Rock Valley Community Schools
Homework Assistant
Tools
Follow the Leaders (Starkweather Elementary)
Library Aide:
EBSCO - EBSCO Publishing offers a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases.
Homework Resource Section:
The majority of the
following sites are intended as general homework and research tools.
The World Factbook - The CIA World Factbook is a collection of facts of primarily geographical, economic and sociological nature about the countries and territories of the world.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.htmlAsk Jeeves - Ask Jeeves is a fast, easy, and user friendly way for students to find answers to their questions online. This site is focused on learning. The service combines human editorial judgement with filtering technology to enable students to find relevant and appropriate answers on the web.
http://www.ajkids.comAsk ERIC - The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
http://ericir.syr.eduDictionary: The Onelook Dictionary - This web site is a search engine for words. More than 4 million words in more than 800 online dictionaries are indexed.
http://www.onelook.com/index.htmlEduHound - A gathering point for resources on the web including information on various academic areas, schools, clip-art and classrooms active on the web.
http://www.eduhound.comElectric Library Presents: Encyclopedia - This site provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps.
http://www.encyclopedia.comThe Homework Spot - HomeworkSpot.com is a free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot. The resources include information about English, math, science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college prep, health, life skills, extracurricular activities and much more. For your convenience these resources are organized into grade-appropriate categories for elementary, middle and high school.
http://www.homeworkspot.comHyperHistory - This site is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines and maps.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.htmlInternet Public Library - This site is one of the largest collections of library materials on the Internet. Collections consist of: almanacs, dictionaries, quotations, encyclopedias, books, magazines, newspapers, and subject collections. The site is maintained by the University of Michigan.
http://www.ipl.orgInternational Resources Guide - Maintained by the Library of Congress, this site contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.htmKidsClick - KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!KidSource - Developed by a group of parents who want to make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of parents and children. This site consists of an online community that shares values and goals in raising, educating and providing for children. The main goal of this site is to provide knowledge and advice to help parents better raise and educate children. It also contains various homework help.
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/education.homework.htmlMath Forum: Ask Dr. Math - The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.
http://mathforum.org
PBS Kids - This elementary student site contains stories, music, coloring and games.
http://www.pbs.org/kids/techknow/license.htmlResearch Paper - This is a collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. The Internet is a tremendous resource. We'll show you how to make the most of your time online. Find the best information available, eliminate frustration, and get better grades.
http://www.researchpaper.comThe Atlapedia - This site contains full color physical and political maps as well as facts and statistics on countries.
http://www.atlapedia.comThe MegaConverter - MegaConverter.com is an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units of conversion/calculation modules. MegaConverters allow users to discover things like how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many quarts in a chaldron, and what the heck a nebuchadnezzar is.
http://www.megaconverter.comThe National Atlas - This site provides a comprehensive, map-like view into the enormous wealth of data collected by the Federal Government. The new National Atlas:
- delivers authoritative views of scientific, societal and historical information,
- provides easy-to-use tools to display, manipulate and query National Atlas data so that customers can produce their own relevant information,
- makes this information more accessible to individual Americans,
- provides a showcase for the geospatial data collected by Federal agencies,
- includes links to current and real-time events and to other Federal producers of geospatial information, and
- furnishes a national framework of well-maintained and documented base cartographic data for use by others.
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov
The Why Files - This site is produced by the National Institute for Science Education
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.eduThe Way Back Machine - The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars and the general public.
http://www.archive.org
Guidance Office Tools:
Fastweb - FastWeb is the leading scholarship search service. It helps students make the decisions that shape their lives: choosing a college, paying for college and finding jobs during and after college.
Echoices - This site serves as a career planning tool. Students may obtain a login name and password from guidance office.