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INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
- Google www.google.com
- Yahoo www.yahoo.com Good for overview of broad topics and then narrowing your search, organized by subject trees from general topics down to specifics.
- Yahooligans www.yahooligans.com Sites just for kids, organized by general subjects.
- All the Web www.alltheweb.com
- Lycos www.lycos.com Excellent for picture, sound, and media searching, common searches, quality evaluated sites.
- Excite www.excite.com Common searches with excellent descriptions of list results.
- HotBot www.hotbot.com Common keyword searches, ranked results with most likely matches first on the list, fast, powerful, can limit searches to pictures, sounds, time frame, media types, great for person search.
- Alta Vista www.altavista.com Good for pinpoint, narrow searches, scientific information, proper names, etc.
- www.incywincy.com IncyWincy Invisible Web Search Engine covers over 100,000 databases.
- MetaCrawler www.metacrawler.com Mulit-search engine, searches all major search engines and comes up with a reasonable, compiled list of sites on your topic.
- Little Explorers www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html Click on letters of the alphabet for a picture dictionary of links to kid friendly websites.
REFERENCE
- How Stuff Works www.howstuffworks.com
- thesaurus.reference.com/
- dictionary.com
- Educators Network Sites for Teachers: Awesome Library
- RapidCite
- Landmark Citation Machine
- Worldbook Online www.worldbookonline.com
- World Timelines HyperHistory Online www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
- American Library Association-Great Websites for Kids
- AlternaTime Collection of Timelines on the Web http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
- SIRS Discoverer Online www.sirs.com/wrc/index.html Good website for researching various topics and subjects. There are student and teacher sections.
- iTools www.itools.com
- Encyclopedia.Com www.encyclopedia.com Links to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, conversion tables,etc
- The Virtual Reference Desk thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference Dictionaries, information technology, maps, science data, zip and country codes, government documents
- The Global Schoolhouse www.gsh.org Resources for kids and teens, teachers and parents.
- Kids Web www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/indexold.html A world wide web digital library for schoolkids
- Pop Clock Projection www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html Daily update of the US population by the US Census Bureau.
- Science Fair Resource Guide www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide From the Internet Public Library, this site has links to all sorts of great project ideas.
- National Geographic Online www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html Information from National Geographic, expeditions, resources, etc.
- Britannica Online www.britannica.com Information from the encyclopedia people.
- Let's Find Out www.letsfindout.com Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia. Access infomation on a variety or really cool subjects.
- Candidates and Elected Officials Site http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm Enter your zip code and find out who your government representatives are. Then be involved, voice your opinion.
- Worldbook Online www.worldbookonline.com
- Community Learning Network www.cln.org/index.html
- WikiJunior Online open textbook site aimed at information for children 8-11.
- WikiMedia www.wikimedia.org
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