| Students: Please read and follow all the steps given by your teacher. Use only the Internet addresses provided by your teacher. As you use the Internet, remember the agreement that you and your parents signed. You are expected to follow the same standards of conduct required in the classroom. If you have any questions or problems, ask your teacher. |
| Use these links with your teacher's permission to do your research assignments. |
| Kid Info Student Index is a great starting point for students to do research by subject. |
| KidsClick has an index of links by subject. The sites also have a reading level description. |
| Yahooligans is an index for kids K-8. |
| Infotrac brought to you by Gail Borden Public Library. You must enter all 14 number on your library card to use this. When you get by the password screen, click on the General Reference Center (this is the magazine index). Then type the word you are doing research on. |
| FirstGov for Kidshas links to United States Government kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. |
| FirstGov is the gateway to all 20,000 United States Government Internet sites (with over 27 million Web pages). Some of the information is best suited for upper middle school students because of reading level. |
| References from Dr. Norman Labush has a variety of excellent student resources for K-8. |
| FactMonster.com has a dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia and an almanac. |
| The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 17,000 carefully reviewed resources. |
| Education Resources by Subject from the Education Index is "a topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web". |
| Ask an Expert-
Would
you like to ask an expert while doing research? This kid-friendly site
is a directory of links to those who have volunteered their time to answer
questions.
Suggestions to parents and teachers: ...Have your children or students use parent's email address or teacher's school email address. ...Make sure your children or students do not give their last names on any email. |
| Virtual Facts Online has encyclopedias, atlases, biographies and much, much more, brought to you by the refdesk.com (which is a source of many other reference materials). |
| Middle School Cybrary is a another source for research and homework help. |
| The American Memory collection from the Library of Congress is a source of much of America's history in the form of words, images and sounds. |
| Martindale's The Reference Desk Includes just about everything you've ever wanted to know. Some entries are very technical. |
| Terra Server allows you to find a picture of an area taken from a U.S. Geological Survey satellite. Click on the green area you want to see an image of. |
| The Amazing Picture Machine is a safe place to get images from. |