Education Reference Site

Parents looking for activities to do with the kids on a rainy weekend or snow day. Teachers looking for a lesson plan. Students needing help finding info for a research paper. One site can help everyone. It goes by the lengthy name of: Dr. Labush's Links to Learning. Dr. Labush has searched the Internet to find educational research sites that can be useful to parents, teachers and students in grade school through high school. He has organized these sites into topics and set up links to literally hundreds of resources. The downside is there appears to be no keyword search capability. The visitor must find the info they seek by choosing a broad category link and then viewing the hundreds of links (listed in non-alphabetical order). Well worth the visit.

Look! Up In The Sky! It's a Bird! --What Kind?

All About Birds is a "must visit" site for the truly dedicated bird watcher. It contains a warehouse of info about every aspect of birding. Just some of the topics covered at the site are: how to identify birds, binocular guide, how to attract birds, video gallery and more.

Birthdates of the Famous

Famous Birthdays is a remarkable site. It contains birthdays of numerous celebrities. Not only those still alive but those long gone as well. In addition to the standard birthdate info, you can click on the personality name and it does an automatic Yahoo! search for that person. Want some photographs? Click on a camera icon and it runs an automatic Google Image search. There is no keyword searching that I was able to find, but the creators of the site seem to have all the major bases covered. You can display birthdates by month, year, last name, first name, and date.

In addition to all of the above, there are links to various specialty databases (sports, imdb, etc) for even more calendar information. To top it all off, the site is a breeze to navigate. These folks have a most useful and efficient site.