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Search the InternetTo support our school while searching use GoodSearch One of my favorite metacrawlers is Dogpile NEW A clustering search engine Clusty For a kid-friendly search engine try: CyberSleuth or Ask for Kids or Yahoo!Kids For a guide to search engines for kids see: Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids Need to do some research and not sure where to start. Check out: Choose the Best Search For Your Information Need by NoodleTools |
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Finds reference tools including a dictionary, encyclopedia, almanacs, maps and more at Yahoo!Kids Reference page. Levi Heywood Memorial Library - use their card catalogue or log in with your library card to check when your books are due or to renew them To create citations for a bibliography try the Son of Citation Machine or if you want to use the MLA format use EasyBib for free
Do you need to create a graph? Try using Create a Graph Part of the National Center for Education Statistics Kids' Zone
Find lessons and practice in math subjects from basic math to calculus and everything in between, plus calculators and math tools at either Math.com or AAA Math For some interactive math practice try AplusMath For some challenging but fun math, check out the Absurd Math site. To have fun while practicing math find links to a wide range of math activities on the King's List of On-line Math Activities
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History/Social Studies Learn all about the 50 United States at the Internet Public Library's Stately Knowledge site. Check out all our national parks, historical monuments, seashores and more at the website of the National Park Service. For Egyptian enthusiasts visit the Valley of the Kings and the Theban Necropolis at the Theban Mapping Project
Find a collection of links to sites on prehistory,
ancient/biblical, medieval, U.S., early modern European, 20th
century, WWII, and art histories and more at the
Best of History Web
Sites. This history portal
is maintained by The Center for Teaching History with Technology.
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Science Elevators to space? Cryptozoology? Phantom Ships? To learn about some strange science topics visit the Museum of Unnatural Mystery. Interested in time, space, technology (robots), extremes in earth science, weather and biology, homework help…find this and more at Extreme Science. Visit an interactive
Periodic
Table of Elements
Learn all about the Metric System
Read biographies of scientists at Infoplease and Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography of learn about inventors at Inventor of the Week Check out some Earth Science at the For Kids Only Earth Science Enterprise Find out How Volcanoes Work Listen to Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" Visit a Microbe Zoo
For excellent information about the solar system
explore The Investigate Earth Science for kids at NASA's For Kids Only - Earth Science Enterprise For links to more science sites, especially Life Science related sites click here.
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Literature
Find complete works of Classic Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry plus Reference Books at Bartleby.com. Find works of over 90 classics authors and poets along with brief biographies on each at The Literature Network. Find links to over 20,000 works of literature at the Online Books Page.
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Children's Literature Read poetry or submit your own poetry (with parent's permission) at Poetry.com Find your favorite authors and illustrators on the web and much more at The Children's Literature Web Guide Read children's books from around the world at the International Children's Digital Library (with 531 books on-line, on the way to 10,000)
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Geography
The CIA World Factbook provides information on countries all around the world.
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Writing There are numerous sites that can help you improve your writing. Websites about punctuation, grammar, word usage, citing references, clichés, how to write essays, and more are only clicks away. Refdesk.com links you to many of them. |
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Need to write a research paper. Although written for high school and college students IPL Teenspace: A+ Research and Writing covers about everything you need to know. If you like reading and writing funny poetry check out Giggle Poetry Your teacher said to make sure not to plagiarize but your not sure what that means or how to avoid it. Visit plagiarism.org to read all about it. |
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Educational Games Have fun while practicing skills or exercising your memory! Visit one of these sites: FreeRice.com - How well do you know grammar? vocabulary? chemistry symbols? countries? Be quizzed on one of these or on another subject and earn 10 grains of rice for the poor with each correct answer. Test your geography knowledge with the daily GeoBee quiz by the National Geographic Society or take a quiz on FreePoverty.com that hopes to bring water to those in need. Enjoy a new word game, word search, brainteaser, trivia game, anagram, cryptogram, crossword and more each weekday and A Game a Day Interested in space try Buzz Lightyear in Orbit Or try Houghton Mifflin's games at http://www.eduplace.com/edugames.html
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For very current world and national news:
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Learn French or learn about French at:
Translate French to English and English to French at WordReference.com. (This site also has English to and from Spanish and Italian.)
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Go on an Art Safari with the Museum of Modern Art:
There are many great sites about art for kids. Here are several:
Cask, Creative Art Space for Kids Foundation
The National Gallery of Art for Kids
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Kids' Pages have Sing-along Songs many with both music and lyrics. Learn about classical music eras and composers at Essentials of Music Listen to music from the 1900s through the 1930s at Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine
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Educational TV Websites Fascinating websites from TV channels:
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Here's
a fun math site for ages 3-12 (up to pre-algebra)
