Jackson County Library Services

Homework

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Databases -
Magazine and Journal Articles

Kids Search - Kindergarten through 5th Grade

Student Research Center - 6th through 12th Grades

TOPICsearch - Social, political & economic issues, and scientific discoveries for students

Searchasaurus - Elementary School Level

Primary Search - Elementary School Level

Middle Search Plus - Middle School Level

MASUltra - High School Level

Opposing Viewpoints - Information on Social Issues

EBSCO Animals - In-depth info relating to animals

Academic Search Premier - Academic journals

MasterFILE Premier - General

Newspaper Articles

Medford Mail Tribune

Newspaper Source - full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers

New York Times

Online Reference eBooks (actual reference books you can use online without going to the library!)

Websites -

Research and Homework Help

L-net Homework Resource Page
oregonlibraries.net/homework

Discovery Channel Homework Help: B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
B.J. is 14 years old. His site contains over 700 links to sites that will help you with your homework.

Fugitive Facts
www.hennepin.lib.mn.us/pub/search/fff_public.html
Hennepin County Library has the hard-to-find facts here.

Homework Heaven
www.bigchalk.com
Educational Internet services to teachers, students, parents, librarians and school administrators in the K-12 educational and public library.

Homework Helper at Refdesk.com
www.refdesk.com/homework.html
Many useful Homework Help links.

How Stuff Works
www.howstuffworks.com
All you need to know about everything technological.

Information Please
www.infoplease.com/
The interactive almanac.

The Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org/youth
Homework help from the public library in cyberspace.

KidsClick!
www.kidsclick.org/
Web search for kids by librarians.

Kid's Search Tools
www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Try this great site if you need a dictionary, encyclopedia, kid's web site, library web site, or other educational materials.

Multnomah County Library
www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/
Homework help from Multnomah County Library.

Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS)
www.oslis.k12.or.us/elementary/howto/
Check out this site for "How To" information on doing research, choosing sources, searching the internet, citing works, and more.

Research Resources for Teens
www.jcls.org/ya_research.html
Almanacs, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and more.

Yahooligans Reference
www.yahooligans.com/reference
Links to web reference tools.

Almanacs, Encyclopediae and dictionaries

Bartleby.com - Columbia Encyclopedia
www.bartleby.com/65/
Search the Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Quotations and much more.

Calendar Zone
www.calendarzone.com
Everything imaginable about days, years and months.

Library Spot -- Encyclopedia
libraryspot.com/encyclopedias.htm
All kinds of encyclopedias can be found here.

The Old Farmer's Almanac
almanac.com/
A source of useful information since 1792!


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