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CultureGrams is one site I found fun and fascinating. This site contains information on every country, state or continent in the world. It gives not only the basic information most reports may ask students to include, but it also has fun facts, pictures, videos, and recipes that will enhance any report or presentation. Another cool thing is the Tools box. In the tools you can view graphs and tables, world time, and Distance calculator. The quality of the information is great and current. CultureGrams is very easy to navigate. I would use this site as an educator when I will teach world geography, cultural differences and world history. I would have my students use this site to do state or world culture reports.

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The Learning Express Library contains practice worksheets, tests, courses and ebooks from elementary school all the way to college levels. You have to become a registered user in order to use the site, but once that is done its fairly easy to navigate through. The site doesn’t have cute graphics to draw the attention of the younger aged groups, but as a resource to help build a child’s math or reading level it is great. I would use this site as a parent to help enhance my child’s learning experience and skill building. As an educator I would use this site to enhance my lesson plans by printing out worksheets or get test idea questions from here. The information quality is good and as I can see very current.

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The Library of Congress is a wonderful site for vast information. I love books and how great is it to have the biggest library in America available for free for everyone to use. The mission statement for this site says it all "The Library's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people." You can find any historical information for school reports on here, as well as sound recordings, maps, historic newspapers, and pictures. As a teacher this is a great site to pull resources from for lesson plans because they actually have lesson plans ready to be used. I would have my students use this site for history lessons or reports. I would also encourage my students to use this site to broaden there reading. This site has a kids and families tab that you can click on and it will take you to various subjects that would interest your child like everyday mysteries, today in history, and places in the news.The information is current and very good quality. Navigation is very easy on this site.

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