Curriculum Reference Sites
• Art • Sciences • English • Spanish • French • Math • Social Studies •
• Family & Consumer Science • Health • Careers •
Art
The web site for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Allows you to view the highlights of various collections.
The Louvre’s web site allows you to view works of art in various collections.
National Gallery of Art allows you to browse their collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides a timeline of art history as well as the ability to browse through their collection.
Browse the artist index and click on the artist’s name to link to biographical information.
Sciences
Biology • Environmental Science • Forensics • Chemistry • Physics • General Science
Genetic Disorders
Use the National Library of Medicine’s web site to do a search for genetic disorders. It provides various information and links to other web sites.
This is the web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. It provides information to a wide variety of topics affecting the environment.
A part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s web site covering issues that deal with energy conservation and renewable energy. Provides links to web sites on various topics, recent news articles covering energy, and links to other areas of the department of energy web site.
This is the web site of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Explains what renewable energy is, why energy efficiency important, and how clean energy affects you.
The Environmental Defense group provides information about global warming, oceans, clean air, and endangered species on this web site.
Swatara Creek Research Project Web Sites
US Environmental Protection Agency
PA Dept of Conservation and Natural Resources
Northern Swatara Creek Watershed Association
Visitpa.com Swatara State Park
Widernet.com Swatara State Park
GOOGLE---ENTER: Eastern Pennsylvania Floods
Agnes in Northeast Pennsylvania Hurricane Agnes
GOOGLE—ENTER: Pennsylvania Hurricanes
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Provides a list of links for major areas within forensic science and forensic medicine.
Browse this site to learn more about forensics in solving crimes. Test your own abilities in the interactive stories.
This is an excellent interactive Periodic Table of Elements.
This web site provides an electronic version of a report written in 2003 that determines 11 key questions about the universe that have a chance of being answered in the next 10 years.
This site covers Newton’s three laws of motion.
Biomes and Climate websites
World's Biomes
Center for Educational Technologies
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English
Web Sites About American Authors and Literature
This site will present biographic information about the author and time period.
This site mainly offers information about authors.
This site presents short articles on the author’s life and the time period.
An excellent resource to find information about authors, the time periods, and literary criticisms.
Salem Witch Trials
British Authors and Literature
This web site provides a listing of British and Irish authors. Click on the author’s name and the site will provide you with links to web sites about the author.
This site presents short articles on the author’s life and the time period.
World Literature
Camelot project—Arthurian themes
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Oedipus Rex (criticism)
Oedipus Rex (themes)
Grammar
Search the archives for grammar rules and examples.
Websites for “The Scarlet Letter”
Cliffs Notes—The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter and Symbolism
Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner
Introduction to Hester and Pearl
Poetry websites
Poetry Foundation
Poet’s Corner
Shmoop Poetry
Poet’s Corner 2
Lulu poetry
Poetry 180—A Poem a Day for American High Schools
Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920
Favorite Poem Project
Academy of American Poets
BBC Poetry Website
Library of Congress Poetry Resources
The Poetry Archive
Poetry Portal: What is free verse poetry?
Poetry Daily—offers a new poem every day
Contemporary American Poetry Archive—full text of out-of-print books
Internet Poetry Archive
Academy of American Poets
Annotated listing—websites containing poetry
Aha poetry
American Verse Project
Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages
Civil War Poetry
Famous Poetry Online
About.com Poetry Homepage
About.com 20th Century Poetry
Electronic Poetry Center
Representative Poetry Online
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
Lost Poets of the Great War
Modern American Poetry
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Online News Hour Poems
Poetry Audio Recordings
Poetry Portal
Poetry Previews
Poetry Webcasts
Poetry Society of America
Romantic Circles
Sonnet Central
Spoken Word Performance Poetry
United States of Poetry
Visual Poetry
World of Poetry
Greek Mythology
Mythology: from the Iliad to the fall of the last tyrant
Man Presents Myth Mania—click on “homework help”
Myth Web--click on “gods”, then on picture
Women in Greek myths
Classics Unveiled--click on “Myth Net”
Greek Mythology: The Classical Gods of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece—click on “mythology”
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Spanish
French
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Mathematics
This is a great web site for algebra help.
Provides help in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus.
You can search the archives for an answer to your question if it has already been asked, or you can ask a new question and a member of the Dr. Math team will respond with the answer.
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Family and Consumer Science
Child Development
Recipes
This site allows you to find a recipe by the type of dish (entrée, desserts, appetizers, etc.) as well as by region (Moroccan, Brazilian, Vietnamese, etc.).
This is a user-friendly site that offers a wide array of information from cooking tips to recipes to herb and spice guides.
An electronic book from the American Heart that covers topics that provides healthy recipes as well as other cooking/nutrition advice.
All Recipes.com—real recipes from real peopleConsumer Tips
The Consumers’ Union tests products and provides information to consumers. The web site focuses on current issues of concern. It provides advice on health care, food, phone and media, money, product safety, as well as other issues.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has created an excellent web site to find information about buying, building, selling, and renting homes. The web site covers topics such as finding how much of a mortgage you can afford, finding a realtor, homebuyer rights, etc.
Provides information on tips and advice, car reviews, true cost to own, maintenance costs.
Comparison Shopping
Offers price comparisons on items from watches to digital cameras as well as consumer reviews
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Health
First Aid
Covers emergencies from allergic reactions to strains and sprains. Provides a summary of the injury/emergency, symptoms, treatment, when to seek medical help, etc.
Covers a wide variety common of medical emergencies. Provides basic information about the emergency and how to handle it.
Lists many of the common medical emergencies. Provides information about the emergency, when to seek medical advice, how to treat it yourself.
Healthy Living
A collection of information dealing with healthy living
Presents information dealing with food and nutrition, physical activity, mental healthy/stress, preventing health problems, addictions, etc.
Healthy Nutrition
The Food and Nutrition Information Center offers an excellent web site. Provides information about food composition, food pyramids, dietary guidelines, dietary supplements, and has a searchable database of topics related to food and nutrition.
This is the web site from the American Dietetic Association. It offers food and nutrition information as well as dietetic career information.
This is a great resource for everything and anything about nutrition. The site offers nutrition tools such as BMI calculator, fast food facts about various restaurants, articles on nutrition topics, etc.
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Social Studies
The digital history web site offers an interactive timeline, primary source documents, visual resources, detailed chronologies, maps, etc.
Provides detailed chronologies.
Spanish American War
This web site offers a detailed summary of the Spanish American War with pictures and various links.
This web site is allows visitors to browse the timeline, locate 1890’s sheet music, listen to popular music of the time, read newspaper articles from the 1890s, view photographs, and read information about the Spanish American War.
This web site presents photographs, official histories, and maps chronically the Korean War.
Vietnam War
This web site looks at guerilla tactics, air war, the siege of Khe Sanh, battlefield time line, and a brief history of the Vietnam War.
Asian Educational Media Service
Five College Center for East Asian Studies
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War
The PBS web site provides war stories, oral histories, a timeline, and information about the weapons and technology used during the Gulf War.
The CIA World Fact Book This web site provides detailed information about all countries of the world; includes flags and maps
The Holocaust, This is a link to several outstanding web sites covering different Holocaust topics
World War I, This is a link to several outstanding web sites covering many WWI topics
World War II, This is a link to several outstanding web sites covering many WWII topics
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Nuremburg Trial Sites
Subsequent Nuremberg Trial information
Harvard Law School Library click on topics in dark gray bar along top
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Religion Research
Presidental Websites
Careers
myfirstpaycheck.com Employment help and jobs for teens