Online Resources

 

For over 2000 websites on numerous topics that can be quickly accessed by students for school work or by teachers for instructional purposes, see Mrs. Gibson's del.icio.us Site in the Quick Links box on the right.

 

Atlases/Maps

The Atlas of Canada - http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Canadian Atlas Online - http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/

Canadian Geographic Magazine - http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/

National Geographic Expeditions - http://nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html

Outline Maps - http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/

Perry-Castaneda Maps - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/outline_sites.html

Placeopedia - http://www.placeopedia.com/

 

Biographies

Academy of Achievement - http://achievement.org/

Biographical Dictionary - http://www.s9.com/

Biography Maker - http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm

Celebrating Women's Achievements - http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/index-e.html

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html

Manitoba Biographies - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/

Person of the Century - http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/runnerup2.html

 

 

Clip Art/Images

Awesome Clip Art for Educators - http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/

Clip Art Gallery - http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

Clip Art for Students and Teachers - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/clipart.htm

Clip Art Warehouse - http://www.clipart.co.uk/index.shtml

Clip Art - http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/index.htm

Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org

Dorling Kindersley - http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html

Every Stock Photo - http://everystockphoto.com/

Free Foto - http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Flickr Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Free Photo - http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Image After - http://www.imageafter.com/

Images Canada - http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html

Microsoft Clip Art - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

NYPL Digital Gallery - http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Open Stock Photography - http://www.openstockphotography.org/

Pics for Learning - http://pics4learning.com/index.php?view=browse

Public Domain Links - http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic98.htm

Web Places - http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm

Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

World Book Online - http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home

Yotophoto - http://yotophoto.com/

 

Conversions

Footrule - http://www.footrule.com/1/homepage.htm?sr=index

Online Conversions - http://www.onlineconversion.com/

 

Copyright Information

Can Copy Guidelines - http://library.wlu.ca/access/guidelines.htm

Copyright and Images - http://www.2learn.ca/copyright/images.html#1

Landmarks Permission Request Template - http://www.landmark-project.com/permission1.php

 

Dictionaries

Dictionary - http://dictionary.reference.com/

Internet Picture Dictionary (various languages) - http://www.pdictionary.com/

Merriam Webster - http://wordcentral.com/

Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary - http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

One Look Dictionary Search - http://www.onelook.com/

 

Encyclopedias

See WorldBook Online and EBSCOhost links on Frontpage.  To use, ID and password are required which are available in the school library.

The Canadian Encyclopedia - http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCESubjects&Params=A1

E Encylopedia - http://www.dke-encyc.com/

Search Gateway - http://www.searchgateway.com/encyclop.htm

 

Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers Education Place - http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Graphic Organizers - http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html

 

Graphing

Create a Graph - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

 

Homework Help

Homework Spot - http://homeworkspot.com/

 

Libraries

DREF Catalogue (French) - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/frpub/biblio/services/fiche06A.pdf

Manitoba Education Catalogue - http://library.edu.gov.mb.ca:4100/index.php?acode=home&clearOPAC=1&Source=4

Manitoba TextBook Bureau - http://library.edu.gov.mb.ca:4100/index.php?acode=home&clearOPAC=1&Source=4

University of Manitoba Library - http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/

University of Winnipeg Library - http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/

Winnipeg Public Library - http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/

World Digital Library - http://www.wdl.org/en#

 

News Sources

ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com/

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

CBC News - http://www.cbc.ca/news/

CNN Student News - http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Google News - http://news.google.com/

Kids Room News - http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/

New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/

PBS News - http://www.pbs.org/news/

Time Magazine - http://www.time.com/time/

Winnipeg Free Press Online - http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/

 

Reference Sources

Answers - http://www.answers.com/

CBC Archives - http://archives.cbc.ca/index.asp?IDLan=1

Countries of the World - http://www.theodora.com/wfb/

Google News Archive - http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Librarians Internet Index - http://lii.org/

NationMaster Statistics - http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Pitsco Ask an Expert - http://www.askanexpert.com/

Statistics Canada - http://www.statcan.ca/

Time Magazine Archives - http://www.time.com/time/archive/

Virtual Education Information Services (Education Manitoba) - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/iru/services/virtinfo01.html

World Almanac for Kids - http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/

 

Search Engines

Ask for Kids - http://www.askforkids.com/

Carrot Search Clustering - http://demo.carrot-search.com/carrot2-webapp/main

Clusty - http://clusty.com/

Cyber Sleuth Kids - http://cybersleuth-kids.com/

Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com/

Exalead - http://www.exalead.com/search

iTools - http://www.itools.com/

Google - http://www.google.ca/

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/

Google Trends - http://www.google.com/trends

Grokker - http://grokker.com/

Kids Search Tools - http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Metacrawler - http://www.metacrawler.com/

Quintura - http://kids.quintura.com/

Rollyo - http://rollyo.com/

Searchmash - http://www.searchmash.com/

Soovle - http://www.soovle.com

Vivisimo.com - http://vivisimo.com/

Yahoo! - http://www.yahoo.com/?rs=1

 

Translator

BabelFish - http://babelfish.altavista.com/

 

Works Cited

Citation machine - http://citationmachine.net/

Milken Community High School (examples) - http://www.mchschool.org/library/cite.htm

Noodlebib Express - http://www.noodletools.com/