Math
Basic Percents
Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different
vocational and academic disciplines are available on Free-Ed.
Math Practice
Provides revolutionary ways for students, parents, teachers, and
everyone to learn math.
Interactive Math
This Online Course offers complete instruction on
any/all arithmetic topics.
Create a Graph
Creating a graph with your data or their data.
Math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations!
The site says that it is a free resource for math review
material from Algebra to Differential Equations with more than
2,500 Math pages filled with short and easy-to-understand
explanations.
Understanding
Percents
Self-directed interactive math lessons on building an
understanding for percent.
Introduction to Algebra
Students studying the beginning of Algebra may benefit from this
site.
BJ Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper
Homework help site - all subjects covered.
Technology
Treasure Hunting On The Internet
The librarians who create these sites are
experts at treasure hunting. Start with the library sites
listed here.
The Internet Public Library
Library Index
Internet (Netiquette Pre/Post Test)
The Netiquette Quiz can be used as a pre-test for email manners
when using the Internet.
Typing Master
It allows a student to take a timed writing (1-, 2-, 3-, 5-,
10-minute timed writing, print out the certificate for my
signature, or to attach to a resume.
Science
Cracking the Code
This website streamlines the video - Cracking the Code.
It is an excellent nova movie about genetics.
Earth Like a Puzzle
This website introduces the student to the concept of plate
tectonics.
Live from the Storm
This site explores the who, what, where, when and why of weather
concepts.
Health
National Institute of Mental Health
This is a web site that focuses on mental health information and
research that can be helpful to the average lay person seeking
information on Health and Research findings.
Health Risk Assessment -- Free!
Now you can take a free,
confidential and personalized health risk
assessment online.
Test Your Knowledge Of Anxiety Disorders
Visit the web site for the National
Institute of Mental Health to gain useful information about the
different types of disorders as well as effective treatments.
Also, take a quiz to test your knowledge of anxiety disorders.
Manage Your Stress; Don’t Let Stress Manage You
The following website will
give you an opportunity to evaluate your stress reduction skills
and give you some guidelines for developing your stress
management skills.
Family Literacy
Parenting Teenagers
This is a wonderful, free site for use by parents.
There are lots of practical applications available to
parents, based on good sound research principles.
Parenting -
HealthyPlace.com
This
is a comprehensive site for parent resource information. It
focuses on all kinds of challenges from developmental issues
to communication issues.
Social Studies
The Gentleman's Page
The
Lively Arts History
Association presents the
Gentleman's Page: a resource for those who wish to
look and act like; or perhaps better understand, the 19th
Century American man.
Economics
This site is an introduction to basic concepts on economics
and contains information, quizzes, activities and links to
various online resources to learn more about our global
economy.
American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky
This is a tour of American historical events surrounding
major wars.
Infoplease U.S. History
This site uses an almanac for numerous lists of facts, dates
and timelines, events, etc.
WhoWhatWhen
The database consists of famous people and famous events.
People entries consist of the name, short description, which
category they were famous for, and birth and death dates.
The White House: Government
This site is sponsored by the White House, so it obviously
has some bias toward the current President.
However, this gives the reader an overview of the
Cabinet, key Councils and offices under executive control,
major speeches, and an overview of the government itself.
Reading
News Stories
The following web pages focus on utilizing local, regional,
and national news stories for educational purposes.
BBC Skillwise
There are over 150 online auditory articles to which to
listen and take quizzes.
Although the stories are chosen based on what may be of
broadest interest to the UK audience, this is still a good
site for practice in English for our global society.
Writing
THE FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY
A classic format for compositions is the five paragraph
essay.
Utilize this user-friendly website to help you practice
and succeed at this form of writing.
11 RULES OF WRITING
This website offers a concise guide to important grammar and
punctuation rules.
GRAMMAR TABLE OF CONTENTS
Visit this site and get many great links that will help you
identify and understand subjects, verbs, prepositions,
modifiers, and many more writing terms that can confuse
writers.
This site also offers helpful practice exercises that
will test your knowledge of important writing concepts.
ESL
The ESL Wonderland
There are six interactive ESL activities on the site.
The ESL Site - NEWS
The site says that it provides up-to-date news stories from
around the world although it appears that the last stories
published were in April 2003.
WRN - World Radio Network
A leading global broadcasting and transmission company and
service provider similar to BBC.
Lingua Center
There are only four interactive activities on the site.
Listeners need to be able to access RealAudio Player.
Career
Body Language During a Job Interview
Check out this great website for useful information and
techniques on how you can use body language to your
advantage during a job interview.
Career Voyages.gov
This is a comprehensive site for mapping out a career plan.
About Goal Setting
Short activity for focusing on goals as they relate to life
planning.
Jobweb
This site offers advice on resume writing, interviewing, job hunting and
career development.
O*NET Online
This interactive site offers a skills-search feature that
enables you to match your skills with O*NET occupations
Wall Street Journal Career Site
The Wall Street Journal’s career site offers in-depth
articles on job hunting, networking, salary searches and
much, much more.
Careers.org
There are over 200 pages of information sorted by topic and
region.
FlipDog Job Seeking Resource
Comprehensive resource for finding employment, including the
ability to write and post a resume anywhere in the U.S.
Center for Employment Opportunity
Short activity for focusing on job readiness as it relates
to placement in the job market for ex-offenders.
How to Be a Successful Student
STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL GOAL SETTING AND ACHIEVEMENT
This web article, written by Paul Christenbury explains that
for goal setting to be effective, it requires more than just
writing down what you want to achieve.
ISN’T IT TIME FOR YOU?
Making time for yourself can be difficult in this
over-scheduled world of ours. Jennifer Ottolino shares ten strategies to help you gain
control over your time so you can spend more of it doing
what you love.
FEELING OVERWHELMED?
Author Talia Mana offers time management tips that
can help you get more accomplished without feeling stressed
out and overwhelmed.
PROCRASTINATION:
THE THIEF OF TIME
This website explains the characteristics of
procrastinators, reasons for procrastination, and some
suggestions on how you can reduce or eliminate
procrastination in your life.
