Websites for Students/Study

EDUCATION (general/miscellaneous)

· American Council on Education—GED Testing Service Home Page http://www.acenet.edu/clll/ged/index.cfm

· About .com GED Pages—This site is filled with resources on adult learning and the GED http://adulted.about.com/os/ged/index.htm

· University of Maine System Resources www.learn.maine.edu

Find practice sessions for various online technologies, and quick guides for understanding how to use them. Take online quizzes on your readiness for online courses. Link from this site to library resources, the bookstore, and online student information systems.

· Dave’s ESL Café http://www.eslcafe.com

· http://www.PBS.org/literacy

· Online services from Florida Tech Net http://www.floridatechnet.org/ use e-Library menu

· USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/ online newspaper

· The New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ uses current events to learn

· Fun Brain—activities, games, puzzles http://www.funbrain.com/

· Assignment Editor—The Newsroom Home Page for extensive site list of all-things media related http://www.assignmenteditor.com/

LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH

· The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/

· Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/

· Vocabulary University http://www.vocabulary.com

· An Online Library of Literature http://www.literature.org/

· Writing Skills http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Explains everything from when to use commas to how to search the internet. Great resource.

· Paradigm Online Writing Assistant—online writing tutor http://www.powa.org/

· Learning Resources—An interactive newspaper site. That uses real news to develop adult literacy http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html

HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES/CURRENT EVENTS

· Schools of California Online Resources for Education (History/Social Science) http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/

· A Road Map to the U.S. Constitution http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/index.html

· Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index. Includes a teacher guide to the different cartoons from over sixty cartoonists. http:///www.cagle.com/

MATH

· Plug in a problem and get an instant answer! For algebra and above. www.quickmath.com

· Teaching and Problem Solving Sites—including such sites as: Algebra.Help, The Math Forum, etc. http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/sites.html

· Mrs. Glossers’ Math Goodies—puzzles, games, activities, algebra, etc. for all ages http://www.mathgoodies.com/

· The Math Forum http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library/

· Quia Top 20 Math Games— http://www.quia.com/shared

SCIENCE

· Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception http://www.exploratorium.edu

· http://www.exploratorium.edu/brain_explorer/index.html

STUDY SKILLS

· Mind Tools http://www.mindtools.com Essential skills and a variety of helpful topics from time management to speed reading, reading strategies, and improving memory.

· The Ten Traps of Studying http://campushealth.unc.edu/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=470 If you study and study, but don’t seem to be getting anywhere, you may have fallen into one of these ten traps. Find out what the traps are and how to get out of them.