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
m
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