Homework Help at Richards Memorial Library

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Homework Help

Khan Academy is a good source of Video Tutorials on many subjects, especially math at all levels.

Biographies	Chaos Project
History and Social Studies including Countries	Science and Science Fair
Literature including Summer reading	Physical Ed. Homework
Local Schools	Bibliographic Help
Birthday Research and Holidays	General Homework Help and Search Engines
Encyclopedias	Decades Project
Great Websites for Kids (from Amer. Library Assoc.)

Different types of research require different sources. Sometimes you may be asked to use Primary Sources (defined here by Univ. of California at Santa Cruz.) World Book Advance will have primary source material as well. Our collection includes:

Literature: Plot summaries, collections of criticism, author biographies and interpretation collections. Gale's Literature Resource Center contains magazine and book articles. Also check out these web directories. For Shakespeare try: Mr. Shakespeare. There is also a good site for public domain texts: The Literature Network.

Science: Science in Context database and Academic Onefile as well as the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science print set

History: Collections of speeches, historical atlases and books on specific time periods as well as full-text databases of articles and microfilm of newspapers. (See below.)

Gale Databases now include Kids Infobits (Elementary) and Infotrac Junior (Middle School). The In Context (Global, Science, Opposing Viewpoint, U.S. History and World History) products are excellent for High School reports. These are good sources of electronic reference materials and magazine articles. They do not count as Internet sources. Links to Internet sources for particular assignments will appear here during the year.

Encyclopedias:

World Book Online for maps, information on states and countries and much more. World Book Advanced (click on Advanced in upper right hand corner after you have typed in your barcode) has primary sources useful for high school and college assignments. Also available through a Smart Phone.
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Now available online

Our Suggested Links

Biographies

Biographies: including Constitutional era, Afro-Americans, Women, Hispanic and other categories.
- Medieval Biographies
- Gale Biography in Context

Science

Science Fair
USGS Science in your backyard site includes real-time data on water, drought, earthquake activity and other information. This links to the Massachusetts data.
Gale Science in Context

Literature

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Librarian's Guide to the Internet Literature Index
Schmoop -- a site with resources about books (and more) including plot, theme, questions
Summer Reading Lists
Magical Realism genre
Teacher's Choice: Best Book Lists

Local Schools

General Help

General homework sites
Ask Kids Allows natural language searching
Spellchecker.org can help you with your writing: grammar, word usage and spelling.

History and Social Studies

Timelines of History
Native American Sites; Also check out the database Newsbank's Native American Resource Site by logging into the databases. There are maps, articles, images and more.
History: Check out Fordham's Internet History Sourcebook project for primary sources
- Ancient Civilizations
- Gilded Age: use Infotrac Database to search for articles and Elibrary's Topics: United States History >> History by Period >> 1870-1890 Gilded Age
- Colonial History
- World War II Battles
- Depression and the New Deal
- Women's History
- US History-- from Spartacus site
- Gale US History in Context
- Gale World History in Context
Countries, States and Cities (including Spanish Country suggestions)

The Global Road Warrior, an online database, is a comprehensive social/cultural, travel, and international business resource, covering 175 countries and territories.
Collection of maps: current, historical, geographic, political and more.
Elevation, latitude and longitude for cities: placesnamed.com
Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Chaos: Use the World History in Context for excellent book and magazine resources.

Chaos Project

Decades Project

To Find Decade Articles in Databases
Go to RMLonline.org
Click on Search Full text Magazines (on the right under the word Reference)
Scroll to US History in Context and click on the title.
Click on Topics on the bar across the top of the page.
Choose your decade.
Once page is loaded, find the Search within Page box and put in your topic.
These articles can be "Saved" and then emailed to you.

Bibliographies

North Attleboro High School Media Center has a section that explains the bibliography and research process.
MLA Style: This is the preferred method for North Attleboro students. Click on Bibliography Styles, then MLA
Citation Machine: fill in the blanks and it formats the citation for you to copy

Birthday and Holidays