The
21st Century Library and Media Center
Mission Statement:
North
Heights Alternative School is committed to recovering and preparing at-risk
students to become self-directed learners. Students will develop an
My categories are:
| Social Studies: | Math | Listservs |
| Geography | Science | Search Engines and Metacrawlers |
| History | English | Teacher Resources |
| Economics | Parenting | Webquests |
| Government | Libraries | Local Community |
SOCIAL STUDIES:
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Name of Site |
URL |
Key points |
| Map Machine |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps |
Excellent
source for dynamic maps, atlas plates, facts and flags. |
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People’s
Century |
From
PBS –a companion site to the series: People’s |
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Expeditions |
Official
home of 18 US geography standards. includes activities, interactive
learning museum-lesson plans. |
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Atlapedia |
Contains
full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and
statistics on countries of the world. |
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About |
Geography
sites-map outline-homework help. This site covers more than 50,000
subjects with over 1 million links to resources |
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National
Park Service |
A
listing of National Parks-links to the past-nature and science found in
the parks-lesson |
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World
Surfari |
Learn
about a new country each month. |
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E-Conflict |
Maps
of countries-sound clips of national anthems- Economic
data-links to news and local reports |
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Ellis
Island |
A
site maintained by the American Family Immigration Center. |
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Presidents |
Information
given on the Presidents. Includes video and audio files. |
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American
Memory |
Historical
collections for the National Digital Library. Contains new
features-collections-lesson resources-activities |
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History
Channel |
Classroom
materials to accompany the History Channel classroom. Includes
programs-exhibits-great speaker archives. |
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Patterns
of Our Lives |
This
site includes newsgroups for social studies as well as sources on the
WWW and projects for the classroom. |
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Economic
Education Web |
A
site devoted to economics found on the web. |
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Principles
of Economics |
This
site covers several units of economics with both resources and
activities given. |
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Political
Resources on the Net |
A
list of political sites on the net sorted by countries with links to
parties, organizations, governments and media. |
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Legislative
Information of the Internet |
This
site is maintained by the Library of Congress. Links to Congressional
Records office as well. |
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Teaching
Politics techniques and technologies |
There
are several pull down choices given to help the teacher teach politics. |
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First
Gov |
The
only official US government portal to 47 million pages of government
information, service, and online transactions. |
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Global
Grocery List Project |
A
project designed by the Landmark Project which used local grocery prices
so students can collect data, analyze it, and make conclusions. |
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Index
of famous curves |
From
school of Mathematics of St. Andrews, Scotland. Lots of different types
of curves are given. |
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Appetizers
and Lessons for Mathematics and Reason |
A
site which is for students 13 –adult who favor self-instruction. |
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Figure
This |
Includes
challenges, family corner stated problems. Sponsored by the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics. |
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Connected
Geometry |
This
site is funded by National Science Foundation and is designed to show
students the connections and themes found in math. |
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A
Guided Tour of the Human Body |
The
human body in three-dimension. From the National library of Medicine |
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Inner
Learning Ouline |
A
fun interactive site with lots of references for the human body. |
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Geology
Field Trips |
A
site with over 129 field trips to visit. |
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Virtual
Tours of Exhibits |
This
site allows one to go to places that otherwise could not go to.
Examples: Tour an atom to touring the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World. |
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Knock
on the Door |
A
reference source for both (9-12) students and teachers. Includes
biology, chemistry and physics. |
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Links
to Famous Scientists |
A
listing of links to famous scientists. Great backgrounds given. |
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Science
Safari |
Five
different types of living things are shown in a fun and clever
way. The
site includes bacteria, protists, fungus, plants, and animals. |
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Cornell
Theory Center Math & Science Gateway |
This
site provides links to
resources in math and science for educators as well as for students. |
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Bartleby.com |
A
comprehensive reference publisher on the web. |
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Merriam-Webster |
Online
dictionary |
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PinkMonkey.com |
345
free literature summaries are given as well as test preparations and
study guides. Also tips for parents and students. |
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Bibliomania |
This
site includes more than 2000 classis texts, book notes, book summaries,
references books as well. |
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The
Academy of American Poets |
A
lively and comprehensive site devoted to support American poets.
Includes a listening booth and a discussion forum. |
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Literary
Resources on the Net |
Several
categories are given over different types of Literature. |
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The
Children’s Literature Web Guide |
A
site that attempts to categorize the internet resources related to books
for children and young adults. A section for features-discussion
boards-quick reference as well as more links are also given. |
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50+
Great Web Sites for parents and kids |
These
are sites that are recommended by the American Library Association. |
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Hot
List for Child Development |
This
list has many links to sites that have something to do with child
development and other useful information for parents. |
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Parent
Success.com |
From
Summitt Crossroad Press out of West Virginia. Offers parenting tips,
resources and links for parents as well as books that may be purchased. |
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Stars |
A
site provided by the state of Texas
that allows one to self-screen for potential eligibility for 50
programs provided by the Texas Department of Human Resources. |
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Virtual
Learning Resource Center |
A
search engine with links to many educational sites. Over 5,800 research
quality URL’s including many top academic information sites are given |
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School
Libraries on the Web |
Resources
for School Librarians including learning and teaching-information
access-technology-continuing education with sub-topics under each of the
above. |
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Library
Spot |
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Site
includes libraries-reference desk-reading room-shortcuts-lists-exhibits
to name a few. Site is published by StartSpot Mediaworks out of
Northwestern U. |
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Awesome
Library |
Over
17,000 reviewed resources including the top 5% in education. Site is
sponsored by the EDI. |
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BCK2SKOL |
A
series of lessons are presented with the librarian in mind. Helpful
pointers on researching the Net in many academic areas are given. Site
was created by Ellen Chamberlain, head librarian, U. of South Carolina |
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The
WWW Virtual Library |
The
oldest catalog on web information. Site is complied by volunteers. |
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The
Internet Public Library |
Site
is from U. of Michigan School of Information. Contains a collections
section with many sub-topics – Especially for Librarians |
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Internet
School Library Media Center |
Site
is out of James Madison U.,Harrisonburg,VA.
Many topics are listed and this site has won award of Best library
related sites on the
internet. |
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Listservs
for Educators |
Opportunity
given to sign up for a listserv. Four different ones are discussed. |
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LM_NET |
A
discussion group for school library media specialists. |
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Net
Ed |
Usenet
and listservs for educators as
well as the Net’s best educational resources and internet teacher
training is listed. |
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Search Engines and Meta Crawlers:
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Ixquick |
A
meta search engine which ranks results based on the number of “top
10” rankings a site receives from the various search engines. |
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Google |
Google
offers the largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based
search engine. It also provides webpage search results to
partners like Yahoo and Netscape. |
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Ask
Jeeves |
After
typing in a question, jeeves attempts to take you to the exact page in
response to the question. |
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Yahoo |
Most
popular search service . |
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Surfwax |
Surfwax
searches the major search engines while removing duplicate results and
provides detailed page summaries. |
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Iwon |
A
directory of websites generated by Inktomi. Started in Fall 99 |
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QbSearch.com |
Multiple
pages of results from a search engine combined into one single
page.QB-Masterpage combines URL’s that can be selected into a single
page for quick browsing. |
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The
Gateway to Educational Materials |
A
site for lesson plans sponsored by the Department of Education. |
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TeachersPlanet.com |
For
prek-12, full of curriculum resources and classroom supplies. |
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Oswego
City School District:K-12 Teacher Resources |
Links
are given to lots of sites for teachers. Learning activities,K-12
Internet Directories, Puzzles, games, and |
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Blue
Web ‘N |
A
searchable database of about 1000 learning sites which are categorized
by subject, audience, and type. |
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The
Creative Teaching Site |
A
site developed by Robert Morgan to help teachers develop more creative
teaching ideas. |
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VolWeb |
Site
is from the College of Edu. out of U. of Tenn. The links to teachers
offers a lot of lesson plans in many subjects. |
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Community
Learning Network |
A
site developed to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom
with over 5,800 links to educational sites. |
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Surfaquarium |
Lots
of links. The multiple Intelligences is outstanding. |
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South
Central RTEC |
This
site was developed to help
educators use technology to increase student learning. It was developed
by Southwest Educational Development Laboratory especially for schools
serving high populations of disadvantaged students. |
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Refdesk.com |
An
excellent source for facts of any kind can be found here. |
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The
WebQuest Page |
The
webquest site is maintained by the Educational Technology Department out
of San Diego State
University. All you need to know about webquests can be found here. |
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The
Sixties |
A
webquest over the decade of the sixties. |
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Teacher
Helpers: Webquest in our Future |
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html |
This
site on webquest is presented by Kathy Schrock. It gives great examples
and provides links to other webquests. |
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Matrix
of Examples |
This
is a list of webquests from grades K-12 over several subjects. |
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The
Panhandle Spirit |
The
local ABC affiliate |
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NBC
4 |
The
local NBC affiliate |
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News
Channel 10 |
The
local CBS affiliate |
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Amarillo
Globe News |
The
website for the local newspaper |
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Amarillo
Public Library |
The
website for the public library in Amarillo |
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Amarillo
Independent School District |
The
website for the school district where I work. |
| Social Studies: | Math | Listservs |
| Geography | Science | Search Engines and Metacrawlers |
| History | English | Teacher Resources |
| Economics | Parenting | Webquests |
| Government | Libraries | Local Community |
