General Research

On this page you will find links to reputable resources for research. The sites are organized alphabetically by categories. If you want to conduct a search that might fall under multiple categories use the links under the "general," section. Make sure to practice safe web browsing by not clicking on advertisements and games.

Animals

• National Geographic Kids

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/

• eNature

http://www.enature.com/home/

• Kids Click - a kid friendly search engine designed by librarians.

http://www.kidsclick.org/

• Animal Planet

http://animal.discovery.com/

• Kids Planet - not a searchable database, but lots of good information on many different animals all organized by geographic location.

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html

• Animal Diversity Web - University of Michigan Museum of Zoology with a extensive searchable database.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

General

• Fact Monster - lots of stuff to look through from sports to famous people to science.

http://www.factmonster.com/

• Kids Click - kid friendly search engine.

http://www.kidsclick.org/

• Awesome Library

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

• Ask Kids - similar to the, "Ask Jeeves."

http://www.askkids.com/

• Wikipedia - not necessarily the most reputable source, but often has very useful and accurate information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

People

• BBC - the historic figures section of the BBC's educational website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

• Biography Classroom

http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom

• Info Please - over 30,000 biographies.

http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Sports

• Sports Know How - this site has information on the history and rules of many popular sports.

http://www.sportsknowhow.com/

• Top End Sports - this site has lots of information about many popular as well as obscure sports. There are also many links embedded into the text to learn more about certain topics such as the physics of football.

http://www.topendsports.com/sport/sport-list.htm