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Free educational resources for teachers & students

 

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Visit the web site of the Salesians and their work at the UN

  

• Google
  
• Yahoo!
• My Way ...like Yahoo! but faster
• Academic Info  ...your gateway to quality educational resources
• The Internet Public Library ...great links for all your homework and research needs. Check it out!

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

• Westchester Library System
• Westchester Library System Online Databases ...use your WLS library card to access newspaper and magazine articles and MORE!
• Westchester Library System Reference and Research Guides ...great links for all your homework and research needs.
• WebPALS...click this link to search the card catalogs of local public and college libraries.
  
• Awesome Stories
• Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story.
• howstuffworks
  
• iTOOLS 
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery 
• Library of Congress
• American Memory...American History in Words, Sound & Pictures
• American Memory Timeline
• Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers...from The Library of Congress New!  and Excellent!
• Learning Page
• The Library of Congress presents America's Story from America's Library
• The Library of Congress Exhibitions
• The Library Today
  
• Thomas...Legislative Information
• Help & FAQs...General Information
• The Library of Congress Research Tools
• The Library of Congress Online Catalog
• Famous People...Selected Portraits From the Collections of the Library of Congress
• Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
• SCTB Online...Science Tracer Bullets Online
• International Resources from the Library of Congress
• The Library of Congress' Collection of Web Sites (Alcove 9)
  
• Collections & Services...For Researchers, Libraries & the Public
  
• Copyright Office...Forms & Information
  
• Channel Thirteen WNET New York
• ITV Video-On-Demand...stream or download programming from Channel Thirteen
  
• Sites A-Z...links to Channel Thirteen's programming web sites
• Ed Online...Channel Thirteen's web page for teachers, students, and parents
• Image Library...pictures to download from Channel Thirteen's programming
  
• Babel Fish Translation
  
• Newspapers.com...newspapers online
  
• National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Yahoo Reference Page
• Yahoo News Full Coverage
• The New York Times CyberNavigator
• New York Times Learning Network
• On-Line Weblinks from CNN Headline News
• Biography.com
• Biographical Dictionary
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• My Virtual Reference Desk
• Information Please Almanac
• Great Educational Web Sites

• How-To-Study.com...a Study Skills Resource Site...NEW
  
• Online Games from Sheppard Software...NEW
  
• EducatonAtlas.com...the Study Skills Guide for Students
  
• New York State High School Regents Exam Prep Center
• The Power to Learn by Cablevision
• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Interactive Learning Network
• High School Hub
• Schoolwork.UGH!
• Infoplease.com Homework Page

 

Alternatives to YouTube
Teacher Tube	Teachers TV	iTunes U
PBS Video	Reuters Video News	iCue from NBC News
CNN Student News	C-SPAN Video Library	School Tube
How Stuff Works	History Channel	Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel	Watch Know	The Futures Channel
Ted	Snag Films	Untamed Science
FORA TV	Current TV

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects,
including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents.
  

APWebTeacher For access at Salesian High, use this link: http://apwebserver/apwebteacher For access at home, use this link: http://www.salesianhigh.org:8100/apwebteacher/login.aspx To see a video about entering Progress Report data, click here.

  

• Excellent Guides
• Make Videos on the Web...a Guide for Teachers
• Google Earth Across the Curriculum...a Guide for Teachers
  
• Lesson Planet ...NEW!
  
• Lesson Planet - 150,000 searchable lesson plans reviewed and rated by teachers.
  
• PBS Teachers Activity Packs ...NEW!
  
• Multimedia & Internet @ Schools ...NEW!
• Games for Educators ...NEW!
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• The Ultimate Plagiarism Resource
  
• The Center for Academic Integrity
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
• Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age by Jamie McKenzie
• Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide
• VIDEO LINKS...access for SHS teachers to streaming and downloadable video clips
• WNET Channel Thirteen
• The Discovery Channel
• View a tutorial by clicking here
• The Teachers' Domain
  
• SmartBoard Links
• SMART Technologies Web Site
• EduWare
• 2SimpleUSA
• Getting the Most from your Interactive Whiteboard (from England)
• Get Smart with your Smartboard
• What is an Interactive Smartboard?
• RM Education
• Dutchess BOCES Model Schools
• Wappingers Central School District
• Free Federal Resources for Excellence in Education
• This free resource organizes more than 1,500 lesson plans, primary documents, science animations, math challenges, and works of art, literature, and music from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, National Archives, National Science Foundation, NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Gallery of Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other federal agencies.
  
• The Internet Archive
• The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
• From the Library of Congress: For Teachers
  
• From the Library of Congress: Teaching With Historic Places
  
• Brewer Technology and Learning Center
  
• The Brewer Technology and Learning Center's Online Resources web site continually scours the web for the best free teacher and administrator resources and lists them for teachers to use.
  
• Read - Write - Think 
• 300 reading and language arts lessons from a partnership of the International Reading Association, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
  
• KQED Lesson Plans 
• KQED, San Francisco's public television station, has lesson plans to accompany many of their original programming on multiculturalism and diversity.  Great for social studies classes.
  
• Math Central 
• Math Central is an online resource for math teachers.
  
• Electric Teacher
  
• Constitutional Rights Foundation Online Lessons
  
• TeachersFirst
• A rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and their students' families.
  
• Internet4Classrooms...Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively
  
• TeAch-nology.com 
• Besides the many free worksheets available, this site offers nine online worksheet makers and 16 graphic organizer generators. They include a Crossword Puzzle Maker, Word Search Maker, Web Quest Generator, Weekly Assignment Generator, KWL Template, SQ3R Chart, and a Venn Diagrom.  Reviewed by Classroom Connect.
• Easy Test Maker 
• Creating your tests online is a simple process with this free online test generator.  Many different formats are included such as multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and true/false questions.  Reviewed by Classroom Connect.
• Your Classroom Management Profile 
  
• Inspiration Resources...for teachers using the Inspiration program with their classes
  
• Curriculum Archive...a central repository for lessons and classroom projects.
  
• AskERIC
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Jamie McKenzie's "From Now On" Online Educational Journal
• Channel One Teachers' Guide
• NYSED Part 100 Regulations
• The Lesson Plans Page
• Educational Resources and Lesson Plans
• U.S. Geological Society Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
  
• Slavery in the United States: a Resource Unit for Teachers
• TeachNet.com ...Great "Do Now" Ideas
• WebQuests
• Free Stuff for Educators
• Teaching and Learning on the WWW
• CyberGuides: 9-12 ...Lesson Plans for Assigned Readings
• On-Line Writing Lab (OWL)
• Get Net Wise for Parents

• Financial Aid Webinar: click here
• Parents, if you missed the Financial Aid for College Workshop that was presented here at Salesian, please go to the link above The link will allow you to receive the workshop via your Internet connection at home.
  
• Information About Financial Aid
• FAFSA
• Federal Pin Number
• Finaid: Financial Aid Information Page
• Federal Student Loan Solutions
  
• Federal Student Aid on the Web
• Mapping Your Future
• Project Scholarship Scam
• Taxes for Students
• U.S. Department of Education
• Sources of Aid
• FastWeb Scholarship Search
• Federal Direct Loans
• JobCorps
• AmeriCorps
• City Year
• Resources by State
• Calculators
• College Cost Projector
• Education Online Search...a web-based portal of career and college information
  
• Career Magazine
• The College Board
• Search Colleges and Universities
• Colleges and Universities
• NCAA College-Bound-Student-Athlete
• Higher Education Services Corporation

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church Online
  
• Kofi Annan's Astonishing Facts
  
• Matt Smith of MTV's Chastity Page 
• Disciples Now 
• Catholic Youth Online 
  
• Theology Library  ...good for all Religion projects
• Augustine: Confessions
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Official Vatican Web Site
• Documents of Vatican II
• Catholic Information Network
• Catholic Information Center on Internet
• The Searchable Holy Scriptures
• Black Catholic Information Mall
• Holy Shroud: Official Web Site
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• Shmoop Literature...This site does not contain information about every book you may have to read, but it does include help for most of them.  A MUST for you to check out
  
• Shmoop Poetry...Not every poem you have to study, but help about many of them
  
• Teenreads.com...Teenreads.com brings teens info and features about their favorite authors, books, series and characters.
• The Literature Network...searchable online literature.
  
• Poets.org...biographies of over 500 poets, over 1400 poems, over 100 audio clips
  
• Grammar Bytes
  
• Bartleby
• Great Books Online: An amazingly deep literature resource, Bartleby offers indexed and searchable texts and literary criticism.
  
• Interactive Learning Network
• Online texts of works of literature and information about authors.
• The Literature Page
• Your place to read classic books, plays, stories, poems, essays, and speeches online 
  
• The New York Times Review of Books Online
  
• Science Fiction and Fantasy World
• With more than 10.000 pages of SF and Fantasy related content sffworld.com is one of the largest SF and Fantasy literature websites on the Internet today.
  
• Bibliomania...Free online literature with over 2000 texts
  
  • Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books
  • Study Guides and Research
    
• Theater Reviews
• Salem Witch Trials
• Yahoo Directory: Colonial America > Salem Witch Trials
• National Humanities Center: Witchcraft in Salem Village
• National Geographic: Salem Witch Hunt Interactive
• Famous American Trials: The Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
  
• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Internet Public Library A+ Research and Writing Guide for the High School Student
  
• ABCs of the Writing Process
• Critical Reading: A Guide
• The World eBook Library...the online books page
  
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• American Authors on the Web
• American Authors (from Gonzaga University web site)
  
• Literary Calendar

• The Museum of Online Museums New!
  
• The New Rochelle Council on the Arts (NRCA)
  
• Chord House: Piano Room
  
• Salvador Dali Art Gallery
  
• Eyes on Art...a learning to look curriculum
  
• Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  
• Ask Art 
• Great research site, especially for the Sophomore Art Project!
  
• Mark Kistler's Imagination Station 
• Color Theory 
• Musician.com 
• Ricci Adam's MusicTheory.net 
• Latest Music Headlines
• Play Music Free
  
• The Art Museum Network
• Artcyclopedia
• Web Gallery of Art
• The Roy R. Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase
• Louvre Museum Official Web Site
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  
• National Gallery of Art - The Collection, Washington, DC
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
• The Smithsonian Museum National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  
• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
• Walker Art Center and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Getty Education Institution for the Arts
• The British Museum, London, England
  
• ClipArt.com

See also: Gilder Lehrman Recommended Websites Ordered by Time Period
See also: Digital History...using new technologies to enhance teaching and research

 

Learn about a Port Chester artist who helped create Mount Rushmore.
 
American History Animated!  ...a new look at military history
Main Site
Revolutionary War Battles Animated
Civil War Battles Animated

Special Feature...Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
This online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features
correspondence from more than 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.
  

• An excellent collection of United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.
• From the National Archives web site: Digital Vaults New!  and Excellent!
  
• Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers...from The Library of Congress New!  and Excellent!
  
• Slavery in America New!  and Excellent!
  
• American Rhetoric...includes an online speech bank and Top 100 Speeches
  
• Shmoop U.S. History...brand new site in beta format, a MUST SEE
  
• From the Museum of the Moving Image: The Living Room Candidate
  
• New museum opening soon at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania: The American Revolution Center
  
• The Monticello Classroom: the best resources for classroom or home use about Thomas Jefferson and life at Monticello.
  
• New York State Archives: Reference and resarch services, publications, websites, information about grants and other student awards.
  
• Virtual Archives: a collaborative effort of the Westchester County Archives and the Westchester County Historical Society.
  
• The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History: more than 5,000 original historic manuscripts, documents, newspapers, books, photographs and artifacts, dating from the early 1600s through today.
  
• U-S-History.com....U-S-History.com has been developed to provide students of American history with an interactive tool with which to locate detailed information about the nation's history.
  
• The National Budget Simulation...for Economics class
• The New York City Budget Game...for Economics class
  
• The Concord Review...the web page of the Concord Review Journal found in our library
• The subscription to this journal is paid for by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Click here to go to the National History Club web page.
  
• The Living Room Candidate, Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
  
• From the Museum of the Moving Image, New York
  
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
  
• Mythography
  
• 2004: the bicentennial of Napoleon's coronation as emperor
  
• Economics Quizzes from the Michigan Council on Economic Education
  
• Test your knowledge! Choose the Individual and Economics, Thinking Like a Business, Role of Government, Our Economic System, or Trade.
  
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room from the White House Web Site
  
• Access current federal economic statistics from the White House: Employment, Income, International, Money, Output, Prices, Production, and Transportation.
  
• US State Fact Sheet from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
• This site provides state fact sheets with information on population, employment, income, and farm financial indicators for each state in the United States.
  
• The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
  
• The Federal Reserve Bank: Financial Literacy
• The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
• Yahoo Finance
• Your First Paycheck
• The United States Code
• Social Issues Links Page
• Google Directory Issues Page
• The White House
• Congress Link
• U.S. Census Bureau: Map Stats
• A Chronology of US Historical Documents
• Our Documents
• NativeTech: Native American Technology & Art
• People from New Perspectives on The West by PBS
  
• History Central
• History House
• HyperHistory Online
• Today in History
• Eye Witness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
• The Treasures of China...an Internet based Treasure Hunt on China
  
• AskAsia
• The Forbidden City
• Ancient Greece
  
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Anne Frank Online
• Holocaust Studies
• Museum of Tolerance/Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• NASA eClips
  
• Museum of the History of Science, from Oxford University in England
  
• U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Data
  
• Becoming Human...an amazing online documentary on human evolution.
  
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• NASA's Visible Earth...a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth.
  
• The New York Botanical Gardens
• The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
• Los Alamos National Laboratory 
• The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum
• Science Learning Network
  
• Geology Museum
• The GLOBE Program 
• Little Shop of Physics
• Online Biology Book
  
• BIOMES of the World
• Froguts
• Virtual Frog Builder Game
• National Geographic Xpeditions
• Microsoft's TerraServer
• The Virtual Body
• The Heart: An Online Exploration

• DollarTimes.com
• DollarTimes includes dozens of useful financial calculators and housing info about most cities in the United States. It is a great reference tool.
  
• Graphing Equations...use for Mr. Garmarian's Class
  
• Calculator.com 
• All kinds of calculators for all kinds of problems
  
• MathBlues.com 
• An online e-zine for math students in grades 9 through 12.
  
• PNC Bank: The 12 Days of Christmas
  
• Cool Math...an amusement park of math designed for fun
  
• Pi Pages on the Internet..."Pi Day" Links for Sr. Barbara's 9+ Math A class
  
• Math.com
• Statistics
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes
  

• Medline Plus
• From the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
  
• HeartInfo...includes streaming video and the Interactive Human Atlas
  
• The National Health Museum
• MedLine Plus - National Library of Medicine
• Nutrition Cafe
• How Fit Are You?  Rate Your Plate!
• Your Gross and Cool Body
• Teen Health FX
• Internet Fitness Resource

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