How to research a topic on the Internet

LINKS

• Wikipedia
  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers. It is a special type of website, called a wiki, that makes collaboration easy. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour, resulting in an incredible resource.

• How Stuff Works
  Learn how everything works: computers, autos, electronics, home, health, science, entertainment, money, travel, people... you name it.

• Enchanted Learning
  Children's educational materials (good for adults too!) and games designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination.

• Answers.com
  The ultimate answer engine, with quick accurate dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, weather, and much more.

• Search the Open Directory Project
  The Open Directory is the largest human-reviewed directory of the Web. The quality is high. It's a good place to start searches, since you can continue the search on many different search engines without having to retype anything.

• Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals
  The world's largest online library of books plus tens of thousands of journal articles.

• Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
  Providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the Web, free of charge.

• BookRags - Free Books Online!
  100s of popular classics freely available, with study guides.

• The Online Books Page
  Books, news, features, archives - over 16,000 listings! Searchable by title, author, subject, serial.

• 42eXplore!
  Don't start with a search engine, start with 42eXplore! When you're learning something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to explore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic. 150 topics in the theme archive and growing.

• Search Suite101's Best of Web Directory
  Suite101.com (click here to join) is an online publishing community of real people helping real people. Each topic has articles submitted by it's editor, with comments from readers and discussions on the topic; and further recommended links on the WWW.

• ThinkQuest Library
  The collection of educational web sites designed by participants in the ThinkQuest Contests. Lots of excellent material. Teachers and learners can explore a multitude of topics.

• Study Web
  StudyWeb is one of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Expert reviewers have scoured the Internet to select only the finest sites to be included in the comprehensive listing of educational links and include a detailed review describing editorial and visual merits.

  Further excellent resources, for students young or old: Education World, CyberSleuth Kids, Yahooligans", Ask Jeeves for Kids.

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