MPPL - Links

HELPFUL LINKS:

LOCAL	LANGUAGE	HEALTH
City, Chamber, Midwest Old Threshers, Visitor's Bureau, IWC & Midwest Railroad site. KILJ Radio Station Mount Pleasant School District Henry County Health Center Healthy Henry County - Diversity, Family Connection, New Iowan Center, Senior Help	SpanishLanguageNewspaper www.livemocha.com www.word2word.com/course.html http://www.colorincolorado.org/guides/ A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners. http://www.lexicool.com/ This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.	http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ (Genetics Home Reference) http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html The homepage of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) delivers “health information for the whole family.” http://pdrhealth.com/ Drawing on the trusted Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR®), this site provides information for prescriptions drugs, over-the-counter medications, and herbals/supplements. Included are recommended dosage, side effects, possible food and drug reactions, and in many cases pictures to assist with drug identification. http://www.who.int/en/ (World Health Organization)

HOMEWORK/RESEARCH

MISCELLANEOUS

EBSCO
This site includes 6 different databases that allow you to research everything
from magazine and newspaper articles to books to homework topics for K-12.

http://www.atoztheusa.com/states1.asp?c=mountpleasant
Includes State, County & City Information; Maps; Flags;
Photos and Facts on 50 States and 5 Territories.

http://www.atozmapsonline.com/a-z_maps_online_home.asp?c=mountpleasant

Maps Online

http://www.atozworldtravel.com/worldtravel1.asp?c=mountpleasant

Travel Information

http://www.atozworldculture.com/a-z_culture_home.asp?c=mountpleasant

Information on cultures around the world

http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
(The American Presidency Project)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Better than Google!!

http://www.bookfinder.com/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
(Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers)

http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubChem is a search tool for chemical information, divided into three areas: Compounds, Substances, and BioAssays.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
(Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

http://www.infoplease.com/homework/

http://www.statestats.org/libraries-usa-map.html (National Library Finder)

http://www.arborday.org/ (Arbor Day Foundation)

http://www.fastweb.monster.com/
(FastWeb: Scholarships, Financial Aid, and Colleges)

http://www.business-humanrights.org/
(Business & Human Rights Resource Centre)

http://www.epodunk.com/
Detailed, easily browsable profiles of cities and counties across the U.S. Includes data on airports, cemeteries, museums, and other institutions as well. Statistics at the city and county level: income, educational level, economic, crime. Displays or links to harder-to-find information like local media outlets, community organizations, political reports, historical weather information,
support for libraries, and celebrity residents.

http://maps.google.com/ (Google Maps)

http://www.localharvest.org/
The LocalHarvest Web site offers a nationwide directory of farmers’ markets, small family farms, and organic food sources.

http://www.localhikes.com/

http://www.garden.org/ (National Gardening Association)

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/ (National Ocean Service)

http://onlineconversion.com/

http://www.traffic.com/

http://www.epa.gov/ (United States Environmental Protection Agency)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

http://www.areacodelocations.info

http://www.sports-reference.com/
Sports fans rejoice! This valuable resource provides statistics for four major sports: baseball, football, basketball, and hockey.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Containing 14 searchable versions of the Holy Bible, Blue Letter Bible offers an extensive insight into one of the world’s most popular books. Passages can be changed from version to version for easy comparison and various tools (an encyclopedia, a dictionary, 23 text commentaries, and 30 audio/video commentaries) help users explore chapter and verse. Additional resources include charts, outlines, timelines, and maps, plus four streaming audio versions, are available from each passage’s page. When appropriate for the passage, over 2,700 hymns are also available (lyrics are shown with link to a MIDI file to play music). This web resource is useful for anyone interested in biblical study and especially notable for comparing Bible versions.