FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART OR ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO SURF
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CHOOSE YOUR WAVE

• Surfing For Information? Try these to net what you need
• For Younger Tastes or the Young At Heart
• Sports and the Great Outdoors
• Teachers and Students
• Hodge Podge - a Little of Everything
• Homework Help for Students
• Surf To Other Cities and Towns
• Canadian Sites
• Nova Scotia Government sites
• Health Information

Search for Information

The home pages listed here are ones that will enable you to take a look at other areas without searching. They are not guaranteed to work flawlessly, but were correct when listed. Should you find a mistake please let us know. Have you discovered a good home page, let us know so we can add it to our list. Leave the address (URL) and a brief description.

Surfing for Information(To the Surface)

Need to find information in a hurry? Try using Web Crawler a part of the search capabilities on the Internet. You will find an option to use it listed on the PC Computing Home Page as well. It's an excellent tool, simply type in the word you wish to find and it does the work.

YahooA little of everything, including programs. Listing for thousands of sites.

Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index.. Listings by subject areas with links to other sites.

Otis Index -- Listing of sites in many areas

Infoseek. Listings for many things

Starting Point A good place to start from

The Isis Usergroup Information on what's going on right here

• For Teachers and Students(To the Surface)
  

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• Roget's Thesaurus
  
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• Smithsonian Institute
  
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• Familiar Quotations (Bartlett)
  
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• Explorer Folder filled with math and natural science curricular ideas, with links to other sites
  
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• NASA Nasa's K-12 initiative offers ideas for using technology in the classroom
  
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• Eisnehower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education - Information on math and science from K-12 with reviews of all types of instructional resources
  
• Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic A list of resources for grades 5 - 12, including books, videos and hands-on-materials like a coal mining kit. You can retrieve information easily by subject area like dinosaurs, volcanos, gold etc. It also supports a Question and Answer area for information and help.
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• National Geographic Society - A site hosted and maintained by National Geographic
  

• Homework Help For Students(To the Surface)
  

• The Virtual Reference Desk
  
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• Welcome to the Planets - Information about the planets, pictures etc.
  
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• The Electronic Zoo - Click on the animal icon (a paw print) from here your child can get information about everything that walks, crawls, slithers, hops or flies.
  
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• The WebMuseum - An excellent site for an art project. Downloadable, full color pictures of many famous paintings and excellent biographical and artistic material about painters and about art movements in general.
  
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• CIA World Factbook Maps and detailed information about every country in the world.
  

• Sports and Outdoors(To the Surface)
  

• TSN on the net for all sports information
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• Golf Web Everything you ever wanted to know or ask about golf, golfers, tournaments, stats etc.
  
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• Sports Server - Basketball, football and baseball, follow your
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• team and find out all the inside details
  
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• America's Cup - Everything you ever wanted to know
  
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• National Hockey League - Details of teams, graphics and other stats.
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• National Hockey League Players Association - Details of players, graphics and other stats.
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• Gorp Com - Where to go and what to do outdoors. Hiking, climbing, wildlife viewing, snorkeling, windsurfing, camping, anything to do with outdoor activities.
  
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• Outdoor Articles - Articles on anything related to the great outdoors, fishing, hunting, wild life, conservation projects
  

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• Younger Tastes - Perhaps(To the Surface)

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• Lots of child friendly sites A great starting point and not just for kids!
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• Disney's new movie
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• Internet@Night Not just for kids!
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• Theodore Tugboat An interactive story for children produced here in Nova Scotia
  
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• Kids Web Digital library for kids with links for subject matter in art, science and social studies.
  
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• Global Show-N-Tell Online art and writing produced by kids from Kindergarten to Grade Six.
  

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• Hodge Podge(To the Surface)
  

• The Royal Web Site - Information about the Royal Family and their activities
  
• Baja California - For those people who want to know about the "other" coast
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• A great site for dog lovers A unique screen saver for those who love dogs.
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• The FBI site on the net Lots of information
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• Internet Art Museum - Free for the taking, music, digital art, photography, literature, films and video
  
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• The Louvre Museum on line
  
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• Heard Museum Web Site - Contempory and historical native American and South-Western art.
  
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• Tour the White House - Graphics and information on the White House
  
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• Newbie Area - New and feeling overwhelmed, here's information you can use immediately. Jammed with tips and tricks for new users with links to web searching tools. Netiquette 101 resource, plenty of FAQs (frequently asked questions).
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• Ontario Science Center - A sample of exhibits on space, earth, food, transportation, technology, communication, matter, energy, change. Also includes a multimedia workshop.
  
• Mac Users Ultimate Macintosh Site Links to Mac related newsgroups, online magazines and many software archives.
  

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• Surf to Other Cities(To the Surface)

  A site listing cities and town throughout the world with home pages. You will find us listed here too!

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• Canadian Sites(To the Surface)
  

• The Government of Canada Site
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• Canadian Community Access - This site is to be a link for all Canadian information, businesses etc.
  
• Link to many Canadian Sites
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• Canadian Museum of Civilization
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• The Canadian Network
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• NETLINKS! Canadian Links Page

• Find the cities or towns you want

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• Nova Scotia Government Sites(To the Surface)

  Provincial site for Human Resources (Manpower) Lots of job information

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• The weather for our area
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• Department of Education and Culture
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• Economic Renewal Agency
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• Nova Scotia Resorts

HEALTH INFORMATION SITES

• Health Canada - Everything you need to know about health matters and the Canadian health system, including Canada's food guide, calorie counter and health bulletins.

• Canadian Health Network (CHN) -A sevice developed byHealth Canada with health information

• American Online Health - Tips on your health and the latest news, vitamin guide.

• Intel Internet Health Initiative - Pertinent information on health issues and information on complementary and alternative health care

• Medbroadcast - Offers medical information and e-commerce sites.  The stie includes a service called "my health record" allowing visitors to create their own personal health record.

• Newsworld "Health Matters" - Features weekly themes on health and medical topics and links to other sites.  A companion to the radio program.