Learning from Databases:
Using Existing Online Databases
In designing a lesson around a database, you can either create the database yourself and put it online using software like FileMaker or MySQL or you can have your learners explore a database that someone else has already put up. This page contains a list of existing databases to support the second approach.
Can't find what you're looking for? Try searching Google with 'searchable database' as one descriptor and a word relevant to your content (e.g., 'calories') as another.
English / Language Arts
Visual & Performing Arts
- Lost Art Database
- American Art and Artists
- Internet Movie Database
- TV Episode Guide
- Song Lyrics
- Web Gallery of Art (European painting and sculpture, 1100-1850)
- Melodyhound Database of Tunes
- UK Hits (every hit song from 1953 to 2003)
Social Studies
- Civil War Documents from the Ohio Historical Museum
- The Political Graveyard
- Ancient Coins
- Skyscrapers
- U. S. Census Bureau American Fact Finder
- CIA World Fact Book
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States
- Mayors of the US
- Flags of the World
- Kids Count
- National Priorities
- Cities and Buildings
- US/UK Casualties in the Iraq War
- RAND / MIPT Terrorism Incidents
- Federal Election Committee Campaign Donations
- What's On When?
- Gods & Goddesses
- US Fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan
- World Database
of Happiness
Math / Science
- Hortiplex Plant Database
- Plants
- Endangered Species
- Weather
- Hazardous Chemical Database
- Project NOPP Drifters
- Mineralogy Database
- Animal Diversity Web
- ChemFinder
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Nutri-Facts
- FishBase
- UFO Sightings Database
- Dinosaur Data Files
- World Lakes
- NOAA
- Math/Science Songs
- FoodFacts
- International Disasters
Business / Economics
- U.S. Patents Database
- U.S. Trademarks Database
- Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey
Other
- California Education DataQuest (Comparing schools on tests, dropout rates, fitness, etc.)