Leavenworth High School
Recommended Web Resources

 

 

The following is a list of web resources recommended by faculty members. They are provided to assist students in finding high quality information on the internet and to help students do homework assignments or additional research. 

Libraries

Leavenworth High School Library

http://www.lvksch.org/library/LHS/

Kansas Library Card sites (get a Kansas library card from Mrs. Foley in the library and you can use this to find news articles, literary criticism, and more, from home or from school)

www.kslc.org

EBSCO (pick up a “Library Sites” handout in the library for the username and password to log in)

http://search.epnet.com

Gale Group (pick up a “Library Sites” handout in the library for the username and password to log in)

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/leav16525

United Streaming (pick up a “Library Sites” handout in the library for the username and password to log in)

http://www.unitedstreaming.com

Leavenworth Public Library Reference Links

skyways.lib.ks.us/library/leavenworth/refdept/refLinks.html

Leavenworth Public Library Vertical File on Local and Kansas History

skyways.lib.ks.us/library/leavenworth/KSR/ksr.html

 

CARL Library, Fort Leavenworth

www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org

Librarians' Index to the Internet

http://lii.org

Library of Congress

www.loc.gov

Library in the Sky

www.nwrel.org/sky

The Library Spot

www.libraryspot.com

New York Public Library

www.nypl.org

School Libraries Home Page

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ libraries.htm

THOR: The Virtual Reference Desk

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/ reference/index.html

The Virtual Library

www.w3.org/vi

 

College Preparation/Entrance Exam Prep

SAT preparation sites

http://www.sat-preparation.co.il

http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/index.html

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/SATI.html 

 

Art

Art History Resources on the Web

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

The Art Institute of Chicago

www.artic.edu

ArtsEdge Network

artsedge.kennedy-center.org

Dali Web

www.daliweb.net

Getty Multi-Fine Art Museum

www.getty.edu/museum

The Getty's Art Education Website

www.getty.edu/artsednet/

The Guggenheim Museum

www.guggenheim.org

The Louvre

http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Museum of Bad Art

http://glyphs.com/moba

The Museum of Modern Art

www.moma.org

The Smithsonian Institute

www.si.edu

Web Museum, Paris

www.ibiblio.org/wm/

World Wide Arts Resources

wwar.com

World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums

vlmp.museophile.com

 

 

Business and Careers

Careers that Count

http://www.awm-math.org/ctcbrochure/toc.html

Careers for Philosophy Majors

http://web.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/ugcrhbk.html

Connecting Majors with Careers

www.student.services.wiu.edu/careers/majors/

Consumer World

www.consumerworld.org

Department of Commerce

www.doc.gov

Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)

www.occupationalinfo.org/

Emergence of Advertising in America

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa

Harvard Business School's Library

http://library.hbs.edu

Job Star Specific Career

http://jobsmart.org/tools/career/spec-car.htm

Kiplinger Web Site

www.kiplinger.com

Library of Congress' Business Reference Services

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/business

A Major Decision: A Workbook for Choosing a College Major

http://ucs1.ucs.umn.edu/www/majorworkbook.html

Market Guide

www.marketguide.com

Marketing Teacher Home Page

www.marketingteacher.com

Occupational Outlook Handbook

www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

What Can I Do With a Major in …

www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/

 

Computers/Technology

Learn the Net

www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Technology planning in Kansas schools

www.taken.org/techplan.html

Microsoft’s computer shortcuts

www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/compshortcuts.mspx

Kathy Schrock’s ABC’s of Website Evaluation

kathyschrock.net/abceval/

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

Tutorial: Finding & Evaluating Information on the Internet

www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/ Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Junk e-mail information

www.breakthechain.org/

The Barebones Guide to HTML

werbach.com/barebones/download.html

 

Family

American Dietetic Association

www.eatright.org

Ask the Dietician: Cyberdiet

www.dietician.com

Cookbooks Online

www.cook-books.com/reg.htm

Educational Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings and Care

www.fabriclink.com

Environmental Working Group's Food News

www.foodnews.org

The Global Gourmet

www.globalgourmet.com

Learning Network Parent Channel's Power of Earning

www.familyeducation.com/home

Real Age Interactive Web Site

www.realage.com

Searchable Online Archive of Recipes

http://www.recipesource.com/

 

 

 

Foreign Language

Center for Liberal Arts' Spanish Literature

www.virginia.edu/cla/split.htm

Clic Net-French

www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet

Cyber Prof-French

http://francite.net/education/cyberprof/ index.html

Especially Espanol

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/espanol

The Human Language Page

www.june29.com/HLP

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes

http://www.clta.net/lessons/

  

 

Language Arts

General

Bartleby.com

www.bartleby.com

Carnegie Mellon's Online Literature Resources

http://eserver.org

The English Room

www.msrogers.com

NY Times Leaning Network (see Literature or Writing)

www.nytimes.com/learning

University of Toronto's English Library of Criticism and Theory

www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism.html

Web English Teacher

www.webenglishteacher.com

Literature

American Authors on the Web

www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ ~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

Beowulf

www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/ english016/beowulf

Book Notes

www.booknotes.org/

Celebration of Women Writers

www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/ writers.html

Classic Short Stories

http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/ cybereng/shorts

C-Span's American Writers

www.americanwriters.org

The Edgar Allen Poe Society

www.eapoe.org/index.htm

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation

www.hemingway.org

The Official Faulkner Site

www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner

14th-17th Century Literary Resources

www.luminarium.org

History of the Mystery

www.mysterynet.com/history

The Internet Classics Archive

classics.mit.edu

KC Star's Hemingway Site

www.kcstar.com/hemingway

Online Library of Literature

www.literature.org

The Official Melville Site

www.melville.org

The Of Mice and Men Survival Guide

www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/ index

The Poetry Unit

volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/ harrisms/spotlight.htm

Project Gutenberg

www.promo.net/pg

The Red Badge of Courage Site

www.school.discovery.com/spring99/ programs/redbadge

Shakespeare Help

www.shakespearehelp.com

Shakey's Place

http://library.thinkquest.org/12502/ sitemap

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu

To Kill a Mockingbird Survival Guide

www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/ index

Westminster Abbey

www.westminster-abbey.org

 

Drama

The Drama Teacher's Resource Room

www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi

Theatre History on the Web

www.videoccasionsnw.com/history/ jack.html

 

Writing and Grammar

A+ Research and Writing for High School Students

www.ipl.org/teen/aplus

The Art of Writing

http://library.thinkquest.org/50084/write

Big Dog’s Guide to Grammar

aliscot.com/bigdog/

Common Errors in English

www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

The Elements of Style (William Strunk’s 1st edition)

www.bartleby.com/141/

11 Rules of Writing

www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw

The Good Grammar, Good Style Pages

www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm

Grammar and Style Notes

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/ Writing

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

www.powa.org

Proofreading Power Tools

http://fp.uni.edu/writingcenter/help/help_proofreading.htm

The Writing Center

www.hamilton.edu/academic/Resource/WC

The Writer's Handbook

www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook

Writing Argumentative Essays

www.eslplanet.com/teachertools/ argueweb/frntpage.htm

The Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

Writing Style Guide

www.kanten.com/styleguide/sghome. html

 

Math

Algebra Homework Help

www.algebra.com

Annenberg's Math in Daily Life

www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath

Calculators Online Center

http://www.sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html

Comparing Costs

www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/ concepts/president/activity1.shtm

Cornell Theory Center for Math and Science

www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway

Curious and Useful Math

http://personal.cfw.com/~clayhford/home.html

Fractals Unleashed

http://library.thinkquest.org/26242

Interactive Mathematics

www.cut-the-knot.com/content.html

Interactive Mathematics Online

http://library.thinkquest.org/2647/ index.html

The Math Forum

http://forum.swarthmore.edu

NEW!The Math Page (reviews of math topics from Algebra to Precalculus)

http://www.themathpage.com

SOS Mathematics

www.sosmath.com

 

Military/ROTC

The Army

www.army.mil

Defense Link

www.defenselink.mil

The Electronic Embassy

www.embassy.org

Firstfov Easy Access Website to Government

www.firstgov.gov

Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages

www.gulfweb.org

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

www.nato.int

The Pentagon

www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pentagon/ index.html

Selective Services

www.sss.gov

The State Department

www.state.gov

The United Nations

www.un.org

Vietnam Veterans Home Page

http://grunt.space.swri.edu/index.htm

 

Music

All Classical Guide

www.allclassical.com

Bach Home Page

www.jsbach.org

Blues Highway Resources

http://thebluehighway.com

ChoralNet Internet Center

www.choralnet.org

Classical Music Archive

www.prs.net/midi

Classical Net Resources

www.classical.net

Everything on Broadway Musicals

www.musicals101.com

52nd Street Jazz

www.52ndstreet.com

Jazz Online

www.jazzonline.com

Metropolitan Opera Company

www.metopera.org

Movie Tunes

www.hollywood.com/movietunes

The Mozart Project

www.mozartproject.org

Music Education Resources

www.talentz.com/MusicEducation/index

The Music Room

www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/ capmusic/music_room/themusic.htm

Musicals Net

www.musicals.net

The Symphony: An Interactive Guide

http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/ index.html

 

Physical Education

The Health Touch

www.healthtouch.com

Fitness and Exercise: E Fit

www.efit.com

MSN's Health Site

www.health.msn.com

PE Central

http://pe.central.vt.edu

The Physical and Sportsmedicine Online

www.physsportsmed.com

Physical Education and Sports for Everyone

www.sports-media.org/nieuw.html

Thrive Online Fitness Resource

http://thriveonline.com/fitness

 

Science

General and Physical

NEW!Ask-a-Scientist

http://askascientist.org/

Scirus scientific-only search engine

www.scirus.com

The Audubon Society

www.audubon.org

Firstgov of Science

www.science.gov

How Stuff Works

www.howstuffworks.com

Invention Dimension

web.mit.edu/invent

Nova Hot Science

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience

Questacon: National Science and Technology Center

www.questacon.edu.au

Science Daily Magazine

www.sciencedaily.com

Science Museum

Virtual Skies (NASA)

www.exploratorium.edu

virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov

The Why Files

http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu

Biology

BioInteractive

www.biointeractive.org

Biology Online

www.bio.com

DNA From the Beginning

www.dnaftb.org

Everything About Cells

www.cellsalive.com

The Heart Preview Gallery

sln2.fi.edu/biosci/preview/heartpreview.html

Invasive Species Database

www.issg.org/database/welcome/

A Look At the Human Body

www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body

National Library of Medicine

www.nlm.nih.gov

National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian

www.mnh.si.edu

The University of Iowa’s Virtual Hospital website. 

www.vh.org

 

Chemistry

Chemistry Function

www.stanford.edu/~glassman/ chem/index.htm

Chemistry Guide

http://chemistry.about.com

Scorecard on Environmental Defense

www.scorecard.org

Virtual Chemistry Lab

www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/

Physics

American Institute of Physics

www.aip.org

Amusement Park Physics

www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics

Evidence: The True Witness

http://library.thinkquest.org/17049/gather

Fear of Physics

www.fearofphysics.com

PBS's Hawking Site

www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking

Stephen Hawking's Website

www.hawking.org.uk

The Laws List

www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws

Physics Central

www.physicscentral.com

 

 

Social Studies

Government/Law

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ avalon.htm

Biographical Resource

www.biography.com

Campaign Financing Resource

www.crp.org

The Census

www.census.gov

Congressional Email Directory

www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Famous Trials

www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ ftrials/ftrials.htm

Federal Resources

www.fedworld.gov

Federal Government Resources

www.infospace.com

Government Sites Made Easy

www.firstgov.gov

Idea Central: The Virtual Magazine of Electronic Policy

www.epn.org/ideacentral

Legal Information Institute

www.law.cornell.edu

Legal Resources Guide

www.findlaw.com

Legislative Information on the Internet

http://thomas.loc.gov

News, Information and Expertise on the Divide in Income, Wealth and Health

www.inequality.org

Smithsonian Institute