What is the status of Pluto?

• Apollo 11 
• Astronomy for Kids

CPL Databases

• Electric Library Elementary Click on the "Topics" tab at the top of the page.

Test your knowledge of the Harry Potter books with this cyber challenge. The following websites may be helpful in answering these questions:

• Harry Potter This is the official site from Scholastic Books. 
• Harry Potter Movies The official Warner Bros.

• About Islam and Muslims
  
• Bible Based Coloring Pages
• Bible Gateway
• Catholic Online Saint Site

Dictionaries

• American Sign Language Dictionary
• Picture Dictionary
• Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
• Morse Code & Phonetic Alphabets
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Webster's Dictionary
• AllWords.com
• Acronym Finder

Maps

• Atlapedia Online — full-color country and world maps
• Blank State Outline Maps
• Color Landform Atlas of the U.S. — plus satellite image

General Information and Common Assignment Topics

• Accelerated Reader BookFinder
• Country Reports
• History — American and World History
• Insects
• Inventors/Inventions
• Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Native American Crafts & Tribes
• Religion

Kids Databases

• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia — searchable e-book about animal behaviors and characteristics
• World of Earth Science — searchable e-book about earth science

Directions: Print out dinosaur finger puppets. Color and cut out each puppet on the dotted lines. Use a pencil to punch a hole through the center of the circles. Place your first two fingers through the holes of a puppet to form the legs. Make the puppet move by moving your fingers. You can tell a story with your puppets.

Brontosaurus (bront-a-SAWR-us)

Stegosaurus (steg-a-SAWR-us)

American History

General American History

• American Memory — from the Library of Congress
• America's Story
• American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island)
• Ellis Island — from the History Channel
• From Revolution to Reconstruction
• Historical Maps of the United States
• New Bedford Whaling Museum — online exhibits about the history of whaling
• Recipes from US History

Colonial History (1492-1775)

• 1492 Exhibit

General Facts

• Facts About Michigan — from EnchantedLearning.com
• Kids' Stuff from the Michigan Historical Museum
• Michigan — from A to Z Kid Stuff
• Michigan Facts — from WorldAtlas.com

Animals and Plants

• Michigan Frogs & Toads — with pictures of each species
• Threatened & Endangered Species of the Great Lake States

History and Landmarks

• Detroit Historical Society

Every year, there is a huge assignment in the Canton middle schools to do a report on a Renaissance topic. Some of these sites are aimed at older students than what you normally find on the Kids pages, so the reading levels are higher.

Book Lists & Award Winners

Kids Book Lists are useful for finding great books. Use the detail page to browse by Topic or Genre.

Multi-Country Web Sites

• Altapedia Online
• AfricaFocus: Sights and Sound of a Continent
• Countries of the World (from InfoPlease almanac
• Countries of the World
• CPL Kids' Cooking Page: World Cuisines
• Culture Quest World Tour
• Focusing on Flags of the World
• Latin America
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• National Flags

• AnneToon.com
• Apple Corps
• Barbie Games
• Become an M&M
• Club Penguin
• CyberChase Games Central
• Dance Mat Typing
• Funbrain
• Games Kids Play
• Learning Planet
• Mancala
• Neopets
• Paw Island