Best Websites for Students

HowStuffWorks is the leading source of credible, unbiasded, and easy-to-understand explanation of how the world actually works. The site's helpful graphics and information videos will also walk you through every topic - clearly, simply, and objectively.

Instructables is the Biggest How To and DIY community where people make and share inspiring, entertaining, and useful projects, recipes, and hacks. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others

Math-Drills.com has over 6,000 free math worksheets with answer keys, which students can use to assess their mastery of basic math facts, and learn essential math skills and new strategies.

Google Scholar is a site that allows you to broadly search for scholarly literature. It features peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, the academic and other scholarly orgranization.

Factmonster.com provides authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions. It has evolved from a radio quiz show to a website and has continued on providing reliable information in a way that engages and entertains people.

YoungMoney is a business and lifestyle magazine written by student journalists and it focuses on money management, entrepreneurship, careers, investing, technology, travel, entertainment, and automotive topics for young adults

HistoryNet contains daily features, photo galleries, and over 1,200 articles originally published in various magazines like America's Civil War, British Heritage, Civil War Times, Military History, and World War II.

SparkNotes gives hundreds of free study guides to help students learn, write a paper, study for a test, and achieve their academic goals. Each guide contains thorough summary and insightful critical analysis for a wide range of subjects

Bibliomania is a free online literature with more than 2,000 e-books from fiction to contemporary articles and interviews with in-depth summaries, discussions, and commentaries to students and teachers alike.

NationalGeographic aims to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge around the globe, and inspire the people to care about our planet. The website features all the latest news about  the environment, animals, people & places, and more.

BiologyCorner is a resource site for biology and science students and teachers. It provides the students with self-explanatory worksheets and also contains suggested classrooms activities.