Updated on August 10, 2017
These free kid-friendly online research websites, search engines, and references help students with research in all subjects and grades levels. In addition to search tools, there are bibliography tools, MLA citation generators, online dictionaries, primary sources, encyclopedias and thesauruses.
A excellent tool for producing Harvard-style references in the correct format. While it lacks the save bibliography functions of other reference generators, it is simple and accurate. Provides tried and tested results examined by tutors to ensure the correct method…
Make Citation generates citations for students to use in their research paper bibliographies. All of the citation styles commonly used in K-12 are available. So you can fill out information for MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian style citations. Copy and…
Note that as of this writing in 2021, Memidex website is not working. It is now privately owned. This free online dictionary and thesaurus offers definitions, synonyms, adult-filtering, and audio pronunciations in both American and British English. It also has…
Sweet Search is a search engine designed for students. It has several research and search tools. The search engine restricts its results to 35,000 sites reviewed by experts, teachers and librarians for quality and appropriateness. Other tools on the site…
CiteThisForMe is a tool designed to help students prepare their whole bibliography or reference list. It will generate your list in any of several styles. These include APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver among others.
This website is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of roadside and other permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques. It contains photographs, inscription transcriptions, marker locations, maps, additional information and commentary, and links to…
Theses images, videos, and audio recordings are free for public use. They can be used by students and teachers for classroom presentations, research papers, websites, etc. You may not, however, use any of the NASA logos that appear on the…
Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts with this interactive lexicon. It produces bubble diagrams to help students visualize how a word relates to many other words. The words reside in different colored…
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation’s people and economy. Some of the types of data you can see include population, household income, poverty, health insurance, genealogy, business and industry indicators, including foreign…
Enter your question, word, or calculation, and WolframAlpha computes an answer. This unique encyclopedia encompasses all subjects, from math and science calculations and units of measure to famous works of art, sports, and games. You can ask about essentially any…
BibMe provides automated bibliography makers for the most popular bibliography styles used in US schools – APA, MLA, and Chicago Search for a book, article, website, or film or enter the information yourself. Copy and paste or add it to…
Stop pulling your hair out when compiling bibliographies for your school papers. Create a headache-free bibliography with Citation Machine. This tool is designed to assist high school and college students and their teachers to properly reference sources for research papers. …
Free automatic easy bibliography generator. Use the ISBN of a book to generate a bibliography entry that you can copy and paste into your paper. OttoBib can produce entries in MLA format (used by most K-12 students), APA, Chicago-Turabian, BibTex,…
The NYPL has a digital collections of more than 700,000 images and recordings. The collection includes illustrated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and streaming videos. K-12 students and teachers can use these images in their lessons and reports…
Google hosts the photo archive of LIFE magazine, with millions of photographs. They span the 1750s to the 1970s. Most were never published but are now available through the partnership of LIFE and Google. This an excellent resource of images…