Web Links for High School
Legend:
Universally Designed Website - These websites are designed in tiered levels to support the diversity of reading levels.
Favorites
English
Read, Write, Think – Student materials and more.
Vocabulary University – Wide variety of high-quality word-based teaching resources.
Jack Lynch, Professor of English at Rutgers University – Quite extensive listing of sites for grammar, style, rhetoric, writing genres, etc.
RapidCite – An online tool to create citations for a bibliography.
Math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – Interactive with standards-based lessons and instructions
NCTM Illuminations – Excellent resource on standards-based lessons with interactive activities.
Global Grocery List (interdisciplinary)
AAA Math– Math Support including basic addition to Geometry, Ratios and Statistics. Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills with interactive practice on every page with an explanation of the math topic.
WebMath – Looking for ways to help your students understand mathematical processes, this site will fit the bill.
Math Forum @ Drexel – Many math lessons and listing of other Internet activities and projects.
Social Studies
Eyewitness to History – Eyewitness accounts from those who were there; Ancient Times to the 20th Century.
Ben’s Guide to Government for Kids – A universally designed and content-rich website tiered for grade levels.
Taking it Global – Have your students collaborative with students from around the world in arriving at solutions on local, national or global issues.
Cultural Debates – Interactive site for students to learn about cultural issues through video, reading and writing personal and persuasive viewpoints.
Lives, the Biography Resource – Provides links to biographies to famous people of the past.
Lewis and Clark – Site dedicated to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Science
Center for Educational Resources
Exploratorium Online Exhibitions
Windows on the Universe – A content-rich site offering three levels of reading for the elementary, middle and high school student; also in English and Spanish.
U.S. Geological Survey – Comprehensive science lesson plans. Site has some interactive Playtime Wizard featured sites.
Nobel Prize – Interesting, interactive games and simulations for teens.
The Brain from Top to Bottom – Offers a three-tiered level of information: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Research Links
Internet Public Library – Two levels are located on this site: Kidspace and Teenspace.
American Memory– From the Library of Congress.
Library Spot – Web portal to news, information, and libraries around the world.
Teacher Resources
Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators – Well organized weblinks categorized by content area with exceptional teacher resources.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence – Extensive resources categorized by subtopic for every content area.
MarcoPolo – A wealth of lesson plans and activities searchable by grade level and content area.
Blue Web’n – Top K-12 websites searchable by grade level, content and subject.
Visual Learning with Kidspiration and Inspiration
Inspiration and Kidspiration Collection of Links – Links to virtually hundreds of templates covering all content areas in K-12.
Global Schoolhouse – Telecollaborative and teleresearch projects.
Virtual Architecture – A site filled with telecollaborative and teleresearch projects.
New York Times Teacher Connections – Site contains lesson plans, crossword puzzles, issues in depth, etc.
Copyright-friendly images for Educators – Including sign language alphabet and numbers!
RubiStar – Create rubrics for project-based activities.
PBL Checklist – Project-based checklists to help students take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation.
Freeware
ReadPlease 2003 – A free reader to put on your desktop that can be used as a reader and a proofreader.
WordWeb – A free dictionary and thesaurus for Windows. It includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs and the web. WordWeb works from a small icon in your system tray.
BlockCAD – Freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks.
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