Research and Library Skills
Burlington-Edison High School Library
ProQuest Searching Tips (a PowerPoint slide show)
Internet Webquest for 9th graders
WORD RESEARCH SITES
| Granger's Index to Poetry |
| Overall Concordances |
| Concordance to Shakespeare |
| Another Shakespeare Concordance |
| The Oxford Shakespeare Concordance |
| Poetry Concordance (Contains concordances for Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, Wordsworth, Hopkins) |
| The Bible Gateway biblical concordance (allows you to search different editions of bible, too) |
| Holy Bible.com (Excellent biblical concordance) |
| Bartlett's Quotations |
| Brainy Quote--thousands of quotations by topic and author. |
| Wordsmyth--Educational dictionary/thesaurus |
| The Word Spy (fun and fascinating information about words and word origins; focuses on older phrases as well as newly coined words) |
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RECOMMENDED SEARCH ENGINES
| Search Engine Watch |
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| Altavista |
| Kartoo--Unusual search engine with visual maps |
| Dogpile |
LIBRARY SKILLS
| Dewey Decimal System--Let's Do Dewey! |
| How to Evaluate a Web Page |
WASHINGTON STATE NEWSPAPERS
| Seattle Times |
| Seattle P-I |
| Bellingham Herald Online |
| Skagit Valley Herald Online |
| Tacoma News Tribune |
| Spokane Spokesman Review |
| Everett Herald |
| Yakima Herald |
WASHINGTON STATE TV STATIONS (westside)
| Kiro TV |
| Komo TV |
| King 5 |
NEWS SOURCES
| News and Newspapers Online |
| CNN |
| Reuters |
| NPR |
| Science News Online |
| Environmental News Network |
| Sporting News |
| Newstrove.com |
| www.newsmax.com |