MLA Style Guidance
Also from Purdue Owl: Wonderful guidance on how to quote, paraphrase, and avoid plagiarism.
Web sites that allow you to type in your citation information, and then create MLA formatted citations for your bibliography.
EasyBib: Useful Citation Creator, to cut and paste your citations into your “Works Cited” Page.
Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Information Please Almanac Includes a dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia, atlas, excellent historical timelines, and other ready reference sources
Fact Monster A different interface for Infoplease
Encyclopedia.com Includes Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others, free
Encyclopedia of Earth Covers a wide range of biological, geological, and environmental topics, including links to other articles on the web.
This site is an index of the web.
Good sources for magazine and newspaper articles, etc.
ICONN If you are a resident of Connecticut, use this wonderful source for full-text newspaper and magazine articles, books, and many reference sources. KidsInfoBits for grades K-4, other resources for grades 5-8. Use your public library card to sign in. (http://rqst-agent.auto-graphics.com/homepages/customerwide/iConnLogin.asp?cuid=rqst&cusrvr=sql02&lid=&dataid=&class=&barcode=&term=&qmisc=&s=&URLEncode=&gale=&LinkID=&widget=&ft=&versoBarcode=&versoPassword=&index1=&tab=)
Ocean State Libraries If you are a resident of Rhode Island, click on EBSCO Research Databases. use your public library card to sign in for a great set of indexes for magazine and newspaper articles, books, and reference sources on many subjects. (http://www.oslri.org/osl/)
Google News Archive Search To find Historical Newspapers. Be sure to check “free” for charges. (https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a)
Popular Science Magazine Archives 137-year archive of the entire magazine, even ads! (http://www.popsci.com/archives)
ICONN: AP Photos Covers mid-1800s to the present (http://rqst-agent.auto-graphics.com/homepages/customerwide/iConnLogin.asp?cuid=rqst&cusrvr=sql02&lid=&dataid=&class=&barcode=&term=&qmisc=&s=&URLEncode=&gale=&LinkID=&widget=&ft=&versoBarcode=&versoPassword=&index1=&tab=)
Smithsonian Institute Image Collection (https://library.si.edu/image-gallery)
Library of Congress Photos Not easy to search, but good collection for U.S. history (http://www.loc.gov/pictures)
Google Image Search Be careful here about inappropriate material! You may use this if you access at home, but it is blocked at school. (http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi)
Medieval Woodcuts Clip Art (http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/clart.htm)
Artcyclopedia Fine Art database (http://www.artcyclopedia.com)
Countries of the World Information
Atlapedia: Aan atlas and encyclopedia
U.S. Dept. of State Background Notes Background Notes are excellent, but be sure to surf around the Dept. of State website for other information on the country of interest.
BBC World News and Information
Sounds: FindSounds
Speeches: American Rhetoric (http://www.americanrhetoric.com), History and Politics Out Loud (http://www.wyzant.com/resources/lessons/history/hpol)
Video: Internet Archive for Movies
Primary Sources of all types: Library of Congress American Memory Project
Quotations: Bartleby (http://www.bartleby.com/quotations), The Quotations Page (http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3)
About.com’s Important People of the 20th Century
Infoplease has 30,000 biographies
“The 500 Most Important People of the 20th Century.”
ICONN has the Biography in Context, the Discovering Collection, and InfoTrac Student Edition and National Newspapers for further articles
Catholic Online’s Saints Database
InfoPlease, Timelines by subject or year
About.com’s 20th century resource for timelines
Writers’ Dream Timelines Click on “Decades” tab
Be sure to use ICONN databases, Biographical sources, as well as the following author and book review sites
Nancy Keane Read some of her book talks to get a sense of how book blurbs are done
Carol Hurst A good list of reviewed books, including web links to authors and more information. This links Grade 6, but you can look at other grade lists, too.
Stem Cell Research: Good Web Sites
To get a good idea, read and scan science news web sites until some issue or question interests you!
The New York Times Science Section
Science News for Kids magazine
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