Educational Internet Resources
Resources Made Available Through SASD
Student Research Resources
- Fact Monster (A search engine for interesting facts.)
- Homework Spot (A helpful resource for homework & science fair ideas.)
- Infoplease (An atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, & history guide all in one!)
- iTools.com (A guide to online tools, tell iTools what you want to do and it will give you best tool for the job.)
- PHD Resource Guide (A PHD education resource guide for students who want to earn a PHD.)
USA Test Prep (An online test bank that students can use for remediation.)
Languages
- More free websites for Italian, French, and Spanish. Free to join, take quizzes and see how you compare to others! Review or learn something new. You don’t have to join to take the online quizzes/assessments – and they give you a score of how well you did as well.
French (to learn free – French.)
Italian (to learn free – Italian.)
Spanish (to learn free – Spanish.)
- Any Language above plus some
Libraries & Museums
- Library of Congress (Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services from the Library of Congress.)
- National Archives (Access to records of our nation’s past.)
- National Art Gallery (Information about the collection, current & upcoming exhibitions, conservation techniques, & art research.)
- Smithsonian (The website for the world’s largest museum.)
- LibrarySpot (A collection of information on libraries as well as being a reference portal of its own, for everything from acronyms to zip codes.)
- Archaeology Channel (Explore the human and cultural heritage through streaming media.)
- Exploratorium (Explore science through interactive media.)
Math
Professional & Teacher Resources
- Microsoft’s Patners in Learning Program (A large body of tutorials & tools tailored towards educators from Microsoft.)
- Sites for Teachers (A list of eduactional sites ranked by popularity)
- TeachersFirst (A resource to help teachers to teach each other.)
- TeacherVision (Lesson plans, printables, reading lists, & more!)
- MIT OpenCourseware (Lectures, assignments, & all for free from one of America’s leading Universities.)
- Stanford Online (Live & archived courses for free from one of America’s leading Universities.)
- National Center for Education Statistics (The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.)
- US Department of Education (A federal guide to news, resources, research, policy, funding, & how it all relates to education.)
- FreeEd (Free Teaching Resources from Federal Agencies)
- Instructional Design (A guide to designing your own curriculum)
- PA Endangered Species (Endangered species in the state of PA)
Mapping & Global Information Systems
- Google Earth (Look at satelite imagery from anywhere on earth.)
- MapMaker Interactive (Customize maps by selecting what data to include from National Geographic’s extensive collection.)
- National Atlas (A collection of maps of the US that cover a unique variety of topics like history, geology, biology, and a lot more.)
- World Atlas (An atlas that with maps and facts from all over the globe.)
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