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Important Note for Parents:
Help ensure that your child's Internet exploration will be educational, rewarding, and safe by carefully supervising his or her Internet use. For supervision tips, visit The Children's Partnership's Parents Guide to the Information Superhighway, the U.S. Department of Education's Parents Guide to the Internet, the FBI's Parent's Guide to Internet Safety, the Federal Trade Commission's Site Seeing on the Internet and Privacy Initiatives, and "On Guard Online: Supervision, Filters Help Parents Deflect Internet Threats to Kids" by the Cincinnati Enquirer. For information about filtering and blocking tools and kid-friendly chat sites, visit CyberAngels.
Your child can use these sites to learn about safe, legal, and ethical use of the Internet:
The Internet: Know Before You Go Into Cyberspace! by the U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Internet Safety Tips by the FBI,
Internet Safety Quiz for Kids by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and
Family Internet Usage Agreement by CyberAngels.
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HomeworkCentral.com at bigchalk.com
This site covers more than 10,000 topics and includes areas for teachers, parents, children, and teens. It also features Ask an Expert and weekly Top 8 web sites.
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
This award-winning site was started years ago by B.J. (who's now 15 years old) and his father.
Fact Monster's Homework Center
Use this site to search for answers to homework questions. The site includes an almanac, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a biography database, an atlas, and a map library.
Kidz Homework Helpers
Find links on this site to all kinds of homework-help resources, sorted by subject area.
Elementary Search Tools
Intermediate-Adult Search Tools
This page includes online research tools and tips for searching the Internet.
Infoplease.com
Use this site to search almanacs, dictionaries, and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
Math Forum--Ask Dr. Math
This site includes archives of questions and answers. It's also possible to submit a question and receive an answer back through email.
Discovery School's webmath
Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions. Type in a math problem, and answers are produced real-time when you click "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also attempts to show you how to arrive at the answer.
AOL @ School
Britannica.com
Free online encyclopedia
MSN Learning & Research--formerly Encarta Online Encyclopedia
Free online encyclopedia
World Book Online
Free access from Lewiston School Department computers
Merriam-Webster WWWebster Dictionary
Thesaurus.com
Dictionaries in various languages
yourDictionary.com
Over 200 foreign language dictionaries
Specialized dictionaries
American Sign Language Dictionary
This site combines text and graphics to provide word definitions and basic numbers.
Biographical Dictionary
This reference includes more than 27,000 notable men and women.
FOLDOC--Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
This site is a dictionary of computing terms.
AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Dictionary
This site translates English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, and vice-versa.
National Newspapers
Major State Newspapers on the Internet
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