4th Grade

Evaluating a Website

All About Explorers: Everything you wanted to know about every explorer who ever lived...and more!
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: Help save this endangered species!
Mike the Headless Chicken: Read all about this headless wonder of the animal kingdom.

Dictionary/Thesaurus

Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus: helpful synonyms for your keyword searches right here!

Search Engines - start here before using Google. These sites have good information that's student friendly.

Images - Creative Commons licensed images, good for school projects.

Flickr Commons: A source for images, many of which are from national museums and libraries
Wikimedia Commons
Pics4Learning: Choose from popular topics or perform a search.
Britannica Image Quest: Click on tools on the left side and choose the Image Quest button.

Biographies

Pitara Kids Network: scroll down to the bottom of the page to go to the next page.
Spectrum Biographies Written for Students
FactMonster: Use the search box at the top left, or choose your individual by last name from the A-Z list.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Quotations

BrainyQuote: Type your person in the search bar, then click on the first link available.

Civil War

From Avery Elementary School, several useful sites about topics related to the Civil War.
Understanding slavery, from Discovery Education.
Information from the Civil War Trust. They have a great students page. Click on the left for biographies of key people.
Kids in the Civil War, an article from PBS.
A concise video of the causes of the Civil War (and the effects, of course) from BrainPop.
Selected photos (and a really useful timeline) of the War, from the Library of Congress.
New blogs from the Library of Congress; this one features Voices of the Civil War- first person, eye-witness narratives of the Civil War.