Monthly Newsletter
Volume 4, Issue 1
January 2014
Welcome!
Welcome to the students, teachers, and
librarians of Huntington Park, California!
We’re happy you are using Infotopia.info and
Kidtopia.info for your research needs!
As promised, we have completed two new
resource pages on the water cycle and
landforms. Be sure hover your mouse over
each resource and read the pop up tag. These
resources range from very easy to understand,
to more in depth coverage of the topic.
Included in the resources are interactive
presentations, charts, maps, and more!
http://www.infotopia.info/water_cycle.html
http://www.infotopia.info/primary_sources.html
http://www.infotopia.info/landforms.html
Are you using Primary Sources in your research?
You can easily find them on our Primary Sources
resource page. Here are some examples that you
might want to use with your students.
Do you know where to easily find a famous speech
to use with your classes? Search from A to Z or take
a look at the “Top 100 Speeches”.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
Explore the National Archives’ Digital Vaults. Your
students can use historic images, documents, and
video to create their own posters or documentary
films.
Are your students researching the Atlantic
Slave Trade? They can read about Amistad, the
African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage,
they can view over 1200 historical images
about the slave trade , or they can read letters
and interviews from slaves, or examine at maps
and charts about slaves and the slave trade.
http://www.infotopia.info/atlantic_slave_trade.html
http://www.digitalvaults.org/
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
http://www.nhd.org/USHistoryPrimarySources.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Inventions and Inventors
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Events
January Calendar from SurfNetKids
http://www.surfnetkids.com/calendar/january/
January 1, 2014 New Year’s Day
http://www.history.com/topics/new-years
January 20, 2014 Martin Luther King Day
http://www.history.com/topics/martin-luther-king-jr
January 26, 2014 Australia Day
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/australia-day
National Blood Donor Month
http://www.redcrossblood.org/
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Are you looking for a great poem to share with your
class? Are your students competing in poetry
contests? Our Poetry resource page offers
everything from audios of poets reading their own
poetry to biographies of famous poets and AP poetry
terms. Find poems for any occasion on poets.org, or
find funny poems and “rate a poem” in
gigglepoetry.com.
What are the most popular poems on poets.org?
You can click on many of the poems and hear them
read by the poet. Is your favorite poem there?
http://www.infotopia.info/poetry.html
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If you use Kidtopia.info, you know that
our “crayons” link to resources for students
from PK or K to grades 3 or 4. Do your
younger students avoid reading the daily
news because it is too difficult to
understand? Try out Kidtopia News
Resources with six links to age appropriate
news sources such as Time for Kids,
NewsRound from the BBC, The
Washington Post KidsPost, and more.
You can find it at
http://www.kidtopia.info/news.html