STUDENT ONLINE RESOURCES

Brain Pop: Animated movies, interactive quizzes, experiments and other activities

Career View: Career exploration activities

Encyclopedia Resources:

• Grolier:
  • American Encyclopedia - excellent for current events and history
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - includes animations, cutaways, dynamic maps and sounds
  • New Book of Knowledge - especially useful for clear basic information and links
  • New Book of Popular Science
  • Lands and Peoples - countries cultures, and current events
  • America the Beautiful
• World Book Online

Libraries and Research:

• Big Chalk/Electric Library: Newspapers, magazines, books, pictures, maps, television and radio scripts
• Infotrac: You can find magazine & newspaper articles,TV and radio transcripts, encyclopedias and other reference works, company information & investment reports, health and wellness information, literary criticism and more.
• International Children's Digital Library: Includes picture books in 22 languages - a great resource for language teachers, ESOL students, and anyone interested in understanding cultures.
• Library Links - Authors
  • Yahooligans Author Directory
  • Homework Center Literature and Authors
  • Learning About Author and Illustrator Pages
• Newport News Public Library
• TumbleBook Library: TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books), puzzles, quizzes and teacher resources.
• Grolier Online
• SIRS Databases
• Teen Health & Wellness

SIRS:

• SIRS Knowledge Source includes SIRS Research SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance(arts and humanities)
• SIRS Discoverer (easy to understand information)

SOL Review:

• Interactive Quizzes by Tami Maloney
• SOL Pass - released tests
• On-line tests similar to VA SOLs
• Jefferson Lab

TechTrekers

United Streaming: Educational video clips, image gallery