University of Richmond
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education & Research
The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Kids Search in the Classroom
This is a technology-based lesson that will focus on using the Kids Search database in the Alabama Virtual Library. Learners will work in teams to access information about animals. This lesson will allow students to research a particular...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institute Research Information System
A site from which to search databases of collections belonging to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and for information on hundreds of thousands of artworks in public and private collections worldwide. For serious researchers only,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring the Alabama Virtual Library
In preparation for independent research projects, students in small groups practice proper citation and familiarize themselves with Alabama Virtual Library databases using a graphic organizer.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper
This lesson introduces young scholars to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume...
Other
The Civil War Home Page
Anything that one might need to research or understand the American Civil War can be found on this huge web site! Photo and text database, official records and maps, battles, research pages, and much more can be found in this expansive...
Other
Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists
During the International Polar Year, scientists descended on the Arctic and the Antarctic in droves. While there, they documented their experiences and research work. That rich database of information, covering November 2007 to October...
Library of Congress
Loc: How to Find a Novel,etc. Without Knowing Its Title or Author
Use this guide to help identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase. Trusted databases, library catalogs, and more...
NOAA
Noaa: National Oceanographic Data Center: Home Page
The National Oceanographic Data Center archives and provides public access to global oceanographic and coastal data, products, and information. Fantastic research data.
US Government Publishing Office
U.s. Government Publishing Office: Congressional Reports
Congressional committee transcripts are compiled into the Congressional Reports section of the Government Printing office website. Most of the information included within the Congressional Reports include the gathering of expert...
Other
Foundation Center
Foundation Center is an organization that supports nonprofits by helping them to connect with grants and other means of raising funds. They offer a large database of grant sources at both a national and a global level, as well as...
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Artifact Gallery
A database of artifacts and articles related to Texas and its history. The artifacts are in different museums, or you can restrict your search to the Bullock Museum. You can search by time period from BCE to the present day, and by type...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Other
Tennessee and the Civil War
An extended website that contains links to online databases, service records, memorial rolls, cemetery listings, pension applications for Tennessee Veterans, and more.
Other
Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
In an effort to facilitate efforts by people of Hispanic descent to trace their roots and family trees, this research center maintains a database called The Great New Mexico Pedigree Database where they have combined different sources of...
Other
Massachusetts Civil War: Massachusetts Civil War Research Center
A website containing a database which allows research into individuals and regiments from Massachusetts who fought in the Civil War.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: For Sale: Iceland's Genetic History
Icelandic biomedical company, deCODE, owns exclusive rights to a genetic database of all Icelanders. Studying the genome of the entire population could reveal trends because Iceland is such an isolated and hardly migratory nation. As...
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Pub Med Online Training
Learn how to gain access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Homepage
This site from the Florida Museum of Natural History gives the current events, information about the museum, exhibits and public programs, research and collections, links, etc. to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Other
Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to Ayn Rand Using Online Resources
Students will research Ayn Rand, a contemporary novelist, for biographical information and for her personal philosophy as a prelude to reading her novel, Anthem. Students will partner to gather information via online databases and will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring the Past in 21st Century Ways
Through this project-based lesson, young scholars will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online databases,...
Other
Age of dinosaurs.com
This is a useful site for students doing research for a project, although it does have some distracting ads. There is an ABC list of dinosaurs, a frequently asked questions section, dinosaur evolution charts, and more. Some areas of the...