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Information Resources
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Refdesk indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current information-based sites and assists readers in navigating these sites.
Our Documents is a site to help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."
Citation Machine is a site that will allow students to input the information about their resources and then change it into bibliography style.
Answer.com is a free, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics
Online Newspapers and Services
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New York Times Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/index.html#refChicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/Scholastic News Online
https://scholasticnews.scholastic.com/
National Geographic for Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Time
http://www.time.com/time/
Newseum - The Interactive Museum of News
http://www.newseum.org/
Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htmMini Page Archive
http://www2.lib.unc.edu/dc/minipage/
Highlights
http://www.highlightskids.com/
Online Dictionaries and Thesauruses
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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/
OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/Thesaurus Search
General Reference
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Texas Almanac
http://www.texasalmanac.com/
Fast Facts
http://www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html
Bartleby Library of QuotationRhymeZone
http://www.rhymezone.com/
Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/
World Fact Book (2003)
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.htmlFact Monster
Online Library Services
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Library Spot
http://www.libraryspot.com/
Library Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/
Research Help
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The Big 6 – I’ve been assigned a research project, now what do I do?
Infoplease – How to Write a Research Paper