This site provides resources for help with school assignments,
research projects, and daily homework. The
index
below will take you to resources on this
page or my main web site,
Educational
Resources and Lesson Plans.
If
you are a teacher and are linking this site to your
classroom page or suggesting this site for student
use, let me know what topics your class is studying. I will
add resources specifically for your students. My
e-mail address is
esass@csbsju.edu.
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Homework Help
Offers help by subject as well as the opportunity to "ask an expert."
Homework Help
From the King County (Washington) Public Library, this site offers
a large collection of links to help you find information for your
specific homework assignment.
StudentQuestions.com
Post questions
and get answers!
KidsClick
Web search for kids by librarians.
B.
J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
An award-winning homework help page started by a 13-year-old and
his dad but now part of the Discovery School.
About.com Homework and Study Tips
An excellent page with a great deal of information and many helpful
links.
Homework Helper
The Kids on the Web: Homework Tools
Reference
Answers for Specific Questions
How Stuff Works
Great place for student questions
regarding how things work.
Why Files
Answers and information about the science and technology behind the
headlines.
Atlases and Maps
Multimap.com
Free online maps for everywhere!
Altapedia Online
Access full color physical and political maps as well as key facts
and statistics on virtually all countries of the world.
United States Maps
From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, this site
offers maps of every state, maps of major metropolitan areas,
historical maps, and maps of national parks.
Atlas of Canada
Great online source for national maps and facts about
Canada. See also
Seismic Atlas of Canada
and
Historical Atlas
of Canada.
Mapquest
Driving directions, maps, etc.
Alexandria Digital Library:
Earth
Access links to maps and information organized by continent, or
take a look at the whole universe.
Lonely Planet Online
Interactive maps, etc.
WORLDTIME
An interactive world atlas, information on local time, sunset and
sunrise times for world cities, and a data base of public
holidays worldwide.
How Far Is It?
Uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities
around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two
places, and then calculates the distance between them (as
the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places.
Earth View
Earth images from space!
CIA World Factbook
Comprehensive and up-to-date
information on virtually every country in the world
Geographic.org
Nice resource for country profiles providing concise information,
flags, and maps. The index is alphabetical.
InfoNation
View and compare up-to-date statistical data for the member states
of the United Nations.
Find-Our-Community.net
Free, clickable online maps, including
road maps, for every country in the world!
Biographies
Biography.com
Resources from the Biography Channel.
See also
A & E Classroom: Teaching with Biography
for teacher's guides and ideas for teachers.
Biographical Dictionary
Find concise biographies on
more than 25,000 notable men and women.
Dictionaries
Dictionary.com
An on-line dictionary. Not only
will it give you definitions, but it has
links to other dictionaries, style manuals,
jargon dictionary, and "Ask Doctor Dictionary,"
which allows you to e-mail questions about words,
grammar, or language.
Your
Dictionary.com
An incredible number of links to specialty and multi-lingual dictionaries.
Mirriam-Webster
Online
A dictionary, thesaurus, word games, word of the day, etc. See also
Word Central,
which is Miriam-Webster's site for kids.
One-Look
Dictionaries
Searches for the word you enter in 757 general and specialized online
dictionaries!
English Vocabulary
Canadian, Australian, Caribbean, Irish, medical, technical, you name
it!
Acronym Finder
Look up acronyms/abbreviations
and their meanings.
Martindale's Reference Desk
Links to dictionaries, maps, encyclopedias, calculators, catalogs,
etc.
Directories
Academic
Info
A directory of Internet resources tailored to a college or advanced
high school audience.
Electronic Journals Resource Directory
Find online journals.
Embassy World
Connect to hundreds of embassies.
CIA World Factbook
Comprehensive and up-to-date information
on virtually every country in the
world. Regardless of what you think of the CIA, this is an incredible
resource!
Countries of the World
Nice resource for country profiles providing concise information,
flags, and maps. The index is alphabetical.
Infonation
View and compare up-to-date statistical data for the member states
of the United Nations.
Global
Change Master Directory
A comprehensive directory of Earth science and global change data.
Switchboard.com
Internet directory. "The Yellow Pages electrified!"
NewsDirectory.com
Find newspapers, magazines, TV stations by country or region.
News Central
Find more than 3500 links to U.S. and international newspapers. See
also Paperboy.com.
Online
Library Science, Education and Technology Periodicals
for Educators
From the
Internet School Library
Media Center.
Catholic Directory
Links to sites of interest to Catholic educators and students. See
also
Catholic Internet
Yellow Pages.
Minnesota Government Information and
Services
Directory of links to most government
resources. See also
Minnesota
Government Directories
including the legislature, schools, and
universities.
Minnesota Cities Directory
Information on every city or town
in Minnesota.
MSN Encarta: Encyclopedia Article Center
More than 4,500 articles plus other resources..
Wikipedia
Free, online encyclopedia anyone can edit!
The Informationsphere
Allows you to search by category.
Martindale's Reference Desk
Links to dictionaries, maps, encyclopedias, calculators, catalogs,
and you name it.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
A searchable encyclopedia providing information about Canada.
Encyberpedia
Index of connections to sites
on virtually any topic.
QuotationReference.com
An online dictionary of famous quotations.
The Quotations Page
Over 24,000 quotations.
Thesaurus
Thesaurus.com
An on-line thesaurus for kids
who don't like to look things up in books.
ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
Enter any word into the search box.
Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
iTools.com
This site has a thesaurus, dictionary, translator, biographies, maps,
etc.
Subject-specific resources have been moved to their own pages.
Either access them from the site index at the top of this
page, or click on the subject in which you are interested
from the following list:
Art,
English/Language Arts,
Math,
Music,
Science,
Social
Studies,
Theology,
World Languages.
Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D.
Professor of Education
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's
University
You can reach me at
esass@csbsju.edu
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