General Homework Help Sites & Search Engines

Ask Jeeves Kids: get help by asking a question. http://ajkids.com/

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: Over 700 sites to help you with your homework. http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/

FirstGov for Kids:  This site was developed and is maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center, providing links to Federal kids' sites, all grouped by subject.  http://www.kids.gov

The Internet Public Library Youth Division: Many subject links to homework help websites. http://www.ipl.org/youth/

Kids Click!: a web search for kids by Librarians. http://www.kidsclick.org

KidSource Online: Homework Helper Sites. http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/education.homework.html

MIKIDS.com: website with homework help on a variety of subjects for kids grades K-6. http://www.mikids.com/

Multnomah County Public Library Homework Help Center. http://www.multcolib.org/homework/index.html

Nassau Library System Homework Help: A Reference site with links to homework help for many different subjects. http://www.nassaulibrary.org/childrens/hhelp.html

Mythology & Social Science Sites

Ben's Guide to the US Government for Kids. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

Calendars: A guide to locating events for each day of the year. http://www.sldirectory.com/cal.html

Encyclopedia Mythica: An online encyclopedia on mythology and folklore from all over the world. http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Dictionaries, Thesaruses, & Grammar

American Sign Language: Use the conversational dictionary to see how a word would be fingerspelled. www.aslpro.com/

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus links to websites on your topic. http://www.britannica.com/

Info Please: Search the encyclopedia, dictionary and several almanacs. Very current.http://www.infoplease.com/

Roget?s Thesaurus:An online version of this classic thesaurus. http://www.thesaurus.com/

WWWebster's Dictionary: An online version of this classic dictionary. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Math, Science and Robotics

Ask Dr. Math: Ask an expert your math questions and you will receive a reply. http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Biomes: A brief look at the world's biomes: Aquatic, Desert, Forest, Grassland, and Tundra. http://www.UCMP.Berkeley.EDU/glossary/gloss5/biome/

Bunsen Bob's Science Hunt:Science projects and the scientific method explained. http://www.elmers.com/sciencefair

Cool Science for Curious Kids: Explore biology through building a salad and playing games. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html

Faces of Science:  African Americans in the Sciences are highlighted on this website https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html

Math Leagues Help Topics: Available for grades 4-8. It's available to everyone as a reference for basic math topics, including fractions, geometry, percents, real numbers, and many other topics. http://www.mathleague.com/help/help.htm

Robotics at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego: https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html

NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab Robotics: www.robotics.nasa.gov/

The Nine Planets: The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Robotics at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego: www.nosc.mil/robots

Science Fair Central: Online experts help you improve your science skills, and find the resources you need to make your next science fair project a great one. http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/index.html

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.: http://www.csl.sony.fr/

Space Systems Laboratory at the University of Maryland: http://www.ssl.umd.edu/

ThinkQuest: Investing for Kids. http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/

The Ultimate Science Fair Resource: http://www.scifair.org

The Science Club appeals to students who would rather not be doing a science project.  Potential projects are easy to understand and accompanied by graphics. http://www.scienceclub.org

Your Science Fair Project Guide:http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide

Volcanoes: Everything you need to know about volcanoes from becoming a volcanologist to how to actually build a model of an active volcano. http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/learning.html

Arts, Literature, & Health

Bartleby.com: free, unlimited access to books and information on the web. http://www.bartleby.com/99

Instrument Encyclopedia: This resource features musical instruments from around the world. http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/

KidsHealth Online: This site has information on health, nutrition, emotions, safety and how the body works. http://kidshealth.org/kid/index.html

Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover how many Renaissance innovations inform life today. http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/

Geography & History

African American Web Connection: Many links to websites on the African American culture and experience. http://www.aawc.com/Zaawc0.html

Alexander the Great:  Information on Alexander the Great's rise and fall from power, along with maps and pictures. http://1stmuse.com

American History Sites from Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator's: A very big list of web sites that are all about American History. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history/hista.html

Arctic and Antarctic history and exploration is outlined chronologically and beautifully  supplemented with photographs.  http://www.south-pole.com/homepage.html

Jacques-Yves Cousteau dedicated his life to revealing the mysteries of the sea.  The Cousteau Society web site includes a biography of this ocean explorer.  Click on Kids Corner at the top of the page for ocean puzzles and games. http://www.cousteau.org/en/heritage/captain/man.php

Amelia Earhart: A biography of Amelia Earhart with photographs and related web sites.http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html

The 50 United States: Capital Cities and Information Links: Brief facts about the states. http://www.50states.com/

WorldAtlas.com: Simple flags of the World in color. http://worldatlas.com/webimage/flags/flagcnty.htm

Library Of Congress Country Studies: Continually updated project, includes 85 countries to date. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Charles Lindbergh: Lindbergh's life; family; career and plane, the Spirit of Saint Louis.http://www.charleslindbergh.com/

A HUGE medieval search engine http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

Native Americans Internet Resources: Find bibliographies, directories to pages of individual tribes, history and historical documents, periodicals and general links. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

POTUS: Presidents of the US:In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts 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. http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

Snowflake Bentley combined the use of photgraphy, geometry and microscopic science to study snowflakes. http://www.snowflakebentley.com

State Facts:A brief look at the states with quick facts: motto, bird, song, flag, etc. Also tells you how to get in touch with the congresspeople from that state. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/state/index.html

State Reports:Part of the Multnomah County, Oregon Kids Page, this is a wonderful resource for finding quick facts about the 50 States. Click on a state name and get a list of links which put facts right at your fingertips. http://www.multcolib.org/homework/stateshc.html

Women Adventurers:  Brief biographies of 22 women adventurers past and present. http://www.Infoplease.com/spot/whmbios13.html

World History sites from Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A very big list of web sites that are all about World History. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history/histw.html