Reference Sources
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & FACT FINDERS
Fact Monster
Columbia Encyclopedia
How Stuff Works
MSN Encarta
● High Beam Encyclopedia
Wikipedia Anyone can edit a ‘wiki’ so it is good to check this site’s information by using other sources too.
Encyclopedia of Life Has entries for almost every species
● Encyclopedia Smithsonian This site does not cover every topic, has good select articles
Guinness book of records
CIA Fact book
BIOGRAPHIES
Infoplease
Biography.com
Academy of Achievement
South African biographies
One look Has links to many dictionaries
Webster's Online Dictionary
Your Dictionary.com
THESAURI
Webster's Online Dictionary with Thesaurus
Visual Thesaurus
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
VIRTUAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
● Internet Public Library Youth
Awesome Library
Plymouth Public Library Cyber library
● BUBL Link catalogue of Internet resources
Cyber Library Media Centre
British Library Learning
NEWSPAPERS
The Star
Sunday Times and Business Times
Afrikaans and English SA papers
Mail and Guardian
Business Day
New York Times
www.news24.co.za
www.reuters.com
www.mweb.co.za
www.news24.com
www.iol.co.za
www.newstrawler.com
http://news.google.com
www.cnn.com
www.bbc.co.uk
www.thepaperboy.com
www.teacherxpress.com
www.newsbank.com (USA newspapers)
www.timearchives.com (can keyword search for news articles since 1923)
MUSEUMS
Pre-history and Ancient History
British Museum
Teacher Express > Museums
Virtual Public Library
