Subject Links

General:

• Awesome Stories-variety of stories with audio, some video, selections of lesson plans, etc.  It’s free and you need to sign up to use all the features available.  There are monthly featured stories that tie in with current and historical events.

• Schmoop - Common Core, lesson plans, literature flash cards, literature reviews, ---lots and lots of good materials. But the test prep costs.

• American Rhetoric: cool site for speeches, videos of speeches, top 100 speeches, speech of the week....you get the idea!

Holocaust:

• American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants

• Ghetto Fighters' House Museum

• Jewish Gen.

• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

• Jewish Women: A comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

• Museum of Jewish Heritage

• University of South California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust

• Yad Vashem

History

• UH-Digital History

• Mythology, Fables & Folklore Resources

Health, Science & Math

• Science Daily - Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries.

• Science.Gov - Science.gov searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance

• Wolfram Alpha--Google for math and science people…It’s also good for the rest of us!  Answer questions, do math, instantly get facts, create plots, calculators, unit conversions, scientific data and statistics, help with homework—and much more.

• WebMD - Consumer health information

Spanish  

• Best Spanish websites via UNI - crazy number of Spanish language sites!

• BBC Mundo - native Spanish news

• Lonely Planet - finding information of Spanish speaking countries

• WorldFact Book - US government information on countries of the world

• InfoPlease - Countries

• Rick Steves : Europe  - Famous travel guide gives personal observations and history on European countries

• National Geographic Animals - find animals common around the globe

• Biography.com - a more story-based approach to information on persons (living and past) around the world.

Creative use of Words

• Tagxedo-Make a word cloud into a face, animal, or shape!

• Wordle- Build a word cloud based on the frequency of words in a paragraph, document, or whole website!