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General
700! Great Sites from the American Library Association
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper - More than 600 links to educational sites
Encarta - Your gateway to 17,000 articles, multimedia, a talking dictionary, and our world atlas.
Fact Monster Homework Center - FactMonster.com (formerly known as Infopleasekids.com) was launched in August 2000 by InformationPlease. Fact Monster and its Homework Center have received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help
FCAT Explorer - This site helps students strengthen reading and math skills and addresses topics in social studies, science and the arts in the Sunshine State Standards that are tested on the FCAT. The site is available in Spanish and Creole as well as English. To use the system students need to have the sign-in name and password available from their teachers.
Homework Help - From About.com geared towards teens.
HomeworkSpot - All subjects categorized by grade levels, online encyclopedias
Internet Public Library - Has it all, including great homework help websites
KnowPlay - Dictionary, Thesaurus, Rhyming, Encyclopedia, Quotation, World Atlas, CIA World Factbook, Fine Artist, and Acronym Lookups on one page.
KidsConnect - KidsConnect is a question-answering, help and referral service to K–12 students on the Internet
Refdesk.com - Rich site that indexes quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites
Art
Gateway to Art Resource - Useful to artists and students; good starting point
Art History resources on the Web - Offers more limited and more sophisticated art history
National Gallery, Washington D.C. - Extensive Virtual Tours and good background essays
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Search for images by title, artist, country, time period or keyword
World Art Treasures - Try out the special exhibits
Web Museum - thousands of images; informative essays concerning styles, genres, & mediums
Geography
50 States - Flags, maps, history, fast facts, & much more
Yahoo! Maps - Maps and driving directions for the United States.
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Maps of the World.
Today's Calendar & Clock Page - Interesting facts about today's date and time.
History
The American Civil War Homepage
Biographies - Over 25,000 biographies online
Discoverer and Explorers - Biographies of hundreds of discoverers & explorers
Governments on the WWW - "Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of December 2000. Frequently updated"
The History Place - Timelines, speeches, photos, quotes - loads of info from World and American history
HOLOCAUST LINKS:
Remember.org
A Teacher's Guide
to the Holocaust
InfoNation - statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
Native American Nations - Historical & cultural overviews of many tribes
POTUS: Presidents of the United States - "Background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site."
Women - Biographies of many distinguished women
Literature
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts - a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
Complete Shakespeare - The restoration of the site following a disk failure has been delayed. The text of the plays is available now. The poetry and other services, including the search engine and forums, will return shortly. (Nov. 13, 2000)
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection - contains 1383 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, or literary period.
Pulitzer Prizes - Search for winners and nominated finalists.
YourDictionary.com - "The leading global language portal." Also contains a thesaurus.
Mathematics
Science
HowStuffWorks - "HowStuffWorks.com is an amazing, award-winning online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works!...the site has grown to be one of the top 500 Web sites in the United States"
Martindale's - The Reference Desk - Links to all kinds of science subjects.
NASA Home Page - The front door to the agency's Internet Resources. Through it you can get information on current happenings, NASA fact sheets, updates on the Shuttle missions, and more.
National Science Foundation - "The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering."
NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory - This site contains research to advance the understanding of weather processes, and research to improve forecasting and warning techniques.