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HOMEWORK HELPERS

  • Find Tutorials.com – The elearning website, with access to over 550 free tutorials.
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  • The Net’s Educational Resource Center – This site has links that will help students, parents, and teachers access information from the web. (Safe Surf)
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  • Education Index – An annotated guide to the best education related sites on the web.
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  • Journalism.net – The investigative guide to internet research is now ranked among the top ten journalism sites in the world by Google.
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  • Digital Librarian – A librarian’s choice of the best of the web.
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  • Suite101.com – Real people helping real people. An online publishing community of writers, readers, and educators who have come together to share their passion.
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  • Quick Reference/Research
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  • The WWW Virtual Library – available in both English and Spanish
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online – In addition to an excellent search engine, Britannica offers a variety of browse features to enhance your research experience: Index, A-Z Article Browse, World Atlas, Timelines, Subject Browse, and Year in Review Browse.
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  • Columbia Encyclopedia  – Sixth Edition containing nearly 51,000 entries and more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced.
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  • Fact Monster – Interesting fact search
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  • Infoplease – All the knowledge you need. Search encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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  • Acronym Server – Search for acronyms and for words used in acronyms.
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  • Encyclopedia Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution)
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DICTIONARIES

  • Star Gazers Dictionary – Definitions of the Sun, Earth, Space Weather and NASA acronyms used in our work
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  • Rogets Thesaurus
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  • Merriam-Webster Online – The unabridged Dictionary
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  • HyperDictionary – HypeDictionary.com is a continuation of an educational project to provide free dictionary services to any user on the web.
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  • Merriam-Webster for Kids – Check out all the great stuff at Word Central! Look up words, build your own dictionary, and stump your friends with today’s daily buzzword.
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CONVERT ANYTHING TO ANYTHING

  • Measure 4 Measure – A collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, ect.
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  • Metric Conversion Factors – Fascinating Conversion Factors
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  • A Dictionary of Units – This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a ‘standard’ unit of SI.
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  • Calculator.org – Online Conversions and Constants, choose a physical property for conversions and physical data/constants.
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  • The Universal Currency Converter – This is the XE.com Universal Currency Converter ®, the world's most popular currency tool. You can perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.
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  • Worldtimeserver.com – Any Time, Anywhere
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  • Time Zone Converter
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  • Common Weights and Measure
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