Starting Place

netTrekker
netTrekker is a paid subscription search engine providing access to age appropriate, curriculum related Internet sites. Students are requested to use this tool when completing academic research.
Ask.com	Google	Bing
AltaVista	Choose the Best Search--Noodle Tools	Yahoo!Search
Search engine features	Subject Directories	Search strategies
General Reference
AAASpell	Wordsmyth	LanguageTools
InfoPlease.com	Fact Monster	Encyclopedia Smithsonian
The Quotations Page	Quoteland	Bartleby.com Quotations and more
Wikipedia (user be aware!)	HippoCampus Multimedia lessons on high school curricula
Math/Science
AAAMath	Online Conversion	AskNumbers
U.S. Census--Facts for Features	WolframAlpha (computational knowledge engine)	Math Bridges
eNature.com	Exploratorium	American Museum of Natural History
Medline Plus	Data.gov	Growing with Science Blog
History/Social Studies
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture	History Channel--This Day in HIstory	HistoryNet
American Memory	National Archives Digital Vault	National Archives Digital classroom
Digital History	National Museum of American History	Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
The White House	World Facts	Country Studies
Veterans History Project	AAAWhere	Indians of the Midwest
Awesome Stories (primary sources--ask for password)
Biography
American Presidents	Black History	Hispanic Heritage
Women's History	Inventors Hall of Fame	Great Idea Finder
Science World Biographies	Biography.com	4000 Years of Women in Science
Homework Central-Biographies (webpage of links on biographies)	Biographies of Women Mathematicians	History of Mathematics
American Writers	Poet's Corner	Find a Poet
Children's Authors List	KidsRead (Children's Authors)	Classical Music Dictionary (Biographies)
Texas
New Handbook of Texas	Texas Historical Commission	State Library and Archives--Texas Treasures
Texas State Library Online Exhibits	Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library	Texas Heritage Online
Texas Historic Sites Atlas	Lone Star Junction	Texas Almanac
Digital History--Mexican American	Portal to Texas History	Museum of Houston
Texas Beyond History	Texas Tides	Texas Day by Day
Bullock Museum	Famous Texans	Texas Indians
Southwestern Classics Online	Portal to Texas History	Texas Archive of the Moving Image (scroll to find Teach Texas)
Genealogy
Ancestry.com	Family Search.org	Geneology.com
National Archives and Records	Cyndi's List	U.S. GenWeb Project
Texas Genealogy Project	Texas County and District Clerks	Texas Land Archives
Texas Historical Commissions	Texas State Library	Texas Department of Health Vital Statistics
GoogleBooks (Search on Ancestry Magazine)
Newspapers
Portal to Texas History	California Digital Newspaper Collection	Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Kentuckiana Digital Library	Utah Digital Newspapers	International Coalition on Newspaper


The Arts
Art cyclopedia