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Art • Health • History • Language • Library • Math • Music • Physical Education • Science • Social Studies • Free Time

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CCB Community Bank offers various third party links on our website. We invite you to visit any of these web sites that may be of interest to you and your family. These third party links are offered as a courtesy and a convenience. We do not guarantee that any site will be available, nor do we assume responsibility in any way for the content, safety, security, or privacy of any of these sites, or any transactions with respect thereto. If you have any questions or concerns about any other site's policy regarding these matters, you should contact that site or its sponsor.

ART:

Art History: Art History Resources on the Web A. Pintura - Art Detective.  Learn about famous painters & solve the game! Inside Art - another great art game

Art Museums and Galleries: 

• Museum Computer Network
• Hands On Children's Museum

Artists:

• Artist Index from World Wide Arts; click on letter of artist to search

Crafts:

• Aunt Annie's Craft Page
• Yahooligans! Hobbies and Crafts
• Puppets : Hand Puppets' Activity Page

Dance: Yahooligans Dance includes African Music and Dance, Pow Wow Dancing, and WWW Virtual Library of Dance

Drama: Yahooligans! Drama includes National Youth Music Theatre, Theatre Central, Welcome to Sprouts Theatre for Children and more

Visual Arts:

• African Art
• Escher Prints
• World Art Treasures: Search through 6 different programs to see good pictures and articles discussing art history from around the world.
• Yahooligans! Paintings

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HEALTH AND SAFETY:

Development:

• The  Human Body Adventure
• The Brain: University of Wisconsin's collection of different mammals' brains
• The Eye and the Way It Works
• The Heart
• Learn About Teeth with Mr Reach
• KidsHealth: click on to "Kids" to find fun things about health

Other:

• Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Center 

HISTORY

Kid's Web Resources,Virtual Library , or Yahooligans!

• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Mr. Dowlings Electronic Passport - all the history you'll ever need
• American Memory: Collections relating to American culture and history from the Library of Congress - either Search or go under List of all...Collections and Topics.
• Civil War
• Virtual Ellis Island is an audio and pictorial tour of the immigrant experience on Ellis Island.
• Encyclopedia of Women's History: The entries, about women around the globe and throughout history, are written by and for children.
• Links to the Past - The National Park Service
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• Egyptian history, information and great clip art to do papers!
• What happened today in National Park Service History.
• This Day in History - Developed by the History Channel.
• Yahooligans! History-People
• Museums and Exhibits
  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

LANGUAGE:

Authors and Illustrators

• Keys to writing success

Biography:

• Biographical Dictionary - Notable Citizens of Planet Earth: biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present; discover who did what on what day. A by-day source of historical information (birthdays and brief biographies for famous people)
• Famous Birthdays  - What famous person was born on your birthday?
• Yahooligans! People of History

Books and Literature

• Children's Literature Web Guide: find bestsellers list, book awards, book publishers, and much more

Foreign Languages: twiddle your thumbs while you wait, but this links you to 19 different language selections

References

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: After "Words to Search For:" type a word or you may search by the authors name if you know it
• Definitions of basic sentence parts
• Hotlist: Literature
• Kids Web Literature
• Yahooligans! Language Arts

Sign Language 

Stories/Storytelling: Search under Tales from Other Cultures, Familiar Folk Tales or Collections of Tales for lots of fun tales.

• Fairy Tales: Grimm's and others - around 90 of them in text only format
• The Page at Pooh Corner: As you guessed, things to do with Pooh!
  

Words:

• A Word a Day or learn a new word or two a day!
• Anagram Insanity make a word or phrase by scrambling the letters
• Fake Out! The Definition Guessing Game - test your vocabulary skills
• Word Puzzles: Choose from Rooty*Hoot*Hoot, Word Wave, Word WEB, Word SynOpps, Word Ogees or Crossword Puzzles for some word fun

Writing:

• Creative Writing
• KidLit: Go to art and literature galleries to see how to submit your artwork, poetry, review of a book, or a short story

Resources for Young Writers: Guidelines, contests, and tips for aspiring writers

LIBRARY:

• Hotlist: Links to educational sites by the Franklin Institute
• Internet Public Library: has Ask the Author, Story Hour, The World of Reading, Doctor Internet and a writing contest
• Andalusia Public Library
• Kids on Campus: Exploring the World Wide Web sponsored by the Cornell Theory Center
• The KidsWeb: A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids
• World Wide Web Digital Library
• The Smithsonian: Go to the Museum Overview and take an automated guided tour of all the museums
• Yahooligans!: The Web Guide for Kids sponsored by Yahoo

MATH:

• Ask Dr. Math
• Brain Teasers
• Date and Time Gateway: Find date and time around the world
• Elementary Level Math: Internet Mathematics Library
• Hotlist: Mathematics links to other fun math sites
• Math on the Internet
• Problem of the Week  
• Time and Clocks: Countdown (calculates the seconds, minutes or days until your birthday or any other event), Master Clock (official source of time used in the US - find current time or see the time in other cities or time zones)
• Weights and Measures: A fun table to convert measurements of weight, length, etc.
• Yahooligans! Math Page

MUSIC:

• Instruments
• Yahooligans! Music Listing

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (GYM):

Olympics:

• Olympics Past and Future

SPORTS AND GAMES

• Sports Illustrated for Kids: On-line magazine
• Women's Sports Page: biographies of accomplished women athletes and their personal accounts of sports experiences
• Yahooligans! Sports and Recreation: Topics from auto racing to water sports

SCIENCES:  

          Web Science Helper

Animal Kingdom

• Birmingham Zoo
• Hotlist's Animals links to animals with vertebrates and background information and facts; Sea World and Busch Garden's Animal Resources - choose from the page or click on "Animal Bytes" for more choices; Yahoo's Animals, Insects, and Pets for everything from animal rights to zoology
• Amphibians: Froggy Page - contains links to froggy things from various places-ribbit!
• Birds - gives a few exhibits; Ornithology Website - links to bird conservation, ecology and education 

• Fish Faqs-answers to questions about fish; Fish Information Service - an archive of information about freshwater and marine aquariums
• Insects -  Butterflies, Cockroaches - also called the Yuckiest site on the Internet!; Hotlist's Insects - links to lots of creepy crawlies; Wonderful World of Insects - lots of information from smallest to largest and the fastest flyer, Yahooligans! Insects - more links
• Mammals: Bats, Pet Index - whatever your pet, you'll find a link here!
• Of the Sea: Penguins,Seals, Sharks, and Whales - find out how these animals survive in the sea
• Zoos - the National Zoological Park's Home Page with photos, highlights and even a questionnaire; Electronic Zoo - full of animal resources

Ask Dr. Science -Today's question or a list of past questions

Astronomy and Space

• Astronomy Café: Answers to your outer space-related questions, what it takes to be an astronomer and offers links to other astronomy places
• Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook: A lot of data, sometimes complex, about space and space flight
• History of Astronomy and Space Science: Look under Native American Astronomy or other great links
• Kids Web-Astronomy and Space: Many links
• Solar System (Nine Planets), Welcome to the Planets; Moon,(Lunar Images); the Star Child (lots of simple explanations); View Solar System Live (will need a Web browser to use)
• NASA Space History
• Yahooligans! Space guess what-more links

Earth Sciences- Yahooligans!-links

• Earthquakes: Images of most recent earthquakes and active volcanoes; Earthquake Information: information from the US Geological Survey, Earthquake of the Day: see where the latest earthquake occurred and what it's magnitude was
• Meteorology (Weather and Atmosphere): Northern Lights: learn more about them, Snow and Ice: Glaciers, Blizzards, Snow and a Kids' Snow Page; Sunrise, Sunset Computation: enter a city name, a state abbreviation and the 4 digit date and you can see when the sun will rise and set; The "Weather Dude": a weather page especially for kids; Franklin's Forcast: Build your own weather station, learn about today's sophisticated weather technologies, and check the weather right now, Weather Underground: quickly providing latest weather conditions for US cities; Yahooligans! Weather: in case you want more links
• Oceanography (Ocean Planet Exhibition from the Smithsonian): Florida Sea Life:  Yahooligans!Oceanography for more resources
• Rocks: Check out the link to Grollier Online Rockhounds Page or the University of Wisconsin's Online Class, "Gems and precious stones for basic knowledge Gems and Minerals studies at the Smithsonian
• Earth Sciences: gives sites on the Web that promote earth science
• Volcanoes: link to "Worldwide Volcanic Reference Map" and other volcanic activity. 
  Volcanoes Online is a website designed to educate students about volcanoes; more specifically, what a volcano is, how they are formed, and how eruptions effect us all.

Environment: Yahooligans! Environment

• Envirolink: Search under Air, Earth, Fire, Flora and Fauna, or Water

• Plastic Bags: Start with "Test Your Environmental IQ," then on to other resources; uncover a hidden picture by answering questions about recycling

• Sierra Club: links to other environmental and science education spots

• Fun Sites: Experiments: Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes and a whole lot more!; Science Online: includes a monthly online puzzler and Ask a Scientist; You Can with Beakman and Jax: a fun spot to visit
• Inventions and Inventors: Invention Dimension- an information resource for anyone who wants to learn more about American inventors and their discoveries; Ben Franklin
• Machines: Kids Web-Computers, The Virtual Museum of Computing (tons of links about the history of computing and computer-based exhibits)
• Magazines: Yes Magazine: interactive science site with fun projects, hows and whys, brainteasers and more
• Prehistoric Life:
  • Yahooligans! Dinosaurs
  • ZoomDinosaurs - all about dinosaurs
  • Fossil Halls - on-line tours of the exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
  • Dinosaur Hall - information galore on dinosaurs and their lives
• Questions You've Wondered About
• References:
  • Science Hobbyist - links to all sorts of science spots
  • Yahooligan's Science Page,
• Science Museums:  Yahooligans! List;  Field Museum of Natural History; and The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, England's National Museum of Science & Industry,   The Center for Science & Industry

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Countries of the World

• Around the World: Yahooligans!--search under Cultures, Food and Eating,   Regions or Travel

  Field Trips: virtual field trips and more

• Archeological Adventures
  • Man Before Time - a history & timeline of prehistoric man
  • Maya Adventure
  • Paris
  • Easter Island
  • Egypt fun site - learn about heiroglyphics & mummies
  • Virtual tour of Tutankhamen - from National Geographic
• GeoNet: Test your knowledge of our planet
• How far is it - Find the distance between any two cities in the world
• Maps: go to Maps and Geography for different links

Resources: each of these are "libraries" of local and regional information

• Yahooligans! Around the World: Countries and U.S. States with links to each state
• Geographia - great interactive site to learn about the world

Government and Politics

• United State Resources - White House for Kids
• The Consitution of the United States
• Executive Branch
  • Hall of Presidents - picture gallery & short biography of each one
• Judicial Branch: The US Supreme Court
  • Biographies and Decisions of the current Supreme Court Justices
  • Understanding the Federal Courts
• Legislative Branch
  • Learn about House of Representatives
  • Leadership of US Senate See a Chart of Who is in Charge
• Take a Tour of the Capital
• White House The Home Page for the White House
• White House For Kids White House for Kids Site

Reference:Yahooligans! Social Studies Page

Transportation: Airplanes; Virtual Railroad - great pictures of old and new trains and information about all the parts of the railroad.

FREE TIME:

Adventure: Adventure on Line

• Carlos' Coloring Book
• Crayola
• Factoids: Fun facts to amuse

Fun Games: Yahooligans! Games

• Jokes
• M&M's: Become an M & M, find games and more
• Muppet's Home Page
• Awesome Cards  

Museums

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio has multimedia center with audio and video files
• University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology View exhibits of Egyptian artifacts
• The Smithsonian America's Treasure House for Learning

Teachers

• Microsoft has Creative Writer & Fine Artist Classroom Creativity Lessons

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
CCB Community Bank offers various third party links on our website. We invite you to visit any of these web sites that may be of interest to you and your family. These third party links are offered as a courtesy and a convenience. We do not guarantee that any site will be available, nor do we assume responsibility in any way for the content, safety, security, or privacy of any of these sites, or any transactions with respect thereto. If you have any questions or concerns about any other site's policy regarding these matters, you should contact that site or its sponsor.