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online reference tools

Teaching Resources

  1. Current Events E-Zines for Kids

  2. Online Reference Tools for Children

  3. Reference Tool Starting Points and Portals

  4. Dictionaries

  5. Thesaurus and Specialty Dictionaries

  6. Encyclopedias

  7. Directories

  8. Conversion & Translation Tools

  9. Almanac, Calendars, Records Books and Others

  10. Maps and Atlas


E-zines for Kids

Headline Spot for Kids

TIME for Kids

Sports Illustrated for Kids

National Geographic

CBC 4 Kids

Channel One

Kids News Room

Kid's Post

NY Times Student Connections

Online News Hour Extra

Scholastic News

Weekly Reader
Dig Archaeology Magazine
Discovery Kids' Health
Earth & Sky
Exploratorium Magazine
NASA Kids
Odyssey Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine Kids Castle
Why Files
Environmental News Network
National Wildlife Federation

Kids Running

Nick Gas

Sports Illustrated for Kids

Our Little Earth



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Online Reference Tools for Children

Fact Monster

Information Please

Internet Picture Dictionary

Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary

Rudiments of Wisdom - cartoon fun

Word Central

World Almanac for Kids

Yahooligan's Almanac

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Reference Tool Starting Points & Portals

General Reference from Multnomah County Library

General Reference from Internet Public Library

General Reference from Discovery School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

General Reference from Yahooligans

General Reference from ThinkQuest

Internet Public Library - Ready References

Lib Web - links to libraries around the world

Library Spot

Lycos References

My Virtual Reference Desk

Research It!

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Dictionaries

Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary from Yahooligans

Hyperdictionary

OneLook - dictionary

MSN Encarta Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary - enter a word; get a definition

Webster's Thesaurus





Subject Dictionary

A Basic Guide to ASL

HandSpeak - Sign Language Dictionary

Interactive Math Dictionary

Online Slang Dictionary

ArtLex

Law Dictionary

NetLingo

Online Medical Dictionary

Biology Dictionary

Literary Terms from Gale

Onine Biology Dictionary

Organic Chemistry Glossary

Slang Site

Symbols

Webopedia

What Is?





Thesaurus & Specialty Dictionaries

General Thesaurus

Merriam Webster Thesaurus

Roget's II Thesaurus from Yahooligans

Thesaurus - enter a word; get similar words

Thesaurus.com

Roget's Thesaurus

Visual Thesaurus





Subject Thesaurus

Geographical Names Online Thesaurus






Acronyms

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym Finder





Rhyming Dictionary

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

Rhyming Dictionary

Write Express Online Rhyming Dictionary




Synonyms

Synonyms




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Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

AllRef Reference and Encyclopedia Resource

Columbia Encyclopedia from Yahooligans

Electronic Encyclopedia

Grolier's

Artcyclopedia

E Conflict Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Instrument Encyclopedia

Columbia Encyclopedia

Funk and Wagnalls

Encarta Online

Let's Find Out

Smithsonian Encyclopedia

World Fact Book

World Factbook from Yahooligans

World Book - subscription-based, limited access

Wikipedia






Subject Area Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Mythica

How Stuff Works

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body from Yahooligans

Medical Encyclopedia from Medline

Oxford's Shakespeare from Yahooligans

Science World by Wolfram

United Nations Cyberbus


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Directories

AnyWho

Switchboard

Seccion Amarilla

Yahoo People Search

Canada 411

US Government Made Easy - government resources

US Zip Codes


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Conversion and Translation Tools

Language Dictionaries and Translation Tools

Alta Vista Translation

French-English Dictionary

Languages

Word Reference - translates words from one language to another

American Heritage Spanish Dictionary from Yahooligans

German-English Dictionary

Say Hello from Internet Public Library

Xlation



Measurement Calculators and Conversion Tools

Conversion Calculator from Yahooligans

Density Conversion Calculator

Metric Conversion Factors

Universal Currency Converter

Conversion of Weights and Measures

Measure 4 Measure

Online Conversion

Weights and Measures

World Time Servers




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Almanacs, Calendars, Records, and Others

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from Yahooligans

Information Please

Guinness World Records

Farmer's Almanac

Earth Calendar






Timelines

Age of Exploration

Encyclopedia of World History

Geography Timeline

Hyperhistory

Chemsoc Timeline

Decades

History Timelines

Math History

Science Timeline




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Maps and Atlas

Ancient World Mapping Center

How Far is it?

MapPoint

MSN Encarta Atlas

Atlapedia Online

Map Machines from National Geographic

MapQuest

Online Map Creation

TerraServer




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