Misc
Search Engines and Web Sites
Search Engines
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Alta
Vista
Web Sites
• abc Teach Network
This site is a place to get ideas, whether you are a teacher, a soon-to-be teacher, or a student, parents and homeschoolers. The purpose of abcteach is to provide educationally sound suggestions that help with learning and teaching. abcteach will provide easy, online materials for immediate use by kids, student teachers, teachers, parents and other visitors to the site. The material can be printed directly from the screen; no downloads necessary.
actden.com ~ (Digital Education Network)
Resource for online learning. Software Tutorials: FrontPage 98 and 2000, Office 2000, Internet Explorer 4 and 5, PowerPoint 98, Outlook Express. Also, many online courses.
• Amazing Picture Machine
• Alfy
Web portal for kids ages 3-10
• BookSpot.com
A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
• Dewey Decimal Classification
Take a tour of the Dewey Decimal System. During the tutorial, find out how the Dewey Decimal Classification system can help you organize information on any topic under the sun. There is an interactive quiz to test knowledge. • GenealogySpot.com
A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best online genealogy resources for beginners and experts alike. Sites featured on GenealogySpot.com are hand-selected by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.
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GovSpot.com
A non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the
search for the best and most relevant
government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility
collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by our
editorial team for their quality, content and utility.
A noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, arts, health, and technology.
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High
School News Web
For news and sources.
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HomeworkSpot.com
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. With the help of students,
parents and teachers, our team of educators, librarians and journalists
has scoured the Web to bring you the best resources for English, math,
science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college
prep, health, life skills, extracurricular activities and much more. For
your convenience, we have made every effort to organize these resources
into grade appropriate categories for elementary, middle and high
school.
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How Stuff
Works
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Internet Public Library
This library is hosted by the School
of Information at the University of Michigan.
For educators and students.
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Kids
Click!
Web search for kids by librarians.
Where else can you access (links to) an online dictionaries, thesauruses, rhyming dictionary, acronym, and artist lookup? The goal of this site is to simplify your life.
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Learning Page
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LibrarySpot.com
Breaks through the
information overload of the Web and brings the best library and
reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly
spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed
by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and
utility.
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Maps
U.S. and World
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Maps
of the United States
Miscellaneous maps of the U.S.
and World from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Mid-Valley Newspapers
Corvallis Gazette-Times
A free information resource center that simplifies the search for the very best and most useful museum information on the Web. Sites featured on MuseumSpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by our editorial team for their quality, content and utility. From the site, quickly and easily locate museums by city, state, country, name and topic; explore museums by type, search for exhibits by artist, access educational and industry resources, and much more.
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OMSI
Website for the Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry in Portland.
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OneLook
Dictionaries
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Oregon Blue
Book
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Oregon Kids
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Oregon Online ~
Education
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Pinchbeck's
Homework Helper
More than 700 terrific links to
educational sites.
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Quia Web
Student Zone: Tracks your quiz results
for all your classes.
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Reference
Desk
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SendSpot.com
A free resource center that simplifies the search for
the best personal and business correspondence resources on the Web.
Handpicked and reviewed by our editorial staff, featured sites make it
easy to send mail, packages, e-mail, faxes, documents, money, gifts,
greetings, donations and more.
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U.S. Blue Pages
Online
guide to the U.S. Government
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World
Almanac for Kids Online
Tons of cool stuff throughout
The World Almanac for Kids Online.
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Yahooligans Almanac
Yahooligans teams up with Infoplease.com
to provide a pint-sized almanac of facts for younger students.
Categories range from Animals to World, with information on the body,
language, and sports.