** http://code.org ~ With its mission to expand participation in computer science, this site believes that “every students in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming.”
** www.scholastic.com/island of lemurs/ ~ This site explains that “through reading nonfiction and informational texts, students will learn about Madagascar’s geography and its native lemurs–found nowhere else on earth.”
** www.guinessworldrecords.com ~ This site is “the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement.”
** www.infoplease.com ~ Information Please has been answering all kinds of factual questions since 1938, first as a quiz show, then as an annual almanac starting in 1947, and now online.