Subject Links
Use these live links to reputable websites for research, homework or just browsing for fun.
Science & Engineering
Science Online
A comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines, includes diagrams, illustrations and images, videos and Flash animations, science experiments, activities and biographies.
Science information and research conducted by the U.S. Government, in the form of Science.gov.
National Science Digital Library
Audio, images, text and video of many topics about science, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Credible, unbiased and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world works, founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998.
Website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a first choice to visit for information about flight, space and planets.
Sponsored by the American Physical Society, topics covered include space, light, sound, matter, earth science, biology and both atomic and subatomic matter.
Language Arts
Literature Online
(INFOhio) Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement library print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included.
Good Reads website is a social cataloging website to compare what your friends are reading nd keep track of what you've read.
Commercial website with lists of excellent books for teens, biographies about authors, links to author websites, and upcoming titles.
The Young Adult Library Services Association's website contains booklists and book awards appropriate for teens.
Online version of book by Emeritus Professor of English for Washington State University, Paul Brians.
Everything you want to know about English grammar, sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation of Hartford, CT.
General
Digital Video Collection
(INFOhio) Includes hundreds of digital videos that have been made available at no cost to Ohio K-12 school districts.
(INFOhio) Premium database by H.W. Wilson Co. tells the story of individuals from antiquity through today with more than 550,000 biographies, images, supplementary information.
An incredible wealth of browsing information, from the Verizon Foundation.
Website of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers and the National Zoo.
iTunes U (Software Download Required)
Part of the iTunes Store, this website features free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks and more that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 200,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world.
Science, technology and engineering website links, managed by Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students.
Mathematics
The World of Math Online
Math.com offers homework help, additional math practice problems, tutoring, various calculator/tables, games and more.
Website hosted by Discovery Education that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, displaying them real-time and showing how to arrive at the answer.
Hosted by MathMedics, there are more than 2,500 math pages filled with short, easy-to-understand explanations to math problems. Get help on homework, refresh your memory or prepare for a test here.
Social Studies
American Memory
(INFOhio) An excellent primary source materials website for U.S. history and culture, hosted by the Library of Congress.
This is the site to visit for statistical information, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The National Archives are the repository of U.S. historical documents, making this a first stop in searching for primary documents about our country.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
Hosted by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents, this is an in-depth explanation about the U.S. Government and how it works.
UShistory.org covers U.S. history by time periods and includes many primary resource materials on the website.
A site for links to reliable web sites on nearly every topic about the U.S. Government, managed by West People Map (a division of Thomson Reuters).
A collaboration of many agencies, including the University of Houston and the U.S. National Park Service, this website pulls together many primary resource materials, multimedia productions, exhibits and textbooks about U.S. History.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
A portal for American history on the Web, the Institute offers high quality primary source materials such as posters, documents and podcasts of historians.
This site provides free primary source materials, focusing on how few of events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time.
Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture, from 1600 to today. This web site includes a large audio archive of speeches and news broadcasts.
Fine Arts and Music
The Art Collection
(INFOhio) Online image collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry and more, from earliest times to the present.
Works of art, links t art museums worldwide and information about artists make this search engine a useful tool for beginning research on many art topics.
Website for the comprehensive performing and visual arts education delivery system for local secondary students.
The Wright State University Art Galleries website includes both present and past exhibitions on contemporary art.
SketchUp (Software Download Required)
Create, modify, and share 3-D models, using Google's SketchUp.
Search by composer, singer, song, artist to read biographies and reviews about recordings and music videos. Includes a link to AllMovie.com.
Foreign Language
Foreign Language Database
A collection of video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life and more, produced by ViewPoints Project of Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium.
Hosted by the British Broadcasting Company, hear native speakers pronounce words and play games based on Chinese characters.
Chinese and English Dictionary, stroke orders
YellowBridge is the premier guide to Chinese language and culture for English speakers, providing a cultural bridge to those interested in getting an insider's view of Chinese civilization and language.
Flashcards for our Chinese textbook
Downloadable flashcards from YellowBridge.
Wall Street Journal - Chinese Edition
Link to today's Chinese edition of WSJ, written in Chinese.
Website with links to Chinese culture, language, history and travel, maintained by Jim Becker, Professor Emeritus at University of Northern Iowa.
Health
A.D.A.M Health Encyclopedia
(INFOhio) In-depth information, color illustrations and animations of over 1,500 media topics, provided by Medline Plus database.
(INFOhio) Health information from the National Library of Medicine.
Website that presents credible health information from across the U.S., sponsored by this agency of the U.S. Government.
(INFOhio) Health information from Ohio's major medical centers.
Board-certified physicians, award-winning journalists and trained community moderators contribute content to this website, which delivers up-to-date information about medical conditions and concerns.
