Cells Alive! - information, animations, and interactive models of cellular biology
IPL Stately Knowledge -
People and Places: United States -
States and Regions – multiple Power Point presentations for each state and D.C. -
Geography Awareness Week (16-22 November) (National Geographic) - downloadable toolkitDiscovering Collection Database - state & regions reference books available in database
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces Online Edition
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States 7th ed.
Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States 5th ed.
Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces 5th ed.
Discovering Multicultural America
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Connecticut Government (State of Connecticut) - describes the state executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
10 Fast Facts on the Constitution (National Constitution Center) - interesting factoids from 1787 to the present day.
Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (U.S. General Printing Office) - describes the history and laws of the federal government.
The Great State Race (Time for Kids) - online game tests your knowledge of our 50 states.
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Reference & Independent Study Tools
iConn Subscription Databases
InfoTrac Junior Edition - periodical database with access to over 300 of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and about 50 online reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. CLICK HERE for off-campus access instructions. 
Dicovering Collection -history, literature, science, social studies, and more; search reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. Browse through popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.CLICK HERE for off-campus access instructions.
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910 Blackbirch Kid’s Visual Reference of the World, 2001 - Graphs, charts, maps, and photos that cover the most important and interesting facts about every country on the planet. CLICK HERE for off-campus access instructions.
973 Blackbirch Kid’s Visual Reference of the United States, 2003 - Graphs, charts, maps, and photos that cover the most important and interesting facts about every state in the country. CLICK HERE for off-campus access instructions.
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Subject Directories of Internet Sites Selected by Experts
IPL KidSpace - internet sites selected by librarians from the U. of Michigan School of Information and Drexel U.'s College of Information Science and Technology.
Kids Click! - created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, intended to guide users to good sites
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Ask for Kids - kid-friendly way for kids to search online, using "natural language" technology, allowing searches to be phrased as plain-English questions; combines human editorial judgment, age-appropriate feature content and filtering technology Each Web site included in Ask for Kids is selected by an editor. "We include only "G-rated" pages and those written specifically for children. We select sites for the quality and depth of their content, and for safety."
Yahoo! Kids - edu-tainment site with a few sections devoted to brief encyclopedic entries on topics such as science, space, animals, etc., selected web sites, plus a search tool.
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