TESTS, MIDTERMS & FINALS:
Quizlet: This is my favorite study website: Browse and use millions of flashcards created by other students and teachers, or create your own. You have numerous study options - review your flshcards, or take a test that is generated with the information that you entered - multiple choice, true and false, and fill-in. You even have game options, visuals and a new feature that reads the information back to you. You can save your flashcards and you can even share them with others.
The HW Helper: The wonderful site contains study guides covering topics from the seventh to tenth grade curriculum at Horace Greeley High School.
Regents Exam Prep Center: This is a comprehensive and excellent website. The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
History Teacher: This is a wonderful website that can help high school students prepare for history tests, midterms and exams.
http://www.historyteacher.net/
Examville is a great website that offers study guides, notes, online video classes and strategies for difficult highschool and college courses. You can use the materials yourself, share your own study guides and create study groups with your friends or other students from around the globe. Here is a sample of some of the topics that you can be assisted with: Chemistry, Anatomy, Geometry, Biology, Physics, Microbiology, Physiology, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, Calculus, Trigonometry, Algreba, Precalculus and more.
http://examville.com/index.jsp;jsessionid=E0A35FE155F7C337DEC47A108B2E2F16
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. They have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance, which have been recorded by Salman Khan.
E-Notes - Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Lessons:
BrightStorm is a cool, wonderful website that offers video-based classes that are engaging, multisensory and offer real world examples. They offer classes for the SATs, AP courses, and basic math, English, history and science. You have to check this out!
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons for kindergarten through eighth grade level.
BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Their resources include movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards.
Discovery Education offers engaging and short instructional video lessons on math, science, Social Studies, English and more.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html
Instruction Fun:
Edhelper offers learning resources in many academic areas. I really like the puzzles, word searches etc. that you can create with your own words.
Kids discovery offers videos, games, puzzles, and lessons-
Cool Math for Kids has a fun and colorful website for elementary mathematics. Be sure to check out the scratch math and the lattice multiplication.
This website offers offers interactive animal and plan cells.
http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm
Activity Village offers good alphabet and number games suggestions http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/alphabet_games.htm
Phonological awareness and sound games suggestions are offered.
http://www.hopees.u69.k12.me.us/HES/jens web page/3 SOUNDS.htm
Bright Kids Resources offers activities and ideas to challenge the brightest kids.
http://brightkidsresource.com/index.html
This website offers free pre-made word search puzzles
http://www.puzzles.ca/wordsearch.html
Planning and Organization:
Google Accounts are free and they can be accessed from any computer. They offer free email, a personal calendar and agenda, translations, access to creating documents similar to Microsoft documents (spreadsheets, forms, presentations - comparable to Power Point) and all this can be saved and stored to your online account. They also offer a huge selection of templates.
Schoolhouse is designed for students who need an easy, quick and powerful way to manage what they need to work on. Great features like automatic grade calculation, smart criteria and file attachments make organizing your tasks simple. Schoolhouse 3 builds on this by adding better customization, support for in-app websites, MobileMe syncing and more.
http://www.schoolhouseapp.com/
Timeline maker: This website offers a simple online timeline generator.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/
Citations and Bibliographies:
EZ bib is a wonderful internet tool to help you write a bibliography. Just enter the information and they do it for you.
Citation Machine: This is another website that will help student with both APA and MLA citations.
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
Citation Creation: This is yet another website that will help student with both APA, Chicago and MLA citations.
http://www.citationcreation.com/
Behavior Modification & Motivation:
My Reward Board is a wonderful and very affordable product (they even offer a free trial) that you can download safely onto your computer. It is a reward program that will help you define tasks and goals as well as set up a points - rewards system. Now you can shape your childrens' behaviors and have fun doing it!
Moshi Monsters is a highly innovative new virtual world and online game, where people adopt and care for their very own pet monster. They even have some fun games that strengthen cognitive processing areas!
HOME SCHOOLING:
Tri-State Homeschoolers Newsletter offers a huge assortment of homeschooling ideas serving families in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Monthly newsletter/calendar of events available by email. Sample newsletter available upon request. All welcome with a minimal membership cost. For further information email
BRAIN FITNESS:
SmartMoves This is a cognitive fitness program that combines music and movement to reduce stress and improve mood, focus, attention, and kinesthetic memory and reduces stress and improves mood. http://www.fablevision.com/smartmoves/
http://www.fablevision.com/smartmoves/
Games for the Brain
This website offers some great brain games that are free.
http://www.gamesforthebrain.com
Sheppard Software Brain Games
This website offers some great brain games that are free.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/braingames/braingames.htm
Lumosity has a large selection of games that were designed to improve attention, memory and many other areas of cognition. It's great for all ages.
Fit Brains has a large selection of games that were designed to improve attention, memory and many other areas of cognition. It's great for all ages.
Happy Neuron has a large selection of games that were designed to improve attention, memory and many other areas of cognition. It's great for all ages.
PositScience has a large selection of games that were designed to improve attention, memory and many other areas of cognition. It's great for all ages.
