Copyright Issues & Plagiarism

1. B4UCopy - Become Copy Smart! Curriculum guide for teachers of elementary and middle school students. Resources included.
2. Creative Commons - a simple to understand explanation of this concept.
3. Copyright Kids - Founded to advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art, the theater, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property
4. Copyright from CyberBee - interactive resource for learning about copyright issues
5. Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - detailed chart
6. Fair Use Policies - copying work and giving credit for it is still Infringement!
7. A visit to Copyright Bay - Intended to inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting
8. The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use - Rights are strongest and longest at the place where educators need them most: in the classroom.
9. Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use Resources - "compilation of links on this page is for faculty and students who wish to find out how current copyright law effects their use of intellectual property."
10. 10 Big Myths about copyright explained - An essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work
11. IP Tile Teaser - Answer the questions true or false and complete the picture. Interactive game on copyright issues.
12. Plagiarism Checker - free plagiarism detection on the Internet
13. Teaching Copyright - "This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills"
14. U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright basics

General reference locations

1. AllRefer.com - Browse articles in eleven major areas of topics to find brief articles about a large number of thing. While you are there, take a look at their Gazetteer.
2. Ask for Kids allows you to type in an entire question and then gives you possibilities to refine the question. Many of the resources you find are on pages posted on their server rather than links to other locations on the web. However, there are some excellent resources here. You can also type "What does --- mean?" and get a dictionary listing.
3. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources.
4. Calculators On-Line provides links to almost 7000 calculators
5. Computer File Types by Extension - Need to know the difference between .mpp and .mpg, you will find almost every extension here.
6. Conversion - an online conversions calculator for a variety of unit measurements featuring natural language queries.
7. Easy Calculation offers several types of calculators
8. Emoticons - Also known as "Smileys", these symbols are used in emails and chat rooms to convey the body language, facial expressions, and vocal inflections we lack in electronic communication.
9. Explore the Exploratorium - The museum of science, art, and human perception
10. FedStats: A to Z Topical List - the window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.n
11. Homework help sites from Multnomah County Library
12. Homework Center from InfoPlease
13. HTML Color Table - Color swatches and their Hexadecimal Red Green Blue(RGB) values.
14. Internet Resources for Librarians: Includes a neat set of links on ideas about how to write a web page for your library.
15. InternetTools (iTools) - This site promises quick access to the best Internet tools. (Search Tools, Language Tools, Research Tools, Financial Tools, Map Tools, and Internet Tools)
16. The Librarian's Bookmarks: Resources for Teachers Menu lists General Education Web Sites and Subject Area Sites.
17. The Library of Congress - resources for every age group
18. Martindale's Reference Desk has links to many traditional reference sites as well as links to other web resources. This site belongs on the List of Links page also.
19. Measure 4 Measure A collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, or translate. In other words, they do the work for you.
20. Metric Conversion - includes; length, area, volume, mass, force, pressure, work, power, temperature, and fuel mileage
21. My Virtual Reference Desk
22. Newspapers - links to several Australian and UK newspaper sites
23. Phrase Finder - Search the whole database of 5,000 phrases. The search works like a phrases thesaurus. Give it a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way.
24. Primary Resources and Real-World Data - The Internet provides access to a wide range of primary resources such as letters, diaries, journals, logs, data, documents, speeches, and videos.
25. Prime Numbers - This site has a prime number generator and a prime number checker.
26. Reference Desk - pull down menus allow you to locate references for a large number of areas.
27. References - Browse the Web's Best References
28. Research Paper - A guide for writing research papers based on American Psychological Association (APA) Documentation.
29. Research Paper - A guide for writing research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.
30. Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
31. Units Converter - [this site opens as a new page] Interactive calculator for the following measurements:Weight and Mass, Distance and Length, Capacity and Volume, Area, Speed, Temperature, Time, Pressure and Circular Measure.
32. US Counties - Capitol Impact provides an index of state pages. At each state page you will see a map linking to information about the counties of that state.
33. A Web of On-Line Grammars - This page maintains links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web.
34. WWW Virtual Library - Fourteen directories from Agriculture to Society
35. YourDictionary.com - This site says that it is the web's most authoritative and comprehensive language portal
36. Zipcodes - Search for zipcodes

Almanacs & Calendars

1. The American Secular Holidays Calendar - "Let's see ... hmmmm, when is Veterans day?" If you ever ask questions like that, go to this page enter the year and see important dates for that year. This calendar covers years later than 1776. If you are interested, in the year 2195 Earth Day will be Wednesday, 22 April.
2. Calendar - can be reset to any year
3. Daily Almanacs and Holidays
- Brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission
4. Federal Holidays - from the Office of Personnel Management
5. Historic Events & Birth dates that occurred on a selected day of the year. This is the most comprehensive index that I have seen on the Internet. Sponsored by Scope Systems Worldwide Industrial Electronics Repair & Services.
6. Holiday List from Kid's Domain - in alphabetical order
7. The Old Farmer's Almanac
8. This Day: calendar and almanac links
9. This Day in History - presented by The History Channel. Other categories offered are this day: in Wall street history, in automotive history and in Civil War History. Click on the links on the left to go to various This Day in History content.
10. Time related sites
11. Today's Calendar and Clock Page
12. Yahoo Directory - Holidays and Observances

Dictionaries

1. Acronym Finder
2. Ask Dr. Dictionary - Look up a word, or look at the Doctor's links to other dictionary sites on the web.
3. FreeDictionary - Has word of the day, quote of the day, article of the day, word game of the day and more.
4. Rhyming Dictionary - You can use it to help write poetry, song lyrics, greeting cards, witticisms, and more.
5. Specialized On-Line Dictionaries in one of 60 areas, from Advertising to Travel.
6. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries featuring 18 languages.
7. Visual Dictionary Online - from Merriam Webster
8. Word Central from Merriam Webster - a customizable dictionary and a daily buzz word
9. WWWebster's Online Dictionary look up a word or a phrase
10. YourDictionary.com - This site says that it is the web's most authoritative and comprehensive language portal

Encyclopedias

1. Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth Edition) - Containing nearly 51,000 entries
2. Encyclopedia.com - Because knowledge is cool.
3. Encyclopedia Smithsonian - helps answer frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology
4. Historica - the Canadian encyclopedia
5. Info Please - encyclopedia
6. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
7. TechEncyclopedia - over 20,000 IT terms

Regional Educational Labs

1. Index of Regional Educational Labs
2. Appalachian Region Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc (AEL) - Specialty Area Rural Education (now known as Edvantia)
3. Central Region - McRel - Mid-continent regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area Curriculum, Learning and Instruction
4. Midwestern Region - NCREL - North Central Regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area Technology
5. Northwestern Region - NWREL - Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area School Change Processes
6. Pacific Region - PREL - Pacific Resources for Education & Learning - Specialty Area Language and Cultural Diversity
7. Mid-Atlantic Region - LSS - Laboratory for Student Success - Specialty Area Urban Education
8. Southeastern Region - SERVE - SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education - Specialty Area Early Childhood Education
9. Southwestern Region - SEDL Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Specialty Area Language and Cultural Diversity

Magazines & TV Online
You won't find Seinfeld, Cheers, or Letterman here. The focus is instruction; web sites for Television channels or shows which support instruction in the classroom, or On-line magazines which would be useful for project-based research.  

1. Earth & Sky: Visit the Teacher's Lounge posted by this radio show's home page. Find out how to integrate Earth & Sky into your classroom. Browse their Virtual Textbook then check out their Teacher's Resource Hot List.
2. Discovery Channel Online - TV online
3. Discovery Online presents The Skinny On... a large number of topics. Do you ever wonder "Why There's No Channel 1 on a TV", or "Why You Never See Baby Pigeons?" Find the answers to those and more at this site.
4. Discover Magazine - Science, Technology and the Future
5. Exploratorium Science Snacks - This site is full of Snacks...but they're not the kind you eat. They're the kind you can learn from and have fun with. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium.
   1. Tools for Teaching - from the Exploratorium
6. Find it in the WHY files -Science touches our lives in countless ways. Yet people often think science is relevant only to a white-coated, lab-dwelling elite. The Why Files portrays science as a critical human endeavor conducted by ordinary people. We use news and current events as springboards to explore science, health, environment and technology. Divided into grades 5-8 and grades 9-12.
7. The History Channel: where the past comes alive...online
8. Instructor - the professional journal that teachers of grade levels K through 8 have relied on for more than a century. Some of the features here include sample articles, grant sources, and a sample cyber hunt.
9. The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's gateway to online science
10. New Scientist - magazine.
11. Welcome to the laboratory that never sleeps! The MAD Scientist Network is a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions.
12. National Geographic
13. National Geographic Kids (formerly named World)
14. NOVA Online
15. Odyssey Magazine - the science magazine for young adventurers, ages 10-16
16. Popular Science
17. Science
18. Science and Technology Resources from the Internet Public Library site
19. Science News Online
20. Scientific American - Read article summaries, complete articles, or news items. You can also see previous issues back to 1996.
21. Sky and Telescope Magazine - see the current issue, or look through their archive
22. T.H.E. Journal - Technology Horizons in Education
23. USA Today
24. The Weather Channel
25. Wired [this site opens in a new page]

National News/Media

Tennessee Newspapers