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Students and Parents

Parent Resources
 

  • abc Teach Network
    This site is a place to get ideas, whether you are a teacher, a soon-to-be teacher, or a student, parents and homeschoolers. The purpose of abcteach is to provide educationally sound suggestions that help with learning and teaching. abcteach will provide easy, online materials for immediate use by kids, student teachers, teachers, parents and other visitors to the site. The material can be printed directly from the screen; no downloads necessary.
  • actden.com ~ (Digital Education Network)
    Resource for online learning.  Software Tutorials: FrontPage 98 and 2000, Office 2000, Internet Explorer 4 and 5, PowerPoint 98, Outlook Express.  Also, many online courses.
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
  • Alfy
    Web portal for kids ages 3-10
  • American Library Association ~ Tips for Parents
  • BookSpot.com 
    A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
  • Family.com
    Great ideas, practical advice, and fun stuff to do. Subjects covered include: Activities & Crafts, Pets, Parties, Raising Kids, Time for You, Recipes, and Travel.
  • FunBrain.com
  • GenealogySpot.com 
    A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best online genealogy resources for beginners and experts alike. Sites featured on GenealogySpot.com are hand-selected by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.
  • GovSpot.com
    A non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by our editorial team for their quality, content and utility.
  • High School Hub
    A noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It
    features learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, arts, health, and technology.
  • High School News Web
    For news and sources.
  • HomeWork Central
    Teachers use bigchalk.com to shape their passion and skill into a learning environment that breaks the barriers of classroom walls, fixed hours, and limited school resources. It opens a world of information to teachers, students, and parents — enhancing learning, helping with homework, and offering limitless paths of exploration.  It enables teachers to create their own interactive centers of involvement that encourage, inform, and excite students. It gives parents a clear view into their child's class work, and helps them better understand how their child is doing and what they can do to help.
  • HomeworkSpot.com
    A free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot. With the help of students, parents and teachers, our team of educators, librarians and journalists has scoured the Web to bring you the best resources for English, math, science, history, art, music, technology, foreign language, college prep, health, life skills, extracurricular activities and much more. For your convenience, we have made every effort to organize these resources into grade appropriate categories for elementary, middle and high school.
  • How Stuff Works
  • Internet Public Library
    This library is hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
  • Kids Click!
    Web search for kids by librarians.
  • LibrarySpot.com
    Breaks through the information overload of the Web and brings the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.
  • Maps of the United States 
    Miscellaneous maps of the U.S. and World from the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Mid-Valley Newspapers
    Corvallis Gazette-Times, Albany Democrat Herald, Lebanon Express, Mid-Valley Sunday, Newport News-Times, Ashland Daily Tidings, Cottage Grove Sentinel, Springfield News.
  • MuseumSpot.com
    A free information resource center that simplifies the search for the very best and most useful museum information on the Web. Sites featured on MuseumSpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by our editorial team for their quality, content and utility. From the site, quickly and easily locate museums by city, state, country, name and topic; explore museums by type, search for exhibits by artist, access educational and industry resources, and much more.
  • OMSI
    Website for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland.
  • Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
    More than 700 terrific links to educational sites.
  • SendSpot.com
    A free resource center that simplifies the search for the best personal and business correspondence resources on the Web. Handpicked and reviewed by our editorial staff, featured sites make it easy to send mail, packages, e-mail, faxes, documents, money, gifts, greetings, donations and more.
  • U.S. Blue Pages
    Online guide to the U.S. Government


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