World Civ II - Virtual Tours, Google Earth

Here are some useful potential sites:

1. For WCII - IBM Developed the Virtual Forbidden City. Visit their page to get an over view or go directly to my link which follows.
http://www.beyondspaceandtime.org -- This site allows you to enter the Forbidden City and tour it. It is a Virtual World that is interactive. This program runs on Windows, Macs and LInux. Sign in as a guest to try it out. It does take some time for the program to load it at school. Try it at home first. Sign up or enter as a guest. Create your avatar. You can create a scrapbook of your visit if you actually register for the program.

2. For WCII - Virtual Taj Mahal - You can use this in class to take a trip into the Taj Mahal and learn about its history

3. World History Tours on Google Earth (for WCII and ASI & II) - Here are some ideas to springboard from. The site tries to emulate Google Lit but I think it needs embellishing. You could probably copy and add or create your own site like this. The trips/tours that are there need more video & audio included to make it interesting. Perhaps students could be the ones that help build the tour. That's what was done with this Wiki site originally.

4. Here's a possible game for WWII - "Battle Across the Atlantic". It's from the BBC.