Embedded Files
Arts
National Gallery of Art: Collection of more than 150,000 pieces of art.
The Met: The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world.
Business and Economics
Economics A-Z: Economic terms from The Economist with thorough explanations.
MyMoney.Gov: Information, games and fun facts about money, saving and planning for the future.
The Motley Fool: Investment education website that gives advice on investing, personal finance and retirement.
U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics: Labor and statistic data for the United States.
Yahoo Finance: Data on stock performance of companies.
College and Career Resources
Big Future: Free, user-friendly resource offered by the College Board that allows students to explore careers, colleges, and majors.
Career One Stop: Flagship career, training, and job search website for the U.S. Department of Labor. The website serves job seekers, businesses, students, and career advisors with a variety of free online tools, information and resources.
College Scorecard: Information about colleges, costs, majors, and outlook.
English
Folger Shakespeare Library: Reference resources, materials, and artifacts pertaining to the work, life, and times of William
Shakespeare.
MyShakespeare: Media-rich, full-text editions of Shakespeare's plays.
Poetry Foundation: Digitized collection of renowned poetry.
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
The Best Commencement Speeches Ever: NPR's collection of commencement speeches dating from 1774 to present.
Fact Checking
All Sides: Company that assesses the political bias of media outlets and presents different versions of similar news stories from a variety of sources.
Resource Highlights:
Media Bias 101: The Difference Between News, Analysis, and Opinion
How to Spot 16 Types of Media Bias
AP News Fact Check Hub: Fact-checking, accountability journalism and misinformation coverage from AP journalists around the globe.
FactCheck.org: Factcheck.org is a website affiliated with the Annenburg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania that performs fact-checking.
Lead Stories: Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.
PolitiFact: Fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
Snopes: Snopes.com is a website that conducts extensive fact-checking research on popular topics, often chosen based on reader interest.
General Reference
CIA World Factbook: The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Digital Commonwealth: Digitized historical collections from institutions throughout Massachusetts.
Digital Public Library of America: Hub for digitized materials from institutions throughout the United States.
Library of Congress Digital Collection: The Library of Congress's Digital Collection features historical documents and images divided by subject and format.
LIFE Photo Archive: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google and featuring millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
New York Public Library Digital Collections: Nearly 1 million digitized items from the New York Public Library's collections, including historical photographs, illustrations, and documents.
Smithsonian: Website of the world's largest museum covering many topics.
Smithsonian Open Access: Access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Today's Front Pages from Freedom Forum: Explore today's front page news as reported by news organizations in the United States and around the world.
United States Census Bureau: Reports on U.S. populations and topics, such as education and employment.
Sharon High School Yearbook Archive: PDFs of Sharon High School yearbooks dating back to 1926.
Health and Wellness
Human Body Maps: Maps of the systems of the human body.
MyPlate: Government website featuring articles, resources, and activities for healthy living.
State Health Facts: Disease and wellness information for the United States of America.
StopBullying.gov: Government website featuring articles and resources about bullying and cyberbullying.
The Trevor Project: Resources for the LGBTQ+ community.
Math
Desmos: Calculators and math practice.
GapMinder: Free online tool with a wide variety of statistical data.
Khan Academy: Exercises and instructional videos for math, as well as many other topics.
Research
APA Introduction and Style Guide: APA guide from Purdue Owl Writing Lab.
MLA Introduction and Style Guide: MLA guide from Purdue Owl Writing Lab.
Noodletools: Research and citation resource. (Access provided by the Sharon School District)
Click here to access Noodletools tutorials
Science
NASA: Government website with a comprehensive collection of articles and videos about space, space science and the NASA program.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Provides climate data across months or years in any state.
National Parks Service: Government website featuring articles about the nation's parks, and resources about wildlife, nature, and history.
National Weather Service: Provides weather, water and climate data, as well as forecasts and warnings.
NOVA: NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.
Science Fridays: Featured on National Public Radio, Science Friday offers podcasts and radio shows on current science stories and issues
Social Studies/History
Digital Transgender Archive: Online database for materials and information about transgender history throughout the world.
Frontline: Long-running investigative journalism program that questions, explains and changes our world.
GLBT Historical Society Museum: Website of institution focused on LGBTQ+ history.
Holocaust Encyclopedia: Comprehensive encyclopedia of Holocaust terms and events.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2020 from The Museum of the Moving Image.
Making Gay History Podcast: Podcast that chronicles the history of the LGBTQ+ community.
National Archives: America's Historical Documents: Records of the US Federal Government.
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Website of national museum focused on African American life, history,
and culture.
National Museum of American History: Website of national museum with exhibits focused on a variety of topics, including African
American History, Asian Pacific American History, Latino History, Disability History, LGBTQ+ History, Women's History, Religion, and
American Culture.
Timeline of the Holocaust: Timeline chronicles key dates in the history of the Holocaust from 1933-1945.
Sports
Rotowire: Professional sports data across a wide variety of sports. (Some articles and features are behind a paywall)
Sports Reference: Data and statistics on sports, leagues, and players.
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