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media type="custom" key="21645580" President and Election Resources:

[|First Kids Slideshow-]

this is a fun site that has prepared an interesting slideshow with facts about some US Presidents. [|Presidential Gravesites]

- a site that lists where all of the Presidents are buried. [|The White House: Fun Facts]

- this site lists some interesting and fun facts about several of our Presidents. [|The White House: First Ladies]

- the official White House website that lists information about each of the First Ladies. Click on the name to navigate to a page with biographical information. [|The White House: Pets]

- a fun page that provides a slide show depicting several pets that have lived in the White House. [|Biography.com: Who's On Your Money-]

a fun site that provide a slide show explaining each of the Presidents who appear on US currency. [|Funbrain: Who Is That?-]

a fun game that will test your knowledge of Presidents. Make sure at the bottom of the page you select "United States Presidents". and then select the difficulty level and have fun identifying the Presidents! [|Presidential Hangman-]

test your knowledge of Presidents by playing this fun hangman activity. [|Mr. Nussbaum's US President Biographies]

- this website will give you a quick snap shot of the 44 Presidents. Click on the name under the picture to view the information. [|The White House President Biographies]

- this is the official website of the White House and will give you a comprehensive biography for each of the Presidents. You will scroll down the page, find the name of your President and click on it to navigate to the information. [|Fact Monster Biographies of US Presidents]

- this page lists Presidential facts such as when he was born, died, etc. When you click on the President's name it will bring you to a page with biographical information. [|Sheppard's Software US Presidents-]

click on the pictureof the President you are researching to navigate to a page with biographical information. Make sure to check out the interesting Fact of the Day and the Quick Fact Information on the upper right side of the screen! [|Fact Monster General Information-]

this page has several links to pages with interesting, and not so known facts, about some of the Presidents. Clcik on the various links to see if you can find out any interesting facts about your President such as their salary, their wives and children, etc. [|The Smithsonian Institute: The American Presidency]

- a wonderful website with lots of information about the United States Presidency. To find individual biographies click on the images of the Presidents at the top of the page. Use the arrow to the righ tof the images to find additional images.

Explorers Resources :

[|The Mariners' Museum]

- a page filled with links to information on specific Explorers ThinkQuest Explorers

- click on the Data Base of Explorers to read short biographies of different Explorers. The Timeline of Explorers will bring you to a timeline of Explorers beginning in 1500BC and ending in 1969 with Neil Armstrong. [|Enchanted Learning Zoom Explorers]

- a database of several short biographies of Explorers. You can navigate to find any Explorer by using either the alphabet, timeline or country. [|Explorers' Hall of Fame]

- a list of several Explorers. Click on the Explorer to read a brief biography. Click [|here]

to take a quiz on Explorers of the Millenneum.

American Civil War Resources :

[|The Civil War for Fifth Graders] - this is a very comprehensive site to review information about the Civil War.

[|National Geographic Underground Railroad] - this site will bring on a journey similar to slaves that were fleeing for their freedom. Click on Enter and then follow the journey.

[|National Geographic Faces of Freedom] - Click on the pictures to learn more about people who played a major role in the movement to end slavery.

[|Gettysburg National Military Park] - this link will bring you to a site that exhibits some belongings made or used by the Union and Confederate Soldiers. Click on the pictures to to bring you to various pages.

[|National Parks Civil War Pages for Kids] - a great site to review and learn about the Civil War. Click on the links to navigate to other pages.

[|Soldiers' Letters] - click on this link to read some letters that were written by soldiers during the Civil War.

[|America's Library- Harriet Tubman] - a short biography on Harriet Tubman. Click on the links to the right "Running to Freedom" and "Spying for the Union" to learn more about Harriet Tubman.