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Sites for students of all ages:    
Homework assignments and information for Salem students are available at Schoolnotes.com.   Enter the zip code for Salem. Connect to online databases  including Ebsco, Facts.com, Student and Science Resource Center, World and It's Peoples and several literature databases.(Available from home with your library card)
TUMBLEBOOKS LIBRARY
This online collection of animated, talking picture books teaches kids the joy of reading.
                                        

Sites that help with homework:
First Gov for kids
RefDesk -index of information sites
Dewey Browse - Web sites arranged by Dewey number
HomeworkSpot
AOL @ School- includes lesson plans
High School Hub
Information Please Homework Helper
B.J.'s Homework Helper 
Awesome Library
Cool Sites from Los Angeles P.L. 
Yahooligans Good search engine for students 
 KidsClick! - Another good search engine 
Discovery School ( includes Kathy Schrock's educational sites) 
Yahoo Education

Sesame Street (Preschool)

Kids site Sacramento Public Library web sites for children,  of all ages and their parents. 

Scholastic Magazine presents sites for teachers, students and parents 

Visual Dictionary -  Illustrative dictionary of every topic


SCIENCE
Science Buddies - site helps with science fair projects-
Why Files - Explores the science behind today's news.
Periodic Table

Science Fair Site
Science Page
Zoom Dinosaurs

How stuff works
Nature Serve Explorer - plants, animals and ecological data

Biomes:
World's Biomes 
What's it like where you live? 

Math @ Ask Dr. Math
Math in Daily Life

NHEON-New Hampshire site for teachers 
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
Time magazine for kids -
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read!
Best History sites
 Our documents- features 100 milestone documents of American History

White House for Kids

 Castles on the Web

History Channel -  includes "This  Day in History" information
New Hampshire Info
Internet History sourcebooks

The History Net

History Channel- features "This day in History"

American Civil War Homepage (grades9-12)
Civil War (grades 4-8)

Voice of the Shuttle -Web site for the humanities
American Memory : Items from over 100 historical collections at the Library of Congress. Great resource for primary documents in American history.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Foreign country information from the Department of State.

Shmoop content is written primarily by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale. Covers history, literature & poetry topics.


LITERATURE

Kidsreads Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors
Children's Literature
Romantic Chronology - a timeline of events, people.etc of the Romantic period. 
Poetry @ Poets Corner
Poetry Portal
Quotations 
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10th ed)

Biography.com
Look up any word in 260 languages (also has translators)
One Look Dictionaries
Word Reference - Translation dictionaries for French, Italian and Spanish

Bartleby- contains dictionaries, encyclopedias,quotations, fiction and 
non fiction books. 

Pulitzer Prizes
ART & MUSIC

Art History Resources
AskART-
Artcyclopedia