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Study Links for students from ProQuest

Spanish / English Picture Dictionary
A printable picture dictionary offering words and sentences in English and Spanish.




Animal Cell-click on cell models

Animal Diversity Web
Animal Planet search the Animal Planet channel website

Big Cats Online
Biology of fish from Odyssey Expeditions
In the Wild: Extinct a list from Bagheera

In the Wild: Vanishing a list from Bagheera

Mammal Species of the World search for quick facts using the scientific or common name
Tour of adaptation from Classroom of the Future project

Tour of diversity from Classroom of the Future project

US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Home Page

Cellular Respiration a Thinkquest website

Plant Cell-click on "Cell Models" on the left

PLANTS National Database from the US Department of Agriculture
Plant Parts easy to read, for kids, from the University of Illinois Extension site
Seedy Side of Plants-how seeds travel; from PBS online

Why leaves change color from the USDA Forest Service website

Career Resource Links

Bridges Career Resource -
User name: highschool829
Password: school829

Mapping Your Future

Career Cruising
College and Career Planning
College, scholarship and career search program
Username: marian Password: central

Occupational Outlook Handbook

O'Net Online Find Occupations

Creating MLA Citations

Long Island University examples
The Owl at Purdue
Easy Bib Smart Writer

The Big Six - the Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. The Big6 is an information and technology literacy model and curriculum, implemented in thousands of schools - K through higher education. Some people call the Big6 an information problem-solving strategy because with the Big6, students are able to handle any problem, assignment, decision or task.


Math Links - http://www.wyoming.k12.mi.us/resources/math/math.htm

Spanish Links:

La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre : An online, interactive encyclopedia for Spanish language learners that includes timelines, an atlas, articles, current events, and other tools to learn about the Spanish speaking world.
To access from home: Username: Wakeco
 Password: Science.

American Sign Language Browser
This website allows you to look up letters and words in a dictionary style and gives you a movie clip showing you how that word is signed in ASL.





1492: An Ongoing Voyage from the Library of Congress
54th Massachusetts: A brief history of one of the first Black Army regiments from the Underground Railroad.org
American Civil War Information Archives large site sponsored by University of Tennessee at Knoxville
American Cultural History-Includes art and architecture, music, fashion, and historic events organized by decade.
American Memory -from the Library of Congress
Black History Quest:African-American History, Culture, and Black Studies Resources thousands of links to historical websites
Ellis Island: The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation the immigrant experience, or search for your ancestors
Gale's Black History Month -Biographies, activities, timelines, links, and more free information

Gale's Celebrate Hispanic Heritage-Biographies, activities, timelines, links, and more free information

Gale's Women's History Month-Biographies, activities, timelines, links, and more free information

History of American Fashion 20th century-what were people wearing in a certain decade?

New Deal Network

Underground Railroad from the National Geographic

Chemicool periodic table-clickable elements
chem4kids Reactions, elements, atoms, atoms, biochemistry, more

Webelements periodic table-includes compounds

Science Odyssey People and Discoveries Databank sponsored by PBS.org

Apollo 11 Lunar Mission
APOLLO Manned Space Program one of many online exhibitions from the National Air and Space Museum
NASA Human Spaceflight
Nine Planets-choose a planet and its moons; sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona
What are asteroids? NASA
What would happen if an asteroid landed in the ocean? NASA

Economics Links:

http://www.ncee.net/  -The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students and their teachers. NCEE's mission is to help students develop the real-life skills they need to succeed: to be able to think and choose responsibly as consumers, savers, investors, citizens, members of the workforce, and effective participants in a global economy.

http://www.moneypower.org:8080/wise/withframes.jsp - Money Management International (MMI) is a nonprofit, community service organization that provides professional financial guidance, counseling, community-wide educational programs, and debt management assistance.

Current satellite image -of entire planet
Current weather-Marathon, from the National Weather Service
Earthquakes! from the Whyfiles at the Univrsity of Wisconsin
FEMA: Hurricanes easy to understand for kids
A Fierce Force of Nature-Hurricanes and Tornadoes from NASA's Observatorium
Learn About Volcanoes from the USGS Volcano Observatory
NOAA the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tsunami-the Big Wave from NASA's Observatorium
US Geological Survey-try here if your topic isn't listed
Volcano World from the experts at BrainSpace.org
Water cycle from the Classroom of the Future project

Weather Underground-current storm activity around the world