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    • A+ Homework Helper
      Downloadable software designed to help students locate age-appropriate web information on an array of topics.
    • Bartleby.com
      Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.
    • Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk
      Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
    • Copyright Rights and Wrongs
      Students learn the importance and procedures for respecting intellectual property and how to ask permission to use images on the web. Site designed by 5th and 6th grade students for Thinkquest Junior.
    • Discover
      All about the earth, its people, science, discoveries, and language.
    • Electronic Text Center
      Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.
    • Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette
      Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
    • FactMonster
      Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
    • Finding Data on the Internet
      A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
    • Gary Price Fast Facts
      Compilation of quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics, and fact books.
    • Info Zone Research Skills Area
      Exploration of the research process and links to related sites.
    • Infonation
      View and compare statistical data for countries that are a part of the United Nations. Find everything from land size to population, average temperature to crime rates.
    • Inter-Lace Webtopics Directory:
      This teacher-librarian designed website contains searching tips and a weblinks topic subject list for teachers and students.
    • Internet Public Library Kidspace: Reference
      General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
    • Local Times Around the World
      Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
    • Martindale's Reference Desk
      Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.
    • My Virtual Reference Desk
      Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.
    • NoodleQuest
      Free service offers automated search engine strategy development.
    • Plagiarism
      College professor's tutorial explains what plagiarism is and why it is wrong, and refutes the excuses often used to try to justify it.
    • Research-It
      Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.
    • Simpson�s Contemporary Quotations
      online database and comprehensive list of world's most notable quotations from 1950 - 1980.
    • Study Skills
      Suggestions help students develop better listening, reading, note-taking, writing, and independent study skills.
    • TekMom's Search Tools for Students
      An easy-to-use, one-page reference desk for students. Includes kids' search engines, encyclopedias, biographies, images, dictionaries, and maps.
    • The Amazing Picture Machine
      Index to graphical resources and maps on the internet. Database of all types of images suitable for children.
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