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• Astronomy Picture of the Day — NASA site features a different daily image or photograph of the universe with a brief explanation.
• Awesome Library — Consists of 37,000 "carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education," organized by user type and topic.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations — Has more than 11,000 quotations from the 1919 tenth edition, searchable by subjects, titles, and authors.
• Citation Machine — Aims to "make it easy for student researchers to cite their information sources."
• College Board's Full Practice Test — Offers the official SAT practice test.
• Coolmath.com — Lessons and help with pre-algebra, algebra, pre-calculus, and calculus.
• KidsHealth.org: WORD! A Glossary of Medical Terms — Easy-to-use children's medical dictionary
• Mother Goose — In addition to an alphabetical master list of rhymes, users will find rhymes grouped by themes.
• Nova — Provides teachers and students access to articles, audio slide shows, audio stories, expert Q&A, interviews, time lines and more related to this TV series.
• Study Guide Zone — Focusing on improving standardized test scores, this site covers a wide variety of standard college and professional tests.
• Virtual Frog Dissection Kit — Users dissect Fluffy the frog and can also play the "Virtual Frog Builder Game."
• Voice of America (VOA) — Offers VOA's popular articles, with language exercises that include videos, vocabulary and listening practice.
• A.Word.A.Day — This can help build vocabulary via a daily e-mail or weekly visit to the site.