website links to interesting sites, homework help, kool kid stuff and IB information!

• Interesting Sites

  •  Living on Earth

  • Observing the Earth from the Envisat Meris Image Rapid Visualization of the European Space Agency

  •  Wayfaring, maps your way.

  •  Zip Skinny - enter a zip code and see U.S. Census data and comparisons with neighboring zip codes

  •  "The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken". This video was made by Tony Darnell who runs Deepastronomy.com. In addition to using NASA images to make some important cosmological points, he also makes a few other points - such as our YouTube posting and viewing habits.

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• Homework Help

  •  Brazoria County Library System

  •  Annenberg Media Learner.org, teacher resources and professional development programming across curriculum (arts, foreign language, literature, math, science and social studies)

  •  Cells Alive - cell biology, microbiology, immunology and microscopy

  •  Chemicool - Periodic table of elements, not just a periodic table, click on an element and find out all about it!

  •  Science and Math interactive JAVA Courseware

  •  Live Science - great site with all kinds of science content!

  •  Ms. Dewey - ask Ms. Dewey a question you get a series of search results, a different kind of search engine.

  •  Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus now does Spanish-English and has a medical dictionary

  •  High School ACE - an academic homepage for high school students, loads of hyperlinks to helpful sites by school subject area!

  •  Presidential Quizzes - Do you know your Presdients?

  • LibriVox an acoustical ligeration of books in the public domain,  the goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books

  • How Products are Made

  •  My Wonderful World - Geography is fun, essential and we need to give our kids the power of global knowledge

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• Kool Kid Stuff

  •  AskOxford.com Word Games

  •  Paper Toys - paper stuff for kids and grownups, just print, cut, fold and glue!

  •  pbskids.org is a great website for children

  •  Family Fun - www.familyfun.com lots of fun activities, crafts, meals for families!

• International Baccalaureate References

  • http://www.ibo.org/ - International Baccalaureate Organization

  • http://blogs.ibo.org/ - IB blogosphere, check out what people are blogging about at this blog site

  • 21 things you should know about the IB (PDF, 1.8Mb)

  •  http://pittsburgh.about.com/b/2006/04/25/usc-reluctantly-restores-international-baccalaureate-program.htm

  •  http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/callahan.html

  •  http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0726/p12s01-legn.html 

  •  http://lhs.leanderisd.org/academics/ib_program/ib.htm

  • http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480,00.html by CLAUDIA WALLIS, SONJA STEPTOE  "How to Bring our Schools out of the 20th Century" Time. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006

  • Academic Pathways - ACADEMIC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE: POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THE FIFTY STATES TO REACH UNDERSERVED STUDENTS

  • Credit Based Transition Programs - Promoting College Access and Success:
    A Review of Credit-Based Transition Programs

  • Pathways to College Access and Success - This report looks at the ways that credit-based transition programs (CBTPs) may help middle- and low-achieving students enter and succeed in college. It highlights promising practices used by CBTPs to help students who might have been considered noncollege-bound prepare for college credit course work. The report also discusses the challenges that credit-based transition programs face when trying to include such students.

  • Advanced Placement and College Graduation Rates - The Relationship between Advanced Placement and College Graduation. We conclude that the percent of a school’s students who take and pass AP exams is the best AP-related indicator of whether the school is preparing increasing percentages of its students to graduate from college.

  • Honors Courses and College Admissions - THE ROLE OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND HONORS COURSES IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. 

  • http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/International/International_Baccalaureate/ - google directory of IB links

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