Sites-ressources :

	Simple English Wikipedia " intended for people whose first language is not English." (simple.wikipedia.org)
	Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias (stommel.tamu.edu)
	Encyclopedia.com "Newly updated and expanded with more than 50,000 articles plus links giving you access to millions of articles and pictures in Electric Library"
	Fact Monster "This searchable site includes an on-line dictionary and encyclopedia and lots of homework help for science, math, social studies, history, English, and sports. There are also games, quizzes, and daily features".
	Infoplease avec atlas (cartes interactives).
	LEXILOGOS : Dictionnaires, Encyclopédies, Traductions... (lexilogos.com)
	SCEREN - CRDP - Académie de Paris : Dictionnaires et encyclopédies en ligne
	The Probert Encyclopaedia
	Wikipedia Encyclopedia
	World Almanach for kids comportant des dossiers et des liens sur "animals, computers, environment, geography, health, nations, planets, plants, population, religion, science, united states, world history".

Encyclopédies par thème :

Civil Rights - Comic artists - Creatures -
Environment -
History - Holidays -
North American Indians
Railroads -
Science - Symbols -
Textile Industry - Toons
Women

Civil rights :

• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History - (search.eb.com)
  with articles, historical film clips and audio recordings, photographs and other images
  
  

Comic artists :

• The Lambiek Comiclopedia,
  an illustrated compendium of over 6,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples. (lambiek.net)
  
  

Creatures :

• Kid's almanach - (kids.infoplease)
  "Fun facts - Creature catalog : angels, beasts, dragons, water serpents, fairies, giants" avec explications simples, descriptions et superstitions.
  
  

• Encyclopedia A - a guide to Greek gods, spirits and monsters (theoi.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  

Environment :

• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment (ace.mmu.ac.uk) :
  Acid Rain | Air Quality | Atmosphere | Climate | Climate Change Global Warming | Ozone Depletion | Sustainability | Weather
  
  

History :

• Encyclopaedia of USA History:
  1840-1980 : American Civil War (262), Political Figures (170), Political Events (62), Slavery (156), Women's Suffrage (116), Business Leaders (54), Scientists (20), Supreme Court Judges (18), Trade Unions (68), Journalists (84), Newspapers & Magazines (36), European Immigration (270), Artists and Illustrators (28), Cartoonists (56), Photographers (50), Novelists & Poets (58), the First World War (86), Crime & Criminals (26), McCarthyism (110), Roosevelt and the New Deal (56), and the Struggle for Civil Rights (246).
  (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk)
  
  

• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History - (search.eb.com)
  with articles, historical film clips and audio recordings, photographs and other images
  
  

• Second World War Encyclopaedia (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk) :
  Background to the War; Nazi Germany, Chronology of the War, Political Leaders, European Diplomacy, Major Offensives, British Military Leaders, USA Military Leaders, German Military Leaders, Japanese Military Leaders, The Armed Forces, The Air War, The Resistance, Scientists & Inventors, War at Sea, Resistance in Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, War Artists, Weapons and New Technology.
  
  

Holidays :

• Encyclopedia of Days - with short descriptions of holidays (shagtown.com)
  
  

North American Indians :

• Encyclopedia of North American Indians (college.hmco.com)
  
  
  
  
  

Railroads:

• ENCYBERPEDIA - RAILROADS (encyberpedia.com)

Science :

• Scientists and Engineers - Encyclopaedia - Biographies courtes avec liens (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk)
  
  

Symbols :

• Encyclopedia of graphic symbols -
  "SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed.
  The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti."
  
  

Textile Industry :

• An encyclopedia of the Textile Industry in Britain between 1700 and 1900.
  "The website includes information on the different aspects of the domestic system as well as the woolen, cotton, silk and linen industries. The website also features entries on twelve important textile inventions and biographies of inventors (16) and entrepreneurs (28). There is also a series of lessons available that simulates the debate that took placed in the 19th century on the morality and the economic value of child labour in textile factories." (Spartacus Educational)
  
  

Toons :

• Encyclopedia of toons -
  The Toons . The People Behind the Toons . The Companies that Produce the Toons . etc
  
  

Women :

• Children's Encyclopedia of Women
  (by third and fourth grade students at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY.)
  with a timeline and Important Dates in Women's History
  (www2.lhric.org/pocantico)