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| Online Homework Help | | By Tracey Kennedy for Screenager Central |
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You've got heaps of homework -- an essay on Wuthering Heights to write, algebra equations to solve, irregular French verbs to conjugate, and you need to come up with a killer idea for your science fair project. Where to begin? Online, of course! That's right; surfing is good for your grades. (Tell that to your parents!) There are tons of great sites out there, offering free help on every subject you can think of, and then some. To find the best of these sites, we did a little homework ourselves. Here are the online resources that get an A+ in our grade book.
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- You've likely watched the shows, maybe even shopped the stores, but did you know that the Discovery Channel has it's own cyber school? Discovery School is a site dedicated to all aspects of homework help, learning, and mental recreation. Their awesome Science Fair Central will walk you through the entire process of finding the perfect project: from coming up with a hypothesis to creating a prize-wining presentation of your findings. Also check out their Brain Boosters page. These exercises in lateral thinking, categorization, and reasoning will definitely give your gray matter a real workout.
- BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper is our favorite homework link super-site. Beege (what his friends call him) is a sixteen-year-old who, with the help of his dad, launched the site in 1996. The pair does tons of research and the result is a mind-boggling 700 categorized links of homework-related resources, with the Beege's helpful opinions on the usefulness of each site.
- If Discovery is the go-to site for science and math, then National Geographic has got your back in geography class. Granted, this site is aimed at a younger audience, but it's still a great starting point for research in world geography. National Geo also gives interesting historical and cultural tidbits. While there, be sure to play Geo Spy -- you may feel like you're five again, playing "secret agent," but you'll have fun, and you may be surprised at your map knowledge. After playing, you should be able to look at a map and identify any country or state by its topography.
- Your brain will be buzzing after a visit to The Beehive. Don't let the home page's Fisher-Price interface turn you off, things are much more mature in the middle and high school sections. Find homework help for all your subjects: English, science, math, and more. Each section has categorized links, making it easy to get the specific help you need, from solving polygon problems in geometry to testing your translation skills in German. You can also take mini practice tests for the ACT and SAT. And be sure to go to the "Body" section in the high school science area and take fun quizzes on such wacky subjects as "The flavor of your personality."
- Fact Monster is a fiendishly good assignment assistance site. Find answers to homework questions in six subjects: English, geography, history, math, science, and social studies. Things to do at the Monster: Take the Roman numeral challenge, learn how to cook in metric, discover love superstitions, and take a walk down the trouser timeline. In Word Wise, you can learn which children's books were banned in recent years and the reasons why. In World & News, you can click on the Iraq Timeline and learn more about that troubled country's history, or click on Genealogy Guide and plant the seeds for your own family tree research. In Sports, you can learn how your favorite professional teams got their names. The site also includes links to other cool learning sites.
- Our last-but-not-least study helper shout-outs go to Homework Spot. This site has a dizzying array of resources on nearly every school subject, and links to even more material. The site also offers useful information such as the day's top news stories, a homework tip of the week, and even, links to sites where you can ask homework questions of experts and teachers. Visit their Reading Room to find links to electronic versions of classic books, important historical documents, and more, from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson to The Declaration of Independence. You can also search newspaper archives and museum Web sites from around the world.
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Thanks to cyber classrooms, you don't have to dread homework anymore (okay, at least not as much). If you've got questions, the Internet has answers.
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