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Online Research Tools
Online research tools are databases which can be accessed from any computer on campus and from home. See the library staff for the West Ranch Wildcat password.
Infotrac offers a wide array of information from books, newspapers and journals including images. The college/career database offers AP, ACT and SAT practice tests as well as scholarship and financial aid links To access Infotrac, go to http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/stev76221.
Webfeet is a guide to links from the Internet by topic and subject:http://www.webfeetguides.com/wfonline/rhfwfk12.html
ABC/CLIO offers databases from Social Studies, History and Geography http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/
The Smithsonian Institution’s art & design gallery features over 15,000 images from their collection. http://www.si.edu/art_and_design
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information.http://www.ibdb.com/Introduction to Reading Music; learn about clefs, notes, time signatures, rests, and music symbols. http://datadragon.com/education/reading/
Musictheory.net, Music theory tutorials, plus a chord calculator and staff paper generator. http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
Music Theory for Songwriters In addition to information on scales and chords, this site has great printable "chord diagrams" showing you how to play different chords on the piano. http://members.aol.com/chordmaps
Fine Arts Teachers:
Mr. Babko
Ms. Cantillo
Mr. Cook
Ms. Grider
Ms. Kornfeld
Mr. Marshall
Ms. Peters
Ms. Rush
Arts Department (Practical Arts)
A “Busy Teacher’s Website” with outstanding reference material for technology teachers and their students http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/tech_integ.shtml .The Department of Energy’s Office of Industrial Technologies has an informative “Best Practices” section. http://www.oit.doe.gov/bestpractices/
Family and Consumer Science Resources Online. A fine collection, which includes free lesson plans. http://members.tripod.com/~kburge/fcs.html
FoodieView allows a search of recipes by subject or categories. Resources include: cultural cuisines, famous chefs, holiday and special events as well as links to food magazines. http://www.foodieview.com/index.jsp
Practical Arts Teachers:
Mr. Arrowsmith
Mr. Burrill
Ms. Cox
Mr. Doggett
Ms. Overdevest
Ms. Priske
Cross Cultural Project Guidelines
Ms. Sage
Ms. Wignal
English Language Arts Web Sites
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has put together lots of great Young Adult book lists (annotated).http://www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/read/teenlists.html
This site is part of the Internet Public Library. You can choose from bestsellers, numerous booklists, classics or teen suggestions. I like that they include a picture of the book cover.http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/teen/teenread/
ThinkExist is a Quotation Search Engine and Directory with over 90,000 quotations by over 9,000 authors in the English language. http://en.thinkexist.com/
English Teachers:
Ms. Babakhanian
Ms. Banks
Ms. Blount
Mr. Burns
Ms. Douglas
Ms. Frame
Ms. George
Ms. Hunsaker
Ms. Kane
Ms. Marsh
Mr. O'Brien
Ms. O'Dwyer
March of the Penquins Book Analysis
Ms. Pellegrin
Ms. Priesz/Hinze
Of Mice and Men Research Project Guidelines
Ms. Rizk
Mr. Smith
Mr. Spiecker
Mr. Yoon
English Language Development (ELD)
The California Department of Education has many fine ELL resources listed here http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/ .
English Language Development Teachers:
Ms. O'Dwyer
Ms. Padilla
MIT Libraries site with links to newspapers in Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, etc. Internet resources for super language Sites: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/
Foreign Language Teachers:
Mrs. Camara
Mr. Corretjer
Ms. Gannon
Ms. Gehlke
Mr. Helm
Ms. Jivahrjian
Ms. Martin
Ms. Valles
University of Minnesota’s Science and Technology Center presents “Interactive Geometry” on the web. http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/
Mathematics Teachers:
Mr. Burrill
Ms. Brosche
Ms. Caldaronello
Ms. French
Ms. Gabel
Mr. Hughes
Mr. Idowu
Mr. Kim
Ms. Perrenoud
Ms. Preach
Ms. Rivera
Ms. Rixey
Ms. Tresham
Ms. Vander Helm
Medical Release Student Project
The Fitness Jumpsite links you to hundreds of resources on nutrition, exercise, weight management, etc. http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/
Physical Education Teachers
Ms. Garcia
Mr. Holen
Mr. Kane
Ms. Konrad
Mr. Konrad
Ms. Scott
NASA's page for high school educators has an amazing array of resources for classroom use. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/9-12/features/index.html
Science Teachers:
Mr. Anderson
Mr. Haggart
Mr.Haring
Ms. Hirst
Ms. Makan
Mr. Manalastas
Mr.Pearce
Ms. Perez
Mr. Scott
Mr. Smith
Ms. Solarez
International Economic Summit Web Links
International Economic Summit Project Guidelines
30 point Rubric for Bibliography
Ms. WhitneyCoe
Ms. Zeringue
Economic magazine page with world news, opinion, updated daily, allows students to access opinions from other countries http://www.economist.com/world/
A large collection of primary source documents, from 1917 to the present, chronicling middle east conflicts.http://www.mideastweb.org/history.htm
An outstanding collection of teaching resources from The National Council for the Social Studies. Newspaper Comics http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/ Site has a daily cartoon and links to additional cartoons the Seattle News runs Government Documents http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/fb/
The Library of Congress has a one-stop resource for students, with a wonderful annotated list of U.S. government websites. http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.html
The ThinkQuest Stock Market Game allows students to test various investing strategies using real data from http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/61game.htm
Social Studies Teachers:
Ms.Arrowsmith
Ms. Bangasser
Ms. Barrett
Mr. Choe
Ms.Ehrman
Mr. Fogel
Mr. Holland
Ms. Lahey
Mr. LeGaux
Mr. Oliver
Ms. Rojas
Mr. Smock
Mr. Von Busch
Mr. Worby
uidelines The National Center for Learning Disabilities has a wealth of resources on its site. http://www.ncld.org/
Special Education Teachers:
Mr. Adelini
Ms. Asarch
Ms. Corcoran
Ms. Crosson
Ms. Duran
Ms. Lodge
Ms. Mapp
Ms. Micals
Ms. Montances
Mr. Priske
Ms. Rubottom
Ms. Westall