Pathfinders OUR WORLD These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research on "Our World" Subject headings, keywords Geography, people and places, flags, individual names of countries, e.g. France, Italy, China. Dewey Numbers 909 and 910 for Geography,  942-998 for other countries 330.09 for economics (trade, resources and money) 332.4 for money and currencys.     Reference: Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, People and places encyclopedias, Encarta On-line databases and websites          (also available from 'Library Online' page) EPIC database search http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/ In the orange highlighted area 'login to databases' TKI login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.  Scroll down to 'Britannica online K-12' or the 'Discovering Collection' "access database" in blue box Type in Search terms and chose either Primary, Secondary or High School options National Geographic (great for all topics) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ These websites have information on maps, flags, history, governments and profiles of all countries of the world, also basic economics, language translation site and currencies. http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html http://www.countryreports.org/  http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html http://www.photius.com/flags/flag_identifier.html http://www.nzflag.com/newdesigns.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/wantsandneeds1.htm http://babelfish.altavista.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies http://www.foreignword.com/ http://bonjourlafrance.net/french_flag/france_flag.htm http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/GFBF/gfbf-1.htm design a flag, 5 basic principles