Homework Help

Homework Buddies is starting Tuesday Nov 16 and will continue Monday – Thursday between 4:30-7:30 until May 19, 2022.

This is a free service provided by teens to help younger children and their peers. We will have a list of subjects for older students who need specific help (for example calculus or French) at the Information Desk. Registration is not required, if all tutors are busy, a wait may be necessary. Everyone is required to wear a mask in the library.

Additional Resources to help with Homework

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App Inventor

Designed to help beginners program mobile apps for Android. Offers tutorials with step-by-step directions.

Amazing Space

Learn about astronomy, space, telescopes, stars, discoveries. Includes “Tonight’s Sky” constellations, deep sky objects and planets.

Animal Information Database

Designed especially for students, the Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database provides cool animal facts, quizzes, activities!

Ask a Biologist

Explore the fascinating world of biology through puzzles, quizzes, and games! A real biologist will also answer your biology questions.

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Chem4Kids

Covers matter, elements, atoms, reactions, and describes different types of chemistry ranging from biochemistry to physical chemistry.

CIA World Factbook

CIA World Factbook provides information on the history, economy, government, and demographics of the world’s countries.

City Kidz World

City Kidz World literary magazine helps students develop a love of reading, writing, and vocabulary. Inside the magazine, there are stories, essays, poems, and art by children grades 1st through 12th.

Code.org

Features Hour of Code, a special program designed to teach beginners how to code. Tutorials for people of all ages to learn Scratch, Hopscotch and Java programming languages.

Cool Math 4 Kids

An amusement park of games, lessons and more, designed to teach math and make it FUN.

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Ducksters

An educational site covering history, science, geography, math, and biographies. Pages are written to be easy to read and understand.

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Get Set 4 Kindergarten

This guide to school readiness includes four sections that change monthly. Each section includes book and website recommendations.

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IXL

On IXL, math is more than just numbers. With unlimited questions, engaging item types, and real-world scenarios, IXL helps learners experience math at its most mesmerizing!

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Math TV

Learn a variety of mathematical concepts including basic math, algebra, and geometry, through free, easily downloadable videos.

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NASA Climate Kids

Clear answers to questions on global climate through sections on weather, air, the ocean, fresh water, carbon, energy, plants and animals and technology.

NASA for Kids

NASA for kids provides information on Space Exploration, Astronomy, and NASA as a whole.

NRICH

Here you’ll find mathematical games, problems and articles for grades 1-12 presented in a way that makes math fun!

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Ology

From the American Museum of Natural History – kids can learn about all the cool creatures and natural elements that make up our world.

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PBS Reading Games

PBS Kids has more than 60 reading games, with characters from Sesame Street, Clifford, Martha Speaks, Cailou, and more.

Periodic Table of Elements

A Periodic Table of Elements that contains more than 25 scientific truths about each element including density, state, atomic radius, etc.

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The Science Kids

Provides fun and interesting information on science and technology, searchable by grade level. Find games, experiments, activities and more!

Scratch

Programming language and an online community; program and create your own interactive stories, games and animation and share with others.

Starfall

Short stories that concentrate on a vowel or blend sound. Useful for children in preschool through second grade.

StoryBlocks

Watch short videos modeling songs, rhymes, and fingerplays for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Each video includes helpful early literacy tips.

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United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey presents resources that may be useful to those in grade Kindergarten to Grade 6.

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Walking With Dinosaurs

Created by the BBC, Walking with Dinosaurs features individual pages featuring interesting facts, images and statistics on particular dinosaurs.

World Almanac for Kids

The World Almanac for Kids is an online resource that provides resources for homework, reports, and projects, and entries for biographies, maps, timelines, primary source documents, images and videos.

World Book Online

World Book Online offers thousands of articles, as well as hundreds of maps, videos, and other media for an immersive learning experience.

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Zoom Dinosaurs

Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive guide to dinosaurs featuring interesting facts and articles.

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