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Background
Notes
Factual publications that contain information
on all the countries of the world with which
the United States has relations. They include
facts on the country's land, people, history,
government, political conditions, economy,
and its relations with other countries and
the United States. The Notes are updated/revised
by the Office of Electronic Information
and Publications of the Bureau of Public
Affairs as they are received from regional
bureaus and are added to the database of
the Department of State web site. |
Country
Reports
Countries profiled from around the
world. Here you will find over 6,600 pages
and 6,400 related links on over 260 countries. |
Flags
of the World
FOTW is the Internet's largest site devoted
to vexillology (the study of flags). Here
you can read more than 23,000 pages about
flags and view more than 44,000 images of
flags. Also includes outlines of country
flags for coloring. |
World
Factbook
This site has lots of information and
hard-to-find statistics about the countries
of the world.
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Ask
Dr. Math
A question and answer service for math students
and their teachers. A searchable archive
is available by level and topic, as well
as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions. |
Figure
This
This website demonstrates challenging middle
school mathematics and emphasizes the importance
of high-quality math education for all students. |
Math
League
This is a help resource for 4th through
8th grades and includes help for: Whole
numbers and their basic properties; decimals,
whole numbers, and exponents; using data
and statistics; fractions; geometry; ratio
and proportion; percent and probability;
integers; metric units and measurement;
introduction to algebra; positive and negative
numbers. |
Mathematics
Megasites
This page is a part of the Multnomah County
Library Homework Center.
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California
Mission Site
Featuring two histories for each of the
twenty-one California Missions, with beautiful
color photographs, fascinating green and
white sketches, and, for the first time
ever, authentic mission music. This music
was written in the missions during the late
1700's by the Spanish padres and the Native
Americans who lived and worked there. |
California
Mission Studies Association
Directory
for California Missions and Other Hispanic
Sites
This site contains contact information for
each of the 21 California missions in alphabetical
order. Also includes contact information
for class tour arrangements. The "Annotated
Links Page" contains additional Web
sites related to Specific Missions. |
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California Mission History
More
information about the 21 missions. Includes
photographs and music.
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Poets.org
This site currently includes more than
twelve hundred poems, with new ones being
added all the time. Now you can search
for text within a poem, or browse the
list by title or first line.
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Poetry
180
This site is designed to make it easy for
students to hear or read a poem on each
of the 180 days of the school year. Poems
on the site are selected with high school
students in mind. |
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Kidsreads.com
Kidsreads
is a place on the web for kids to find information
about their favorite books, series, and
authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews
with authors and special features on great
books are their specialties. |
Teenreads.com
Teenreads.com bring teens information
and features about their favorite authors,
books, series and characters. They are
a part of The Book Report Network,
a group of websites founded in 1996 that
share thoughtful book reviews, compelling
features, in-depth author profiles and
interviews, excerpts of the hottest new
releases, literary games and contests,
and more with readers every week. |
Juvenile
Series and Sequels
This is a great site that offers a huge
alphabetical index of children's books in
series. If you are trying to find out what
book comes next in a series, this is the
place to go! |
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Biomes
This website about the six biomes
of the world is based on a series of videos
and gives additional information about the
ecosystems. The site is maintained by Missouri
Botanical Garden |
Building
Big
Explore large structures and what it takes
to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a
five-part PBS television series and Web
site from WGBH Boston. |
Science
Fair Project Resource Guide
This Internet Public Library Kids Space
site will guide you to a variety of web
site resources, and lead you through the
necessary steps to successfully complete
a science experiment. |
The
Exploratorium
A museum of science, art, and human perception
located in San Francisco, California.
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was
one of the first science museums to build
a site on the World Wide Web. Included
in the site are more than 15,000 Web pages
and many sound and video files, exploring
hundreds of different topics.
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Ben's
Guide to U.S. Government
Ben’s Guide provides information
and activities specifically tailored for
educators, parents, and students in K-12.
These resources can help teach about our
government and how it works. |
Fact
Finder - Kids Corner
This site is published by the U.S. Census
Bureau. Learn about the U.S. Census, get
facts about each state, and take a quiz. |
50
States
Lot's of facts and useful information links
arranged specific to each of the 50 United
States of America. - State homepage, state
symbols (birds, songs, flowers, trees),
capitol tours, flags, biographies, newspapers,
maps, political representatives, weather,
and more. |
Internet
Public Library Kids Space - Stately Knowledge
These web pages will help you find out the
basic facts of any state in the Union, including
Washington, D.C. |
Outline
of American History
This online "textbook" gives a
good overview of American History from Pre-Colonial
to the 21st Century. |
United
States House of Representatives
Find the names of the Congress Men and Women
of each of the 50 United States. |
United
States Senate
Find the names of the Senators of each of
the 50 United States. |
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