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General Homework Sites

Army OneSource
Attention Army Kids Get Real-time help with free online tutoring for grades k-12.
 
eLibrary
eLibrary offers more than 1,500 full-text sources, with improved functionality, and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips. See your school library information specialist for passwords
 
Fact Monster
Online Almanac, Encyclopedia and Homework Help
 
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
 
Homework Spot
Elementary, Middle and High School resources in various subjects as well as activities, tips and articles.
 
Jiskha Homework Help
Homework help for PreK- college in subjects ranging from art and music to math and physical education.
 
Kids Know It Network
A free children's learning network with links to free educational websites, games, and resources.
 
MidLink Magazine: How to Cite Your Sources
Links to information about evaluating and citing resources.
 
Note Taking Help
The articles on this website are designed to teach you note taking strategies and to help you determine if a particular note taking strategy makes sense in a particular situation, to help you choose the note taking strategy that works best for you, and to help you determine whether a particular piece of information is important to note.
 
Smithsonian
Explore the exhibitions, take part in activities and more!
 
Smithsonian Education
Smithsonian Museum for Students: Arts; Science and Nature; History and Culture; People and Places

Language Arts (Reading & Writing)

Bartleby Books
A huge collection of free online books. Offers a brief biography for each author and a number of other services including lists of quotes and a thesaurus. Books are viewable online and are also downloadable.
 
Buddy's Bearded Collie Literacy Notebook
An interactive website created by a principal in Canada that provides reading and writing activities to help kids enjoy the pursuit of literacy.
 
Clifford the Big Red Dog
PreK-Grade 2 reading and writing resources from Scholastic
 
Guide to Grammar & Writing
An online guide to grammar from word and sentence level to essay and research papers. Quiz yourself and watch presentations.
 
INFOTRAC -- Student Resource Center
The Thomason Gale collection consists of full-text articles from over 750 magazines and newspapers, hours of audio and video clips, 7,400 photos, and at least 2800 maps and charts, and hundreds of poems and plays. See your teacher for a username and password.
 
PBS Kids Stop & Go
Create a story featuring characters from PBS series while you explore the steps in the writing process. Develop characters and setting, and select actions that move the plot to an exciting or funny ending.
 
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Writing resources and instructional material.
 
Starfall
Additional reading resources for beginning readers

English & Literature

Bartleby Books
A huge collection of free online books. Offers a brief biography for each author and a number of other services including lists of quotes and a thesaurus. Books are viewable online and are also downloadable.
 
Buddy's Bearded Collie Literacy Notebook
An interactive website created by a principal in Canada that provides reading and writing activities to help kids enjoy the pursuit of literacy.
 
Classic Short Stories
A collection of and links to short stories.
 
EDSITEment
Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation.
 
Elements of Literature Site
Elements of Literature Site includes extension materials for the adopted textbooks in grades 7-12.
 
Language of Literature Site
Language of Literature Site includes student and teacher resources for the Language of Literature textbook series.
 
Literary Criticism
Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
 
Wired for Books
Collection of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures and interviews for children to adults.

Science

Brainy Kids
Games and activities, virtual lab and lesson plans from the Dana Foundation.
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides direct access to important health and safety topics, scientific articles, data and statistics, tools and resources-and over 900 topics in the CDC.gov A-Z Index.
 
Discovery Kids
Games, puzzles, quizzes, and other learning materials for Kids from Discovery
 
Edheads Simple Machines Activity
Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!
 
Genetic Science Learning Center
Information and resources from the University of Utah.
 
Hippo Campus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
 
NASA
NASA is taking bold steps at the K-12 grade levels to prepare the next generation of explorers. Building on previous accomplishments, NASA has established a series of innovative programs designed to stimulate student interest in order to motivate higher levels of study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, subjects. These activities provide unique learning experiences for students, teachers, administrators and families.
 
National Geographic Kids
Games, videos, photos and more fun stuff from National Geographic!
 
NOAA Education Resources
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced.
 
Peep and the Big Wide World
The site contains interactive games, anywhere science activities, music & video, printables, and science resources.
 
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Online habitat education, fact sheets, web cams, homework helper and more.
 
The Magic School Bus
Cross curricular games and activities that are based on the book and TV series, The Magic School Bus.
 
USGS Kids
Coloring pages, connect-the-dots, stories, games, puzzlers, and fun projects from the U.S. Geological Survey
 
WISE
WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging.

Math

A Math Dictionary for Kids
A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language.
 
AplusMath
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
 
Batter's Up Baseball (Math Game)
Can you get a Homerun? How about a base hit? This is a fun and challenging way to learn math. (uses Macromedia Flash 4.0)
 
Cool Math
Math lessons, practice, games and reference.
 
Fact Monster Math
Math, Money, Measurement, Formulas, and More. (Published by Pearson Education)
 
Hippo Campus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
 
HomeworkSpot: Trigonometry
Trigonometry resources.
 
Math Forum @ Drexel
Internet resources for math K-College.
 
PBS Cyberchase
A multimedia project that encourages children to see, think and do mathematics
 
WebMATH
Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, as entered by a user, at any particular moment. The math answers are generated and displayed real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer.

Social Studies

50states.com
Links to state home pages and information.
 
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
 
EDSITEment
Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation.
 
Hippo Campus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
 
National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has billions of pieces of paper and millions of photographs that document the working of the Federal Government and U.S. history.
 
National Constitution Center - Students
Need resources for your government or American history class? Want to catch up on current events? The National Constitution Center provides many different ways to engage in the American experience.
 
National Geographic Kids
Games, videos, photos and more fun stuff from National Geographic!
 
National History Day
National History Day makes history come alive for America's youth by engaging them in the discovery of the historic, cultural and social experiences of the past.
 
The British Museum
Learning activities from the British Museum.
 
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
A nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation.
 
U.S. House of Representatives
Official United States House of Representatives website.
 
U.S. Senate
Official site of the U.S. Senate
 
U.S. State Department for Youth
Play some games to learn about the U.S. Department of State.
 
United Nations Cyber School Bus
The UN Cyberschoolbus captures the growing potential of the Internet as an educational tool and provides an effective medium with which to disseminate information and resources about international affairs, as well as bring together diverse communities of students and educators from around the world. Within the Cyberschoolbus site there are a number of activities and projects that teach students about global issues in an interactive, engaging and fun way.

Health and P.E.

American Cancer Society
Provides guidelines for diet and activity and find tips for a healthy lifestyle and community.
 
BAM! Body and Mind
Got a question about fitness? disease? peer pressure? BAM! Body and Mind, from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, will tell you all you need to know about the stuff that matters.
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides direct access to important health and safety topics, scientific articles, data and statistics, tools and resources-and over 900 topics in the CDC.gov A-Z Index.
 
Choose My Plate
Weight management and calories, physical activity, healthy eating tips and other information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
 
D.A.R.E. for Kids Only
The official website of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program.
 
HealthyPeople.gov
Challenges individuals, communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all.
 
Powerful Girls Have Powerful Bones
Find out about fun weight bearing activities and cool calcium rich foods that help you to stay strong and keep bones healthy.

Keyboarding

Typing Lessons
Typing Lessons with reviews for each lesson, words per minute and grading.
 
Typing Practice and Lessons
A variety of preliminary information, typing lessons and exercises to improve your skill in keyboarding.

Research Links

Dictionary.com
Reliable, free online access to millions of English definitions, synonyms, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and translations
 
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, biographies and more.
 
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
 
InfoPlease
A comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once.
 
MidLink Magazine: How to Cite Your Sources
Links to information about evaluating and citing resources.
 
National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has billions of pieces of paper and millions of photographs that document the working of the Federal Government and U.S. history.
 
ProQuest Professional Education
ProQuest Professional Education is a comprehensive reference collection for K-12 professional development and continuing education. See your school Information Specialist for passwords.
 
RefDesk.com
Indexes and reviews of quality, credible, and timely reference resources that are free and family-friendly.
 
SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference resource for young researchers that makes learning fun and intuitive. Helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.
 
Thesaurus.com
Sister site of Dictionary.com - a free reliable synonym search tool.
 
U.S. Copyright Office
Information about online copyright registration; key publications including informational circulars, application forms for copyright registration, links to the copyright law and to the homepages of other copyright-related organizations; and more.