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Links to a variety of sites for students:

• Research Sites
  

Jewish Public Library: http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

Metro-West DataBases:
http://www.ssdsboston.org/ student/library.metrowest.html

• Search Engines

Dogpile:  http://www.dogpile.com

Google:  http://www.google.com/

Metacrawler:  http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html

Yahoo:  http://www.yahoo.com

Ask Jeeves:  http://www.ask.com/

KidsClick:  http://www.kidsclick.org

• Dictionary and Thesaurus

Dictionary: http://www.dictionary.com

Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com

Wordsmyth Online: http://www.wordsmyth.net/

Your Dictionary: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Hebrew and Judaic Sites

My Jewish Learning:  http://www.myjewishlearning.com/index.htm?source=jlists

My Hebrew Picture Dictionary:  http://www.milon.co.il

Babaganewz:  http://www.babaganewz.com

Jewish education and Entertainment: http://www.j.co.il

• Israel

Debka file:  http://www.debka.com/

Israel Breaking News:  http://www.einnews.com/israel/

Haaretz:  http://www.haaretz.com/

Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com

• Art

Web Museum, Paris: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

Louvre, Paris: http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/

• Language Arts
  

Teachers and Families Reading Themes:  http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readtheme-sel.html

Carol Hurst:  http://www.carolhurst.com/

Biographies: http://www.biography.com/

Guide for Writing Research Papers: http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

The Reading Corner: http://www.carr.org/read/

Ask the Author: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/askauthor

• Math

A+ Math:   http://www.aplusmath.com

Index of Mathematicians:  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

Biographies of Female Mathematicians:  http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora:  http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/

Funbrain: http://www.funbrain.com

Ask Dr. Math:  http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Word Problems for Kids:  http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html

• Science and Health

Viewer:Earth and Moonhttp://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

The Nine Planets: http://www.nineplanets.org/ 

Periodic Table of the Elements: http://www.chemicalelements.com/

Nasa: http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

• Social Studies

United States Hololcaust Memorial Museum:  http://www.ushmm.org

Yad Vashem:  http://www.yadvashem.org

Anne Frank House:  http://www.annefrank.nl

State Flags of the USA: http://w3f.com/gifs/flag/states/index.html

International Flags: http://w3f.com/gifs/flag/country/next1.html

50 states and capitals: http://50states.com

A Chronology of US Historical Documents: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist

Presidents of the United States: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents

Holocaust site: http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm

• Spanish Sites

Spanish news and newspapers: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/spanish.html

EspanOle! La Gente: http://www.espanole.org/gente

• Educational Activities

Family fun:  http://familyfun.go.com/

• Online Magazines and Newspapers

Scholastic  http://www.scholastic.com/

Stone Soup  http://www.stonesoup.com/

Junior Baseball  http://www.juniorbaseball.com/

Discovery Girls:  http://www.discoverygirls.com/

Sports Illustrated for Kids:  http://www.sikids.com

American Girl:  http://www.americangirl.com

National Geographic for kids:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/ 

Newspapers: http://www.newspapers.com

Newspapers from Around the World: http://www.abyznewslinks.com

• Puzzles and Games
  

Jig Zone:  http://jigzone.com

Family Puzzles which inlcude Sudoku mini, PlayFour, Universal Jigsaw:
http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/puzzle/index.cfm

Puzzles for the Brain to Gnaw On:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?6366

 

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