High+School

=Specific Subject Areas=
 * 1) [|Shmoop] - Like Cliff's Notes, specifically for Literature, US History, and Poetry. This site WILL be discovered by our students, so you might as well explore and see if it's got potential for your class. This is a quality resource for quick, easy, reliable information.
 * 2) [|BibMe] - This site is a fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.
 * 3) [|Vocaroo] - helps educators create simple podcasts through voice recordings.All you need is a computer with a microphone. By clicking on the web site’s “record” button, you can record any message–a useful tool for language classes in particular. You then can send the recording to the eMail addresses of your choice with the click of a button, and you can ask for the recording’s embed code to add the message to any web site or blog.
 * 4) [|Thousands of free powerpoints]
 * 5) [|7-12 Student Interactives]- Science, Health, Technology, Art, Language Arts, Brain Games, Mathematics, Social Studies
 * 6) [|Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena]
 * 7) [|Make Beliefs Comix] - Create your own comic strip! Good for Vocabulary, foreign language, creative writing, drama, etc.
 * 8) [|TeachersFirst]- TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.
 * 9) [|Quizlet] - Browse and use millions of flashcards created by other students and teachers, or create your own. Depending on your mood and needs, choose from five different learning modes:
 * 10) **Familiarize Mode** gives you a taste of the material before diving in.
 * 11) **Learn Mode** is the most powerful study mode, keeping track of your scores, retesting incorrect answers, and letting you pause and resume study sessions.
 * 12) **Test Mode** is the most versatile study mode, supporting short-answer, matching, multiple choice and true/false testing, or any combination. It also scores your answers with easy-to-read corrections.
 * 13) **Scatter** is a fun matching game which lets you drag and drop questions and answers with your mouse while racing against the clock.
 * 14) **Space Race** is the ultimate video game study simulation. Racing the clock, you type in answers to questions flying overhead before they evade your grasp.


 * 1) Art
 * 2) [|Directory of online art resources, links, lesson plans, powerpoints, and more]
 * 3) Bible
 * 4) [|Ancient Mesopotamia] - Learn about the ancient Mesopotamians and how they helped shape life as we know it today. Integrate primary resources into classroom study with lesson plans and activities. Go on an archaeological dig and explore ancient sites in Iraq! Examine artifacts in-depth and see interviews with archaeologists.
 * 5) Business
 * 6) [|NEFE High School Financial Planning Program]- This award-winning, free, non-commercial financial education program is in schools throughout the nation.
 * 7) [|MyMoney.gov]- MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education.
 * 8) [|Council for Economic Education]- lesson plans and online resources, most of which are free
 * 9) [|Family Economics and Financial Education] - free lesson plans
 * 10) [|Take Charge of your Finances]- Semester curriculum - free
 * 11) [|PBS Economics Resources]- including lesson plans and other resources
 * 12) [|Financial Literacy Project] - simulations, loan, credit, checking accounts, insurance, financial calculators, etc.
 * 13) [|Financial Football] - Separate levels for High school and college, this game is a good way to interest sports-minded kids in personal finance
 * 14) [|Access, Analyze, Act] - PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting created this free online curriculum for finance and economics education, complete with lesson plans, case studies, online video clips, and more
 * 15) Computers
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|CyberSmart!] - Free to educators, the CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. The website has lessons geared toward different grade levels and on a variety of topics related to technology use. There are student worksheets, home discussion pages, activities, and more...all FREE!
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Typing
 * 18) [|Aunt Lee Easy Typing Games]
 * 19) [|Aunt Lee Hard Typing Games]
 * 20) [|Typing Test]
 * 21) [|Typing Bubbles]
 * 22) [|Typing Goalie (demo)]
 * 23) [|Free typing games]
 * 24) [|Typer Shark]
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">English/Language arts
 * 26) [|Tons of links to online middle/high school English/Language Arts sites][|Lit to Go] - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, and even print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Story Starter] - Starter provides 345,935,040 creative ideas for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly generated. The story starters can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun. Now, your students have no reason to say that they can't think of something to write about!
 * 28) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|American Rhetoric] - online bank of famous speeches from politicians, celebrities, etc. Some have just the transcript, but some have recorded audio, like [|these]
 * 29) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Doc Cop] - Accurate, Fast, Free, Simple Plagiarism Detection
 * 30) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Vocab Sushi] - Trying to memorize 8,000 SAT words can be a daunting task, even for the most assiduous of students. But SAT tutor Jeff Novich has launched a new web site that helps students learn vocabulary the old-fashioned wayby reading. VocabSushi searches through news stories online for sentences with vocabulary words that typically appear on the SAT and GRE. It's free!
 * 31) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Foreign Language
 * 32) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|A directory of hundreds of links, some specific to Spanish, but others that are flexible]
 * 33) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|That Quiz] - A variety of customizable online, interactive quizzes that give immediate feedback. No need to create an account, but if you do, it will track your students' progress
 * 34) [|Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning]- from Michigan State. Lots of cool tools to make use of the internet.
 * 35) [|SMILE]- One of the many free applications from #3, this allows you to create any of the following activities without much of a learning curve: Multiple-choice, True/False, Drag/Drop, Sentence Mix, Paragraph Mix, Cloze, Multiple-Select . NOTE* - you have to create a free account to use this tool.
 * 36) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">History/Social Studies
 * 37) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|A directory of online social studies sites (Geography, History, Economics, US History)]
 * 38) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|That Quiz] - A variety of customizable online, interactive geography quizzes that give immediate feedback. No need to create an account, but if you do, it will track your students' progress
 * 39) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|American Rhetoric] - online bank of famous speeches from politicians, celebrities, etc. Some have just the transcript, but some have recorded audio, like [|these]
 * 40) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Free Current Events Lessons] - updated daily
 * 41) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Traveler IQ Challenge] - great way to test knowledge of locations on a map, from world capitals, to state capitals, to famous locations, and more
 * 42) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|CNN Student News] - a 10-minute daily news video targeted for grades K-12, complete with questions, lesson plans and quizzes that correspond with today's news
 * 43) [|Council for Economic Education]- lesson plans and online resources, most of which are free
 * 44) [|Kids in the House] - The Kids in the House Web site is a public service provided by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Our mission is to provide educational and entertaining information about the legislative branch of the United States government to students of all age levels. Topics covered include the role of the U.S. House of Representatives, the legislative process, and House history.
 * 45) [|Tutorial for creating a timeline in Excel] - Do you or your students find yourself spending hours making timelines to help you study a subject, review for tests, or present student projects? Using a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet to create a timeline can save hours on student and teacher projects and also lets you easily and clearly organize a lot of information.
 * 46) [|PrimaryAccess] - PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. PrimaryAccess was designed for use in K-12 classrooms to aid in teaching content knowledge, critical thinking skills and even writing or storytelling skills. Teachers can set up and manage class activities and materials with ease using TeacherTools. Students then access the activities using MovieMaker and StoryBoard.
 * 47) [|Avalon Project] - The Avalon Project, produced by Yale University, provides digital copies of hundreds of original documents from a myriad of topics in US History.
 * 48) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Ancient Mesopotamia] - Learn about the ancient Mesopotamians and how they helped shape life as we know it today. Integrate primary resources into classroom study with lesson plans and activities. Go on an archaeological dig and explore ancient sites in Iraq! Examine artifacts in-depth and see interviews with archaeologists.
 * 49) [|World History for Us All] - a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools.
 * 50) [|Geography and Geometry] - I offer you today the materials and instructions to send your students, grades 4 through college, on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Your students will sail galleons from the prescribed European ports of Lisbon, Plymouth, Brest, and Cadiz in route to the New World. They should work in groups of three to complete their voyage. Your students will use Word and Insert Shapes to plot the desired course. They will plot that course on Bing Maps®.
 * 51) Home Economics/Foods
 * 52) [|Visual Recipes] - a new site where recipes are listed step-by-step along with accompanying photos. It’s a great place where students can both read and easily add recipes. However, the site has a strange “terms of use” policy which says you’re supposed to be at least eighteen years old in order to post a recipe. That’s an unfortunate restriction which doesn’t make much sense to me.
 * 53) Library Skills
 * 54) [|Online games that review library skills]
 * 55) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Math
 * 56) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Tons of links to online high school math sites, activities, tutorials, games, etc.]
 * 57) [|TeacherZone] where teachers can access thousands of 3-5 minute instructional math videos mapped to state standards for grades 3 – 10 (Algebra 1 & Geometry). It's a free resource, and teachers can use the video lessons in their classes, embed as homework help, and share with other teachers, parents, and students.
 * 58) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Math board game instructions (pdf format)]
 * 59) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Math and physics tutorials] - on YouTube but categorized by subject within math
 * 60) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Math Warehouse] - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Math Warehouse--a web site dedicated to dynamic Math lessons, demonstrations and interactive activities. Created by Westchester, NY math teacher, Vernon Morris, this is an extensive collection of interactive Flash tools to assist students with the learning of math.
 * 61) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Create custom graph paper]- This program generates a PDF file that is customized to your needs. Simply click and download the paper onto your desktop, and feel free to use it as often as you wish.
 * 62) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Sudoku]-
 * 63) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|That Quiz] - A variety of customizable online, interactive math quizzes all the way from arithmetic to calculus that give immediate feedback. No need to create an account, but if you do, it will track your students' progress
 * 64) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Math Way]- put in an equation or problem and it solves it and shows the steps to get there. Kids are going to be using this soon (once one of them finds it and passes it on), so you may as well be aware of it. It has specialized sets of commands and symbols for a variety of courses from Algebra to Geometry to Calculus
 * 65) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|The Futures Channel]- math & science videos, arranged by subject area, with free learning activities to accompany the video
 * 66) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|N Rich Mathematics] - site with tons of activities and resources for all levels of math
 * 67) [|Math Blackline Masters] -Check out this large collection of Mathematics Blackline Masters. They're all available in pdf or MS Word format. Just download and print what you need.
 * 68) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Resource Room at Math Central]- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Math Central is an Internet service for mathematics students and teachers. The site is maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It became an internet site in September, 1995 and has since earned several awards.
 * 69) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Graph Sketch] - This site allows you to put in coordinates and functions. You just click Plot and it plots it. It also allows you to easily download the resulting graph as a picture file that can be used in powerpoint or anywhere else.
 * 70) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Geography and Geometry] - I offer you today the materials and instructions to send your students, grades 4 through college, on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Your students will sail galleons from the prescribed European ports of Lisbon, Plymouth, Brest, and Cadiz in route to the New World. They should work in groups of three to complete their voyage. Your students will use Word and Insert Shapes to plot the desired course. They will plot that course on Bing Maps®.
 * 71) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Music
 * 72) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Blank Music Sheets] - customizable time signature, key signature, tablatures, and more.
 * 73) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Good Ear]- Online ear training, including perfect pitch, intervals, chords, and more!
 * 74) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|Online Directory of various music websites]
 * 75) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|JamStudio.com] - <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">JamStudio lets everyone be a musician, even if the only thing you can play is your iPod. Be sure to check out the section called "In the Classroom" for some specific information.
 * 76) PE/Health
 * 77) [|Lots of sites, sorted by PE, Health and Nutrition]
 * 78) [|LearnToBeHealthy.org] - LearntobeHealthy.org is an online health education center that has been designed to help educators, teachers, parents, families and the community communicate physical and mental health science education concepts to students K-12 through health educational resources such as games, activities, and lesson plans. LearntobeHealthy.org's web-based kits meet many National and State Health, Science and Technology Education standards and make health education fun
 * 79) [|Healthy Roads Media] has some great web-based multimedia tools. This would be good for independent learning (lab situation with headphones/earbuds), with a worksheet. Students can watch/listen at their own pace.
 * 80) [|Calorie King] - different kinds of food. It would require some pre-teaching on what nutrition labels mean, though.
 * 81) [|Fatburgr]- basic nutritional information on menus from popular fast food restaurants in a very simple and accessible interface.
 * 82) [|Food Safety Music Videos] - They’re closed-captioned and not sung very fast.
 * 83) [|Interactive food games] - for younger kids
 * 84) [|Make your calories count] - a good tutorial from the Food and Drug Administration. It demonstrates how to read nutrition labels on food products.
 * 85) Science
 * 86) [|A directory of educational Science websites arranged by course]
 * 87) [|LearningScience.org] - This site contains several interactive web animations and lessons. It is organizes first by major topic (e.g. Physical Science, Life Science, etc.) then by grade level, then by specific content.
 * 88) [|Periodic Table Videos] - Each element has its own video
 * 89) [|Tour the Brain] interactively
 * 90) [|The Futures Channel]- math & science videos, arranged by subject area, with free learning activities to accompany the video
 * 91) [|Scitable] - A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.