http://www.sharinglinks.com/tags/parks Recent Parks bookmarks posted to SharingLinks.com. SharingLinks.com is an online bookmark manager and a community of parents and teachers. 60 http://www.surfnetkids.com/national_parks.htm The world's first national park, Yellowstone National Park, was established on March 1, 1872 by President Ulysses Grant. Forty-four years later, on August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was established by Congress. Today there are fifty-eight Nationa surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 kids national parks surfnetkids teachers http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/main.htm To access any of GORP's encyclopedic resources, you'll need to register and be at least thirteen-years old. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 national parks http://www.llbean.com/parksearch/us_search.html Whether you're looking to canoe in California or picnic in Pennsylvania, L. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 national parks http://www.nps.gov/ The official National Park Service is my pick of the week because of the variety of its resources. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 national parks http://www.npca.org/ The National Parks Conservation Association's mission is to protect our national parks by educating politicians and the public about the parks' importance. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 national parks http://www.us-parks.com/pre_planned_routes.html Need a little help mapping out your National Park adventure? Get inspired of one of these six preplanned road trips. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 national parks http://www.surfnetkids.com/rosaparks.htm On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. One year later, on December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated bus seating illegal. During that year, the forty-two yea surfnetkids Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil rights kids parks rosa rosa parks surfnetkids teachers http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/gpguests/RosaParks.htm This single page Rosa Parks feature is published by Girl Power, a public education campaign of the U. surfnetkids Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil rights parks rosa rosa parks http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights.html Although this collection of lesson plans from the Alabama Department of Archives and History is targeted at teachers, the information and primary sources it contains are valuable for anyone wanting to understand the history of the civil rights movement. surfnetkids Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 parks rosa http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time Magazine names Rosa Parks as one of the "Heroes and Icons" of the twentieth century. surfnetkids Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil rights parks rosa rosa parks http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0pro-1 Get face-to-face with Rosa Parks in my pick-of-the-day site from the Academy of Achievement. The biography and photo gallery are both excellent. surfnetkids Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil civil rights parks rights rosa rosa parks http://www.rosaparks.org/bio.html "Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley." In 1987, Parks established The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute to carry on her work encouraging youth to surfnetkids Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil civil rights parks rights rosa rosa parks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/02_bus.html The PBS special Eyes on the Prize The Story of the Movement covers the civil rights movement by focusing on twenty six events. surfnetkids Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 civil parks rights rosa http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/ The Rosa Parks section includes a Parks interview and in-depth coverage of the bus boycott and the subsequent 1956 Supreme Court ruling. surfnetkids Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 black history civil civil rights parks rights rosa rosa parks