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States Report

 

        Citation forms:  Your teacher has given you citation forms. Fill out one  for EACH source that you use. If you need more you can print them from here: Citation Forms

 

Best places for information:

 

Kids InfoBits

Click on this picture:infobits logo

 

 

Type in any Connecticut public library card number in the space in the upper right of the screen.

Click Login.

You are now on the Kids InfoBits website. Click Geography (on the top row.)  .

Click U.S. States (on the top row.) 

Click onto your state.

 

Grolier Student Encyclopedia (found in the library): Look up your state to find information about your state's history, plants, animals, population, and much more! 

 

Children’s Atlas of the United States (found in the library): Look up your state to find information about its national parks, average temperatures, and much more!

 

 

If you have extra time: 

State parks: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm Click on "by location." Click on your state.

State forest: http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/map/state_list.shtml#Alabama Click on your state.

Maps:: Printouts of maps from all the states  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw

Sites about each state: http://www.kids.gov/k_5/k_5_states.shtml

State History: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es  

 

 

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Inventing

 

History of Inventions Timeline

http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

 

Invention Facts and Myths

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm

 

Zoom Inventors and Inventions

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/

 

Innovation Timeline

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm

 

Inventors’ Biographies

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/a-z/letterI.htm

   

Inventors Hall of  Fame

http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/1_1_search.asp

 

 

Things for Sale Websites:

Crayola

 

Barbie

 

Cheerios

 

Ronald

 

Webkinz

 

Mr. Frerichs' Information Challenge

http://www.quia.com/rr/191890.html

 

Name That Genre

http://www.ccsd.edu/link/LMS/genre.htm

 

 

 

Directory Search

 

YahooKids

 http://kids.yahoo.com/index

 

 

Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin Timeline

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/franklin/1706.htm

 

Benjamin Franklin Web Quest

 

Explorers

 

Discoverer’s Web

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/

 

 

Inventors/ Inventions

 

The World of Benjamin Franklin

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html

Learn about some of his inventions. Great images here.

Building Big
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/

From PBS: for kids who like BIG structures, interactive site

National Inventors Hall of Fame

http://www.invent.org/

Kids Pages: United States Government Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/

Games and learning