Pre-Columbian Civilizations

Culturas Precolombinas

BOOKS:

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A few website suggestions:

Miscellaneous groups:

• Pueblos Indigenas de Latino America - Assumption College
• Latin American Network Information Center: Indigenous Peoples
• List_of_pre-Columbian_civilizations (from absoluteastronomy.com)
• Mitos Latinoamerica (Blog)
• Everyone should search here! -- Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombina
• "Amerindia"  (How reliable do you think this site is?  Make sure to double-check your information somewhere else.)

 Specific Cultures:

• Toltecas:  Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombina
• Zapotecas:  Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombina
• Cuna, Garifuna, Maya, Aztec Minnesota State University
• Maya:  Mayan art, Mayan languages, http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM
• Aztec:  http://clio.rediris.es/fichas/otras_aztecas.htm
• Garifuna:  http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/mesoamerica/garifuna.htm
• Los Kuna: EthnoAtlas, Monografias.com, Panamahistoria.tripod.com
• Los Peripechuas o Tarascos: Universidad Michoacana, HoustonCulture.org
• Los Tainos: http://www.topuertorico.org/reference/taino.shtml
• Incas:  http://www.nvcc.edu/home/amalitzkego/alex-solorzano/ancient_vacations/incas/incas.htm

Good YouTube video to watch at home: Las culturas precolombinas

Countries Around the World!



Map of Europe with National Flags

BOOKS:
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DATABASES:

Culture Grams:

•      1st: Click on LAUSD Digital Library 
•      2nd: Click on Culture Grams
•      3rd: Click on World Edition 

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If you have a public library card, you can click here AT HOME, and then click on the amazing database:
Culture Grams!

WEBSITES:

• U.S. Department of State: Countries & Regions (When you get to your country, click on Background Notes.)
• CIA World Factbook
• Country Studies (Library of Congress -- Selected Countries)
• Atlapedia.com (Lapl.org: Political and geographic maps, basic facts, and statistics about countries.)

Quía Links (Lopez)

¡Bienvenidos a la biblioteca!

• Period 1: http://www.quia.com/pages/elopez518/page6
• Period 3: http://www.quia.com/pages/elopez518/page7
• Period 5: http://www.quia.com/pages/elopez518/page8
• Period 4: http://www.quia.com/pages/elopez518/page3
• Period 6: http://www.quia.com/pages/elopez518/page5
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• Endings in future:  http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/future.htm
• Endings in conditional:  http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/conditional.htm
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Endangered Species (Weber)

Welcome to the library, environmental scientists!

Use the following website:  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

• After entering the common name of the species, click on the scientific name.
• (You can also use worldwildlife.org/wildfinder.)

Research the whooping crane, the California condor, and one additional plant or animal species of your choice to find out:

1. Its numbers & distribution
2. Whether it is threatened with extinction
3. The major future threats to its survival
4. Actions that are being taken to help sustain the species, and
5. A type of reconciliation ecology that might be useful in sustaining this species.

Bam

http://teacherpages.nhcs.net/schools/hhs/billymason/Lecture%20Notes/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Psychological Disorders (Rubinger)

Please draw from reliable websites (created by people or organizations that you trust).  You can start by looking for the disorder on the websites below.  You can also search on Google for your specific disorder.

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• WebMD
• Mayo Clinic
• You can look up many different types of illnesses, including psych disorders, using their "find it fast" search. Just click on the letter that starts the name of the disorder.
• American Psychological Association - List of Topics

You can search for BCCHS Library books in our Destiny Library Catalogue.
(And check the books on the table behind you!)


Eating disorder statistics

Links for AP Spanish - Witherow

http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Guillen/autor.shtml

http://valvanera.com/nguillen.htm
http://los-poetas.com/c/bioguillen.htm
http://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/escritores/guillen/biografia.htm