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GEOGRAPHY

Geography/ History Puzzles and Projects/ Owl and Mouse Educational Software
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Intended Audience: Teachers and Students
Description: Learn the countries and their capitals with this fun and educational puzzle game. Software programs to download and use in the classroom for free.  Put in the countries with their borders shown on the background, test your knowledge. Includes Europe, Asia, SA, and US.

Mount Everest Homepage
http://www.newton.mec.edu/angier/ferguson/everest
Intended Audience: Grade 3 and up
Description: Nancy Ferguson's 3rd Grade developed pages about Mount Everest, climbing, inhabitants, biome, and pictures.

World Heritage Sites in Nepal
http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-nepal.html
Intended Audience: Grade 4 and up
Description: 

Cyndi's List
http://www.cyndislist.com/  
Intended Audience: Grade 4(with help) to adults
Description: Internet site of 60,000 links to history, geographic, and original documents. Great place to find information on all the states of US and all foreign countries.

US GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ 
Intended Audience: children (with help) to adults
Description: Direct internet site dealing with all US States, original records, maps, pictures, and history.

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Robin Hood
http://www.nls.ac.uk/digitallibrary/chepman/page.htm go to item 11
Intended Audience: Grade 6 and up
Description: Early Scottish copy of the story.

Learn Online with Actden
http://www.actden.com/
Audience: Grade 3 and up
Description: An interactive site, great for teachers introducing Microsoft Office 2000 or other software to students. Shows how to use the software and the actual screens they will see when working with the programs.

Ant Bee Inc.
http://www.antbee.com/
Intended Audience: Audience: K-4
Description: Storybooks online to read page by page. Books are available to purchase also. A new book each month is displayed with great artwork

Tristan on Safari
http://www.johnruss.com/bedtime/
Intended Audience: Grade1-6
Description: Internet story written by author about experience of being on a safari. Author produced own watercolor pictures and allows book to be printed off the Internet.

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Online books   
gopher://ftp.std.com/11/obi/book
Intended Audience: Grade 6 and up
Description: 150 books including complete works of William Shakespeare, Alice and Wonderland, etc

Kids Corner
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids.htm
Intended Audience:  K-adult
Description: A poetry site featuring Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Site  has audio slide show available.

ABC of Writing
 http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/prewriting.html 
Intended audience: Grade 7 and up
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory: http://www.ecc.ttu.edu/3318/spring2000/sect001/kaplan/webquest.htm
Intended Audience: 5th Grade
Description: Webquest for Roald Dahl's classic book.

Anne Frank Webquest: http://www.ecc.ttu.edu/3318/spring2000/sect002/reaves/webquest.htm 
Intended Audience: 4th Grade and up
Description: A webquest to research WWII and the holocaust.

Cinderella Folk Tales Webquest
  http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/lmonson/wquest.htm 
Intended Audience: Grade1 and up
Description: Online Cinderella stories from different cultures.

MyHistory
http://www.myhistory.org
Intended audience: Grade 4 and up
Description: National Endowment for Humanities site to teach personal history, story telling, time sequence and historical literature. Warning: Students need to be 18 to do the online family tree, K-12 go to Disney tree to insert names and print off.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Scavenger Hunt 
http://www.macombisd.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/LAURALES.HTM
Intended audience: Grade 3 and up
Description: Literature based social studies activities.

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100 Best Books for Children
  http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books-f.htm
Intended audience: Grade1 and up
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Fifty Great Books for Grades 3 & 4
http://www.jcl.lib.ks.us/kids/50great3&4.htm

Fifty Great Books for  Grades 4 & 5
http://www.jcl.lib.ks.us/kids/50great4&5.htm

Favorite Fourth Grade Books:
http://rms.concord.k12.nh.us/rl/276.htm

Timeless Classics K-6:
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/timeless.html#K6

3rd-5th Grade Reading List:
http://www.lacoe.edu/doc/prc/three5.html

Great Books for Grades 4/5:
http://www.cfsd.k12.az.us/~vvww/VVLibrary/upperbooks.html

Children's Authors
  http://www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us/Tollgate/MediaCenter/ca.html 
Intended audience: Grade 1 and up 
Description: Links to websites for  authors of children's books.

Once Upon a Time 
http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00mevancamp/ouat.html
Intended audience: Grade 1 and up
Description: Children's literature website for fairy tales.

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A to Z Teacher Stuff 
 http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/litbased.shtml
Intended audience: Teachers
Description: Literature Based Thematic Units

Internet School Library Media Center
 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
Intended audience: Teachers and directed students grades 5 and up.
Description: Internet links to literature and thematic units.

What's In A Name (A Personal Webquest):  http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/kengallen/eallen/what.htm
Intended audience: grade 4 and up
Description: A webquest to learn research methods and note taking for family history.

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Ancient Cultures:

Ancient Egypt
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Egypt.htm
Intended Audience: 6th Grade
Description of the Site: History of Egypt is explored by students on internet and library resources, projects and assessment questions are provided.

Columbus:

Columbus and the Age of Discovery
http://muweb.millersv.edu/~columbus/
Intended Audience: Grade 6 and up
Description: Index page for information about Columbus, located at the University of Pennsylvania.

Columbus and Celestial Navigation
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/Columbus.html
Intended Audience: Grade 4 and up
Description: The use of dead reckoning, tools and methods used during the first, third, and fourth voyage.

Letter written by Ferdinand and Elizabeth to Columbus 1492
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/colum.htm
Intended Audience: Grade 4 and up
Description: The Avalon Project from Yale Law School, transcribed-translated version of original letter.

Columbus' letter, 1494
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/columlet.html
Intended Audience: Grade 4 and up
Description: Transla