This category should provide free educational reference resources for kids and teens from ages 3 to 18. A reference would offer information in a quick and compact writing style. This is the opposite of an online book or detailed essay. Some examples of learning resources include online libraries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, how-to webpages, and directories of public libraries.
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- My Virtual Reference Desk Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.
- Time and Date Lots of time and date related information, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows the current time in cities all over the world.
- FactMonster Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
- NoodleTools A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students with their online research, from selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources.
- Research-It Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.
- Bartleby.com Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.
- Finding Data on the Internet A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
- Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
- Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
- Martindale's Reference Desk Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.
- Internet Public Library Kidspace: Reference General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
- Virgo Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.