Links

Search Engines & the Skills to Use

• Online Search Skills (Teenspace@Internet Public Library)

• Google

• Altavista

• AskJeeves

• Additional Search Engines

General Resources 

• BCPS Online (SAT, College Prep, Careers)

• Biography.com

• Puzzlemaker (Discovery Channel)

• Ask Us Now (An online 24 hour interactive service, BCPL)

• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

• SAT Question of the Day

Writing

• Step by Step Guide to Research and Writing (Teenspace@Internet Public Library)

• Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)

• Purdue's Writing Hand-outs

• Roget's Thesaurus

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Ready Reference Tools

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• Encyclopedia.com

• Encarta

• Information Please

• Columbia Encyclopedia

• CIA World Fact Book

• World Atlas

Libraries

• BCPL (Baltimore County Public Library)

• Library of Congress

• Maryland Digital Collection 

• SAILOR (Maryland's Public Information Network)

• Internet Public Library

Government

• THOMAS (Legislative information on the Internet)

• First Gov (US Government's Official Web Portal)

• Maryland State Department of Education

• Maryland Manual Online

• Maryland State Government (The Electronic Capitol)

• American Memory

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Literature

Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Program

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults

Quick Picks for Young Adult Reluctant Readers

http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/other/approach.htm

http://gopher.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/spring97/litcrit.html

http://www.brainstorm-services.com/wcu-lit/critical-approaches.html

Sample applications of critical approaches

http://www.mvc.dcccd.edu/ArtScien/Eng/INSTRUCT/grimes/2371/CriticalAppr.htm

Careers

Career Interest Quiz

http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html

www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/career_quiz1.asp

Connecting Personality Types with Careers and Jobs

http://www.doi.gov/octc/typescar.html

 

Job Outlook 

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.toc.htm

 

Occupational Outlook Handbook

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocoiab.htm

 

A Day in the Life Career Information

 http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/search/careerSearch.asp

 

Online Resume Tutor

 http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/ecep/resume/

 

Start Your Career with the Military

 http://www.myfuture.com/t2_milops.html