Links to Related Websites
- Official Belle of Louisville website
- Look to this site for history, video, and information about cruises and resources from the Belle's education director: www.belleoflouisville.org
- Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning
- This fun filled site created by KET for students grades-5-8, explores amazing Kentucky roadside attractions while teaching about the mathematics of scale. At each stop, a short video field trip and a fun interactive simulation help you understand proportional reasoning. One of these field trips looks at the Belle's calliope and how its music relates to proportional reasoning. www.scalecity.org
- Realebooks.com: Book 1 | Book 2
- This site allows teachers to download the free book authoring program, Realebooks. Use this software to create books about the Belle of Louisville using photos from this electronic field trip's virtual tour galleries. Here are direct links to books created by Larry Moore of KET and Kadie Engstrom, Education Director for the Belle, with help from members of the Louisville Literacy Commons:
Book 1: www.realebooks.com/index.php/realebooks/read/3229, by Kadie Engstrom and Mary McCarty
Book 2: www.realebooks.com/index.php/realebooks/read/3397, by KET's Larry Moore and teacher Elizabeth Best
- Steamboats.org
- A treasure trove of information on steamboats in the United States including the Belle: www.steamboats.org
- Steamboats.com
- A virtual online steamboat museum with photos, art, steamboat mysteries, model boats, and research information: www.steamboats.com
- The National Parks Service - Maritime Heritage Program
- Good source of factual information about the Belle including technical details about her construction: www.nps.gov/history/maritime/nhl/belle.htm
- Twaintimes site
- A timeline of the life of Samuel Lanhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) with pages of steamboat information including virtual models: www.twaintimes.net
- About.Com - Inventors
- Articles on the invention of the steamboat with biographies of the inventors who led to its creation: inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Steamboats.htm
- Inland Navigation: Connecting the New Republic 1790-1840
- articles on Robert Fulton and Henry Miller Shreve: xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/front.html
- Hudson River Maritime Museum
- Information about Robert Fulton and his steamboats on the Hudson River: www.hrmm.org/steamboats/fulton.html
- PBS - They Made America / Who Made America? Innovators
- Information about John Fitch and Robert Fulton: www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/filmmore/s1.html
For information on purchasing this and other KET Electronic Field Trips on DVD, call (800) 945-9167 or e-mail .