Online Homework Help

Here are some sites packed with information. There are also some search engines just for kids.

Would you like to find out more about animals? Look in the junior non-fiction section, 590-599.
If you want to find out about pets, look on the shelf in junior non fiction 636.

Discover information about art, artists and craft. Look in junior non-fiction, 700-769.

Go to the junior non-fiction section, 910-919 for atlases, travel and information about countries.

Want to do some historical research? Go to the junior non-fiction section, 920-999.

For mathematical information, go to junior non-fiction, 510-519.

Need information about composers, musical instruments or pop stars? Look in the junior non-fiction section, 780-789.

For facts about world religions and mythology, look in the junior non-fiction section, 200-299.

For everything about science and technology, go to junior non-fiction, 500-699.

Information Web Sites

RSPCA

Useful information on pet care, shelters and how to contact your local RSPCA branch. The Kids' World section has lots of fun jokes, games and quizzes. For kids and adults.

Victoria's zoos

Visit Melbourne's three fantastic zoos from your computer! You can look at pictures of the animals, find out about their habitats and what's happening at the zoo. This site also has webcams that let you check out the animals - live!

Zoom Dinosaurs at Enchanted Learning.com

Do you love dinosaurs? This site has information for people of all ages. Good projects and heaps of dinosaur printouts - great for colouring and cutting out.

Grolier Lands & Peoples - online database

You can access this database from the Library or from Home (you will need your library card barcode from home)

National Geographic for Kids

Very cool site. Travel through the Congo with an explorer, use the map machine to locate a city or country and print out maps for your projects. Have fun with games, e-cards, cartoons, and craft ideas. You can also enter the world photo competition.

Cool Math!

An American maths site, with cool graphics. Good for maths practice or fun stuff like optical illusions. You can figure out how to do things, check out "lessons", then practice it for yourself online.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for Kids

A fun way to learn about and hear music. Great information on the brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments in the orchestra. Why not turn your speakers on and practice some of the fun exercises with sound?

How Stuff Works

You name it, this site tells you how it works. Amazing information about how every day appliances, computers, machines and even businesses operate.

Search Engines for Kids

Awesome Library for Kids

An amazing reference centre for all your school subjects. Check out the Awesome Talking Library to improve kids' reading skills. Also available in different languages including Spanish, Italian and Chinese.

BBC Schools

Although the focus of this site is on the British curriculum, it is still very educational for Australian kids. Has information for all ages, from preschool to VCE level. For primary school kids, there is geography, history, literacy, numeracy and science.

Kidsclick

Just like having a friendly librarian to guide you through the Internet! Searches can be done using the useful categories or alphabetically by subject.

Know Play? Reference Lookup

Where else can you access (links to) an online dictionaries, thesauruses, rhyming dictionary, acronym and artist lookup? The goal of this site is to simplify your life.

Superkids Supersearch

Browsing can be done by subject or keyword search. Provides access to Kids' Web Rings.

Yahooligans

Great categories to help with homework as well as useful links to fun stuff such as games, chat, jokes and cool sites. Also has a Down Loader where you can get great pictures, sounds and video clips.

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Further information

Links

Within this site
Yarra City Council

External sites (Yarra City Council accepts no responsibility for the information or opinions contained within external sites)
Victoria's Virtual Library

Information supplied by: Electronic communications & design officer - 9205 5214 - 20 January 2006

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