Student Resources
ACT Student Web Services-- register for ACT tests, get your scores.
American Artist magazine -- Articles, demonstrations, technical help, and critiques as well as the instruction and information provided in the American Artist family of magazines.
American Sign Language University-- Information and resources to help you learn American Sign Language.
AR BookFinder-- Get all the AR information for your book!
Books Should Be Free-- Free audio downloads of books in the public domain! Wow!
Central Intelligence Agency-- Contains a variety of information about world governments, most notably the World Factbook, which gives detailed current information about the geography, people, government, economy, transportation, and defense of every nation in the world. Also of interest is the link to the CIA photostream on Flickr.
Classic Reader -- Thousands of classic works, available online for free! Read them online, or download them.
Free Rice -- Learning is fun! And it feeds the hungry!
Hack College Get More out of Google -- Great tips for conducting efficient Google searches! This knowledge will be a huge help to you in college!
History for Music Lovers -- Amy Burvall and Herb Mahelona, two teachers in Hawaii, create catchy history lessons set to popular music. Lady Gaga on the French Revolution, anyone?
Infoplease -- With the byline "All the knowledge you need," Infoplease has facts and statistics on a wide variety of topics!
Inogolo -- the "English pronunciation guide to the names of people, places, and stuff"
Kids-in-Mind -- movie reviews that include details about the rating. Never be uncomfortable watching a movie with your parents again! :-)
Merriam-Webster -- dictionary, thesaurus, word games, and more!
Mountain View Public Library-- search the public library catalog & read about upcoming events!
National Geographic -- maps, photography . . . everything National Geographic!
PolitiFact--PolitiFact is an independent fact-checking journalism website aimed at bringing you the truth in politics. PolitiFact's reporters and editors fact-check statements from the White House, Congress, candidates, advocacy groups and more, rating claims for accuracy on our Truth-O-Meter. Every fact-check includes analysis of the claim, an explanation of our reasoning and a list of sources.
Project Gutenberg -- Over 38,000 free ebooks to read online, download to your computer, or download to your Kindle. Fabulous!
Question of the Day- Wow! What a great idea! A new SAT/ACT prep question every day!
Art and Writing-- Win recognition, medals, and scholarships for your art or writing. This is a prestigious contest, with past winners including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, John Lithgow and Joyce Carol Oates!
Snopes.com -- Never forward an email until you verify it on Snopes!
Son of Citation Machine-- makes it so easy to cite your information sources, that there is no reason not to!
Spreeder -- Improve your ACT score by increasing your reading speed! Copy and paste a reading selection into the Spreeder window, click the button, and off you go! (Use Spreeder 20 minutes to an hour each day to train for the ACT.)
Teen Ink-- Student produced art, poetry, and stories. You can submit your own creations! Get published!
TeenTopics -- From the New York Times, collections of articles over a wide variety of topics. A great place to get information for research projects!
Vocabahead -- Study ACT vocabulary with these short videos, flashcards, and other study materials.
Vocabulary.com-- Quiz to learn useful words and improve your vocabulary. Includes great explanations that help you understand the meanings, origins, and roots of the words.