Homework Help Center
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Check some of the databases and website links below for help with your homework. |
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Grolier Online Kids Grolier Online Kids! has useful dictionaries, atlases, maps, news and a lot more for elementary students. *Home Use, WLS |
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Grolier Online Passport Grolier Online Passport includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, & The New Book of Knowledge for secondary students. *Home Use, WLS |
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Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Features over 25,000 encyclopedia entries. *Home Use |
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Searchasaurus Search Searchasaurus for kids magazine articles, fun facts, an animal encyclopedia, and a general encyclopedia. *Home Use |
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Literature Resource Center Access to biographies and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors and books. *Home Use for OPL Only. |
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Kids Search Designed especially for youth in grades K-5, magazines & newspaper articles, biographies, primary source material and photos on various subjects. *Home Use |
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Middle Search Plus Full-text articles for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines, thousands of biographies, historical essays, student pamphlets and primary source documents. *Home Use |
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Newspaper Articles Locate newspaper articles from major national newspapers and 12 Wisconsin newspapers many in full-text. *Home Use |
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Points of View Reference Center  Provides students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). *Home Use |
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Student Research Center Designed especially for youth in grades 6-12, magazines & newspaper articles, reference works, country reports, photos, maps & flags on various subjects. *Home Use |
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Ask an Expert
This service connects students to experts in a variety of fields, including the sciences, math, literature, and technology.
DiscoverySchool.com
DiscoverySchool.com has tools to help you study, games to challenge your mind, and tons of great clip art to use.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution provides this guide to the many resources
of our National Museums, including images, profiles, and histories of
exhibits and subjects.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
Access to 1200 educational resources supported by 30 federal agencies
covering the arts, language arts, mathematics, health, sciences and
more.
Kids.gov
Links to kids' federal government sites and fun sites from other
organizations. Subjects include science, history, careers, fighting
crime and more.
Homework Center
Links to hundreds of websites suitable for homework and school
projects. Created by the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon.
HomeworkSpot
Provides quick access to hundreds of online references sources by
subject. This site is part of the StartSpot Network, and is not
affiliated with any specific library.
How Stuff Works
Learn how everything works from 3-D glasses to the Witness Protection Program! Fun site to browse or use for school projects.
KidSpace @ Internet Public Library
IPL KidSpace is a great place to find homework help links as well as websites just for fun.
Library Spot
Provides quick access to hundreds of online reference sources by subject.
OnlineNewspapers.com
A directory of links to online newspapers both U.S. and International.
Spark Notes
Study guides covering a range of subjects including literature, science and history.
Surf Report
Guide to educational Internet sites on various subjects.
The Animal Omnibus
Over 2000 links to pages about specific species of mammals, reptiles,
amphibians, birds, fish, mollusks, and arthropods, run by the
Birmingham Zoo in Birmingham, Alabama.
BugBios
Beautiful color photographs of insects, with scientific and common names.
Endangered Species (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Provides in-depth information about the endangered species of North
America, listed under species and state locations. Provided by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Yahooligans! Animals
Yahooligans guide to a variety of animals with great photos.
People & Biographies
OPL - Biographies Internet Subject Guide.
Biography
Over 20,000 biographies of historical figures. The on-line version of the Arts and Entertainment Channel television show.
People.com
Keep up with your favorite celebrities at People Magazine's online website.
Dictionaries, Grammar & Writing
Language Picture Dictionary
Created by the Oshkosh Area School District and the Oshkosh Public
Library, this picture dictionary translates selected words that are
introduced in the Oshkosh Area School District's English as a Second
Language Program into English, German, Spanish, French and Hmong. Adobe
Reader is needed to view this dictionary.
AskGrammar
Find answers to all your grammar questions, take an interactive quiz,
or post your question using the AskGrammar form. Hosted by Capital
Community College, Hartford, CT.
Online Dictionaries
OPL - Dictionaries Subject Guide. Links to online dictionaries, thesauri, translators, acronyms and more.
Writing Center
University of Wisconsin Madison's Writing Center has links to resources for writing research papers and Online Writing Labs.
YourDictionary.com
Links to a variety of English and Foreign dictionaries. This site was developed by Robert Beard of Bucknell University.
Geography, Government & History
Background Notes
U.S State Department reports on countries around the world. Country
profiles include geography, people, government and politcal conditions,
history, economy, foreign relations, defense, and travel and business
information.
CIA World Factbook
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) provides statistics on the
nations of the world, including population, natural resources, economy,
and defense.
Food Timeline
Useful for locating food history and period recipes.
Geography World
Links to geography-related sites and information, provided by Mr. Brad
Bowerman, geography teacher at Lakeland High School in Jermyn, PA.
InfoNation (United Nations)
Provides customized statistical tables based on United Nations
databases of 185 nations in 37 subjects, including geography, economy,
population, and social indicators. Can be used to compare countries.
Library of Congress Country Studies
Over 85 nations are covered in the areas of history, social factors,
economy, geography, politics and military issues. These profiles are
the full-text versions of books produced by the Library of Congress.
National Geographic for Kids
National Geographic for kids activity and homework page -- great place
for finding pictures, maps, articles and more for school reports.
Nations of the World
Links to countries' consitutions, legislature, courts and other governmental sites.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
An extensive collection of political, physical and historical maps of
the nations of the world. Provided by the University of Texas-Austin.
Pop Culture
Variety of links about the culture and fads in the United States during
the 20th century. Browse by decade or by topic, such as movies, music
and television.
Presidents of the United States
The Internet Public Library's web resource to U.S. presidents with name and subject indexes.
Stately Knowledge
Information and links about the 50 states of the USA. A project of the
University of Michigan School of Information Science and the Internet
Public Library.
Timeline Index by Chronology
The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context.
The White House
Speeches, documents, historical information and links to federal
services from the official WWW page of the President and the Executive
Branch of the United States government.
Wisconsin State Facts
Stately Knowledge page for the state of Wisconsin with lots of
important facts as well as links to encyclopedia articles and official
Wisconsin websites.
Wisconsin State Symbols
Find Wisconsin's many state symbols at Wisconsin.gov.
E-Books
E-Books from netLibrary are free and available 24 hours a day! Check one out, it may help with last minute homework deadlines.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
The Internet Public Library's collection contains over 4400 critical and biographical sites about authors and their works.
Project Gutenberg Etext Listings
Over 1000 classic books, plays, essays, and novels in full-text.
Project Gutenberg is a cooperative effort endorsed by the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Poetry 180
Poet Laureate Collins' Poetry 180 website encourages high school
students to read and enjoy a poem a day during the school year.
Poetry Daily
"Anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print".
Math.com
Great math website offering practice problems, games, online calculators & tools from basic math to calculus.
Dr. Math
A question and answer service for K-12 math students and their
teachers, with a searchable archive grade level and topic, provided by
Swarthmore College's Math Forum.
Geometry Center @ ScienceU
Visit ScienceU's Geometry Center for a place to find interactive geometry fun and geometry formulas.
History of Mathematics Archive
Biographies of historically significant mathematicians, a database of
"famous curves", an index of mathematics history by topic, a search
engine, and links to other relevant mathematics sites. Provided by the
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of
St. Andrew, Scotland.
Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
Mineralogy database providing chemical composition, physical
description, mining information, uses, and images for hundreds of
naturally occuring minerals.
EPA: Global Warming
Provides information on the global warming problem--what's causing the
problem, how serious it is, what's being done and what can be done in
the future from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Geology.com
Find the latest geology news, view satellite images and a variety of
country and state maps, and search an online geological terms
dictionary.
NASA Office of Earth Science
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) explains their
missions concerning the Earth, including weather, our atmosphere, and
the way the world works.
NASA Office of Space Science
NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) guide to their
exploration of space, including the Sun, the Solar System, and our
universe.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Alphabetical lists of U.S. historical and modern inventors and inventions from the Hall of Fame.
Nine Planets
Explore each of the planets in our solar system including their moons,
the sun and the possibility of other solar systems. Includes great
visual images.
OLogy
Site covers the 'ologies of science - biology, geology, archaeology & more.
Periodic Table: WebElements
Detailed information on the elements of the Periodic Table, including
history, uses, background, physical, chemical, biological,
environmental, and electrical data, isotopes, crystallography, and
spectroscopy, in the form of statistics, graphs, tables, and links.
Provided by the Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield,
England.
Rocks & Minerals
Help for students with homework on rocks & minerals by the Mineral Information Institute.
ScienceU.com
Science U is for people who like science. Interactive exhibits make
science fun. Engaging multimedia articles and activites make Science U
a great place to learn about science.
The Visible Human Project
A project of the National Library of Medicine, this site provides
multimedia guides to the human anatomy, including split-views, and
links to other anatomy resources.
Volcano World
Supported by NASA and the University of North Dakota, this site
gives up-to-date information and images of the volcanoes of the world,
both how they work, and what they're doing right now.
The Weather Channel
Provides weather information at local, state, national, and international levels.