Homework help sites for kids, and parents too!

When you become a parent, you have to KNOW stuff. From the moment speech becomes readily comprehensible, children begin asking questions. Why is the sky blue? Why is Barney the only purple dinosaur? And the perennial favorite, where do babies come from?

Because children are fairly young when they start asking these questions, parents are able to hedge their way around the answers. But for parents of children over the age of five, things become a little more complex.

When school is in session kids everywhere are schlepping to classrooms with notebooks and pencils and minds of sponge. Teachers in most public schools have an average of 32 children per class, so not every child will get one-on-one attention. This could mean your kid is not learning everything he/she needs to know.

So where you should turn? Especially when you can't seem to remember who all the Supreme Court justices are? Here are some work help sites. These Web pages on offer you and your child a chance to team up and search for knowledge together. Find the answers to your child's questions and you may learn a thing or two yourself.

Important Starting Points

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The Martindale Reference Desk site almost defies description. Make this one of your first stop if you are looking for reference materail on virtually any subject.

The Secondary School Educators Web site is designed for teachers but there are very useful links for students as well. The "Ask an Expert" section is particularly useful for students. There are many site, cover a wide range or topics, where student can get questions answered for free. Needless to say, the site can be used by anyone who needs a question answering resource. The Freebies site also features other education-related freebies.

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Homework Helpers

• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Cyberspace Middle School
• Homework Help
• HomeWorkHelper!
• Resource Center
• schoolwork.org
• Shakespearean Homework Helper
• ThinkQuest Library of Entries
• Trabuco Hills High School Science
• TRFN - Homework Help

Sites containing links helpful with schoolwork

• Great list of links from the Star Tribune
• WKBW Homework Home Page
• 6th Grade Brain Bank Great links by 6th grader Patrick White
• homework.ugh Assembled by librarians in Rockland County, New York to help with home work.
• Yahoo! - School Bell:Homework Answers

Reference Material

• The Martindale Reference Desk This site defies description. Make this one of your first stop if you are looking for reference materail on virtually any subject.
• The Britannica Internet Guide, they call it "eBLAST", is a navigation service classifying more than 65,000 Web sites. Quality Web resources, are clearly and concisely described, rated according to consistent standards, and indexed for superior retrieval.
• Britannica Internet Guide's Expanded Outline 140 Sub categories in 20 Major Categories including the "Best of the Web."
• The Secondary School Educators Web site is designed for teachers but there are very useful links for students as well. The "Ask an Expert" section is particularly useful for students. There are many site, cover a wide range or topics, where student can get questions answered for free. Needless to say, the site can be used by anyone who needs a question answering resource. The Freebies site also features other education-related freebies.
• Elements of Style by William Struck, the classic.
• Grammar Girl's Guide to the English Language You can even e-mail questions.
• The MLA Paper Format and Citation Guide
• One Look Dictionary Over 700,000 words in 159 dictionaries are indexed.
• Online search of ROGET'S Thesaurus
• The CIA World Fact Book One of the best geography resources in existance.
• Health Finder from the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides easy access to online, accurate health information.
• The Exploratorium's Cool Sites presents ten cool science, art, and education sites every month. 23 categories with over 300 reviewed sites ranging from arts to weather.
• The Yahoo Reference Listings.
• EduStock Educational site teaching what the stock market is, and how it can work for you.
• College Admissions, SAT, PSAT, and ACT from Kaplan's, the test prep people.
• Kaplan's Test Prep Table of Contents

• The Algebra Word Problem Tutor
• Ask Dr. Math
• Calculus Homepage
• Cyber Help Math Room
• Frequently Asked Questions about Mathematics
• The Geometry Center
• Internet Center for Mathematics Problems
• Mathematics Dictionary
• Britannica's Internet Guide to Mathematics
• Martindale's Math Guide

Science Resources