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Culture Grams The Culture Grams site contains a variety of information from the United States to Australia. All of the countries are included in the site and the site is updated twice annually, making the information quite current. You are able to use a map to click on a state and/or country of your choice to explore. I found much of the information interesting and exciting enough to share this in a classroom. I could pull it up on a projector and share with children the many different cultures. By sharing this site with students they could do research and write about different countries giving me many details about each.

SIRS Discoverer The websites home page has a variety of ways for someone to look up a subject. You are able to either type the keyword or choose a subject section. It contains knowledge from animals to technology, you can also find a dictionary and thesaurus on the homepage to help with words. The information is recently placed making it quite current. The site has a specific page stating why it should be used for education instead of Google. All of the information you could find is okay to use for k-12. On Google you can never be sure what is going to pop up. I could use this as a resource for students to find out more information about a subject.

World Book Student This site is designed for students to help them learn more and even has activities so the kids can interact and learn.The information is recently updated making it current today's society. There are different centers to help students explore the site and learn more about a subject they are interested in. It also gives students the resources to help the cite a page if they do a paper on it and take information from the site. You have the option to search by keywords, author, title or alphabetically. Educators even have the option of signing up and it has a guide to help them with lesson plans.