Reference Tools

Reference Tools

Reference Tools Links

• Internet Public Library Youth Division: Reference General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
  
• Searchopolis.com Features filtered search engine, a directory of educational sites, reference tools, and other resources.
  
• NoodleQuest Free service offers automated search engine strategy development.
  
• FactMonster Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
  
• TekMom's Search Tools for Students An easy-to-use, one-page reference desk for students. Includes kids' search engines, encyclopedias, biographies, images, dictionaries, and maps.
  
• Discover All about the earth, its people, science, discoveries, and language.
  
• Local Times Around the World Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
  
• Gary Price Fast Facts Compilation of quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics, and fact books.
  
• Copyright Rights and Wrongs Students learn the importance and procedures for respecting intellectual property and how to ask permission to use images on the web. Site designed by 5th and 6th grade students for Thinkquest Junior.
  
• Dictionaraoke Provides free streamable online dictionary karaoke tracks, digital wordplay, a song of the day, and many other dictionary sample and MIDI tools and resources.
  
• The Amazing Picture Machine Index to graphical resources and maps on the internet. Database of all types of images suitable for children.
  
• Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
  
• Finding Data on the Internet A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
  
• Bartleby.com Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.
  
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
  
• My Virtual Reference Desk Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.
  
• Information Please Kids' Almanac On-line dictionary, encyclopedia, almanacs, and homework help center designed especially for kids.
  
• Encyclopedia of Ships Encyclopedia of ships, anchors, and knots. Click on the ship icon and see a picture or drawing of the ship being discussed.
  
• Study Skills Suggestions help students develop better listening, reading, note-taking, writing, and independent study skills.
  
• Research-It Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.
  
• Electronic Text Center Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.
  
• Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
  
• Simpsons Contemporary Quotations online database and comprehensive list of world's most notable quotations from 1950 - 1980.
  
• Martindale's Reference Desk Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.
  
• Infonation View and compare statistical data for countries that are a part of the United Nations. Find everything from land size to population, average temperature to crime rates.