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Use for translating English into French (for Quebec poster 
project)
Babelfish - Use for translating English into French

The Cay Practice Quizzes
The Cay Practice Quizzes

Social Studies Standards
Social Studies Standards

CIA World Factbook: Information on every country
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Geography games online that can help you get ready for our tests 
and quizzes.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

Games to help you learn the European countries and capitals.  
This one includes both Eastern and Western Europe, which might be 
more than you were looking for. You can select certain regions 
using the scroll-down menu to the left of the map.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/European_Geography.htm

A blank map of Europe that you can print and use for practice.
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxeurope.htm

Australia Map Game
Australia Map Game

Explore the ancient world by prentending that you are a visitor.  
Visit as a 
merchant, a soldier, or a princess.  Pretty cool!
http://library.thinkquest.org/2840/

Learn about Alexander the Great and then play a game.
http://www.historychannel.com/alexander/

Play an interactive game in which you command your Roman legions 
to throw 
their spears (pilum) at the enemy.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/warriorchallenge/romans/interactive_flash.html

Play video clips that show what went on in the colleseum.
http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/colosseum/video/video.html

Watch video clips of the Roman army in action -- or at least of 
reenactors 
prentending to be Roman soldiers!
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/museum/romans/army_on_campaign/weap_equip/video.shtml

***** Really cool! Be a detective in ancient Rome and see if you 
can get to 
the bottom of a mysterious death. Challenging but very 
interactive!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml

Interactive game! Dress a Roman gladiator for battle and then 
watch him 
fight -- well, sort of.  How he does has to do with how well you 
choose his 
clothes and weapons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_gladiator.shtml

You wouldn't want to be a Roman gladiator!
http://www.salariya.com/web_books/gladiator/index.html

World War I -- contains audio and video clips of WWI.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/soldiers_stories_gallery.shtml

Awesome WWI sight with info on the ANZACs, Red Baron, audio clips 
of poetry 
written in the trenches, and more!
http://www.anzacs.net/index2.html

Games to help you learn the South American countries and capitals.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/South_America_Geography.htm

More on Haiti, including good pictures.
http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/

Excellent site on Mexico for kids!
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html

An even better site on Suriname, including Devil's Islands.  Lots 
of 
pictures!
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~arm/suriname.html

Excellent site on Venezuala for kids!
http://www.embavenez-us.org/kids.venezuela/geographic.situation.htm

Excellent for kids on Brazil.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,104221,00.html

Excellent kids' site on Peru
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,358684,00.html

Terrific site for kids on Argentina
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/goplaces/main/0,18606,491291,00.html

Terrific site for kids on Brazil
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,104221,00.html

Learn about the Vikings and watch mini-movies about them.  See a 
Viking village and learn about their ships!
http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fnova%2Fvikings%2F

Write your name the way the Vikings did (or at least as the 
literate ones did).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

You be the Viking!  Play this cool game and see if you can steal 
enough loot to please the Viking King.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/games/vikingquest/index.shtml

For information on climbing some of the world's great mountains.  
Includes beautiful photographs.
http://www.rmiguides.com/index.html

This Quiz will help you learn the Australian Capitals and 
Territories.
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/ausquiz.html

Australia Map Quiz: One easy, one very challenging!
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/4998/australia.html

Australia Quiz -- This one is not a map quiz, but it is good.
http://www.quia.com/quiz/126559.html

Explore Australia's Great Barrier Reef with this interactive 
site. Learn about the fish and other animals that live there.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/reef/reef1_flash.html

Try putting together this puzzle of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The 
current Dodgen record is 12 minutes, 4 seconds. Save this game 
for when you're done with the other sites. This won't help you 
study for the test.
http://www.jigzone.com/z.php?135HMD0X86C9C7

The European Union (EU)'s official website with tons of 
information and educational games for kids.
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

Additional information on the EU (European Union).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ee.html

Learn about the Euro, the common currency used by many of the EU 
member 
countries.
http://ec.europa.eu/euro/entry.html

Economics Game for kids. Tour the town and maybe learn a thing or 
two!
http://www.frbsf.org/education/fedville/

This site explores the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) 
that brought the United States into World War II.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

A blank map of Europe that you can print and use for practice.
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxeurope.htm

Chernobly Disaster
http://library.thinkquest.org/3426/

More on the Chernobly Disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Acid Rain and Germany
http://www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/environ/acid.html

More on acid rain
http://www.ypte.org.uk/environmental/acid-rain/1

Acid Rain
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/acid_rain.htm

The London Smog Disaster
http://www.eoearth.org/article/London_smog_disaster,_England

More on the London Smog Disaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2543875.stm

UK Air Quality Archive - What the United Kingdom is doing about 
air pollution
http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/what_causes.php

Information on the Chernobyl disaster from the World Nuclear 
Association
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html

Culture Grams
http://online.culturegrams.com/secure/index.php

Blank Map of Canada (Great for preparing for our map test!)
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/canada_nl.pdf

A great chart showing where different foods come from originally.
Also see:
http://open2.net/everwondered_food/culture/culture_food_origins.ht
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Food Origins Website

European Union Official Website
European Union Official Website

Economics Game for kids. Tour the town and maybe learn a thing or 
two!
Fedville Economics Website


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