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Connell Library Catalog

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Britannica online encyclopedia, Internet links, and multimedia. Resources include access to a dictionary, an atlas, bibliographies, and a timeline. New this year is the Britannica Spanish Edition.

Google

Ask Jeeves

EBSCO: Full-text magazines, Biographies, Images, EBSCO Animals, ERIC, F&W New World Encyclopedia, Health Source, full-text U.S. & international newspapers, Topic Search, and Professional Development Collection.

Texas Indians

Dogpile

Noodletools(how to cite resources)

Brainpop: Science, Math, English, Health, Social Studies, Technology.

Facts on File: Science, History, Multicultural, Geography, Health, Career Guidance, Forms, Grades 6-12.

Yahooligans

Suggested Summer Reading

MarcoPolo: Seven Web sites with lesson plans , interactive content, down-loadable worksheets, links to panel-reviewed Web sites and additional re-sources created by leading educational organizations.

PowerMediaPlus: access to ALL media types: more than 3,200 videos, 21,000+ core concept clips, 6,000 curriculum-oriented audio files, 5,000 print resources, and an unsurpassed collection of 25,000 photographs, illustrations, and clip art images, as well as a databank of 15,000 quiz questions and 1,000 pre-made quizzes! In addition, podcasts created by and for educators and students connect you to dynamic educational media.

Internet Resources

ART
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ .. Art Museums.
http://www.artchive.com/ ..Art works and history, excellent site by local web master.

CURRENT EVENTS
http://www.mysanantonio.com/ ..The San Antonio Express-News.
http://www.newspapers.com/top100.html ..Top 100 newspapers.
http://www.1stheadlines.com/ ..Top breaking headlines.
GRANTS http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalteachers/fundingopportunities.htm ..Fund raising and grants.

HISTORY
http://www.besthistorysites.net/..an award-winning portal created for students, history educators. http://www.duke.edu/~agf2/history391/index.html ..California Gold -- The Diary and Letters of James M. Burr, 1850 - 1853.
http://www.history.org/ ..Colonial Williamsburg. http://www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/addresses/addresses.html .. Presidential Libraries. http://galafilm.com/1812/e/people/anne_diary1.html ..The War of 1812, Recollections & Extracts From The Journals Of Miss Anne Prevost.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ .. A Chronology of US Historical Documents. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.htmll ..Map Collection.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html..Interactive exhibits, games, lessons.
http://www.thealamo.org/ ..The Alamo web page.

MATH
http://www.edhelper.com/.. Lesson plans, worksheets, puzzle construction.
http://www.kidzone.ws/.. Lesson plans
http://www.eduref.org/.. Algebra, arithmetic, careers.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
http://www.enc.org/ ..Online professional development courses, math, science, curriculum resources.
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/ ..a diverse collection of quality used books, find a book.
http://www.fetchbook.info/ ..New and used books.
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/foster/ .. The Dewey Decimal system exercise..
http://www.pbs.org/ ..Video clips.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ .. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

ENGLISH SITES
http://www.bartleby.com/100/index.html ..Familiar Quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern Literature.
http://www.lnstar.com/mall/flash/cafe1.html ..Literature online.
http://www.suzyred.com/ ..Portal for math,English, reading, science, social studies, TEKS, TAKS websites.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html ..University of Purdue online writing lab, MLA procedures.
http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite ..Make research citations.
http://www.aaronshep.com/ ..Award-winning children’s author Aaron Shepard.
http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=35 ..THE BIG SIX.
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html .. Reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom.
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/history/middleages.html ..Book list for the Middle Ages.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com.. Students read, write, collaborate, and speak in a variety of formats and for a variety of audiences. Looking for ideas to improve students' media literacy? Try some of these!
http://dictionary.reference.com ..Dictionary, thesaurus
ESL
http://www.rong-chang.com/.. For ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web.
Publish Student Work
http://www.cln.org/kids/index.html .. Links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to the theme page "For Kids Only".
http://www.cln.org/themes/publish.html ..This "Theme Page" has links to resources which will help students to publish their creative work (stories, poetry, art, etc) on-line.
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/index.shtml .. Learn details about how you can publish student work in a high-quality paperback.
http://hs.n-polk.k12.ia.us/departments/Media/publish.html .. Publish student work

SCIENCE
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ ..NASA's publication Spinoff.
http://www.carnegiemnh.org/ .. Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Dinosaurs http://www.childrensmuseum.org/kinetosaur/e.html .. Children's Museum of Indianapolis; Dinosaur Resources.

Inventions
http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html ..The history of invention.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ ..How stuff works.
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm .. Smith College of Science Museum of Inventions.
NASA
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg ..View of the earth at night from a satellite.
Anatomy & Medical
http://brainmuseum.org.. Comparative mammalian brain collections.
http://www.eskeletons.org/ ..The skeleton, UT Austin.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/ ..Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body.
http://www.innerbody.com/ .. Human anatomy.
http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/. .Heart disease.
http://www.hon.ch/HONmedia/ .. Images and video clips.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html .. National Institute of Heath Medline medical encyclopedia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ .. National resource for molecular biology information.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/ .. Smithsonian National Museum, Artificial Anatomy.
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/ .. National Museum of Health and Medicine.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/ .. Habitats and biomes.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ .. Artic, Alaska.
http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Science/Living_Things .. Biology links.

TECHNOLOGY
http://web2.unt.edu/weblibrary/resource.php?id=33 .. History of Educational Techonolgy, computers.
http://www.hanes2u.com .. Create T-shirts.

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