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	Favorite Bookmarks (Suggested by many librarians) Arranged Loosely by Dewey Order 000's General information Ask an expert Britannica Internet Guide: http://www.ebig.com Disney Internet Guide (DIG): http://www.disney.com/dig/today Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Fast Search: http://www.alltheweb.com/ Kids' Click (created by librarians to answer all the kid questions!) Kids Search Tools: http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Magazines: http://www.findarticles.com or http://www.magportal.com Peter Milbury's Web Sites for Everything: http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/ SmartZone: http://home.edview.com/search/index.htm Study Web: http://www.studyweb.com Virtual Reference Desk: http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html Yahooligans: http://www.yahooligans.com/ Internet Educational Web Design: create web pages, take virtual field trips http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/webdesign/edwebdesign.htm Return to Dewey list 100's Philosophy & Psychology Return to Dewey list 200's Religion Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/welcome.html Myths and Legends http://www.mythweb.com Return to Dewey list 300's Social Sciences African Americans Arkport's Black History Link: http://acs.stev.net/library/blackhistory/black_history_month.html Black History Month Resource Center: http://www.gale.com/gale/bhm/bhmcont.html Darker Shade of History: The Black History Database: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~isbell/HFh/black/bhist.html Sampling African America: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_sampler.html Stamp on Black History: http://library.advanced.org/10320/Stamps.htm Teaching African American History in the 21st Century: http://www.philsch.k12.pa.us/offices/african&american/afr-lessons.html Women's Rights Distinguished Women of Past and Present Encyclopedia of Women's History Living the Legacy Celebration: National Women's History Project: History of the Movement National Women's Hall of Fame http://www.greatwomen.org/ National Women's History Project Seneca Falls Celebration-July 16-19,1998 Almanacs/Factbooks CIA the World Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Energy Energy Quest: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html Careers Career Mosaic: http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/crc/crc1.html Career Moves: http://www.careercity.com/ Occupational Outlook Handbook: http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm Online Career Center: http://www.occ.com/ JobsearchUSA: http://www.jobsearchusa.org Jobweb (National Association of Colleges and Employers): http://www.jobweb.org/ Government The White House The United States Senate The United States House of Representatives Internal Revenue Service U.S. Census Bureau Bureau of Labor Statistics U. S. Statistical Abstract: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html CapWeb: the Internet guide to US Congress, agencies and caucuses w/email addresses Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of foreign governments Congressional Quarterly's On the Job: biographies of the members of Congress, information on how they vote, district description, campaign finance data New York State Government State and Local Government on the web: http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html Findlaw (federal and state laws): http://www.findlaw.com Supreme Court The Supreme Court Multimedia Database http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage Supreme Court Collection http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html FedWorld http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/ Landmark Supreme Court Cases: http://www.landmarkcases.org/ Supreme Court of the United States http://www.supremecourtus.gov Fire Safety: a site for children, parents & teachers http://www.kiddesafety.com/ Lesson Plan Sites & Teacher Resources Ask ERIC Lesson Plans: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/ Blue Web'n: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ Collaborative Lesson Archive: http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/ EdHelper: http://www.edhelper.com Ed's Oasis - The Treasure Zone - Teacher Resources: http://www.EDsOasis.org/Treasure/treasT.html#META Elementary Activities: http://www.bastrop.isd.tenet.edu/Eleact.html ERIC Digests: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/ Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/ Language Arts Lesson Plans: http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/languagearts.html#Lesson Lesson Plans From SRVUSD Model Classroom Teachers: http://jefferson.srvusd.k12.ca.us/tech/TechResource/lesson.plans.html http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/index.html NEA: http://www.nea.org/ Office of Special Education: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/specialed/ Teacher Net: http://www.teachnet.com/ Teacher Resources: http://www.sonoma.edu/CThink/K12/k12class/trc.nclk Teacher Talk Forum - Lesson Plans: http://education.indiana.edu/cas/ttforum/lesson.html Teachers Helping Teachers: http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel// Well Connected Educator: http://www.gsh.org/wce College Information College Board On-Line (info for college planning): http://www.collegeboard.org/index.html FAFSA On-Line (financial aid form): http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ Guide to Independent (Private) Schools in NYS: http://www.college-guide-nys.org Scholastic Registry (more college planning services): http://www.scholasticregistry.com/ SUNY Applications On-line: http://www.applyweb.com/ SUNY Homepage to all 2 & 4 year colleges: http://www.suny.edu/ Project EASI: http://easi.ed.gov Stamps Celebrate the Century Stamps: http://www.stampsonline.com/gallery/ctc.htm Holidays Halloween: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween/ Return to Dewey list 400's Language DICTIONARIES WEBSTERS ROGET'S INTERNET THESAURUS T he Acronym Expander: ENGLISH GRAMMAR Purdue's Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Online Guide to English Grammar: http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/ Strunk's Elements of Style: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/ Word detective: origins of words Big Dog Grammar: http://gabiscott.com/bigdog/index.htm http://teacherpathfinder.org/School/Subjects/EnglLA/writing.html Web English Teacher http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/ Return to Dewey list 500's Natural sciences & Mathematics General Science links Carnegie Science Site: http://csa.clpgh.org/ Glenbrook South High School Science Home Page: http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/scidft.html Science fair project guide: http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide Science snacks: http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html Thinking fountain: http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/nav/tfatoz.html You can with Beakman & Jaz: http://www.youcan.com Math brainteasers: http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain (Wait 'til Mrs. Mc. sees this!) http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/index.html Ask Dr. Math Alvirne High School: http://www.seresc.k12.nh.us/www/alvirne.html Space Ask an Astronaut: http://www.nss.org/askastro/ NASA Online: http://www.nasa.gov Chemistry Elements: http://www.chemicalelements.com http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/periodictable.html http://web.buddyproject.org/web017/web017 (this site was created by an 8th gr. class) http://www.dayah.com/periodic http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/ http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/page3.html http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html Physics PhysLINK: http://www.physlink.com Geology Ask a Geologist http://www.greatsouth.net/minerals.html http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/images/minpic_frame0.html http://mineral.galleries.com http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html Rocky the Rock Hound http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/ "My Pet Rock" http://www.mneta.net/~WMpms/rjohnson.html Weather Dan's Wild Weather Page: http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/index.html United States Weather Pages: http://www.uswx.com/us/wx/ Biomes Biomes of the world--http://www.mobot.org/MBGnet/index2.htm Biomes listed with brief description and connecting links-http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~bogler/ecology/biomes.html Biomes of the world briefly explained with a map and pictures and a summary of each biome.--http://www.snowcrest.net/freemanl/geography/slides/biomes/ What's it like where you live? http://mbgnet.mobot.org/MBGnet/ Tour of Biomes http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html Geography4Kids http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_biomeland.html http://www.geography4kids.com/files/water_biomeaqua.html Introduction to Biomes http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/intro.html Biomes and Soils http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/biomes.html Major Biomes of the World - Online Almanac http://kids.infoplease.com/ipka/A0769052.html Rainforest sites http://www.toucansam.com/ http://www.jaglair.com/rain/jag-rain.htm Animals Zoonet: http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet Zoonet (Younger): http://member.aol.com/zoonetkids Return to Dewey list 600's Technology (Applied sciences) Inventions American Inventors & Inventions: http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm Black Inventions Museum.: http://www.robinson-solutions.com/bim/bim/ Connections Machine-Inventions and Human Needs: http://iris.cccnet.com/success/innovations/1.0_invented_in_china/1.2_conmach/1.23_explore/1.23_explore.html Enchanted Learning: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexg.shtml Franklin Institute Science Museum: http://www.fi.edu/ Gander Academy's Inventions Theme Page: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/inventors.htm Invention Dimension from MIT (good resource for biographies):http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/i/invent/www/invention_dimension.html Inventions and Inventors Resources: http://leeca8.leeca.ohio.gov/lp/Invention_links.html Inventor Profile: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm Inventure place: Inventor links: http://www.nforce.com/projects/inventure/iplinks.html Inventure Place: National Inventors Hall of Fame: http://www.invent.org/book/index.html National Inventors Hall of Fame: http://invent.nforce.com/book/ http://www.rockhillpress.com/onoff/sample/invpg3.htm Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovation: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm Thomas Edison Invention Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~zummos/edison/index.htm The Way it Works: http://www.thewayitworks.co.uk/time-Invention.html What You Need to Know About Inventors: http://inventors.about.com Specific Inventions: Airplane: http://hawaii.cogsci.uiuc.edu/invent/Inventor_Gallery.html http://hawaii.cogsci.uiuc.edu/invent/air_main.shtml Automobile: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm Jet Engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine Telephone: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/albell/homepage.html Telescope: http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/telescope.html Physical Education & Health American Council on Exercise: http://acefitness.org/fitfacts/all.cgi America's Health Network: http://www.ahn.com/ Kid's Health: http://www.4kidshealth.com/ http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/ Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (Health, Physical Education & Fitness): http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/health/fitness.htm Nutrition Explorations: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/ PE Central: http://pe.central.vt.edu/ WebMD: http://my.webmd.com/ Human Body Bone Yard: http://www.abc.net.au/science/holo/dembone.htm#game Medline Plus: http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus *Mr. Kinnicutt's Structures Report Great Buildings http://www.greatbuildings.com Autobahn: http://home.att.net/~texhwyman/autobahn.htm Brooklyn Bridge http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html CN Tower http://www.cntower.ca/ Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/eurostar/channel_tunnel.htm http://www.eurotunnel.com Eiffel Tower http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/indexuk.html Empire State Building http://www.esbnyc.com/ http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/about.html Golden Gate Bridge http://www.goldengate.org/ http://www.sfmuseum.org/assoc/bridge00.html Great Wall of China http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/greatwall/greatwall.html Hoover Dam http://www.hooverdam.com/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hoover/ Leaning Tower http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/ http://www.pisaonline.it/pisa/town/pagine/torre2.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/ Lincoln Memorial http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/linmem.html Mount Rushmore http://www.travelsd.com/parks/rushmore/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/moru/ Notre Dame Cathedral http://www1.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/chartres/charmain.html Panama Canal http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/panama/panama.html http://www.panamavisual.com/ Pyramids http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/ http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/pyramids.html St. Patrick's Cathedral Statue of Liberty http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/liberty.html Taj Mahal http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/tajmahal/home.html http://www.taj-mahal.net/ Three Rivers Stadium http://www.3riversstadium.com/ Tower of London http://www.tower-of-london.com/ http://www.toweroflondontour.com/ Washington Monument http://www.nps.gov/wamo/ http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/washmon.html Cooking Ooey Gooey Recipes for the Classroom: Try Singing Cake! (Oobleck is here, too) http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/support/science/tools/ooey.html Return to Dewey list 700's The arts ARCHITECTURE WEB SITES: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_noframes.html HOUSE PLANS: http://builder.hw.net/plans/plan.htx-type=chl.htm http://www.homeplan-network.com/ http://www.hygexpo.com/archway/plans/homes/ SONG LYRICS: http://www.lyricshq.com/ Return to Dewey list 800's Literature Academic Resources: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Research.html#Academic British & Irish Authors on the Web: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html Children's Literature & Poetry: http://www.teleport.com/~writers/kidserials.html Database of Award Winning Children's Literature: http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html Familiar Quotations: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Internet Resources in English Language and Literature: http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/subj/english/englit.html NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English): http://www.ncte.org/ Quote search: http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/ Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry: http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/indexcriticism.html BOOK REVIEWS Alan Homepage (NCTE): http://english.byu.edu/alan/alan.htm Berkeley Digital Library: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/index.html Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: http://www.carolhurst.com/ Children's Literature: a guide to the criticism: http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr/ Children's Literature Web Guide: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Kay Vandergrift's page: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html BOOKTALKS http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/rundlett/booktalks CITING SOURCES http://www.mla.org http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html http://www.classroom.net/classroom/CitingNetResources.html http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/research/research.html (This site has research tips & a bibiliography maker) http://doe.state.in.us/LearningResources/cybercite http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles POETRY Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org American Verse prior to 1920 http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/ PUBLISHING KidPub: http://escrime.en-garde.com/kispub/ Bookwire: http://www.bookwire.com/index/Publishing-for-young-rdrs.html To submit book reports, or read them: http://i-site.on.ca/booknook.html Author Addresses & Websites Audrey Wood's Web site: lesson plans, activities from a great children's author! http://www.audreywood.com Bantam Doubleday Dell:Visit with an author: http://www.bdd.com/index.html Children's Authors: http://www.penguinputnam.com/search/index.htm Visit with an Author: http://www.bdd.com/forum/bddforum/cgi The Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor Authors A-Z Jane Austen: http://uts.cc.utexas/edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html Avi: http://www.avi-writer.com/index.cgi?num=2 Jan Brett: http://www.janbrett.com Eric Carle: http://www.eric-carle.com Chaucer: http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucess.htm Vicki Cobb: http://www.web-shop.com/vcobb/tablecon.htm Mary Downing Hahn: http://www.carr.lib.md.us/authco/hahn.htm Madeleine L'Engle Fan Homepage: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~eithlan/lengle.html Shakespeare Criticism: http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/criticism.htm Shakespeare (keyword searchable): http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html Edmund Spenser Homepage: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ J.R.R. Tolkien: http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html Mark Twain: http://marktwain.miningco.com/ E.B.White Home Page: http://www.tiac.net/users/winlib/ebwhite.htm Oscar Wilde: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/decadence/wilde/wildeov.html http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/%7Ejmitchel/oscar.htm Return to Dewey list 900's Geography, Biography & History This day in history: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html http://memory.loc.gov/ http://www.scopesys.com/year/ http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/ http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp Geography 50 States and Capitals - http://www.50states.com Alltogether Now - Subject Guide - Geography - http://www.alltogethernow.org/sc/sc.htm#g CIA's World Factbook - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html City Net - http://www.city.net/maps Infonation - http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm Lycos City Guide - http://cityguide.lycos.com Map Guide: http://www.stjernberg.com/maps/mapguide.htm MapQuest -http://www.mapquest.com/ Outline Maps: http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html Celebrity addresses: http://www.four11.com Biographies (for authors, see the 800s) http://www.whowere.com Biographical Dictionary Biography.com Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html Presidents of the United States: http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/ Jefferson, Thomas: http://www.monticello.org Washington, George: http://www.mountvernon.org http://www.nara.gov/exhall/prologue/george.html Return to Dewey list Medieval Sites Guilds Medieval Guilds. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher/373/guilds.htm Medieval Guilds http://www.ancientquest.com/embark/guilds.shtml Medieval Guilds http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_guilds.htm Women in Medieval Guilds http://home.clara.net/sfletcher/Papers/Hosted/WomenMed.htm Pennants MedievalPennants http://www.dreamworldevents.com/backdrop_category.htm?cid=19 Costumes Renaissance Costumes & Medieval Costumes for Women http://www.funfolly.com/h/ca04a.htm Costumes & Clothing: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7631/costume3.html Holocaust Web Sites ADL Front Page: http://www.adl.org Anne Frank House, Amsterdam: http://www.channels.nl/annefran.html Responses to Revisionist Arguments (from Simon Weisenthal Center): http://www.wiesenthal.com/ US Holocaust Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/ Indians of North America American Indian Tribal Directory: http://www.indians.org./tribes/ Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of the Interior): http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html Index of Native American Resources on the Internet National Museum of the American Indian: http://www.si.edu/nmai/ Native American Home Pages: http://www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html Native Web: http://www.nativeweb.org (not working 9/98-but it was great!) Oneida Indian Nation: http://one-web.org/oneida/ Sioux: http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/sioux.htm Six Nations (Iroquois): http://www.ratical.com/many_worlds/6Nations/index.html Yahoo Guide to Indian Tribes & Nations Colonies & Colonial America Archiving Early America: http://www.earlyamerica.com/ http://www.bwscampus.com/Library/colonies.html http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/13colony.html Williamsburg: http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org http://history.org/ http://www.wmbg.com/its/cwg.html http://users.visi.net/~cwt/smsbg.html Jamestown: http://www.widowmaker.com/~apva http://oakview.fcps.edu/80/~cassella/virginia/history/jamestown Old Sturbridge Village: http://www.osv.org/ Plymouth: http://k12.oit.umas.edu/masaq/3049r.html http://pilgrims.net/native americans/massasoit.html http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Historic/Plimoth/Plimoth.htmlhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm http://www.history.org/life/trades/tradehdr.htm http://www.kcnet.org/~srodke/jobs.html http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/pioneer.html Civil War** Underground Railroad: http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm