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Web Scout
School Starts Again: Try some Homework
Helpers for Students
By Marcia Koth de Paredes
What resource is needed to help complete a learning task? How reliable is the resource? The amount of information online can be overwhelming for students but homework sites that help cut the mountain of information down to manageable size and are considered reliable by librarians, schools, associations and/or governments are rapidly being developed. This month's Web Scout suggests homework center portals that lead to information organized by topic, sometimes by age or school level, as well as suggestions for free online reference materials in English and Spanish that are useful in schools and universities. You will also find the reference materials helpful at work and home.
Portals
Kids Click - Web Search for Kids by Librarians
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick/
More than six hundred subjects with lessons on how to search. Very helpful section on Picture and Sound Search Tools.
Homework Help at the Suffolk Library, New York
http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/youth/homework/kidindex.html
They say their librarians live for this stuff and include topics such as art, biography, holidays, language, math, religion, science and social studies. Also a good section on reference materials.
Library Lynxs Kids Via the Salt Lake County Library
http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/kids_page.htm
Excellent list of homework help links plus topics such as environment, mythology, science, specific skills sections such as citing your sources, safety, writing a research paper. Reference materials too…dictionaries, encyclopedias, flags, maps.
Fact Monster - Homework Center
http://www.factmonster.com/homework/index.html
Organized by subjects such as World and US, Skills, Reference, Search and Tools. Includes tools such as conversion calculators, periodic tables, countries of the world, opportunities to practice spelling, games and quizzes.
First Gov for Kids
http://www.kids.gov/k_homework.htm
Organized by topics such as arts, careers, money, plants and animals, recreation, science and math. If confused by a computer question, stumped on a science question, getting heartburn over a history question…they say this is the place where you will find a resource for the answer.
Learning Center Library and Archives of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/education/008-2010-e.html
Canadian sites with excellent bilingual educational content designed for children and teens were chosen above others for topics such as art, games, information studies, sciences.
Kids Town: Homework Help
http://www.markham.ca/mpl/hh.htm
Topics such as art and music, biographies, Canada, health, history and geography. Excellent reference materials including English-French dictionary, Atlas of Canada, Canadian Encyclopedia Online.
Adonde? Paginas del Perú (Spanish)
http://www.adonde.com/escuela/tareas.htm
Links to portals, dictionaries, English practice.
Portal Educativo Huascarán -- Centro de Recursos (Spanish)
http://www.huascaran.edu.pe/centro_recursos/index.htm
Web links mostly in Spanish as web as videos by use for teachers.
Reference and Tools
FDR Media Center Reference Resources
http://www.amersol.edu.pe/mc/mshs/reference.asp
Excellent choice of references plus simple to use. Gold star to Roosevelt. Includes encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, atlases.
Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html
Chance to look up words fast, build your own dictionary and practice buzzwords.
Global School Net
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/resources/index.html
Map resources, language translators, measurement and currency converters, time zone converters, postal and zip codes for US, Canada and Yahoo World Postal Codes plus a directory of search engines.
Homework Help Internet Links from Thunder Bay Public Library
http://www.tbpl.ca/internal.asp?id=283&cid=341
Excellent reference materials including Canadian Encyclopedia Online
UNC Libraries E-Reference Links
http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/quick/
Here is list by topic to just about anything including business, government, science and technology, health and medicine, legal resources. My favorite for use by business and universities.
Escolares Net (Spanish)
http://www.escolares.net/
Organized by topics such as animals, civics, computers, Chilean history, universal history, music, theology. Includes dictionaries, maps, encyclopedias, tools to translate, how to prepare blogs.
Vocabulario Poliglota Inca
http://www.huascaran.edu.pe:8080/CIApps/Curricular/Diccionario/index.htm
Dictionary to look up words in Spanish, Quechua or Aymara.
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