Website Review - FACT MONSTER: How much you know?

Sometimes holidays become boring, especially when you don’t find anything interesting to do. However, if you have access to a computer, the internet and, above all, your parents’ permission to use the net, you can spend some quality time on a website which is not only free but also insures your parents that it’s a child-friendly, safe and educational site. It will also prove to be a great help in your homework. It’s http://www.factmonster.com.

www.factmonster.com

Children (ages 8-14) will benefit a lot from the site as they will find loads of cool features like encyclopedias, dictionary, quizzes and other information and entertainment stuff on various topics. Its sport section deals with animal, men and women sports, along with discussing superstitions related to different sports. The science section covers health and body, chemistry, physics, etc. Besides this, it has sections for math and money (includes measurements, fractions, tables and formulas, etc.), world news, world geography, religion, history, word-wise with grammar and spelling, language, people, homework center and much more.

The site is too ‘filling’ in the sense that it hosts loads of information about all the fields mentioned above, but, let me assure you, once you start navigating, the site will open doors to a wonderful world of information and knowledge. To keep you interested, it also offers special features, games and quiz-related to that particular section.

Reliability of the information provided can be verified from the fact that it comes from authentic sources like The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, The Time for Kids Almanac, etc.

By the way, do you know how much skin people shed in their lifetime? No? Well, log on to http://www.factmonster.com and know the answer!— Aamir Raz Soomro