English Language Arts

Reading and Literature:

Shmoop offers guides in classic literature.

Make learning vocabulary a game at vocabulary.com. It includes an ad free dictionary.

VocabAhead has flashcards and videos to help improve your vocabulary.

Need to know how to pronounce a word? Use Forvo to help you with pronunciation.

Writing:

A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students from the Internet Public Library.

Get MLA style help from OWL at Purdue University .

The Hemingway App analyzes your writing to help you make it bold and clear. 

Use Slick Write to proofread your writing. The site will check grammar errors and potential stylistic mistakes.

Fact Monster can help you improve your writing skills. 

Are you into creative writing? Visit Figment.com to create, discover and share new reading and writing.

If you need to research pros and cons of controversial issues, try Procon.org.

Math

Virtual Nerd offers video tutorials for middle school math through geometry. 

WolframAlpha gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics.

Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science. 

Use Desmos as your graphing calculator.

If you need help in solving algebra problems try Purplemath.

This math dictionary defines all the math terms you need to know. 

BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science. 

The Art of Problem Solving is a math online community that offers aid for all your math problems. 

How to Smile collects the best STEM resources and activities on the web.

Videos demonstrating math concepts from Planet Nutshell.

Science

General:

Use this LiveBinder to help you with your science research.

Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science. 

ArXie from the Cornell University Library has a multitude of links in science and math.

BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science. 

The National Science Digital Library is a national online portal for education and research on learning in STEM.

Are you required to use APA style for a science paper? Get help from Purdue and use NoodleTools. 

Foldit is a site where you can play games to solve problems in science.

Eric Weisstein's World of Science brought to you by WolphramResearch.

How to Smile collects the best STEM resources and activities on the web.

Physics News helps you find the latest information in physics; updated daily

Science Daily is your one stop for all science related news

Biology:

Crash Course in biology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home. 

The Encyclopedia of Life has 700.000 pages on individual species. 

Chemistry:

Learn chemistry from RSC for teachers and students.

Environmental Science:

Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation of CO2 emissions around the world. 

Watch these videos from Planet Nutshell designed to help you understand rapid climate change.

Crash Course in ecology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home.

Calculate your carbon footprint from the EPA.

Physical Science/Physics:

The scale of the universe is a tool to show you the size relationships between everything in the universe. 

LivePhysics.com is dedicated to physics, science, space and technology news and to provide free physics related homework help to students.

Social Studies

General:

The search engine Sweet Search has a portal just for social studies research.  

Read newspapers from around the world on World Book online. You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Mrs. Griffin. The links and passwords are also available in the library Google Classroom.  

Jurn is an academic search engine where you can find articles in online journals.  

Find Primary Sources:

Visit this Wakelet created by Ms. Kahn to find Primary Sources related to American History

US History:

Freedom: A History of Us from PBS offers webisodes to teach you American history.  

USA.Gov is an index for all federal and state laws of the United States.

Read and view all the important documents housed in the US National Archives.

World History/World Geography:

The World Factbook from the CIA provides information on many topics for 267 world entities. 

Britannica's World Data Analyst can expand your understanding of the world. Use the Britannica user name and password.

Explore the world with resources from World Book Online.You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Mrs. Griffin (or check the library Google Classroom).

Crash Course in world history created by author, John Green. Videos on Youtube.

New Orleans and Louisiana

World Book Online has resource of materials on Louisiana. You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Mrs. Griffin (or check the library Google Classroom).

The Historic New Orleans Collection has an extensive digital collection. 

The Louisiana Digital Media Archive has historic Louisiana video contained within the collections of LPB & the State Archives.

Documenting the American South contains primary source documents to study history, literature, and culture. 

Maps from the Library of Congress for the Louisiana Purchase. 

The BBC travels to New Orleans. 

Find information on the various ethnic groups that settled in Louisiana over the last 300 years. 

Foreign Language

Digital Dialects offers you games and resources to help you learn 60 different languages. 

DuoLingo used with your JP Library card number can be used to learn a language like French, Spanish, German or even English.

iKnow! has courses in Japanese, Chinese and English or create your own in another language. 

Learn Spanish, German and English at Vocabulix.

Help pronounce words in nearly 200 languages including English at Forvo.

Use games and activities to help you learn a language through Conjueguemos.

Create a comic strip at Magic Beliefs with a choice of six different languages including English and Latin. 

Physical Education

Little League Baseball and Softball

Major League Baseball Statistics

National Collegiate Athletic Association 

President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition

The Olympic Games

The Arts

Visual Art:

Use this Symbaloo created by Ms. Kahn to research art history topics.

Art history divided into periods from Khan Academy.

Read over 400 art books on line through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Read over 200 art books on line through the Getty Museum. 

Search for art history by artist, title of piece or by museum at Artcyclopedia. 

Music:

The Mutopia Project offers music and sheet music for free to download, print out, perform and distribute.

Listing of lots of Cool Tools for School to use in music.