One Look Dictionaries Now you can harness the power of the web's dictionaries by using the consolidated dictionary search at the One Look Dictionaries website. You can choose to search through all of the 742 online dictionaries, choose by dictionary language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Chinese, or choose translations. The resulting output describes the dictionary source and then provides a link to the word's definition as well as a link to the home page for the dictionary itself.
Sprocket Works Sprocket Works is a site that kids of all ages will enjoy. Teachers could use these activities to add visual interest and understanding to their lessons. All the games and activities are highly interactive and cover such topics as space, music, U.S. history, flight, oceans, birds, and more. Students can zoom in to see the polar ice cap on Mars, drag the box along a timeline to see magnificent pictures from the Hubble Telescope, scroll a pictorial United States Timeline that can be expanded into different eras with a click of the mouse, or click the periodic table to see how molecules are built. Look It Up includes world maps, world time, measurement, and area codes. Just for fun, try the Rush Hour Game.
Communication Skills Writing Program Students and Professors at Northern Illinois University put together this site as a resource for students, instructors, and tutors in the Writing Skills Lab, but the writing tips presented here are valuable to any student or teacher of writing.
SuperKids Vocabulary Builders Increase your student's word power by using the tools and resources available at this SuperKids site. There are Word of the Day entries for Upper Elementary students, Junior High students and PSAT/SAT Vocabulary Tests. Choose from a variety of subject-oriented hangman games including language, history, geography, science, and fun. Make your own word search puzzles and indicate whether or not you want to include backwards words or try a word scramble.
Ask Jeeves for Kids is one of the best links a student can find. Use your own language, and see what kinds of answers you get to you questions. (Adults: this is for KIDS! You need to try Refdesk.com!)
Lycos Homework Zone Covering many topics, the student will need to make choices about areas for help.
Net-Mom Approved This site, known for its caring style, is the work of the person who coined the phrase" surfing the net". Jean has a Homework Helper section that is very useful to kids, and much more.
Teen Division The Internet Public Library Teen Division has resources especially for writing on ht Web. Look at the A Plus Research and Writing Guide for a complete guide to gathering research and writing it up properly for your site. Especially important is set of links under Resources for Writing: Organizing information (Taking notes -- outlining -- organizing by cubing, mapping and more) Writing style and technique (Audience and tone -- logic and developing arguments -- sentences, words and phrases -- paragraphs -- coherence, clarity, conciseness -- transitions -- gender-fair writing -- writing on the computer -- other style and technique issues) and Citing Sources (Paraphrasing, summarizing and plagiarism -- using quotations -- styles of citation)
Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library, a project of the University of Michigan School of Information Science, has developed sections especially for youth and teens. teens, take note of the writing section of the section for you.
Reference Desk Bob Drudge ("Ask Bob") has generously generated this resource , which resembles most an exceptionally well organized and well stocked public library. This is the area that users who have not found their topic in the ThinkQuest entries probably will find information within.
Internet Research Guide The University of California, Berkeley, has led the nation in librarian developed search engine instructions. Take the time to learn and speed your search process!
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