FINDITQUICK.COM
http://www.finditquick.com
Finditquick.com is an online resource guide/homework helper that directs children to kid-friendly and safe URLs that provide answers to FAQs for popular topics in entertainment, science, our universe, history, and famous people.

The Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/instant.html

The Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.vrd.org/ 

Real time Data site
http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html

Atlases and Gazeteers
www.saintmarksschool.org/frames/countrie.htm

History Channel
www.historychannel.com/

Reference Desk
www.refdesk.com

Calculators/Converters

Dave's Math Tables
http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm
Algebraic functions, geometry, calculus, and general math equations and formulas and conversion tables.

Calculators (Click here)

Converters (Click here)

Dictionaries

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/

MERRIAM WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY 
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

RHYMING DICTIONARY 
http://www.WriteExpress.com/online.html

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict
From "aboriginal peoples" to "xenophobia," the Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences provides  definitions for approximately 1,000 entries.

Directories

USPS ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/

Internet Address Finder
http://www.iaf.net/

Big Brother Sites - Paranoia abounds when you see how many sites are available just to keep tabs on the general world population!

Libraries

LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE:
Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm

LibrarySpot (all reference)
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Library List
http://www.freeality.com/libraries.htm

LibDex
Search for worldwide libraries by keyword.
http://www.libdex.com/

Web Cats
Look up libraries by geography, name or type.
http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/

Libweb
Academic, public, state and more.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

lib-web-cats
Points to more than 5,000 libraries.
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding/libwebcats.html

Yahoo! Yellow Pages
Enter zip, then type "library" on results page
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/yploc.py?stx=library&stp=a&desc=library&btype=

PublicLibraries.com
Nice directory of public libraries.
http://www.publiclibraries.com

School Libraries
Find K-12 libraries around the world.
http://www.sldirectory.com

State Libraries
Connect with the 50 state libraries.
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlcl/pld/statelib.html

Canadian Gateway
Nice index from the Nat'l Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/gatepasse/index_e.htm

Museums

MUSEUMSPOT.COM
http://www.museumspot.com
A free online cultural information center, combines engaging editorial with a high-utility collection of the best museum-related resources on the Web in one user-friendly spot.

STRUCTURES AROUND THE WORLD:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/structures/index.html
The Exploratorium collaborated with museums in France and Italy to build this project. Students explore structures through a series of hands-on activities, involving straws and pins, bamboo poles, clay beams, and newspaper bridges, amongst others.

Virtual Library museums pages
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/

Yale Peabody Museum
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

Mystic Aquarium / Institute for Exploration
http://www.mysticaquarium.org

Museum of Science, Boston
http://www.mos.org

Wadsworth Atheneum - CT's premier art museum
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

Welcome to the New Britain Museum of American Art
http://www.nbmaa.org

Holocaust Museum
www.ushmm.org/education/index.htm

MoMA Art Safari
artsafari.moma.org/

Yellowstone National Park for Kids
www.nps.gov/yell/kidstuff/index.htm

The Louvre: Paris
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

The National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/
Take the online tour with the museum's founder and visit exhibits from the Renaissance to the late 20th century. View works from women silversmiths, Native Americans, Mary Cassatt, Camille Claudel, and Frida Kahlo.

The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html
View the new, continuing, or even future art exhibits at this online version of the Art Institute of Chicago. Explore the Galleries, or click on Play for a QuickTime artists' signatures game. Teacher Resources are also available.

National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.si.edu/nmai/
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.

Guggenheim Museum Home Page
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Photos of art exhibitions from museums in New York, Germany, Spain, and Italy are available on this site, along with the history of the artists.

Norton Simon Museum
http://www.nortonsimon.org/index.html
This Pasadena, California, art museum is one of the finest in the world. Exhibits include European paintings and sculpture from the 14th to the 20th century. Scroll through the Collections and Special Exhibitions.

Medieval Chinese Inventions and Innovations
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/chinin/chinintg.htm

Quotations

Quotations Central
http://www.quotations.com

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett//

MORE QUOTATIONS
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

The Quotations Page
Search multiple archives in one spot.
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

Dictionary of Quotations
A small archive of interesting quotations.
http://www.quotationreference.com/

Quoteland.com
Browse topics or do a quick search.
http://www.quoteland.com

The Quotation Guide
Good number of quotes,infrequently updated.
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/msr/quote.html

QuoteWorld
Search by person, keyword or exact words.
http://www.quoteworld.org

Search Shakespeare
Search for quotes from the Bard.
http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/search.html

Movie Quotes
Search for quotes by movie. Very fun!
http://us.imdb.com/search

ALBERT EINSTEIN--A SERIES OF SELECTED QUOTATIONS:
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/albert_e.html
Einstein was a humanist as well as a genius, and an entirely quotable person. Find a selection of his quotes across all topics at this website.

Thesaurus

Rogets Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/

Bartleby Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Trivia/Quizzes

Make online quizzes and puzzles for every subject
http://www.quia.com/

QuizStar
http://4teachers.org/tools/quizstar/

Crossword Central
http:www.thinks.com/crosswords
A myriad of puzzles for fans everywhere. There are standard crossword puzzles, in addition to cryptic, anagram and clueless crosswords. Check out the reproduction of the first crossword puzzle created (in 1913). For middle-schoolers on up.

Student.com: Crosswords
http://www.student.com/feature/xwords
Your daily stumper from Student.Com. A new puzzle every day of the week-even Sunday! Includes extensive puzzle archive.

Ask the Experts

Ask an Expert sites - listed by content area
http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html

Ask Earl - Animal Expert
http://www.seaworld.org/animal_bytes/animal_bytes.html

Ask Jeeves!
http://www.askjeeves.com/ 

Ask Jeeves for Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/ 

KidsConnecticut: AskKC
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/AskKC.html 

Vandergrift’s Pathfinder
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/path.html

Ask The Biology Experts
www.sciam.com/askexpert/biology/index.html

News

Hartford Courant 
http://www.courant.com

CNN 
http://www.cnn.com

NPR 
http://npr.org

ABCNEWS.com
www.abcnews.com

New Century Network
www.newcentury.net

The New York Times on the Web
www.nytimes.com

Mercury Center
www.sjmercury.com

USA Today
www.usatoday.com

Online Educational Magazines

Electronic Elementary Magazine
http://www.inform.umd.edu/MDK-12/homepers/emag/index.html

Time For Kids
http://pathfinder.com/TFK/

Sports Illustrated Magazine Online 
http://www.sikids.com/index.html

Scholastic News Online
http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/index.asp

Encyclopedias

encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Homework Help offers the World Book Encyclopedia and kid encyclopedias at DiscoverySchool.com.
school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozgeography/

WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE 
http://www.worldbookonline.com/

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE 
www.britannica.com

LibrarySpot (all reference)
http://www.libraryspot.com/

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/