Sites to use for the Panama Canal Newsletter

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/index.html -a neat Macromedia Flash demonstration. Click "General Information" and then on "How it Works"

http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt-Fly/ --all about the history of the Panama Canal

http://www.panamaliving.com/locks.html – live cam at Miraflores

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/panamacanal/interactive/interactive.html –widening the locks (problems with new ships)

http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/Tutorials/Panama/Panama.html –an interactive site teaching about yellow fever, one of the many dangers faced by workers

http://katydid.uni-graz.at/batkey/pictures_panama.asp –pictures

http://www.stri.org/Educational_Links/Tropical_Climate.html –climate

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/PIA03368_lrg.jpg –topographic map of the canal zone