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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
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):
Children’s
Atlas of the United States (found in the
library):
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:
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
Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin Timeline
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/franklin/1706.htm
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
Kids Pages: United States Government Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/
Games and learning