Vineland Public Library

 

 

Vineland Public Library

Homework Help Websites

for Young Adults

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Almanac

  • Infoplease -- Online almanac, dictionary and encyclopedia.

Magazines/Newspapers/Periodicals

  • EBSCOhost -- Look up topics in various magazines.  Some articles give the full text, others briefly summarize the article and refer you to the magazine. Click on the Searchasaurus link for the Middle School magazine database. If you are accessing this from your home computer, you must have a CLUES library card to use this databases. Click here if you are  outside of the Vineland Public Library.
  • The Daily Journal -- Online version of our local newspaper.

     

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Other Homework Help Sites

African American History

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day/Black History Month -- Louisiana State University Library site featuring links to various websites on Dr. King's life including a timeline and the text of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the Net -- Site celebrates the birth, the life, and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition information about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement is provided.

Amino Acids

 

Art

 

Bibliography

 

Biography

Bridges

 

Careers/College

Consumer Information

  • Teen Consumer Scrapbook-- Government site for teens that was developed by teens. The site was designed "to help teenagers (a group commonly targeted by businesses and scam artists) become educated consumers, as well as giving them somewhere to turn if they have questions or get ripped off." Topics include tattoos, credit cards, car buying and scholarship scams.

Country Profiles

  • Asia and the Pacific in Figures -- Lists statistics, including number of hospital beds per person, for a variety of Asian countries.

  • Country Health Profiles -- Site sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization includes statistics on number of hospital beds, doctors and more for a number of countries in the Americas. 

  • World Fact Book -- Extensive CIA source on country profiles, including maps, population, government, economy and other statistics.

Creative Writing

  • Teen Ink --Online publication with more than 17,000 pages of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art and photos, all by teens. Anyone age 13-19 is eligible to be published.

Egypt

 

Government (Federal, State and Local)

  • Cumberland County -- Official website of Cumberland County.
  • Local Census.com -- Provides statistical information for a wide variety of categories pertaining to the United States of America, its 50 states and its 3,000 plus US counties.
  • New Jersey -- Official state of NJ website.
  • Vineland -- Official website of the City of Vineland.
  • White House -- Official site on the White House.

Health

  • Teen Health -- UMDNJ Healthy NJ site provides links on teen health issues.

Holocaust

  • Anne Frank Museum -- This is the official website for the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and includes biographical information on Anne Frank.
  • Cybrary of the Holocaust -- Site dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, with links to other sites.

Languages

Literature

  • Short Story Elements -- Halifax Regional School System site that features the parts of a short story, with explanations of setting, plot, conflict, character, point of view and theme.

Music

  • HNH - Naxos Classicals -- Site devoted to classical music which includes an alphabetical listing of composer biographies.

Mythology

  • The Encyclopedia Mythica -- World mythology site with a multitude of information on gods, goddesses and stories.
  • Folklore and Mythology -- Links to full text of many folktales and myths, including Aesop's Fables.
  • Greek Mythology -- Site provides information on all subjects of Greek Mythology, including details on Greek Gods and Greek Goddesses, Greek Myths and Greek Heroes. It also has full text of Greek Mythology and Literature books, including Bulfinch's Mythology.
  • Greek Mythology -- About.com site links to various helpful sites on gods and goddesses in Greek Mythology.
  • Greek Mythology -- Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology site has links to a variety of gods and goddesses.
  • Irish Mythology -- Site from Luminarium provides links on Irish history and mythology.
  • Sumerian Mythology -- Grand Valley State University site faculty site describes the history of the Sumerians.

New Jersey Wildlife

Paper Airplanes

  • Alex's Paper Airplanes -- Scroll down for instructions on how to make six different paper gliders.
  • Paper Airplanes -- Site operated by Ken Blackburn, a Guinness record-holder for time aloft for paper airplanes, provides instructions for a variety of planes, an explanation of paper airplane aerodynamics and links to more paper airplane sites.

Puerto Rico

Science

  • The Atoms Family -- Fun site which covers various science topics. Sponsored by the Miami Museum of Science.
  • How Stuff Works!   -- From computers to toilets to weather systems, this site explains in detail (and with pictures) how almost everything works.
  • Mount St. Helens -- Describes the volcano before and after its 1980 eruption.
  • Sciencebuddies.org -- Sciencebuddies is a non-profit organization focused on developing science enrichment tools for students in grades K-12. The site offers information on science fair projects.
  • Volcano World -  The Web's "premier source of volcano information" sponsored by NASA's Learning Technologies Project. Click here to access the index of Volcanoes by name -- includes Surtsey, Vesuvius and Mount St. Helens.

Sports

Women's History

 

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Comments or suggestions?  Contact Head of Children's and Young Adult Services Helen Cowan Margiotti.

Vineland Public Library, 1058 E. Landis Avenue, Vineland, NJ 08360

(856) 794-4244, ext. 4246

This page was last updated 8/27/08.

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