WEB RESOURCES SECONDARY
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...
- Standardized Test Preparation
Clip Art and Images - English
- Vocabulary (SAT prep)
- American Literature
- British Literature Science Social Studies - American History - Science
Social Studies
- American History
- Paper Writing
- Fine Arts
- Health
- News & Current Events
1. 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
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!
2. DICTIONARIES AND GENERAL RESOURCES
3. SUBJECT GUIDES, HOMEWORK HELPS…
4. STANDARDIZED TEST PREPARATION (SAT, ACT...)
Clip art and images (Public Domain)
5. ENGLISH
- English-Zone.Com
- Words from Answers.Com
- Shakespeare Online
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Free Rice
- 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.c
- FOREAST
- Intwine "a supercharged 'one search-box' arts & humanities search-tool"
- Jurn "an academic search engine” for free journals in arts and humanities
Vocabulary
American Literature
- Modern American Poetry Literary criticism on American poets and their poems
- Internet Public Library: Literature
- Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Literature
- LiteraryHistory.com
- Making of America
- The Valley of the Shadow DThis 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 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 TCovers 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
- The Robin Hood Project
- The Victorian Research Web
- The Victorian Web
- Voice of the Shuttle
6. SCIENCE
- NASA HowStuffWorks – Science CScience Channel
- Science News his magazine is also available in print in the library
- Analytical Sciences Digital Library
- Khan Academy – Science A library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
- Scirus A science search engine
Social Studies (Hitories 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 (CIA)
- National Geographic Online
- British History Timeline – BBC BBC interactive timeline
- National Geographic (Library Edition) National Geographic is available in the library.
- FOREAST – 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 (Library of Congress) 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) PA 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 – History A library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
7. PAPER WRITING PROCESS
8. FINE ARTS
9. HEALTH
- MedlinePlus Health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
- KidsHealth
- Canadian Health Network
- Addiction Search Tip: Use the search box or click on “Addictions.”
- American Council for Drug Education
- FreeVibe
- Mind Over Matter (NIDA)
- NIDA for Teens
- Partnership to End Addiction
- StopDrugs.org Tip: Click on “Drugs and Youth.”
- Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Information
- DEA – Drug Descriptions
- NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service for justice and safety resources
- National Home Security Alliance