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Welcome to the Virtual A+ Homework Center—a collection of carefully selected and constantly checked websites freely available on the Web for children and teens. If you'd like to share any great websites with us, please e-mail us at rpvm.library@gmail.com.
Check out also our electronic reference resources. There are full-text articles of thousands of magazines, newspapers, reference books and biographies as well as indexed images, including photographs, maps, and flags at JerseyClicks.
Children's Websites
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A collection of links to guides for grammar, punctuation, style, and related topics.
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The Merriam-Webster online dictionary provides a free, searchable online dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources. Audio pronunciation feature is extremely helpful for those who learn English as a second language.
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Learn about America's Presidents, Vice Presidents, First Ladies, etc.
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The National First Ladies' Library serves as a unique national resource for patrons from school children to serious scholars and is devoted to educating people about the contributions of First Ladies and other notable women in history.
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Created to promote bioscience literacy, ActionBioscience.org, a non-commercial, educational web site, provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. Selected articles are translated into Spanish.
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Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. Provides step-by-step descriptions of the assembly and manufacturing process, enhanced with illustrations and diagrams. Includes related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.
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Provides quick and official information on more than 250 countries around the world and other entities. Each country profile is compiled of introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transitional issues nine main categories. It also provides additional reference sources such as appendix, reference maps and flags of the world. Users can search or browse a particular country. The site is updated periodically throughout the year.
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This Web site provides free information about the artists. It indexes 8,229 artists around the world, including both ancient and modern artists who specialize in painting and sculpture, as well as other artistic media. Also included in this site are indexed 2,186 related sites (mainly museums and art galleries) and access to 180,000 works of art. It is an excellent starting
point for anyone who is interested in arts. All the contents can be searched or browsed.
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An annotated catalog of mathematics and mathematics education web sites, The Math Forum is the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992.
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Information Please was first started as a popular radio quiz show, and then as an annual almanac in 1947. In 1998, it was put on the Internet to provide quick and authoritative answers to all kinds of questions. Currently, the website provides several types of sources, includes almanacs, atlas, encyclopedia (the Columbia Encyclopedia), dictionary (Random House Webster's College Dictionary), thesaurus, and white pages. Students would find the Homework Center is a helpful place where they could browse through different subject areas for factual questions.
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Learn about the Federal Government from Ben Franklin.
- Provides links to Government websites, as well as organizational and educational sites on these topics and many more.
- The EPA's website for kids houses information on air, water, garbage & recycling, plants & animals, the environment, and much more. It's a fun interactive website about the world around you!
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Part of the Internet Public Library (IPL) dedicated to the needs and interests of kids.
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— the website for kids who love animals!
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Teens' Websites
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- The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component.
- Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
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Comprehensive Web site providing information and tools related to all aspects of planning for and getting into college. Covers SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, AP, and CLEP exams; financial aid information, college selection tools and profiles, and college application help. Offers customizable portals for students, parents, and educators.
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Online encyclopedia for engineering, mathematics, and computing. Award-winning
free service created and run by a team of information specialists from numerous universities and institutions in the UK.
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Part of the Internet Public Library (IPL) dedicated to the needs and interests of teenagers. The website contains helpful information about life, school, friends, and work. Articles are written especially for help in solving problems. Directories of links to Web sites are useful for homework, plus a place to ask questions.
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Science.gov searches over 36 databases and 1,850 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.
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This site is established and maintained by the Document Center at University of Michigan Library. It's a useful reference and instruction tool for government information—federal, state, local, foreign, and international, statistical data, news, and related disciplines freely available on the Web.
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A nationally recognized source of career information providing valuable assistance to help people make decisions about their future work lives. Includes information on
hundreds of types of jobs, with details on training and education requirements, earnings, expected job prospects, activities of workers in that occupation, and working conditions. Updated every two years.
- Helping you to make informed decisions.
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Provides a broad array of educational materials that help explain policy issues to the public in a balanced and easy-to-understand way. Offers nonpartisan briefings on policy and polling; a digest of news and legislation; and access to sources of research. Offers 19 issue guides, each combining background information with public opinion analysis. Covers many issues including education, race, health care, crime, the economy, the environment, abortion, social security, Internet speech and privacy, the right to die, etc.
- You have the power to make a difference. DoSomething.org provides the tools and resources for you to convert your ideas and energy into positive action. Be part of a generation of doers.
