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Search Engines and Directories

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Current Events

Almanacs

Atlases

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias Online

Biographies

Guiness Book of World Records

Other Libraries

Quotations

Magazines Newspapers

Field Guides to Plants and Animals

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History

Colonial Kids - a Thinkquest Site

George Washington Thomas Jefferson Ben Franklin

Colonial Fun

Listen to Music from Revolutionary America

History - Eyewitness Accounts. Here their own voices. Lots of pictures!

Tennessee History for Kids

Primary Sources

Social Studies

Be a History Explorer  

Ben's Guide to Everything U.S. (K - 2nd grade)

Ben's Guide to Everything U.S. (3rd-4th grade)

Geography

Logo image linking to kids.gov

Countries of the World

States of the United States State Symbools

Countries

Fun facts about the states

Learn about other countries

Library of Congress Site has unusual facts about the 50 states

Kid Friendly Facts about the States with coloring pages and quizes

Math and Science

Ask Dr. Math

Astronomy for Kids

AAA Math need practice? Here are games, puzzles and riddles!

Science fun

Math brain teaser

Biology for Kids

Weather

Using Technology

Learn to use a computer!

The Internet for Kids

Internet Safety Test

Looney Tunes Takes you Out on the Internet

Home

Karen McIntyre's Homepage

Metro Schools Home

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Magazine Indexes 

National Geographic Kids Online Magazine National Geographic Kids Magazine Archive

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories

Newsround - BBC's Kids News Site

Ranger Rick

Scholastic News

Smithsonian Kid's Castle

Sports Illustrated

Time for Kids

Zoo Books

Newspapers

New York Times

Washington Post for Kids

The Tennessean

Teacher Access to the Tennessean

 

 

George Washington

See 3 movies about Washington's life

 

Thomas Jefferson

A primer about Thomas Jefferson's Life

See Where Thomas Jefferson Lived at Montecello

 

 

Ben Franklin 

See a film about Franklin as a Diplomat as an Inventor

Learn about Ben's life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Searching  

Search Engines

Directories

Ask - It's better than GOOGLE!
Yahooligans - has a search engine and a directory
Boolify -- lets you use boolean opperators.
Awesome Library
Google if you must
Kids Click Directory

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Encyclopedias Online

Encyclopedia for 1-2nd grades!

Grolier at SCHOOL

Grolierat HOME user name and password if you are at home is mnps

Encarta

Tennessee Encyclopedia of history and culture

Britannica is a difficult to read encyclopedia

Search Wikipedia Encyclopedia features short concise articles

Music Instrument Encyclopedia 

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Atlases 

Altapedia has country maps A-Z

National Geographic has maps of every kind!

Our History Atlas - get your password from your teacher!
Watch as the United States grows from just 13 original colonies
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Almanacs

Information Please is a great almanac. This is the kids version!

50 States

Fast Facts on almost everything!

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Dictionaries

Picture Dictionary for K-1 also in other languages!

Websters Dictionary

Rhyming Dictionary

Math Dictionary

Dictionary and more Look up verses or quotes

Word Central Fun from Websters Play with WORDS

Thesaurus or Try this Visual Dictionary

Common phrases in many languages

 

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Quotations 

Bartlett's Quotations

Quotations Page

 

 

 

 

 

Biography
Famous Americans of the Revolution

Famous Americans

Biographies from PBS

Find a role model!

Biographies of our favorite AUTHORS

Famous people, presidents and others

The National Portrait Gallery of famous Americans

Infoplease biographies - hard to read, but lots of people!

National Women's Hall of Fame

 

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Libraries

Search Nashville Public Library Kid's Place

Library of Congress for Kids

Need help learning to search on line? Try Noodletools!

Do You Know Dewey? Want to know where to look for a book in the library--Meet Mr. Dewey!

AWESOME LIBRARY
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