Chico Country Day School - CCDS Library

102 West 11th Street, Chico, CA 95928 . Phone: 530-895-2650 . Fax: 530-895-2646 . Email: margaret@chicocountryday.org

Home

Academic Programs

Lifelong Guidelines & Lifeskills

CCN: Chico Country News

LibraryThing -- New Books in the Library! Sites of the Week! AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ALL ABOUT ASIA ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS ANCIENT EGYPT ANCIENT INDIA ANIMALS OF THE WORLD ART AND MUSEUMS BELIEVE IT OR NOT!! BOOKS AND READING GOING TO CALIFORNIA CHICO COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD FLAGS DINOSAURS THE GOLD RUSH HALLOWEEN EVERYTHING HARRY POTTER A HEALTHIER YOU IMAGE SEARCHES JUST FOR FUN MAGAZINES ONLINE MATH: IT CAN ADD UP TO MORE FUN WITH THESE SITES! MUSIC, SWEET SWEET MUSIC NATIVE AMERICANS PLAYS AND READER'S THEATRE POETRY RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK HELP SCIENCE SEARCHING SITES AND DATABASES SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER STATE INFORMATION LIVE WEBCAMS WEBQUESTS OUR WORLD FTO (For Teachers Only)


	Welcome to your Chico Country Day School Library Webpage! This page contains reliable and useful educational links, as well as fun websites, for students to explore both on and off campus. Your feedback is welcome (please see contact info at the bottom of this page).


LibraryThing -- New Books in the Library!	Top of Page

Want to see what's new in the CCDS Library? This online catalog has a listing of all the newest books we have in the library! Check it out today to see what you'd like to read next! CCDS Library Catalog of New Books


Sites of the Week!	Top of Page

GameGoo Educational games for kids
Dance Mat Typing Learn to type! (Works best with speakers or headphones for sound)
Edheads Activate your mind!
Seussville Explore the World of Dr. Seuss


AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES	Top of Page

Smithsonian Natural History Web African Voices


ALL ABOUT ASIA	Top of Page

Asia for Educators
Asian-Pacific American Heritage
Ask Asia for Students
Chinese Myths and Fantasies
Chinese Zodiac Page
Get a Chinese Name
Emperor's Terracotta Warriors
The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China
The Terracotta Warriors
Music from China


ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS	Top of Page

Cyber Sleuth's Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Greece: History for Kids
Greek Mythology
The Baths of Ancient Rome
You wouldn't want to be.....
Ancient Worlds Links
Ancient History Page
Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia according to the British Museum
Mr. Dowling's Mesopotamian Info
Mesopotamia
Check out this page of links to Mesopotamia!


ANCIENT EGYPT	Top of Page

British Museum's Egyptian Resources
Ancient Egypt Kids Connection
Snaith Primary School's Ancient Egypt
History of Egypt
Cleveland Museum of Arts Egyptomania
Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Egypt Student Project
Little Horus Site
Mysteries of the Nile
Tour Ancient Egypt!
Make Your Own Cartouche
Terry's Egyptian Pages


ANCIENT INDIA	Top of Page

Tales of Ancient India
Welcome to India
Tagore, Famous Poet of India
Tour India


ANIMALS OF THE WORLD	Top of Page

Animal Planet Homepage
Ant Boy's Bug World
ASPCA's Animaland
Bird Central : everything about birds!
Enature : for over 5,500 species!
Endangered Animals
Field Trip Earth
Insecta Inspecta
National Wildlife Federation's Kid Zone
Ranger Rick
San Diego Zoo Panda Cam
World Wildlife Fund's Kid Stuff
Zoobooks online


ART AND MUSEUMS	Top of Page

On-Line Picasso Project
The Exploratorium
Lively Arts History Association
Ology From The American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian for Kids
Smithsonian Magazine's Kids Castle
Ask an Artist!
Museum Kids (Metropolitan Museum of Arts)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Sacramento Museums
Visit the Web Museum of Paris to see some of the most famous paintings in the world!


BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!	Top of Page

The Mystery Spot
Loch Ness Monster
More Nessie
Nessie on the Net
Nova Looks at the Beast of the Loch Ness
The Legend of Nessie
Guinness Book of World Records
Ripley's Believe It or Not


BOOKS AND READING	Top of Page

Amazon: Books For Kids
Books In Series
Hank The Cowdog
International Children's Digital Library (874 Free Books In 33 Languages)
Lemony Snicket -- Unfortunately
Reading Links From CPL
The Lost Land, About Author Susan Cooper
Grimm Tales
All About Author Jean Craighead-George
Lynne Reid Banks' Site
Author Avi on the Web


GOING TO CALIFORNIA	Top of Page

Tour the Capital
Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
California Facts
Historic Photos of California
More Historic Photos of California
California State Sentate
City of Sacramento
San Fran Cable Cars
California State Assembly Virtual Museum of Sutter's Fort
Welcome to California Site
Weedpatch Camp


CHICO	Top of Page

Chico Attractions
Discovering John Bidwell
John Bidwell
A Short Bio of John Bidwell
An 1890 Article by John Bidwell
Official Site of the City Of Chico


COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD	Top of Page

CIA World Factbook
CPL Country Databases
FactMonster: Countries of the World
Countries of the World
InfoPlease: Countries of the World
KidsClick Country Info
Library of Congress Country Studies


FLAGS	Top of Page

Flags of all Countries
World Flag Database


DINOSAURS	Top of Page

Natural History Museum's Dino Directory


THE GOLD RUSH	Top of Page

All About the Gold Rush
Exploring the California Gold Rush
Gold Rush links and lessons
A Simple Introduction to the Gold Rush
Captain Sutter's Account of the Gold Rush
Captain Sutter: The Discovery of Gold in California
Gold Fever!
San Francisco Gold Rush Chronology
Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
California's Untold Stories of the Gold Rush
Gold Rush, PBSKids Style
PBS: All About the Gold Rush
Gold Rush Chronicles
Fun Facts about the Gold Rush
The Land of Glittering Dreams
Trails to the Gold Rush
Virtual California Gold Country
The Gold Rush Trail
Women in the Gold Rush


HALLOWEEN	Top of Page

A Girl's World Halloween
Ghost Stories
Halloween Ghost Stories
Halloween is Here!
Halloween Kids
Halloween ideas from Kaboose
Linda Linn's Ghost Stories
The Moonlit Road
NASA Halloween treat
Billy Bear's Halloween Pages


EVERYTHING HARRY POTTER	Top of Page

Sugarquill


A HEALTHIER YOU	Top of Page

The new food pyramid


IMAGE SEARCHES	Top of Page

Pics 4 Learning
Calisphere: search for primary source pictures here (great stuff)


JUST FOR FUN	Top of Page

Play Order in the Library
Build your own city @ City Creator
Visit Crayola Kids for games, coloring and arts and crafts
CyberKids has enough games, jokes, and brain teasers to keep you busy
DiscoveryKids has games galore for you to explore!
Wacky Web Tales and more can be found at Edugames
FunBrain has lots of games---check it out
FunSchool has games, quizzes, and polls just for you!
The International Spy Museum? Sshhh, it's top secret!
KidLink: a place to network with kids from around the world
Check out the fun links from Kids on the Web
Kidzup has many great science experiments, games, and activities
Like construction vehicles? Check out Kikki's Workshop
Choose your grade level and explore Learning Planet
MaMaMedia is a top-rated site with games and loads of fun
Oh, the fun you can find at National Geographic Kids!
Visit Oriland for all kinds of paper projects, origami and more
Meet up with all your favorites at PBS Kids
Learn some new outdoor games to play with your friends at Streetplay!
Visit "The Yuckiest Site on the Internet". Need I say more?
4Kids has fun educational games for you to try
Yahooligans: your portal to great games, info and fun!
Starfall


MAGAZINES ONLINE	Top of Page

American Girl magazine
Cantu Oka Online Native American Newsletter
Consumer Reports magazine for Kids
Kids Think Link
Kids Newsroom
National Geographic Kids
Odyssey Science magazine
Owl magazine
Ranger Rick's online magazine
Smithsonian Magazine's Kids' Castle
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Time for Kids
Too Young to Vote
Weekly Reader
Yak's Corner
Your Big Backyard's online magazine
Zoobooks online


MATH: IT CAN ADD UP TO MORE FUN WITH THESE SITES!	Top of Page

Cool math for kids
Greg Tang's math links
Ask Dr. Math


MUSIC, SWEET SWEET MUSIC	Top of Page

Children's Music Archive
Creating Music
Learn to play the drums free
Train your musical ear
Guitar Noise lessons
Music theory
Mutopia free music pieces
Teoria music theory web


NATIVE AMERICANS	Top of Page

National Museum of the American Indian
Native American Links


PLAYS AND READER'S THEATRE	Top of Page

Aaron Shepard's scripts


POETRY	Top of Page

April is Poetry Month!

Giggle Poetry
Haiku links
Jack Prelutsky, poet extraordinaire
Poetry from the Past
Poetry 4 Kids
The Poetry Zone
Scholastic poet links


RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK HELP	Top of Page

ALA's Great websites for kids
America's Library
Biography.com
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Encarta Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fact Monster
National Geographic's Homework Help
Try Revisewise for fun games and quizzes
ThinkQuest Library resources
Webgrammar


SCIENCE	Top of Page

Bill Nye, the Science Guy
IPL Science Fair Project Resource Guide


SEARCHING SITES AND DATABASES	Top of Page

Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
ALSC's Great Websites for Kids
Ask Jeeves Kids
Kids Click Tools Page
Kids Click Web Search
Yahooligans
Fact Monster
Cyber Sleuth Kids Search Engine
Ithaki search for kids
Ithaki metasearch for intermediate students
Awesome Library for Kids
Berit's Best Sites for Children
Kids Web
Google Directory for Kids and Teens
TekMom's Search
Net Nanny's search Page


SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER	Top of Page

NASA Kids
NASA for kids
NASA for K-4 students
NASA Kids en espanol
NASA's Observatorium
NASA's eclipse calendar
Fact Monster's Astronomy and Space Exploration
Amazing Space
Ask the Space Scientist
Astro Ranger
Astronomy for Kids!
Astronomy for Kids
Astronomy picture of the day
Build a scale model of the solar system
Kids astronomy
Powers of Ten: View the Universe differently
Space weather
Solar system simulator
Star Child


STATE INFORMATION	Top of Page

Classbrain
Factmonster's 50 states Profiles
50states (ignore ads and find great info)
Infoplease state facts
Internet Public Library's Stately Knowledge
Netstate - look at the column on the left for more facts!


LIVE WEBCAMS	Top of Page

Earthcam for Kids
Check out WildCam Africa, a watering hole in Botswana
Love bald eagles? Check out this webcam from National Wildlife


WEBQUESTS	Top of Page

"Do we" really know Dewey?
Lots of webquets by California Teachers
Webquests for 3rd-6th graders


OUR WORLD	Top of Page

CIA World Factbook
Google Earth
Iditarod Trail Race Page
Visible Earth from NASA
National Parks Service
Official U.S. Time
World Time Server
Weather.Com
Virtual Parks


FTO (For Teachers Only)	Top of Page

Lesli's Bookmarks on del.icio.us

Reconsider the new 3 R's for Real, Rich and Relevant Learning
4Teachers.org has great FREE resources to help integrate technology into your classroom
Asia for Educators
Bartleby Great Books Online
Haiku lesson plan
Check out the Internet 4 Teachers site for many great lessons
Just for the Kids database
Librarian's Internet Index
Library Spot
Marco Polo Internet Content for the Classroom
Science Links for Teachers from NSTA


	This library webpage is maintained by: Lesli McCutcheon Library Media Teacher Chico Country Day School 102 West 11th Street Chico, CA 95928 530-895-2650 ext. 233 lmccutcheon@chicocountryday.org Last updated July 25, 2008