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Khan Academy has 2,700 videos students can use to help understand math, science, history, etc. Financial Aid for College
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site
offers student resources, and provides a career portal and
Students-to-Business program. The links to scholarship competitions and
to TechStudent—a site for website builders, designers, and software
developers in training—encourage creativity and skill development. The
Student Experience site also links to DreamSpark, which enables students
not only to download professional software such as Microsoft Visual
Studio, SQL Server, Visual C++ Express Edition, and Robotics Developer
Studio for free but provides free training for using these tools.
This
website can be filed in the "where was this when I was a kid?"
category. On this aptly named site, visitors can read every play or poem
from the world's most celebrated writer and, more importantly, make
some sense of his works with free analysis, Old English language
translations, and famous quotes. At Science Made Simple, elementary
and middle school students can get detailed answers to many science
questions, get ideas on
school projects, and use unit conversion tables.
This site answers questions related to
computers/electronics, automobiles, science, entertainment, and people. Simply type a query into
the search window or peruse the topics by category. Ben's Guide: US Government Web Sites for Kids Links are provided for all the following subjects: Animals
| Agriculture | Arts
& Recreation | Business & Money
| Careers |Communities & People | Computers
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| Environment | Foreign
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Safety Hotline - 1-866-SPEAKUP
Students can call or go on line to report threats, violence and
other crimes at school and in the community. The hotline is toll-free,
and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is staffed by
professional crisis counselors and completely anonymous.
This site
has links to websites on U. S. presidents, author biographies, museums,
research and writing, literary criticism, and many more topics. The Ask an ipl2
Librarian reference service, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
provides individualized help finding authoritative, free online sources for
specific topics.
Refdesk has links to many of the web's top dictionaries, encyclopedias,
calculators, atlases, news headlines, and search engines. It also
includes a handy Homework Helper
section that provides help in all subjects to students in every grade.
For
younger students, Fact
Monster is the tool to use. The Reference Desk features a layout designed for easy fact-finding
and includes timelines, an almanac, atlas, dictionary, and
encyclopedia, as well as a Homework Center. Students can search by
visually identified topics or by keywords. Sites for Students This site has links to a large variety of sites for all ages of students.
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