Webquests and Pathfinders

Countries around the world project

1. Altapedia online

2. BBC Country profiles

3. CIA World Factbook

4. Country Reports

5. Infoplease countries around the World

6. Librarians' Internet Index

7. The Library of Congress: Global Gateway

8. Worldwide Gazeteer

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Central American and Southern American animals (Mrs. Paul and Mr. Conroy)

1. San Diego Zoon Animal Bytes

2. National Geographic Animals

3. Creatures beneath the Canopy

4. Amazonia - The Smithsonian National Zooligical Park

South American Countries

1. CIA World Factbook

2. Altapedia online

3. BBC Country profiles

4. Country Reports

5. Librarians' Internet Index

6. The Library of Congress: Global Gateway

7. Worldwide Gazeteer

8. Global Edge

9. Time for Kids - Chile

10. Time for Kids - Ecuador

11. Kid's Place at the Internet Public Library

12. World Atlas.com

Evaluating the Internet (Mrs. Blauvelt)

1. Evaluating Internet Sites 101 - Albany Libraries - fun tutorial on how to evaluate internet websites.

2. DHMO Homepage - Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division

3. Boilerplate, the Victorian Era Robot

4. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Endangered Animal

5. National Women's History Project

6. All about Explorers

Five Themes Tour - Google Earth - (Mrs. Picard)

1. Country Reports

2. Journey to Planet Earth - PBS

3. Altapedia

4. CIA -World Factbook

5. Librarians' Internet Index - Regions of the World

6. National Geographic photography

Amendment pathfinder (Mrs. Meiszenthal)

1. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for kids

2. Amendment webquests

3. U.S Constitution online.

Vermont Natural Resources (Mr. Towle)

1. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

2. Vermont Natural Resources Council

3. United States Department of Resources - Natural Resources Conservation Service

4. Lake Champlain Land Trust

5. Conservation Law Foundation - advocacy for New England's natural resources

6. Lake Champlain Ecosystem

7. Air Pollution Control Division

8. Vermont Division of Foresty

9. National Resource Defense Council

10. Vermont Fish and Wildlife

11. National Geographic Human Impact -flooding, deforestation, ozone, and overpopulation

12. Lake Champlain Basin program

13. Environmental Literacy Council

14. Journey to Planet Earth - PBS

15. Department of Agriculture - The Forests of the Green Mountain State

16. Vermont Maple Syrup

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop- Ms. Ainsley

1. Child Labor in New York City tenements

2.Teaching with documents: Lewis Hine

3. American Treasures of the Library of Congress

4. Kid Info: Industrial Revolution

5. Spartacus Education: Industrial Revolution - information about cotton, mills, textiles, etc

6. Child Labor - The History Channel

7. Samuel Slater - Father of the American Industrial Revolution

8. Child Labor Coalition

9. Child Labor in U.S. History

10. Population Facts

11.. The Flow of History - immigration in Vermont from 1840-1930

12. Custom Woolen Mills

13. History of photography

14. The Daguerreotype

15. Mill Village and Factory

16. Vermont Heritage Network

17. Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District

18. Molly Stark ByWay

19. Searching for Addie

20. "Through the Mill" - Addie Card

21. Lewis Hine biography

Ms. Meisenzhal's biography research

1. The Library Spot

2. Internet Public Library -biographies

3. Civil War biographies

4. American Library Association - biographies

5. Ohio History Central

David Bailey's sustainability

1. The Green Power network

2. Green Power Partnership

3. Environtmental Defense fund - why is it better to buy green electricity?

4. Green Energy News

5. NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory - learning about renewable energy

6. Organic Food Info.net

7. Organic.org

8. Sustainable Table

9. Organic Consumers Association

10. Earth911.com

11. Recycle city

12. How to go green: Recycling

13. National Recycling coalition

14. Troubled waters

15. Natural Resources Defense Council

16. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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