Electronic Resources and Links by Subject Area and More
English Language Arts
Reading and Literature:
Shmoop offers guides in classic literature.
Make learning vocabulary a game at vocabulary.com. It includes ad free dictionary.
VocabAhead has flashcards and videos to help improve your vocabulary.
Need to know how to pronounce a word? Use Forvo to help you with pronunciation.
Writing:
A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students from the Internet Public Library.
Get MLA style help from OWL at Purdue University .
The Hemingway App analyzes your writing to help you make it bold and clear.
Use Slick Write to proofread your writing. The site will check grammar errors and potential stylistic mistakes.
Need some grammar help? Use this site from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fact Monster can help you improve your writing skills.
Are you into creative writing? Visit Figment.com to create, discover and share new reading and writing.
If you need to research pros and cons of controversial issues, try Procon.org.
Shmoop offers guides in classic literature.
Make learning vocabulary a game at vocabulary.com. It includes ad free dictionary.
VocabAhead has flashcards and videos to help improve your vocabulary.
Need to know how to pronounce a word? Use Forvo to help you with pronunciation.
Writing:
A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students from the Internet Public Library.
Get MLA style help from OWL at Purdue University .
The Hemingway App analyzes your writing to help you make it bold and clear.
Use Slick Write to proofread your writing. The site will check grammar errors and potential stylistic mistakes.
Need some grammar help? Use this site from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fact Monster can help you improve your writing skills.
Are you into creative writing? Visit Figment.com to create, discover and share new reading and writing.
If you need to research pros and cons of controversial issues, try Procon.org.
Math
Virtual Nerd offers video tutorials for middle school math through geometry.
WolframAlpha gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics.
Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science.
Use Desmos as your graphing calculator.
If you need help in solving algebra problems try Purplemath.
This math dictionary defines all the math terms you need to know.
Want some math practice for standardized tests? Try the tutor program, Wayang.
BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science.
The Art of Problem Solving is a math online community that offers aid for all your math problems.
How to Smile collects the best STEM resources and activities on the web.
WolframAlpha gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics.
Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science.
Use Desmos as your graphing calculator.
If you need help in solving algebra problems try Purplemath.
This math dictionary defines all the math terms you need to know.
Want some math practice for standardized tests? Try the tutor program, Wayang.
BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science.
The Art of Problem Solving is a math online community that offers aid for all your math problems.
How to Smile collects the best STEM resources and activities on the web.
New Orleans and Louisiana
World Book Online has resource of materials on Louisiana. You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Ms. Kahn.
The Historic New Orleans Collection has an extensive digital collection.
The Louisiana Digital Media Archive has historic Louisiana video contained within the collections of LPB & the State Archives.
Documenting the American South contains primary source documents to study history, literature, and culture.
The LSU Ag Center has lots of info on your favorite crustacean, crawfish.
Maps from the Library of Congress for the Louisiana Purchase.
The BBC travels to New Orleans.
The Historic New Orleans Collection has an extensive digital collection.
The Louisiana Digital Media Archive has historic Louisiana video contained within the collections of LPB & the State Archives.
Documenting the American South contains primary source documents to study history, literature, and culture.
The LSU Ag Center has lots of info on your favorite crustacean, crawfish.
Maps from the Library of Congress for the Louisiana Purchase.
The BBC travels to New Orleans.
Science
General:
Use this LiveBinder to help you with your science research.
Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science.
ArXie from the Cornell University Library has a multitude of links in science and math.
BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science.
The National Science Digital Library is a national online portal for education and research on learning in STEM.
Are you required to use APA style for a science paper? Get help from Purdue.
Foldit is a site where you can play games to solve problems in science.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science brought to you by WolphramResearch.
Biology:
Crash Course in biology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home.
The Encyclopedia of Life has 700.000 pages on individual species.
Chemistry:
Learn chemistry from RSC for teachers and students.
Environmental Science:
Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation of CO2 emissions around the world.
Turfmutt from Discovery Ed is all about the environment.
Calculate your carbon footprint.
Watch these videos from Planet Nutshell designed to help you understand rapid climate change.
Crash Course in ecology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home.
Calculate your carbon footprint.
Physical Science/Physics:
The scale of the universe is a tool to show you the size relationships between everything in the universe.
LivePhysics.com is dedicated to physics, science, space and technology news and to provide free physics related homework help to students.
Use this LiveBinder to help you with your science research.
Symbolab is a web search engine for math and science.
ArXie from the Cornell University Library has a multitude of links in science and math.
BrainGenie helps you learn, practice and quiz yourself in math and science.
The National Science Digital Library is a national online portal for education and research on learning in STEM.
Are you required to use APA style for a science paper? Get help from Purdue.
Foldit is a site where you can play games to solve problems in science.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science brought to you by WolphramResearch.
Biology:
Crash Course in biology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home.
The Encyclopedia of Life has 700.000 pages on individual species.
Chemistry:
Learn chemistry from RSC for teachers and students.
Environmental Science:
Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation of CO2 emissions around the world.
Turfmutt from Discovery Ed is all about the environment.
Calculate your carbon footprint.
Watch these videos from Planet Nutshell designed to help you understand rapid climate change.
Crash Course in ecology by Hank Green. Videos are on Youtube, so watch at home.
Calculate your carbon footprint.
Physical Science/Physics:
The scale of the universe is a tool to show you the size relationships between everything in the universe.
LivePhysics.com is dedicated to physics, science, space and technology news and to provide free physics related homework help to students.
Social Studies
General:
The search engine Sweet Search has a portal just for social studies research.
Read newspapers from around the world on World Book online. You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Ms. Kahn.
Jurn is an academic search engine where you can find articles in online journals.
Find Primary Sources:
Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University
Resource from Eduplace for primary documents throughout history and all over the world.
US History:
Want to experience U. S. History in a new way? Try this site from the National Archives.
Everything you want to know about the US government here through C-SPAN.
Freedom: A History of Us from PBS offers webisodes to teach you American history.
USA.Gov is an index for all federal and state laws of the United States.
Read and view all the important documents housed in the US National Archives.
World History/World Geography:
World history at your fingertips from HyperHistory Online.
The World Factbook from the CIA provides information on many topics for 267 world entities.
Britannica's World Data Analyst can expand your understanding of the world. Use the Britannica user name and password.
Explore the world with resources from World Book Online.You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Ms. Kahn.
Crash Course in world history created by author, John Green. Videos on Youtube, so watch at home.
The search engine Sweet Search has a portal just for social studies research.
Read newspapers from around the world on World Book online. You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Ms. Kahn.
Jurn is an academic search engine where you can find articles in online journals.
Find Primary Sources:
Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University
Resource from Eduplace for primary documents throughout history and all over the world.
US History:
Want to experience U. S. History in a new way? Try this site from the National Archives.
Everything you want to know about the US government here through C-SPAN.
Freedom: A History of Us from PBS offers webisodes to teach you American history.
USA.Gov is an index for all federal and state laws of the United States.
Read and view all the important documents housed in the US National Archives.
World History/World Geography:
World history at your fingertips from HyperHistory Online.
The World Factbook from the CIA provides information on many topics for 267 world entities.
Britannica's World Data Analyst can expand your understanding of the world. Use the Britannica user name and password.
Explore the world with resources from World Book Online.You can access this link from school, but if you access from home, please get password from Ms. Kahn.
Crash Course in world history created by author, John Green. Videos on Youtube, so watch at home.
Foreign Language
Spanish MOOC is designed as a 12 week university level first year Spanish course.
Digital Dialects offers you games and resources to help you learn 60 different languages.
DuoLingo will you learn a language like French, Spanish, German or even English.
iKnow! has courses in Japanese, Chinese and English or create your own in another language.
Learn Spanish, German and English at Vocabulix.
Help pronounce words in nearly 200 languages including English at Forvo.
Practice your verbs in six different languages at Verbs-Online.
Create a comic strip at Magic Beliefs with a choice of six different languages including English and Latin.
Digital Dialects offers you games and resources to help you learn 60 different languages.
DuoLingo will you learn a language like French, Spanish, German or even English.
iKnow! has courses in Japanese, Chinese and English or create your own in another language.
Learn Spanish, German and English at Vocabulix.
Help pronounce words in nearly 200 languages including English at Forvo.
Practice your verbs in six different languages at Verbs-Online.
Create a comic strip at Magic Beliefs with a choice of six different languages including English and Latin.
Physical Education
Little League Baseball and Softball
Major League Baseball Statistics
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Universal Sports Network
Michelle Obama's Let' s Move program for healthy living
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
The Olympic Games
Major League Baseball Statistics
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Universal Sports Network
Michelle Obama's Let' s Move program for healthy living
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
The Olympic Games
The Arts
Visual Art:
Use this Symbaloo created by Ms. Kahn to research art history topics.
Smart history is an amazing website about art history from Khan Academy.
Read over 400 art books on line through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read over 200 art books on line through the Getty Museum.
Search for art history by artist, title of piece or by museum at Artcyclopedia.
Arts' Edge from the Kennedy Center has resources for students.
ArtLex is an art dictionary.
Music:
The Mutopia Project offers music and sheet music for free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
Listing of lots of Cool Tools for School to use in music.
Wright Stuff Music is a listing of tools to use in music education and technology.
Use this Symbaloo created by Ms. Kahn to research art history topics.
Smart history is an amazing website about art history from Khan Academy.
Read over 400 art books on line through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read over 200 art books on line through the Getty Museum.
Search for art history by artist, title of piece or by museum at Artcyclopedia.
Arts' Edge from the Kennedy Center has resources for students.
ArtLex is an art dictionary.
Music:
The Mutopia Project offers music and sheet music for free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
Listing of lots of Cool Tools for School to use in music.
Wright Stuff Music is a listing of tools to use in music education and technology.