FORKS MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY PRESENTS EDUCATION LINKS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

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Recommended Search Engines ALTAVISTA | GOOGLE

Special Links to Help You Find All That You Need

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE INDEX	BJ PINCHBECK'S HOMEWORK HELP
INFORMATION PLEASE - ALMANACS AND ATLASES	METRIC CONVERTER
THINKFINITY	EDUHOUND ESPANOL	EDUHOUND
ABC Teach - Great General Resource- Outline maps, flags, etc.	Science Daily A great site for quality articles on science in our daily lives and in the news. Mrs. Rohrer's Earth Science Link
ENCYCLOPEDIAS http://www.encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopediabritanica.com/	GREAT BACKGROUNDS AND GRAPHICS
TIME - This a link to the TIME magazine archive database search. To read the article you need to input the library TIME account number as shown on the TIME search site.	QVSD Online Subscriptions
American Library Association's Great Web Sites for Kids- This is a directory of web sites on many subjects.	Noodletools Search Help
News Papers Online
Seattle PI | New York Times | USA Today | Tacoma News Tribune
K12 Station | K12 Blog Spot

LANGUAGE ARTS Citation Helpers | Dictionaries and Thesauruses | Graphic Organizers | Wordle

Read-Write-Think - Character Trading Card

MLA Style for citing work

MLA Citing Web Sources

Citation Machine

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage - A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English

Storytelling Activities

http://www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/lessonideas/index.html 

Links to Science Fiction Authors and Titles

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/authors.html
http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/SF-Index.html
http://www.lhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/html/lhslibrary/scifi/sf.htm
http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/

Dictionaries Online
Maran Graphics Computer Dictionary of Terms http://207.136.90.76/dictionary
Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com
Merriam-Webster On Line Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Dictionary.com

Antonym and Synonym Finder Online http://www.synonym.com/synonym/ 

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Grade Level: http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html
CONTENT: The Database of Award Winning Children's Literature is a great
place for teachers and librarians to go to put together quality
individualized reading lists for students and classes.

Graphic Organizers
Here are some good links to explanations of several graphic organizers 
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html 
http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/ 
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6293.html (Links to black line masters of blank organizers)

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READING

Looking for a good book? Here are some review sites!

http://www.aucklandlibrary.co.nz/process.asp?pageurl=/explore/teens/react.html Auckland Public Library

http://www.bcplonline.org/info/teen/#books Baltimore County Public Library

http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/ Calgary Public Library

http://www.hclib.org/teens/read.cfm Hennepin County Library

http://www.picnet.org/teens/  Pickering Public Library

http://www.buildingrainbows.com/search.php

http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/allreviewed.html

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SOCIAL STUDIES

Britannica Online: Conduct a search online and find hits on web sites, Britannica Encyclopedia, magazines, and related books www.britannica.com

History Site http://www.newseum.org/century/index.htm#

Zip Code Finder

Us History

Original Colonies

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

This is a great site with links to ALL U.S. Government Sites The Gov Spot

This site is developed for people who are doing genealogy research but, can be sued for anyone who needs to make a timeline one can include requests for Historical Events, Leadership, Technology Events, Disasters, and personal kinds of information http://www.ourtimelines.com/index.shtml

Ethnolouge - Languages of the world: You can find every language spoken in just about every part of the world. There are also World Maps available. http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp 

World Almanac For Kids

Library Visit Log

Travel Information and Laws for Any Country - A US government site with very reliable information about the current stability of countries around the world. Here you can find the laws and requirements of travelers to any other country.

Laws and Issues of Nearly Every Country http://www.ncbuy.com/travel/issues/ 

VETERAN'S DAY

The official Veteran's Day web site http://www.va.gov/vetsday/ 

This is a great site on Veteran's Day, but it is a personal web site. There are many good and reliable links off of the page. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465/vetdaylinks.html 

Maps

Good Maps of nearly every country http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
50 States.com http://www.50states.com/
Maps of the World http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html?main=atlas
WorldAtlas.com http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm

http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/ref/maps.htm

Maps Of The World This is a great link to maps of nations throughout the world. http://slarti.ucd.ie/int_maps.html

Incredible Color Land Form Maps of the United States

Great outline maps of the world http://www.geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm 

Historic Maps In K-12 Classrooms; This is a collection of maps complete with study aids and lesson plans. There isn't a huge selection, but itwhat is there is high quality and very interesting. http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/index.html 

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RECIPES FOR CURRICULUM FAIR FOODS :FOODS FROM OTHER LANDS
Show me the recipes

http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Ancient Egyptian Art Links

http://members.aol.com/egyptold/old.html

http://www.brooklynart.org./mummy.html

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
This is a link to information on hundreds of countries in the world. Very quick information source.
http://www.informationplease.com/ipa/A0107262.html

Use this link to conduct a search for your country and information in different categories.
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

The Great American Web Site
http://www.uncle-sam.com/
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
The Great American Web Site is a great place to find U.S. Government
resources on the WWW.  This site has links to every branch of the Federal
Government, plus Federal departments and independent agencies.

Look Who's Footing The Bill
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/democracy/debtquest.html
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
Look Who's Footing The Bill is an introduction to the national debt.  It
guides students through the process of developing a group project on the
problems the U.S. economy must face in relationship to the national debt,
and its long term effects on society.

Ancient Rome:
http://www.julen.net/aw/

http://www.ukans.edu/history/

http://www.hudsonfalls.k12.ny.us/middle_pub/

School Zone
http://www.nando.net/prof/edsvc/
A great site for world history students is www.nhptv.org
Click onto Knowledge Network, then Social Studies, then World History.
From there, select Classical World History. NHPTV does a wonderful job
providing excellent sites for student research. Good luck!
www.ancientsites.com which has virtual tours of Ancient Rome maong other

GRADE LEVEL: K-12

School Zone is an educational resource for students, teachers, and parents.
The site is promotes the use of newspapers and the Internet in the
classroom, and includes curricula, projects, creative writing, and links to
other educational sites.

http://www.supersurf.com/
World Surfari
Grade Level: 3-8

CONTENT: Wanna go on a surfari? Then join World Surfari and take a virtual
adventure to different countries around the globe! This site is produced by
Brian Giacoppo, age 12, and includes interesting facts and historical information.

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Ancient Civilizations

http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk/home_set.html

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Ancient_Civilizations/index.htm

Mexico Adventure

http://www.bajaoutpost.com/?source=goto 

http://www.adventureplanet.com

http://www.whitewatertours.com/mexico.htm 

http://www.charternet.com/sailboat/baja/ 

http://www.mexonline.com/activity.htm 

http://www.ecotourism-adventure.com/mexico.htm 

http://www.foxinternet.net/business/outlandadventures/mexicolinks.html 

http://www.calnative.com/c_copper.htm 

http://www.tourbaja.com/hotels.html 

http://www.miramar-adventures.com/ 

MEXICO LINKS 6TH GRADE

Mexico Geography Directory

Countries of the World

Mexico: The Country

Links to Mexico Information

Model United Nations Club

Mexico Information

Mexico Museums

U.S. Immigration Laws (Summary)

Good article on Mexican immigration with links to other sites.

Good site (lots to read difficult) with charts, graphs, and statistics.

Yukon Links

http://www.touryukon.com/ 

http://www.explorenorth.com/ This is a great site with links to everything you need to find about the Yukon Territory. You have to look all over the page for just the right links.

http://www.klondiketrail.ca/miles.htm This site is devoted to the Yukon Trail (routes followed by the Yukon Gold Seekers).

http://www.klondiketrail.ca/links.htm Here are a great set of links (actually it's the links page from the site above, but worthy of it's own listing here) to VERY reliable resources on Canada and the Yukon territory and Gold Rush.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/gold/index.html Good Information about the gold rush of 1897.

http://www.gold-rush.org/ Good feel for the climate, madness, and the territory

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ALASKA LINKS

Alaska Geography

Alaska Geography Too

Alaska Climate

Alaska Animals Galore!

A great site to get information on lots of places in Alaska. http://www.dced.state.ak.us/tourism/student.htm 

Regions of Alaska http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3878/index.htm 

TONS OF INFORMATION LINKS http://www.50states.com/alaska.htm 

Kodiak Island http://www.webcom.com/cgi-bin/glimpse 

Alaska Map, Ancharge, Fairbanks, Homer, etc. AIS

Crossroads of Continents - Chukchi

Graphic Map's USA Alaska maps and information page

Lonely Planet World Guide Destination Alaska Introduction

North Slope Borough Alaska -- I Love Alaska

North Slope of Alaska Tundra Ecosystem

USGS National Climate Change Assessment

Welcome to the North Slope Borough

SURVIVAL LINKS     American Red Cross Survival Guide | Survival Guide based on 'U.S. Army Survival Manual'

Canada Links

Canadian Provinces

Canada information pages

Canada general information

Infoplease Canada

Travel Canada

Quebec History and Culture

Interactive Maps of Canada

Canada links page

Mega Canada Links

Northwest Territories of Canada

Maps

Canada Information by Subject

Canada Climate Information

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Latin American Studies 6th Grade

 Latin American Statistics http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/stats.html

Latin America Resources: A Link To More Links http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/indigenous/ 

InfoPlease Country Info http://www.informationplease.com/ipa/A0107262.html

University of Texas Latin America Information by Categories http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html 

Statistics on Latin American Countries http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/External/lac/lac.nsf?OpenDatabase

Laws in Ecuador - http://www.ncbuy.com/travel/issues/report_country.html?code=ec&section=crimepenalties 

Travel Safety in the Americas - http://www.worldworx.tv/safety/americas/index.htm 

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BOARD GAMES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD:
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edt628/dstorz/index1.html
Student teams research games played in the ancient civ-
ilizations of China, Egypt, and Mesopotamia in order
to recreate a working gameboard.
THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION CHALLENGE:
http://schools.guilford.k12.nc.us/tpages/wingatt/index.htm
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians in
your classroom will form teams to research contribu-
tions from Vikings, Romans, and Ancient Greece.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN MODERN CULTURE:
http://www.ci.swt.edu/Faculty/Peterson/ancient%20civilization/intro%202.html

Greco-Roman culture will be studied--using online re-
sources and available student forms for guidance--to
answer how ancient culture is reflected in modern
times. Students must work together to formulate a
plan for a multimedia presentation and museum piece.
The class will vote for the best project and then im-
plement it as a group, for display in the school li-
brary or a local museum.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS:
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dmatousek/ancientwq/ancient_civilizations_wq.htm

Students recreate an aspect of an ancient civilization
as a museum exhibit or diorama. Several choices are
available, along with online resources.

Ancient Egypt

Good site for some odd facts about Egypt
http://www.mohonasen.org/dmslib/geographyanc%20egy.htm 

http://www.alotravelegypt.com/english.htm#3 

Inventors and Invention

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/patent/srs136.html Patents information and a list of inventions and dates.

http://americanhistory.miningco.com/education/americanhistory/msub16.htm Great links page for information on American Invention.

http://www.psd.k12.co.us/schools/tavelli/invent.html American Inventions and Inventors from 1840 to 1940. Great links to many different sites.

http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/Museum_map.htm A very user friendly site with many links out to inventor and invention catagories.

http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/glptc/aaid/ A great site on African American Inventors. You have to know the name of the African American inventor you want information on or the invention they invented. If you know patent numbers, you can search that way also.

Egyptian Weapons

http://www.elismorrowsch.com/classroomnews/lb6blekh%20.htm A short site on ancient weapons of Egypt. 

http://www.elismorrowsch.com/classroomnews/b6weapon.htm More on ancient weapons.

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/weapons/ Good site on Egyptian weapons.

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/mace.htm Weapons site with links out to specific sub-topics.

FORKS /OLYMPICS PICTURES 

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US History 1946-1993

Wickipedia - Cold War	United Nations History	Nuremberg Trial
CIA	Berlin Blockade	NATO
Korean War	Viet Nam - French Involvement	Viet Nam - US Advisors
Viet Nam - Tet Offensive | Tet 2 | Tet 3	Viet Nam - Fall of Saigon	Viet Nam - Kent State | Kent 2 | Kent 3
22nd Amendment	Truman - Television Broadcast	Eisenhower - 34th President
Rosenbergs Executed	Senator Joseph McCarthy	Brown vs. Board of Education
Little Rock - School Integration	Alaska and Hawaii Statehood	US Severs relations with Cuba
John F. Kennedy - 35th President	Bay of Pigs	Freedom Riders
Lt. Col. John Glenn	Cuban Missile Crisis	"I Have a Dream"
Kennedy Assassinated	Civil Rights Act	President Nixon Resigns
Three Mile Island
	American Cultural Histroy
American Culture 1960-1969

World War Two

United States Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki An encyclopedia article with links to other related subjects.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm The main page of a Yale University web site on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki This is text only site but the information is very good and very reliable.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mp02.htm A section of a Yale University web site on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that explains the United States propaganda campaign in connection with the plan to bomb Japan.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mp03.htm A section of a Yale University web site on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that explains the effects of bombings in both cities.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm A 20th century history web site with a two page article on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

http://www.answers.com/topic/atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki Another encyclopedia type web site with many internal links to other related articles.

http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/index.html This is a National Science Digital Library web site devoted to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The site is very user friendly and the information is very reliable. Links to photos, movies, biographies, primary source documents, maps, and links to other sites on the bombings.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm This web site might seem a bit odd when first opened. It has a heading of Modern American Poetry with a sub title of A Photo Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The images in this web site are quite graphic, but they give a good idea of what kind of devastation an atomic bomb delivers.

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/hiroshim/index.html

Big 6 Investigation

AFRICA

Directory Searcheshttp:
http://www.altavista.com/dir/default 

Smithsonian & BBC Africa
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/  

PBS Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/index.html  

Africa Safari Research Project 7th Grade

 Africa:  One Continent, Many Worlds
http://www.nhm.org/africa/home.html    

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http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/history/Learn about life in colonial America . Look at buildings, tools, clothing, woman’s work, man’s work and more.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm A very comprehensive site with links to almost anything you need to find on colonial America .

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Colonial.html A very comprehensive site with links out to many topics on colonial America .

http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/CA/home.htm A very well done site produced by middle school students. The information is solid and easy to read. The bibliography can help you find more information if you so desire.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial This tells the American story through historically accurate retellings of events in colonial American history. You can get a feel for life in colonial America .

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/around_the_world/countries/united_states/history/colonial_life__1585_1783_/ Links to many kid safe web sites on life in colonial America .

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=J002611F&url=J002611F This is a Think Quest site. A team of students had to meet very high standards to have this site posted on the Internet. It is very accurate and entertaining.

http://www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm This site is devoted to short descriptions of what life was like for children in colonial America .

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/tools/tlhdr.cfm Technology in colonial America .

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl1600s.htm Technology and Inventions of the 17th century (this is world wide and has to be sifted carefully.)

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/ This is a long page so scroll down to the 1600s to get to good colonial information.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Look closely at the links running down the left hand side of the page. There is information on the absolute monarchies and more. You have to think about the link names and what will meet your needs.

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Good Overall Site on the Oregon Trail http://www.octa-trails.org/Home.asp 

Virtual Tour of the Oregon Trail http://www.octa-trails.org/JumpingOffToday/VirtualTour/default.asp 

This is a great site with many links. It is from the Museum of the City of San Francisco.Very informative site!
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html

This is a very extensive site on a series of events including the 1849 Gold Rush and the Donner party.
http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/civi.html

Check out this great website to help students search the net.  It is a
scavenger hunt that takes the students through a variety of searches and
will help them eventually narrow their searches to be more efficient.
http://treasure.canarie.ca/frames/startabout.html
Brad Templeton's '10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained'
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
  Includes links to his basic page on copyright and
  page on Web linking issues.
Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ
http://www.aimnet.com/~carroll/copyright/faq-home.html
   Carroll is an attorney; his site also has many
   links to other useful sites.
The Copyright Website
http://www.benedict.com/
   Informative but graphics-intensive.
The United States Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ The source, of course!
The latest and most accurate source for citing Internet
and other online references MLA style:
http://www.mla.org
http://www.upa.pdx.edu/BB/citation.html

http://www.education.elibrary.com/resources

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Math

Stock Market

Get to Know the Stock Market http://library.thinkquest.org/3088/

Investorama Investing Guides http://www.investorama.com/guides/

Beginning Stock Marketers http://www.moolera.com/

Penny Stocks Investors Guide http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/sos-sec/penstk.html

The Penny Stock Portal http://www.pennystockportal.com/index.htm

Morningstar Guide http://www.morningstar.com/

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