'll need to use this database.)
Newsbank
This database includes the full text of the Boston Globe (1980-present) and the Boston Herald (1991-present).
ANIMATED MOVIES
BrainPOP
This terrific collection of more than 300 original animated movies in all subject areas includes many in the fields of science and technology, as well as activity pages, timelines, comic strips and other features. Check out the "Robots" and "Assembly Line" movies, or click on "Technology: Inventions, Innovations, and Discoveries", and browse among the many movies available. (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User ID and Password you'll need to use this database.)
Amazing Robot Museum: a Tribute to the Robots in Entertainment
Visit this site for an interesting decade-by-decade overview of notable robots seen on the stage, in television, and in film, throughout the 20th century.
BattleBots IQ: the Smart Sport
Learn about Battlebots IQ's National Robotic Competition (including a table top category, open to middle and high school teams) at this site. Learn about the history of the Battlebots competitions by clicking here.
Lego Company Web Site
MIT Leg Laboratory
Learn about the legged robots, including "one-legged hoppers, bipedal runners, bipedal walkers, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots", created at MIT's Leg Lab.
Museum of Science
Visit this site often to learn about current and future exhibits, courses, workshops, and other programs. (Looking for something good to read? Check out "Book Club for the Curious", and find suggested books about science and technology!)
Robot: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This terrific resource offers information about the history (as well as a literary history), contemporary use, current development and future possibilities for the innovative use of robots in society. Be sure to click on "Fictional Robots and Androids", a chronological list of robots featured in literature, television, and film. (Might robots one day displace or compete with humans? Visit this site to find out!) Also, be sure to look at a list of robotics competitions.
Robot Information Central
This site features a mammoth list of links and FAQs.
robots.net: Robomenu
Visit this site, where robot builders share their creations via the web. (Click on the "Projects" link, and learn about interesting ongoing and completed projects.)
Used-Robots.com
Are you building a robot? Are you looking for parts? Find what you're looking for at this site.
MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
MiddleSearch Plus
This easy-to-search database features the full text of 140 magazines selected for middle school students, including the following science and engineering magazines: Discover, Odyssey, Popular Science, Science News, and Science World. (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User ID and Password you'll need to use this database.)
Newsbank
This database includes the full text of the Boston Globe (1980-present) and the Boston Herald (1991-present).
ANIMATED MOVIES
BrainPOP
This terrific collection of more than 300 original animated movies in all subject areas includes many in the fields of science and technology, as well as activity pages, timelines, comic strips and other features. Check out the "Robots" and "Assembly Line" movies, or click on "Technology: Inventions, Innovations, and Discoveries", and browse among the many movies available. (Stop by the IMC to obtain the User ID and Password you'll need to use this database.)
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