Electric Library's Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com
This is one of the Internet's free encyclopedias. This site conveniently places more than 14,000 articles at your fingertips. The entries are short, so you can check facts fast. But you can also pursue a train of thought through the extensive cross-reference; this includes a link to Encarta Reference. There are convenient links to related web sites and books along with links to millions of articles and pictures from the Electric Library. This is a great source especially when your child is charged with using more than one kind of reference for an assignment or research project.

The Perry-Castanada Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
This site has a collection of maps from just about any place on Earth. The maps, organized by continent and country, are great for reports and presentations.

America's Stories from America's Library
http://www.americaslibrary.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Students can discover the stories of America's past on the Library of Congress' site for children.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Encyclopedia Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world
This site has stories and pictures of breath-taking landscapes, amazing voyages, outrageous adventures, and, of course, wild animals.

New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
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. On the New York Times main site students can also access the archives of Times articles, but there is a charge for retrieving material from past issues.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100
This site is an online version of the 1911 edition that categorizes quotes by key-word search method. You can find out who wrote a particular remark or search for witticisms to add to a report.

BigChalk
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/20/wa/BCPageDA/Students
Students can find help with just about any homework topic. There's also online tutoring, practice testing and help with study skills, as well as, many other resources for kids.

Ask Jeeves For Kids
http://www.ajkids.com
Have a question? Simply type in the question and Jeeves will give you the answer as well as a list of resources on your topic.

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.org
This site covers all the information about our executive branch of government, the presidency.

Pitsco's Ask an Expert
http://www.askanexpert.com
Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer questions free of charge.

United Nations - Cyberschoolbus
http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus
The United Nations' Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The project's objectives are to create an on-line global education community, to create educational action projects to show students that they have a role in finding solutions to global problems and to give students a voice in global issues. This is a good place to find information about other nations and current events background.

Tek Mom
http://www.tekmom.com/students/index.html
This resource site for students provides information on search tools, it instructs students on how to cite electronic sources, has a glossary of technology "buzzwords", and offers students the Ten Commandments of computer ethics.

Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com
This Web guide for kids offers resources in the areas of homework help, references, specific subject areas, Ask Earl, news topics, daily polls, information on careers and much more.

The Amazing Picture Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
Sponsored by NCREL, the North Central Regional Education Laboratory, this site provides an index to graphical resources on the Internet. There is also a guide to help you with your search for the perfect graphics.

KidsClick!
http://www.kidsclick.org
KidsClick! is a Web search tool for kids and was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.

Kids On The Web
http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-homework.html
When going to the library just isn't possible, Kids On The Web provides a host of resources for students that can be accessed online.

Convert- me.Com
http://www.convert-me.com/en/
This site offers help with units of measure and unit conversion and even some language conversion. It also offers links to other resources on unit conversion.