Great Sites for Help with

              Homework and Research

• This is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Website for Kids and it is especially geared to helping with homework: Carnegie Library Kids' Page
• The American Library Association has gathered some of the best web sites for kids and organized them under this site, ALA's Great Websites for Kids
• B.J. Pinchbeck's site is especially colorful and fun. He is a seventeen year old who started collecting web sites to help with homework in 1996. Now there are over 700 links on his site: B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Info please help with homework allows you to search almanacs, encyclopedias, atlases, and dictionaries; you can also search by subject area, or go directly to their homework help area.
• The Homework Spot is divided by age groups--elementary, middle school, or high school.
• Kids Click is a site developed especially for kids who are doing research. It was started by a group of librarians who wanted to find kid-friendly web sites.
• If you have to find information on the states of the United States, try this website for information on all the fifty states.

For research, nothing can beat the Pennsylvania Power Library Resources. From this page you can get full text magazine articles (e-mailed straight to your computer!); encyclopedia articles; and an incredible amount of information for research. For this site, you need to have a library card from a public library (they're free). To find the library nearest you, (and its hours) check the Allegheny County Library Web Site.

     To all parents: It is important for you to guide your child's Internet use, in the same way you supervise television and other media. I have checked all the sites listed here, but links from here can lead to any and all sites on the World Wide Web. Be safe--and explore together with your children the wonderful kid's sites on the web.