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Fact Monster is a reference tool with fact-filled articles for elementary school students. It combines an almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and a homework helper. The site is owned by Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world.

Encyclopedia of the Earth an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environmetns, and their interaction with society. It is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and are useful to students, educators, scholars, and professionals, as well as to the general public.

At a quick glance this site appears to have a lot of information about a variety of science related topics.

This site has links to Animals, The Arts, literature and Language, Sciences, Mathematics & computer, Social Sciences, History and Biography, Social Sciences, Reference Desk,. This site is sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children

Lots of great sites in one place.

"The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills September 24, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo | 8 Comments This "The Best…" list is sort of a combination of two lists I had been thinking of making to go along with The Best Online Resources To Teach About Plagiarism (Another list to keep in mind might be The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners - 2008). The more I thought about it, though, the more I felt that a list of engaging (and even fun) sites to teach research skills and accessible citation resources would make a good combination. Since a graduation requirement in our district is that seniors need to develop a "Senior Project," I've spent some time finding these kinds of helpful sites that might be accessible to English Language Learners.  I have to say, though, that these sites (except for the first one) would probably only be accessible to more advanced ELL's. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning Research And Citation Skills: LEARNING RESEARCH SKILLS:"

This is one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the web. It contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.

This library of over 1,000,000 free ebook titles has been provided by the Open Content Alliance (OCA).

Apps organized by content area.

this Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion is suitable for grades 6-12. You'll find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya,k with plenty in between. the mythology section is divided to six geograqphical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, Greek heroic legend, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, there are special topics, including A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.

100+ google tricks that will save you time in school provides lots of great tips.

Math Open Resource is a resource of free math lessons and interactive animations.

Free Math Resources, as its name implies, is a web resource that provides tutorials, directories, formulas, calculators, howto'sand topics in each area of math.

Copyright Kids has links to information about copyright but presented at a level for kids to understand. This site is kids, parents and teachers.

The Elements of a Story site guides students as they create learn about the elements of a story and eventually create their own story.

Cool site for teaching students about the elements of a story. Referred to me by one of my grad students.

Online free graphical dictionary and thesaurus.

All you have to do it type in a word and you will received a definition for that word as well as words similar and disimilar in meaning.

Education World is a site with lesson plans and other materials for teachers.

Quintura for Kids is a search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud in that results can be embedded in a site.

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FREE Encyclomedia is a video encyclopedia with which results can be embedded in a site.

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This site has a variety of science and math related topics for students to click on and learn about.

"AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, useums, historical societies and government-created web sites"

Free automatic bibliography and citation maker.

Easy to use tool. Great for students who are writing citations and helplful for teachers in grad classes who are writing papers that require citations.