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For Students:

Connecting Teens Fun Sites Government Links Information Literacy
Information Sources Plagiarism Policy Primary Source Info Quick Links
Resources online Teen Health Your Future Careers
Textbooks High School Ace    

 

Art Department Fine Arts DepartmentPractical English Department English Language Development Foreign Language Department
Mathematics department Physical Education Department Science Department Social Studies Department Special Education Department

For Teachers:

Book Reviews How do I find books Plagiarism Stoppers Resources
Content Standards MarcoPolo    

For Parents:

Guidance to Careers Internet Safety

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/

 

Art Department(Fine Arts)

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

Research Project

Ceramic Web links

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

Cross Cultural Weblinks

Ms. Sage

Ms. Wignal

English Department

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

Yes I Can project web links

Mr. Burns

Ms. Douglas

Ms. Frame

Ms. George

Ms. Hunsaker

Ms. Kane

Ms. Marsh

Mr. O'Brien

Ms. O'Dwyer

Research Penguin Guidelines

March of the Penquins Book Analysis

Penguin Website

Power Point Scoring

Penguin Skit Scoring

Bibliography Rubric

Ms. Pellegrin

Ms. Priesz/Hinze

Of Mice and Men Research Project Guidelines

Mental Health Web links

 

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

Foreign Language Department

 

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

Folktale Project

Folktale Project Guidelines

Folktale Project Outline

Folktale Project Storyboard

 

Mr. Corretjer

Ms. Gannon

Ms. Gehlke

Mr. Helm

Ms. Jivahrjian

Ms. Martin

Ms. Valles

Mathematics Department

 

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

Book Questions

Topics Sign-up

Project Guidelines

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

Physical Education Department

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

Science Department

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

List of Countries

30 point Rubric for Bibliography

Ms. WhitneyCoe

Ms. Zeringue

 

Social Studies Department

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

 

Special Education Department

 

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

Yes I Can project web links

Ms. Crosson

Ms. Duran

Ms. Lodge

Ms. Mapp

Yes I Can project web links

Ms. Micals

Ms. Montances

Yes I Can project web links

Mr. Priske

Ms. Rubottom

Ms. Westall