Fun Links

Global Sites

• http://www.planetpals.com
  The International Kids Club promotes peace on this site with its craft projects, world clock, games, learning activities, information on countries, flags, languages, etc.
• http://www.geographic.org
  Lots of information about countries and geography, with tons of maps of the world, regions, and individual countries.
• http://travel.mongabay.com
  With photos of the world, by country, this is a very nice site aiming to ”raise interest and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife”
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations
  Go to this excellent site and choose your country
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com
  Like the magazine, this site is for all ages
• http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids
  Information about the Peace Corps and Peace Corps countries, just for kids
• http://www.factmonster.com
  As it says, a place to find facts

Guatemala

• http://www.guatemalaontheweb.com
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
  Search Guatemala in Homework Help
• http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids/world/iac/guatemala.html
• http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/mayastor.html
  The Maya
  
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/central-america/guatemala
• http://www.mayaparadise.com/index.htm
• http://www.mediamessage.com/kayton/GirlScouts/bracelet.htm
  Directions for making friendship bracelets in different designs
• http://www.makingfriends.com
  This site has directions about making friendship bracelets, too

Turkey

• http://www.lonelyplanet.com
  Go to Turkey for information
• http://www.turizm.net
  Lots of information for both tourists and students
• http://www.tourismturkey.org
  This very good site of the Ministry of Tourism has many links to other sites about Turkey
• http://www.about-turkey.com
  Good site, lots of information, many links
• http://www.turkey.org culture
  In this Embassy of The Republic of Turkey web site, go to the Arts and Culture section for folk tales, folklore, etc.

Madagascar

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madagascar/expedition
  A very good site based on a Nova program, it is fairly sophisticated and some parts (legends, etc.) could be a bit scary for some children (and some adults, too)
• http://www.air-mad.com/index.html
  Air Madagascar’s site, with lots of information and links
• http://www.savethelemur.org
  The Madagascar Fauna Group is a consortium of zoos and related institutions across Europe, Africa, the United States and Australia dedicated to protecting the wildlife of Madagascar, particularly lemurs
• http://www.embassy.org/madagascar
  Site of the Embassy of Madagascar
• http://www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar
  This interactive web site that features information on Madagascar's exotic fauna (produced by PBS)
• http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/madagascar2.htm
  A very “kid friendly” site, with all sorts of cool things and links

Costa Rica

• http://www.cocori.com
  All about Costa Rica
• http://www.visitcostarica.com

China

• http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
  Very detailed information about every aspect of China, from politics to popular culture, visual art, Chinese language, cooking, etc.
• http://www.chinaknowledge.org
  This site calls itself “a universal guide for China studies.” It contains a lot of information and pictures about Chinese visual art, architecture, literature, music, history, etc. A lot of information and lovely graphics,
• http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html
  A good, kid-friendly site with a lot of links to things such as how to use chopsticks, Chinese games, virtual tours of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, and many others.
• http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year.htm
  Many activities, games, etc. The main page has a lot of ads, but, once you scroll down, there is a lot of fun stuff to explore and use.
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/china.shtml
  The Enchanted Learning site has a lot of China related pages and activities. Try enchantedlearning.com/school/China/numbers to learn to write Chinese characters and to say the numbers one to ten in Chinese. You can also find information on the Great Wall of China, pandas, Chinese inventions, and much more. Some material is available only to subscribers, but there is a lot available to everyone.
• http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandasForKids/default.cfm
  A wonderful, wonderful site about giant pandas in general, as well as about the three pandas at the National Zoo in Washington. There are many photos of the pandas and even a panda cam!. Definitely worth a visit.

Italy

• http://www.italiantourism.com
• www.italcultny.org
  Institute of Italian culture (NY)
• http://www.mi.cnr.it/WOI/woiindex.html
  Window on Italy, worth a “look see”
• http://www.disini.com.my/italy/cultures
• http://www.italynet.com
  A good site with all the current news and cultural happenings in and about Italy, and more
• http://www.virtualitalia.com
  This Department Of Tourism website is very full site with a lot more information than most government sites
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/italy

Interesting Links for Teachers

• http://www.aneki.com
  Tons of information about every country and region in the world, with lists of things such as the Poorest Countries in the world, the countries where people watch television the most hours in a week, etc.
• http://www.ratsimandresy.org/namana.html
  The Friends of Madagascar website has Madagascar-related web links, plus pictures and articles about Madagascar written by people from many different countries
• http://www.terminalia.org/mad/index.htm
  Excellent site about a man’s bike tour through Madagascar, with great photos
• http://www.iearn.org
  Connecting teachers, students, and schools around the world, this site has many interesting projects in progress, and although there is a membership fee, it’s worth checking out
• http://www.cocori.com/netkids/crnk.htm
  You might want to monitor this in some way, but this site provides pen pals (e-mail pals?) with kids of the same age in Costa Rica.
• http://www.peacecorpswriters.org
  Fascinating stories written by returned Peace Corps volunteers, with most of the Toolbox countries represented
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
  A really wonderful site with games, information, homework help, articles about animals, countries, nature, etc., experiments, and so much more – with pages just for teachers, too!
• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
  Not only does this site give you times around the world, it also lists every country and their national capitals
• http://www.kinderstart.com/societycultureenvironment/religions/islam.html
  This excellent site about Islam has too much information to use, but it answers many questions that students and teachers may have
  

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