Kid-Friendly Internet Searching
(To the best of our knowledge, the following sites will not return any inapropriate content. However, sites and businesses are always changing. Sylvan USD is not responsible for content on remote servers. If you find any problems with any sites on this page, please let us know so we can investigate.)

Yahooligans - http://yahooligans.com
Ask Jeeves For Kids - http://www.ajkids.com/
KidsClick! - http://www.kidsclick.org

The Math Forum - http://mathforum.org/students/

Mathworld - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Math2.org - http://math2.org/

Web Calcualtors - http://www.webcalc.net/menu.php

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

The Citation Machine - http://citationmachine.net/

MLA Format - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

Citing Electronic Resources - http://www.cyberbee.com/citing.html

Guide for Citing Electronic Information - http://www.wpunj.edu/wpcpages/library/citing.htm

Citation Guide - http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/type1/tips/data/citation.html

Social Studies
HyperHistory - http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Geography – History – Biography - http://www.kidsclick.org/topgeog.html
National Atlas - http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp
The 50 State Pages - http://www.50states.com/
TerraServer - http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Google Earth – http://earth.google.com
National Atlas - http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
Atlapedia - http://www.atlapedia.com/
Encarta - http://encarta.msn.com/
National Geographic – Xpeditions - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
The World Fact Book - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
NCES – Student’s Classroom - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp?flash=true

The National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/index.html
The Library Of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/
Portals to the World - http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Science
The Why Files – http://whyfiles.org/
ScienceWorld – http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Science/math – http://www.kidsclick.org/topscie.html
Periodic Table - http://www.chemicool.com/

 

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Images
Pics4Learning - http://www.pics4learning.com/

California Digital Library - http://www.californiadigitallibrary.org/

Discovery Schools Clip Art - http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
The Library of Congress: American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Free Foto.com - http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Smithsonian Photographic Services - http://photo2.si.edu/

California Heritage Collection - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/

Multimedia
Discovery - http://www.discovery.com/

Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright - http://www.copyright.gov/

Fair Use - http://www.indiana.edu/~ccumc/copyright/ccguides.html#intro