EGHS Library Online Resource Center

This page is a perpetual work-in-progress. If you know of great online resources that should appear here, please email me at diloreh@gcsnc.com.  

General

• About The Big6 Research Method
• Big 6 Research Form
• Springfield Township Edublogs (This is an amazing collection of student-made video blogs about topics ranging from Spanish to prepositional phrases. The videos CAN be viewed on school computers.
• NCWiseOwl  (This is a great resource that students and teachers can use anywhere there is an internet connection. The password for all resources is wiseowl.)
• Landmark Project (There are loads of handouts, lesson plans, resources, etc. on this site, which is managed by David Warlick, who lives and works in North Carolina.)
• TeacherTube
• BBC Schools
• Encyclopedia.com
• PBS Teachers (A free account is required, but it only takes about 5 minutes to sign up.)

English

• LibriVox (FREE online recordings of hundreds of classic “public doman” literary titles!)
• Teen Literacy Tips
• Writing with Writers
• Grammar Girl
• Web English Teacher
• Romeo and Juliet resources
• Shakespeare Resource Center

Science

• Cool geography/ecology project
• School grounds naturalization project
• What kind of garden would grow on our campus?
• Understanding weather activity
• Animal Diversity Web
• Free AP Bio from MIT
• Free AP Physics from MIT

Math

• Free Calculus from MIT
• The Math Forum: Secondary Teachers

Social Studies

• American Presidents Life Portraits
• Colonial House
• Documents for the Study of American History
• North Carolina Postcards
• African Voices
• The Mesoamerican Ballgame
• Africa Focus
• Zaire
• American Decades: 1940-1949
• The CIA World Factbook
• 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa
• Library of Congress Prints Room: Photos Depicting Racial Discrimination in the 1930s and 1940s
• PBS: Race–The Power of an Illusion
• The History of Jim Crow
• PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Fine Arts

• Artcyclopedia
• The National Gallery of Art (Includes online virtual tours and information about the collection.)
• MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art–Educational Resources
• Roadside Art

Foreign Language

CTE

Health/PE

• Booklist: Teens at Risk
• The Mesoamerican Ballgame
• MentalHealth.com
• Encyclopedia of Mind Disorders
• Mental Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics
• Canadian Mental Health Association: Understanding Mental Illness
• Teens Health
• Teen Health and Wellness
• The AWARE Foundation (Adolescent Wellness through Access to Resources and Education)
• Teen Growth: Fitness
• Tone Teen
• Nutrition.gov
• Nutrition Data
• Nutri-facts.com
• USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)