All of my homework help pages were updated during September and October 2009!
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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Jishka
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
Expert Central.com
Got a question? Get an answer from one of over 14,000
experts.
Answers.com
Type in a question and see what you think!
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
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.
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.
Information
Advanced
View and compare up-to-date statistical data for the member states of
the United Nations.
Biographies
Biography.com
Resources from the Biography Channel.
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
One-Look Dictionaries
Searches for
the word you enter in 757 general and specialized online
dictionaries!
English Vocabulary
Dictionaries and glossaries: Canadian, Australian, Caribbean, Irish,
medical, business, technical, you name it!
Acronym
Finder
Look up more
than 240,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings. See also The Internet Acronym
Server.
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.
E-Journals.org
Find online
journals.
Embassy World
Connect to hundreds of embassies.
See also Embassy.org.
CIA World Factbook
Comprehensive and
up-to-date information on virtually every country in the
world.
Theodora World
Factbook
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.
Switchboard.com
Internet directory.
NewsDirectory.com
Find newspapers,
magazines, TV stations by country or region.
Catholic Internet Directories
Links to sites of interest to Catholic educators and
students.
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
MN.
Encyclopedias (Free On-line)
Encyclopedia.com
Contains
over 50,000 articles plus links giving you access to millions of articles and
pictures in the Electric Library.
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.
Quotations
Quotations from About.com
Looking for a quotation for a presentation or paper? Need information
about a specific quotation? You'll probably find it at
this site.
Quotations at Bartleby
Quote of the day and links to the Bartleby Collections.
QuotationReference.com
An online dictionary of famous quotations.
The Quotations Page
Over 24,000 quotations.
Thesaurus
ARTFL
Project: Roget's Thesaurus
Enter any word
into the search box.
Wordsmyth Educational
Dictionary-Thesaurus
YourDictionary.com
Another site
offering both a dictionary and
thesaurus.
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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