GENERAL REFERENCE RESOURCES

Use this search engine to look up any topic = Answers.com

Click below for Encyclopedia general information:

Encarta Encyclopedia

http://encyclopedia.com

A & E Biographies:

http://search.biography.com/bio_browse.pl?letter=A

Addresses (celebrities) Site 1

Site 2 or Site 3 or Site 4 or Site 5

Addresses (sports)

Click here or Click here

All Subjects @ KidsKonnect BEST site for everything!

American History

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Greece

Scholastic Pyramid Slideshow Pyramids Pyramid Facts Digs in Egypt Tomb of Senneferi Interactive Dig Archaeology Webquest Extra Egyptian sites Bog People Ancient Egypt Links Archaeology Sites Lascaux Cave Chauvet Cave Famous Archeological Digs Nubia Dig

ANIMAL Pictures

Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5

ART Webquest Click here

Ben Franklin sites

Biographies

Famous Illustrator’s (artists) biographies:

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/bios.html

Information Please for biographies:

http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Inventors/Other Biographies and links

JAZZ Musician Biography Links Click here

Mathematician Biographies

Over 25,000 personality biographies:

http://www.biography.com

Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame musician biographies:

http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp

Scientists and Inventors

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

Science and Others:

http://www.blupete.com/Literature.htm

Search for your star birthdates & mini biographies:

http://us.imdb.com/search

Sports biographies (last names ending in A-H only):

http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/biaindex.shtml

Women’s Hall of Fame biographies:

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php

Other biographies = click on search > type in first & last name + biography > Search:

Black History Month

Biography Black History

Library of Congress Black History Month Manuscripts

Black History Hotlist

Black History by Infoplease

Career Sites

Career Cruising (Username = Galesburg * Password = careers)

Occupational Outlook Handbook

One Source Workforce and Career Information

College Information

Cave Art Chauvet Cave Lascaux Cave

Child Labor during Industrial Revolution

Child Labor in Factories	Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution
Child Labor	Wikipedia - Child Labor
Child Labor - Web Quest	Many more links on Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater: Father of the American Revolution	Lesson Plans and Activities

China

(former student adventures) Click here

Constitution Day

Site 1

Site 2

Site 3

Country Information

Site 1 Site 2 (Flags) Site 3 (all countries)

Site 4 (Ancient China, etc.)

Site 5 (United States Facts)

Regions of United States

United States Maps (states are listed at end of page - labeled and blank)

U.S. Regions (maps with info)

State Maps (quizzes and printouts)

InfoPlease on States

U.S. Geographic Online Games

Site 6 Wikipedia – left side type in country name (search)

Africa+

Canada

Korea.ne

South Korea

Korea Info Gate

Tour 2 Korea

ECOLOGICAL Research
Deforestation	Oil Spills
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/?review=1#url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/7206165.stm	http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm
http://www.csshome.com/	http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001451.html (Timeline of Oil Spill and where they were)
http://www.danaemaniatis.com/dphilresearch.htm	Effects of Oil on Wildlife
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/deforestation-the-hidden-cause-of-global-warming-448734.html	http://www.wisegeek.com/what-causes-oil-spills.htm
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/congo/deforestation.html	http://westernpipecorp.blogspot.com/2007/06/causes-of-oil-spills.html

Global Warming	Poaching
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html	http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/elephants/poaching.html
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/world/globalwarming1.html	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4080807.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3381425.stm	http://www.nature.org/magazine/winter2006/misc/art19274.html
http://www.earthplatform.com/c/nature	http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/elephants-evolve-smaller-tusks-due-to-poaching/711
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/environmental/climate-change-global-warming.htm	http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/China/02/Jglasgow/Jglasgow.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Humans and Animals Extinction	Monkeys and Extinction
http://www.earthportals.com/extinct.html	http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1681018,00.html

Snow Leopards	Monarch Butterfly
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/snow_leopard.php	http://www.aireimagen.com.mx/english/papalotzin/travesia.html
http://www.kewa.org/snow.html	http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-monarch.html
http://www.ypte.org.uk/docs/factsheets/animal_facts/snow_leopard.html
Tigers
· http://www.elvidge.com/users/jimbo/tigers/	· http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/13/conservation.wildlife
· http://tigersincrisis.com/	· http://www.howard-winn.k12.ia.us/projects/ind_study/ac7ind/Tigers/whyendangered/finalwhyaretheyendangered.html
· http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/tiger.htm	· http://tigersincrisis.com/siberian_tiger.htm

Faculty Sites

Geography 101 –

Map Skills Climate/Landforms Unscramble Continents/Oceans

World Maps

Misc. Geography Games Maps and Other games

Capitols/Lakes/Landscapes GeoBee online GeoNet games

Globe Theater Site 1 Pictures Virtual Virtual 2

Gravestones

Gravestones Find A Grave Last Words Epitaphs

Cape Cod Gravestones

Greek Mythology God/Goddess biographies in Greek Mythology

The HOLOCAUST Holocaust of the Jews

Home Living

Iditarod Iditarod site Dogsled Musher Profile site

Insect Identification Links Click here

Japanese-American Internment

Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Site 7 Site 8 Site 9 Site 10

Journey North

Kentucky Derby Links

Language Arts

MUSIC > San Francisco Symphony

National Geographic Search (Hard Copy 1940-present) Click Here

North American Indians

Site 1

Site 2

Site 3 (Ancient Indian Tribes)

Site 4 (Myths) Site 5 (List at Bottom) Site 6 (Biographies) More Biographies Site 7 (Lores)

Site 8 (Tribal links) Site 9 (Tribes by Region) Site 10 (Tribe Cultures) Site 11 National Museum

Quiz

Pictures = click on Images > type what you want > Click Return

Science Amphibians Cloud Formations Earth Day (HANGMAN) Earth Day (TICTACTOE) eNature

Hurricanes Rocks Endangered Species Rock Hounds

Mr. Johnson’s Class

Periodic Tables Soil Webquest Tornadoes Virtual Tours Isotopes Geologic Time

Virtual Earthquake Seismograms

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/continents.html

http://webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/pangea.php

http://courses.science.fau.edu/~rjordan/phy1931/WEGENER/wegener.htm

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tectonics/pangaeabig.gif

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/acolvil/plates/appalachia_caledonia.jpg

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part5.html

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/acolvil/plates/glacial_patterns.jpg

Earth Science Almanac

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?year=2000&n=64
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
http://www.meteorshowersonline.com/
http://www.wunderground.com/US/IL/Galesburg.html

http://www.weather.com

Websites:

http://webmineral.com/ (Very useful..scroll to the bottom of the webpage and use search bar for particular mineral)

http://geology.com/minerals/mineral-identification.shtml

http://geology.com/minerals/

http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/webdogs/rocks/main.htm

http://www.mii.org/mineralphotos.html

Common uses

http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go336/talkingt/index.htm

http://www.rocksandminerals.com/uses.htm

Tantalum uses: http://www.globalissues.org/article/442/guns-money-and-cell-phones

Advertisement page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisionadvertisement

Mineral List

*Apatite*	*Antimony*	*Asbestos*
*Barium*	*Beryllium*	*Chromite* *(chromium)*
*Coal*	*Cobalt*	*Columbite*
*Copper*	*Feldspar*	*talc*
*Gold*	*Gypsum*	*Halite (Sodium chloride--Salt)*
*Iron* *Ore*	*Kaolin*	*Lead*
*Lithium*	*Manganese*	*Mica*
*Nickel*	*Opal*	*Platinum*
*Potash*	*Pyrite*	*Quartz (Silica)*
*Silica*	*Silver*	*Sodium Carbonate(Soda Ash/Trona)*
*Sulfur*	*Calcite*	*tantalum*
*Rutile*	*Vanadium*	*Zinc*