Library Links:

For Students:

For Teachers:

For Parents:

Plagiarism Prevention:

Turnitin.com check with your teacher or teacher librarian for class code and password.

Databases

See the library staff for the West Ranch "wrwildcats" password.

Gale 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 Infotract

SIRS Knowledge Quest

SIRS Government Reporter: Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs

SIRS Renaissance Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities

California Digital Newspaper Collection is a link to 200,000 pages of San Francisco newspapers from 1850-1910 with extensive coverage of state and national issues. 100,000 pages a year will be added as funding permits. The geographical and chronical scope of the Collection gives access to the rich record of California's past.

Los Angeles County Public Library offers databases for card holders. The library card is free. You need to use your public library card number to access over 25 databases.

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

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)

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

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

Crucible Project Links

1. Witch Hunt Essay Guidelines
2. Artwork Analysis Worksheet
3. Map Analysis Worksheet
4. Poster Analysis Worksheet
5. Written Document Analysis Worksheet
6. Peabody Essex Museum

Mr. Burns

Winter Dreams Electronic Version

Winter Dream Guidelines

Ms. Douglas

Ms. Frame

Ms. George

Ms. Hunsaker

Ms. Kane

Ms. Marsh

Mr. O'Brien

Ms. O'Dwyer

Ms. Pellegrin

Mr. Smith

Mr. Spiecker

Mr. Webb

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

Foreign Language Teachers:

Mr. Corretjer

Ms. Gannon

Ms. Gehlke

Mr. Helm

Ms. Jivahrjian

Ms. Martin

Ms. Mendez

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

Ms. Caldaronello

Ms. French

Ms. Gabel

Mr. Hughes

Mr. Idowu

Ms. Perrenoud

Ms. Preach

Ms. Rivera

Ms. Rixey

Ms. Tresham

Ms. Vander Helm

Project Guidelines

Mathematician Web links

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

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. Haggart

Mr.Haring

Ms. Hirst

Ms. Makan

Mr. Manalastas

Mr.Pearce

Ms. Perez

Mr. Scott

Mr. Smith

Ms. Solarez

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. Hambel

Mr. Choe

Ms.Ehrman

Mr. Fogel

Mr. Holland

Ms. Lahey

Mr. LeGaux

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

Ms. Crosson

Ms. Duran

Ms. Lodge

Ms. Mapp

Ms. Micals

Ms. Montances

Mr. Priske

Ms. Rubottom

Ms. Westall