The Children's Butterfly Site - photos, information, activities.
Butterflies and Moths of North America (Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center)
The Butterfly Conservatory (American Museum of Natural History) - downloadable videos from the exhibition, butterfly garden instructions
The Butterfly Web Site - excellent photo gallery
North American Butterfly Association - photos, quizzes, information
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Holidays Around the World (World Book)
Earth Calendar - day book of holidays searchable by date, country, religion
Culture Quest World Tour (IPL) - brief descriptions of holidays organized by country
Holidays Around the World (Social Studies for Kids) - brief descriptions of holidays with links to related sites
Groundhog Day (2 February)
http://www.gojp.com/groundhog/
http://wilstar.com/holidays/grndhog.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/groundhogday/
http://www.friesian.com/grndhog.htm
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/2.1.96/facts.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/97/1.30.97/groundhog_research.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan97/groundhog.day.ssl.html
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit2/time.html
http://www.professor-astronomy.com/blog/2008/02/thats-right-woodchuck-chuckers-its.html
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Why Do Leaves Change Color? (Kids Science News Network, NASA) - background information plus short video on fall leaf color changes presented by kids in a news report format.
Autumn Leaf Collection Templates (KidZone) - downloadable, printable color pages for several major varieties of fall leaves, with identification information and place to mount specimen leaf.
Maine's Autumn Magic: How Leaves Reveal Their Fall Colors (Dept. of Conservation, Maine) - animated video illustrates life cycle of leaves and color change chemistry; see also Photo Gallery page for slide show of Maine foliage.
EEK! A Tree's True Color: Why Do Leaves Change Color (Environmental Education for Kids, Dept. of Natural Resources, Wisconsin) - kid-friendly explanations and illustrations of fall leaf color cyles.
The Fall Colors of Some of Connecticut's Trees (Dept. of Environmental Protection, Connecticut) - convenient table of colors.
"Rainbow on the Bough", Outdoor Indiana, Sept. 2005 (Dept. of Natural Resources, Indiana) - the science of leaf color change with excellent schematics of cellular chemical changes, plus species color chart.
Autumn Leaf Color: Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall? (Science Made Simple) - detailed basic explanation of leaf color chemistry with experiments.
Autumn Colors: How Leaves Change Color (U.S. Forestry Service) - explains leaf color chemistry and life cycle, with detailed graphic representation of cellular structure of leaf.
Autumn Forest and Landscape Color (Kim D. Coder, U. of Georgia) - guidelines for predicting fall leaf color production and peaks for yellow, orange, and red shades.
Leaf Color From Science News for Kids Sept. 27, 2006, in Kids Discover database 
, Document Number: A152642189
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Why Do Magnets Work? (Kids Science News Network, NASA) - background information plus an animated video illustrates why only certain substances are attracted to magnets, told in a newsbreak format.
Does an Electro-Magnet Work Like a Regular Magnet (Kids Science News Network, NASA)
"Magnetism." UXL Encyclopedia of Science. 2nd ed. Detroit: U*X*L, 2002. Discovering Collection . Thomson Gale Document Number EJ2167000618; topic overview.
"Magnetism." Experiment Central. Ed. John T. Tanacredi and John Loret. Vol. 3. Detroit: UXL, 2000. Discovering Collection . Thomson Gale Document Number EJ2121000025; includes background information and experiments.
"Electromagnetism." Experiment Central. Ed. John T. Tanacredi and John Loret. Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2000. Discovering Collection . Thomson Gale Document Number EJ2121000014; incudes background information and experiments..
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Simple Machines (Edheads) - interactive games demonstrate effects of pulleys, wedges, levers, gears, inclined planes, wheels, axles, and screws as machines that affect the energy used to do work.
Compound Machines (Edheads) - extends principles of simple machines when used together.
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Food Webs, Food Chains, & Biomes
World Biomes - illustrations and explanation of 5 of the major world biomes
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? (Science Bob) - basic description and illustration of concepts
Food Chains and Webs - illustrated definitions with interactive "Create a Food Web" feature.
Chain Reaction: Build A Food Chain (Earth Day Canada) - online game illustrating food chain relationships
Another Link in the Food Chain (Geography4Kids) - describes and illustrates sequence of producers, consumers, and decomposers
Bioshpere: Land Biomes (Geography4Kids) - describes and illustrates features of some biomes;
Biomes of the World: What's it Like Where You Live? (Missouri Botanical Garden) - images and information from rainforest, tundra, taiga, dessert, temperate, grasslands.
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My Brain is Me (Neuroscience for Kids, U. of Washington)
Neuroscience Coloring Book (Neuroscience for Kids, U. of Washington)
The Brain Game (Neuroscience for Kids, U. of Washington)
Short Term Memory Test (Neuroscience for Kids, U. of Washington) - online memory test using small series of letters
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"Your Amazing Body Clock" by Karen Kawamoto McCoy. Children's Digest, Jan. 2000: 20-22. 
Kids InfoBits Document Number: A58575989
"Your internal clock." (how biological rhythms affect the body) / Dana Nourie, Children's Digest Sept 1995 v45 n6 p12(2). Kids InfoBits Document Number: A17291525
Can Plants Tell Time [Gr. K-2] (Science Museum of Virginia) - experiment
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Connecticut Government (State of Connecticut) - describes the state executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (U.S. General Printing Office) - describes the history and laws of the federal government.
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Properties of Matter and Chemical Reactions
National Chemistry Week Experiments (Chemical Institute of Canada) - collection of information resources, experiments for grades 1-3.
National Chemistry Week Experiments (Chemical Institute of Canada) - collection of information resources, experiments for grades 4-6.
Kitchen Chemistry (Zoom! PBS) - experiments to try online and in a real kitchen.
ChemShorts for Kids (Chicago Section, American Chemical Society) - archive of ten years of experiments.
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Weather Watch (Scholastic) - online games, experiments, interviews, and background information on weather facts, forecasting, and extreme weather.
Kids Weather (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - information and online activities.
Owlie Skywarn (NOAA) - safety tips for kids in severe weather.
Weather Web: Resources for School (Rosalind Kam, U. Michigan) - maps, forecasting, and weather folklore.
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Reference & Independent Study Tools
Kids' InfoBits - Connecticut Digital Library database for Primary students; browsable and searchable text and images from reference books, magazines, newspapers, maps, flags, charts, graphs, photos and illustration; CLICK HERE for off-campus access instructions.
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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.
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.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2000 - Facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century.
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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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