• Britannica Online School Edition <http://www.infohio.org/ER/secure/EB/lnoca.asp>
  • school use - no password required
  • home access - username: INFOhio password: explore
• AOL@School <http://www.aolatschool.com/message>
• Fact Monster <http://www.factmonster.com/>
• BNET Research Center (articles) <http://findarticles.com/>
• Infoplease <http://www.infoplease.com/>
• INFOMINE (scholarly Internet resource collections) <http://infomine.ucr.edu/>
• Librarians' Internet Index (websites you can trust) <http://www.lii.org/>
• Library Spot (encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more) <http://www.libraryspot.com/>
• NoodleTools (MLA/APA Bibliography composer, notecards, free research tools) <http://www.noodletools.com/>
  • teaches students research process
• Biographical Research
  • American National Biography (exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation) <http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html>
  • Biography Find <http://www.biography.com/index.jsp>
  • The Biography Maker <http://fno.org/bio/biomaker.htm>
• Dictionary and Thesaurus
  • Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary <http://www.m-w.com/>
  • Roget's Thesaurus <http://thesaurus.reference.com/>
  • Visuwords <http://www.visuwords.com/>
    Online graphical dictionary
• Newspapers and Periodicals
  • the Plain Dealer <http://www.cleveland.com/>
  • the News Herald <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.asp?brd=1698>
  • IPL - the Internet Public Library <http://www.ipl.org/l>
• Maps and Geography
  • Atlapedia Online (full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world) <http://www.atlapedia.com/>
  • Maps.com (has some interactive mapping games under 'free stuff') <http://www.maps.com/>
  • National Geographic Maps <http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html>
  • World Atlas <http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm>
• News and Weather
  • WKYC - Channel 3 News <http://www.wkyc.com/>
  • News Channel 5 <http://www.newsnet5.com/index.html>
  • Fox 8 News <http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/>
  • CNN <http://www.cnn.com/>
  • NPR <http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1001>
  • USA Today <http://www.usatoday.com/>
  • the Wallstreet Journal <http://online.wsj.com/public/us>
  • Weather Channel <http://www.weather.com/>
• Images
  • Corbis Pictures <http://pro.corbis.com/>
  • Pics4Learning (copyright-friendly images for education) <http://www.pics4learning.com/>

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