HIT:Top ten research sites

["Reina Nuernberger. American International" <rpn@NETVISION.NET.IL>]

Many thanks to those who sent their top site favorites: It has helped us add to our 
Intranet research site, which our HS students have built and already use 
extensively! We're going to expand the INTRANET to go k-12 with separate research 
sites listed for MS and ELEM. It's humbling that so many of you seem to be light 
years ahead of me in the tech end of things...my excuse is that I have such great 
tech people around the school that I don't have to know everything, but... Anyway, 
here's the list of sites suggested by the 14 people who responded:


-www.whitehouse.gov

For late breaking news and weather you cannot beat cnn.
www.cnn.com

Boothbay High says that 10 sites is far too few. They sent along their own web page 
address so we could have a look at the over 600 sites for HS:
Web Page: <http://www.gwi.net/brhs/>


Library of Congress www.loc.gov (mentioned 3 times)

 Encyclopaedia
Britannica Internet Guide (which is free, and does not include the
encyclopaedia itself).  It is http://www.ebig.com.

With all due modesty, I would also recommend my own home page.  Everyone who
visits it bookmarks it.  It is http://members.unlimited.net/~kumbach.  It
includes links to a wide variety of valuable resources, plus some of my own
work (which I also hope is valuable ...).  I built the site in part as an
aid to my own work and in part as a courtesy to other folks who need to find
information on the Web.

Some of our history classes are doing research on bills/laws/etc.:
the THOMAS site:  http://thomas.loc.gov has all of this legislative info!


1.  Library of Congress Home Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov/

2.  Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/

3.  My Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/main.html

4.  B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
http://tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13/index.html

5.  Pitsco's Ask an Expert
http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/

6.  RiceInfo: Internet Navigation Tools
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Internet/

7.  The Argus Clearinghouse
http://www.clearinghouse.net/

8.  The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

9. U.S. Federal Government Agencies Page
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

10.  My Page - couldn't do without it!
http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/

And then there is the Smithsonian and the New York Public Library, plus so
many more.  I didn't include any search engines - everyone has their
favorite.  My favorite search tool is the WebFerret.


 www.hotsheet.com.  It's not a standard website but a place with a
lot of links and a good starting point for many.


Essential Links <http://www.el.com/>
   This is a collection of search engines, newspapers and broadcast news,
    weather, entertainment, and other sites.

ED's Oasis <http://www.EDsOasis.org/>
   This is a collection of teacher-related materials maintained by the
    Department of Education (Federal gov't).

NASA homepage <http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html>
   NASA maintains a wealth of information.

Federal Web Locator <http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html>
   Links to every federal agency that has information available online.

Ultimate Collection of News Links <http://pppp.net/links/news/>
   Links to 7,039 news sources online.

Measure4Measure <http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm>
   A collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc.

Virtual Reference Desk <http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html>
   Purdue University's collection of online reference materials.

AskERIC <http://ericir.syr.edu/>
   Great searchable site for a variety of information (and lesson plans).

Fodor's Travel Guides <http://www.fodors.com/>
   Good source of information about all countries from a tourist's view.

Universal Currency Convertor <http://www.xe.net/currency/>
   Use to convert currency around the world at current rates.



Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators: http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide
although for teachers there are great subject links here

Classroom Connect: http://www.classroom.net

Geography World: http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html

ThinkQuest: http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest
the Library of entries provides sites with may educational links on the myriad
of topics

Earth Online: http://livingearth.com

Define the Anzwers: http://www.anzwers.com.au

Environmental Orgainsation Wed: http://www.webdirectory.com

Global SchoolNet:  http://www.gsn.org

CIA World Fact Book: http://www.ordei.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm

Maths Archive: http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics

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