• Biographies
• Homework Help
• Internet Search Engines
• Libraries
• News
• Questions
• Reference

BIOGRAPHIES

• Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web
• Biographical Dictionary    www.s9.com/biography   More than 25,000 notable men and women from ancient times to present day can be found here.

HOMEWORK HELPERS

• Math Homework Helper
• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Math Forum Student Center  forum.swarthmore.edu/students

 

INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

• Google   www.google.com
• Yahoo www.yahoo.com  Good for overview of broad topics and then narrowing your search, organized by subject trees from general topics down to specifics.
• iTools
• All the Web   www.alltheweb.com  
• Lycos www.lycos.com   Excellent for picture, sound, and media searching, common searches, quality evaluated sites.
• HotBot  www.hotbot.com   Common keyword searches, ranked results with most likely matches first on the list, fast, powerful, can limit searches to pictures, sounds, time frame, media types, great for person search.
• Alta Vista  www.altavista.com   Good for pinpoint, narrow searches, scientific information, proper names, etc.
• www.incywincy.com  IncyWincy  Invisible Web Search Engine covers over 100,000 databases.
• MetaCrawler   www.metacrawler.com   Mulit-search engine, searches all major search engines and comes up with a reasonable, compiled list of sites on your topic.
• Little Explorers  www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html   Click on letters of the alphabet for a picture dictionary of links to kid friendly websites.

LIBRARIES ONLINE

• Internet Public Library  www.ipl.org
• The Internet Public Library Youth Division    www.ipl.org/youth
• Librarian's Internet Index   www.lii.org
• Johnson County Public Library   www.jocolibrary.org/
• American Library Association www.ala.org
• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Prints and Photos Online Catalog
• Awesome Library for Teachers, Students and Parents   www.awesomelibrary.org

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NEWS

• Time for Kids www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids
• CNN  www.cnn.com
• ABC News  www.abcnews.com
• CBS News   www.cbsnews.com
• NBC News   www.msnbc.com/news 
• Sports Illustrated  sportsillustrated.cnn.com
• Knowledge News   www.knowledgenews.net/

 

QUESTIONS?

• Ask Jeeves for Kids  www.ajkids.com   Kids can ask Jeeves anything and hopefully get and answer.

 

REFERENCE

• thesaurus.reference.com/
• dictionary.com
• Educators Network Sites for Teachers: Awesome Library
• Landmark Citation Machine
• easywhois.com 
• Worldbook Online   www.worldbookonline.com 
• Encyclopedia.Com   www.encyclopedia.com    Links to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, conversion tables,etc
• Kids Web   www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/indexold.html   A world wide web digital library for schoolkids
• Pop Clock Projection    www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html   Daily update of the US population by the US Census Bureau.
• Science Fair Resource Guide    www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide  From the Internet Public Library, this site has links to all sorts of great project ideas.
• National Geographic Online    www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html   Information from National Geographic, expeditions, resources, etc.
• Britannica Online    www.britannica.com   Information from the encyclopedia people.
• How Stuff Works  www.howstuffworks.com
• Kid Info

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