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This category should provide free educational reference resources for kids and teens from ages 3 to 18. A reference would offer information in a quick and compact writing style. This is the opposite of an online book or detailed essay. Some examples of learning resources include online libraries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, how-to webpages, and directories of public libraries.

Subcategories

• Almanacs
• Calendars
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Homework Help
• Internet
• Internet Directories
• Libraries
• Maps
• Museums
• Thesauri
• Time
• Typing
• Writing

Resources in This Category

• Bartleby.com

  http://www.bartleby.com/
  Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.

• Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk

  http://www.phaster.com/find_info_ref.html
  Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps

• Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette

  http://www.bartleby.com/95/1.html
  Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.

• FactMonster

  http://www.factmonster.com/
  Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.

• Finding Data on the Internet

  http://www.robertniles.com/data/
  A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.

• Internet Public Library Kidspace: Reference

  http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=12&cid=3&tid=4244&parent=0
  General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.

• Martindale's Reference Desk

  http://www.martindalecenter.com/
  Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.

• My Virtual Reference Desk

  http://www.refdesk.com/
  Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.

• NoodleTools

  http://www.noodletools.com/
  A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students with their online research, from selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources.

• Research-It

  http://itools.com/
  Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.

• Time and Date

  http://www.timeanddate.com/
  Lots of time and date related information, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows the current time in cities all over the world.

• Virgo

  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog
  Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.

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• Chinese
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• French
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• Português

 

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