Favorite Homework Web Sites

Fact Monster

Fact Monster has an atlas, an almanac, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and homework tips.

World Almanac for Kids

An online version of the famous and useful World Almanac

Kids' Planet

Kids' Planet has fact sheets for more than fifty wild animal species.

SeaWorld/Busch Gardens

SeaWorld's Animal Bytes page has information for over 100 different animal species.

States and Capitals

This site has information on all fifty states and their capitals.

World Factbook

World Factbook has quick facts on all the countries of the world.

Flags of the World

This site has pictures and information on flags of different countries.

Amazing Picture Machine

Google Image Search

How To . . .

TekMom's "How to Cite a Web Resource"

Getting help

If you don't find what you are looking for, ask a librarian for assistance. You can get help at the Information Desk of your local branch library, or call the library's Telephone Information Service at 360-695-1566 (in Clark County) or 1-800-546-2707 (in Skamania or Klickitat Counties).

Internet Search Tools for Homework

CyberSleuth-Kids

CyberSleuth-Kids lists many useful web sites for homework assignments.

Search tip: Some sub-categories on the CyberSleuth-Kids directory can be hard to find. Click on the main category "History" or "Math" or "Geography" to see all the sub-categories under that heading.

KidsClick

KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories. For each web site in the directory, KidsClick tells what the web site is about, if the site has illustrations, and if the page is easy to read (Reading Level 3-6) or more difficult to read (Reading Level 7+).

Parents and Teachers: Most of the web sites described as Reading Level 3-6 are written at a fifth or sixth grade reading level.

Multnomah County Library Homework Center

A great directory of homework sites. This one focuses on trying to find "Megasites". Megasites are web sites that have links to other web sites on the same topic.

Yahooligans

Yahooligans is the largest of all Internet Directories for kids. It has many useful sites for homework.

Search Engines

A tool that lets you search for web sites using key words. Most search engines usually only check part of each web site for your key words. It is also helpful to know that each search engine is only able to search a portion of the Internet.

Ask Jeeves for Kids

With this search engine you can ask a regular question and "Ask Jeeves" will try to find a few of the best sites to answer your questions.

Family Friendly Search

This is a meta-search service that lets you search four kid-friendly search engines and directories at one time: Yahooligans, AOL Kids, Kids Click, and Saluki Search.

Search tip: Remember that search engines search only the front pages of a web site. So even if your search comes up with zero hits, the information you want may still be available on one of the four directories listed - you will just have to spend additional time linking through the directories to find it.