WEB SITES

Bitesize Spanish
Have fun revising (studying) Spanish on this BBC site for students!

Your Spanish Textbook
Extend your textbook to sites worldwide, plus you can do online activities, games, puzzles, and self-tests.

Destination Death (game)
Use your modern foreign language skills to save your sister from a fate worse than death! You can choose to play in French, German or Spanish at three language levels.

LinguaWeb en español
Games, activities and information for beginning students.

Instituto Cervantes Virtual (Spain)
This virtual web site includes thematic units with many vocabulary activities and interactive games.

México para Niños (Mexican Ministry of Education)
For all students who want to learn about Mexico: its culture, geography and history.

Cuentos hispanos y francophones (Columbia University)
Legends and short stories in French and Spanish.

Casa de Joanna
Language learning resources with authentic links in Spanish.

World Fact Book
Information about countries of the world from the CIA.

Country Studies
Information about countries of the world from the Library of Congress.

Global Destinations from the Global Gourmet
Recipes from around the world.

Mexican Holidays
Learn about holidays through the year, culture and food from a travel perspective.

Christmas in Mexico
This bilingual site, prepared by a Spanish instructor at Sinclair Community College in Ohio, has holiday traditions, songs, recipes and instructions for making a piñata.

Multi-Cultural Calendar
Search for holiday information by month, by country or by holiday.

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Grolier Online: Lands and Peoples
The encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and geography.
To use Grolier Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE

Biography Resource Center
For information about a person, try the Biography Resource Center, one of the Gale InfoTrac databases.
To use Biography Resource Center at home, enter a library card number from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

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updated 03/04/2008