General educational websites

About.com
About.com provides an assortment of guides offering practical advice and solutions for daily living. Topic areas include computing and technology, education, electronics and gadgets and hobbies and games.

Ask for Kids
Ask for Kids (formerly known as Ask Jeeves for Kids) is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Using natural-language technology, kids can ask questions such as "What's it like to live in space?" or "Convert 122 centimetres into metres" in the same way they would ask a parent, friend or teacher. The site also provides study resources including a dictionary and thesaurus; a world atlas; an almanac; a clip art library, and in topic areas such as history and science.

HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks provides clear and reliable explanations of how different technologies and systems actually work. The content is provided in bite-size chunks, allowing visitors to digest information at their own speed, or branch off on a tangent if they choose. The website also offers useful illustrations of complex concepts.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the largest reference site on the world-wide-web. Developed collaboratively by over 30,000 contributors from around the world, Wikipedia contains more than ten times the number of entries as the Encyclopedia Britannica in English alone and is constantly expanding and evolving.