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Links to General Sources for Homework Help
Fact Monster
All sorts of information and help in a user-friendly, searchable site.

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.
 

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