Internet Study Aids
Directories Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification
Internet Public Library Youth Division: Annotated index of sites for youth ages 4-11. Browse by DDC category or subject. www.ipl.org/youth/dewey/
Kids Click! Web Search for Kids by Librarians: Organized by general DDC categories and curriculum areas. Annotation, grade level designation, and major subject heading are included for each site. Search or browse this site. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/dewey.html
000 Generalities
Encarta Online: Encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas that include a homework index organized by subject. http://encarta.msn.com/
Fact Monster: Atlas, almanac, encyclopedia, and dictionary for kids. By Information Please Almanac. www.factmonster.com/
Icarito: Online Encyclopedia in Spanish. www.icarito.cl/
Information Please Almanac: General purpose almanac. www.infoplease.com/
100 Philosophy
Salem@nationalgeographic.com: A National Geographic history of the Salem witch trials. www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/index.html
200 Religion & Mythology
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes: An online edition of the classic text with annotations, illustrations, and hyperlinks. Searchable by keywords, names, or phrases. www.bulfinch.org
Catholic Online Saints and Angels Index: A searchable index of saints and angels, lists of patron saints, and information about feast days. http://saints.catholic.org/stsindex.html
Encyclopedia Mythica: An online encyclopedia of world mythology, folklore, and legend. Browse by culture or search by keyword. www.pantheon.org/mythica/
Mythweb : This site is devoted to the heroes, gods, and monsters of Greek mythology. Click on "Encyclopedia" for an Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology that is arranged alphabetically. www.mythweb.com/
300 Social Sciences
Adventures in Education: Information from the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. on planning a career, selecting a school, and paying for School. www.adventuresineducation.org
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids: Information on how laws are made, branches of government, historical documents, the election process, and much more. Organized by grades K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12, with sections for parents and teachers. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/index.html
College Net: Portal for applying to college over the web. www.collegenet.com/
The Financial Aid Information Page: Information on loans and other sources of aid from the National Association of student Financial Aid Administrators. www.finaid.org/
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Excellent resource for job and career information. www.bls.gov/oco/
The OYEZ Project: Abstracts of selected Supreme Court cases. Search by title, citation, or date, or browse by subject. Includes audio files and images. http://oyez.nwu.edu/
Peterson's.com: The Education and Career Center: College experts bring you information about schools, applications you can download, and more. www.petersons.com/
Policy.com: News and Information: Showcases leading research, opinions and events shaping public policy on dozens of issues including education, technology, and healthcare. It is comprehensive, timely, and non-partisan, and features a searchable database. www.policy.com/
SIRS Resource Center: Links to sites grouped for social issues, science, arts, and humanities for teachers, librarians, and students. www.sirs.com/wrc/
State of Texas Information: Portal site for citizens, visitors, business and government employees. www.state.tx.us/
Web U.S. Universities, by State: A list of university web sites organized by State. www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/
400 Language
A Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language Terms: Search or browse through this dictionary. The signs are illustrated and animated. www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
Grammar On-Line: Free online resources for English grammar. www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm/
Helping Your Child Learn to Read: Publication of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement. www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Reading/
Merriam-Webster Online: Includes word lookup and thesaurus, plus word puzzles. www.m-w.com/
Resources for Spanish Language and Literature: Links to general resources, dictionaries and newspapers in Spanish. www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/span.html
Your Dictionary.com: Links to more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 general or specialized word in English or foreign-language dictionaries. Links are selected by an Advisory Council of Experts comprised of some two dozen of the world's most accomplished linguists. www.yourdictionary.com/
500 Science
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Includes a guide to the television series, instructions for 40 “home demo” experiments, and a teacher’s lounge with brief factual information on topics covered in the series. Requires Macromedia Shockwave. http://nyelabs.kcts.org/
The Biology Project: An online, interactive resource for learning biology designed for high school and college students. www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html
Biomes of the World: A color-coded world map and basic information about the earth's biomes. www.snowcrest.net/geography/slides/biomes/index.html
CELLS Alive! : Information about the worlds visible only through a microscope. www.cellsalive.com/
Chem4Kids: Designed to teach the basics of chemistry to kids. By Kapili.com. www.chem4kids.com/
The Constellations and their Stars: Information about all 88 constellations and the named stars within them, plus links to sky charts, and links to Greek and Roman star myths and classical maps of constellations. www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
Discovery Channel: A companion to the educational cable channel, this site is divided into broad categories of history, technology, nature, exploration, and science. Includes school.discovery.com which hosts J.B. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper and Science Fair Central. www.discovery.com
Endangered Species Program: Sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service http://endangered.fws.gov/
Houston Public Library and Houston Independent School District Science Fair Page: Students apply the "Big Six" information gathering process to do research for science projects. Many links to science fair sites are provided. www.hpl.lib.tx.us/youth/science_fair_index.html
Kapili.com: Covers a wide variety of science topics, including biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, and physical geography. Formerly included the site, “Biology for Kids.” www.kapili.com/index.html
The Math Forum: Math Resources by Subject : Resources for students from kindergarten through graduate studies. http://mathforum.org/math.topics.html
NASA Kids: An on-line or printable resource designed for students from Kindergarten to 8th grade. http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
Neuroscience Resources for Kids: Information about the brain and its functions. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/interr.html
The Nine Planets: An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. www.seds.org/billa/tnp/
The Online Biology Book: A wide variety of information and images related to freshman biology.http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
Physics4Kids: Lots of information about electricity, light, motion, and thermodynamics. www.kapili.com/physics4kids/index.html
Science Fair Project Index: The index contains projects from almost all areas of science and many areas of technology. www.ascpl.lib.oh.us/scifair/
Views of the Solar System : A multimedia adventure that reveals the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. www.solarviews.com/
Volcano World: Volcanoes of the world accessible by region, country, and named.http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
WWW Unit Converter: Converts units of area, density, energy, force, temperature, speed, weight, length, and more. www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/
Web Elements: Description, key data and additional information on each element in the periodic table. www.webelements.com/
The Why Files: Uses current events to explore larger issues of science, health, environment, and technology. New stories related to current headlines are posted each week. Archives contain over 150 illustrated stories. http://whyfiles.org/
600 Technology
Anatomy and Physiology for High School Students: Illustrations and information on the body's systems created by students at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science especially for high school students. www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us/biology/anatomy/apmain.html
Human Anatomy Online: Select information and images on ten anatomy systems, including the digestive system, skeletal system, circulatory system, and nervous system, and retrieve images and information on each. Also features lesson plans. www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Electronic Zoo: Links to all kinds of animals, plus vet information. http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body: Features 1,247 engravings from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries. Users may search, browse through the table of contents, or browse through an alphabetical list of topics. www.bartleby.com/107/
Ten Minute Resumes: Provides simple-to-use online forms. www.10minuteresume.com/
The Virtual Hospital: A digital health sciences library created in 1992 to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. www.vh.org/
700 Arts
Art History Resources on the Web: Links to information about art history from prehistoric times to the present. http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Art on the Web: Links to artists, painters, museums and more. www.scaruffi.com/art.html
Artcyclopedia: Guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. References to Internet sites where artists' works can be viewed. www.artcyclopedia.com/
PBS Online: A comprehensive companion Web site for more than 400 PBS television programs and specials, as well as original Web content and real-time learning adventures. More than 85,000 pages of content to explore. www.pbs.org/
Web Museum/Famous Painters: Art exhibits from around the world. http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/
800 Literature
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1919 edition): A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. www.bartleby.com/100/
Children’s Literature Web Guide: Comprehensive collection of Internet resources related to literature for children and young adults. www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Columbia Guide to Online Style: Presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources, including Internet sites, discussion lists, e-mail, and newsgroups, electronic publications, online databases, and more. www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Online Literary Criticism Collection: The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 3936 critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, nationality, and literary period. Includes links to additional web sites about literary criticism. www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: An student's guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet. http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/
Shakespeare.com: General information and the “Web Folio” with full-text of the Bard’s works. www.shakespeare.com/
NoodleTools: Includes an interactive, MLA-style, bibliography composer that provides fields in which students may enter bibliographic information on resources in print and electronic formats. www.NoodleTools.com/
Online Research Guide: This excellent, comprehensive, easy to understand guide to writing research papers is hosted by the School District of Springfield Township. It includes a Student Guidelines to Multimedia and Web Page Production that contains easy to understand and concise explanations of copyright issues. www.springfield.k12.pa.us/rguide/
900 Geography & History
50States.com: State symbols, flags, maps, history, and much more. www.50states.com/
The American Civil War Home Page: Comprehensive links to electronic files about the American Civil War. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
American Memory Timeline: Primary sources from the online collection of the Library of Congress on a variety of topics in United States history. The information is arranged by chronological period. The primary source excerpts were chosen because they deal with important and interesting topics in U.S. history. The Learning Page helps teachers use the "American Memory" web site to teach about U.S. history and culture. It includes suggestions for using photos, objects, life histories, and other primary sources in the classroom; tools for analyzing primary sources; and a "lesson framework" for incorporating primary sources into all phases of instruction and features 40 lessons developed by teachers on 17 topics, including the Revolutionary Era, the Civil War, the Emergence of Modern America, the Great Depression, and Individual Development and Identity. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
The American West: The history and development of the twenty-two western states that form the American west, from frontier and pioneer days of the wild west, to today's modern west. www.americanwest.com/
Ancient Worlds: An introduction to cultures of the ancient world. http://eawc.evansville.edu/
Atlapedia of Countries A to Z: A searchable database of countries with information about population, capital, climate, people, religions, languages, government, economy, and more. www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Archiving Early America: Historic documents from 18th Century America. http://earlyamerica.com/
Handbook of Texas Online: An encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
K-12 Internet Resources for Geography Education: Quick links to resources to support geography education and the National Geography Standards for K-12 teachers. http://members.carol.net/josh/geoindex.html
Lone Star Junction: An online resource about Texas, it's symbols, and it's early history. www.lsjunction.com/
National Geographic: Searchable, interactive site with articles from National Geographic magazine. www.nationalgeographic.com/
National Geographic World: Searchable, interactive site with articles from National Geographic World magazine for children. www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Location, map, history, pictures, and description of each of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Texas Indians: Links to articles about Texas Indians. www.texasindians.com
TopoZone: This site provides the Web's first interactive topographical map of the entire United States. www.topozone.com/
World Atlas and Maps: Includes alphabetical list of countries/continents or countries organized by continent and region. Also includes maps and geographical information for U.S., major world cities and oceans. http://geography.about.com/science/geography/library/maps/blindex.htm
WorldGenWeb for Kids: Site for kids (18 and under) or classes studying genealogy/history. www.rootsweb.com/~wgwkids/
The World Factbook (CIA): For over 50 years, the CIA has annually published The World Factbook with up-to-date and in-depth information on countries. The online site includes maps and appendixes. www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
World Flag Database: Color pictures of national flags of countries throughout the world and their states. www.flags.net/
World Site Atlas: Maps, hotels, tourist information, weather, photos, links, and news... www.sitesatlas.com/
Biography
African Americans in the Humanities: 20th Century: Biographical information on African American personalities of the 20th century in the areas of art, literature, education, and philosophy. www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/humafro.html
American Presidents: C-Span maintains this site with biographies, images, inaugural addresses, and information about people and events related to terms of office of each U.S. president. www.americanpresidents.org/
Authors and Illustrators on the Web: Links to web pages of children's writers and illustrators, including authors' personal web sites and web sites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers. www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Biography.com: Searchable database of more than 15,000 names of the worlds greatest individuals, past and present. The brief entries are from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. www.biography.com/
Biographical Dictionary: Biographical information on more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. http://s9.com/biography/
Biographies of
Mathematicians: Searchable database of biographies of
mathematicians from 1680 to 1947. Entries may also be browsed
chronologically by era or alphabetically by name.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography: Biographies of scientists in the fields of math, physics, astronomy, and chemistry. www.treasure-troves.com/bios/
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences: Profiles African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians. www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Famous Hispanics in the World and History: Alphabetical of brief biographies of 217 famous Hispanics. http://coloquio.com/famosos/alpha.html
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Brief biographies of inventors selected by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Includes links to inventions and a timeline. www.invent.org/book/index.html
National Women's Hall of Fame: Brief biographies of some of the greatest women in the history of this country. www.greatwomen.org/
POTUS Presidents of the United States: Biographies and other Information about the 42 Presidents of the United States. www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Women's History Month: President Bush proclaimed March 2001 as "Women's History Month." This site has links to numerous resources related to Women's History, including biographies. http://education.dot.gov/transcareers/wnhm.html
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