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HOMEWORK HELP LINKS

Grammar Help by Fran Trelease

Shakespeare Homework Helper
Ask Dr. Math - (K - 12th.)
New York Times - For Schools & Students
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

Reference & Electronic Periodicals
Ask Mr. Universe - General resources & help line
Atlas of the US - Full color maps - Land form
Ask Jeeves: BEST Internet search for education and homework.
Ask an expert: Homework help
StudyWeb: Over 73,000 research URLs by subject category. WOW!
Volcano World: An overflowing source about volcanos.
Law: Supreme Court Cases
Law: The FBI Gov. site
Geology: One stop shopping for your geology needs.
Maps: National Geography's MAP MACHINE. Too cool!
Authors DirectoryThis directory is an index of indexes. It contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.

Biorgraphy Dictionary:This dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Nine Planets: Overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
Windows on the Universe: Great science help on the sloar system & outerspace.
Science: Bill Nye: News, goodies, and web search as well as program listings for Bill Nye
Country Studies: Guide to informaiton on countries. Library of Congress, [Federal research division]

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Encyclopedia of Mythica:A great resource for Mythology, Foklore and Legends.
Cyber Library - Search Resource
Mark Twain Directory
On-line Dictionaries (including foreign language) - An ultimate resource.
Shakespeare:Everything Shakespeare, including the complete works.
What makes a good short stroy.
Presidents of the United States: All you need about all the Presidents since what's his name
VisibleHuman:. Explore the human body. Slice & dice and view on-line.
Phrase FinderThe Phrase Finder is a large collection of English phrases and sayings. Search the whole database of 5,000 phrases.
Dictionary.com English Dictionary [Search includes Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet *, The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Jargon File, The Elements, Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, U.S. Gazetteer, The CIA World Factbook.]
Literature Resources for High School & College level students


CMU Pronouncing Dictionary The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary. Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words.
Jumble and Crossword SolverSearches are limited to a maximum of 20 letters. Jumble searches must consist of all letters.
Morse Code Translator Morse Code to Text; Text to Morse Code
Proteus Word Search Enter search term(s) above then click a search link. Resources include dictionaries, thesauri, general refence, and computing reference.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers (APA) A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association
A Guide for Writing Research Papers (MLA) It is important to follow consistently and accurately a recommended format that is clear and concise and that has been approved by your teacher. Generally, the formatting of citations recommended below is based on Modern Language Association guidelines.

Citing Internet Addresses What follows are examples of how to cite seven different types of online information sources. For each type, we'll show you how to structure the citation, followed by two examples.
Columbia Guide to Online style Guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation [Quotes] for both a humanities style and a scientific style for electronically-accessed sources.
Common Errors in English The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
Guide to Grammar and Style These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes.
University of Illinois Grammar Handbook The Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage. To go directly to a specific topic, click on the appropriate item in the following comprehensive index.
Oceanography:
Flags of the World
Your Nation: C.I.A. fact book based resource about countries. (for kid Spooks)
Weather: US Weather Bureau.
Weather World: Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences. Argus Clearinghouse Awesome Library:organized web exploration with 12,000 carefully selected resources for quick and easy research
Bodelian Library :located at Oxford University with WWW projects and research links
The Internet Public Library: includes over 950 critical and biographical websites
Library of Congress:Includes research links, exhibits, and legislative links
National Library of Medicine:medical news, research and searchable datebase
Reference Libraries Online:excellent categorized list of reference libraries on the web
Virginia Beach Public Library:includes subject, or phrase searching The Virtual Library of Virginia :with electronic collections and research links WWW Virtual Library...alphabetical listing of topics/categories and related links on the WWW