Fact Monster: Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
About
Fact Monster is a website geared towards children. It is owned by Infoplease. Infoplease is a subsidiary of Pearson which is an educational publishing company. Pearsons businesses and brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
Review
Fact Monster features include a reference desk with a homework center, timelines, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Random House Dictionary, an atlas, maps and an almanac. Information is available on world history, geography and news, the United States, people, sports, science, math and money, books, language, and mythology. The information offered through Fact Monster is citable. There is help for writing citations. It also features quizzes, flashcards, and Flash-based games. There are teacher and parent resource pages. In 2001, it won a Webby Award for best kids' site.
Genre: Digital Media - Website
Warnings: None
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Target Audience: Age 9 to 14
This website is included because it offers good information from citable sources.
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