6th grade research unit

1. ask.com
   This website will give suggestions for narrowing or expanding your topic.
2. Discovery Puzzle Maker
   Online puzzle maker for crosswords, word finds, mazes, and more!
3. Fact Monster
   This website gives quick facts and it is easy to use.
4. grokker.com
   Grokker means to know something completely. Try this to organize your mind about any subject.

Catalog for Library

1. Library Online Catalog
   Browse books, put books on hold, write reviews, send suggestions to friends, all from home!

Character Counts!

1. Character Counts! Survey
   

Communication

1. Ideas from the British Library
   Do you know the history of the English language?
   Would you like to hear voices from the Holocaust?
   How about hearing stories from around the world?
   This is a great place that combines history and language. Enjoy!
2. Voices from Ellis Island
   Listen to stories from many cultures around the world.

Help for Bullying

1. Anti-Bully Help Request
   

Just the ticket for busy teachers!

1. discoveryschool.com
   This is a quick site for lesson plans, puzzlemakers, quiz center, worksheet generator, clip art gallery and much more!!
2. Teacher Tube
   Like youtube.com, but for teachers!

Music Downloads

1. Free Midi files
   Midi format, instrumental music, both amateur free download and professional versions that are not free.
2. Free Play Music
   Click on a category - to download the MP3's, click on the 'time' links underneath the song (2:09 :60 :30 :20 :15 :10)
3. ibeat.org
   
4. Incompetech Creative Industries
   
5. MusOpen
   Offers free, public domain classical music
6. Purple Planet
   
7. Royalty Free Music
   

Online Converters

1. Media Converter
   A free online service that quickly converts audio and video files
2. Media-Convert
   A free online service that quickly converts audio, video, image, and text files

Online Subscriptions

1. AP Photos
   Images and articles from Associated Press that go back in history 150 years!
2. Ebsco - Middle Search Student Research Center
   Offers a wide variety of searchable resources, such as magazines, journals and images
3. Ebsco NoveList
   Offers a wide wide range of resources related to fiction books
4. Ebsco Points of View
   A database for debates. Shows two sides of the story in journal articles
5. FirstSearch
   
6. NoodleTools
   Provides a quick and easy way to create a bibliography
7. Student Resource Center Junior
   Provides selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. Lexile reading levels are available for periodicals.
8. unitedstreaming
   Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service
9. World Book Online
   A suite of online research tools including encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, current periodicals and related Web sites.

Search Engines

1. Advice Engine
   This is a very EXPANSIVE search engine and gives advice on searching topics.
2. AltaVista
   
3. Clusty
   Clusty groups your results.
4. Good Search
   Powered by Yahoo, Use this search engine to help raise funds for Westfield STP
5. Google
   
6. kartoo
   This is a visual search.
7. Yahoo
   

Touch Typing

1. Practice your typing...
   Can you type without looking at the keys? You can type much faster if you learn to 'touch-type.'