Help with classwork
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation.
Shmoop
Shmoop has study guides in multiple subjects, with links to articles, videos and more to help you understand the subject matter.
Study Skill Help Guide
A guide to help you develop the skills to become an independent learner when writing essays, doing research projects and reports.
BrainFuse
Provides live one-on-one tutoring for kindergarten through 12th grade students in various subjects, as well as test prep for the PSAT, AP exams and college entrance exams. You need a Queens Library card to login to use BrainFuse - come to the school library for an application.
Tutorials on how to use BrainFuse
Math
MathTV
The MathTV library contains over 10,000 videos, from basic math through calculus. Almost every set of videos has one conducted in Spanish, by a native speaker. Video instruction is asynchronous, and allows students to repeat, rewind, and review.
Math is Fun
Explanations, visuals and sample problems to explain concepts in Math for elementary school through high school.
Learn or practice a language
Duolingo
Duolingo has short, quick lessons that allow you to unlock new levels while gaining real-world communication skills.
Mango Languages - through Brooklyn Public Library (you need a Brooklyn Library account - use the link on our homepage to apply)
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/online-resources/mango-languages
Primary Sources
The Smithsonian:
https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/primary-sources/MhkNadPOAl59VFw1
The LOC
https://guides.loc.gov/student-resources/primary-sources
Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets
NY State Library Digital Collections
https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs
Women & the American Story - from the NY Historical Society
https://wams.nyhistory.org/curriculum/
Other
Famous Speeches - the History Channel
Audio and video of famous speeches and events. Great primary sources.
How Stuff Works
Award-winning media resource with thousands of videos, articles, diagrams, animations, podcasts and photos on a wide range of topics, such as technology, culture, money, politics, science and more.
NOVA - PBS
Videos from the NOVA program on a variety of topics, such as ancient civilizations, evolution, nature, physics, math, engineering, planet Earth, the brain and more.