Information Station

LINKS *

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ProQuest and ELibrary
A huge data base of magazines and journals.
Try ELibrary Elementary for kids or ProQuest for adults.
Get the login and password from your librarian or teacher.
CultureGrams
Information on Countries, States, and Provinces.
Ask you librarian or teacher for the login and password.

World Conflicts Today
Information about what's happening in the world right now.
Ask your librarian or teacher for the login and password.

Whatcom County Library
Bellingham Public Library

The WebQuest Page

Go in through the "Portal"

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, and was outlined then in Some Thoughts About WebQuests.

from http://webquest.sdsu.edu/overview.htm and http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html

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Butterflies and Bugs

Children's Butterfly Site : Activities and Information.

All About Butterflies: Enchanted Learning's Butterfly Book Activities.

BillyBear4Kids: Games, puzzles, pictures, lots of butterfly activities.

Pop-up Butterfly: Demonstrate an emerging butterfly using toilet paper rolls.

The Butterfly Web Site: Bibliography and butterfly gardens.

Butterfly sites: list from edtech

Yukon Butterflies: school site with some videos. The J-Shape movie shows an emerging Painted Lady

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Native Americans

Skokomish summer village (Library of Congress) Edward Curtis photo

Edward Curtis Photos: Practice visual literacy by collecting information from these photos of Native Americans at the turn of the 20th Century.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Blackfoot Interpretive Center, Alberta

The Makah Nation Includes photos of Cape Flattery Trail

http://canoes.engr.washington.edu/notebook/ Burke Museum Interactive Lesson with Native Language

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ethnology/resources_nwcanoes.php Burke Museum

PLAINS INDIANS--use to practice site evaluation

http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/native.htm

http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/firstnations/

http://www.bbhc.org/pim/index.cfm

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports4/plains.htm

NORTHWEST INDIANS--use to practice site evaluation

http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/nwindian.htm

http://www.indians.org/articles/northwest-coast-indians.html

http://indians.org/About_Us/about_us.html

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports3/northwest.htm

http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html

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Colonial America

Jamestowne Society: History of Jamestowne

America's Homepage: Information on Plymouth including museum tours.

Jamestown Rediscovery: Preservation Society information on history and people.

Jamestown Virtual Colony: A resource for teaching about Jamestown.

The Colony at Roanoke by Ralph Lane 1586

Nova Britania Original documents to promote Virginia 1609

Virginia Richly Valued Original document to promote Virginia 1609

Three Colonial online research projects: Bellingham School District Grade 5

Colonial Times: Think Quest

Colonial Occupations

Jump Back in Time: Short informational articles

Social Studies for Kids: New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies--
Characteristics of the Colonies (comparisons)

Life in British Colonies: A School Site

NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

A Colonial Family and Community: The Daggets family in Coventry Connecticut early 1700s

Old Sturbridge Village: Massachusetts

MIDDLE COLONIES

Colonial Kids, A Celebration Life in the 1700s: Colonial kids in Southern Pennsylvania

The Middle Colonies: History

SOUTHERN COLONIES

Colonial Williamsburg: People, places and life

Colonial Williamsburg Trades: Jobs

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Internet and Computer

Yahooligan's Glossary Definitions of tech terms

Welcome to the Web Lessons and activities

Internet 101 Learn about the Internet

CyberSmart Lessons and activities

Web Evaluation:

Mankato MN--Could this be real? Evaluate this site!

Tree Octopus and more

Teaching Web Site evaluation with Hoax Sites

WebQuest on evaluating Web Sites

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators information on Web Site Evaluation

Do We Really Know Dewey?

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Research

Electric Library Search magazines, encyclopedias, and other information sources (From home you will need login and password--Ask your teacher or librarian.)

Yahooligans Lots of fun and information for kids

Yahoo: One of the first search tools. The directory is easy to search.

Whatcom County Library System Information and Catalog

KidsClick

American Memory Historical Collection of photos and primary documents from the Library of Congress

Kendall Lab Links Information for just about any research

Online Research Investigations: Bellingham School District (Curriculum based research projects for grades 3 - 9)

Encyclopedia Britannica online: Ask your teacher or librarian for long-in and password

Facthound: information and games. Use with Pebble Plus books.

Altavista: Excellent search tool for finding images online and translating web pages (Babel Fish). Advanced tools are very powerful and easy.

Ask Jeeves for Kids: Filtered content for kids. Ask why the sky is blue and see what you get!

HotBot: Excellent tool for filtered searches for dates, media, language. Complicated to use, but use for filtering searches.

Google: Considered the best and biggest index of any search engine.

DogPile: A meta-search site which allows you to search multiple sites at once. Use the Fetch button. Recommended by Harmony 5th and 6th graders.

About: A directory built by experts. The Guides offer the best of the web in thousands of categories.

Culturegrams: Countries around the world. Several levels available. Ask your librarian or teacher for the password.

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Idioms

Idiom Quizzes Self-Study Idiom Quizzes

The Idiom Connection English Idioms and Quizzes

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Baker Info Sources

Kendall Tech Lab Lots of fun links and school stuff, too.

Acme Links Information sources used in the Acme computer lab.

Curriculum Links Developed by Doug Sutton for the Mt. Baker School District

Mrs. Chelson's Class at Kendall Favorite links

Mrs. Bruntil's Acme Web Page

Mr. Anderson's Acme Web Page

Ditch-ital at Harmony

Harmony Courtyard Science

Kendall Creek Salmon Restoration from Kendall Elementary

Kendall Seismograph (at WWU)

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States

State Parks

National Park Service

Yahooligan's State Page

Name the State Map Test

Blank Outline State Maps

Map Quiz

World Almanac for Kids

Crime Rates Crime rates for the U.S. and for each state

Online Information for State Reports:

You can get to these sources at school, at home, or anywhere you can use an online computer.

General State Information

www.mtbaker.wednet.edu/elemlib

Click on Culture Grams (near the bottom of the page)
Log-in = harmon
Password = baker
Click on States Edition
Select your state from the map or from the drop-down menu
Click on Generate Citation (on the right under the faces) to get your bibliography. Copy and paste it into your electronic notes or write it on your note-card.
Click on View Detail Map as PDF for information on location and borders and climate and geography
Click on the topics from the menu on the right. Choose ones that might have information you need such as Resources and Economy.
Read the middle for interesting information.

Climate: temperature and precipitation

www.weather.com (use this for your bibliography)

In the yellow box that says Local Weather, type in the name of a city in your state (example = Atlanta, Georgia) and then hit GO
Find Averages and Records and click on it
You’ll see graphs of temperatures and precipitation
If you want to see the data in a table, click on Table Display
After you get this information, you can go back and do another city in your state so you can make a comparison graph if you want to. (Or compare it to Bellingham)

Economy, Jobs, and much more

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/ (use this for your bibliography)

Click on Chapters.
Click on United States.
Scroll down to find your state.
Click on Economy to find a table with number of non-farm jobs and what they are. Also industries, resources and farm products
Click on Land and Resources and scroll down to find a table with climate information.

General Information from many sources (this site is only available for a short time)

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits;jsessionid=8A1F7990A1944B2E7BC95B65D5578EA2?locID=k12_itke

Click on Geography
Click on US States
Click on your state
Find reference, magazines, newspapers, charts and graphs, maps and flags, and photos
- Good pie chart on industries

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Washington State and Whatcom County

Including--

Bellingham Centennial Celebration

Pioneer Era Photographs and Links

Bellingham Centennial

Curriculum Link: Bellingham's Centennial Exploring the Foundations of Our Community (Curriculum developed for Bellingham School District)

Road Trip Through WA and Vacation WA: Bellingham School District research projects grade 4

Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (Western archives--a search will bring up descriptions of materials. You can see originals at the archives or they will make copies.)

Whatcom County Museum of History and Art (Try the photo archives.)

Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma museum, including field trip information.)

Burke Museum (There are photos of Native American artifacts from North America.)

Museum of History and Industry

History Link

Secretary of State (Try the time line!)

UW Archives

American Memory Historical Collection of photos and primary documents from the Library of Congress

Acme Book Project

Whatcom County Historical Society (Biographies of Whatcom Co. folk, old newspapers--July 7, 1898: Fred ZOBRIST of Acme was knocked off his horse last week by a branch of a falling tree, and had an arm broken--early postcards, and town histories.)

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