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Links that can help. Need
Help with homework or need to have some fun. Click these links.
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Homework Help & Study Tips
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Researchpaper.com Very
useful site to help you organize
and research just about any
topic you can dream up. |
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High School Hub: This site
has everything from current news
to a zip code finder as well as
an online reference library,
study tips, thesaurus, and
writing guides. |
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General Study & Reference Sites |
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Brain Mania |
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Fact Monster |
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Homework Central has 3
million links divided into 2,200
categories, separated by age
group. |
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Homework Spot has separate
sections for students in
Elementary, Middle, and High
School. |
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Kids Click |
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Marblehead.com: Study tips
for students and suggestions for
parents to help their children
with their homework. |
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Melody's Reference, Research, &
Homework Help has a truly
unbelievable list of reference
sites separated by
content/interest area. |
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Refdesk.com is one of the
best reference guides on the
web. |
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Searchopolis is a very
useful site for looking up fact. |
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Study Web is a searchable
research database. |
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Yahooligans: In addition to
having homework areas for all
ages and areas, this site is
just plain fun! |
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Language Arts |
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Library of Congress |
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Strunk's Elements of Style:
The classic reference book on
writing, with rules of usage and
principles of composition |
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Simpson's Contemporary
Quotations: More than 10,000
quotations from 4,000 sources,
from 1950 to 1988 |
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Encyclopedias, Thesauruses, and
Dictionaries |
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Brittanica.com: The complete
text of the updated Encyclopedia
Britannica and related Web
sites. |
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Encarta: An excellent online
dictionary |
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InfoPlease Almanacs: Access
to 10 content-area almanacs,
with an atlas, dictionary, and
encyclopedia. |
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InfoPlease Kids' Almanac:
Student versions of 10
content-area almanacs, with a
dictionary, encyclopedia, and
homework center. |
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary |
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Thesaurus |
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Merriam-Webster's Word Central
provides kids with an easy,
illustrated dictionary. |
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Roget's Thesaurus |
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The Visual Thesaurus |
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YourDictionary.com gives you
access to multiple language
dictionaries, specialty
dictionaries including
education, and language tools. |
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News Sources |
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Fair and Accuracy in Reporting
This watchdog site offers
critiques on the media and
journalistic practices. |
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Newsmaps: This site offers
another new way of displaying
information. It uses the
metaphor of topography to
provide access to news stories |
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Oneworld.net is a daily
newsletter keeps you posted on
pressing human rights issues
throughout the world. |
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Press Freedom for the Public
High School Student Media: A
complete guide to the US Supreme
Court decision concerning
student media. |
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Newstation.com has an
unbelievable selection of
newspapers from around the
world. |
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Science |
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Smithsonian |
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National Geographic |
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Math |
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Math.com has areas for
students of all ages to ask
experts questions as well as
calculators & tools, and games. |
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Math Homework Help |
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The Franklin Institute Online |
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Past Notable Women of Computing
and Mathematics |
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Sites for Parents |
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The Parent Institute: A host
of resources for schools and
parents to better understand the
specific ways in which parents
can help their children learn
and succeed in formal education. |
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Yahooligans Parents Site:
This site helps parents with
safety issues concerning
Internet surfing. |
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Social Studies Links
 | Africa -
ancient to present day including many cultural
aspects over 50 links |
| American
History - early colonial, civil war,
reconstruction, world wars to present day many cultural reference
over 250 links
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| American
Indians - covers many tribes and eras over
100 links
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Ancient
Civilizations- Fertile Crescent, Egypt,
Greece,
Rome, Kiev, China, India, Mayans, Aztec, as well as concepts for
civilization well over 350 links |
| Archeology
& Anthropology - over 15 links
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| Arts &
Humanities - 15 links to art in different
ages, eras and places
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| Asia & India -
China, Japan, India, Korea and more covers
time, place, events, cultural references such as clothing, samurai,
over 125 links
(see also Unit 6 - Global Perspectives)
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| Bosnia &
Balkans - past and present history, cultural
references, NATO and US involvement, current events, ethnic
cleansing over 50 links
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| Central &
Meso - America - Links to history and
culture on Mexico, Panama, Aztec, Mayan, and other ancient
civilizations plus colonial history, revolutions and people over 75
links
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| Costumes
- 30 - 40 of the best sites on the web for
eras and place
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| Dictators
- links to historical and contemporary
dictators. |
| Economics
- 15 - 20 links to theory, stock market,
quotes, history of Dow Jones, IRS, timeline of economists,
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| Europe
(Germany, Italy, Russia, France, Great Britain,
etc..) between 200 - 225 links different eras
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| Flags and
Anthems- links to US & World flags.
Includes historical flags. Some military flags. Crests of Monarchs.
State songs and some National Anthem links. Over 50 links.
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| Geography
- 40 -50 links to latitude, longitude,
volcano, weather, Atlas, superlatives (highest, most etc..)
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| Government
- over 50 links Constitutional issues and
documents, political theory, official government sites
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| Holocaust
- about 30 links but more coming including
an interactive for research at this site |
| Maps-
over 50 sites of hard to find maps historical
maps from ancient civilizations to present day
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| Middle
East - a couple of links that deal with
history and current events, names places
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| News Sources
for current events -
newspapers, news programs, magazines between 30 - 40 great sources
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| Reference-
dictionaries, encyclopedias between 30 -
40 sites
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| Research
Resources - 75- 100 resources on the web for
data collection
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| Revolution
- American, French, Russian, English, Mexican and
more between 50 - 100 links |
| South
America - links to ancient civilizations
plus listing of Countries in South America and revolutions and other
history
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| Technology
- over 25 sites web technology, web hosting sites, science and
inventions issues, patent issues
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| Terrorism
- over 50 links |
| Victorian
Era - events and culture during the 1800s
includes literary works of Dickens between 50 - 100 links
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| Women in
History - over 30 links to general sites
during specific eras and to individual biographies of women in
history
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| World History
- general resources
between 150 - 200 links
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| World Wars
- World War I, World War II, Cold War, Atomic Bomb
between 350 - 400 links | | World
War I - over 300 links on World War I
alone
Campaign & Battles /
Maps
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Documents /People
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By Country /
Music/Audio /
Timeline /
General Sites
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