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Overview of the Six Traits     Links for teachers and parents to access information and activities about the six writing traits http://www.nwrel.org/sixtraits/overview/overview.htm

Worldview      Includes Christmas customs and recipes for a multitude of countries. Excellent for Christmas Around the World projects
http://christmas.com/worldview/

Christmas.com     Information about Christmas customs in 200 countries
http://www.christmas.com/

Research It     Search through various dictionaries and thesauruses, look up acronyms and quotations translate English to French and Japanese and back again, figure out anagrams, word-search the works of Shakespeare, look at maps, check your stocks. A wise first stop in any search for information
http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Multnomah County Library     Biographies on African Americans, women, authors, scientist, presidents, etc. http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/biohc.html

Gale Group Black History Month Resources     Biographies of Black Americans, quiz, timeline, and activities are included in this site
http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/blkhstry/index.htm

Biography Collection     Biographies of Black Americans
http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/biolist.htm

NoodleTools     A wonderful web cite that helps create bibliographies for research papers 
Go to the Quick Cite area for the How To 
http://noodletools.com

Careers    Get the low down on a broad range of potential careers
http://www.input.demon.co.uk/careerguides.html

Careers     Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information
http://www.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm

Careers  Another part of Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information
http://www.bls.gov

Careers      Explore interesting jobs in the virtual community of workplaces 
http://www.knowitall.org/kidswork/