Some easy to use search engines include: Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, GoodSearch, and Ask.  Remember that not everything you find on the internet is updated, accurate, objective, or complete.  Using a variety or resources, and knowing how to evaluate your sources, helps improve the chance that the information you gather is both correct and complete!  The following links are just a tip of the iceberg in terms of websites that can help lighten your schoolwork load:

EasyBib & Noodle Tools
EasyBib and Noodle Tools are both citation sources that help create your bibliography automatically!  All you have to do is enter in the content and the website will electronically organize the information into the correct bibliographic format.

Fact Finder
American Fact Finder allows you to search for census statistics from around the country, plus much, much more.

Hangout, NJ
This is the next generation in games, New Jersey Facts, and up-to-date government information.  You can do you homework and play around at the same time!

Highlands Region Library Cooperative Youth Services Committee
The charge of the HRLC Youth Services Committee is to advise on the planning, development, and implementation of programs and services in the area of service to children and young adults to offer to all libraries in the Highlands Region.  This website includes website links and information for homework assignments that will be useful to students and teachers.

Internet Public Library’s Homework Help
IPL has tones of resources for homework help, including links to information about citations and copyright, internet searching, writing tips, and study skills and time management.

Seattle University Library
This university site provides instructions on different citation styles (MLA, APA, etc.), including how to prepare a works cited page for a paper, how do include in-text citations, and how to write an annotated bibliography.

Spark Notes
Spark Notes study guides – but online!  Including No Fear Shakespeare, College Search, and Test Prep.

World FactBook
The CIA’s electronic FactBook is updated periodically throughout the year and contains lots of specific country information – in text and images.