Volume 3, Issue 12 December 2013 Monthly Newsletter

Welcome! Welcome to the students, teachers, and librarians of Valley Cottage, New York! We’re happy you are using Infotopia.info and Kidtopia.info for your research needs!

Books and Authors Our favorite web sites for books and authors can all be found on our LibraryTopia.info Books and Authors Resource Page. You can also find podcasts and videos about books here. Some of our favorites include:

http://www.kidsreads.com/ http://www.abookandahug.com/

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/ http://www.teenreads.com/ http://noflyingnotights.com/

You can find links to all of these and more at:

http://www.librarytopia.info/books.html

Another great place to find more about interesting books to read is to visit Book Trailer web pages. Our favorites include: http://www.schooltube.com/organization/199825/

http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/ http://digitalbooktalk.com/

New Science Resources on Infotopia We have just completed two new resource pages on Life Science topics, including Biomes and Mammals. Our Life Science Page also includes Anatomy and Physiology, Life Science Images, Hiberation, and more! Check them out and send us your comments! http://www.infotopia.info/life_science.html http://www.infotopia.info/biomes.html http://www.infotopia.info/mammals.html

New Kidtopia resource pages on landforms, the water cycle and more! We received these requests from an elementary school science teacher. Keep sending in your requests!

Thanks to Mrs. Lowe’s class in Delaware for suggesting web sites for our new Recycling Resource Page on Kidtopia!

http://kidtopia.info/recycling.html

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December Events

December Calendar from SurfNetKids http://www.surfnetkids.com/calendar/december/ Today in History December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks arrested http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec01.html December in Women’s History http://www.nwhp.org/news/december.php Christmas—December 25th http://www.history.com/topics/christmas December 7, 1941—Air Raid on Pearl Harbor http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html Hannukkah—Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2013 http://www.history.com/topics/hanukkah

Attention IB Schools

Are you and your students staying on top of global news events? Try our International News resource page. You can either go to a newspaper from a specific country, or you can quickly check the worldwide news on our links to CNN World, USA Today World, Reuters, or the International New York Times.

http://www.infotopia.info/intl_news.html

http://www.infotopia.info/top_ten.html

Infotopia now has a Top Ten Page! Just click this icon on the top of the Infotopia.info home page. Check out the top ten searches (topics) from the last month. This month, the topics include the Holocaust, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Glaciers, Oceans, World War I and II, the Titanic, and Abraham Lincoln. Each link includes photos, charts, and information about the topic as well as a link to pertinent resource pages on Infotopia! Send us your feedback! Watch every month for the top ten topics that have been searched each month.