| History | |
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| History Day Home Page This site has links for students as well as parents with information about the National History Day contest. Check out research resources in the student section! |
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| National Archives Check out the research room, ARC Catalogue (yellow button), and put in your search phrase (check digital copies only) to find original primary sources on your (American history) topic. |
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| Library of Congress Digital Collections This site is packed with digital copies of primary source documents, photos, sound recordings, etc. Browse by topic or search all collections. |
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| History Net Links to research sites and primary documents |
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| History Links A rich listing of hundreds (maybe thousands) of history websites, catalogued by state, time period, and with brief explanations of what each site covers. Excellent resource! |
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| Avalon WW II sources |
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| Math | |
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| Math Olympiad Home Page Information about the Math Olympiad program. |
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| Math Counts This site has a "Problem of the Week," along with an archive of past problems and Math Counts testing questions. |
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| Writing | |
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| Online Writing Lab This site has the coolest games that will help you to practice grammar rules and learn sentence composition. Shoot-em-up arcade, game show, tic tac toe, etc. Painless way to practice grammar! Navigate to "Online tests and games" link. |
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| Online Writing Lab Purdue's OWL (online writing lab) is the best! Get all the help you need for almost any type of essay or research paper. |
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| Essay Writing Made Easy Lots of examples, models, and help for writing that EXCELLENT ESSAY! |
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| Get Bytten Grammar Instruction Interactive grammar instruction with assessment tests and fun graphics. |
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| Future City | |
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| Future City homepage Info on rules of competition, examples of past winners, research and other resources, student blog, etc. |
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| Transportation Futurists This is an exhibit tracing the futuristic concepts in transportation that have occurred over time. Some of it is merely entertaining, however, there is a nice section on monorails. When anticipating future trends, it is useful to know the history - what ideas have already been tried. |
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| Entomopter Learn about a brand-new type of flying machine based on the movement of insects and a chemical reaction for wing movement. |
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| New Scientist Webzine Many interesting articles about the future. |
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| Futurist Webzine Take a look at the articles and archives sections for some great info on future trends and developments, predictions for the future, etc. |
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| Forecasts for the Future Most recent forecasts made by the World Future Society. |
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| Find Articles A searchable archive of articles on many different topics. |
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| Gateway to Everything Nanotech Excellent site with tons of information and articles. |
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| How Stuff Works Excellent, understandable explanations of technology and engineering. |
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| How-to on the Building of Dioramas Help with beginning a diorama or model. |
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| SAT | |
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| Vocabulary University Test preparation, games, activities, divided by age groups. |
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| Free Study Materials for SAT Math and Verbal study materials. |
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| Vocabulary Crosswords and Puzzles Play an online crossword puzzle, hangman, word search, matching games, etc. |
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| Word Roots Practice Practice the word roots by guessing the definitions. |
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| Vocabulary SAT games Many games for SAT vocabulary practice. |
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| 100 Common SAT Words Game Quia games on SAT Words. |
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| Greek and Latin Roots Games Mrs. Escobar's game! |
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| Roots concentration game Mrs. Escobar's game! |
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| Roots Game These words are from the Princeton Review book |
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| Word Roots Jeopardy 1 Mrs. Escobar's game. |
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| Root Jeopardy Mrs. Escobar's game |
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| Roots Millionaire Game Another of Mrs. Escobar's creations. |
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| Sentence Completions Game Mrs. Escobar's game. |
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| Spelling | |
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| Scripps Spelling Bee Information This site has much information about the Scripps Spelling Bee competition, study tips, and gives you links to the spell-it word lists. |
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| Geography | |
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| National Geography Bee Check out the study zone and the Geo Quiz for helps in preparing for the National Geography Bee. |
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| Geography Quizzes Many archived online geography quizzes for practice. |
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| Helping Your Child Learn Geography Learning about the field of geography |
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| Blank Outline Maps of the World Free outline maps to practice naming countries. |
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| Online geography games and quizzes |
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| CIA World Factbook |
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| Fun Travel Geography Games Play these really cool geography games! |
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