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- Starfall - Public service learn-to-read website provides a wide range of writing journals and books.
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Homework_Help
- Brarydog - Online student tool for finding magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedia, pictures, and other homework resources.
- Chatterbee's Homework Help Center - Compiles links to free homework aids and websites. Includes references, instant in-class presentations, and free person-to-person helps.
- ClassBrain.com - Collection of school resources including items for reports and projects and fun and games.
- Homework Center - Directory of student resources offering a variety of tools for almost every subject.
- The Fact Train - Offers a variety of educational resource materials for science, math, and geography subjects. Includes maps and a world fact book.
- FAQ Kids - Directory of answers to several of the questions kids ask, from animals to sciences to sports.
- Homework Elephant - Portal to a variety of online resources for completing homework or assignments. See the different sections and learn how to use them.
- Homework Help - King County Library System division created to assist both public and private home schooled students from grades 4-12.
- Gary's Homework Help Page - School resource site created by a parent. Contains various homework tools and resources, links, and education forum.
- Jiskha Homework Help - Posts a question, seek the help of homework experts live, or browse through different categories as well.
- Link to Learning - Lists links and maintain a collection of academic resources that support the Ontario curriculum for grades K-8.
- National Geographic Homework Help - Authoritative source for educational resources. Presents maps, photos, and various other informative materials.
- Homework Hub - Features research, practice, and study organization ideas, techniques, tips, and guides.
- School Work - Get homework helps on a variety of subjects including art, biographies, literature, maps, stats, newspapers, and more.
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Math
- A+ Math - Features a game room, flashcards, and a math word find puzzle. Dedicated to interactively making kids improve on their math skills.
- All Elementary Mathematics - Serves as an online mathematical high school. Presents math theories, problems, tests, references, and learning helps.
- Allmath - Resource for math tools, games, reference pages, glossaries, tutorials, worksheets, articles, and more.
- Convertalot - Provides converters and online calculators, most of which are interactive.
- Coolmath 4 Kids - Interactive page containing math tools specially designed for kids. Includes math games, puzzles, and lessons.
- Math Glossary - Multimedia presentation math terms with sorted presented according to grade level.
- Math-a-rama - Grade level category sorted resource providing math tools, references, and resources.
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Reference_Tools
- Bartleby - Online publisher of various literature, references, and verses designed for student researchers and the intellectually curious.
- Fast Facts - Acquisition resource presenting almanacs, fact books, statistical reports, and other related reference tools.
- The Reference Desk - Directory of academic resources encompassing almost every topic. Includes online calculators and current events information.
- Refdesk - Free online school resources and website links. Also allows for dictionary and encyclopedia searches.
- Noodle Quest - Search strategy wizard offers assistance in starting a research project.
- Search Tools for Students - Find school resources using the general and specialized search engines featured.
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Almanacs
- Afro-American Almanac - Online resource for African-American history information. Offers various presentation formats that portray the diversity created by American and African heritages.
- Baseball Almanac - Probe into the history of America's national pastime – baseball. Go over related news as well.
- Farmers Almanac - Subscribe to this online material for hint, recipes, and other important information for farming.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac - Offers astronomy, weather, gardening, and food information, at a historical perspective.
- Cybershoolbus - United Nations initiative presenting information for students and educators. Presented in different language versions.
- World Almanac for Kids - "First, feats, facts, and phenomena" resource. This American publication is continually revised and reinvented to suit the needs of users.
- The World Factbook - Select a country or location and get important details about it. Find notes, maps, definitions, and more.
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Calendars
- Aztec Calendar - Information about Aztec rituals and their calendar versions or date telling systems.
- Calendars through the Ages - Chronicles the human endeavor to develop and organize means of determining dates.
- French Revolutionary Calendar - Tool allows for the conversion of any date since 1972 to the Jacobin calendar format.
- Several Calendars - Presentation and discussions on different calendar versions. Also tackles the basics of time reckoning.
- Time and Date - Search for the world time or generate a calendar by inputting year and location specifics.
- Virtual Perpetual Calendars - Get a quick preview of how calendars in the 20th and 21st centuries look like. Learn about year correlation methods and date determination as well.
- Western-Chinese Calendar Converter - Determine what Western and Chinese dates are in their Julian and Gregorian calendar versions.
- The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System - Introduction to the Maya Calendar and discussion on how it reflects the political ritual needs of the ancient societies.
- The Maya Calendar - View a Maya calendar and get to know its method of calendric count and how it works.
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Dictionaries
- ArtLex - Art dictionary designed for students, artists, collectors, and educators.
- Biographical Dictionary - Compiles dictionary entries that cover over 28,000 notable personalities from past to present.
- Dino Dictionary - Get to know the different species of dinosaurs from this presentation of over 300 dinosaur profiles.
- InfoVisual - Featuring a visual dictionary with thematic pages of concise and rigorous texts.
- Internet Picture Dictionary - Key in a word to search or skim through the pages of this multilingual and photographic dictionary.
- NetLingo - Get to know what different acronyms mean learn about other terms that have just been introduced.
- One Look - Allows for the finding of word definitions and translations. Also runs wildcard word queries.
- Picture Dictionary - Key in a word and hit the search button to find definitions and pictures. Picture feature only applies to concrete and tangible nouns.
- Tech Terms Dictionary - Free computer dictionary presents word definitions, information on usage, and detailed explanations.
- Web Dictionary - Check out this online knowledge resource, dictionary, and thesaurus rolled into one.
- Word IQ - Get information about a word from various online references such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other references.
- Wordsmyth - Features study tool that include a glossary and a vocabulary quiz maker.
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Encyclopedia
- Children's Encyclopedia of Women - Searchable database of articles about women created out of the initiative of third and fourth grade students from Pocantico Hills School.
- Encyclozine - Free online encyclopedia covering topics in the arts, history, humanities, literature, science, nature, and technology.
- Instrument Encyclopedia - Archived sampler of some of the world's interesting musical instruments.
- Open Site - Free and volunteer-run content encyclopedia presents articles on a wide range of subjects. Viewable in different language versions.
- World Book - Learning resource package integrating an encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas in one presentation.
- TechEncyclopedia - Skim through pages of articles that elaborate on a wide range of technical terms and concepts.
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Libraries
- Dewey Challenge Game - Introduces and discusses the concept of the Dewey Decimal System through sets of questions.
- Let's Do Dewey - Presentation on the Dewey Decimal Classification System. With exercises on understanding the system better.
- On-Lion for Kids - Allows for book searches, presents news and pictures, and provides book reviews.
- Kid's Place - Kids division of the Newark Public Library. Presents lists of resources and information on facilities.
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