Biography Resource Center
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Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.

CultureGrams
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Find quick, reliable information on the world's peoples, customs, and lifestyle. There is also a section on the US States.

FACTS.com / World News Digest
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Reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.

Granger's World of Poetry
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Look up biographies, find commentaries on poems and poets by well-respected scholars, and locate thousands of poems.

History Resource Center
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The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history.

Kids Search
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Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Novelist K-8
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Contains enhanced subject access for over 46,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. The product also provides booktalks for selected young adult and children’s titles.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series.

Public Library Collection
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Articles explore social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health, and science issues and events. Sources: U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, magazines, and documents.

Searchasaurus
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Search an encyclopedia of animals, find references in a dictionary, look for information in the general encyclopedia, or get an image in the picture area.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
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Designed to develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher.

State Geography - ABC-CLIO
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Find stories focusing on national and state events. Search for reference and curriculum resources by text, state, and/or category.

World Book Online
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Find up-to-date, reliable, authoritative, easy-to-understand information and an array of supplementary search tools and information sources.

 Archiving Early America
Visit the early years of the USA. 

Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids 
A guide to the US government for kids from Kindergarten through 12 grade.

.Biography.com
This site provides links to biographies of 20,000 personalities.

CNN Interactive
Select this link for news of current events in the USA and in the world.

National History Day
The homepage of the National History Day.  Ideas are given for  this year's theme as well as information of prizes and scholarships and the contest guide.

Welcome to Kansas
Kansas' official home page.

World Factbook
Presented by the CIA this site will give you maps, and information about the current government leaders, forms of government, economy and people of the world. 

Picture Dictionary
This is an illustrated dictionary with over 1100 entries.

Encarta Online
An online encyclopedia.

Fact Monster
Explore the Almanacs, Encyclopedia and Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster Word Central
An online dictionary and much more.

Ask the Space Scientist
Want to know about solar wind, astronomy, or any other fact about space?

The Atoms Family
Have Frankenstein tell you about electricity, the Mummy show you about energy conservation and Dracula talk to you about light.  There are more creatures telling about other kinds of energy.  Each monster has experiments for you to do.

Cool Science for Curious Kids

Dive into a miniature world without a microscope, meet dust and other strange stuff in the air. Fun experiments to do.

Dr. Math
Math help for elementary through high school students – if you have an e-mail account you can get answers to your own questions – many questions answered in the archive section.

Hurricane : Storm Science
Find out about killer storms, what it is like inside a hurricane and the stories of people who have survived them.  Discover how to make your own weather instruments.  Presented by the Miami Museum of Science. 

Mathematics Lessons that are Fun
From counting to fractal geometry math can be fun.

Mega-Mathematics!
Many activities show how math can be useful and fun.  The site includes colorful maps, algorithms and ice cream, and games on graphs.

Nine Planets
This is a multimedia tour of the solar system.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide
This site shows you how to do a science fair project, gives samples and ideas for projects, and resources that will give you the basic tools for preparing a project. 

SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator
Make your own math drill worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and more.