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RR 2016/107
Fact Monster
Information Please
1998-
URL: www.factmonster.com/
Last visited January 2016
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Keywords Children, Information, Learning
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2016-0021
Fact Monster (www.factmonster.com) is a free reference site for students. It offers quizzes, flash cards, games and homework help on a variety of subjects, including science, math, language arts, the USA and the world. It also offers a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, almanac and atlas. It contains many tools that children need to learn and grow.
Bright colours (like the blue background) and fun fonts make the site clearly for a younger audience right away. The main page, especially, is visually appealing, and it makes you want to delve deeper into the site. With that said, the right side of each page links to some easy games available to...