Dictionaries

Specific  Subjects

Art Resources

• The National Museum of American Art contains many images and text from the Smithsonian Institution and, of course, the National Museum of American Art
• The Web Museum a wonderful site with text from famous artists and images from their works
• The Amazing Picture Machine a good homework related search engine for grades 4-8
• Animal Photo Library an easy to use picture index of animals at the Smithsonian's National Zoo each containing brief notes on the animals
• NASA Image eXchange (NIX) more than 300,000 astronomy and space related pictures from various NASA databases
• Kids Domain - Clip Art Index great clip art featuring lots of holiday and seasonal images

• http://www.biography.com/  Biography.com has 20,000 short bios of women and men from antiquity to the present.
• http://www.s9.com/biography/index.html Biographical Dictionary includes more than 25,000 brief bios that span history.
• http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/US Presidents of the United States contains info about every President and First Lady.
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004638.html National Inventors Hall of Fame offers bios of inventors and their portraits.
• www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences  - find facts about African-American biologists, inventors and engineers.

Government and Politics

• http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html  Useful and concise information on every country in the world gathered by the CIA. The CIA comes up with all sorts of facts if you're looking for maps, countries and definitions. This is also the place to learn about the United Nations system, environmental agreements and weights and measurements. 

• http://www.win.org/library/matls/govdocs/kids.htm Uncle Sam for Kids is a good site to get current addresses og government officials.

• http://www.kids.gov/  GIX Kid's Corner is an easier to use index of government web sites for kids.

• http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/  Presidents of the United States, contains information about all the presidents and their first ladies.

• http://bensguide.gpo.gov Ben's Guide to Government for Kids is designed to educate kids of all ages on the workings of the government.

• http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/skhome.html Stately Knowledge is a site where you can find "just the facts" about any state in the US

Grammar and Writing

• http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml mechanics of writing a paper in MLA format
• http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm mechanics of writing a paper in APA format
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/ Guide to writing any research paper
• http://library.ust.hk/serv/skills/libskill.html Ten Steps to writing a research paper
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/ Guide to grammar and writing
• http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html Grammar Safari
• bartleby.com Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse online free

History

• www.historyplace.com/  The History Place-provides a frequently changing selection of photos and speeches for grades five and higher.
• lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html  American Memory-a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the Library of Congress; more than 40 online "exhibits'.
• www.ibiscom.com  EyeWitness-provides short essays on historical events, such as survivors' accounts of the San Francisco earthquake.
• www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html  HyperHistory Online-offers a timeline that kids can custom search for people, periods, events.
• memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html  Today in History-different web page every day, containing essays about historical events for that date.
• www/historychannel.com/thisday/  This Day in History-provides info on topics and people who were born or died that date.
• www.ushmm.org  This is the official Web site of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
• www.ancientegypt.co.uk/  A fantastic site that takes you through the hisrtory and customs of Ancient Egypt.
• sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war  The American Civil War Homepage
• www.bjmjr.com/civwar/usct.htm  Civil War: United States Colored Troups
• scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html  Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the INternet
• users.erols.com/kfraser/index.html  Poetry and Music of the War Between the States

Languages

Literature

• www.ipl.org internet Public Library offers many links to sources on many topics, reference materials
• Children's Literature Web internet Resources for children and young adults.  This is a 4-star site!!!
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
• Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
• Giggle Poetry
• Listen and Write
• RPO: Representative Poetry Online
• The Internet Poetry Archive
• The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250 - 1900

• Mapquest

• Yahoo Maps and Driving Directions

• Maps.com

• National Geographic Online Maps

• US Census Bureau Maps

• Quick Maps of the World

• Calculators On-Line Center or Calculator.com. If you run the gas out of your calculator's batteries, use the   online calculators  to double check your work
• Ask Dr. Math Elementary grades and up. Email help available.
• MathMagic  is a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has been reached, one solution is posted for every pair.
• Math Exercises  gives introductory, intermediate and advanced math questions from square roots to trigonometry. Answers are provided.
• Math Forum's Algebra Links
• Mathematician's Biographies  has short to long biographies of mathematician's worldwide. You can search by name, time period, and there's a special section for women mathematicians. Grades 4 and up.

• Web MD
• The American Medical Association  has, among other things, information about the latest health research, and articles from JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and other medical journals.
• KidsHealth  from the American Medical Association has information about basic first aid, childhood illnesses, and definitions -- in very easy to understand language.
• Mayo Clinic's Health O@sis  in an online library of information on health topics such as Alzheimer's, heart disease, diet, substance abuse, etc. It has its own search engine, too. Groovy ;)
• Medline from the National Library of Medicine.

• The Classical Composers  site provides short biographies and pictures.
• The Ultimate Band List  has biographical information about any artist you can think of. They also provide links, photographs, sound files, and plenty of opportunity to buy stuff.
• Guitar Player  magazine has interviews, lessons, and reviews of the gear.
• Jazz for Kids

• Myths and Legends
• Animals, Myths and Legends
• Germanic Myths and Legends
• Myths and Legends of the American Indian
• Selected Chinese Myths and Legends
• Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales
• Greek Mythology
• Gods, Goddesses, and Myths
• Myths and Legends
• Star Myths and Constellation Lore

• www.newnan.com  Newnan Times Herald newspaper and TV station

• www.lagrangenews.com  LaGrange Daily News

• www.refdesk.com  My Virtual Reference Desk - emphasis on current info with links to newspapers.

• www.lesley.edu/library/int/newsmags.html  links to full-text ed journals and Newspapers Online which offers newspapers from around the world.

• www.linxnet.com/ LinxNet Web Index to news, sports, weather, science, technology, magazines, tv..

• http://www.newspaperlinks.com/voyager.cfm  The Newspaper Association of America - links to U.S. Dailies, Canadian news, weeklies, etc...

• news.bbc.co.uk/  BBC News site..."best source for international news and events."

• abcnews.go.com/  excellent sources for national news

• cnn.com/  excellent sources for national news

• http://www.foxnews.com/ excellent sources for national news

• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet.
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations lets you search by word or phrase, or browse through an alphabetical listing of the principal authors represented.
• Inaugural Addresses of the United States Presidents  from Washington (1789) to Clinton (1997). Includes a bit of biographical information on Presidents who were not inaugurated and didn't have a chance to make a speech. (Maybe there should have been more like that, eh?)
• Gifts of Speech  an extensive collection of speeches by contemporary women from Bella Abzug to Jody Williams. (Quick quiz: who was Jody Williams? Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in banning the use of land mines.)  

• http://www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/Tour/Second/InsectZoo/  O.Orkin Insect Zoo - the curriculum site for the actual insect zoo at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

• http://www.yucky.com/roaches/  Yucky Roach World - site about bugs

• www.discovery.com/exp/spiders/spiders.html  Spiders! - a companion site to Discovery Channel series on spiders found in the Australian desert

• www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth.htm  Katerpillars & Mystery Bugs - an activity filled bug site

• commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dic-me/zoo  The Microbe Zoo - a virtual zoo that teaches kids about the different types and functions of the tiniest creepy crawlies - microbes

• http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/infectionindex.html  Infection Detection Protection - an interactive site that helps kids, families, and teachers learn about tiny disease-causing micro-organisms.

• www.explorescience.com  interactive science learning models

• http://netvet.wustl.edu/  The Electronic Zoo, created by the American Veterinary Medical Association;contains hundreds of links to animal sites.

• Zoo Atlanta

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/    National Hurricane Center

• www.weather.com         The Weather Channel
• http://wwwa.accuweather.com/  AcuWeather
• http://www.theweathernetwork.com/  The Weather Network
• http://www.bom.gov.au/  Weather in Australia