Web Sites

Theme Related

China Free Markets or Farmer's Markets
http://www.saturdaymarket.com/chinaveg/intro.htm

Hear Chinese Spoken
http://chinapage.com/sound/far2.wav

Lean about an endangered species--The Panda
http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/panda.html

Take a virtual citywalk in Shanghai
http://shanghai.muzi.net/

Traditional Chinese Culture in Taiwan
http://la.roc-taiwan.org/info/culture/culture.html

Chinese Alphabet
http://www.karate1.com/alphabet/alphabet.htm

Animated Chinese Characters
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/

Chinese Pictographs--takes a long time to load, but interesting
http://www.zhongwen.com/wen.htm

ABACUS

This site shows the Chinese, Japanese, and Aztec abacuses (abacii?)

LEGO Abacus
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/lego/

Here is a site with many different sorobans (learned at this site that "soroban" is Chinese for "abacus")
http://www.quia.com/custom/2main.html

Quia.com - Create your own learning activities!
http://www.quia.com

General site for Chinese Culture with links to several cultural pages, including abacus use
http://ubik.virtual-pc.com/sapienti/abacus01.htm

The Modern Chinese Abacus
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/%7Edemmm/abacus/abacus.html

A working Chinese Abacus
http://www.accent.co.uk/chinabacus.html

Check out this site as a source for a free downloadable "shareware" 30-day trial of Mah Jong:
http://www.mahjongg.com/

GAMES OF THE ORIENT
http://chineseculture.tqn.com/msub60.htm

CHINESE NEW YEAR
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html

CHINESE PAPERCUTS
http://www.isaacnet.com/culture/papercut.htm

HANDYMAN

Leaky Faucets

http://www.hometime.com/projects/howto/plumbing/pc2plm8.htm


Hidden Leaks
http://www.handymanjim.com/hid.html

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Webelos
Build a bridge on-line
http://www.bechtel.com/buildingMinds/spanGame.html

Anatomy of a bridge inspection
http://www.bh-ba.com/bridge.html

Build a bridge
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/build.html


Leader Tips:

http://geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/3797/leader.htm

Randy's excellent sites
Scout History Page:
http://members.aol.com/randywoo/bsahis/
Ultimate Pinewood Derby Site http://members.aol.com/randywoo/pine/

Barb S. has done it again--she has put together a list of free web page storage
http://www.creighton.edu/~bsteph/pack114/library/freepgs.html

A contest for your school's benefit
http://www.kidzup.com/
Click on the contest button.

Just for Fun
Cyber Air Park--Chicago O'Hare
http://www.cyberair.com/audio/chiapp/

Kite Aerial Photography
http://www-archfp.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/

U.S. Kids Compute
http://www.uskidscompute.com/

Resources
The scouting graphics for all levels of scouting are available on line at
http://usscouts.org/library.html