Web Resources Secondary
SECONDARY WEB RESOURCES
Please explore all the wonderful web resources we've listed on this page. Or go straight to your one menu item to see what links there are to resources on that topic. Just click on the links below to find a wealth of great information. Enjoy! Secondary Web Resources
MENU
Search Engines and Directories
Dictionaries and General Resources
Subject Guides, Homework Helps...
English
- Vocabulary (SAT prep)
- American Literature
- British Literature
Social Studies
- American History
E-books (books you can download for free)
Film (for Film Analysis class)
SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES
A search engine searches the Web for sites that have your search terms in them. No one search engine can search the entire WWW at once, so try more than one if you don’t find what you’re looking for right away. Remember to evaluate the sites you find using the guidelines for evaluating Web sites checklist.
Recommended Search Engines
Sweet Search A search engine for students: Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts.
WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine
AlltheWeb find it all
AltaVista
Yippy Clusters results to help refine search topics.
Parallel Search Engines
Parallel Search Engines utilize several search engines at once.
Directories
A directory contains links to Web sites that have been actually reviewed by people. This means that these sites have been reviewed for content accuracy and helpfulness. You won’t have as many sites to choose from when using a directory, but you may find a useful site more quickly and easily. Remember to evaluate the Web sites you find even if you are using a directory!
Infomine
The Internet Public Library
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Open Directory
Infotopia
Intute
DICTIONARIES AND GENERAL RESOURCES
Wordnik Dictionary and thesaurs
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Online Etymology Dictionary
Electronic Reference Desk – Scholes Library
Fact Monster
Bartleby.com Search several resources, including books of quotations
Infoplease.com online almanac
SUBJECT GUIDES, HOMEWORK HELPS…
High School Ace
AOL@SCHOOL
Discovery School
Study Guides & Strategies
Awesome Highlighter : a very cool tool allowing you to highlight and save information on webpages.
STANDARDIZED TEST PREPARATION (SAT, ACT...)
College Board: Question of the Day, Practice Questions, Free Practice Test
Internet 4 Classrooms: Free SAT/ACT Test Preparation
Khan Academy: SAT Math Problem Demonstration Videos
SAT Vocabulary on Vocab Test.com Improve your vocabulary. Lists are organized by grade level.
SAT Math practice
CLIP ART AND IMAGES (PUBLIC DOMAIN)
ENGLISH
English-Zone.Com
Words from Answers.Com
Shakespeare Online
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Free Rice (vocabulary game to donate rice to the hungry)
Poets.org
Poet's Corner
Internet Public Library (IPL) a source of free literary criticism and information on authors and literature. Click on Resources by Subject and select Literature.
FOREAST: The Internet East Asian Library
Intwine "a supercharged 'one search-box' arts & humanities search-tool"
Jurn an “academic search engine” for free journals in arts and humanities
Vocabulary
SAT Vocabulary on Vocab Test.com Improve your vocabulary. Lists are organized by grade level.
American Literature
Modern American Poetry Literary criticism on American poets and their poems
Internet Public Library: Literature
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Literature
Literary History.com Covers major American authors in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Making of America
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War This digital archive provides primary documents detailing the lives of people in two
Communities—one in the South and one in the North—during the Civil War.
American Memory: Historical Collec. for the Nat. Digital Library A searchable collection of primary documents made available by the Library of Congress
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 A collection of narratives from women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans in the South in 1860-1920
British Literature
Internet Public Library: Literature
IPL Literary Criticism
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Literature
Literary History.com Covers major English authors in the 16th-20th centuries.
Literary Resources on the Net
BBC Books and Literature
Ages of English Timeline BBC multimedia resources on how the language has changed
Luminarium Resource for scholarly articles on British authors from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Restoration
LitLinks
Arthurian Resources
The New Chaucer Society
The Orb: Online Reference Book: For Medieval Studies
The Robin Hood Project
The Victorian Research Web
The Victorian Web
Voice of the Shuttle
SCIENCE
NASA
How Stuff Works Science Channel
Discover This magazine is available in print in the library.
Science News This magazine is also available in print in the library.
Analytical Sciences Digital Library
Scirus A science search engine
Khan Academy A library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
SOCIAL STUDIES (HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY)
Atlas of World History
Flags and Maps of the World
Atlas - Xpeditions @ National Geographic (Maps for printing and copying)
U.S. States Fast Facts and Trivia
World Factbook
National Geographic Online
British History Timeline BBC interactive timeline
National Geographic National Geographic is available in the library.
FOREAST: The Internet East Asian Library
Khan Academy A library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
American History
American Civil War Homepage A list of online resources on the Civil War
American Memory: Historical Collec. for the Nat. Digital Library A searchable collection of primary documents made available by the Library of Congress
AmericanSouth Links to materials on the culture and history of the American South
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 A collection of narratives from women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans in the South in 1860-1920
Making of America
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War This digital archive provides primary documents detailing the lives of people in two Communities—one in the South and one in the North—during the Civil War.
Khan Academy A library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
PAPER WRITING PROCESS
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Paper Rater Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More
A Guide for Writing Research Papers
OSLIS – Oregon School Lib. Info. System
OSLIS – Citing Sources
FINE ARTS
Artcyclopedia
Intwine "a supercharged 'one search-box' arts & humanities search-tool"
Jurn an “academic search engine” for free journals in arts and humanities
HEALTH
Medline Plus Health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Kids Health
Canadian Health Network
Addiction Search Tip: Use the search box or click on “Addictions.”
American Council for Drug Education
FreeVibe.com
Mind over Matter
NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse
Partnership for a Drug-Free America
StopDrugs.org Tip: Click on “Drugs and Youth.”
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Information
DEA: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “Drug Descriptions”
U.S. Department of Justice. Get it Straight: The Facts About Drugs
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
National Home Security Alliance
NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS
The New York Times Learning Network
Economist This magazine is available in print in the library.
World Magazine See the librarian if you need a password to access the rest of an article. This magazine is also available in print in the library.
E-BOOKS
Open Library (This one is especially nice for research with a helpful subject search and subject browse.)
Google Books
Gutenberg
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Books Should Be Free free audio books from the public domain
FILM / MOTION PICTURES (FOR FILM ANALYSIS CLASS)
Build Your Own Zoetrope Movie Viewer
Teacher Tony: Movie Making Fun list of websites with projects
Robert Price links to animation-related webpages