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To use their databases, you will need a library card.
HOW DO I GET A LIBRARY CARD? Fill it out, and it will be delivered to your door.

[|NYS NOVEL]
(New York Online Virtual Library) **NOVEL** is New York's first statewide online virtual library. NOVEL is a collection of electronic databases that provide access from library, home, school, or office to thousands of full-text national and international newspapers and magazines, health and medical resources, business collections, Spanish language materials, and age-appropriate materials for youngsters.

=**__Best Kids Search Engines__**=

[|Quintura] search terms appear in a "word cloud" which is intended to help kids narrow or broaden their searches. [|Ask for Kids] [|Homework Help NYC] - Powered by New York City's Public Libraries. [|ALA's Great Websites for Kids](American Library Association) [|Fact Monster] from Information Please - Kids Site! Has great facts, math flash cards, US History, homework help -- great site! Fun too! [|Kids Space] @ The Internet Public Library [|KidCyber] An Australian website especially for children!

=For Teachers= [|Gateway] is a Consortium to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, univeristy,non-profit and commercial Internet sites. IT IS FREE!!! SIGN-UP!!! [|Teacher Toolkit] - This site, from the NEA, has curriculum standards, lesson plans and instructional resources.

=Need more information about an author?= Teaching books has the links to 1,000's of offical author sites [|www.teachingbooks.net/]//Please note that the link does not always work; I am looking into it.// Meet the Author at Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/bookshas DP of many wonderful authors!

FUN SITES FOR KIDS !!
Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites! I [|WannaLearn] !

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=Literature=

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=__SCIENCE__=

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= = =All About Animals= =Light, Electricity, and Color= =Human Body= =Night Sky & Constellation= =Planet Earth= =Simple Machines= =Winter Fun= = = =[|FOSS Science]=

= = Foss is part of [|Lawrence Hall of Science] at the [|University of California], Berekely campus. All FOSS units are completely hands on and interactive. The FOSSWeb has acativities and links for all the FOSS topics. = = =[|The American Museum of Natural History]=


 * [|Mineralogy for kids: Mineralogical Society of America]**

[|Rocks for Kids]

=**__Social Studies__**= General Interest > //Have your NYPL library card number**// = = = = =Curriculum specific topics:=
 * [|Great Women at The National Women's Hall of Fame]
 * [|Women's History Resources]
 * American Women History online. Access through [|NYPL] databases.
 * Biography Resource Center. Access through [|NYPL] databases
 * [|Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century]

[|Digital History] Focuses on American History.
Alaska Ancient Civilizations [|Christmas Around the World] Colonial America Explorers Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad Immigration Lewis & Clark Martin Luther King, Jr. New York State History Native Americans = =

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