Homework Help

The following sites were compiled by Pocket Parent webmaster Jo Hansen as an aid to families that have homework.

GEOGRAPHY SITES
* If your little student needs to learn about rain forests, have her go to the Rain Forest Action Network's Kids' Corner, which provides kid-friendly information about our endangered rain forests and what kids can do to help save them:
http://www.ran.org/ran/kids_action/index1.html
* Discovery School: A-to-Z Geography Encyclopedia is a free, online geography encyclopedia. The site, designed by World Book and The DiscoverySchool, has articles, maps, flags, pictures and videos about countries, cities, lakes and rivers of the world:
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozgeography/
* When your child comes home with an assignment to write a report about a state or region, check out this useful web site, which has loads of information about all fifty states:
http://www.50states.com/
* The best place around for geography information is National Geographic, which also has a web site where you can print out hundreds of different kinds of maps:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/
* National Geographic also has a wonderful kids' web page with interactive activities and games:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
* Capital Cities lets you find out the capital for every country in the world, as well as quizzes to test your capital knowledge:
http://www.what-is-the-capital-of.com/
* Looking for a current population of a town, city or any place in the world? Or are you wondering what are the largest cities of the world? Then check out this Gazetteer web site:
http://www.gazetteer.de/

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