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Bibliography Information

Noodle Tools will help you create a bibliography for your paper. You must create your own account before using the program.

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General Tools

Answers.com contains an online encyclopedia, thesaurus, dictionary definitions and more.
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 35,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

Copyright for Kids

At Copyright for Kids you will find basic information about copyright, links, information for teachers and parents, and much more.
The Digital Librarian is a site for a librarian's choice of the best sites on the Web.
Discovery Education has tools to help you study, games to challenge your mind, and tons of great clip art to use. In addition, there are nearly a dozen learning adventures that let you explore everything from Ancient Egypt to the Space Station.

Dr. LeBeau's Homepage

Dr. LeBeau's homepage is a resource for teachers, students and curious adults.
Fact Monster includes an atlas, almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia, as well as links by subjects. The homework center is also useful.
42explore provides "four to explore" for each topic. On each page you'll find information, definitions, links, and other resources.
Homework Center is provided by the Multnomah County Library System in Oregon. This site offers links to homework topics.
KnowItNow is Ohio's live online homework help service. The service offers homework assistance from librarians, the original information experts.
Homework Spot is a free virtual homework help center for students.
Jiskha homework help allows students to post questions and get free homework help from experts.
The K12 Station free library features over 20,000 web-based resources for K-12 students, teachers and families. Click on a grade level and topic to view dozens of sites with tutorials, games, movies, simulations, primary source documents and more.
"Kid Info" offers one of the web's best homework, student, teacher and parent reference resources.
Kids Click is a web searching tool for kids provided by librarians.
Library Spot is a free virtual library resource center for students , educators, librarians, and parents.
Pink Monkey.com contains free book notes/Online Study Guides, Chapter Summaries, Plot Notes, Short Summaries, Synopsis, Book Summaries and Downloadable Notes.
Refdesk.com has everything - essential reference tools, almanacs, newspapers, health and news sites and much more.
ReferenceDesk.org
The Internet's Best Reference Source!
Reference Desk.org is an excellent reference source. It is filled with lots of useful links.
The Student Guide to Avoid Plagiarism is provided by Teaching Resources of Education World. It is an easy to read document on how to avoid plagiarism.
The Thinkfinity Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the Thinkfinity Partners, plus Partner reviewed materials.
The Virtual Middle School Library is "Open 24 hours a day." Here you can find web sites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines, resources for school librarians and more.
Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary where you can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

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Language Arts

Big Dog's Grammar is a bare bones guide to English grammar. It offers 15 different mini-tutorials on English grammar for grades 3-12. It also includes a MLA guide for citations.
Guide to Grammar & Writing is the ultimate guide to grammar and technical aspects of writing. You can find just about any grammar topic you can think of.

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Mathematics

A Math Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive dictionary for students. It explains over 500 common mathematical terms in simple language.
Algebra, math homework solvers, lessons and free tutors online. Pre-algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Physics. Their free tutors create solvers with work shown, write algebra lessons, and help you solve your homework problems. Interactive solvers for algebra word problems.
The Math Forum is sponsored by Drexel University. This site is one of the best, most complete sources for math materials and resources on the internet.
Mathpower is the online math resource for students who may experience problems with math. There are note taking tips, study skills tips, ways to reduce anxiety, and tutorials for students.

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Science

MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. They also provide a variety of oddities as well.

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Social Studies

"Background Notes" is produced by the United States State Department. It provides background information on countries.
Gov Spot explores the web for government information such as documents, facts and figures, news, political information and more.
At Quick Maps you can find world maps, country maps, population maps, coloring maps, and country flags as well as a world fact book.
Use this Timeline Maker tool for creating individualized timelines for your current project or topic of study. You can choose from either a vertical or a horizontal version.

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Study Skills

How to Study.com offers online workshops for students in elementary school up through college on how to listen better, how to improve your note-taking skills, keep track of assignments, prepare for oral presentations, and more.
Pro Quest offers this collection of study skill links. It helps students to overcome homework stress and test anxiety with a wide variety of study skills tips, from when and where to study to setting goals and taking great notes.
Study Guide Zone allows you to view a series of study guides on a variety of standardized tests along with study tips and resources to prepare for these tests.

StudyTips.org is dedicated to furthering educational opportunities for the youth of America. StudyTips.org recognizes that the future of our country rests with a solid education for all whom can reach out and grasp from the tree of knowledge. All the content that is provided is free to the user. It contains over 75 articles spanning over 23,000 words all geared to helping you study more effectively.

Tips for Better Test Taking offers specific test-taking strategies for essay exams, oral exams, true/false tests, multiple choice tests, and short answer tests.

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Updated: April 27, 2010