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Title:
| Library Skills: Reference Resources Online |
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Description:
| These sites include online dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, telephone directories, and Internet searches to locate information. Also learn about primary sources and where to find them. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Your Dictionary
This online dictionary and thesaurus are available to search in over two hundred languages. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
This site offers quick but comprehensive dictionary searches. NOTE: The site includes an online store.
Translating Dictionaries
This page offers many dictionaries that will translate to and from different languages. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Encyclodedia Smithsonian
The topics to search are listed alphabetically. Click on the topic to find information.
Encyclopedia.com
This is a searchable online encyclopedia. This works like a regular set of encyclopedias where you pick the volume to search. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Kid's Search Tools
This site offers lots of resources to search online. Includes a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedias, and Web sites to search.
The World Factbook
This site lets you do research on specific countries.
National Geographic
You can search this site for articles and maps. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Facts Encyclopedia
This page offers many different resources by topic with direct links to sites on the Internet. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Infoplease Almanacs
This site will search online almanacs. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.
The Writer's Almanac
Search this site for topics relating to writing. NOTE: The site inlucdes ads and leads to discussion boards.
The Old Farmer's Almanac
This site offers searches in the Farmer's Almanac. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads and an online store.
Weather Almanac
Search to find out about current and past weather. NOTE: This site includes ads.
Primary Sources
This page contains links to hundreds of sites that offer primary source documents. Choose the continent or country from which your item originates.
National Archives and Records Administration
You can search the archives for specific primary source items.
Library of Congress Online Catalogs
Pick what type of primary source you want to find, then enter the keywords you want to search.
Newspapers.com
This site offers online newspapers from all over the world plus college and business papers. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.
News and Newpapers Online
Choose the state or country for links to online newspapers there.
Telephone Directories on the Web
Many countries are listed here for telephone number searches. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Infoplease Atlas
Click on an area of the map that you would like to see. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Fact Monster
This online almanac includes information about countries, people, news, sports, and more. NOTE: The site includes ads.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 1, 3, 5, 7
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