Sites to see:
Library Databases
Britannica Online an encyclopedia with magazine articles, the Web's Best Sites, media clips & videos. Also includes an atlas, timelines, world data & news of the day.
Student Resrouce Center Bronze need help with homework? Info. on geography, literature, history & science. Primary sources, statistics and multimedia content.
Novels for Students is an e-book collection with plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, author biographies & critical overviews.
American History Online has more than 500 years of political, military, social & cultural history. It includes biographies, events & topics, primary sources, timelines, era essays, images, maps, charts, chronologies & learning centers.
Booklists
Need some unusual reading suggestions & reviews? Reading Rants
Visit the Internet Public Library’s Teen Space for links to entertainment, health and sexuality, money and work, technology, homework and more.
New York Public Library has a wealth of information, as well as a great booklist (books for the teen age).
Music
Allmusic gives info. about every aspect of popular music.
Finetune allows you to create a streaming radio station tailored to your taste.
Grammy's music awards at their best.
Last.fm allows you to share your musical side with others.
Hype Machine is an MP3 Blog
Pitchfork reviews new albums daily.
Creative Writing
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
Post Secret Anonymous secrets that people from all over the world submit on post cards to Frank Warren in Massachusetts.
Found We collect FOUND stuff- love letters, birthday cards, photos, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life.
Games
Free Addicting Games
Games for the Brain features "Sudoku," "Chinese Checkers," "Chess" and others.
Puzzle Pirates where every activity is a puzzle.
Politics
Living Room Candidate TV Campaign Ads from 1952-2004
eLECTIONS On-line game involving the White House
Budget Hero Try your hand @ managing the $3.3 Trillion Federal Budget
CNN Student News
Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
