BEST OF

http://Magellan.excite.com/ Magellan is a search engine designed to search the internet by topics. I chose science and found my way through topics until the cougar was found.
http://www.altavista.com/ Altavista is a useful search engine for searching by topic as well. This engine also searches by categories, breaking down until you find your specific topic.
http://www.yahoo.com/ Another useful search engine designed to search for sites about your topic. I like this one for its ease of use.
http://www.yahooligans.com/ This a search engine for children. I love this one for its ease of use and the children-appropriate sites.

LISTSERVS:

http://www.surfnetkids.com/ This listserv is a great site that evaluates children's web sites on a weekly basis. You're never bombarded with too much mail and the topics of past research are stored for your convenience. Just search under a category or topic and information available is at your finger tips. Great resource for sites in all areas.

WEB SITE RESOURCES:

http://njet.net/heikki/cgi/list_images.tcl?FREEIMAGES Great site for kids or adults needing bullets, tabs, buttons, backgrounds ets.
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/kids/lessons/index.html One of the best sites I found to help with my own web page. This site is designed to help kids and less informed people to design and build your own site. It also helps with understanding of terms used and html protocol.
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/surfschool/guru/guru990701.html Another site designed to help with designing a web page as well as giving information about web sites by topic.

LESSON PLANS :

http://teams.lacoe.edu/ Useful site for lesson plans for all subject areas and topics.
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/imse/lowres/4/lessons.htm Excellent source os science lesson plans in all content areas.
http://k-6educators.miningco.com/ ABOUT.COM is a very useful site for lesson plans and teacher information by subject content.
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/ A great resource site for kids doing homework and in need of information as well as teacher information about homework.

TEACHER RESOURCES:

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ The infamous Kathy Schrock site is loaded with information of all types for teachers. Look for lesson plans, informative sites, and lots of resource material.
http://www.onlineschoolyard.com/default.asp A great site for information of all types for teachers and children too. Lots of useful lessons and information on all topics.
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/searching/specialized.html A very useful specialized search engine type site to help you look for articles from magazines, books, lesson plans, tv shows, etc. Too numerous to mention all of the great information listed.

COUGAR INFORMATION:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/tigers/maina.html A National Geographic site designed for the kids to use as well as the teacher. You'll find lots of games and fun activities about cougars and cats here.
http://www.nhm.org/cats/encyclopedia/ Very good site for learning about cats of all sizes.
http://www.animalhead.com/couglnks.html Another great resource for the teacher. Lots of games, information and ideas here. Lots of great pictures too.
http://www.mortay.com/Cougar/Lion.html One of the best information sites aabout cougars. Loaded with useful information and pictures.

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