Chapman Elementary School Library

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THE FOLLOWING LINKS SHOULD HELP WITH YOUR RESEARCH AND GIVE YOU SOME GREAT SITES FOR FUN!

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Dr. Martin Luther King Smithsonian Natural History Web African Voices

ALL ABOUT ASIA Asia for Educators Asian-Pacific American Heritage Ask Asia for Students Chinese Myths and Fantasies Chinese Zodiac Page Get a Chinese Name Emperor's Terracotta Warriors The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China The Terracotta Warriors Music from China

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Cyber Sleuth's Ancient Civilizations Ancient Greece: History for Kids Greek Mythology The Baths of Ancient Rome You wouldn't want to be..... Ancient Worlds Links Ancient History Page Ancient Mesopotamia Mesopotamia according to the British Museum Mr. Dowling's Mesopotamian Info Mesopotamia Check out this page of links to Mesopotamia!

ANCIENT EGYPT British Museum's Egyptian Resources Ancient Egypt Kids Connection Snaith Primary School's Ancient Egypt History of Egypt Cleveland Museum of Arts Egyptomania Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations Ancient Egypt Student Project Little Horus Site Mysteries of the Nile Tour Ancient Egypt! Make Your Own Cartouche Terry's Egyptian Pages

ANCIENT INDIA Tales of Ancient India Welcome to India Tagore, Famous Poet of India Tour India

ANIMALS OF THE WORLD Animal Planet Homepage Ant Boy's Bug World ASPCA's Animaland Bird Central : everything about birds! Enature : for over 5,500 species! Endangered Animals Field Trip Earth Insecta Inspecta National Wildlife Federation's Kid Zone Ranger Rick San Diego Zoo Panda Cam World Wildlife Fund's Kid Stuff Zoobooks online

ART AND MUSEUMS On-Line Picasso Project The Exploratorium Lively Arts History Association Ology From The American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian for Kids Smithsonian Magazine's Kids Castle Ask an Artist! Museum Kids (Metropolitan Museum of Arts) Carnegie Museum of Natural History Sacramento Museums Visit the Web Museum of Paris to see some of the most famous paintings in the world!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT!! The Mystery  Spot Loch Ness Monster More Nessie Nessie on the Net Nova Looks at the Beast of the Loch Ness The Legend of Nessie Guinness Book of World Records Ripley's Believe It or Not

BIOGRAPHIES, OR: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?! Biography.com Abraham Lincoln for kids The Beatles! Einstein for young people Time Travel: Think Like Einstein Harry Houdini bio Harry Houdini photos (awesome) Pocahontas: Four faces Shaquille O'Neal: Larger than life Shel Silverstein.com (an awesome site)

BOOKS AND READING Amazon:  Books For Kids Books In Series Hank The Cowdog International Children's Digital Library (874 Free Books In 33 Languages) Lemony Snicket -- Unfortunately Reading Links From CPL The Lost Land, About Author Susan Cooper Grimm Tales All About Author Jean Craighead-George Lynne Reid Banks' Site Author Avi on the Web

GOING TO CALIFORNIA Tour the Capital Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians California Facts Historic Photos of California More Historic Photos of California California State Sentate City of Sacramento San Fran Cable Cars California State Assembly Virtual Museum of Sutter's Fort Welcome to California Site Weedpatch Camp

CHICO Chico Attractions Discovering John Bidwell John Bidwell A Short Bio of John Bidwell An 1890 Article by John Bidwell Official Site of the City Of Chico

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD CIA World Factbook CPL Country Databases FactMonster: Countries of the World Countries of the World InfoPlease: Countries of the World KidsClick Country Info Library of Congress Country Studies FLAGS Flags of all Countries World Flag Database

EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS The Day of the Dead Celebrating the Day of the Dead Links to Day of the Dead

DINOSAURS Natural History Museum's Dino Directory

THE GOLD RUSH All About the Gold Rush Exploring the California Gold Rush Gold Rush links and lessons A Simple Introduction to the Gold Rush Captain Sutter's Account of the Gold Rush Captain Sutter: The Discovery of Gold in California Gold Fever! San Francisco Gold Rush Chronology Gold Rush Sesquicentennial California's Untold Stories of the Gold Rush Gold Rush, PBSKids Style PBS: All About the Gold Rush Gold Rush Chronicles Fun Facts about the Gold Rush The Land of Glittering Dreams Trails to the Gold Rush Virtual California Gold Country The Gold Rush Trail Women in the Gold Rush

EN ESPANOL Visit this great list of websites in Spanish

HALLOWEEN A Girl's World Halloween Ghost Stories Halloween Ghost Stories Halloween is Here! Halloween Kids Halloween ideas from Kaboose Linda Linn's Ghost Stories The Moonlit Road NASA Halloween treat Billy Bear's Halloween Pages

EVERYTHING HARRY POTTER Sugarquill

HMONG RESOURCES View images of beautiful Hmong paj ntaub (textile art) Site from a Minneapolis school district Hmong Homepage

A HEALTHIER YOU The new food pyramid

HISTORY MADE FUN--REALLY!

IMAGE SEARCHES Pics 4 Learning Calisphere: search for primary source pictures here (great stuff)

JUST FOR FUN Build your own city @ City Creator Visit Crayola Kids for games, coloring and arts and crafts CyberKids has enough games, jokes, and brain teasers to keep you busy DiscoveryKids has games galore for you to explore! Wacky Web Tales and more can be found at Edugames FunBrain has lots of games---check it out FunSchool has games, quizzes, and polls just for you! The International Spy Museum? Sshhh, it's top secret! KidLink: a place to network with kids from around the world Check out the fun links from Kids on the Web Kidzup has many great science experiments, games, and activities Like construction vehicles? Check out Kikki's Workshop Choose your grade level and explore Learning Planet MaMaMedia is a top-rated site with games and loads of fun Oh, the fun you can find at National Geographic Kids! Visit Oriland for all kinds of paper projects, origami and more Meet up with all your favorites at PBS Kids Learn some new outdoor games to play with your friends at Streetplay! Visit "The Yuckiest Site on the Internet". Need I say more? 4Kids has fun educational games for you to try Yahooligans: your portal to great games, info and fun! Starfall

MAGAZINES ONLINE American Girl magazine Cantu Oka Online Native American Newsletter Consumer Reports magazine for Kids Kids Think Link Kids Newsroom National Geographic Kids Odyssey Science magazine Owl magazine Ranger Rick's online magazine Smithsonian Magazine's Kids' Castle Sports Illustrated for Kids Time for Kids Too Young to Vote Weekly Reader Yak's Corner Your Big Backyard's online magazine Zoobooks online

MATH : IT CAN ADD UP TO MORE FUN WITH THESE SITES! Cool math for kids Greg Tang's math links Ask Dr. Math

MUSIC, SWEET MUSIC Children's Music Archive Creating Music Learn to play the drums free Train your musical ear Guitar Noise lessons Music theory Mutopia free music pieces Teoria music theory web

NATIVE AMERICANS National Museum of the American Indian Native American Links

PLAYS and READER'S THEATRE Aaron Shepard's scripts

POETRY Erin's Poetry Page Giggle Poetry Haiku links Jack Prelutsky, poet extraordinaire Poetry from the Past Poetry 4 Kids The Poetry Zone Scholastic poet links

RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK HELP ALA's Great websites for kids America's Library B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper Encarta Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Britannica Fact Monster National Geographic's Homework Help Try Revisewise for fun games and quizzes ThinkQuest Library resources Webgrammar

SCIENCE Bill Nye, the Science Guy IPL Science Fair Project Resource Guide

SEARCHING SITES AND DATABASES Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids ALSC's Great Websites for Kids Ask Jeeves Kids Kids Click Tools Page Kids Click Web Search Yahooligans Fact Monster Cyber Sleuth Kids Search Engine Ithaki search for kids Ithaki metasearch for intermediate students Awesome Library for Kids Berit's Best Sites for Children Kids Web Google Directory for Kids and Teens TekMom's Search Net Nanny's search Page

SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER NASA Kids NASA for kids NASA for K-4 students NASA Kids en espanol NASA's Observatorium NASA's eclipse calendar Fact Monster's Astronomy and Space Exploration Amazing Space Ask the Space Scientist Astro Ranger Astronomy for Kids! Astronomy for Kids Astronomy picture of the day Build a scale model of the solar system Kids astronomy Powers of Ten: View the Universe differently Space weather Solar system simulator Star Child

STATE INFORMATION: LEARN ABOUT OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY! Classbrain Factmonster's 50 states Profiles 50states (ignore ads and find great info) Infoplease state facts Internet Public Library's Stately Knowledge Netstate - look at the column on the left for more facts!

WEBQUESTS : TAKE A TRIP AROUND THE INTERNET "Do we" really know Dewey? Lots of webquets by California Teachers Webquests for 3rd-6th graders

OUR WORLD CIA World Factbook Google Earth Iditarod Trail Race Page Visible Earth from NASA National Parks Service Official U.S. Time World Time Server Weather.Com Virtual Parks

FTO (For Teachers Only) Reconsider the new 3 R's for Real, Rich and Relevant Learning 4Teachers.org has great FREE resources to help integrate technology into your classroom Asia for Educators Bartleby Great Books Online Haiku lesson plan Check out the Internet 4 Teachers site for many great lessons Just for the Kids database Librarian's Internet Index Library Spot Marco Polo Internet Content for the Classroom Science Links for Teachers from NSTA

CHECK OUT THESE LIVE WEBCAMS OF AMAZING PLACES! Earthcam for Kids Check out WildCam Africa, a watering hole in Botswana Love bald eagles? Check out this webcam from National Wildlife