Library - Hot Hits

Hot  Hits!

This page features a variety of websites of interest to students and teachers. E-mail us with your suggestions.

African-American World--PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

Answers.com--Fast facts on lots of subjects--searchable.
http://www.answers.com

ArtCyclopedia--"The guide to great art on the Internet."
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Book Crossing--The "world's biggest book club."
Buy a book, read it, review it, label it, leave it for others to find--and hear what happens!
http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Book Spot--Like to read? You'll find plenty of info here.
http://www.bookspot.com/

Brain Food
http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/

Comic Artists--Searchable Index of the works of 7,000 comic artists.
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/index.htm

Cyberteens
http://www.cyberteens.com

Election Issues (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/issues/

Give Away of the Day--Download free software!
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

High School Ace--(formerly Hub)--Many Resources.
http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm

Holidays Around the World
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Students?content_spotlight/holidays

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Internet Public Library--for teens
http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/

It's Alive!--Teen Read Week from ALA (2004)
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2004/getready.htm

Lists--Lots of Lists--Best of...Worst of...etc.
http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2007.cfm

Online Education Database--Invisible web--resources beyond Google
http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google

Online Publishing Sites
http://www.publishingstudents.com/Online resources.html

Mensa Workout
http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php

Mind of Leonardo--Museum exhibit on Leonardo Da Vinci
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/

Missing Chapter: Untold Stories of the African American Presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley
http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/aa07/   (Discusses the Issue of Slavery in the Northeast)

Mystery Reader--Reviews of Mysteries
http://www.themysteryreader.com/

Picnik--Photo Editing
http://www.picnik.com/

Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Poetry Contest--Submit your poems to Teen Ink!
http://teenink.com/Contests/PoetryC.html

Sci-Fi Top 100
http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html

Snopes.com--Verify urban legends--e-mail tales and more.
http://www.snopes.com/

START - Natural Language Question Answering System
http://start.csail.mit.edu/

Teen Reads
http://www.teenreads.com/

Timelines--Alterna Time
http://www3.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html

Women's History
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/

A Word a Day--Increase your vocabulary.
http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

World Mapper--the world as you've never seen it before.
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/

 

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