GREAT REFERENCE LINKS
- All Grades
- 4kids.org - designed for kids (and their parents) to find fun, educational, and safe spots to visit on the World Wide Web.
- Use your math skills to navigate through this bizarre world, dodging the thought police as you try to unravel the secrets of problem solving. A pop-up "mathulator" (calculator) helps you move from level to level.
- AskERIC - searchable site for a variety of information and lesson plans
- Ask the Experts
- Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
- Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids - site
introduces children to how the government works. It covers the U.S.
Constitution, how laws are made, the branches of government, and
citizenship. The site is divided into sections aimed at age groups K-2,
3-5, 6-8, and 9-12, with a separate section for parents and educators.
- BigChalk.com - Teachers, parents, and students can find a wide range of online support at this site including homework help, research tips, and study aids.
- Biology Project, The
- Biographical Dictionary - contains biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day
- Blackboard.com - "At Blackboard.comSM, you can teach online for free, take distance-learning courses, utilize 239 discipline-specific resource centers and customize them to match your own classes, share tips and information with other online teachers and students, and much more."
- Blue Web'n Learning Center - "a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web"
- Calculators - Online Center - over 5,200 online calculators
- Citing Electronic Resources
- Classroom Resources Activities for the Environment
- Cliff's Notes - Complete Series - from Amazon.com; each selection contains a summary and a critical review.
- Convert It! - Excellent site to convert anything to anything
- Conversion Factors
- Curious Math - tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of math problems. There's also some entertaining trivia and other math facts that are nice to slip into casual conversation. Some of it's Useful and some of it's Curious.
- Doctor's Guide to the Internet - Medical news, sites of the week, new drugs or indications, doctor's feedback, and an Internet-resource section. Extremely thorough.
- ERIC: Internet Resources for Children - This site by ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center, a national education information system sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education, describes more than fifty Internet sites that will be of special interest to children in grades K-8, teachers, parents and librarians.
- Education 4 Kids - "Once upon a time there was a dream that there would be a set of resources on the net that would exist solely for kids to use as an educational "center". A place where they could come and play drill games to better their skills and to learn. This is the place."
- Educational Hotlists - from the Franklin Institute
- Educational Index - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web.
- Elements of Style - William Strunk's classic on proper English usage
- Environmental Education
- EspanOle - "The On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish!"
- Explore Science - This site is one of the best we've come across for explaining scientific concepts. Simple Shockwave demos help explain mechanics, life sciences, waves, and more. You'll need the Shockwave plug-in and Netscape 2.0 or better to view the site.
- explorezone.com - animated earth, space and weather science
- FactMonster.com - Site for young students with info on everything from dragons and giants to pets and proverbs.
- Facts Encyclopedia - Refdesk - Over 70 Subject Categories.
- Facts Subject Index - Refdesk - 24 Reference Categories
- Flashcards for Kids
- Franklin’s Forecast - Information for students about various weather phenomenon and forecasting.There is a simple experiment that demonstrates the causes of El Nino, instructions for building a weather station, and has links to related science projects to do either at home or online.
- From Stargazers to Starships - This high-school level tutorial focuses on three topics: Astronomy of the Earth’s motion in space which includes information, and some experiments and projects
that teach concepts about the calendar, seasons, Kepler’s laws, building a
sundial, and more; Newtonian mechanics has some projects for understanding
Newton’s laws and discussion of mass and motion; and Spaceflight and
Spacecraft demonstrates the principle of the rocket, covers Goddard and early
rockets, and moves on to discussions of future spacecraft propulsion efforts such
as nuclear power and space sails.
- FunBrain.com - "The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8."
- FunSchool - Funschool.com has loads of Java-based educational games for kids from preschool to sixth grade.
- General Chemistry Online - An introductory, searchable guide to chemistry that includes
hyperlinked notes and guides for first semester chemistry,
as well as articles. There is also a searchable glossary of
over 900 terms, over 400 FAQs and a trivia quiz.
- Great Books of Western Civilization, The - From Mercer University, modeled after the course of study at St John's College, with links to the text of the Great Books
- Guide to Geography - About.com - resources include online world atlas, weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of sites, weekly quizzes, chats, and a free email newsletter.
- Historical Documents - The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life - ever wonder how something worked but didn't know whom to ask? Ask Louis A. Bloomfield, a physics professor at the University of Virginia.
ELEMENTARY
- Homework Help For Grades 1 - 6
Homework Central
READING
- Children's Literature Web Guide - Massive and well-organized, with links to nearly every worthwhile children's reading site.
WRITING
- Common Errors in English - A concise list of the most common errors in English usage
ARITHMETIC
- APlus Homework Helper - Homework Helper will allow you to input a problem and your answer. It will then figure out if your solution is correct
- Flashcards for Kids - This is a real working flash card application on the net!
JUNIOR HIGH
- Homework Help For Grades 7-8
Homework Central
MATH
- Math.com
ENGLISH
- BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: English
- Authors on the Web - A Collection of Biographical Sketches
SOCIAL STUDIES
- 4 Kids.com - Excellent government and history links.
- The 50 States of the United States - A quick resource for fun facts about each of the nation's 50 states, including when they achieved statehood
SCIENCE
- Amateur Science
- Mad Scientist Network - The mad scientists from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis will answer questions in 25 areas of science, from anatomy and chemistry to zoology.
- StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers - introduction to the solar system and space exploration for youngsters.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Homework Help For Grades 9-12
High School Hub - . . . academic resources for high school students
Homework Central
MATH
- Math2.org - source for all your math needs- geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and more.
- Math Archives, The
- Math Homework Help - pre-algebra, algebra I & II, college algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus
ENGLISH
- On-Line Books Page, The - 5000+ Listings
- Shakespearean Homework Helper, The
SOCIAL STUDIES
- 50 U.S, States - Capitals and Information Links
- Constitution of the United States, The
- From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards - concise hypertext history of the United States from the colonial period to modern times
- THOMAS - U.S. Congress - Legislative Information
SCIENCE
- PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science
- Scientific American: Ask the Experts - the experts at Scientific American are available to answer what you really want to know
- SciCentral - science and engineering resources
- WebElements - Periodic Table
COLLEGE
- Research From A - Z
- World Lecture Hall - links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
Other Homework Links
- Astronomy Homework Help
- B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
- H3 - HandyHomeworkHelper
- High School Homework Assistance Page, The - links organized by class subject areas such as math, english composition and literature, social studies, foreign language, etc.
- Homework Central
- Homework Help - King County Library
- Homework Help - KidInfo
- Homework Now - Online student assignment directory
- HomeworkSpot
- Information Please Homework Center - "Specially designed for K-12 homework problems, our Homework Center provides you with authoritative references to help you answer your questions."
- Jiskha Homework Help - "The best homework help on the net"
questions, and open the door to a virtual encyclopedia of facts and figures."
- Math Homework Help
- MEGAlinks! for Students
- Melody's Homework Help
- Multnomah County (Oregon) Homework Center
- Schoolwork Ugh! - "Library closed? Need information for your homework assignments?"
- Study Web - comprehensive index that categorizes and reviews over 17,000 educational and reference Web sites.
- Time to Dewey Your Homework - Kanawha County (W.Va )Public Library suggests the following resources as a good places to start.
- WWW Virtual Library - a staggeringly comprehensive compilation of informational Web sites, arranged by topic.
- Yahooligans -
Homework help, sports scores, "art soup" and games. Just like Yahoo only just for kids.
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TOOLS FOR RESEARCH
- A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students
- Ask the Experts
- Chem4Kids - Easy to navigate with site map or search engine and includes drop-down glossary for terms.
Also includes data on atoms, elements and matter as well as biographies of famous chemists.
- Chemistry - the environment, biochemistry, and inorganic, organic, and medicinal chemistry
- Common Errors in English
- Country Studies/Area Handbook - Library of Congress - online series presently contains studies of 85 countries
- Elements of Style - Strunk
- Fact Monster - from Information Please
- Finding Data on the Internet
- Guide for Writing Research Papers
- Guide to Internet Research for High School and College Students
- Infonation - United Nations - the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations
- Internet Public Library Ready Reference
- My Facts Page - 2,000+ Sites - 24 Topics
- OneLook Dictionaries - Search over 721,000 words in 156 dictionaries
- Online Writing Lab
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Periodic Table of the Elements - A Resource for Elementary, Middle School, and High School Students.
- Proofreading Symbols and Abbreviations
- Research-It!
- ResearchPaper.com
- Research Paper and the World-Wide Web - companion site to the book. Features an online study guide with chapter-specific exercises.
- Seven Steps of the Research Process, The
- Study Guides and Strategies - Study Guides includes over 50 pages of summary guides to assist students in
succeeding in their studies. Topics include time and stress management,
test preparation, organizational strategies, reading and writing, and more.
Translated into Arabic, Russian, Chinese, French, German, and Italian, the
site should help students around the world.
- Yahoo! - Grammar, Usage, and Style
- Human-Languages Page - best language links on the Internet
- Infomine - resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
- Internet Classics Archive, The. - searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
- Internet Public Library
- Internet Scout - hundreds of announcements each week for the online resources most valuable to the education community
- Kid's Alamnac - Yahoo! has rendered a more kid user-friendly version of the popular Information Please Kids' Almanac.
- Internet Dectectives - A Middle School Social Studies & Library Media Project
- Kidinfo - A great way to find both fun stuff and information for completing your homework assignments.
- KidsClick! - "web guide and search tool for kids by librarians"
- Kids Did This - reports written by students
- Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites (KIDS) - kids help kids find sites that are fun and that help with homework.
- LearningPlanet.com - Site for kids preschool through sixth grade to play free learning games online.
- LibrarySpot - a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Mad Scientist Network - Answers on everything from Anatomy to Zoology.
- Math.com - Free math homework help, math tutoring, math formulas and cool math stuff. Recommendations on books, calculators and products for students, parents, and teachers.
- The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
- Math Help: Professor Freedman - a mixture of sound, humor, color, animation and graphics with lots of help for the "math anxious" student. Its aim is to give students a self-directed and entertaining way to learn basic math and algebra.
- Math in Daily Life - site shows how math helps us in our daily lives. It demonstrates math concepts such as probability, compounding, growth, geometry, and relationships in situations such as gambling, savings and investing, population growth, home decorating, and cooking.
- Math Word Problems for Children - over 2000 math word problems for children to learn from and enjoy. The pages are sorted by topic and level of difficulty. Each problem is designed to improve elementary and middle school students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Measurement 4 Measure - A collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate,etc.
- Measurements Converter - friendly JavaScript interface converts length, weight, area, speed, temperature and more, into different units and unit systems.
- Metric Conversion Card - Use this easy chart to convert inches to centimeters, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius, and more.
- Mint, The - An economics and money management primer that addresses how to earn, budget, save, and invest money in today's society. Issues covered include the stock
market, credit cards, inflation, income, expenses, interest rates, the relationship
between higher education and earning potential, and more. Designed for middle
school and high school students, with a section for teachers and parents
- Myschoolonline.com - "Welcome to the Web's largest community of local education sites."
- National Geographic Homework Help - Need to know how much hippos eat, what explorers Lewis and Clark packed in their first-aid kit, where Giza is, or how fireworks work? You’ve come to the right place. Here are our most fact-filled features, perfect for reports, presentations, homework—or your curiosity.
- Neuroscience for Kids - Explore the nervous system, using experiments,
activities, and games to learn about the brain, spinal
cord, neurons, and senses. The site, which includes links
to other sites and current events in the field, is
appropriate to students of all ages.
- Numeracy Home Page, The - Links, puzzles, and other numeracy activities for adults designed to encourage interest in math.
- Nye Labs Online - Bill Nye the Science Guy's Web site is as lively and funny as
his television show. Select Demo of the Day for a different
daily science experiment you can do at home. In Home
Demos are over 40 different demonstrations, complete with
explanations of how things work.
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- OneLook Dictionaries - over 640,000 words in 109 dictionaries
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Periodic Table - WebElements
- Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Peterson's Guide to Colleges - information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
- Physics Classroom, The - Learn basic physics concepts and review them in the Physics Tutorial. Check Your Understanding quizzes let you know you got it.
- Pi Pages, The - Think you know everything there is to know about pi? Try this trivia game and test your knowledge.
- Project Gutenburg - 'Fine literature digitally re-published'
- Quia Math - more than thirty math activities which
include flashcards and a Concentration-style matching game. Topics range from basic addition to algebra terminology. Don't miss the Math Journey, where students can travel around the world as they practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and rounding at four levels.
- QuickMath - QuickMath is an automated service for answering common math problems over the internet. Think of it as an online calculator that solves equations and does all sorts of algebra and calculus problems - instantly and automatically!
- RHL School, The - subject areas are reading comprehension, math problem solving and computation, English basics, and reference skills. They are most appropriate for elementary through middle school students.
- Reference.com - searchable directories of newsgroups and mailing lists
- Research-It! - collection of online research tools. Search dictionaries, translate words, find quotations and more.
- ResearchPaper.com
- Roberts Rules of Order - simplified version of Robert's Rules of Order, the standards for conducting meetings
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- SAT Question of the Day
- Science is Fun - the fun of science through home science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books. Information about these and other science fun stuff is available here.
- School Express - an educational mall offering resources for schools, homeschools, teachers, parents and children. Links are given to hundreds of educational web sites. The Free Worksheets are especially popular for school and home use.
- Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth
- Shakespeare - The Complete Works
- Space Place, The - Space science can be more fun than your children ever imagined. At The Space Place. Brought to us from the folks at NASA, kids can learn how to make and do "spacey things." Or pick up some "amazing facts" from Dr. Marc
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Statistics - How accurate is polling? Find out about statistics concepts through the case study of a fictional election.
- Study Guides and Strategies - A resource for students from the Learning Center of University of St. Thomas. Information includes: Preparing to Learn, Studying, Reading Skills, Classroom Participation, Preparing for Tests, Taking Tests, Writing Basics, Researching on the Internet, and much more.
- Sumfun - A directory of math sites. Includes sections on humorous math games and tricks, teacher resources, math information, and tools and software.
- Sunrise/Sunset Computation - Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
- Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links - guide links to over 7000 French language sites and French educational sites. Compiled by Bob Peckham, University of Tennessee-Martin.
- This is MEGA Mathematics - A project of the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory, this site has puzzles, a glossary, and special topics on math concepts such as infinity, graphs, and algorithms.
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- U.S. Census & Map Data
- U.S. and Puerto Rico Population Figures
- Virtual Body
- Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
- Virtual Hospital, The - University of Iowa
- Virtual Reference Desk
- Visual Elements - featuring computer-generated images that interpret the 109 entries of the periodic table
- Visible Human Project, The - The US National Library of Medicine is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body.
- Vocabulary University
- WWWebster Dictionary - the on-line version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
- WebMath - the goal of this website is to provide you with an instant solution to the particular math problem you're having trouble solving.
- Weights & Measures
- Who Represents You in Congress? - Project Vote Smart
- Why Files: Science behind the news
- WorldClimate: Weather rainfall and temperature data - over 85,000 records of world climate data
- World Factbook CIA
- World Holiday and Time Guide - tells you which holidays are taking place anywhere and everywhere around the world on any specific day.
- World Population Clock
- World Rulers
- World Wide Metric Calculators
- World Time Zones
- Z39.50 Gateway - LOC
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