Enrichment Web Links

Reference Sources:  World Book Online. (Note: This can be used at home with the password.) Also, use "Power Library" databases including SIRS Discoverer. At school, close Internet Explorer and double-click on the Power Library icon on the desktop. At home, use Power Library databases via the Delaware County Library System webpage.

Search engines (help you to find information on any topic): Ask Jeeves for Kids, Yahooligans, KidsClick

Topics:

1. Secret codes

2. Biographies

3. Second grade research topics

4. Fourth grade research topics

5. Reading and math games

6. Bridges and other structures

7. Mysteries

8. Plants

9. Galapagos Islands

10. MiQ Smart Profile

Secret Codes

Thunk.com Secret messages for kids only!

Biographies

Be careful when you search for information about people on the internet. Always ask yourself, these questions: Who wrote this web site? Do they know what they're writing about? Can I safely rely on their information? There are some great looking sites with lots of photos and information, but if you can't tell who wrote it and where they got their information, don't trust the site! The sites linked below are written by reliable sources of information.

General search sites:

• Biography.com  
• Black Collegian's Brief Biographies of Famous African-Americans
• Distinguished Women Past and Present
• Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History (NOTE: click on "articles a-z" in upper right corner)
• History Channel's Great African Americans

Sites about famous people (in alphabetical order by last name):

Elizabeth Blackwell National Library of Medicine Site (be sure to click on "Go to Next Page" at the bottom), Gale Group Publisher's Site

George Washington Carver Princeton University Site, Iowa State Site

Mary Cassatt Boston Museum of Fine Arts Site (click on "Enter the on-line exhibition" at the bottom)

Alice Coachman National Women's History Project site

Bessie Coleman Women in Aviation Resource Center, ALLSTAR Network, Smithsonian Site 1, Smithsonian Site 2

Marie Curie American Institute of Physics Site , Nobel Museum Site

Amelia Earhart  Official Site,  Library of Congress Site, Birthplace Museum

Duke Ellington Official Site, Duke Ellington Reader excerpt

Jane Goodall Jane Goodall Institute Site (be sure to click on links on left side of web page), PBS Site

Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii State Government Site, PBS Site, Queen Liliuokalani Childrens Center Site, Online version of book written by Queen in 1898

Pocahontas Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Site, Spectrum Home and School Network Site  

Sally Ride NASA Site, NASA Site 2,  NASA Site 3, NASA Site 4 (interview)

William Grant Still Duke University Site, University of Michigan: Interview, William Zick's Site (note bibliography at bottom)   

Phillis Wheatley PBS Site, Academy of American Poets Site, Brown Foundation Site, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Daniel Hale Williams Princeton University Site, Provident Foundation

Oprah Winfrey Oprah's Site, Gale Group Publisher's Site, Academy of Achievement Site 

Second Grade Research Project Topics

Be sure to check SIRS Discoverer (through Power Library) and World Book Online. For pictures related to your topic try Google.com's image search.

1. Blue Whales Photos and video,  more photos, fact sheet 1,  fact sheet 2, fact sheet 3,  

2. DNA The Gene Scene

3. Egypt Guardian's Ancient Egypt Kid Connection, tour Egypt (modern Egypt)

4. Greek Gods Thinkquest site

5. Knights British knights, Knighthood resource library

6. Martin Luther King Photos, timeline, biography, Biography.com

7. Rocks and minerals Franklin Institute Resources (scroll down to links for rocks), Rocky the Rock Hound

8. Sahara Desert Calif. Academy of Sciences info page

9. Sharks  NOVA World of Sharks, shark attacks

10. Titanic Thinkquest site

11. Water Buoyancy basics, water quality

1.     Border Collies. Try web sites published by the following:

•    U. S. Border Collie Club: http://www.bordercollie.org/core.html

•   Border Collie Rescue: http://www.bcrescue.org/bc-page.html

•   Border Collie Society of America: http://www.bordercolliesociety.com/index.htm

•   April Quist’s site that includes references and information: http://www.k9web.com/dog-faqs/breeds/bordercollies.html

2.     Betsy Ross and the American Flag

• “The Betsy Ross Homepage” published by Independence Hall Association: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
• National Flag Foundation’s U.S. Flag Home Page: http://www.usflag.org/usflag.html
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian Facts About the U.S. Flag: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/flag.htm

3.     Cats

• There are probably millions of web pages about cats. The best thing to do is to narrow the topic and use Ask Jeeves for Kids, Yahooligans, or KidsClick  to look for information.

4.     Dolphins

• National Aquarium in Baltimore: http://www.aqua.org/animals/species/dolphin.html

• Vancouver Aquarium: http://www.vanaqua.org/visitors/faq/Aquafact/dolphin.htm

• SeaWorld: http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Bottlenose/home.html

5.     Gorillas

•   PBS: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/africa/gorilla/

• SeaWorld: http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Gorilla/home.html

• Los Angeles Zoo: http://www.lazoo.org/gorillagiver/eden.html

6.     Stars

• ThinkQuest “Stars: A Mystery of Space” (be sure to click on “parts of our site” for a list of star topics): http://library.thinkquest.org/25763/lindex.htm

• National Geographic Star Journey: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/

• Astronomy for Kids list of star links: http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/links/starlinks.htm

7.     South Korea

• Korea KidSight: http://korea.insights.co.kr/english/forkid/index.html

• South Korea Culture, History, and Religion: http://www.media.granite.k12.ut.us/Curriculum/korea/

• Statistics from the CIA Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ks.html

• Library of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/krtoc.html

8.     Zebras

• African Wildlife Foundation: http://www.awf.org/wildlives/151

• PBS: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/africa/zebra/

• International Museum of the Horse: http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/zebra.html

Reading and math games:

• 24 Challenge Play the game online!

• Gamequarium Offers several learning games grouped by category (for example, brain teasers, strategy games, etc.)

• Learning Planet This site has games grouped by grade level. It includes alphabet and math games, memory (concentration) games, online word searches, and games that require quick reflexes and hand-eye coordination.

• Funbrain Provides reading and math games.

• AAA Math Choose activities by grade level or math topic.

• Math Games Click on the "Games" icon to find the several number and strategy games including tangrams, Othello, peg solitaire and others. (Note: this is a British site which uses the word "maths" instead of mathematics!)

• CoolMath An online math amusement park!

Bridges

Bridges: Links from KidsConnect

The BridgeSite: Fun and Learning About Bridges

Build It & Bust It Design and build your own structures, then view them in 3-D!

Building Big Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, and Tunnels Explore large structures and what it takes to build them.

Other Structures

Great Wall of China (note: click on rectangle shaped link at end of last paragraph to continue virtual tour), the Pyramids of Egypt, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (which include the Great Pyramid), New York Underground, the Hoover Dam (note: this site includes a virtual tour), Tower of London, the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, other great buildings.

• Astrodome
• Pantheon
• U.S. Capitol Building
• Georgia Dome
• Building Big: Domes
• Dome uses
• Photos of domes, including Epcot Center and Climatron
• Climatron

Mysteries

MysteryNet's Kids' Mysteries "Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests."

MysteryNet's Time Line "Meet the greatest crime-solvers of all time and the men and women who created them."

Galapagos Islands

1. Map from worldatlas.com

2. Charles Darwin Foundation Photo Gallery

3. Explore Galapagos Discovery Channel's site

4. Geography

5. Wildlife gallery

6. Galapagos Conservation Trust Kid's Corner Information about the islands, marine life, bird life, and land animals

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