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AOL
Net Find for Kids Only
A search engine/directory for kids
Ask
Jeeves for Kids
A
search engine/directory for kids
Awesome
Library
Links to over 14,000 carefully reviewed resources for students,
educators and parents covering a variety of subject areas.
Education
World
A collection of research and reference sites for teachers and students
4th
and 5th Grade Student Research Resources
A virtual library
of resources in many subject areas for 4th and 5th grade students.
Also contains links to resources for lower grades, upper grades,
teachers, and parents.
GALILEO
(Georgia Library Learning Online)
A
collection of educational databases for student and teacher use.
A monthly password is needed for access
Kids
Click
A collection of reference and research websites selected and maintained
by librarians
Kid
Fusion
A
meta search engine for kids
Lycos
Zone
A
search engine/directory for kids
Learning
Links at Pleasant Grove Elementary School
An
excellent & extensive collection of educational links compiled by
Dianne Prager, media specialist at PGES.
Research-It!
- Your One-Stop Reference Desk
Contains many reference
tools (such as a dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) in one site.
Scholastic
Web Guide
An index created with thousands of educational Web
sites found by teachers in all subjects for grades K–8.
Searchopolis
A special collection of links to educational Web
sites for students and teachers
Yahooligans
A
search engine/directory for kids
Dictionaries
OneLook
Dictionaries
Searches
simultaneously for a word in a number of different dictionaries.
Roget's
Internet Thesaurus
An
online thesaurus similar to the original print version of Roget's
Thesaurus.
A
Web of Online Dictionaries
Contains
links to a variety of online dictionaries in English and in other
languages.
WWWebster
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's
online dictionary.
Encyclopedias
An
online version of the famous encyclopedia.
Also contains links to related information.
Encyclopedia.com
An
online encyclopedia.
Encarta
Online
An online
encyclopedia that includes some illustrations.
Funk
and Wagnall's Encyclopedia
An online encyclopedia that also includes links to a number of other
reference sources, including a dictionary, an atlas, a thesaurus, and an
animal encyclopedia.
Other
Reference Sources
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
An online version of the print edition of Bartlett’s Quotations,
searchable by keyword or author.
CIA
World Factbook
Current information from the
U.S. government on various
countries throughout the world, including complete country profiles (
background info., people, flag, government, economy, maps, and more.)
Ditto
A family friendly picture search engine.
Locates pictures of objects and people.
How
Far Is It?
Calculates the distance between cities
in the U.S. and around the world. It
also provides a map showing the two places.
Infonation
Gives the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the
United Nations
Intellicast
An excellent and extensive weather site that includes radar imagery and
detailed forecasts
Map
Blast
Allows users to create a map to or from an address anywhere in the
United States.
MapQuest
Allows users to find the distance, driving directions, and a map for
traveling from one place to another.
10,000
Year Calendar
Bring up a calendar from any month or year from 1 to 10000 A.D.
The
National Address Server
Allows users to use an address in the United States to find the zip code
and view a street map of the address.
Switchboard
Search for people or businesses in the U.S. to find addresses and
telephone numbers.
Today
in History
Gives historic events and celebrity birthdays for the current date and
for a date from the past.
United
States Postal Service
Searches for zip codes, mail rates, and express mail tracking.
U.S.
Gazetteer
Allows user to look up
information by area, name, or zip code.