Looking Things Up

• 50 States – An excellent site to view USA State reference information.
• Ask an Expert – While our focus is to serve students, teachers, children, and parents, we encourage anyone to use our site regardless of age, occupation, race, location, and all that stuff.
• Ask for Kids – Kids have great imaginations and are curious by nature. That's why Ask for Kids has created a fast, easy, and safe way for kids to find information and answers online. Ask for Kids is primarily an educational Web site that kids can use for homework help and research for school projects. But we've also included fun games and activities
• Atlapedia – Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
• Biographies – The Biographical Dictionary is valuable classroom resource. Students and teachers use it for English, Social Studies, History, and other programs.
  This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Children's Encyclopedia of Women – This encyclopedia was begun in March 1998 by third and fourth grade students at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY. We have added to it during March and April of each year since then. We are currently in the process of adding to the collection with this student work.
• Countries – Countries, photo gallery by world regions, recipes by country, famous people by country, data tables of info such as population and literacy rates, create your own comparison tables between countries.
• Dicitonary.com – An online dictionary. Very useful.
• Dicitonary.net – Welcome to our free online dictionary. Our search returns word, and phrase definitions from a variety of english dictionary resources.
• Discovery Channel Online – A wealth of information and resources for 10-14 year olds.
• Dr. Labush's Links To Learning – American site with hundreds of links to educational places, and information for parents.
• Encarta – Encarta offers 17,000 articles from their CD-ROM encyclopedia, hundreds of related multimedia clips, a talking dictionary, a world atlas, and Schoolhouse (a resource for educators.)
• Encyclopedia.com – Encyclopedia.com is composed of 50,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. Each entry is short but includes hyperlinked references to other encyclopedia articles, as well as links to periodicals and images in the fee-based Electric Library.
• Fact Monster – Lots of cool things to learn!
• Fact Monster Encyclopedia – Encyclopedia Search gives you access to more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
  
  
• Flags of the World – Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 33,000 pages about flags and view more than 61,000 images of flags.
• IMDB – Earth Biggest Movie Database.
  Welcome to the Internet Movie Database, the biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet.
• Infoplease – It's an almanac. It's a dictionary. It's an encyclopedia. It's Information Please: one-stop shopping for all your information needs. This site integrates the various Information Please Almanacs (sports, entertainment and general knowledge) with Random House Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
• Project Guide – If you’ve never done a science fair project before, DON’T PANIC! The IPL’s Science Fair Project Resource Guide will help you through the whole project by guiding you to a variety of excellent web resources.
• Reference Books – When You Want to Look it Up...
• Studyit – Studyit is an online learning environment for NCEA science and maths students.
  The site has been designed with input from secondary students, and content has been written by subject specialists and checked by student editors, to keep it student focused.
  
• Thesaurus.com – A book of selected words or concepts, such as a specialized vocabulary of a particular field, as of medicine or music