The Cay

Boats Caribbean Culture
Coral & Coral Reef, Cay, Islands Curacao
Adolf Hitler Hurricanes
Marine Animals Plants
Malaria Oil Refineries
Prejudice & Racism Voodoo
World War II Theodore Taylor, Author
Teaching units, guides, and lesson plans

 

BOATS:
German U-boats, Oil tankers, Schooner, Destroyer

Antisubmarine Warfare

uboat.net - U-boat Types

NOVA Online | Hitler's Lost Sub | 400 Years of Subs

uboat.net - The War in Maps featuring the Caribbean Sea.

SUBMARINE IN THE HARBOR Excerpt from Colonel Ira V. Matthews' Eighty-one War Stories of Life in the 40th Bombardment Group during World War II.  Originally published as Sketches and Stories. Features story on U-boat war outside Aruba and Curacao.

GMA How Big is an Oil Tanker

Schooner Man Schooner & Tall Ship http://schoonerman.com/home.htm

Kinds of cargo ships

 

CURACAO & NETHERLAND ANTILLES:

CIA - The World Factbook  -- Netherlands Antilles

Welcome to the official site of the Curacao Tourism Development Bureau

Frommers.com Destinations Curacao Introduction

Caribbean Islands Curacao

Curacao Timeline

Curacao

Curacao Maritime History -500 years of history, facts and legends-

GEOGRAPHY:

MUSIC & CULTURE:

CORAL REEFS & ISLANDS:

CORALS AND CORAL REEFS SeaWorld

Coral Reef Animals Animal printouts from Enchanted Learning.com. Includes angelshark, bivalves, octopus, clam, clown fish, conch, crab, crustaceans, fish, gastropods, hermit crab, jellyfish, krill, lobster, man-of-war, mollusks, moray eel, oyster, plankton, pufferfish, sea anemone, sea horse, sharks, squid, shrimp, starfish, stingray, whelk.

The Coral Reef Alliance Welcome to CORAL

NOAA's Coral Reef

View Photo Gallery Coral Reef Photos Caribbean ICRIN

Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems (CCRE)

Plate tectonics and volcanism in the Caribbean and Bahamas

 Field Notes

NOVA Online Garden of Eden Build an Island

Atolls and Reefs

cay --  Encyclopædia Britannica

HURRICANES:

Hurricanes online meteorology guide

Sky Diary KIDSTORM facts about hurricanes

Hurricanes

Miami Museum of Science-Hurricane Main Menu

Severe weather page:  Hurricanes

Caribbean Hurricane Network - stormCARIB.com 

Atlantic Tropical Weather Center

NOAA - Hurricanes Nature's Greatest Storms

FEMA FOR KIDS HURRICANES

Hurricane_Survival_Kit  PDF document requires Adobe Reader

Survival in a hurricane   NOAA

Keys to Hurricane Survival

MARINE ANIMALS

National Aquarium in Baltimore - Animals

SHARKS, SKATES, & RAYS:

Animal Bytes: sharks

Shark Information sheets - Enchanted Learning Software

SCALLOPS

Scallop Printout- Enchanted Learning Software
Mollusks

BARRACUDA

Barracuda - Planet Ocean - DiscoverySchool.com

Fish Gallery - Page 3 Caribbean

Curacao Diving:  Fish

CORAL REEF ANIMALS

Coral Reef Animals includes angelshark, bivalves, octopus, clam, clown fish, conch, crab, crustaceans, fish, gastropods, hermit crab, jellyfish, krill, lobster, man-of-war, mollusks, moray eel, oyster, plankton, pufferfish, sea anemone, sea horse, sharks, squid, shrimp, starfish, stingray, whelk.

FLYING FISH

Barbados Wildlife Flying Fish

LOBSTERS/LANGOSTA

About Lobsters....

How spiny lobsters make scary noises Science News Online May 19 2001

Caribbean spiney lobsters

MORAY EEL

Ask Shamu Moray Eel

National Aquarium in Baltimore - Green Moray Eel

Moray Eel Printout- Enchanted Learning Software

OCTOPUS

About Octopi ....

NATURE. The Octopus Show PBS

Ask Shamu Octopus

PARROT FISH

Monterey Bay Aquarium Splash Zone Exhibit - Coral Reef - Parrotfish

Midnight parrotfish

ANIMAL BYTES - Queen Parrotfish

SCORPIONS & LIZARDS

Family Ischnuridae go to the Creeping Scorpion section

Scientific Data: Island

 

PLANTS

C U R A C A O . COM - INFO - nature

Edible Plants from Tropical Beaches

Coccoloba uvifera {Polygonaceae} #198500604 L1211 Q1)Seagrape

COCCOLOBA UVIFERA - SEA GRAPE.

ADOLF HITLER

TIME 100 Leaders & Revolutionaries - Adolf Hitler

Hitler -- Grolier Online Biography

Biography.com - Hitler, Adolf

PREJUDICE & RACISM

Jim Crow America

Racism in the 1940s

African American Odyssey The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II (Part 1):  Segregation Abroad and at Home

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from WWII -- Racial Restrictions -- National Archives

MALARIA

Malaria Facts CDC Malaria

Destinations Malaria Caribbean CDC Travelers' Health

OIL REFINERIES

"Oil Villages" of Curacao

What is a Refinery?

Oil and Gas Origins

CaribSeek Curacao Museums Maritime Museum Photo of Miniature Oil Refinery exhibit

WORLD WAR II

GI -- World War II Commemoration

WW2 Timeline start

World War II: American Theater 1941-1946

Battle of the Atlantic [atlantic]

uboat.net - The War in Maps

World War II Posters Powers of Persuasion

World War II Timeline ... 1941 - The History Beat

ROYAL AIR FORCE

The Royal Air Force - Home Page

Torpedo Bombers  Howstuffworks How WWII Fighter Planes Worked

VOODOO

Voodoo

VODUN (and related religions Candomble Lucumi Macumba Voodoo Vodoun & Yoruba)

THEODORE TAYLOR:

TAYLOR THEODORE - Educational Paperback Association

For the Middle Grades Only Author Theodore Taylor

THE CAY - a book by Theodore Taylor Interactive Unit

THE CAY TEACHING GUIDES AND LESSON PLANS

Teachers@Random Catalog The Cay by Theodore Taylor 
Teacher's Guide Also available as PDF file

Penguin Readers Factsheets:  The Cay Teacher's notes

PDF file

The Cay novel study unit from Middle Township Middle School, Cape May Court House, NJ

Literature The Cay by Theodore Taylor eThemes eMINTS University of Missouri

The Cay Teacher Guide SCORE CyberGuide, San Diego County Office of Education

The Cay: Novel Study Unit for the Cay from Mrs. Moran, Bayview Education Centre, Port Hood, Nova Scotia, Canada