General

Discovery Channel’s Student Channel

The FactMonster from Information Please Almanac

Find information quickly by searching an atlas, dictionary, almanac and encyclopedia--all at once. Categories of information include World & News, Math, Science, Sports and Cool Stuff.

Kids Click!

A Yahoo!-like web search engine designed for kids and produced by librarians. Search under categories like science and math or facts & reference--or search the entire site at once.

Multnomah County Public Library Homework Center

The "Homework Center" of the website for the library system of Portland Oregon features an extensive collection of links to educational websites covering a wide area of subjects.

New York Times Learning Network
The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents. Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. Students can also submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question, or submit a science question and search through the Science Q&A archive. They can also expand their vocabularies, practice their verbal test-taking skills, and even take a Web Exploration on a variety of topics.

Click here to take a tour of The Learning Network!

For Older Students

Multnomah County Library Homework Center
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/

Compiled by Multnomah County Library in Portland, Ore., this is one of the most extensive collections of educational links available online.

Style Guides for Citing Sources

Citation Styles Online!

http://www.bedfordsmartins.com/online/citex.html

Citing Web Material

http://libwww.syr.edu/research/refshelf/style.htm

Syracuse University Library site offers links to electronic style guides for general, Turabian, MLA and APA.

World Wide Words: Citing Online Sources
http://www.quinion.com/words/

A suggested style for citing internet pages for research papers.