Homework Websites |
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GENERAL |
| Academic Search Premier |
| Full text for scholarly and academic magazines and periodicals - covering nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more |
| Bartleby |
| The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge |
| Biography in Context* |
| A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by person, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. |
| Biography Resource Center: African Americans* |
| Biography is the fascinating and intriguing story of human life. It enriches our understanding of ourselves and others, the forces that make history, and the bonds that all of us share. Perhaps you have just seen a classic movie like Lilies of the Field and want to find out more about Sidney Poitier. Perhaps you have read stories by Toni Morrison and want to know what inspires her to write the way that she does. Or, perhaps you have just heard a National Public Radio presentation on explorers of the Amazon River and want to know why they devoted their lives to such a risky undertaking. The Biography Resource Center: African Americans will help you find the answers to questions like these and many more. |
| BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper |
| Over 700 links to sites to help with homework. |
| Black History Month Resource Center* |
| Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz. |
Contemporary Novelists* Contemporary Poets* Countries & Their Cultures* CyberTeens Discovering Collection* |
| Discovery Education |
| Homework resources for educators, parents and students, including science fair help and lesson plans. |
| Google Maps |
| A web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. |
| Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Center* Includes over 50 biographies, a five-century-long historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as the Hispanic culture quiz or planning a Cinco de Mayo celebration |
| How to Evaluate Websites |
| In the First Person |
| In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories in English from around the world. |
Learning Express Library* Literature Resource Center* |
| Multinomah Homework Center |
Mega site for students K-12. Nonfiction Classics for Students* Ohio Web Library* Poetry Resource Center* |
Student Research Center* TeenSpace* What Tree Is It?* What's That Snake?* What's The Point?* Women's History Month Resource Center World Book Online* |
ENGLISH |
| A+ Research & Writing for High School Students |
| An excellent site to help research, organize and write a paper for high school and college students. |
| Basic Guide to Essay Writing |
| Researchpaper |
| A collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. |
| SparkNotes |
| Study guides, questions and plot synopsis for literature plus study guides for other subjects and entrance examinations. |
HISTORY |
| The American Civil War Homepage |
| The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The page opens a gateway to the Internet's multi-formatted resources about what is arguably the seminal event in American history. Not only was the War the occasion for the abolition of slavery, but by conflict's end the re-United States had emerged as a modern, industrialized power. |
| Archiving Early America |
| Explore the World of Early America through the media of the day, newspapers, maps, magazines and writings. |
| Civil War Homepage |
| The Civil War Home Page contains thousands of pages of Civil War material including Photos, Images, Battles, Documents, Southern Historical Papers, Troops Furnished, Death Stats, Associations, Letters & Diaries, Census of 1860, Maps, Official Records, Message Board, Dyer's Compendium, Fox's Regimental Losses, Regimental Histories, Genealogy, Biographical Information, Reenacting and Unit Information. |
| Evolution of Ohio |
| This site provides information about the eleven major territories in Ohio such as economic patterns, population trends, migratory patterns, and historical information. |
MATH |
| Ask Dr. Math |
| This site from Drexel University has a searchable archive that answers a multitude of math questions. |
| Interactive Mathematics Online |
| This is a great site for helping in high school math, especially in geometry. |
| Introduction to Algebra |
| Clearly-written definitions and easy-to-understand Algebra examples. |
| The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive |
| This site provides biographies of over 1,000 mathematicians as well as other mathematical information. |
SCIENCE-General |
| HowStuffWorks |
| A commercial site that explains the principles of everyday items. |
| Invention Dimension |
| Information about scientific inventions and their creators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Rader’s Kapili.com |
| Provides basic information about many fields of science. |
| Science Photo Library |
| Strictly photos. Useful for reports where photos need to be included. |
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| NASA |
| The official NASA web site. |
| NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) |
| Air Force Space Command: photographs of launches and space. |
| U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department |
| Sun or moon rise/set tables for one year for any location worldwide. |
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| Darwin Foundation, Galapagos |
| The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF) is an international not-for-profit organization that provides scientific research and technical information and assistance to ensure the proper preservation of the Galapagos Islands. |
| Photo Gallery |
| Cell biology photos from the University of Nebraska. |
| Smithsonian Marine Station |
| The overall mission of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce is support and conduct of scholarly research in the marine sciences, including collection, documentation and preservation of south Florida's marine biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as education, training, and public service. |
| United States Antarctic Program |
| The South Pole station is one of three year-around stations operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The other two United States Antarctic Program stations are McMurdo Station on the Ross Island and Palmer Station on Anvers Island near the Antarctic Peninsula. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis on a shifting continental ice sheet several miles thick. |
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| Chemical Elements.com |
| An online interactive periodic table of elements. |
| 3-D Virtual Chemistry Library |
| Models of 150 molecules and compounds from the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College in England. |
| Webelements |
| A high quality source of chemistry information relating to the periodic table. |
SCIENCE-Earth Science |
| Blue Planet Biomes |
| Includes maps of the 9 major world biomes and gives information (including photos) about the climate, plants, and animals found there. |
| Encyclopedia of Global Warming |
| For two decades, merely granting credence to the phenomena of global warming could be politically divisive. Though far from the visionary move toward neutralizing emissions that many delegates had hoped, the Copenhagen climate summit acknowledged a causal relationships between first-world industry and environmental degradation and warming. As the emissions doomsday date of 2050 looms, Salem Press' three-volume subject encyclopedia on global warming provides a number of ways for students to investigate the phenomena of climate change and greenhouse gases and their effects on many species and environments. |
| National Climatic Data Center |
| Government site providing weather records of cities across the U.S. |
| The World’s Biomes |
| A biome page created by a biology class at The University of Berkeley in California. |
| World's Biomes-University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkley |
| UCMP is an active center of national and international research and houses one of the nation's largest collections of fossils as well as state-of-the-art facilities for the study of these fossils. |
SCIENCE-Physics |
| Fear of Physics |
| Basic properties of physics. |
| The Official Rube Goldberg Web Site |
| Rube Goldberg’s inventions. |
| Star Light, Star Bright |
| Wave information – light waves, gamma rays, x-rays, infrared wavelengths, etc. |
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