CurRICULUM RESOURCES

Digital Sources

*Britannica School

Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject, for all grades and all reading abilities, offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and three separate databases-Elementary, Middle, or High.

*Facts on File

Available Databases: American History Online, American Women's History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Modern World History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online, World Atlas, Science Online, Health Reference Center, Curriculum Resource Center, Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition, Literary Reference Online, Ferguson's Career Guidance Center, Personal & Business Forms Online, High School / Middle School ebook collection, and Issues and Controversies

*World History Encyclopedia
A non-profit educational company that publishes and maintains articles, images, videos, podcasts, and interactive educational tools related to history. Curated resource on history, with short, user-friendly articles on a vast array of topics.

Tools

*Noodle Tools

Noodle Tools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.

• Search intelligently.

• Assess the quality of results.

• Record, organize, and synthesize information using online notecards.

• Format your bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style.

Almanacs

• *Countries of the World: Information about countries of the world. Geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues, and maps.

• *Information Please Almanac "All the information you need." Contains daily & interactive almanacs, world and US history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment, business & finance, society & culture, health & science, weather & climate, and more.

• *Today in History Archive of the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Search full text, day, or month, 365 days of what happened on a particular day in history.

• *Old Farmer's Almanac Today in History, weather, astronomy, astrology, and the best fishing days, among many other diversions."

• *Fact Monster Almanac Page

Dictionaries & Thesauri

• *AllWords.com
  English Dictionary with multi-lingual search.

• *Dictionary.com

• *Internet Thesaurus
  Look up synonyms, antonyms, writing resources, translator, and more.

• *WordReference.com
  Free online translation dictionaries

Encyclopedias

• *Encyclopedia.com Search The Columbia Encyclopedia 6th Edition and much, much more.

• *Encyclopedia Britannica
  Official site of the Encyclopedia Britannica, one of the world's best-known reference books. Find short encyclopedia entries and definitions, or register for complete access.

• *Infoplease
  Online encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions, and thesaurus help from Infoplease, covering topics from astrophysics to Zimbabwe.

• *Answers.com
  Get answers from a variety of encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries, and atlases with Answers.com, an online reference source.

• *Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free, open-content, community-built encyclopedia with thousands of articles on topics from A to Z,   available in dozens of languages. Be sure to check facts!!

• *Yahoo! Reference

Find an online encyclopedia, quotations, and other fact-finding tools at Yahoo! Reference. Search for dictionary definitions, spelling help, thesaurus synonyms, maps, flags, and different answers.

Libraries, Virtual Libraries & General Subject Sites

• *New York Public Library
  Check out TeenLink and On-Lion for Kids for many fun sites and to complete your homework.

• *Refdesk.com
  This reference site has everything – essential reference tools, almanacs, moon phases, Gallup polls, USA and world newspapers, health and news sites, and much more.

• *ReferenceDesk.org
  “The Internet's Best Reference Source!"

• *Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  "Galaxy of knowledge: Books, images, and more." Includes American Discovery, Mosaic of Science, Art & Design, and Industry & Technology collections.

• *Virtual Middle School Library
  “Open 24 hours a day." Find websites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines, resources for school librarians, and more.

Maps

• *Atlapedia Online

• *Color Landform Atlas of the United States

• *Google Earth

• *Google Maps

• *How to Use a Compass

• *Hyper History Online
  Find historical Maps and locations

• *Map Blast
  Directions and maps to specified places

• *Map Projection Overview

• *Mapping History

• *MapQuest
  Find a U.S. map and driving directions

• *National Geographic Map Machine

• *National Geographic Xpeditions

• *One-Stop Research from National Geographic
  Map, fact, and photo finder

• *Perry-Cataneda Library Map Collection

Miscellaneous Reference

• *A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
  Learn sign language online

• *ASL Pro Dictionaries
  Type in the words you want to spell and the website will illustrate how to finger spell those words.

• *Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• *Cliché Finder
  Over 3,300 clichés indexed

• *Flags of All Countries

• *Flags of the World

• *Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body

• *Instrument Encyclopedia

• *IPL Reference page

• *The Oxford Shakespeare

• *50 States.com