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Homework and Study Assistance
HippoCampus offers assistance for most subjects.
Schmoop offers study guides for most subjects.
Khan Academy shows videos for math and science concepts.
Evernote helps with notes.
Sophia offer 4,500 free, credible, multi-media tutorials for most subjects.
Soshiku allows users to track homework.
Art
A. Pintura, Art Detective You, the detective, can help solve "The Case of Grandpa's Painting" and learn a few things about color, style, composition, and some famous artists at the same time.
Art Daily is an online art magazine.
Art on the Net includes four "hallways" featuring different styles of artistic works as well as a main "foyer" that highlights the site's current exhibits.
Artopia allows students to explore art, music, theatre, and more.
Behance Network allows users to explore numerous galleries of multiple types of art—advertising, video, abstract, etc.
Draw Space has free online drawing lessons.
Guggenheim Museum includes all four Guggenheim museums.
Joan Irvine: Pop-up Lady Joan Irvine, Canadian teacher and author of pop-up books, shares here the story of her work, pictures and descriptions of her books, and great step-by-step illustrated directions for making your own pop-up card.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art This art museum in New York has more than 2 million works of art, and you can view a number of them online. The site itself is also well laid out and clean; they make it easy to browse the different floors.
Visual Complexity Interesting project that celebrates the abstract art created by mapping patterns of information.
Web Gallery of Art “is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850).
Computer Science
Gamestar Mechanic is an interactive site that leads users through the game design experience. This site teaches the principals of game design and systems thinking in a highly engaging environment that allows users to share games with other community members.
Sploder allows students to make video games.
National Museum of Computing shows the the development of computers.
Foreign Languages
ARTFL The University of Chicago's Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language was created as a database of words from written French. It now contains over 150 million words ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
ClicNet is a French website for culture and literature links, published entirely in French.
Forvo is the “largest pronunciation guide in the world.” Requires registration but is free.
Italki is a language learning community and marketplace that allows you to connect with others from around the world—both language learners and language teachers.
Lingt provides tools to learn a new language. The sign-up is free.
Poisson Rouge allows users to learn French through games.
Spanish Language Exercises includes grammatical exercises and vocabulary practice for beginners.
Reading Comprehension Exercises is divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced readings, and is written in Spanish
Spanish Tween Tribune provides articles that are written in Spanish.
Health
The Cool Spot has information on alcohol and resisting peer pressure.
History
Ad Access iis a collection of historical U. S. advertisements, compiled by the Advertising and Marketing department at Duke University.
The American Civil War is a collection of the most useful Internet sites about the Civil War. Resources include primary sources, timelines, maps, pictures, bibliographies, diaries, letters, information about causes, major battles, regimental histories and more.
American Dynasties is a digital video game where players live the lives of Americans from eras past.
Avalon Project contains primary source documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
CIA FactBook has information about countries of the world from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Critical Past "has over 57,000 videos and images of historical events." It is easy to search for events, but viewing only on a small screen seems to be free.
eRepublik is a social and political simulation game.
50 States has information about the fifty states.
Fold3 “The web’s premiere collection of military records.”
History Buff has primary source materials related to history.
History Pin brings together stories, photographs and links memories from around the world.
Hyper History presents 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.
IWitness: Video Testimony has over 1,000 online video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses are housed in this website maintained by the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute.
Library of Congress Digital Collection contains oral histories, pamphlets, photos, films, and political cartoons. Over 41 collections cover diverse topics of American history, including baseball, woman suffrage, memorabilia of Houdini, popular music and theater and much more.
Historical Newspapers Online "provides a list of historical U.S. newspapers that are available online at no cost. Newspapers available for free through Google News Historical Archives and Newspaperarchives.com are listed individually."
Maps of War has animated maps that visually tell the story of war and historical movements. The maps can be downloaded and/or embedded in other media.
Mission-US is a interactive multimedia game to learn about the Revolutionary War.
Patrimonium-Mundi shows 360 degree panoramas of 275 world heritage sites.
The Story of Stuff shows short online movies that explore some of the key features of our relationship with "Stuff" including how we can make things better.
TimeMaps "is an all inclusive look at world history. It combines maps, timelines and chron- ological narratives that work together to enhance historical understanding."
United States Holocaust Museum contains thousands of resources on the Holocaust.
World Digital Library provides links to primary sources. Users can search by topic, location, time period, item type, and institution.
Language Arts
American Literature Classics offers classic literature works in a chapter-a-day format.
Book Lamp Type in your favorite book and/or author and the site analyses the book’s DNA and recommends others with similar features.
The Center for Writing Studies has useful writing tips from the University of Illinois.
Cube Creator helps break down the writing process. There are templates for biographies, mysteries, short stories, and a blank template that you can customize yourself.
Figment "is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors.”
Free Rice test your vocabulary skills and help alleviate world hunger at the same time.
The Internet Classics Archive contains almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts.
The Literature Network is a database of online literature. Most of the authors' works are in the public domain.
Lexipedia “A site dedicated to giving words meaning. You type in a word and it provides an interesting graphic showing you the various aspects of a word.”
Luminarium has an extensive anthology of all British literature and related topics.
Magnetic Poetry A virtual magnetic poetry board and pieces. Students choose one of five general topics and are given a board and a container of pieces. The pieces can be dragged onto the board and rearranged to make poems.
Online Books has public domain texts online.
Our Documents “Explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to ‘form a more perfect union.’” Sponsored by National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps.
Paper Rater is a site where teachers and students can paste the text of a paper and have it rated/graded. The results are immediate and are given in a very detailed written report that can also be printed.
Poetry Archive “The Poetry Archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.” It’s also a great source for information on all things related to poetry including an extensive section on poetry terms.
Purdue OWL is a comprehensive site about writing from the Purdue’s Online Writing Lab.
Representative Poetry Online has resources on poets, poetic language, literacy criticism, and poems.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet: Interactive Folio is an interactive website to learn about Romeo and Juliet.
60 Second Recap has 60-second videos of important parts of classic novels.
Vocab Sushi tests your vocabulary levels and allows users to learn new words.
Word Dynamo allows users to play word games, enhance vocabulary, and create word lists.
Wordia is an animated word game to help students learn new words. The site is free for schools.
Write Rhymes suggests words that rhymes with any word you choose.
Math
algebasics.com “A site dedicated to providing tutorials for teaching Algebra I."
Cool Math "An amusement park of math and more... designed for fun!"
Deadline is “a site to analyze, solve, and plot various mathematic equations."
Math TV is “a website that provides videos explaining various concepts related to mathematics."
Wired Math “A free math website with games, lessons, challenges and enrichment."
Music
Arts Edge The Kennedy Center created this website, which features all aspects of the arts: music, dance, fine arts, and more. It is an awesome resource for students, teachers, parents, and art lovers.
Classical Net is a website devoted to classical music.
Mix Online is the online website for Mix Magazine.
Music of the World is a recording company for contemporary and classic world music.
Soundation "has all the functionality of a professional desktop DAW including real time effects, virtual instruments, automation, recording and much more!"
Science
Science Daily News contains research articles.
Chemical Education Digital Library Interactive digital chemistry tools and resources, periodic table, 3-D models of organic and inorganic compounds.
Encyclopedia of Life has resources that show the biodiversity on earth.
Interactive Biology shows videos relating to ecology, cell biology, genetics, and the human body.
Rhyme 'N Learn allows users to listen to rap songs about science and math topics.
Science Museum includes science news, information, and educational games.
Sumanas shows science animations and statistics concepts.
Untamed Science is a repository of physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, and technology videos.
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