Crockett Library
Recommended Resources
- 2001 Mars Odyssey
- In orbit around the planet Mars, this spacecraft is carrying science
experiments designed to make
- global observations of Mars to improve our understanding of the planet's
climate and geologic
history, including the search for water and evidence of life-sustaining
environments.
- Cuyahoga Astronomical
Association
- A local astronomy organization formed in 1957 for skywatchers of all
levels of accomplishment.
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Home site for this orbiting observatory, learn about the telescope, its
history, current activities, and
- view a gallery of amazing astronomical images.
- Human
Space Flight
- Want to know when a spacecraft will be flying over your city? Check out
this site.
- NASA Space
Science Education Resource Directory
- "A searchable, web-based database of space science education
resources for K-12 teachers and
- students, including lesson plans, educator guides, student activities, and
websites."
- SETI Institute
- Learn about the serious scientific search for extraterrestrial
intelligence.
- Space Weather
- Happenings in space have effects on the Earth and its inhabitants. Find
out about solar activity,
- meteor showers, and much more at this site!
- The
Nine Planets
- This site offers an overview of the history, mythology, and current
scientific knowledge of each
- of the planets and moons in our solar system.
-
- Audubon's Birds of
America
- Online version of Birds of America by John James Audubon.
Includes the full text, figures, color plates, and bird calls.
- Biozone
- This site is updated monthly and contains over 500 sites. Topics covered
include: genetics,
- health and disease, plant biology, ecology, and much more. Many sites
include tutorials on their subjects.
- Earth Science Picture of the Day
- Each day a different image or photograph is featured, with an accompanying
caption, that deals
- with various topics in Earth Science.
- NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- NOAA's Mission is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's
environment, and conserve
- and wisely manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources. NOAA's
strategy consists of
- several interrelated strategic goals for environmental assessment,
prediction and stewardship.
- National Earthquake Information
Center
- The United States Geological Survey's World Data Center for Seismology,
Denver --
- all about the science of earthquakes.
- Visible Earth
- NASA's searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of
the Earth.
- Volcano Information Center
- The site provides links to other web sites that are resources for data and
to inform the
- user about general volcanology in an organized way, including features of
volcanoes,
- volcanic eruptions and volcanic hazards.
- 109 - A Visual Interpretation
of the Table of Elements
- The periodic table of elements with description, historical information,
and a visual image.
- Extreme
Science
- Learn what is the fastest, driest, highest, biggest, deepest, lowest,
oldest in the natural world.
- Each category includes an easy to understand explanation as well as a map.
- General
Chemistry Online
- Search for information on a common compound, look through the FAQs, or
take a trivia quiz.
- Lots of information from Fred Senese, Associate Professor at Frostburg
State University.
- HyperChemistry
- A great site for chemistry students in grades 7-12. Learn about the
history of chemistry,
- check out the periodic table or glossary, or find cool chemistry
experiments to do at home.
- Popular Science's 50 Best
of the Web
- Editors have selected sites that cover a broad range of topics, from
spiral galaxies to an electronics
- treasure trove. These sites provide a wealth of information, and they
enliven it with interactive games,
- video clips, animations, and pictures.
- Science Net
- Science Net is from the Toronto Public Library. It covers the following
subjects: biology,
- chemistry geology, botany, astronomy, paleontology, zoology, and physics.
Lots of information
- for all grade levels, kindergarten through higher education.
- Scirus
- Science Search Engine.
- Thinking
Critically About World Wide web Resources
- by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library
- http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
- ICYouSee: T is
for Thinking
- by John Henderson, Ithaca College Library
- http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html
- The
Librarian's Guide To Cyberspace For Parents & Kids
- from the American Library Association
- http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria50.html
- Criteria for
Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
- by Alastair Smith, VUW Department of Library and Information Studies, New
Zealand
- http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm
- Why we need to
evaluate what we find on the Internet
- Adapted from: The Savvy Student's Guide to Library Research. Judy Pask,
Roberta Kramer,
- Scott Mandernack, Purdue University Undergraduate Library
- http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html
- Evaluation of
Information
- by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Illinois State University
- http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Eval.html
- Evaluating
Information on the Internet
- by D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University Libraries
- http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/evaluate.htm
- Evaluating Quality on
the Net
- by Hope N. Tillman, Babson College
- http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
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- Register.com
- http://register.com
- Network Solutions
- http://www.networksolutions.com
-
-
- Net
Hoaxes
- http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Truth/ss02.html
- Web
Parodies
- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Web_Site_Parodies/
It is important to look carefully at a web address. Sometimes you may not be
where you think you are
Internet Sites: Which one is real?
- White House
- http://www.whitehouse.gov
- White House?
- http://www.whitehouse.org
- Better Homes and Garden
Online
- Do It Yourself
- At this site you will find a large collection of tutorials and tips for
doing things around the house.
- Home Arts
Handy Home Advisor
- Home Central
- The Home Depot
- Home Energy Saver
- Enter your zip code to find out how to save money on your energy costs.
- Home Improvement and Repair from
Hometime
- Home Improvement Highway
- ImproveNet: America's Home Improvement
Network
- JoAnn Fabrics
- Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
- theplumber.com
- This site includes a basic handbook and is subtitled "The Plumbing
page for plumbers and DIY's."
- Today's Homeowner
- Computer
Training Tutorials
- This site has lots of well done tutorials on topics ranging from using a
keyboard to using the Internet.
- Developing
Web Vision
- Learn to look at a web page and find the links and information on a web
page.
- Finding
Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
- Learn the Net
- LivingInternet.com
- This site provides information about the history of the internet, as well
as current news
- about the internet. Topics covered include; the Internet, World Wide Web,
- Usenet Newsgroups, Electronic Mail, Mailing lists, Internet Relay Chat and
Multi-User Dimensions.
- Netiquette Home Page
1
- Netiquette Home Page 2
- by: Arlene H. Rinaldi at Florida State University
- Mousercize
- Practice using a mouse with this tutorial.
- Quia
- Take one of many online quizes to find out how much you know about e-mail,
computer basics,
- internet term or any one of the other topics.
- Search
Engine Comparison
- Compares sites pages indexed, search types, search limits and search
extras.
- Search
Engine Secrets of the Pros
- Search Engine Showdown: The User's
Guide to Web Searching
- Helpful information on web search engines. Topics covered include size,
features, and lots of other helpful information.
- Search Engine Watch
- Sherlock@ -The Internet Detective:
- "tips for searching, exploring and managing the web, new users to
experienced surfers"
- Sink or Swim:
Internet Search Tools and Techniques
- The Spider's Apprentice--Tips
on Searching the Web
- Web
Tutorials List
- Direct Search
- "Direct search is a growing compilation of links to the search
interfaces of resources that
- contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general
search tools like Alta Vista,
- Google, or Hotbot. Although these "general" tools are essential
for the retrieval of Internet based data,
- searchers often fail to realize that a massive amount of information is
not easily or entirely
- searchable/accessible via these search tools. Material "hidden"
from the general search
- tools is said to reside on the Invisible Web."
- Invisible Web
- The InvisibleWeb.com is a directory of over 10,000 databases, archives,
and search engines
- that contain information that traditional search engines have been unable
to access.
- AltaVista Translation
- Translate documents or web pages to or from Italian, French, German,
Portuguese or Spanish with AltaVista's Babel Fish.
- ASL Fingerspelling Dictionary
- Learn to American Sign Language fingerspell with this helpful site.
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
- Books in Chains(Literature,
Authors, Drama and Film)
- CIA
World Factbook
- Find information on the countries of the world.
- Constants &
Equations for Calculations (math formulas)
- Convert It
- "Use the conversion tables to convert just about anything to
anything! "
- Creative Quotations
- Need a quotation on a certain topic? Search this site of over 10,000
quotations from over 1,500 people.
- Ectoco Online Dictionary
- This web site translates from English into any foreign language and vice
versa directly on the Internet!
- There is no need to install programs on your PC all you have to do is
enter the word you want
- to know, and you'll get its translation right away. This site has a
vocabulary of 600,000 words for almost any language!
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Search the Encyclopedia Britannica, dictionary, or rated web sites for
your topic of interest.
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Everyrule.com
- Find the rules for sports, board games, TV game shows, card games and
etiquette.
- Flags of the World
- Foreign Language Translator
- Foundation Center Online
- Information Please Almanac
- International Lyric Server
- Internet Public Library
- LibrarySpot
- Lives, the
Biography Resource
- Worthwhile collection of links to other biographical resources, primary
biographical source
- material such as interviews, images, memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and
oral histories.
- Also, good biographical dictionaries.
- Lyric World
- A collection of lyrics to top 40 and pop hits from 1939-1999. Look for
lyrics by title or musician.
- Maptech
MapServer
- "Online mapping resource for topographic maps and charts for land,
sea, and air. Browse,
- view, print, and email the maps for free."
- Measure 4 Measure
- Ohio Reflinks Project
- Subject directory of Internet sites selected by Ohio librarians.
- Merriam-Webster Online
- My Virtual Encyclopedia
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- The Nobel Prizes
- A searchable database from the Nobel Foundation. Search by name,
nationality,
- keyword, prize category, or birth or death year.
- Ohio Data Links
- Links to data on Ohio Agriculture, demographics, economics, education,
- environment, health and safety, transportation and construction,
as well as other data sources
- Old Farmers Almanac
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Search through nearly 2 million words in 381 dictionaries.
- OSU Extension Data
Service
- An excellent source of county and state statistics.
- Robert's Rule of
Order
- This is the full text of the book. The copyright on the original 1915
version has expired. However,
- the modifications and enhancements to this work are Copyright ©
1996.
- Roget's
Thesaurus
- Sign Language Dictionary
- Learn to sign using this dictionary. Dictionary includes example of how to
sign each word.
- Also includes a word/sign of the day.
- UM Weather (Weather
Underground)
- Find current and historic weather information. Weather Cams take live
pictures of current weather
- conditions in over 800 locations.
- U.S. Gazetteer
- Tiger maps and census data by ZIP Code
- United States Weather Page
- This site is searchable by zip code or location. The first page lists
sever weather statement for the country.
- A quick cast search will yield such information as current temperature,
precipitation, wind speed,
- wind chill, forecast, sun/moon information plus much more.
- USNO Master Clock Time
- Check the U.S. Naval Observatory to find out exactly what time it is.
- The Wayback Machine
- This site contains digital snapshots of how the internet evolved over the
past five years.
- Enter a URL to find out how it looked in the past.
- WebElements
version 1.2.1
- WorldSkip.com
- An excellent web site containing lots of information on countries
throughout the world.
- Each country has a currency converter, language translator, time in the
country, news,
business and travel information.
- World Time Server
- World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any
world clock on the Internet.
- It makes real time adjustments for Daylight Saving Time.
- World Wide Art Resources
- Your Nation
- Here you can compare any data element for two countries. Find the top or
bottom five countries for a particular element.
History
- American Civil War Homepage
- American
Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
- Each decade through the 1970's is broken down into subjects such as music,
fashion, art and architecture, and historic events.
- American Presidents: Life
Portraits
- This web site profiles both the personal and public lives of each United
States President.
- The American West
- "a presentation of the history & development of the American West
from the Frontier & Pioneer days of the
- Wild West to today's Modern West." This site includes information on
outlaws, gun battles, ghost towns,
- Daniel Boone, Sitting Bull and much more.
- Ancient World Web
- Historic Archaeological
Research Links
- Links to thousands of archaeological research resources.
- Archiving Early America
- Find historic documents from 18th century America here. View the
Declaration of Independence,
Constitution, first Almanac (1742), first State of the Union Address and
many more firsts.
The Digital Library contains thumb-nail images.
- The Charters
of Freedom
- The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and
the Magna Carta of 1215.
- Cleveland Digital
Library
- An excellent site for historical information on Cleveland. Lots of
photographs.
- Discoverers
Web Homepage
- Historic Events & Birth Dates
- History Channel
- Hyper History Online
- TheHistoryNet
- Internet History Sourcebook
Projects
- The Internet History Sourcebooks are collectionsof public domain and
copy-permitted
- historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive
layout) for
- educational use. Periods covered are ancient history, medieval
studies, and modern history.
- Jamestown Rediscovery
- This site is from the Association of Virginia Antiquities. It includes a
timeline of
events as well as information on recent archeological finds.
- Korean War Project
- This site includes a casualty database that can be searched, or look at
the detailed maps charting the progress of the war.
- Legacy 98 The Women's Rights Movement
1848-1998
- Making of America
- Contains first person accounts.
- The Middle Ages
- National D-Day Memorial Foundation
- This is the official website of the D-Day Memorial complex in Bedford,
Virginia.
- National Women' History Project
- Native American History
Archive
- Nineteenth Century Documents
- "When completed this collection will include accurate transcriptions
of many important and
- representative primary texts from nineteenth century American
history"
- Ohio Historical Society
- Ohio Memory Project
- "Online scrapbook of Ohio history. Discover primary sources from
archives,
historical societies, libraries, and museums that document Ohio's past from
prehistory through 1903."
- Oregon Trail
- History of the Oregon trail from the 1700's to the mid-1800's.
- Today in History
- The
Underground Railroad
- Learn what was like for slaves to escape on the underground railroad.
- Includes maps of escape routes, and a time line.
- Untold African American History
- The Virtual Wall
- This is an electronic representation of the actual Vietnam Veterans
Memorial.
- Women and Social Movement in the
United States
- This website is intended to introduce students, teachers, and scholars to
a rich
- collection of primary documents related to women and social
movements in the
United States between 1830 and 1930."
- World War I Document Archive
- This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled
- by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).
The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one
location primary documents concerning the Great War. "