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Vineland Public Library Children's
Department
Homework
Help Websites
Click on the links of the
subject of your choice. For ages 13 and up, check out our Young
Adult Homework Help
page.
Getting
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Almanac
Magazines/Newspapers/Periodicals
- EBSCOhost
Searchasaurus -- Easy
to use, child-friendly search engine for magazine articles. Just
click on the Searchasaurus link when you get to the research page.
Offers full-text and pictures for some articles. If you
are accessing this from your home computer, you must have a library
card to use this databases.
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Other Homework Help Sites
African American History
Animals
- Animal
Search -- Links to various "family-safe" sites for
information on animals.
- National
Zoo -- Smithsonian
National Zoological Park website sponsored by the Friends of the
National Zoo.
- WhoZoo
Animal List -- Wesleyan University
site in which students investigate animal species housed at the
Fort
Worth Zoo and prepare a summary of information about
the species as well as a history of specific animals to be found
at the zoo. Photos are included for each animal.
Art
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Bibliography
Biography
Birthstones
Bridges
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Bridge
Building -- This
How Stuff Works site article explains the three major types of bridges
and how each one works.
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Children's Literature
- Children's
Picture Book Database at Miami University
-- Academic website which allows teachers, librarians, parents,
and students to do subject searches for picture books. Enter
your zip code and press submit to get into the database.
- NoveList
K-8 Plus --
Want to know who to read next? Love an author and want to know others
who write like that? Want to read other books on a specific subject?
Search this database for this information and more.
Country Statistics
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Asia
and the Pacific in Figures -- Lists statistics, including population
per physician, for a variety of Asian countries.
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Country
Health Profiles -- Site sponsored by the Pan American Health
Organization includes statistics on number of hospital beds, doctors
and more for a number of countries in the Americas.
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World
Fact Book -- Extensive CIA source on country profiles, including
maps, population, government, economy and other statistics.
Egypt
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Ancient
Egypt -- Links
include Egyptian Life, Geography, Gods and Goddesses, Mummification,
Pharoah, Pyramids, Temples, Times, Trades and Writings. It also provides
timelines, games and stories.
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Daily
Life in Egypt --This site provides basic background information
about ancient Egyptian life and links to other sites on Egypt.
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Egypt
Antiquities & Ancient Egypt Information
-- Various links from Tour Egypt, the Official Site of the
Ministry of Tourism Egypt. A good starting point for Egypt reports.
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The
Construction of the Pyramids
-- Very informative site from
Tour Egypt on the types
of pyramids and how they were made.
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Egyptian
Mummies -- Another link from
Tour Egypt describing mummification.
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Egyptian
Kings (Pharaohs) -- Lists
Egyptian kings and links to their biographies.
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The
Great Sphinx -- Facts on and
pictures of the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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Life in Ancient Egypt
-- Describes life for all classes of ancient Egyptians.
Food
Friction
Geneaology
Geography
Government (Federal, State and Local)
- Cumberland
County -- Official website of Cumberland County.
- FedStats
-- Federal agencies provide
special webpages for kids in elementary through high school. The webpages
include fun facts, games, project ideas, and career information.
- FirstGov for Kids
-- This site was developed and is maintained by the Federal Consumer
Information Center. It provides links to Federal kids' sites along with
some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by
subject.
- New
Jersey -- Official state of NJ website.
- Vineland
-- Official website of the City of Vineland.
- White
House -- Official site on the White House.
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Health
- Just
for Kids -- UMDNJ
Healthy NJ site provides links on children's health issues.
History
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American
Athenas -- This
site provide biographies of women involved in the American Revolution.
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Founding
Fathers Homepage -- This American History site provides historical
documents, colonial flags, quotes from historical figures and more
information on the colonists and the Revolutionary War.
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On This Day
-- New York Times site that lists important events that have happened
on each calendar day throughout history. Also includes birthdays
of famous people.
- September
11 -- This digital archive features links stories, images, audio
and documents to preserve and present the history of the events of September
11, 2001.
Holidays
Chanukkah
Christmas
---Columbus
Day
---Halloween
- Story
of Halloween
-- Holidays on the Web site features information on the beginnings of
Halloween.
---Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving
Exhibits -- Pilgrim Hall Museum site on with links on the first
Thanksgiving and the evolution of the modern
Thanksgiving.
Holocaust
- Cybrary
of the Holocaust - Remember.org site dedicated to educating people
about the Holocaust, with links to other sites.
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Inventions
Landforms
- Image
Gallery of Landforms
-- NASA site that introduces some of the major kinds of landforms with
a link to a picture or image.
- Landforms
-- Southern Kings Consolidated School website on featuring studen reports
on various landforms, including valleys, mountains, plains, hills, loess
and glaciers.
- Physical
Map of the United States
-- Houghton Mifflin Education Place PDF file map of the U.S. including
mountains and rivers.
Languages
Literacy
- Literacy
Center -- The LiteracyCenter.Net serves more than a million free
literacy lessons a month to children in around the world. It provides
safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young
children. All online lessons are free of advertising and free of charge.
Languages featured are English, Spanish, German and French.
Math
- AAA
Math -- Features
hundreds of basic math skills and interactive practice pages by grade
level.
- Aplusmath.com
-- This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills
interactively.
Music
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HNH
- Naxos Classicals -- Site devoted to classical music which includes
an alphabetical listing of composer biographies.
Mythology
- The
Encyclopedia Mythica -- World mythology site with a multitude
of information on gods, goddesses and stories.
- Greek
Mythology -- About.com site links to various helpful sites on gods
and goddesses in Greek Mythology.
- Greek
Mythology -- Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology site has links to a
variety of gods and goddesses.
- Mythweb --
Click on the picture of the god or goddess of your choice to learn more
about him or her. Click on "easy read" for a printer
friendly page.
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Native Americans (Lenape)
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New Jersey
Plant Identification
Puerto Rico
Saints
Science
- The
Atoms Family -- Fun site which covers various science topics. Sponsored
by the Miami Museum of Science.
- Biome
Habitat Animal Printouts -- Enchanted Learning site featuring brief
information on various biomes and descriptions and pictures of the animals
that live there. Includes Desert, Taiga, Grassland, Tropical Rainforest,
Pond, Savanna, Prairie, Swamp and Coral Reef.
- How Stuff
Works! -- From computers to toilets to weather systems, this
site explains in detail (and with pictures) how almost everything works.
- Mad Sci Network-
Billed as "the 24-hour exploding laboratory," this site is
great for researching science projects.
- Mount
St. Helens -- Describes the volcano before and after its 1980 eruption.
- The
Nine
Eight Planets -- Students for the Exploration and Development of
Space site that provides an overview of the history, mythology, and
current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our
solar system. Learn about a possible tenth planet!
- Sciencebuddies.org
-- Sciencebuddies is a non-profit organization focused on developing
science enrichment tools for students in grades K-12. The site offers
information on science fair projects.
- Volcano
World - The Web's "premier source of volcano information"
sponsored by NASA's Learning Technologies Project. Click here to access
the index of Volcanoes by name -- includes Surtsey, Vesuvius and Mount
St. Helens.
- Zoom
Dinosaurs -- Enchanted Learning index of dinosaurs, with information
for all age levels.
Skyscrapers
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How
Skyscrapers Work --
This How Stuff Works website includes information on how skyscrapers
are constructed, what they are made of and how they fight gravity.
Solubility
- Science
at a Distance-- City University of New York site that describes
the structure of water and how it is a universal solvent.
Sports
Tree Identification
- What
Tree Is It? -- Tree identification site that lets you search by
leaf, fruit or tree name.
Vineland/Cumberland
County History
Women's
History
Writing
- Writing
Letters and Numbers -- Enchanted Learning site provides workbook
sheets for learning to write numbers and to print and write letters
in cursive.
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Comments or suggestions? Contact
Helen Cowan Margiotti.
This page was last updated 8/28/08.
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