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Websites for children recommended by the ALA, covering such categories as animals, arts, history and biography, literature and languages, math and computers, sciences, and social sciences.
The online learning center for high school students.
Information you can trust.
The largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.
Library and reference resources, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and more.
Atlases and Maps World Atlas of maps, flags, and geography facts.
Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Interactive world atlas and information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities worldwide.
Various types of outline maps of the US focusing on history, physical characteristics, capitals, and climate; also continent and hemisphere maps.
Enormous collection of online maps, including historical maps.
Type an address and get a map.
Type in an address, to find a zip code.
Biographies Features a searchable biographical database of 25,000 famous names, Born On This Day, Top 10 lists, TV listings, Biography Magazine features and crossword puzzle, discussion boards, trivia quizzes; and the Who Am I? game.
Includes background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.
Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Bilingual Dictionaries Search tool for bilingual translation from and into dozens of languages.
Only French to English (no English to French). This site provides not only definitions but usage examples.
English Dictionaries Fourth edition of this dictionary.
The online versions of the well-known Collegiate dictionary and thesaurus. Also has links to Word of the Day and Word Games.
Easy student dictionary. You can also increase your vocabulary with the daily buzzword.
ESL Dictionaries Search beginning, intermediate, and advanced dictionaries, as well as dictionaries of idioms and phrasal verbs (get on, get off,
get around, etc).
Medical Dictionaries Contains easy-to-understand explanations of over 15,000
medical terms and quick access to hard-to-spell medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing.
Features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries.
Specialized Dictionaries Search for what the acronyms OPEC, NASA, UNICEF and thousands of others mean. From University College Cork, Ireland
Can't find your term in the handbook of rhetorical devices? Look here.
Look up terms such as alliteration, personification, etc.
An alphabetical listing of phrases in Latin, with definitions in English.
Definitions for thousands of computer and technology-related words and phrases
Encyclopedias
Free encyclopedia that provides more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - provided by HighBeam Research.
The world’s largest free reference site where you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.
Quotations Online version of the 10th edition of Bartlett's. (Note: this is an old edition of Bartlett's and will not have many quotations from the 20th century).
Search over 65,000 quotations by author or category. Includes historical quotes as well as quotes through the last decade of the 20th century.
Type in a word to get a list of cliches containing that word, e.g., "cat" - cat got your tongue?, look what the cat dragged in. You'll have to look somewhere else, however, for an explanation of what the cliche means.
Over 21,000 quotations from over 2,500 authors, and more are added daily. Search by word, phrase, or author. Includes forums for answers to questions about quotations.
Synonyms & Antonyms (Thesaurus) Searchable version of Roget's Thesaurus.
The online version of the Merriam Webster thesaurus. Also has links to the dictionary, Word of the Day and Word Games.
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over 700 links to sites that will help you with your homework."
Large collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects.
From Information Please, an atlas, almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia. Includes Homework Help section.
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions.
Tools to help you study, games to challenge your mind, and tons of great clip art to use. In addition, there are nearly a dozen learning adventures that let you explore everything from Ancient Egypt to the Space Station.
Papers on hot topics of our day from O’Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University in Iowa.
Homework help in art, English and literature, foreign languages, health, math, science, music, and social sciences.
Almanacs Online dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, almanacs, and more
Basic facts about every state in the U.S.A.
Find out what happened on a particular day.
Government The U.S. Government’s official web portal.
Information on U.S. and state governments. Links to government reports, shortcuts to federal agencies and e-mail addresses for legislators; FBI Most Wanted List; resources on hot issues (such as school vouchers, death penalty) and more.
Online version of the Blue Pages in the phone book; includes telephone numbers and web links to U.S. government offices.
The official Website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The World Factbook 2004 provides a snapshot of the world as of January 1, 2004. Pick a country and learn about its geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
Statistics Population, housing, economic and geographic data from the Census Department.
Statistics on the U.S. population, including marriage and family, education, face and ethnicity, income and poverty, immigration, employment and more, presented in text and graphics.
The Census Bureau statistics from the 2000 census.
Global authority on record-breaking achievements.
Choose the countries you want to compare, then generate maps and graphs to illustrate their rankings in dozens of categories. Great for reports.
Everything you want to know about the U.S.
Evaluating Websites “The Internet offers the most up-to-date information from anywhere in the world with just a click of the mouse. While we value the immediacy of the Internet, we must also evaluate the information that we obtain, because not all of it is true. Anyone can publish a website on any topic or subject. The facts found on a web page may not be accurate or edited by anyone. Excellent resources reside next to the most dubious.”
Elizabeth Kirk. Evaluating Information Found in the Internet.
The need for evaluation is very important. The following websites will help you acquire the necessary skills to locate and evaluate the information you need on the Internet.
An excellent series of pages on this subject from the Milton Library at Johns Hopkins University.
A huge list of websites about evaluating websites by educator Kathy Schrock.
Great high school site that helps you understand the importance of evaluating Internet web pages.
A WebQuest developed by librarian, Joyce Valenza to strengthen your website evaluating skills.
This guide defines the criteria, documents incidents of questionable, false, or fraudulent information as reported in the news or trade literature, provides examples of websites that illustrate good or bad information, and suggests strategies that help you detect bad
information.
This site shows examples of sites and explains why it is a good idea to evaluate web sources.
There is a lot of good information on the Internet, but you will also find opinions, misconceptions, and inaccurate information. How do you judge the quality of Internet resources? Check out this site to find out.
UC Berkeley’s guide to evaluating websites.
What to look for in a great website.
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