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This section is intended to help primary students (k-5) get started with
the research process. Middle
and High School students will want to check out the resources at the
left navigation bar for those grade levels and links at the
TNT Research & Reference Web.
Reference
Search: Know Play.
Here's a "one-stop" information shop. Choose
the type of information you are looking for and enter your search term in
the appropriate box. Use the "pull-down" menues to choose your
resources. Check this out - pretty kewl research tool!
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50 States. Discover interesting facts and figures about each of the 50 states.
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Factmonster Almanac. This is a "kid friendly" site with
categories including people, world,
sports, math, science, word wise and much more. Excellent site!
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Farmers
Almanac. Want to know what the weather will be
like a few months or even years from now? Check the
Farmers Almanac to find out!
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Guinness
World Records. An almanac containing thousands
of world records all in one place!
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Information Please
Almanac. An almanac containing information on
people, sports, entertainment, science, history, etc.
- Kid's
Almanac. Yahoo! has rendered a more kid user-friendly version of
the popular Information Please Kids' Almanac.
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Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids. One of America’s oldest
almanacs now has a version for kids. Find information
on weather, history, animals, and more!
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Stately Knowledge. Get the facts and figures on each of the 50 states including state
symbols, nicknames, flags, points of interest and much more.
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World Almanac for Kids. This “kid friendly” site, created by World Almanac, contains information
on weather, animals, inventions, landforms, and more.
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Altapedia. Altapedia
online contains full color maps as well as key statistics on countries
of the world
- Ask Asia Map
and Timeline Library. Many links for Asian counties, all
maps are of good quality
- Autopilot.
Check it out! You get travel maps on demand.
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Blank Outline State Maps. These blank maps allow space for you to fill in important information
such as landforms, state capitals and more.
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Color Landform Atlas
of the U.S. Shows relief maps, county maps, satellite photos and even an historical map for
each state!
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Earthshots. This site presents satellite images of changes over the last 20 years.
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Electronic Map Library. There are a limited number of atlases, but they are
excellent.
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Google Maps. Enter an address and find a map or even
street view.
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Historical Map Web Sites. Many links to early maps,
organized by world region.
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Infoplease
Atlas. Contains maps of numerous states and
countries.
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Latitude and Longitude. Great graphics makes learning the
basics of using maps easy.
- Lost at Sea:
The Search for Longitude. Here's a fun interactive learning
site from NOVA
- Map
Collections: 1597-1988. From the extensive collection of
the Library of Congress.
- MapQuest.
Free online travel maps and
more.
- Maps.
First choose the continent, and then choose the country and download
information and a map.
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Maps and References. The University of Iowa must have
every good map on the net listed here.
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Maps of Europe. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
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Maps: What You Need to Know. Review scale, distance,
contour and more.
- Mathematics of
Cartography Learn about map making and try it youself.
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National Geographic
Maps.. Search for places and print
customized maps.
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Ouline Maps. These maps may be printed and copied for
personal or classroom use
- Terry Fly.
Put in any
address and look down and "fly" over the area getting an excellent Arial
view.
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United
Nations Cartographic Section. Great maps, require Adobe Acrobat to see
or print.
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United States Maps Big collection, more than 700 are here.
- Visible
Earth.
Directory of images, and animations presented by NASA.
- World
Atlas & Map Library . By Fact Monster, Click on a region
below for a more detailed map, or try the map index.
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World Atlas Online. Contains hundreds of different types of maps.
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American
Sign Language Browser. Click on a word to see its sign.
- Biographical Dictionary.
This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have
shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
- Dictionary of
Spanish.. Translate words from Spanish to
English and from English to Spanish.
- Definr.
An incredibly fast dictionary!
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Illustrated Scientific Dictionaries. Here is a collection of
online dictionaries with pictures for many different subjects.
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Little Explorers Chilren's Dictionary (scroll down). Here is
an online children's dictionary - to browse, just click on the alphabet
letters. There are also
picture dictionary activities - print-outs introduce young
students to research on the Internet using the Little Explorers picture
dictionary. Students use the on-line dictionary to look up the answers to
a set of questions.
- Merriam-Webster Online.
Web access to the popular dictionary and thesaurus
- Merriam-Webster's Word
Central. Here's a version of the popular dictionary designed
for kids - has interactive links and educational games.
- RhymeZone.
Type in a word and find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more
- Roget's Thesaurus.
- Offers search and browse options, and access to the American Heritage
Dictionary.
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Sign Language Dictionary. Learn sign sign language with
these animations that demonstrate the signs.
- Thesaurus. Click on the thesaurus or the dictionary.
- Travlang's
Translation Dictionaries. Travlang is proud to offer many
on-line translating dictionaries!
- The Visual
Thesaurus. This groundbreaking application uses the power of
the web to display and process information in a new way.
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WordNet. A simple, easy-to-use online dictionary without any
clutter.
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Wordsmyth.. An educational
dictionary-thesaurus.
- Your Dictionary.
Access to multiple language dictionaries, specialty dictionaries including
education and language tools.
- Columbia
Encyclopedia. Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling
six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more
than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
- Country
Encyclopedia. Just select a region or country from the
pull-down menu and off you go!
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e-encyclopedia. DK and Google bring you the best of the Web.
- Encarta
Encyclopedia. An online tool - encyclopedia, dictionary,
atlas, and homework help too.
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian. The Smithsonian from A to Z.
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Encyclopedia: Yahoo Kids. A service that searches
Columbia Encyclopedia for articles about lots of different topics.
- Fact Monster.
Great, kid-friendly almanac dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework helper.
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Grolier's Online. Connect ALL students to a world of
knowledge and learning. (available only on school network)
- HighBeam
Encyclopedia. More than 57,000 frequently updated articles
from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Infoplease Encyclopedia. Access more than 57,000 articles
from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
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Online Encyclopedia and Reference Guide. By Kids Konnect,
many useful links for research.
- AOL@School. Features links
for students, educators, and homework help.
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Ask for Kids (Formerly Ask Jeeves). One of the original
"natural language" search engines. The butler, Jeeves, has retired
but the search engine is even better.
- Awesome
Library. Great resources selected and monitored by
librarians.
- CyberSleuth.
Here's an Internet search guide for K-12.
- Dmoz Open
Directory Project for Kids. This searchable directory
features many different resources.
- GoGooligans.
GoGooligans is an educational search engine designed to provide
kid-oriented search results.
- Google.
This is the industry standard - by far, the most popular search engine in
the world.
- Kids Click.
A Web search for kids designed and maintained by librarians.
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KidsWeb. Wonderful set of resources - Mid-Continent Public
Library kid's directory.
- Quintura for
Kids. Kid friendly, includes a visual organizer to help
get started.
- SuperKids.
This directory features icons and graphics so even young readers can use
it.
- Surfing the Net
with Kids. This guide features the best kid sites k-12 and
provides website reviews.
- Why Files.
Search 100's of articles about "the science behind the news" from the
Univ. of Wisconsin.-Madison
- Yahoo Kids
(Formerly Yahooligans), Bills itself as Kids Games, Kids Movies,
Kids Music, and More.
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