GREAT LINKS!

Here are some great Web sites that might help you when you get stuck doing your homework.

GENERAL LINKS
FOR ALL GRADES
B. J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper
Site contains over 700 links to sites for help in various elementary to high-school subjects.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/
bjpinchbeck/index.html

Kid Info
Site provides links to research sources, subject guides and learning games and puzzles.
http://www.kidinfo.com/

Refdesk’s Homework Helper
Refdesk.com gives selected sites and research sources broken down by grade levels and subject.
http://www.refdesk.com/homework.html

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE
SCHOOL LINKS
Kidspace
Part of the Internet Public Library out of the University of Michigan, this site offers great links for general reference, geography, language arts, math, science and social studies. It also has a great selection of links for arts & crafts, comics, games, sports and more “fun stuff.”
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace

HIGH SCHOOL LINKS
High School Hub
Billed as an “Online Learning Center for High School Students, this site contains research sources and subject guides as well as links to current events and research sites for English, foreign languages, math, science and social studies. It even contains an online calculator.
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

New York High School Regents Exam Prep Center
Created by the Oswego City School District, site offers sample questions, practice exams, writing guides and study strategies for the New York State Regents’ exams and graduation requirements.
http://regentsprep.org

Regents Review Live! Online
WNYE from New York City offers online videos reviewing 2003 and 2004 regents exams that were produced by the New York Network and the State University of New York. Videos require Real Player.
http://www.regentsreviewlive.net/

REFERENCE SOURCES
See also the Mid-York Library System’s RESEARCH RESOURCES page for some great reference sites that you can access for free if you have a library card from the Mid-York Library System. Get your library card out and take your pick:

Searchasaurus
Elementary and middle school students can search among full-text articles from over 200 magazines, among 10,000 photographs and illustrations and several encyclopedias.

Junior Edition K-12
Middle and high school students can research for full-text articles from magazines, newspapers and books.

Twayne’s Author Series
For middle and high-school students, Twayne offers biographies and criticism about hundreds of famous and not-so-famous authors from the U.S. and Britain and from around the world.

Contemporary Authors
For middle and high-school students, this online database offers biographies and criticism about living authors.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
For all students, Gale offers full-text articles and entries from many encyclopedias, almanacs and other reference sources.

EBSCO
A big collection of databases, EBSCO offers elementary and middle school students EBSCO Animals and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. High school students can search in MasterFILE Premier for full-text articles from over 2,000 magazines and journals and from 450 reference books; for biographies among 84,074 entries; for primary sources among 86,135 documents; and for photos, maps and flags among 107,135 items.