Awesome Library provides organized links to 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Content is organized by subject area, with sections for kids, teens, college students, parents and teachers. Much of the content is oriented toward teachers resources such as lesson plans and research.
Reading level of most content is best suited for middle and high school students. Some links are outdated.
This website and app include several kinds of dictionaries, a thesaurus, acronyms, idioms, and encyclopedia. Content is sourced from Houghton Mifflin’s dictionary, the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language and Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged. Also, the site offers translations to Spanish, French, German, and Italian for everyday vocabulary and expressions relating to topics such as current events and tourism.
The Free Dictionary is available as an app for iPad/iPhone and Android devices. Ad-free versions are available with an in-app purchase.
This site is a search engine for words and phrases You can get a definition, or quickly find related words, which is particularly helpful for writing papers. If you’re not quite sure how to spell a word, give it your best shot, and OneLook will suggest some words that can help you narrow in on the correct spelling. Or if you only have a definition, type that into their reverse dictionary, and you’ll also get suggested words for your definition or phrase.
OneLook has 5 million words from more than 900 online dictionaries in its search engine.
The Reference Desk of the History Matters site provides links to guidance on the research standards for citing websites and how to evaluate their authority. There is also guidance on copyright and fair use laws as they apply to the use and creation of online educational materials. The reference material also includes teaching resources, focusing on high school and college students. And the Students as Historians section has links to examples student work on the web .
This site helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. The Making Sense of Documents segment provide strategies for analyzing online primary sources, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. The Scholars in Action segment gives examples of how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources to make sense of a document.
It includes audio clips in which leading scholars interpret a document and discuss strategies for analyzing it.
Also on this site is a Students as Historians segment, with examples of student work. Although some of the links are outdated and no longer valid, there are still several excellent examples of how students used and interpreted primary sources.
