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HOME OF THE FALCONS

LIBRARY CLASS PATHFINDERS BY TOPIC
 

ATOD LINKS

American Council for Drug Education
http://www.acde.org/youth/Research.htm

Partnership for a Drug Free America
http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/Drug_Resource/Default.asp?
ws=PDFA&vol=1&grp=Drug+Resource&cat=By+Name&top=Drug+Name

National Institute on Drug Abuse from the National Institutes of Health
Mind Over Matter
http://www.drugabuse.gov/MOM/MOMIndex.html

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Statistics Drugs and Crime
http://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
http://www.jointogether.org/

Al-Anon and Alateen
www.al-anon.alateen.org

DEA Drug Prevention
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/demand.htm

CAREERS RESEARCH LINKS

DATABASES:

Grolier Encyclopedias – Careers
http://go-passport.grolier.com/

ONLINE SOURCES:
CAREER CHOICES

Bureau of Labor Statistics website
http://www.bls.gov/k12/

College Center – search for colleges
http://www.csocollegecenter.org/

Occupational Outlook Handbook online
http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Career Cruising – login using Robinson High School’s user name = robinson, and password = rams
http://www.careercruising.com

Virginia’s Career Planning System
http://va.kuder.com/

Fairfax County Career Connections
http://www.fcps.edu/ss/CareerConnections

COLLEGE CHOICES

Career and College Choices
http://www.vaview.org

College Board
http://www.collegeboard.com

DISEASE LINKS

GALE Database Go to the FCPS Databases on the Library website and use GALE: Health and Wellness Database.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
h
ttp://www.cdc.gov/health/default.htm

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/scripts/
Topics.asp?context=5&keyword=113&Branch=5

Genetic Disorders
For Genetic Disorders also use link for HealthfinderGenetics Home Reference (click on Browse Conditions for list)

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov

Genetic and Rare Conditions Site Medical Genetics, University of Kansas Medical Center
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/support/index.html

Combined Health Information Database 
from National Institute of Health

http://health.nih.gov/search_results.asp

 

 

ENGLISH 8 WWII RESEARCH

DATABASES:

Gale Biography in Context
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1?userGroupName=fairfaxcps
For war heroes and survivors.

Marshall Cavendish – America in the 20th Century
http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/searchsolr?searchString=world+war+II
America: how it got into the war and what life was like on the home front.

Grolier Online Passport
http://go.grolier.com/
Type in country then World War II.   Look for highlighted words in red.

World Book Student
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home?null&gr=Welcome+Fairfax+County+Public+Schools
In the search field type in country and scroll article to find World War II

WEBSITES
Library of Congress.  Country Studies and Digital Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/
Select your country from the list. In the search (country) field type in World War II
You will get a box which says: Sections containing the exact words World War II.
Scroll down to find the most obvious title pertaining to World War II.


BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ww2_summary_01.shtml
Scroll through the timeline to find your country.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005177
In the search field type your country.  Note  that the information is holocaust related therefore only European countries are listed.

SCIENCE CLASS LINKS

THE WORLD’S BIOMES http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

EARTH FLOOR BIOMES
Click on your biome then scroll to the bottom, click on plant or animal and it will note adaptations to that biome.

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

BIOMES - HABITATS
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
dinosaurs/glossary/Pangaea.shtml

Alfred Wegner and Pangaea
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects
/Geologictime.html

Geologic Time Scale
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
Dinosaur Information
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
Fossils

Chesapeake Bay Program
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/

ChesSIE (Chesapeake Science on the Internet for Educators)
http://www.vims.edu/chessie/bayinfo.html

Animals

 

 

 

 

 

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Questions or comments contact Jennifer.Barry@fcps.edu