Pioneer+Library+Resources

__**CultureGrams**__ CultureGrams is a website that gives information about countries, states and provinces. It is separated into four sections; World Edition, Kids Edition, States Edition and Provinces Edition. The World Edition gives information about all the countries in the world. It gives fun facts, population and shows the countrys flag as well. It also gives tons of information about courtesies, lifestyle, people and society of the country. The Kids Edition is much like the World Edition except it is more kid friendly. The information tells things kids would be interested in such as what it is like to be a kid in that country and what the schools are like there. The States Edition is like the World Edition except it tells information about individual states instead. It gives fun facts, population and even common recipes for each state. Finally, the Provinces Edition gives information about the provinces of Canada. It gives fun facts, history and information about the people for each province. The quality of the information is very good and it seems to be up to date. This website is extremely easy to navigate and is very user-friendly. I would use this site as a tool to help me teach my students about the countries of the world and states of the United States. My students could use this site to help them do state reports or country reports. It would give them all the informationt they would need to give a good report on the country or state.

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World Book Encyclopedia is a web version of the actual Encyclopedia. It gives you information on countries, states and people. It also gives you tools to use when writing a research paper. There is also a section where you can look at current events. This is the good thing about using the website as opposed to the book because the book would not have the most current information in it. You can also put any word or phrase into the search area and it will bring up all the articles that relate to that subject. You can also watch videos. The information on this site seems to be very accurate and of high quality. It is easy to navigate. I could use this site to teach my children about pretty much any subject in school. I could use the pictures and videos in my class as teaching tools as well. My students could use this site to do reports or to gain extra information on subjects we have discussed. After talking about a subject, I could have my students access this site and search articles about that subject. I could have them see what additional information they could find relating to the subject.
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__**Preschool Pioneer**__ Preschool Pioneer is a preschool based site. The information on it is appropriate for preschool-aged children. This site has a different sections where children can learn letters, numbers, science and health. Each section takes you to many links of games and other websites that teach about that subject. They can play games that relate to the subjects as well. It gives suggestions of what books they can read and what shows they can watch. It is really easy to navigate, the only drawback is it may be hard for preschoolers to figure out because it requires reading, but if they had a parent helping them, it could be a fun learning experience. The information is current and it has games that would be popular with kids today. I could use this site as a supplement to my teaching. I could have my students play games that would help them learn the concepts I was teaching them. It gives them a fun way to learn. I could have my students play games and do activities from the site that related to what I was teaching them.

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