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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> **Period A** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Title -** _ <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/building-of-panama-canal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You are able to find the first, second and third questions on this __one__ website. //Maya Berg//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Bright Hub Engineering** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.brighthubengineering.com/naval-architecture/35713-the-panama-canal-a-man-made-engineering-marvel/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It describes how the panama canal works. //Andrew McDowell//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Panamacanal.com** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.panamacanal.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This website is a great resource to show you how the Panama Canal works. This is also interactive so it isn't as boring as just reading. //Charlie Graf//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**How does the Panama Canal Work?** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://answers.ask.com/business/transportation/how_does_the_panama_canal_work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This site will help students because it gives a really good description on how the panama canal work. //Megan Sterling// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Fast Track Teaching** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">www.fasttrackteaching.com/burns/unit_6_/U6_Panama_Canal.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You can find a lot about the building process and what the Panama Canal is. //Emma Ronk// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students can find information about Theodore Roosevelt along with the Panama Canal. //Kailey Scigliano//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**US History** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">www.ushistory.org/us/44g.asp <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> This website will tell you how the Panama Canal was built, the obstacles, in making it, and more. //Jack Potasiewicz//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> **Period B** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**The Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.ushistory.org/us/44g.asp <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You will find why Roosevelt wanted to build the Panama Canal, and the hardhips that came with it. //Riley North//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**PBS .org** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-panama/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">On this website you will be able to find the answer to the question, "Why did Teddy Roosevelt want to build the canal?" //Kevin McGibbney// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Building the Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You can find the Panama Canal. //Luke Tomczak//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Timeline. Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/panama/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This site is a great___. //Kaylee Madey//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.huntingtoncounty.com/panama002.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You will find the diffuculties and tragic obstacles the people that built the Panama Canal faced. You will also find background information and statistics. //Juliette Boughton//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> **Period D** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Inside the Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.history.com/shows/modern-marvels/videos/inside-the-panama-canal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">There is a great video for you to watch. //Elizabeth Schrim// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-panama/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students will find info about the deal between America and Colombia.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Difficulties in building the Panama Canal.** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.ehow.com/about_5060914_problems-building-panama-canal.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You can find problems with the Panama Canal on ehow.com. //Mara Bett//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> **Period E** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**American Canal Construction** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/american.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">There is a lot of information on what happened before the Panama Canal was built. //Marisa Laughlin// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**How it Works** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.acp.gov.pa/eng/general/howitworks/operation.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students will find how the Panama Canal works. //Dominique Raught//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This website describes how the Panama Canal works. //Abby Dawley// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Bright Hub Engineering** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.brighthubengineering.com/naval-architecture/35713-the-panama-canal-a-man-made-engineering-marvel/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students will find how it works and the layout of it. //Jax Miller//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They will find mostly how the Panama Canal works and the layout of it. //Makenna Gavin// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**American History USA** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/building-of-panama-canal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Why was the Panama Canal needed, when was the decision taken to build it, how was it built, and how long did it take and what issues arose. //Grant Jenkins.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**PBS American Experience (Panama Canal)** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-panama/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It tells the difficulties of building the canal, hardships to the workers and how the U.S. handled it. //Lauren Pflueger//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Office of the Historian** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They will find a lot of information on the Panama Canal. You will find how hard it was to build the Panama Canal. Also, you will find how they built it. //Rachel Schaffner//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Pancanal.com** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//http://pancanal.com/// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It gives you diagrams on how it works and a moving picture to show you how it works. Transit and operation tabs. It is very detailed. //Jessie Mellon//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> //**Period H**//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Information on the Panama Canal ** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://traveltips.usatoday.com/information-panama-canal-12167.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The History of the Panama Canal, Tours, Geography and Climate, Attractions Operation. //Jason Mulligan//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Bright Hub Engineering** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">// @http://www.brighthubengineering.com/naval-architecture/35713-the-panama-canal-a-man-made-engineering-marvel/ // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">On this site students can find a step-by-step process on how a ship enters and exits the Panama Canal. //John Aber// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It shows exactly how the Panama Canal was built andthe different locks. //Emma Rind//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Timeline. Panama Canal/Creating the Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/panama/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This website shows how they built the Canal and important people in the building process. //Kate Francis//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Problems Building the Panama Canal** <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">www.studymode.com/essays/Problems-Building-the-Panama-Canal-577515.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students will find reasons why the Americans had so much trouble in building the canal. //Isabella Salerno// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|TheSearchEngineList] (comprehensive list of engines by subject or medium) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|LibGuidesCommunity] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">

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