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The
Visual Thesaurus creates an animated display of words
and meanings — a visual representation of the English
language. The Thinkmap visualization places your word in the
center of the display, connected to related words and meanings.
You can then click on these words or meanings to explore further.
Our
new site license for Visual Thesaurus is for all members
of our learning community in grades 3-12.
12/9/05
- During the next few weeks staff and students will be receiving
instruction in the effective use of this online tool. For
now, experiment and enjoy the power of words.
E-mail Maria
Forman for a username and password if you wish to use
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LISTEN
UP VERMONT! GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM GOES DIGITAL
- Listen to your favorite audio titles at home or on the go!
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Page
DCF Blog - Thanks
to Carol Scrimgeour at the Shelburne Community School, DCF
has its own blog
If you want
to find out more about each book on the DCF book list
check out this powerpoint created by Joyce Cormier, Librarian
at
Hyde Park Elementary School. Presenting
the DCF Titles for 2007 (PowerPoint)
Need help finding
a book? Check out:
Book Hive /or/ Help
Me Find A Book
Does finding
out the origins and meanings of words and phrases entice you?
Look no further. Check
out World Wide Words.
Citing
Sources - If you are compiling a bibliography as part
of a research and/or writing assignment, we have two new tools
for you! Check out these new MLA-based citation guides.
Submit Links
The following sections of this page are links to a rich variety
of online resources for students, parents, community members and
teachers. If you find a Web resource that you would recommend
for inclusion on this page, click on submit
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50+
Great Web Sites for Kids and Parents
Recommended sites from the American Library Association for preschool
- elementary age children and their parents.
Ask
an Expert
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
- GENERAL
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian
An illustrated, multimedia encyclopedia with a wide range
of topics covered. Very shallow depth of information, best
used for the pictures within this wonderful museum.
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ALMANACS
AND STATISTICS ^Top
Information
Please
An excellent (although slower!) alternative to the print version.
Old Farmers Almanac
Census Bureau
Census
Browser
FXConverter
FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual
Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from
leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity.
Global
Statistics
Statistical
Abstracts of the United States
World
Book Factbook
Money
Central
Currency exchange rates all over the world.
Flags
50 States.Com
Contains state mottos, trees, weather, birds, colleges, flags,
crests, flowers, geology, cities, maps, nicknames, penpals, gravesites,
government symbols, etc.
City Net
World Wide
Holiday & Festival Site
THESAURI
^Top
Roget's Thesaurus
Easy to search, easy to understand
Merriam-Webster Online
An award-winning, easy-to-use dictionary plus much more! This
site also includes a National Poetry Month Web page, daily word
games and puzzles, a thesaurus, "words of the day and much more!
Virtual
Thesaurus
ATLASES
World
Factbook
Easy search by country. Statistics of country and map available.
National
Geographic
Microsoft's
Terra Server
View your neighborhood from a satellites in space! Search by place
name, geographic coordinates, map location or a prepared list
of famous places.
UT Library
Online
Excellent map site. Contains maps around the world listed by region,
as well as a section for maps of areas currently in the news.
Also has a good selection of historical maps.
DICTIONARIES
Dictionary.Com
Search includes Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNot,Free
Online Dictionary of Computing Jargon File, The Elements, Easton's
1897 Bible dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, U.S.
Gazetteer, and The CIA Worldbook Factbook.
Merriam-Webster Online
An award winning, easy to use dictionary plus much more! This
site also includes a National Poetry Month web page, daily word
games and puzzles, a thesaurus, "words of the day and much more!
The
Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
NEWSPAPERS
- UNITED STATES
The
Burlington Free Press Index
Index of articles from Jan. 1985 - July 1995 and Jan 1996 - present
The
Rutland Herald Index
Index of articles from Jan. 1984 - present
New York Times
The New
York Times Learning Network
Student Connections includes news summaries, daily news quiz,
letters to the editors, crossword puzzles, and an Ask a Reporter
link.
The Washington
Post
Christian Science
Monitor Electronic Edition
Wall Street
Journal for Kids
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KID-FRIENDLY
SEARCH ENGINES
Ask Jeeves for
Kids
Students ask questions and Jeeves serves up G-rated web pages
especially written for kids.
KidsClick!
A web search tool developed for kids by librarians.
Yahooligans
An index designed for children ages 7 to 12.
AOL Netfind/Kids Only
Kids version of America Online's search engine.
Searchopolis
Designed for children ages 10-18.
SEARCH
ENGINES
Alta
Vista
One of the more powerful search engines on the Web. Alta Vista
provides Boolean, phrase, and 'field' searching. It indexes both
Web pages and newsgroups.
Dogpile
Dogpile is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top
search engines such as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, Google,
LookSmart, Overture and many more. With one single, powerful search
engine, you get more relevant and comprehensive results. When
you use Dogpile, you are actually searching many search engines
simultaneously.
Google
A powerful but easy-to-use search engine that matches all your
search terms and lists the most relevant and important results
first. For a special search feature that focuses on U.S. government
information, click "About Google," and then click "U.S. Government."
HotBot
HotBot has a complete directory of Internet services, as well
as form-based searching. Users may save searches and personal
settings.
Lycos
Lycos is a general Internet search engine with a wide variety
of news, weather, stock, and directory services. Lycos also includes
road maps and a guide to cities.
Magellan
Magellan is the first major Web search service to review Web sites.
Results are ranked by relevance, and related sites are linked
through concept mapping. Search the whole Web or limit to Green
Light sites, which avoid potentially offensive, "adults-only"
content.
Webcrawler
Our meta-search technology digs through 13 other search engines
all at once--including FAST, Ask Jeeves, Overture and About --to
return the most relevant results with just one click. Returning
you more comprehensive results every time you search with WebCrawler.
Yahoo!
First of the major Internet guides, it offers a comprehensive
directory for searching the Web. Search by following subject links
or by entering keywords. The advanced search accepts phrases and
Boolean searches. Yahoo! also maintains metropolitan-U.S. and
foreign-language sites.
TIPS
ON SEARCHING AND EVALUATING WEB SITES
Evaluating
Web Pages: A WebQuest
Kathy
Schrock's ABC's of Web Site Evaluation
Judging
Sources
With all of the varied sources available on the Internet,
you have to judge the value of each source carefully. This page
provides you with helpful evaluation guidelines.
Internet
Detective
an interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet
resources
NEWSPAPERS
- WORLD ^Top
Newspapers
Online
This page provides an
easy to use tool for referencing the world's newspapers, including
Spain, France and Mexico.
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ARTS
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Art and Architecture
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Museums
Around the USA
Web Museum
World Wide Art Resources
American
Fidelity's Education World - Arts and Humanities
The Smithsonian Institution
National Gallery of
Art
Ceramics
Research Project Resources
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Dance, Music and Drama
The Web Project
Motion
Picture Database
Dance,
Performance and Entertainment Arts Resources
Photography
Resources
Music
Resources
The
Costume Page
WRITING
Elements
of Style
A quick reference to all the English language rules.
Online
English Grammar
CITATION
GUIDES ^Top
MLA Style Sheet (in
pdf)
MLA Samples / "Crib Sheet"
(in pdf)
Citing
Sources: The Duke Libraries
Our middle-school and high-school handbooks include basic information
about citing sources in MLA and APA style. The style for electronic
sources is constantly evolving so check out these pages for the
latest information about citing electronic sources in your work.
(To document other sources, please see our handbooks, or check
the MLA Handbook or Publication Manual of the library.
EasyBib New
Resource
The free automatic bibliography
composer. Creates
MS Word-ready MLA-style bibliographies.
EasyBib
MLA Style Guidelines
Y ou will find links that explain how to create the major types
of citations you'll use for your works cited lists. We've included
a description of the source, the structure of formatting, and
some helpful examples.
LITERATURE-GENERAL
Poetry Archives
Free full-text, classical poetry. Search by author, title, theme
or keyword.
English
Language and Literature Resources
AMERICAN
AUTHORS-COLLECTIVE
About.com
Guide to Authors
Authors are classified by ethnic or period groupings, eg. "African
Authors," "Contemporary American Authors", etc. You will discover
links to links at the site as well as links to other information
about books and literature.
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century
NY Public Library's Schomburg Center presents another outstanding
online collection. Complete texts of about 20 biographies, autobiographies,
and memoirs from the period are available here. Highly recommended.
American
Authors Site
An extensive site which includes authors by last names, eras,
literary movement and styles. Includes a photograph of the author;
primary works, online; criticism, letters and reviews; links to
"Project Muse"; and other American Literature Sites.
Index
to Internet Sites: Children and Young Adult Authors
An alphabetical listing of hundreds of authors for children and
YA's.
Internet Public
Library Author Page
Several YA authors are listed with answers to questions asked
by students.
Young
Adult Book Author
Includes an alphabetical listing of currently popular YA authors.
AMERICAN
AUTHORS-INDIVIDUALS
^Top
Judy Blume's Home Base
Students looking for information about this famous author should
stop at her official website.
Willa Cather
Sponsored by Harvard University. This website is an excellent
starting point for research on Willa Cather.
Ralph Ellison
Noted for writing Invisible Man, this site includes biographical
information and links.
William
Faulkner
American Nobel Prize winning novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Includes full text of many of his works as well as websites devoted
to his life, criticism, and links to primary source material.
Walt
Whitman
Original documents in this hypertext archive include proofs and
first editions along with scholarly annotations and notes. Biographical
information includes long signed articles neatly divided into
chapters with supplemental material.
Walt Whitman
Collection
Taken from the Library of Congress, digital reproductions give
students and teachers a true sense of the author's work. This
site is not for the casual researcher, but for the more serious
scholar.
Zora
Neale Hurston
Influential during the Harlem Renaissance and rediscovered as
a writer after her death.
BRITISH AUTHORS-COLLECTIVE
Luminarium: English
Literature, Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
Approximately 20 authors from this period are highlighted as well
as information about the period in English literature. The articles
are signed and scholarly. A bibliography is included for further
reading.
The
Victorian Web
Hosted at Brown University, this site begins with twenty broad
categories about the Victorian period. Each article is signed
and has hyperlinks to additional information within the site.
BRITISH
AUTHORS-INDIVIDUAL ^Top
Charlotte
Bronte
An extensive website that covers many aspects of the author's
life and times.
Emily
Bronte
This is a website that continues to be built, but the links that
are included are excellent and worth visiting.
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
An extensive website which covers many aspects of the author's
life and times.
Robert
Browning
Extensive website that covers many aspects of the author's life
and times.
Geoffrey
Chaucer
His life, his works and other authors of the time.
Electronic
Canterbury Tales
Compiled at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, this incredible
website includes the text utilizing a table of contents, but it
also includes the ability to read the text in various translated
forms including a simplified modern English translation. Links
to information about the Medieval period are included.
Thomas
Hardy
This site is fully outlined, but not completed yet, however the
five areas of the outline promise an excellent site.
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
A fully-developed website for this Victorian poet.
William
Shakespeare
A comprehensive look at his works; life & times; theatre; criticism;
renaissance; sources; educational best sites; and other sites.
Robert
Lewis Stevenson
Poet, novelist, and essayist is fully treated at this website.
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SCIENCE
Riverwatch
NASA
National
Geographic
National Wildlife
Federation
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Science and Technology
Weekly
Science News
Goddard Space
Flight Center
Instructional
Resources in Biology
Earthview
National Audubon
Society
Volcanoes
Tornados
Smithsonian Institute
K12
Science Resources on the Net
Cells Alive
The
Nine Planets
Frog
Dissection - Multimedia
Sites Alive - Field Trips
Chemistry
Teaching Resources
Science
Fair Central
Journey
North
A rich resource for k-12 teachers around the change of seasons
and migrations.
Animals,
Animals
Hotlinks sites from Classroom Connect to animal resources for
elementary science curriculum and student research. Hotlinks require
User ID and password. The user id and password is twinfield.
MATH
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Math
Eisenhower National
Clearing House - Grants
National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics
Mathematics
World of
Escher
Math
Art Gallery
Biographies
of Women Mathematicians
American
Fidelity's Education World - Math
Mathematics
Resources
HEALTH-PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Health and Medicine
Achoo
Health AtoZ
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Sports
American
Fidelity's Education World - Health and Phys. Ed.
Recreation,
Sports and Athletics Resources
Health
Resources
Weight
Training Links Page
Child
Nutirion Programs - State of Vermont
The Vermont Department of Education's Child Nutrition Programs
administers the federal programs that support nutritious meals
and snacks in schools, day care settings, and summer program sites.
This site provides information and support to all Child Nutrition
Programs. This site offers tools to administer the programs and
valuable information on nutrition issues that affect our children.
HISTORY
AND GEOGRAPHY ^Top
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - History and Social Studies
Holocaust
Resources
Smithsonian Institute
Thomas, The Official
Congressional Website
History/Social
Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Social
Studies Resources
The History
Channel Web Site
20th
Century History By the Decades
American
Immigration Resources
Ancient
History: General Resources
American
Fidelity's Education World - History
American
Fidelity's Education World - Social Studies
Medieval
and Renaissance Recipes
American
Civil War Homepage
Cycles
of U.S. History - 1943 to Today
Ancient
World Web
Native
American Indian Resources
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - World Geography
City.Net
Rare
Map Collection
Country
Information
Geography
Resources
The
Global Gastronomer - Cuisines of the World
Fodor's Personal
Trip Planner
The
Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
Our aim is to make the aerial reconnaissance photographs, deposited
by the UK Ministry of Defence at TARA, accessible via the internet.
You can now access 5.5 million photographs taken over occupied
Western Europe, by the Allies during World War II.
Middle Eastern Studies
Links for
1/7
Canadian
Studies
Canadian Newspapers
National Post
Globe and Mail
Montreal Gazzette
Nunatsiaq News
The Telegram
Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian Sites of Interest
National
Atlas of Canada
Canadiana
- The Canadian Resource Page
Government of Canada
VERMONT
LINKS ^Top
State of Vermont
Web Page
Offers links to information about all branches of state government,
including agencies and departments. Also provides links to maps,
schedules of events, and business and tourism information.
Vermont.Com
Travel and tourism information.
Vermont
Historical Society -Vermont History on the Web
BOOK
AWARDS AND BOOKLISTS ^Top
Dorothy Canfield
Fisher Children's Book Award Official Site
Red
Clover Book Award
The Red Clover Award is a children's choice picture book award
for students in kindergarten through fourth grade. It is a statewide
program under the auspices of the Vermont Center for the Book,
with Windham County Reads and the Vermont Departments of Libraries
and Education. Check out the list of 2000-2001 nominees.
Coretta
Scott King Award
Newbery
Award and Honor Books
ALEX
Award
Children's
Book Awards
The most comprehensive guide to English-language
children's book awards on the Internet
Honor top 10 adult books for teenagers
U.S.
Children's Book Awards
Michael
L. Printz Award
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