Resources
Welcome to the Student Resource Page. This page was designed to provide students and their families with links to helpful and educational websites. If you have questions about any of these web pages, or to recommend a link that you have found useful, please email us.
Attribution Tools
The University of Wisconsin's Writer's Handbook: This useful handbook offers practical advice on how to avoid plagiarism and appropriately cite sources. http://www.wisc.edu
Washington College's Nuts and Bolts: This site similarly provides useful tips on citation rules and considerations. http://www.washcoll.edu
Search Tools
Awesome Library: This educational site offers a lot of relevant results at good speed. This site includes 17,000 sites handpicked by senior-level educators and is updated daily. You will find very little on pop culture topics. This directory is in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese as well as English. http://www.awesomelibrary.org
Fact Monster: This site contains an almanac, atlas, dictionary and encyclopedia for kids. http://www.factmonster.com
Help Me Jimmy!: Help Me Jimmy! is a Web portal designed specifically for students. Their goal is to provide a safe, easy to use site that kids of all ages can use to find useful information on the Web. This site was designed by a Dwight alum, Alan Nacht '76. www.helpmejimmy.com
Homework Planet: Encyclopedias, numerical conversion, thesaurus, dictionaries in several languages, the weather channel and more. http://www.homeworkplanet.com/
Kids' Konnect: Created by educators and organized in alphabetical order or by subject, this is a safe gateway to Internet sites. http://www.kidskonnect.com/
Reference
Artcyclopedia: Find works of art in museums all over the world. Search by artists, name of artwork or museum. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Biography: Over 20,000 notable people are listed on this site. It uses the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. www.biography.com/
Dictionary.com: Over the past few years, Dictionary.com has become one of the most authoritative and comprehensive Web sites specializing in information about language -- any language in the world! Come here to look up general or specialized words in thousands of English and foreign-language dictionaries. The site will return links to all the creditable dictionaries, glossaries and word lists available on the Web, along with ways of building vocabularies, studying grammar and practicing spoken and written languages. Need a definition fast? Check out the "World of the Day" and crossword puzzles too. http://www.dictionary.com/
Encyclopedia.com: This site provides visitors with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps. The free site features a Topic Tracker that delivers the latest information on your favorite topic to your email inbox, as well as a Today in History newsletter detailing the events that shaped history for each day of the year. http://www.encyclopedia.com
The World Almanac for Kids: This colorful site offers information that has been specially formatted and written for young students. Here, kids can explore more than a dozen topics of interest, including animals, the environment, inventions, nations, population, Presidents of the United States, sports, states, U.S. history time lines and historical birthdays. Fun learning games and knowledge contests are provided, along with student polls and more. http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/
World Atlas.com: Looking for a printable map of the world? Here you'll find both color and black and white images of the Earth, featuring continents, countries, latitude and longitude lines, the four hemispheres and more. http://www.worldatlas.com
Cool Stuff
Activities for Kids: This site contains crafts, recipes, birthday party ideas, holiday links and other great links for kids. http://www.activitiesforkids.com/
Animal Planet: From Discovery Channel, a child-friendly site with lots of information on animals. http://animal.discovery.com/
Awesome Clip Art for Kids: Kid and family-friendly clip art for all ages. http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/
Cool Science for Curious Kids: "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between". http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience
eNature: An online guide to nearly 5,000 North American plants and animals. The site has field, local habitat, and sky guides, feature stories, birding basics, discussion groups, e-cards and more. Information comes courtesy of the National Audubon Society Field series. Each entry contains a page of information including a photo and facts about the breeding, habitat and range of plants and animals. http://www.enature.com/
Enchanted Learning: This site has great links for kids of all ages! Topics include cats, colors, cows, dinosaurs, dogs, dolphins, elephants, butterflies, dogs, eggs, farm animals, fruits and vegetables, frogs, flowers, fire trucks, giraffes, homes, horses, insects, kings and castles, numbers, mice, monkeys, and much more! http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html
Kindergarden: An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/index.html
Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works: From car engines to dieting, find out how things work in easy straight-forward language. http://www.howstuffworks.com/
National Geographic for Kids: Engaging children's site with information on countries and animals. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
The New York Times Learning Network: Ideal for combining current events and classroom activities. The parent's area offers discussion topics, family movie reviews and product reviews. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Sports Illustrated for Kids: Sport news, magazine articles, games and more. http://www.sikids.com/
Zillions Online: A site by Consumer Reports for kids. Check out how kids rate popular games and toys, share your opinion in the weekly poll, and read the "Inside Scoop" column, "Money" questions and answers, and the "Daze of Our Lives" comic strip. Zillions Online helps kids make informed and independent consumer decisions, and develop consumer literacy. http://www.zillions.org