|
Please explore all the wonderful web resources we've listed on this page. Or go straight to your one menu item to see what links there are to resources on that topic. Just click on the links below to find a wealth of great information. Enjoy! Secondary Web Resources
Menu
Search Engines
Directories
Dictionaries and General Resources
Subject Guides, Homework Helps, College Guidance, Current Events…
English
Science
Geography
Helpful Websites for Researching American History and Literature
Helpful Web sites for Researching British Literature
The Research Paper Writing Process
Helpful Web sites for Researching Drug Abuse
Film / Motion Pictures (for Film Analysis class)
News & Current Events
Search Engines
A search engine searches the Web for sites that have your search terms in them. No one search engine can search the entire WWW at once, so try more than one if you don’t find what you’re looking for right away. Remember to evaluate the sites you find using the guidelines for evaluating Web sites checklist.
Recommended Search Engines:
AlltheWeb.com: http://www.alltheweb.com/
AltaVista: www.altavista.com
Google: www.google.com Parallel Search Engines (These utilize several search engines at once.):
Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/
Vivisimo: www.vivisimo.com/
iBoogie: www.iboogie.com/
Directories
A directory contains links to Web sites that have been actually reviewed by people. This means that these sites have been reviewed for content accuracy and helpfulness. You won’t have as many sites to choose from when using a directory, but you may find a useful site more quickly and easily. Remember to evaluate the Web sites you find even if you are using a directory!
Recommended Directories:
Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/
The Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: http://lii.org/
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/ Top of page
Dictionaries and General Resources
Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleyby.com
Search several different resources including books of quotations
Infoplease.com (online almanac): http://www.infoplease.com
Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com
Electronic Reference Desk – Scholes Library: http://scholes.alfred.edu/ref_desk/ref.html
Fact Monster: http://www.factmonster.com/ Top of page
Subject Guides, Homework Helps, College Guidance, Current Events…
High School Ace: http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm
AOL@SCHOOL: http://www.aolatschoolsearch.com/
Discovery School: http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
Study Guides & Strategies: http://www.studygs.net/ Top of page
English
English-Zone.Com: http://english-zone.com/index.php
Words from Answers.Com: http://www.answers.com/main/words.jsp
Shakespeare Online: https://www.shakespeare-online.com/
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: https://www.grammarbook.com/default.asp
Free Rice (vocabulary game to donate rice to the hungry): http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Top of page
Science
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1
Howstuffworks – Science Channel: http://science.howstuffworks.com/ Top of page
Geography
Flags and Maps of the World: http://www.plcmc.org/kids/mow/default.asp
U.S. States Fast Facts and Trivia: http://www.50states.com/facts/
World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
National Geographic Online: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Top of page
Helpful Websites for Researching American History and Literature
American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
A list of online resources on the Civil War
American Memory: Historical Collec. for the Nat. Digital Library:
http://memory.loc.gov/
A searchable collection of primary documents made available by the Library of Congress
AmericanSouth: http://www.americansouth.org/index.php
Links to materials on the culture and history of the American South
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
A collection of narratives from women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans in the South in 1860-1920
Internet Public Library: Literature: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Literature: http://lii.org/search/file/literature
Literary History.com: http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Covers major English and American authors in the 19th and 20th century
Making of America: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War:
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/intro.html
This digital archive provides primary documents detailing the lives of people in two
Communities—one in the South and one in the North—during the Civil War. Top of page
Helpful Websites for Researching British Literature
Arthurian Resources: http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/
Internet Public Library: Literature: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/
Also, IPL Literary Criticism: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Literature: http://lii.org/search/file/literature
Literary History.com: http://www.literaryhistory.com/
(covers major English and American authors in the 16th-20th centuries)
Literary Resources on the Net: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
LitLinks: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/
The New Chaucer Society: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/
The Orb: Online Reference Book: For Medieval Studies: http://the-orb.net
The Robin Hood Project: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.htm
The Victorian Research Web : http://victorianresearch.org/
Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp Top of page
The Research Paper Writing Process
A Guide for Writing Research Papers: http://www.ccc.comnet.edu/mla/
OSLIS – Oregon School Lib. Info. System: http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php
OSLIS – Citing Sources: http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php?page=citeSources
Top of page
Helpful Web sites for Researching Drug Abuse
Addiction Search: http://www.addictionsearch.com/addictionsearch/
Tip: Use the search box or click on “Addictions” on the left.
American Council for Drug Education: http://www.acde.org/
Canadian Health Network: http://www.canadian-health-network.ca
DEA: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “Drug Descriptions”:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm
FreeVibe.com: http://www.freevibe.com/
KidsHealth: http://kidshealth.org/
Mind over Matter: http://www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/MOMIndex.html
National Criminal Justice Reference Service. “Drugs and Crime”:
http://virlib.ncjrs.org/DrugsAndCrime.asp
NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse:
http://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/index.asp
Partnership for a Drug-Free America: www.drugfree.org
StopDrugs.org: http://www.stopdrugs.org/
Tip: Click on “Drugs and Youth.”
U.S. Department of Health Alcohol and Drug Information: http://www.health.org/
U.S. Department of Justice. Get it Straight: The Facts About Drugs:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/straight/cover.htm Top of page
Film / Motion Pictures (for Film Analysis class)
Build Your Own Zoetrope Movie Viewer: http://www.groeg.de/puzzles/zoetrope.html
Teacher Tony: Movie Making Fun (list of websites with projects): http://www.orecity.k12.or.us/teachertony/new/anima/anamach.htm
Robert Price: links to animation-related webpages: http://www.eggplant.org/ideas/visual/animation.html Top of page
News & Current Events
The New York Times Learning Network: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html Top of page
|
