HOMEWORK HELPERS

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Seminole Library's Online Guide to homework helpers

Enchanted Learning: This web site is an excellent starting point for K-3 students looking for information about animals (including dinosaurs), tropical rainforests, astronomy and other subjects.

SIRS' Knowledge Source Just for Kids Section has an extensive set of guides and other resources including middle school and high school home pages and creative writing sites. Some of the more interesting links are:

NASA(also check outNASA's Education Program site)
MegamathProduced by Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together."
The Jason Projectfounded by Doctor Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic. One feature is a archive of questions and answers from experts in marine biology and oceanography
Internet Kids and Family Yellow Pages A variety of resources for kids and their parents
The Internet Public Library Youth Section
The Rain Forest Action Network's Kid's Corner
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids 50+ Great Sites selected by the American Library Association.

Arts and Entertainment which covers

Arts including information about artists, children's art on the Internet and activities.
Museums

Literature and Language

Favorite Children's Stories including

An online versions of Aesop's fablesAesop's Fables Online Collection
The Alice Fan Club
The American Girls Series
Animorphs Home Page

Expanding the Classics Sources for a number of classic authors such as:

Louise May Alcott
Shakespeare's Globe
To Kill a Mockingbird

Mark Twain in His Time

Authors and Illustrators
Look it Up! A set of online reference sources in writing and language.

People of Past and Present history and biography
Planet Earth and Beyond Science resources including sources for
Science & Technology

General Science Sources such as:

Earth Science Explorer
Albert Einstein Online
Explore Science: Interactive Science Education
How Things Work

Guide to Grammar. Quick and clear guides to grammar, writing and word usage information at the sentence, paragraph and essay level. Includes quizzes and an index of 142 topics.

ThinkQuest Junior. A collection of 300-odd web sites constructed by children in fourth through sixth grades. Among the subjects found in the site are Animorphs, books made into movies, and Chinese Calligraphy. Others include a kids guide to divorce (created by children all of whose parents are divorced), coral reefs, pets and sports.

Internet Public Library Science Fair Resource Guide. Multiple sources explaining how to do a science project, examples of science projects, suggested ideas for science projects, science news magazines and some reference tools.

. "KidsClick! is comprised of almost 1,800 records for Internet resources of interest to kids that have been selected, annotated and categorized by a team of librarians. KidsClick! aims to provide flexible and fast access to the best that the Internet has to offer kids of all ages. Records can be browsed in major categories, sub-categories, or specific subjects." Topics covered include news and current events, science, pets, ghosts, monsters and related subjects, sports, literature, computers, popular entertainment, government and society, religion, mythology and transportation.

National Geographic Publications Index. Online index of (among other resources) over a century's worth of National Geographic Magazines.