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Library Links
| Databases |
| CQPress is an electronic library with a suite of reference products. |
| Gale offers nine databases covering grades K-12 with reference content and periodicals. |
| Grolier Encyclopedia offers online encyclopedia and reference resources. |
| Today’s Science is a reference database, classroom tool, and home learning resource. This is a great database to use with your students. |
| Libraries |
| Awesome Library organizes the Web with carefully reviewed resources. |
| The Children’s Literature Web Guide offers Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. |
| FactMonster offers online almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. |
| The Internet Public Library is a great resource for a variety of collections. |
| Library Spot is a virtual library resource center. |
| LION (Librarians Information Online Network) is an information resource for K-12 school librarians. |
| The U.S. Library of Congress site is the Internet location of the largest library in the world. |
| Almanacs |
| InfoPlease is a great free online almanac. |
| Dictionaries |
| Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 269,000 abbreviations and acronyms. |
| Dictionary.com offers a dictionary and thesaurus as well as translation tools. |
| TechEncyclopedia offers definitions of more than 20,000 acronyms and other terms relating to technology. |
| yourDictionary.com provides links to specialized glossaries as well as language dictionaries. |
| Encyclopedias |
| Biography.com is a great biographical encyclopedia. |
| Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center. |
| ElectricLibrary’s Encyclopedia.com has numerous free articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. |
| Encyclopedia.com provides free encyclopedia articles along with other resources. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian is a huge resource that is free to teachers and students. |
| MSN Encarta is another online encyclopedia that has some excellent resources. |
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Links for Kids
| Pre-Schoolers |
| Billy Bear’s Playground is where kids (and parents) can learn about Billy Bear, play games, create their own storybooks, and enjoy holiday fun pages. |
| Little Explorers lets preschoolers surf the web easily using a picture dictionary format to link to hundreds of carefully chosen fun educational activities. |
| Science |
| BrainPop contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| Gardening for Kids includes kid-friendly flowers and bulbs, a featured flower of the month, a kid critic’s comments, artwork, tips and links. |
| Horse Country contains art, history, science, hunting fanfares and home of the Junior Riders Mailing Digest, International Pen Pal list, HOCK game guide and stable list. |
| How Stuff Works explains the nuts and bolts of everyday things. |
| MaMaMedia is the place for kids on the net. |
| MBG Network is an on-line learning environment for elementary school children created by the Missouri Botanical Garden. |
| Ology is a site by the American Museum of Natural History with fun text and great graphics. |
| Yuckiest Site on the Internet is just that. |
| Language Arts |
| KidsCom lets you make keypals from around the world. |
| Kid’s Domain has game and icon downloads recommended by families and teachers, children’s software reviews, online safety tips, holiday pages and contests for kids. |
| Kids Help Phone and Bell Online has information on services provided to kids and discussion groups on kids’ issues. |
| KidWorld, from Tandem House, has artwork, writing, and ideas by and for kids. |
| Word Central is where students will go wild about words. |
| Social Studies |
| CBC 4 Kids is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio’s kids page. |
| CIA Kids Page contains games for children, historical highlights about famous Americans, a world geography quiz, and links to other Federal Internet sites with pages for children. |
| Ology is a site by the American Museum of Natural History with fun text and great graphics. |
| Search Engines |
| Ask Jeeves for Kids is a natural language question answering site for children 7-14. |
| KidsClick is a web search for kids by librarians. |
| Kid’s Tools for Searching the Internet is a great site for kids to use for searching. |
| www.4Kids.org is designed to highlight fun, educational, and safe spots for kids to visit on the Web. |
| Yahooligans! is the web guide for kids. |
| Computer Skills/Technology |
| Brain POP contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| Health |
| Brain POP contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| FEMA For Kids is filled with games, student artwork, activities, and cutting-edge graphics that deliver a serious message of disaster preparedness and mitigation for youngsters preschool through eighth grade. |
| Rainbow Raccoons promotes health and education and safety for kids with stories and pictures. |
| Games and Fun |
| Afro-America@Kids Zone has a collection of games, stories, and information about Africa. |
| Brain Quest has cool puzzles and games. |
| FunBrain provides games about language arts, math, and more. |
| Museum of Unnatural History provides facts, illustrations, photos, and other information about topics such as archaeological explorations, dinosaurs, and UFOs. |
| Nabisco Kids is the website just for kids that puts you behind the controls of the most awesome adventure in all of cyberspace. |
| WorldVillage Kidz has comics, puzzles, games, and links for kids. |
| Math |
| Cool Math is an amusement park for math. |
| Math Stories features more than 4,000 word problems categorized by topic and difficulty level. |
| Homework Help |
| B. J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper has a wealth of information for students. |
| Homeworkspot contains resources for all subjects for K-12. |
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Portfolios
| Electronic Portfolios is a wonderful site for finding information and websites. |
| Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom is a technology article from Education World. |
| Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios is a set of web pages that describe and discuss the use of technology to support alternative assessment from a number of perspectives. |