Hi Marcia,
I did an Olympic-theme project with my 6th graders and found that
www.factmonster.com was easy to navigate and was very kid-friendly. Flags and maps
of each country can be easily copied and pasted into their projects or PowerPoints.
Good Luck.
Judy Boshnack
TA Harborfields CSD
Greenlawn, NY 11740
MLS Student-CW Post
boshnackj@harborfieldscsd.org
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From: Marcia Dressel [mailto:dressel@OSCEOLA.K12.WI.US]
Sent: Tue 2/6/2007 4:48 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Cc:
Subject: TARGET: ELEM: fav nation websites
Our big fifth grade research project has my students finding information about
countries/nations from a variety of sources. I've taught them about some
kid-friendly search engines, but would also like a quick stash of websites on this
topic in case I need to short-cut the search (time is of the essence as we move
through the last weeks with only 35-minute periods and no lab access until March -
you understand, I'm sure) for some stragglers or nervous searchers.
To that end,
HAVE YOU COME ACROSS ANY GOOD SITES with INFORMATION ABOUT NATIONS?
please share.
Thanks.
P.S. I will, of course, post a HIT!
P.P.S. What's the difference between "country" and "nation"? We've noticed that
the World Almanac for Kids table is labeled "Nations".
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Marcia Dressel, K-5 Librarian
Osceola Elementary and Intermediate Schools
Osceola, WI
dressel@osceola.k12.wi.us <mailto:dressel@osceola.k12.wi.us>
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