Mexico Project               
Ms. Jiminez


General Country Information
Background Notes -- From the U.S. State Department
CIA World Factbook -- Country information from the CIA
Country Studies -- From the Library of Congress
Ethnologue -- Information on languages spoken worldwide
Flags -- Flags of countries
Foreign Government Resources on the Web -- From the Univ. of Michigan
GeographyIQ -- "An online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information."
Portals to the World -- Detailed information and links, from the Library of Congress

Government Sites
Chiefs of State -- Lists rulers and heads of states, ambassadors to the U.S.
Governments on the WWW

International Statistics
CIA World Factbook -- Country information from the CIA
Global Statistics -- Country-by-Country statistical data, from GeoHive
Infonation -- Statistical data for countries in the United Nations
International Statistical Agencies -- From the U.S. Census Bureau
Population Reference Bureau -- Numerous reports available
World Gazetteer -- Information on cities, town, & places of all countries

Mexico
Mexico -- from Country Studies
Mexico -- from Sitio Oficial del Gobierno de Mexico (in Spanish)
Mexico -- Brief information from Information Please Almanac
Culture and Society of México -- Iowa State University
Time Line Overview
Mexico from Empire to Revolution -- From the Getty Museum (mostly original photographs)
Pre-Columbian Culture
Mesoweb; a Exploration of Mesoamerican culture
Timeline: Mexico -- from the British Broadcasting Corporation

We currently have trial subscriptions to 3 online encyclopedias. All three will give you general information about your topic. Once you are at the encyclopedia’s entry for your topic look around the page. There will be pre-selected web pages listed for your topic and in most cases magazine articles on your topic. To get to the online encyclopedias go to:

Britannica’s URL is http://school.eb.com
Username: bolnovember
Password: king397

Grolier’s URL is http://go.Grolier.com
Username: duck
Password: feet

World Book’s URL is http://tryit.worldbookonline.com
Username: california
Password: sagehens

(If you use these resources please let me know what you think of them. We will only subscribe to one of these encyclopedias and we want to choose the one that is most useful to our students.)

You may also want to go to http://www.santacruzpl.org/online/refdb.php to use your public library card and PIN to access many other subscription online databases.

Bibliography Sites
MLA Style
Citation Machine
Citing Sources -- from Oregon School Library Information System
KnightCite -- from Calvin College
MLA Style Guide -- from Capital Community Technical College, Hartford, CT.
Noodle Tools Quick Cite -- from NoodleTools, Inc.
Soquel High School's Citation Guide
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format -- From Purdue Univ.

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