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search tips | search sites | interactive | homework |
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Searching for facts
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| Good Search | Yahoo-based search; a donation is made to TLC for each search. E-mail a staff member to get the information needed to make TLC the beneficiary of your searches. |
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| Factmonster | Useful for most school subjects, organized by subject, includes dictionary and encyclopedia |
| Google Pictures | Useful in projects requiring visual media |
| Google News | Up-to-the-minute articles from world newspapers |
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Learning about
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| Internet Public Library | Annotated topic directory |
| Librarian's Index of the Internet | Annotated topic directory |
| Encyclopedia Britannica (school edition) | Useful for school subjects; has three levels of encyclopedia - Elementary, Comptons (MS), Encyclopedia Britannica (HS+); email me for password (only for use by Katherine Thomas School parents, students, and staff) |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian | "From art to zoology"; includes multimedia content |
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Dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and other reference material
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| Wikipedia | Often the best resource, it is sometimes biased and often difficult for students to understand. |
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Dictionaries,
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Montgomery
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