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OTHER RESOURCES

Traveler Databases "Help! I can't use Wikipedia!" link to our Databases which have resources trusted sources that you and your teachers can cite with confidence.

Discovery Education with resources for homework in many areas including Math, Science English and Social Studies.

YouTube has oodles of tutorial and help videos on a myriad of subjects. Search on Homework Help or subject help / tutorials.


HOT HOMEWORK HELPS

Learning Express

Learning ExpressWhatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

Learning Centers include resourdses for Students Grades 3-12 including: Elementary School, Middle School, and High School. Other areas are in College Preparation, College Students and GED Preparation. For adults Learning CEnters include: Job Search & Workplace Skills, Jobs & Careers, Skill Building for Adults, U.S. Citizenship and Recursos para Hispanohablantes.

Traveler Databases

Arkansas Traveler The Arkansas State Library provides free access to several databases and online resources directed toward education and learning on its Arkansas Traveler Program. . These includes the Britannica Encyclopædia, Ebsco and Gale Cengage speciality datbases for elementary, middle, high school students and Higher Education students.

Click on the icon to the left to access the Traveler Portal and Advanced Search Options which display all databses avaiable on the Arkansas Traveler.

Writing Reports

These sites have information that will help you with the how's and whys of writing a report.

  • A Plus (Internet Public Library's site about writing papers)
  • Citation Machine (Landmarks Citation Machine helps you make your bibliography look good and be correct)
  • Citation Style (describes the different ways to cite information in your bibliography)
  • Citing Sources (the rules and methods, along with a simpler citation machine and other report help)
  • Elements of Style (the classic book about grammar and writing is now on-line)
  • Nuts and Bolts Guide (online guide to writing)
  • OWL (Online Writing Lab, help with how and why to do things for reports and essays, among other things)
  • Paradigm (Another writer's helper, with lessons and aids)
  • Starting Your Report (helps you to outline and organize your report, from middle school to grad school)

General homework assistance

Sites to help you with day-to-day stuff, not just big reports

  • Exhibits from CPB (fun way of getting useful information about everything from history to the physics of a roller coaster)
  • High School Ace (links organized by subject, along with reference and news sources)
  • Information Please (almanacs and other date-based information, plus fun quizzes)
  • Photo Collection (see who or what you're studying...from the Library of Congress)
  • Quoteland (quotations from famous and infamous people)
  • Virtual Reference Desk (an online bookshelf to help you look things up)
  • Khan Academy offering 10 minute long viseo tutorials on Science, Math, History and Economics
  • Open Yale Courses has undergrauate videos lectures from Yale University

Biography sites

Information about famous people just about everywhere.


Literature sites

Literature, authors, on-line text sources...



Science and math sites

Help for science projects as well as homework


Test Preparation

Help with standardized tests

 U.S. History sites

Includes sites to show you what things looked like


World History and Events

Facts and figures

 

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Basic reference works on-line, including many language-to-language dictionaries

  • Dictionary.com (reference books online)
  • Encarta (online encyclopedia with other aids)
  • Farmer's Almanac (weather, eclipses, holidays, and stuff about history and culture)
  • The Free Dictionary (a dictionary and encyclopedia arranged by subject--good for finding related terms)
  • Glossarist (a collection of links for glossaries arranged by subject. Need sailing terminology, or words to describe Afro-pop styles? You’ll find them here.)
  • I Love Languages (links to dictionaries, lessons and other info for many, many languages)
  • One Look (a LOT of on-line dictionaries)
  • Year You Were Born (from InfoPlease almanac)
  • Your Dictionary (dictionaries in many languages) 

How to Search the Web

Tutorials and instructions on how to find things we don't list here.

  • Bare Bones 101 (a great tutorial on how to use search engines to find things on the web)
  • Diigo ("dii" is pronounced like "wii"...a good site if you're working on a group project...you can share web pages and even mark them, as if you could put post-it notes on the web)
  • Evaluacion critica de una pagina web [pdf]
  • Furl (another site for marking web pages while doing research, so that you can find the links later)
  • Evaluating Information found on the internet
  • Learn the Net (web tutorial, in English and Spanish)

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