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Lots of Great Links for Students (and Teachers, too!)

GENERAL SITES

http://www.planetpals.com
The International Kids Club promotes peace on this site with its craft projects, world clock, games, learning activities, information on countries, flags, languages, etc.

http://www.geographic.org
Lots of information about countries and geography, with tons of maps of the world, regions, and individual countries.

http://travel.mongabay.com
With photos of the world, by country, this is a very nice site aiming to ”raise interest and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife”

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations
Go to this excellent site and choose your country

http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Like the magazine, this site is for all ages

http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids
Information about the Peace Corps and Peace Corps countries, just for kids

http://www.factmonster.com
As it says, a place to find facts

GUATEMALA

http://www.guatemalaontheweb.com

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
Search Guatemala in Homework Help

http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids/world/iac/guatemala.html

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/mayastor.html

Information about the Maya

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/
central-america/guatemala

http://www.mayaparadise.com/index.htm

http://www.mediamessage.com/kayton/
GirlScouts/bracelet.htm
Directions for making friendship bracelets in different designs

http://www.makingfriends.com
This site has directions about making friendship bracelets, too

TURKEY

http://www.lonelyplanet.com
Go to Turkey for information

http://www.turizm.net
Lots of information for both tourists and students

http://www.tourismturkey.org
This very good site of the Ministry of Tourism has many links to other sites about Turkey

http://www.about-turkey.com
Good site, lots of information, many links

http://www.turkey.org culture
In this Embassy of The Republic of Turkey web site, go to the Arts and Culture section for folk tales, folklore, etc.


MADAGASCAR

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madagascar/expedition
A very good site based on a Nova program, it is fairly sophisticated and some parts (legends, etc.) could be a bit scary for some children (and some adults, too)

http://www.air-mad.com/index.html
Air Madagascar’s site, with lots of information and links

http://www.savethelemur.org
The Madagascar Fauna Group is a consortium of zoos and related institutions across Europe, Africa, the United States and Australia dedicated to protecting the wildlife of Madagascar, particularly lemurs

http://www.embassy.org/madagascar
Site of the Embassy of Madagascar

http://www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar
This interactive web site that features information on Madagascar's exotic fauna (produced by PBS)

http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/
madagascar2.htm
A very “kid friendly” site, with all sorts of cool things and links

COSTA RICA

http://www.cocori.com
All about Costa Rica

http://www.visitcostarica.com

CHINA

http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
Very detailed information about every aspect of China, from politics to popular culture, visual art, Chinese language, cooking, etc.

http://www.chinaknowledge.org
This site calls itself “a universal guide for China studies.” It contains a lot of information and pictures about Chinese visual art, architecture, literature, music, history, etc. A lot of information and lovely graphics,

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html
A good, kid-friendly site with a lot of links to things such as how to use chopsticks, Chinese games, virtual tours of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, and many others.

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year.htm
Many activities, games, etc. The main page has a lot of ads, but, once you scroll down, there is a lot of fun stuff to explore and use.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/china.shtml
The Enchanted Learning site has a lot of China related pages and activities. Try enchantedlearning.com/school/China/numbers to learn to write Chinese characters and to say the numbers one to ten in Chinese. You can also find information on the Great Wall of China, pandas, Chinese inventions, and much more. Some material is available only to subscribers, but there is a lot available to everyone.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandasForKids/default.cfm
A wonderful, wonderful site about giant pandas in general, as well as about the three pandas at the National Zoo in Washington. There are many photos of the pandas and even a panda cam!. Definitely worth a visit.

ITALY

http://www.italiantourism.com

www.italcultny.org
Institute of Italian culture (NY)

http://www.mi.cnr.it/WOI/woiindex.html
Window on Italy, worth a “look see”

http://www.disini.com.my/italy/cultures

http://www.italynet.com
A good site with all the current news and cultural happenings in and about Italy, and more

http://www.virtualitalia.com
This Department Of Tourism website is very full site with a lot more information than most government sites

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/italy

Interesting Links for Teachers

http://www.aneki.com
Tons of information about every country and region in the world, with lists of things such as the Poorest Countries in the world, the countries where people watch television the most hours in a week, etc.

http://www.ratsimandresy.org/namana.html
The Friends of Madagascar website has Madagascar-related web links, plus pictures and articles about Madagascar written by people from many different countries

http://www.terminalia.org/mad/index.htm
Excellent site about a man’s bike tour through Madagascar, with great photos

http://www.iearn.org
Connecting teachers, students, and schools around the world, this site has many interesting projects in progress, and although there is a membership fee, it’s worth checking out

http://www.cocori.com/netkids/crnk.htm
You might want to monitor this in some way, but this site provides pen pals (e-mail pals?) with kids of the same age in Costa Rica.

http://www.peacecorpswriters.org
Fascinating stories written by returned Peace Corps volunteers, with most of the Toolbox countries represented

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
A really wonderful site with games, information, homework help, articles about animals, countries, nature, etc., experiments, and so much more – with pages just for teachers, too!

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
Not only does this site give you times around the world, it also lists every country and their national capitals

http://www.kinderstart.com/societycultureenvironment/
religions/islam.html
This excellent site about Islam has too much information to use, but it answers many questions that students and teachers may have

 

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