Earthquake

• USGS Earthquake Map

Earth Science

• Rock Cycle
  Rock cycle animations display some of the most common rock-forming processes.

Economics

• Economist 
  Markets and market data: global market statistics.
  

Education

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• California School Data
  • California Department of Education  
     Data on public and private schools
  • Ed-Data 
    Fiscal, demographic and performance data on California's K-12
    schools.
• Colleges and Universities
  • California Community Colleges
  • California State Universities
  • RWM Vocational School database
  • University of California Homepage
• College Testing
  • ACT, Inc. : Information for Life's Transitions
  • Students and Parents - SAT Program Information - Register Online
• Databases
  • ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
    Abstracts of documents and journal articles in education, lesson plans, vitrual library, question & answer service, and more.
• Financial Aid
  • California Student Aid Commission
  • FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
  • The College Board: Educational Excellence for All Students
  • U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page
• Lesson Plans
  • Educator's Desk Reference
  • Solution Site.com
    K-12 teacher generated lesson plans
  • National Center For Case Study Teaching In Science
    A refereed collection (380+) of exemplary case studies in all areas of science for use at the undergraduate, graduate, and high school level.

Election and Voting Information

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• League of Women Voters – California
• League of Women Voters – National
  Provides balanced non partisan information about the candidates and issues.
• My Vote Counts – California Secretary of State
  Links to political parties, candidate information, polling places, voter registration, voter complaint forms, campaign finance information, etc.
• Center for Responsive Politics
  “The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.”
• Project Vote Smart
  “40 national leaders, including former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, formed Project Vote Smart (PVS) in 1992. Dedicated to upholding the ideal of democracy and serving the American people with unbiased and accurate information, PVS constructed a user-friendly voter's self-defense system accessible through a website and a toll-free hotline (1-888-VOTE-SMART)”
• Riverside County Registrar of Voters
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (LexisNexis Academic Universe database)
  Located in Reference – Polls & Surveys Section of the database. Access data from public opinion polls on the presidential candidates, and the issues. Use the keywords “vote for president.” If on campus go to http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe or if connecting to Lexis-Nexis from off campus, log in through my.msjc.edu

EMERGENCY SERVICES

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• California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Emergency Digital Info Service)
• Riverside County Early warning Notification System (register your phone numbers)
• Riverside County Fire Department - Office of Emergency Services

English as a Second Language

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• BBC Learning English 
  
  

Environmental Science

• Atlases
  • Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Changes – U.S. Geological Survey
• Pollution
  • Scorecard
    Provides information on environmental contaminates throughout the U.S. Searchable by types of pollutants, geographic areas, and zip codes.
  • Toxic Release Inventory – U.S Environmental Protection Agency
    Search for releases of various pollutants by facility, geographic location, chemical name, or SIC code.
• General Sources
  • California Air Quality Resources Board
  • California Department of Water Resources
  • Ecology WWW Page
  • EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Community
  • Environmental Defense Fund
  • Information Center for the Environment - UC Davis
  • South Coast Air Quality Management District
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency
  • WWW Virtual Library - Environment

Ethnic Resources

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• African and African-American
  • Africa Focus - Sights and Sounds of a Continent
    Visual images and sounds of Africa from the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Roadmap to African American Resources
• Chinese and Chinese-American
  • The Chinese in California 1850-1925 – Library of Congress (photos and documents)
• Japanese and Japanese-American
  • Japanese American National Museum
• Latin American
  • Latin American Network Information Center
    This site hopes "...to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." An editorial staff selected the site's 12,000 plus URLs, which can be accessed via either a subject directory or a search engine.