Encyclopedias | Dictionaries/Thesauri | FirstSearch | Image Searching | Maps | News Services | College and Careers

Study Skills Website: 

http://istudy.psu.edu/FirstYearModules/Time/TimeMngtTimeCommitments.html

EBSCO is a database of journal articles and is a valuable research tool that is used by many college students, too.  

URL is http://search.ebscohost.com

PrairieCat Online Catalog is a database of library collections in our region.  If you find a title that would be useful to your research, print the infomation and Mrs. Richter will request the book from that library.

http://search.prairiecat.info/

Career Research

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition

 America's Career InfoNet: Select an Occupation

Career Voyages - Good Jobs, Better Pay, Brighter Future

U.S. Department of Labor

O*NET OnLine

Going Green

What's your carbon footprint:  Calculator

What can you do:  Our Earth website

Conservation International

Campaign Earth

Earth Lab

Encyclopedias 

Encarta Online:  http://encarta.msn.com 

Countries of the World

CIA's World Factbook:  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Infoplease-Countries of the World:  http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

Country Reports:  http://www.countryreports.org

Presidents

White House site:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Internet Public Library:  http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

World Almanac:  http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/presidents.html

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Dictionaries/Thesauri 

Merriam Webster:  http://www.m-w.com 

Britannica:  http://britannica.com/dictionary 

Dictionary.com:  http://dictionary.reference.com 

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First Search (Online searching of journal articles) 

http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org 

Username and password required for the use of this resource and can be obtained from the school librarian.  Remember that the articles available from this database are not considered internet sources.  The materials you receive from FirstSearch are cited as magazine and journal articles.

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Image Searching 

http://www.ditto.com 

http://www.picsearch.com 

Because of content issues, some image sites have been blocked.  These two are accessible from the school's computers.

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Maps 

National Geographic:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps 

Multimap.com:  http://www.multimap.com 

Education Place:  http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/index.html 

Atlapedia Online:  http://www.atlapedia.com/ 

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News Services 

CNN:  http://www.cnn.com 

Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com 

Chicago Tribune:  http://www.chicagotribune.com 

New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com 

Newseum:  http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages

                    (Today's front pages of newspapers from around the world) 

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College and Career Searching 

College View:  http://www.collegeview.com/index.html 

Petersons:  http://www.petersons.com 

GoCollege.com:  http://www.gocollege.com 

College Board:  http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp

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