Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is an amazing search engine that serves as an advanced calculator, online dictionary, and virtual database of people, events, statistics, countries, nutritional information, weather, maps, science, art, technology, and more. To see examples of what you can look up with Wolfram Alpha, click here. Follow this link to go straight to the search engine itself. 

The search engine is free, but if you'd like to take it on the go with you, you can download the Wolfram Alpha app for your tablet or smart phone for a small fee.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Research Resources

Finding a reliable resource when doing research can be difficult at the best of times. Thankfully, the CIA World Fact Book, the Library of Congress archives, and the National Archives Digital Vault are here to help.

The CIA World Fact Book gives you an amazing array of information about every country and region in the world.

The Library of Congress and the National Archives Digital Vault both give students access to a huge variety of historical documents and photographs that will prove useful to any researcher, and the interface is assessable to almost any grade level.

CIA World Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/

National Archives: http://digitalvaults.org/