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The Internet Public Library
is the first public library of and for the Internet community.
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MathNerds provides free, discovery-based, mathematical guidance via an
international, volunteer network of mathematicians.
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The MadSci Network is an
interactive science teaching and community outreach tool, staffed and
maintained by volunteer scientists and engineers from around the world.
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American
Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to
the history and culture of the
United States
. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100
historical collections.
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The Math
Forum is a leading center for
mathematics on the Internet. The Math Forum's mission is to provide
resources, materials, and activities that enrich and support teaching
and learning in an increasingly technological world.
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DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting,
rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. They provide
innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable
resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help
their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.
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Millions of
people have described HowStuffWorks content as reliable, accurate
and entertaining. Originally founded as a Web site for curious people,
the award-winning company now offers clear and fascinating content to
millions of readers every month.
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Math.com is dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for students to
learn math by offering a unique experience that quickly guides them to
the solutions they need in the subject areas they want.
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The official
site of the
United States of America
’s President and Vice-President.
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Atlapedia
Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well
as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
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The Nine
Planets is an overview of the history,
mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and
moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have
sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related
information.
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Scientific
American, the oldest continuously
published magazine in
America
, has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in
science and technology for more than 150 years.
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Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with
more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to
newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps.
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CRAYON is a tool for managing news sources on the Internet with links
to hundreds of periodicals around the world.
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Need to know
how much hippos eat, what explorers Lewis and
Clark
packed in their first-aid kit, where
Giza
is, or how fireworks work? NationalGeographic.comKids is the
right place. Includes their most fact-filled features, perfect for
reports, presentations, homework—or your curiosity.
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S.O.S.
MATHematics is a resource for math review
material from Algebra to Differential Equations! Browse more than
2,500 Math pages filled with short and easy-to-understand explanations -
from simplifying fractions to the cubic formula, from the quadratic
equation to Fourier series, from the sine function to systems of
differential equations - this is the one stop site for your math needs.
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The CIA
provides the nation with accurate, comprehensive, and timely information
on a variety of subjects. The World Factbook, published annually
by the CIA, is a great resource for information on foreign countries,
including their leaders.
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Decades.com is a private venture, dedicated to making history easily
accessible, enriching history by filling the vacuum in which it is
typically found, and making history more personal to their visitors by
relating it to your own areas of interest.
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PinkMonkey.com is a study resource for junior high, high school, college
students, teachers and home schooling parents offering the world's
largest library of Literature Summaries, with 372 booknotes/chapter
summaries/study notes online currently, and much more.
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The official
site of the United States Senate--the living symbol of the union
of states.
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Purple
Math is a great resource for teachers and students. It offers
a host of lessons on topics ranging from beginning to advanced algebra
as well as problem solving.
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sodaplay--a site for building animated models, winner of the 2001
Interactive Arts BAFTA Award. There are no set goals, instead, the
user makes their own as they experiment and create.
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Art and
culture, history and travel, science and nature--explore all the Smithsonian
has to offer--from interactive Idealabs to homework help, you'll find it
here.
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Founded by
Josh Silverstein in September of 1998, Timeless Hemingway has
grown to become one of the premiere web sites pertaining to the life and
works of Ernest Hemingway.
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The official
site of the United States Department of Education features a wealth of
information for students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
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Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico
Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products
and services on the Internet.
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StudentQuestions.com is a free homework help site where students can post questions
and have tutors (other students that signed up) help them.
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ChemicalElements.com, an online, interactive periodic table of the elements, was
actually started in 1996 as an 8th grade science project.
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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was
established in 1958 and remains a leading force in scientific research
and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as
science and technology in general.
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The
Vatican, home of the Roman Catholic
Church.
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NationMaster.com is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically
compare nations. It contains a vast compilation of data from such
sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health
Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and
OECD.
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The Federal
Bureau of Investigation's mission states they will, "protect and
defend the
United States
against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the
criminal laws of the
United States
." The FBI Youth site was developed specifically for grades
6-12 to help young adults to learn about the FBI and the work it does.
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WebElements is a multimedia site developed by Dr. Mark Winter,
University of Sheffield
,
England
that offers students, teachers, and professional scientists chemistry
information relating to the periodic table.
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Refdesk is free and family friendly. The site is the single best source
for facts on the Net; a one-stop site for all things Internet: news,
weather, sports, reference, encyclopedia, facts on file, dictionaries
and encyclopedias, tutorials, search engines, Windows Operating Systems
Resources, free stuff, games and much more.
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Calculator.com is the leading online calculator portal with calculators
spanning over 120 categories and sub-categories.
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The
College Board is a not-for-profit membership
association whose mission is to connect students to college success and
opportunity. Each year, the College Board serves over three
million students and their parents through major programs and services
in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment,
and teaching and learning.
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The
US
Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about
the nation's people and the economy.
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The Book
Report Network provides thoughtful book reviews, in-depth author
profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary
games and contests--and even has special sites targeted to kids and
teens.
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The United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum is
America
’s national institution for the documentation, study, and
interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s
memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and
annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims – six
million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped and Poles were also
targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national
reasons.
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Scitoys.com contains helps and hints to make science toys at home with
common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that
demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.
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