Homework Help

Directories

 

CyberSleuth       http://cybersleuth-kids.com/

An online search engine and guide for the K-12 student. Sites are selected by volunteer educators.

Kidsclick       http://www.kidsclick.org/
Produced by librarians, this subject directory is intended to guide children to useful web sites of interest. Entries are grouped by subject heading, or can be viewed by Dewey number.
 

KidsKonnect        http://www.kidskonnect.com/SubjectIndexHome.html
KidsKonnect® is a Web site for children, young adults, teachers, and parents. Lots of graphics which make some of the pages hard to look at, but good links to educational sites.
 

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Search Engines 

Kids Search Tools       http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Multi search engine interface providing search boxes for dictionaries, encyclopedias, kids' directories and other kid friendly sites.
 

TekMom Search Tools for Kids       http://www.tekmom.com/search/

Provides research options for students who need to do Web searches, but who might not want to use the popular search engines which return links from the entire Web. Includes Authors and Maps, as well as general reference tools.

 

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 Research Tools

Primary & Secondary Sources: Definition       http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/primary-sources.html

From the Universities of Maryland, a good definition of what primary, secondary and tertiary sources are. Many academic patrons need this defined for them.

 

KidsConnect KCTools       http://tinyurl.com/3fpnb

KidsConnect is now known as KCTools and guides students through the research process, including links to helpful sites. The link to the site is too long to place here, so an alias has been created by TinyURL. 

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Homework Help  

Awesome Library       http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

All sites are reviewed and meet specific selection criteria. A small subset of sites are awarded stars, and there is a search strategy available to locate only starred sites.

 

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper       http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/

This site is maintained by a 17 year old and his father. It includes over 700 educational sites by category and is affiliated with DiscoverySchool.com, a division of the Discovery channel.

 

FactMonster       http://www.factmonster.com/index.html

Combination almanac, atlas, dictionary and encyclopedia. Produced by Information Please, almanac publishers.

 

High School Hub       http://www.highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

The High School Hub is a noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features interactive learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, science, world languages, arts, health, and technology.

 

Homework Spot       http://www.homeworkspot.com/

HomeworkSpot.com is a free homework information portal that organizes K-12 homework-related sites for English, math, science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college prep, health, life skills, and extracurricular activities. The site organizes these resources into grade-appropriate categories for elementary, middle and high school.

 

Houghton Mifflin Education Place        http://www.eduplace.com/

Elementary resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games, and textbook support. One of the few places that has Pre-K resources.

 

Internet Public Library Kidspace Homework Help       http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/ref8000/

Annotated links to homework help sites and subject specific homework help. Aimed at the elementary level.

 

Internet Public Library Teen Homework Help        http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/browse/gh0000/

Annotated list of links to homework help arranged alphabetically. Also has subject subheadings. Aimed at high school level, but useful for middle school also.

 

KidInfo       http://www.kidinfo.com/schoolsubjects.html
Organized according to the specific curriculum covered in elementary, middle, and secondary schools throughout the United States.Links are checked weekly for ''dead links''. Whenever such a link is found, it is removed and replaced with another of equal quality! New sites are also added on a weekly basis.

 

Multnomah County Library Homework Center       http://www.multcolib.org/homework/
Terrific site built by librarians with multiple links to most subjects that kids have homework in. Great links to other homework helpers, also. 

 

Homework by Subject 

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