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Quia Verb Game- site is for Spanish II and III students games, activities and practice tests beneficial to their learning
Quia Vocabulary Game- site is for Spanish II and III students games, activities and practice tests beneficial to their learning
Learn Spanish- site for all levels of Spanish- grammar, culture, vocabulary and penpals...much much more
What is Falmenco? - a European musical form
All about Spain- culture, travel and photo tour
The Paris Pages/ Les Pages de Paris - everything you need to know about the City of Light (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 17)
Louvre Museum Official Website - collections contained in the famous museum and take a virtual tour of the museum (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 20)
Perseus Project Home Page - Latin literature of the Golden period including Ovid, Horace, Virgil. Both in Latin and English ( Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 19)
MIT Libraries: Foreign Language News and Newspapers - electronic newspapers, journals and magazines available in Spanish and French as well as German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 10,18,20)
Library of Congress Country Studies - studies of one hundred countries showing language, culture, education, geography, terrorism, tourism, history, economy, environment, government and politics. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 17)
Library of Pictures - pictures for travel brochures (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 17)
History of France- Primary Documents -links to historical documents (mainly primary) that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile or translated (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 20)
History of Spain- Primary Documents - links to historical documents (mainly primary) that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile or translated (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 20 )
French Culture Everything about the French way of Life
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GENETICS Good site with real life applications and jobs. Some access to advanced topics. Lots of activities and easy to read.
THE WHY FILES The science behind the news with flashy graphics. Good for all levels. Defines all vocabulary. Pictures make things easier to understand.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY Good for AP bio due to lab tips (but no answers), AP exams are explained as well as other course information.
BIOLOGY Quizzes, discussions, virtual dissections. Good for all levels of biology.
The Biology Project: Questions and tutorials with self assessment- excellent for Biology and Health classes
NASA- official website containing aerospace, technology, human exploration and development of space, earth science and space science. View the latest imagery from the Hubbell Telescope (Curriculum Frameworks Earth Science Learning Standard 8)
Spotlight Biography:Inventors -biographies and images of famous inventors with links to historical backgrounds and information on each actual invention (Curriculum Frameworks Technology/Engineering Learning Standard 4)
Environmental Protection Agency -extensive coverage in the Student's Pages of environmental issues, including air, water, wastes and recycling, human health. Gives text of legislation and links to websites outside the agency. (Curriculum Frameworks Technology/Engineering Learning Standards 8)
Medline -National Library of Medicines search service that provides access to ten million citations on MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and other related databases with links to participating online journals. (Human Physiology Course)
Online Interactive Periodic Table of Elements - picture of a periodic table with links from each chemical element to a chart of data about it (melting point, boiling point, number of protons and electrons, etc.), a diagram of its atomic structure, information about isotopes, and some history of the element (Curriculum Frameworks Chemistry Learning Standard 6)
Walk through Time history of timekeeping at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Information concerning ancient calendars, early clocks, advances in timekeeping, from the Middle Ages to Atomic ages, world time scales (Longitude), and time calibration.
Physics Mr. Fizzix Links to interesting websites about physics.
InteliHealth John Hopkins University web site on health and prevention, news about research developments, discussions of specific diseases, allergies, cancer and intestinal illnesses. Provides access to the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary and medical databases like MedLine or CancerLit and the Drug Resource Center.
The Human Genome Project coordinated by the U.S. Dept. of Energy and National Institute of Health to identify and study the make-up of human DNA. (Curriculum Frameworks Life Science Learning Standard 3-6)
How Stuff Works Explains the mechanics of engines, electronics, automotives, things from the home and industries etc.
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The Biology Project: Questions and tutorials with self assessment- excellent for Biology and Health classes
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The Mathematics Atlas- collection of short articles designed to provide instruction in the areas of modern math and links to further information. Topics include number theory, algebra, geometry, probability and statistics. Has built-in search engine. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 2.14,3.5)
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics - comprehensive encyclopedia with nearly all math terms (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 2.14, 3.5)
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RPO: Representative Poetry Online - Resources on poets, poetic language, literary criticism and poems; searched by name, title, textual keyword and year; upwards of 2000 poets represented on this site.
Bulfinch's Mythology -full-text of Greek and Roman myths (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 16)
Encyclopedia Mythica -encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, legends, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 8)
Salem Witch Trials - chronology of trials and events leading to the trials. Pictures of Salem and a list of books about the trials (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 11,26 )
MLA Style Citations - style guide for documenting sources of information found both in print and online (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 24)
Citing Internet Sources - examples of MLA style citing of Internet sources. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 24)
Online Literary Criticism Collection - 2662 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Browse by title, nationality or literary period. British and American authors from pre-1500 are included. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 17)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 20)
Library of Congress -full-text of all bills submitted to the present and past Congresses, links to the three branches of government, biographies and voting records of U.S. Representatives and Senators. Has built-in search engine. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 3,20)
Perseus Project Homepage -descriptions of art and archaeology, an atlas, essays, Latin grammar and Greek history (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard16)
Homework Center - Social Issues - students and teachers can find both sides of approximately 37 important social issues.
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Civil War: United States Colored Troops - A clear overview of the service of black soldiers in the Civil War, and uses hyperlinks within the text to point to further detail. Users can branch out from the overview and explore certain battles or regiments.
Civil War Resources -Civil War resources including web sites, books and letters
The History Index - major gateways to various historical resources, instructional materials and clickable maps
World time - interactive world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times and a database of public holidays worldwide
Census Bureau Digital Map Database - high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the USA, using public geographic data
Colorland Form Atlas of the United States - shaded relief maps, county maps, black and white maps, satellite images and 1895 maps for each state
The History Place - timelines, maps, photos from the revolution to the 20th century. Some primary sources (quotes). Portraits of all presidents with audio of important speeches. (Curriculum Framework History Learning Standard 3)
American Memory from the Library of Congress - over 70 historical collections. Many original documents, 1st person narratives, test of important speeches and maps. (Curriculum Framework History Learning Standard 3)
Spanish American War Centennial - extensive coverage of the Spanish American War including basic facts, a chronology of events, first hand accounts, action reports of the war on all fronts, and many pictures. Includes a bibliography. (Curriculum Frameworks History Learning Standard 2,3)
Peter Castaneda Library Map Collection - collection of political, topographic and thematic maps of continents, regions, countries, states and provinces. Has historical maps dating back to B.C. Contains links to other map collections. (Curriculum Frameworks History Learning Standard 8, Geography Learning Standard 2)
African-American History Pamphlet Collection - review of African-American history and culture spanning almost 100 years, from the early 1900's through the early 20th century, with most material published between 1875 and 1900. Among authors represented are Fredrick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel and Emanuel Love. (Curriculum Frameworks History Learning Standard 3)
The American Promise - companion website for the AP textbook, The American Promise. This site is designed to help students review key facts and concepts from the textbook and enrich their understanding of special topics.
Western European Primary Historical Documents -links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile or translated (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 3)
National Archives and Records Administration -full-text of the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, the amendments, Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carter and more. Also has biographies of each of the fifty five delegates to the Constitutional Convention. (Curriculum Frameworks Civics and Government Learning Standard 17)
Michelangelo biographical data , pictures of art work including painting in sistine chapel and the stories behind his paintings.
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