Excuse our dust. We are remodelling beginning 2/14/95

Following the approval of their request to the Texas Education Agency for a textbook waiver for middle school Texas History, a group of HISD social studies teachers, working with district administrators and Rice University, developed ArmadilloThe Texas Studies Gopher.

About Armadillo outlined the history and vision of this creation. Armadillo foresaw the advent of images, video, and sound into the newly emerging virtual world of telecommunications; but Armadillo hadn't a clue that this revolution would come so quickly and become so pervasive. Armadillo began the migration to the World Wide Web in January of 1994. In early 1995, a redesign of Armadillo's World Wide Web Server began. And new partners were solicited from the ranks of technologically eager students and teachers from across the state and nation to work in developing a local publishing tool with implications for teachers everywhere. We will think globally; we will publish locally; and the natural and cultural history of Texas will be our overriding theme.

• About Armadillo and Armadillo's WWW Server

• **Texas Studies Instructional Information and Resources**

  The natural and cultural history of our state as it relates to our own continuing education. Visit Texas; learn the World.

• Super Projects!!!

  Projects by Students and Teachers. We are always looking for more of these. If you are interested mail armadillo@rice.edu with a description of your project or offering and we'll get back with you.

• Armadillo's K12 World Wide Web and Other Internet Resources

• Armadillo's Collaborators

  • The Rice School/La Escuela Rice
  • Project OWLink
  • Space Simulations Run by Chris Rowan, Morningside Elementary, Brownsville, Texas. The place to be for getting your kids into space and out of your hair.
  • The Science Academy, South Texas Independent School District. Mercedes, Texas.
  • The Brazoria County Historical MuseumBrazoria County was the center of Stephen Austin's work in colonizing Texas. In the next few months (February 1995), the Museum's Exhibit on Colonial Texas will come together here.