KidsClick!
Web Search site for kids by Librarians, includes over 4,000 resources, complete with reading level analysis.
Alfy Cool Sites
A Web directory for young children ages 3 to 9. Alfy has a totally graphical interface for the nonreader; manuchoices are presented as icons, and moving a mouse over an icon causes the name of the category to be spoken. An advisory board of international university educatiors provides input, feedback and advice.
Britannica.com
Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopędia Britannica, the oldest and largest general reference in the English language. Selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist--provide additional feature and current-events coverage. Our guide to the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information.
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Not only is the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition the largest one-volume general encyclopedia available, its year 2000 publication date makes it the most timely and up-to-the minute encyclopedic reference source available. With over 50,000 article entries, 40,000 bibliographic citations, and over 80,000 cross-reference entries.
Encarta Online
Encarta Online is a valuable information resource, featuring Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, an abridged version of the award-winning Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM; Schoolhouse, a resource for educators; and Explore, an area for discovery.
Encyclopedia.com
More than 17,000 articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition, are available online at this free site. The entries are presented along with links to books on the topic being sold by an online bookstore; and more in depth articles available from a subscription-based information service.
infoplease.com
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, infoplease.com places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips. Our staff of editors and researchers continuously update and refine this enormous body of information.
Kids' Almanac
The creators of the wonderful Information Please Almanac have introduced a version of this resource just for kids. It includes an on-line dictionary, encyclopedia, a homework center, "today in history," and a word of the day. An excellent starting place for students!
EDSITEment
The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer one-stop shopping for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of history and social studies, English and language arts, foreign languages, and art history.
All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.
AskERIC
AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world.
American Sign Language
Welcome to the ASL Fingerspelling site! We have a number of tools for novices and experts alike to help you become proficient at fingerspelling. For novices, we have a standard dictionary to learn the basic fingershapes. For fun, see what a word looks like with our fingerspelling converter. If you need to practice your receptive skills, try our interactive quiz.