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About.com: Homework Help
A certified subject specialist presents Websites on a variety of topics specific to homework
needs. Includes a search engine.
AOL@School
This homework helper breaks down sites by primary, elementary, middle, & high school levels.
Ask an Expert
Search this Website to see if a question you have been wondering about has been answered. If
it hasn't, email in your question & receive a response from a real, live person (one week
response time is typical)!
Ask Away
Illinois librarians online are available 24/7 to answer your questions. You may chat with a
librarian online or email your question.
Ask a Librarian
Librarians from the Library of Congress help answer reference questions. Users can email
questions or chat online during designated times.
Awesome Library
Over 33,000 reviewed sites, including pen pals worldwide, language lessons, games & more.
Ben's Guide to US Government
This Website from the US Government leads students to government pages, broken down by
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12 grade levels: our nation, historical documents, branches of government,
how laws are made, national versus state government, election process, citizenship, games &
activities, & a glossary.
BJ. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Popular homework help website created by a college student who started the site when he was
a young boy.
Blue Web'n
A searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject
area, audience, & type.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Homework Help
Great links & annotations.
Chicago Public Library: Frequently Asked Questions
A sampling of the types of questions that Chicago Public Library's librarians handle on a daily
basis. They cover a wide range of topics, including information about Chicago.
Dewey Browse
Websites classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for grades K-12: news,
Internet, museums & magazines, psychology, witch trials & philosophy, religion & mythology,
education, fairy tales, folk tales, & social sciences, language, sciences & mathematics,
technology, health & cooking, arts, sports & recreation, literature, geography, history & travel, &
biography.
Digital Librarian
A subject directory of reference sites created by a librarian. Links to almost any academic
subject you can imagine.
EduHound
Available in both English & Spanish, this Website can be browsed by subject or alphabetically.
Electronic Prodigy
Links for art & music, encyclopedias, English, geography, history, libraries, math, reading,
religion, search engines, science, & writing tools.
Fact Monster
Offers a handful of tools, like a searchable dictionary, word games, an encyclopedia with more
than 57,000 articles, & schores of world maps. The Homework Center includes help in
geography, history, math, science, language arts, & social studies.
HomeworkSpot
Springboard to hundreds of hand-picked destinations on the Internet, divided into elementary,
middle, & high school categories. Each main section begins with a "homeroom" of hot links to
general sites & timely information, while the rest is divided into subjects.
Illinois Clicks! Homework Help
Help for students in Kindergarten to grade 12, in school subjects areas including animals, arts,
biography, health, literature, math, news, religion, science, & social studies.
InfoPlease Homework Center
Features school tools, reference sources, and school subjects, including geography, history,
language arts, math, science, social studies, & writing & research.
Jiskha Homework Help
Post homework questions & get help from more than 200 experts who volunteer their time to
help students. Thousands of educational articles proved guidance & support with those
late-night assignments.
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Searchable subject directory.
Multnomah County Library Homework Center
Dozens of homework topics & hundreds of links to helpful information.
National Geographic Homework Help
Categories include animals, history & culture, maps & geography, photos & art, places, and
science & nature.
Refdesk: My Homework Helper
Searchable directory of a large list of reference & homework help sites.
Santa Cruz Public Library Ready Reference Files
Search their files of "information on subjects that the reference staff has found tricky to find."
ThinkQuest Library
Elementary, middle, & high school classes from around the world have crated excellent
educational Websites as part of a competition.
Virtual Reference Shelf
Library of Congress compiled Web resources.