Teacher Web Resources

The following is a list of web resources for the administration, faculty, and staff of Wayne Valley High School. According to interest, subject, and grade, the list will grow as the demand does.

Search Engines
Search Tool Engines
General Sites for Educators
Technology Tutorials
Science

English

Information Literacy

Newspapers

 

Wayne Valley Media Center Homepage
http://www.wayneschools.com/wvalley/library

 

Area Libraries

 

William Paterson Library

http://www.wpunj.edu/library

Wayne Public Library

http://www.waynepubliclibrary.org

PalsPlus

http://www.palsplus.org

BCCLS

http://www.bccls.org

 

 


 

Search Engines

Librarians Index to the Internet

http://lii.org

Google

http://www.google.com

Ixquick

http://www.ixquick.com

Vivisimo

http://www.vivisimo.com


Library Spot

http://www.libraryspot.com/

Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

 


Search Tool Resources
Searching the Internet: Recommended Sites and Search Techniques
http://library.albany.edu/internet/search.html

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/

Search Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com

Web Search Strategies
http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/main.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Search Engines, Subject Directories, and Slide Shows
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/yp/iypsrch.html
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/yp/iypdir.html
http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows/searching/frame0001.htm
http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows/searching.pdf

Web Evaluation
Adventures of Cyberbee
http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html

Evaluating Web Resources
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

Web Evaluation
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Web Site Evaluation
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/instruction/webcriteria.htm

An Educator's Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility-2002/l2lesson2.htm

Webquests
The Webquest Page at San Diego University
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

Adventures of Cyberbee (Webquests)
http://www.cyberbee.com/quest.html

General Educational Sites for Educators
Surf Report
http://www.ecb.org

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Educators
http://kathyschrock.net/
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Bill Timme's
http://www.nvnet.org/nvhs/edresource

Curriculum Ideas
http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html

Technology Tutorials
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line.htm

 


 

Web Sites by Subject
History Sites

Best of History Web Sites
http://besthistorysites.net/

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov

PBS
http://www.pbs.com

The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com

Black History Month
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm

Women's History Month
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/index.htm

Renaissance Links on the WWW
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/GeneralFiles/RenLinksGen.html

 


 

Mathematics
Exploratorium - Ten Cool Sites
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/mathematics.html

The Math Forum: The Internet Mathematics Library
http://mathforum.org/library/

The History of Mathematics Web Sites
http://homepages.bw.edu/~dcalvis/history.html

 


 

Science and Health
PBS Nova Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova

Science@NASA
http://science.nasa.gov

The Why Files: Science Behind the News
http://whyfiles.org

Discovery Channel
http://www.discovery.com

Science.gov
http://www.science.gov

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

National Institute of Health
http://nih.gov

United States National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html

First Gov For Kids
http://www.kids.gov/k_health.htm

 


 

English/Literary Criticism
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

Poet's Corner
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/index.htm

The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/npm/

Citing Sources Correctly
Noodle Tools (A Wayne Township District Subscription)
http://www.noodletools.com

 


 

Information Literacy
Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/nf/intro/internet.htm

The WWW Virtual Library
http://goose.ycp.edu/~gszczyrb/vlib/

Office of Information Technology at the University of Maryland
http://www.oit.umd.edu/units/web/literacy/

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/il/

 


 

Newspapers and Magazines
The New York Times Online
http://www.nytimes.com/

EBSCOHost Magazines database (A Wayne Valley database through the Highlands Regional Cooperative)
http://search.epnet.com