Some of the Best General Search Engines

http://www.google.com

Google

Answers.com

The answer-based search engine

http://www.alltheweb.com

All The Web

http://www.snap.com

Snap

http://www.altavista.com

Altavista

http://www.aol.com/netfind/

AOL Netfind

http://www.askjeeves.com

Ask Jeeves

http://www.exite.com

Excite

http://www.hotbot.com

Hotbot

http://infoseek.go.com

Infoseek

http://www.lycos.com

Lycos

http://home.microsoft.com/

MSN

http://www.northernlight.com

Northern Light

http://www.yahoo.com/

Yahoo

http://www.webcrawler.com

Webcrawler

http://www.invisibleweb.com

InvisiableWeb.com

 

Some of the Best Search Engines Designed for Middle and High School Students

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

"A web search site for kids, designed by librarians. It contains 600 subjects from current events, the arts, math and sceince, to entertainment"

Recommended by NEA November 2001

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html

bjpinchbeck.com

http://www.alfy.com

Alfy

http://www.ajkids.com

Ask Jeeves for Kids

http://www.aol.com/netfind/kids

AOl Net Find Kids Only

http://www.dig.com

Disney's Internet Guide

http://www.dogpile.com

Dogpile

http://www.kidsvista.com

Kids Web

http://kids.infoplease.com/index.html

Infoplease Kids' Almanac

http://www.ipl.org/youth/

The Internet Public Library Youth Division

http://www.schoolwork.org/

Schoolwork Ugh!

http://www.yahooligans.com

Yahooligans

 

http://school.discovery.com/students/science.html

DiscoverySchool.com

http://www.svusd.k12.ca.us/saddlesearch/

Want to learn how to do better and more effective searches? Try this site for some tips

 

Check Out These Sites For Help With Homework

http://www.aplusmath.com/

A+ Math Welcome to Aplusmath.com! This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

Visit our game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture...Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the new Math Word Find puzzle.

Create and print your own set of flashcards online! Try out the Flashcard Creator. See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice offline.

Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions.

 

http://www.homeworkcentral.com

 

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http://www.ajkids.com

Ask Jeeves For Kids lets you type in a whole question in sentence form and it will interpret you question and find links that will have an answer for you.

http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse

Ask Dr. Universe

http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html

Ask an Expert Page

http://www.bjpinchbeck.com

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

http://www.encyclopedia.com

Electric Library's Encyclopedia.com

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html

Frank Potter's Gems is a tremendous resource for teachers and students. You can find resources listed by category, subcategory, and grade level. If you need to find out about a science experiment this is a good place to look.

http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html

The Education Index

http://www.grammarlady.com/index.html

The Grammer Lady

http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-homework.html

The Kids On The Web: Homework Tools

http://www.latimes.com/launchpoint/

Los Angeles Times Launch Point Check out the best web sites for getting your school work done or for just having fun. Direct links to all the great educational sites.

http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/

Pitsco's Ask an Expert

http://www.studyweb.com

Study WEB

http://www.pbs.org/

PBS Online

 

Current Events: News Services

http://www.cnn.com

CNN Interactive Keep up to date on everything that is happening from science to sports. A great place to see up to the minute breaking news stories.

http://www.kfwb.com

If you heard about a science story in the news recently, chances are that http://www.kfwb.com will have a link to it. This radio station has a lot of standard links to science related topics like: weather, earthquakes, space, ODDLinks, disasters, Fun Stuff, health, and kids stuff. :)

http://wire.ap.org

The Associated Press (AP) Newspapers and television news shows often get stories that came from the AP wire. A great source fro the latest breaking news.

http://www.nbc4la.com/

If you see a story on NBC or channel 4 in LA you can get more information and links to it here.

Popular US government Sites

www.usps.com
US Postal Service
www.army.mil
US Army
www.ca.gov
State of California
www.loc.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
www.loc.gov
Library of Congress
www.nasa.gov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
www.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health
www.ed.gov
US Department of Education
www.navy.mil
US Navy
www.nps.gov
National Park Service
 

Free Directory Assistance

Call "information" a few times and you'llrun up a big bill. All together, Americans spent more than five billion on directory assistance in 1998. These six web-based services give you listings for free.

http://www.anywho.com

AT&T service for people, businesses, toll-free numbers, and web sites. If you have a number and want to know whose it is, this site can help you find out.

http://www.infospace.com

The site provides listings for individules and business.

http://www.infousa.com

You can search for individuals and businesses. A reverse number search lets you discover who belongs to a phone number.

http://www.switchboard.com

CBS' search engine for people and businesses. The site also provides maps and directions.

http://www.whowhere.com

Lycos' search engine lets you look up an individuals phone humber

http://www.555-1212.com

This AT&T site has home and business listings and also lets you look up area codes and country codes

Clip Art Sites

http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

Discovery's school clip Art

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