BIOGRAPHY | LANGUAGE
ARTS/WRITING | ARTS & MUSEUMS |
SOCIAL STUDIES | SCIENCE
| MATH | DICTIONARIES
& ENCYCLOPEDIAS
BIOGRAPHY
Biographical Dictionary
Find information on over 250,000 notable men and women.
Explorers of the World
More biographies.
The National Inventors
Hall of Fame
Looking for inventors? Check this link.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & WRITING
Cool
Literature Resources
If you forget your book in school, don't worry -- read it online here.
Also read reviews on many classics.
A+ Research and Writing
A large collection of research tools to help write research papers. Part
of the Internet Public Library.
MLA
Bibliographic Citation Form Guide
Learn to write citations in research papers.
Documenting
Internet Resources
Learn to write citations for articles located on the internet.
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THE ARTS and MUSEUMS
World Wide Arts Resources - The
Definitive Arts and Culture Information Gateway
Provides links to arts information such as museums, opera and ballet.
Smithsonian Institution
Links to the institutes museums and resources.
Welcome to The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Find out about events and the collection of the museum.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
American Presidents
Learn about the Presidents.
50 States and Capitals
Do you know your state's bird or song? If not, look here. Site also
provides cams of certain states.
Stately Knowledge -
basic information about each state.
State Flags of the
USA - color pictures of each state's flag.
Library of Congress Home Page
Cool
Government Resources
Links to sites about American and world governments.
Cool
Geography Resources
Links to maps.
Altapedia
Provides facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate,
people, religion, language,
history, economy & more for each individual country. Also, includes
political and physical maps.
Geographia
Wonderful pictures with detailed information about different countries.
2002
World Factbook - published by the CIA
Statistical information about countries with a map of the country.
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SCIENCE
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Learn about oceans, the El Niņo effect and many other facts.
The
Nine Planets
Great site to learn about the planets.
SciCentral: K-12 Science
Great science links.
Tree
Identification at Virginia Tech
You can go step by step to identify your leaf.
What
Tree Is It? - more tree identification.
You may not find every leaf listed so check the library catalog for books
of tree identification.
Endangered Species -
including taxonomy.
Online Periodic Table
General information about elements. Also includes electron configuration.
Wildlife Species
From the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fact sheets on wildlife. For
images of wildlife click here.
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MATH
Math League Help
Topics
Still need help in geometry or fractions? Explore this link.
Cool Math
Resources
Site provides facts about the history of mathematics, algebra geometry
etc.
Unit
Conversion
Type in a number and it will convert it to inches, feet etc.
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DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Webster's
Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartlett,
John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
Encyclopedia
IPL Ready
Reference Collection: Reference
Information Please Kids' Almanac,
Dictionary, and Encyclopedia
Babel Fish -
translate English words into other languages
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