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- A. Pintura: Art Detective
- Art History - Resources on the web
- Art Teacher - Connection
- Art Lex
- CGFA Artist Index
- Metropolita Museum of Art - Education
- Musee du Louvre--Official site of France's most famous art museum.
- Museum of Modern Art
- Musee Online--An online collection of many museum websites.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum--The Smithsonian American Art Museum online
- Time line of Art History.
- Virtual Art Museums--Art museums from around the world searchable by country.
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- Big Charts--Investment charting and research site.
- Dow Jones Index--Stock quotes, charting and research site.
- Hoover's Online--Business information.
- Money Central--Online stock quotes.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission--Financial information about publicly held companies.
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- Portals of the World--Information on world nations.
- Nations Online-- A guide to the world's countries.
- ACT--Educational and career planning-includes ACT test prep and registration.
- College Board--Information on Advanced Placement.
- Learning Express Library--ACT test prep
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Dictionaries, Quotations, Almanacs
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations--A source for famous and infamous quotes.
- Information Please--Online almanac.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary--Online dictionary.
- ROGET's Thesaurus--Words of similar, and/or opposite meaning.
- E.L. Easton Languages Online
- Learn Spanish--A free online tutorial
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- The White House--Information about the current residents of the Executive Mansion. Includes a section for kids and a link to commonly requested federal services.
- U.S. House of Representatives--Find your representative with voting and scheduling information.
- U.S. Senate--Information on Senators from each state.
- Library of Congress--One of the biggest online libraries.
- Embassies of the world--Directory of the world's embassies and consulates.
- Chiefs of State--Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments ins published weekly by the CIA.
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- New York State government--Online source to state government services.
- New York State Senate--A comprehensive source on Missouri's Senate.
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Health
- American Presidents Timeline--C-Span Classroom, Information on past presidents.
- The History Place--Great Speeches collection.
- Bartleby--Full text literature, reference and verse, thousands of titles.
- -ok Lists and awards--reading lists prepared by American Association of School Librarians
- Translator--Translates from 14 different languages.
- 21st Century Problem Solving-Focused on problem solving, this site is dedicated to helping students learn how to solve word problems. Includes valuable teacher materials and areas in Math, Physics, and Chemistry.
- A+ Math--Offers interactive features like flashcards, puzzles, and games. The Homework Helper lets students enter their math problems (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and their answers and get immediate feedback.
- History of Mathematics--Extensive resources on history of mathematics. Includes hundreds of biographies of famous mathematicians, quotes (with search engine), and comprehensive lists of math award winners. The best math history site on the Web.
- Math Archives-Topics in Mathematics--- The math resource site on the web. Hundreds of links (fully searchable in forty different categories ranging from Algebra to Partial Differential Equations.
- Math Goodies--Math goodies features interactive math lessons with a problem solving approach. In addition to the many lessons, the website features math cat rooms, homework help and online calculators.
- S.O.S. Math--Designed more for students in high school and college, this website provides tons of information on Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Matrix Algebra, Complex Variables and Differential equations. excellent site.
- Math
Bits-Devoted to
offering fun, yet challenging, lessons and activities in high
school/college level mathematics and computer programming to students
and teachers.
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- Big Ears--If you need to train some ears to pitches, this is the place. Big Ears plays an interval and then the user guesses which interval was played. This site uses a java applet that, once loaded, requires nothing more from you than speakers..
- Energy in the Air: Sounds form the orchestra--Excellent resource on the symphony orchestra. This history of each type of instrument. as well as how sound becomes music, is explained.
- Essentials of Music--From Sony and the W.W. Norton Company, the essentials of Music is a series designed around the "best classical music" from the middle ages to the present. There are almost 70 composers biographies, overviews of each era, a glossary and more than 200 audio excerpts of many pieces of music. (Real Audio required)
- Instrument Encyclopedia--a searchable database of more than 140 different musical instruments. This University of Michigan site also offers a glossary, information on other museum collections, and links to related sites
- Music Notes--Billing itself as an "interactive online musical experience," Music notes is one of the more useful music sites. It features information on the theory, history, and styles of music, as well as a list of links, nice glossary and much more.
- Piano Nanny--The Piano Nanny features fully interactive online piano lessons. The 34 lessons take about a half hour each and serve as a good introduction to piano playing. For some lessons, you will need the Flash and QuickTime players.
- New
York Papers
Watertown Daily Times
North Country Now
New York Times
Ogdensburg Journal - Weekly
News Magazines
Newsweek
CNN Sports Illustrated
Time - Worldwide
News
CNN
USA Today
The Christian Science Monitor
The New York Times - Local
Television News Stations
WWNYTV
News 10 Now
- Biomes/Habitats
- National Science Digital Library--Educational resource for science, technology, engineering and mathematics
- Periodic Table of Elements--An online interactive Periodic Table of Elements.
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- Department of Elementary and Secondary Education--DESE.
- Puzzle Maker--A tool to create a variety of word and math puzzles..
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- How Far Is It?--This
service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of
cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two
places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow
flies).
Currency Converter--a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up-to-date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors.
