BIBLE
GEOGRAPHY
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The World Fact Book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CIA World Factbook has maps and information about every country in the world.
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Country Reports http://www.countryreports.org
Features over 260 countries. Historical, cultural and statistical information. Basic information is free and with a subscription of $1.50 expanded country profilesare available.
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State and Country Quick Facts http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
From the US Census Bureau quick easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
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Flags of the World http://www.atlasgeo.net/fotw/flags/index.html
This site has 60,000 flags to view and 32,000 pages about flags. There are many useful links such as coloring pages, report help, when to fly the flag and more.
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NASA: World Wind 1.4 http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
Satellite imagery from NASA that lets you zoom in to any place on Earth in 3-D
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Google Earth http://earth.google.com
Satellite imagery and maps combined with the Google search engine.
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National Geographic Xpeditions http://nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas,
tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
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TerraServer http://terraserver.microsoft.com
Repository of aerial photographs and satellite images taken from miles overhead that you can view online or purchase. Features digitized aerial photos of the United ...
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How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance
Courtesy of Indo.com, this service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
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www.geographic.org http://www.photius.com/rankings/population.html
Population stats
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Education Planet http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Geography
Geography categories at this site: biomes,climate, compass skills, contients, culyures, flags, general resources, map skills, maps, National Parks, navigation,oceans, population, regional resources, rivers, time, U.S. states,urban studies, virtual field trips, webcams,world culture.
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Color Landform Atlas http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
Shaded relief maps, satellite images, various types of maps for every state. Want to know what the U>S> looked like in 1895? Look here.
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Country at a Glance http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp
Selecting a country from a drop down menu gives you a web page with brief information about a country as well as a mapof the country and a world map depicting the location of the country.
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Country Studies from the Library of Congress http://www.b2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
This Web site contains brief, more up-to-date Country Profiles on select countries.
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Portals to the World from Library of Congress http;//www.loc.gov.rr.international/portals.html
Library of Congress links to electronic resources from around the world.
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Geospy http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy
Interactive website. You have 180 seconds to find all the states. You can also do continents and countries.
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Geohive http://www.geohive.com/default1.aspx
Geohive is useful for researching
geographic and country data, demographic info and global trends.
GOVERNMENT
HISTORY
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American Memory from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index/html
Browse by topic, time period or place.
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The History Channel http://www.history.com
This site corresponds to the television network and includes the feature This Day in History.
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The History Place http://www.historyplace.com
The History PLace isa private, independant Internet-only publication started in 1996. the Web site offers a fact-based approach in the presetation of all areas of history.
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Popular Songs in American History http://www.contemplator.com/america
Tunes , lyrics, information, historical background, and tune related links. Hear the tunes and lyrics.
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Repositories of Primary Resources http://www.uiaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
"a listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources." Has a link to Calvin College.
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World War II Statistics
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Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
a good site to go for statistics on many different subjects.
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American Memory Collection: World War II Military Situation Maps http://memory.loc.gov.ammem/collections/maps/wwii
The World War II Military Situation Maps contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany. Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified "G-3 Report" giving detailed information on troop positions for the period 3 Mar. 1945-26 July 1945. These maps and reports were used by the commanders of the United States forces in their evaluation of the campaigns and for planning future strategies.
The collection consists of 416 printed maps and 115 reports, the originals of which reside in the Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division.
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Online National Archives Videos http://video.google.com/nara.html
view over 100 free videos offered in a partnership between Google and the National Archives.
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Archiving Early America http://www.earlyamerica/freedom
Here are the "Freedom Documents" from Early America-- the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As with all of the documents on view here at Archiving Early America, they are shown as they first appeared to the public at that time.
LANGUAGE ARTS
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Children's Literature Web Guide http://www.acs.acalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
This site has lists of award winning books, teaching ideas for books, and links to author pages.
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KidsReads http://www.kidsreads.com
This online book club for kids features book reviews, author profiles, polls, and lots of other resources.
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Glossary of Linguistic Terms http://www.sil.org/Linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms
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Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
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English Grammar http://members.cox.net/teachro
This site has help for digramming plus grammar and writing help.
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Focus on Words http:///www.wordfocus.com
A rich resource of vocabulary information that will
enhance your English-vocabulary skills!
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Online Writing Lab
Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
In this section of our site, we offer you handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. We also have PowerPoint presentations related to grammar, and we have an entire section of handouts and resources for English as a Second Language learners that might also prove useful.
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Current Events Writing Prompts
MIDDLE SCHOOL WRITING PROMPTS
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NoodleBib MLA Starter
NoodleBib MLA Starter is designed for students in grades 1-5, introducing our youngest scholars to the basics of citing a source. A rework of our Quick Cite tool used by hundreds of schools since 1999, MLA Starter gives the student clear, color-coded examples of how to cite the sources they are most likely to encounter (printed and online books, reference sources, magazines, newspapers, etc.).
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Literature CyberGuides http;//www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy68.html
CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.
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Famous Poets & Poems http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indexpoetdate.html
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Favorite American Poets
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Bookwink
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Young Adult Literature http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm
Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators.
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Literature Resources http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/cyalr_index.html
Cynthia Leitich Smith's
Children's & Young Adult
Literature Resources
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Link
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English Zone http://www.english-zone.com
Very comprehensive site!! MUST SEE
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Bookhive http://www.bookhive.org
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Kay Vandergrift's Special Interest Page http://www.scils/rutgers.edu/~kvander
Hosted by Professor Kay Vandergrift at Rutgers University, this site includes sections covering: Materials for children, Gender and Culture inPicture Books, Young Adult Literature, History of Children's Literature, Linking Literature with Learning.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
Students can learn more about the parts of speech under the section Word & Sentence Level.
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Write Express
This website offers a free online dictionary.
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Giggle Poetry
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Link
MAGAZINES
MATH
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A Maths Dictionary for Kids http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com
An animated interactive dictionary for students which explains over 500 common mathematical terms in simple language. Has defintions, activities, practice and calculators.
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Math Playground http://www.mathplayground.com
Grades K-6 a five star rating.Math Playground is an action-packed educational site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game, and have some fun
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AAA Math http://www.aaamath.com
K-12, a good site for ANY kind of math. Interactive use available.
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Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math
A question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A separate archive is available by grade level and topic as well as summaries of frequently asked questions. Click on FAQ to find links to math history and math reference.
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Approximate Conversions to Metric Measures Chart
Approximations for converting distance, area, mass, volume, and temperature.
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Online Calculators
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Measure 4 Measure
A site for calculating and converting anything. Scrool down on the page to find links to sciece and math tables, health, finance, and a section entitled " a measure of everything else"containing calculation tables for everyday use.
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Nova Roma: Roman Numeral Conversion
type ina number up to 4,000 and click to covert it to a Roman numeral, or type in the Roman numeral and convert into Arabic numbers.
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Universal Currency Converter
Type in an amount and convert from one international currency to another.
NEWS ONLINE
SCIENCE-ANIMALS
SCIENCE- BIOLOGY
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Five Senses
Ten Activities for Teaching the Five Senses
SCIENCE-CHEMISTRY
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Periodic Table of Elements http://www.c-f-c.com/charts/periodic.htm
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Web Elements http://webelements.com
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Who discovered the Elements? http://education.jlab.org/qa/discover_ele.html
A complete list of all the elements and who discovered them. contains links to additional information.
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chem4Kids http://www.chem4kids.com
Thanks for visiting! Right now, you're on CHEM4KIDS.COM. If you are looking for basic chemistry information, stay on this site. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone. We have information on matter, atoms, elements, the periodic table, reactions, and biochemistry. If you're still not sure what to click, try our site map that lists all of the topics on the site. If you surf and get lost in all of the information, use the search function on the side of the pages.
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Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/chemistry
Eric Weisstein's World of Science -- Chemistry contains 495 entries =
and
over 600 cross-references. The topics are organized for
hierarchical-browsing but can also be keyword-searched. Entries may =
contain
figures or animations, or hyperlinked bibliographies.=20
Chemical reactions;=20
Experimental chemistry;=20
Geology;=20
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Quantum chemistry."
SCIENCE-GENERAL
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How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com
This award winning site explains the nuts and bolts of everyday things. Created by Marshall Brain, it uses photos and illustrations to elaborate on easy-to-read explainations.
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Flying Turtle Exploring http://www.ftexploing.com
Grades 3-8. Follow the energy flows to discover how the same basic principles influence and control the way things work in creation, living organisms, ans hunam technology. Click on Sites for Teachers to find many links to sites useful for teachers.
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Environmental Literacy Council http://www.enviroliteracy.org
This site contains the following topics: Air and Climate, Land, Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Food, Environment and Society. Grades K-12, a five star rating of well presents research on all tings environmental.
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Invention Dimension
Invention Dimension is a site for anyone who wants to learn more about American inventors and their discoveries. The site highlights a different American inventor every week.
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Magic School Bus
find out what Ms. Frizzle and her class are up to now.
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Science Animations http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
This site has interactive tutorials, animations, and movies on science topics.
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Science News for Kids http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org
Science News for Kids is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14
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Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu
A site for advanced science articles, lectures and papers.
SCIENCE-EARTH SCIENCE
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Earthquakes from Ask.com
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Recent Earthquake Activity
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Hurricanes-Ask.com from National Hurricane Center
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Web Weather for Kids http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather
Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become
hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids!
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US Weather site http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop_php
See the movement of the weather patterns all across the US.
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Weather Classroom Encyclopedia http://www.weatherclassroom.com/encyclopedia
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Space Weather http://spaceweather.com
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Resources for Earth Science and Geography http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi
This website contains links which are organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class. Links are also available for environmental science, earth science/geography education, career opportunities, and more. The sites selected are based on image quality, ease with which lesson plans can be developed, organization, authenticity, scope, and format. Check Alphabetized Earth Science Animations (AESA) for a links to almost 400 earth science concepts.
MUSIC
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Music Dictionary Online http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm
A Welcome to Our Readers
The purpose of our Music Dictionary Online is, in the case of non-English words and phrases, to offer translations for and, in the case of English and non-English words and phrases and where appropriate, explanations and comments about general (non-musical) and specialist (i.e. musical, etc.) terms that might be found in musical scores, books, web sites, CD notes and concert programmes
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