Parents
Valley Information
Jefferson County Public Schools Information
Parent Portal (Check your child's school progress.) How to get a Parent Portal account
Study Skills Web Sites
General
www.howstuffworks.com
A guide to the workings of things, from the mundane to the complexwww.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library, sponsored by the University of Michigan, provides links to educational sites in the arts, sciences, and other fields.
Anatomy
www.bartleby.com
The unabridged, classic Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body includes nearly 1,300 etchings of body parts and systems
Archaeology
www.cyberpursuits.com/archeo
User-friendly index compiled by a Texas Web designer
History
www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
A work-in-progress timeline stretching from 20,000 B.C. to A.D. 1600
Astronomy
www.skymaps.com
Free monthly sky maps
Biology
www.biology.arizona.edu
An overview of major topics
Chemistry
www.chemdex.org
Links to thousands of siteswww.webelements.com
A guide to the periodic table
Dictionary
www.m-w.com
A free dictionary/thesaurus from Merriam-Webster
Literature
www.gutenberg.net
Thousands of public domain books
Math
Psychology
Writing
www.bartleby.com/141
William Strunk Jr.'s classic Elements of Style (1918 edition)
World Facts
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
The CIA maintains this guide to countries, with information on their populations, governments, geography, agriculture, health systems, languages, etc.