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Grades 1 - 6

Grades 7-8

Grades 9-12

College

Reference - All Grades

Ask the Experts

Quick Reference/Research

My Facts Page

Tools for Research Papers

Educational Calendar & WWW Sites - Monthly calendar of well-annotated educational links
New York Times Learning Center - Grades 6 -12


ELEMENTARY - Homework Help For Grades 1 - 6

Homework Central

READING

  1. Children's Literature Web Guide - Massive and well-organized, with links to nearly every worthwhile children's reading site.

WRITING

  1. Language Arts: Writing - For the young writer. Includes KidsPub, a showcase for writing
  2. Common Errors in English - A concise list of the most common errors in English usage

ARITHMETIC  

  1. 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
  2. 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  

  1. Kids Web Mathematics - This list has FAQs, dictionaries, quotes, math, history, puzzles, and more.

ENGLISH  

  1. BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: English
  2. Authors on the Web - A Collection of Biographical Sketches

SOCIAL STUDIES  

  1. 4 Kids.com - Excellent government and history links.
  2. 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  

  1. Amateur Science
  2. 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.

HIGH SCHOOL - Homework Help For Grades 9-12

High School Hub - . . . academic resources for high school students  Homework Central

MATH  

  1. Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway - Dozens of links to information about mathematical equations, definitions, and even math history
  2. Dave's Math Tables - source for all your math needs- geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and more.
  3. Internet Connections - Math
  4. Math Archives, The
  5. Math Homework Help - pre-algebra, algebra I & II, college algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus

ENGLISH  

  1. Busy Teacher's Website: English - American literature, electronic text archives, Shakespeare dictionaries, and something for anyone who frequents the local poetry caf�.
  2. On-Book: An Introduction to the Study of Literature - all the tools you need to write your own literary analysis.
  3. On-Line Books Page, The - 5000+ Listings
  4. Shakespearean Homework Helper, The

SOCIAL STUDIES  

  1. 50 U.S, States - Capitals and Information Links
  2. Constitution of the United States, The
  3. Internet Connections - Social Studies
  4. Schoolhouse Library Social Science - links to information on everything from Supreme Court cases to the Dead Sea Scrolls
  5. From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards - concise hypertext history of the United States from the colonial period to modern times
  6. THOMAS - U.S. Congress - Legislative Information

SCIENCE  

  1. Discover magazine, Editors' Web Tour -list of essential science links, from a calendar of astronomical events to the periodic table of elements.
  2. Internet Connections - Science
  3. PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science
  4. Scientific American: Ask the Experts - the experts at Scientific American are available to answer what you really want to know
  5. SciCentral - science and engineering resources
  6. WebElements - Periodic Table

COLLEGE - Research From A - Z

Homework Central

  1. College Homework Resources From A to Z - the best places to start for topical research, from accounting to zoology
  2. 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.

TOOLS FOR RESEARCH

  1. A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students
  2. Able Writer: A Rhetoric and Handbook - describes an English composition handbook that treats pre-writing, outlining, English grammar, usage, word choice, dictionaries, spelling, punctuation, and writing college research papers.
  3. Argus Clearinghouse, The - a selective collection of topical guides
  4. Ask An Experts
  5. 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.
  6. Chemistry - the environment, biochemistry, and inorganic, organic, and medicinal chemistry
  7. Common Errors in English
  8. Country Studies/Area Handbook - Library of Congress - online series presently contains studies of 85 countries
  9. Document Electronic Sources on the Internet
  10. Elements of Style - Strunk
  11. Finding Data on the Internet
  12. Five Tools for Writing Timed Essays - a place to go if your grades are suffering because of low scores on in-class essays. It's also invaluable for those of you facing Advancement Placement tests. The site, from Jeff Hook, a professor at St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida, includes short essays on strategies to improve your timed essay writing ability.
  13. Guide for Writing Research Papers
  14. Guide to Internet Research for High School and College Students
  15. Infonation - United Nations - the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations
  16. Information Please Kids' Almanac - online dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework help
  17. Internet Public Library Ready Reference
  18. MLA Format and Citation Guide
  19. My Facts Page - 21 Reference Categories
  20. Modern Language Association Documentation
  21. OneLook Dictionaries - Search over 721,000 words in 156 dictionaries
  22. Online Writing Lab
  23. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
  24. Proofreading Symbols and Abbreviations
  25. Research-It!
  26. ResearchPaper.com
  27. Research Paper and the World-Wide Web - companion site to the book. Features an online study guide with chapter-specific exercises.
  28. Seven Steps of the Research Process, The
  29. Social Sciences Data Center - demographic information including census figures, employment statistics, and election returns
  30. 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.
  31. Web Compasses - WashingtonPost.com helps you get the most out of commercial searching sites on the Internet with this helpful guide. Learn the difference between Web Catalogs and Web Search Engines, improve your Internet research techniques and find the most widely-used search engines described. If you're hoping to make the Web your primary research tool on your next project, start here.
  32. Yahoo! - Grammar, Usage, and Style

GENERAL REFERENCE - All Grades

  1. 4kids.org - designed for kids (and their parents) to find fun, educational, and safe spots to visit on the World Wide Web.
  2. A Common Book of Pi - Facts, formulas, and articles about pi from a mathematics professor.
  3. Absurd Math Interactive - 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.
  4. alt.school.homework-help - Usenet
  5. Argus Clearinghouse - "The Internet's Premier Research Library"
  6. AskERIC - searchable site for a variety of information and lesson plans
  7. Ask the Experts
  8. Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
  9. B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
  10. Biology Project, The
  11. Biographical Dictionary - contains biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day
  12. Blue Web'n Learning Center - "a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web"
  13. Britannica Internet Guide 
  14. Calculators - Online Center - over 5,200 online calculators
  15. ChemistryWeb Internet Resources - searchable gateway to chemistry sites includes annotated links to software, newsgroups, online journals, reference materials, teaching resources, and more.
  16. Citing Electronic Resources
  17. Classroom Connect - more than a thousand online links to high-quality educational sites as reviewed by the staff of Classroom Connect! Best of all, it's now completely searchable.
  18. Classroom Resources Activities for the Environment
  19. Cool and Useful Student Resources - page for High School students who are trying to use the web to do research for school projects.
  20. Connections+ - Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards
  21. Convert It! - Excellent site to convert anything to anything
  22. Conversion Factors
  23. Curious and Useful 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.
  24. Dave’s Math Tables - collection of math reference tables that include: General Math (notation, addition, multiplication, fraction-decimal conversion, interest, and unit & measurement); Algebra (basic identities, conic sections, polynomials, exponents, and graphs); Geometry (areas, volumes, surface areas, and circles); Odds and Ends (constants, vectors, complexity, and unproved theorems); Trigonometry (identities, hyperbolics, and trig graphs); Calculus (integrals, derivatives, and series expansions); Statistics (distributions); and Advanced Topics (Fourier series and transforms).
  25. 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.
  26. 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."
  27. Educational Hotlists - from the Franklin Institute
  28. Educational Index - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web.
  29. EdWeb - "With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much, much more."
  30. Elements of Style - William Strunk's classic on proper English usage
  31. Environmental Education
  32. Environmental Education Network - clearinghouse for all environmental education information, materials and ideas.
  33. 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.
  34. explorezone.com - animated earth, space and weather science
  35. Flashcards for Kids
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. FunSchool - Funschool.com has loads of Java-based educational games for kids from preschool to sixth grade.
  39. 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
  40. Historical Documents - The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  41. Homework Heaven - links to sites categorized by subject to assist with school projects
  42. Homework Help - Minneapolis Star Tribune
  43. Homework Hell - San Francisco Public Library
  44. 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.
  45. Human Anatomy Online - over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
  46. Human-Languages Page - best language links on the Internet
  47. HumanSearch - Tired of sifting through the infoglut returned by all the popular search engines? Or perhaps you just don't know where to start? Let HumanSearch's team of expert searchers do the work for you...for free!
  48. Information Please Kids' Almanac - subtitled "On-Line Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help." Search by keyword or by broad subject area (including "fun facts" Encyclopedia articles are reasonably lengthy, with bibliographies and hypertext links to related articles. Other features include Facts Behind the News and a Homework Center with tips on frequently researched topics.
  49. Infomine - resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
  50. Internet Classics Archive, The. - searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
  51. Internet Public Library
  52. Internet Sleuth, The - Choose from over 2,000 searchable databases
  53. Internet Scout - hundreds of announcements each week for the online resources most valuable to the education community
  54. InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet
  55. Kidinfo - A great way to find both fun stuff and information for completing your homework assignments.
  56. KidsClick! - "web guide and search tool for kids by librarians"
  57. Kids Did This - reports written by students
  58. Kids Did This - reports written by students
  59. Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites (KIDS) - kids help kids find sites that are fun and that help with homework.
  60. Kit & Kaboodle - a highly interactive and interdisciplinary online elementary science curriculum.
  61. Launch Point - LA Times - "Check out the best Web sites for getting your schoolwork done or for just having fun."
  62. 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
  63. Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace - from the American Library Association
  64. Library of Congress Home Page
  65. Looney Bin - study help for taking and passing exams and tests and writing reports.
  66. 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.
  67. MEGAlinks! for Students
  68. Mad Scientist Network - Answers on everything from Anatomy to Zoology.
  69. Measurement 4 Measure - A collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate,etc.
  70. Measurements Converter - friendly JavaScript interface converts length, weight, area, speed, temperature and more, into different units and unit systems.
  71. Metric Conversion Card - Use this easy chart to convert inches to centimeters, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius, and more.
  72. 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
  73. My Facts Page - 21 Reference Categories
  74. My Virtual Encyclopedia - 45 Subject Categories
  75. Multnomah County (Oregon) Homework Center
  76. 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.
  77. Numeracy Home Page, The - Links, puzzles, and other numeracy activities for adults designed to encourage interest in math.
  78. Old Farmer's Almanac
  79. OneLook Dictionaries - over 640,000 words in 109 dictionaries
  80. Online Calculator
  81. Online English Grammar - hypertext guide to the parts of speech, words, and their usage
  82. Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
  83. Periodic Table - WebElements
  84. Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.
  85. Peterson's Guide to Colleges - information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
  86. Pi Pages, The - Think you know everything there is to know about pi? Try this trivia game and test your knowledge.
  87. Project Blue - "The goal behind this web tutorial is to teach the basic concepts behind probability and to demonstrate its usefulness."
  88. Project Gutenburg - 'Fine literature digitally re-published'
  89. Random Number Generator
  90. Ready Reference Using the Internet
  91. Reference.com - searchable directories of newsgroups and mailing lists
  92. Research-It! - collection of online research tools. Search dictionaries, translate words, find quotations and more.
  93. ResearchPaper.com
  94. Roget's Internet Thesaurus
  95. SAT Question of the Day
  96. 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.
  97. 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.
  98. Schoolwork Ugh! - "Library closed? Need information for your homework assignments?"
  99. Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries
  100. 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
  101. Shakespeare - The Complete Works
  102. Simplifined Rules of Order - simplified version of Robert's Rules of Order, the standards for conducting meetings
  103. SIRS Researcher - The online version of SIRS' most popular general reference database, SIRS Researcher on the Web, was developed to meet the day-to-day research needs of everyone - from young people to adults. SIRS Researcher on the Web provides thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from around 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. Graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams and drawings, are available for many of the articles.
  104. The Space Place - 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
  105. Statistical Abstract of the United States
  106. Statistics - How accurate is polling? Find out about statistics concepts through the case study of a fictional election.
  107. Study Place, The
  108. Study Web - comprehensive index that categorizes and reviews over 17,000 educational and reference Web sites
  109. Sumfun - A directory of math sites. Includes sections on humorous math games and tricks, teacher resources, math information, and tools and software.
  110. Sunrise/Sunset Computation - Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
  111. ThinkQuest - ThinkQuest is an annual contest that challenges Students, ages 12 to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool.
  112. 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.
  113. Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
  114. Three Rivers Free-Net Homework Help
  115. U.S. Census & Map Data
  116. Virtual Body
  117. Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
  118. Virtual Hospital, The - University of Iowa
  119. Virtual Reference Desk
  120. 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.
  121. Vocabulary University
  122. WWW Virtual Library - a staggeringly comprehensive compilation of informational Web sites, arranged by topic
  123. WWWebster Dictionary - the on-line version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
  124. WebMath - the goal of this website is to provide you with an instant solution to the particular math problem you're having trouble solving.
  125. Weights & Measures
  126. Who Represents You in Congress? - Project Vote Smart
  127. Why Files: Science behind the news
  128. WonderKorner - a question and answer place for curious kids.
  129. WorldClimate: Weather rainfall and temperature data - over 85,000 records of world climate data
  130. World Data
  131. World Directories - over 230 directories representing over 100 countries
  132. World Factbook CIA - 1997 Version
  133. World Flag Database
  134. World Holiday and Time Guide - tells you which holidays are taking place anywhere and everywhere around the world on any specific day.
  135. World's Greatest Speeches
  136. World Population Clock
  137. World Population Figures - country-by-country statistical data on population, cities and regions, land use, climate, and industrial output
  138. World Rulers
  139. World Wide Metric Calculators
  140. World Time Zones
  141. Writing Center - tips for writing a research paper
  142. Xerox World Map Viewer
  143. Yahooligans - Homework help, sports scores, "art soup" and games. Just like Yahoo only just for kids.
  144. Z39.50 Gateway - LOC

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