MORRISTOWN-HAMBLEN LIBRARY
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Oprah's Book Club: http://www.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing.jhtml
Crafts/Worksheets/Activities
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/craftprojectsbytheme: Find a large selection of free craft projects sorted by theme. Make crafts related to everything from animals to transportation. Perfect to help you plan a special birthday party or add a creative touch to your lesson plans.
www.abcteach.com: This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free Printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets. Subscription required for many of the resources, however much of it is free to visitors.
www.activitiesforkids.com: ActivitiesForKids.com provides information regarding family activities, childcare, private schools, after school activities, and products and services for your children, all within your state or area code.
www.atozkidsstuff.com: Offers free lessons and activities for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers, and School-Age children. This sight also includes links to reviews of Children's music, movies, and books.
http://childfun.com: Provides craft ideas, printable coloring pages, and other activities parents can do with young children.
www.coloringbookfun.com: A division of childfun.com, ColoringBookFun is still the largest free coloring page site on the internet.
www.coloringpages.net: Free Printable Coloring Pages - You can choose from hundreds of printable coloring pages for kids!
www.crayola.com: Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time.
http://www.dltk-kids.com: DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of your children's favorite cartoon characters.
www.enchantedlearning.com: Produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Full of craft ideas, coloring pages, and other reproducables.
www.familyfun.go.com: Great ideas. Practical advice. Fun stuff to do. Lots of activities and crafts sorted by theme or age group.
http://www.first-school.ws: First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6).
www.ivyjoy.com: Coloring books, lots of links, and a coloring sheet search engine.
READER'S ADVISORY/BOOKLISTS
www.thebestkidsbooksite.com: An interactive media channel where books, crafts, podcasts, online video, and web sources intersect.
www.dawcl.com: "The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards."
www.cmlkids.com: The Columbus Metropolitan Library's kid's page. The "Discover New Books" link has great lists of books appropriate to all age groups.
www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org: "Children's Literature Network provides connection, encouragement, education, camaraderie, and programming for adults who are passionate about encouraging kids to read." Includes booklists, authors birthdays and bios, and will even host author illustrator's pages. Does ask for membership but is not required to use the site.
www.carolhurst.com: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
www.anchoragelibrary.org: The Anchorage Alaska Public Library website. Under Guides, go to Kids. Booklists include 3 Year Olds & Under, 3-5 Year Olds Part II, Battle of the Books 2006/2007, Beginning Chapter Books, Caldecott Awards, Dinosaur Books, Letter Literature, Awards, Titles, Historical, If you like Harry Potter...,Once Upon a Heroine, Picture Books by Themes, Read It, Story Packets
www.literatureplace.com: A variety of literature-based resources and purchase options for teachers, school librarians, parents, and homeschoolers. Provides access to the most comprehensive collection of hands-on instructional resources that support the reading of whole books. The database is available for use by visitors, however, the resources for program must be purchased. Offers a subscription.
http://nancykeane.com/rl The most comprehensive booklist site available (In my opinion). ATN (All Together Now) reading lists were started in 1996 for librarians not only to use as a resource but to contribute as well.
http://librarygoddesses.pbwiki.com We all have booklists, we all create booklists...So, let's share them...in one place which is easily accessible to anyone and everyone all the time. Collaborate and share your knowledge of books with other librarians from across the US and Canada.
www.bookadventure.com: Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. Visit the Teacher's Lounge link to find links to lists including Lists, Awards, and Reviews.
www.bookwink.com: Bookwink is devoted to recommending the very best books for kids and teens in Grades 3 through 8.
http://www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net/predictable_books.htm Predictable books make use of rhyme, repetition of words, phrases, sentences and refrains, and such patterns as cumulative structure, repeated scenes, familiar cultural sequences, interlocking structure and turn-around plots. These stories invite children to make predictions or guesses about words, phrases, sentences, events and characters that could come next in the story.
www.guysread.com: Jon Scieszka's website. He says, "Guysread is a web-based literacy program I've made to help boys find stuff they like to read."
www.hbook.com: The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children's and young adult literature.
http://www.hedgehogbooks.com: Led by Vanya Jackowski, Hedgehog Online Children's Bookstore is the brainchild of teachers who passionately believe that reading aloud to children will set them on a life-long journey of learning and exploration. Their teacher reviews will help you choose the best books for your children
http://www.helpingbooks.lib.oh.us/: Helping Books Connection is a resource center compiled to assist families and caring adults with finding and using quality children's literature as a tool for individual and group discussion activities.
www.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp: The What's Next database helps you search series fiction. A series is two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
http://www.kidsreads.com/: Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors.
www.literatureplace.com: Makes available a variety of literature-based resources and purchase options to teachers, school librarians, parents, and home-schoolers. One of the the most comprehensive collections of hands-on instructional resources that support the reading of whole books.
www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians: Random House vendor's website; has some great search tools.
www.waterborolibrary.org/bklistj.htm: Booklists for children. A comprehensive list sorted by theme. A great resource for librarians, parents, and children.
REFERENCE/NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE RESOURCES:
The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) now provides full-text content of Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Knoxville News-Sentinel, and The Tennessean (Nashville). Click here to access the newspapers.
EBSCO's Points of View Reference Center is now
available. Points of View Reference Center is a
full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of
a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint
Access is now available to "America's News Magazines," a small browsing collection of popular magazines. Click here to access the collection.
United States Government Agencies First Gov for Consumers: www.consumer.gov White House: www.whitehouse.gov Fed Stats-Statistics from 100 U.S. Federal Agencies: www.fedstats.gov Internal Revenue Service: www.irs.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov Social Security Administration: www.ssa.gov
State of Tennessee Government
Official Site for State of Tennessee: www.state.tn.us Tennessee Blue Book: www.state.tn.us/sos/bluebook
Hamblen County Government
Hamblen County Government: hamblencountygovernment.us
*Disclamer: The material and links at this site are intended for educational purposes and should not be construed as medical advice or instruction. Consult your health professional for advice relating to a medical problem or condition.
Medline Plus-Free consumer health site with over 650 topics in both English and Spanish from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health: www.medlineplus.gov
NIH Senior Health-Health information for seniors from the National Institute of Health. Special features include changing text size, contrast, and turning on speech: nihseniorhealth.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov-Information on federally and privately supported clinical research: clinicaltrials.gov
NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine): nccam.nih.gov
AARP: www.aarp.org
American Heart Association-Covers all aspects of heart disease and stroke: www.americanheart.org
Cancer.gov-Quality cancer information on cancer topics: cancer.gov
Dirline-Online directory of over 8,400 health-related organizations and other resources: dirline.nlim.nih.gov
DrugDigest.org-Provides information on pharmaceuticals, interactions, and herbals: www.drugdigest.org
Familydoctor.org-Information written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals: familydoctor.org
Healthinfo Express at Your Library--Free service provided by the Quillen College of Medicine Library at ETSU: com.etsu.edu/medlib (click on Consumer Health Information/Send Us Your Consumer Health Question)
It's a Sistah Thing--Fibroid Free is the Way to Be-Information on Fibroids, and especially African-American women who have fibroids: www.sistahthing.com/index1.html
Patientinform.org-Up-to-date research about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes: www.patientinform.org
Health Information Tennessee-Provides online access to official State of Tennessee data for births, deaths, population, nursing home and hospital facilities: http://hit.state.tn.us
General Genealogy Sites
Genealogy.com-From Family Tree Maker: www.genealogy.com Ancestry.com (requires membership)-www.ancestry.com Family Search-Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This site has an extensive database of helpful genealogy tools and family trees: www.familysearch.org Rootsweb-Free online source for genealogy tools and family trees: www.rootsweb.com Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: www.cyndislist.com U.S. GenWeb: www.usgenweb.com
United States Statistics and Data Sites
Ellis Island Passenger Records: www.ellisisland.org Social Security Death Index: ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com United States Census Bureau: www.census.gov United States Vital Statistics-Birth, death, marriage, and divorce information: www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm
Tennessee History/Genealogy Sites
Tennessee State Library and Archives: www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital Tennessee Civil War Source Book: www.tennessee.civilwarsourcebook.com Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: tennesseeencyclopedia.net Tennessee County and City Links: www.tennessee.gov/tsla/links.htm
Hamblen County Genealogy
Hamblen County, Tennessee Genealogy: www.tngenweb.org/hamblen
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**Please note that the Learning Express Library's website requires a username and password to access the materials. You need to stop by the Morristown-Hamblen Library and pick up a bookmark that has the required information on it in order to access the site.**
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