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Clip Art/Images

Photos for Class
copyright-free clip art
Pics4Learning
Big Huge Labs
Have fun with your digital photos!
5 sites from EduHound
My Free Clip Art
Clip art for the holidays
Creative Commons Search
Visuwords: Online Visual Dictionary
6th Grade Social Studies SOL sites from Rockingham County
Silly Graphics Hunt
Stephen Johnson: Photographer
morgueFile
EduPic Graphical Resource
Animal Photos
WorldImages
Free Stock Pictures
Yahoo! Images
FedFlix
ImageBase, free images
Clip Art Guide
Copyright Free Images

Replacements for Picnik

Quotes

Interactive Media

iCreate
a magazine with tons of creative ideas for Macs
Oolone
Search visually
Google search by drawing!
Google...sort of
Cirque du Soleil
ToonDoo
Fun!
Scribd
Digital Library
SchoolTube
Educational Videos
Virtues for Life
iStock
free calendar
Mrs. Sexton's Blog
Instant Poetry
Poetry Types
The Mysterious Benedict Society
10X10
Visual News Stories
Story Starters
30-Day Challenge
PowToons

6th grade

StoryMaker
for help with NaNoWriMo
Edmodo
Youngzine
News for Kids
What's Your Learning Style
Learning Style Inventory
Smithsonian Tween Tribune
student news
Youngzine
student news

7th grade

Storybird
Prezi
presentations
Glogster Edu

Photo Essay

Science
SOLs
Science
Curriculum Framework
Social Studies
SOLs
Social Studies
Curriculum Framework
Social Studies
Enhanced Curriculum Framework
Photography Mad
top 10 tips

Myers-Briggs

Who Am I?

Wordle
word clouds
Tagxedo
word clouds

8th grade

Popplet
for NaNoWriMo
Lord of the Flies
audiobook (missing ch. 8)
Glogster Edu
Create a poster online!

Photo Essay

Wordle
word cloud
Free Music
underscore
Photography Mad
top 10 photo tips
Photography Mad
tons of photo tips

High School Links

Myers-Briggs

Edublog

Home
Log in
User Guide
Need help?
What is a Blog?
video
Edublog Award Winners
top-notch blogs
About Me Pages
funny and unique

Academic Contests

PTA Reflections
Virginia link: http://www.vapta.org/content/2012-2013-reflections-theme-magic-moment-rules-guides-etc
Scholastic Book Fairs: Kids Are Authors
About.com
Student Essay Contests
Girls Write Now
Scholarships & Opportunities
Pomegranate Words
Teen Writing Contests
Igniting Creative Energy
Win a trip to Wahington D.C.!
Teen Ink Writing Contests
Artist of the Week
Artsonia
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
deadline Jan. 6, 2014

Computer Basics

Good Typing
Practice your typing skills!
Touch Typing Lessons
Fun Brain: Word Confusion
Click on "Hard" for homonym practice.
Fun Brain: The Grammar Gorillas
Click on "Advanced".
Eye On Idioms
Fun With Poetry
Computer Basics
Quia quiz
Tween Tribune: News for tweens, kids, and students
READING ONLY! Do not log in or register.
Typeracing
Compete with others!
Typing Games!
Copyright Education
from YouTube
Typing Adventure
Nytro Type
Competitive Typing Races

Class Sites

Wordle
All About Me
Scavenger Hunt
A Parent's Guide to Facebook
Includes a guide for recommended privacy settings
Freeplay Music
Classic
Password Bird
Generate an original password!
Draw a Stickman
animation
Tagxedo
Create a word cloud with a shape!
A Google A Day
See if you can find the answer...
Instant Poetry
Just add words!
Youngzine
Explore news reports written by students!
Odosketch
Watch how artists created their works of art. Create your own!
Multicolor Search Lab
How could we use this?!
Wacky Web Tales
Create your own Mad Libs!!
Foto Friends
Add more effects to your photo booth shots.
PassCreator
create a password
PassPlex
create a password

Where Should I Go?

Quick Facts About the 50 States
Facts, Map, and State Symbols
State Profiles
Government Info, State Facts, AND Famous Residents!
More Quick Facts
City Data
major cities AND schools
Time Zone map
Area Connect
Compare crime rates b/t two cities
State Master
Great site for GSP, maps, and flags!
RSSWeather
For climate and weather
Encyclopedia.com
U.S. Map
U.S. Map
interactive
Neighborhood Scout
Area Vibes
the best and worst places to live
State Info Search
Travel Brochure Pathfinder

Best Places to Live

CNN Money.com
Top 100 places to live in 2010
Sperling's Best Places
Find your own best place!
Relocate America
Top 100 places to live in 2010

7th Grade Economy

List of U.S. States by GDP
State Quick Facts
Fact Finder
U.S. Census Bureau
Regional Economic Amounts
Bureau of Economic Analysis
InfoPlease
Click on United States in the left column to find interesting state facts.
CIA World Factbook
Regional Economic Information
US Spending
GRP

8th Grade Government

Campaign 2010
The Washington Post
List of U.S. State Legislatures
Wikipedia
USA.gov
State & Local Government on the Net
State Government Agencies
U.S. Electoral College
Govspot.com

Cost of Living

Cost of Living 2010
State Ranks
Average Housing Price by State
Median Price of Single Family Homes
Gas Prices Map
City Info
GREAT cost of living site!
Cost of Living Info
for all kinds of stuff

Schools

U.S. News & World Report
Best High School Rankings by State
School Digger
Find your city's school rank.

Jobs

Best & Worst States for Jobs
Senior Job Bank
job rankings per state
HubPages
Best 25 Cities for Jobs

State Tourism

College-Level/SAT Vocabulary

College-Level Vocabulary
games
SAT/ACT Vocabulary
games
SAT/ACT Vocabulary
quiz
Vocabulary Practice
Help feed others while learning vocabulary!
Vocab Genii
Fun vocab games with charts to track your progress.
SAT Practice

Conducting an Interview

Informational Interviewing Tutorial
Questions to ask
Guidelines for Conducting an Interview
Interviewing for Information
Possible questions

Children's Book Project

Plot Diagram
Reading to Kids
Books by grade level
Eric Carle
Children's Book Author
Patricia Pollacco
Children's Book Author
Written Sounds
onomatopoeia spelling
Word Tamer
create a story
Story Starters
by Scholastic
Top 10 Writing Mistakes
by writers of children's books
Writing Children's Books for Dummies
20 Steps to Writing a Children's Book
to publish
Literary Devices
More Literary Devices
Types of Children's Books
How to make a pop up book!
Storyboarding Steps
Rhyming Words
Rhyme Zone
rhymes, antonyms, homophones, & more
Dialogue Punctuation
Dialogue Punctuation for Pros!
Quentin Blake
illustrator
Elly MacKay
author/illustrator
Race Car Font
free fonts

Online Art

Queeky
Sumo Paint
Picozu
Pixlr
Fotoflexer
Cool Tools for School
Creative Commons List
Ribbet
Hey, it's just like PICNIK!!!
Cool Tools for School
Drawing Tools
Art Pad

SOLs

Kindergarten

English
SOL
Math
SOL
Math
Curriculum Framework
Science
SOL
Science
Curriculum Framework
History & Social Science
SOL
History & Social Science
Curriculum Framework
Music
SOL
Visual Arts
SOL
Health
SOL
Physical Education
SOL

2nd Grade

This I Believe

This I Believe
home page
Essay Guidelines
We're All Different In Our Own Ways
Joshua Yuchasz
My Father Told Me I Was Fat
Cherie
I didn't wash my car last month
Jeff
Finding the Flexibility to Survive
Brighton Earley
Being Content With Myself
Kamaal Majeed
Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day
Josh Rittenberg
Thirty Things I Believe
Tarak McLain

Teen Writing Sites

Teen Ink
They've got everything!!
Teen Ink Magazine
Youth Voices
Converse about real topics in the real world.
Youngzine
Student generated news and special interest stories
Figment
Girls Write Now
Quotev
Wattpad
Teenreads

Photo Essays

Time Photos
photo essay examples
5 Photo Essay Tips
Junction City Junction
by Herman Krieger
Anne Darling Photography
photo essay ideas & tips
Digital Photography School
Photo taking tips
Mansurovs Photography
photo tips for beginners
The Pioneer Woman
Awesome tips and contests
National Geographic
Get ideas for great photos!
Ansel Adams
Free Big Pictures

Who Am I?

Who Am I?
Teen Ink opinion essay
Who Am I?
Teen Ink poem
Who Am I?
Youth Voices video
Wordle
create a word cloud
Photovisi
Fotoflexer
Tagxedo
word pictures
Alphabiography

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo
Young Writers Program
Teen Ink Magazine
NaNoArticle!
Write Sound
How do I write that sound?
NaNoWriMo Workbooks
Tons of Writing Ideas and Lessons
Figment
Join our writer's group!
Random Word Generator
Generates 40 words and gives you a link to name generators
Creative Games
This was the coolest random word generator, but it's blocked, so you have to use it at home:)
Word Swarm
1000 random words
Fourteen Minutes
Random words and names
Character Names
Use Babble to explore names for your characters.
Camp NaNoWriMo
summer writing
Lorum Ipsum
word generator
NaNoWriMo Evaluation
My Ebook Maker
Make your own uploadable books!
218 Dialogue Tags!
(ways to say "said")
Photo Prompts
Great ideas!
Writing from Photos
Word Tamer
create a story
Behind the Name
the etymology and history of first names
Pacemaker
Timeline Tool
Make a timeline of your plot.
Top Ten Emergency Prompts
Fantasy Name Generator
Writing Prompts 101

Author Sites

Walter Dean Meyers
Kick, Monster, Slam!, Here in Harlem
John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back
Marissa Meyer
Cinder, Scarlett
Wendy Mass
13 Gifts, Every Soul A Star
Ally Carter
Gallagher Girls Books, Heist Society Books
Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan, Uglies, The Risen Empire, Polymorph, So Yesterday
Gennifer Albin
Author of Crewel
Sharon Draper
Out of My Mind
James Patterson
John Grisham
The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
Ann Martin
Suzanne Collins
Warrior Cats Series
by Erin Hunter
Jason Wright
John Green
Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express, Jumanji
Lauren Oliver
NY Times Best Selling Author

Teach-A-Skill

Alphabet Photography

Photo Editing Sites

Pixlr
BeFunky
PicMonkey
Web Cam Toy
Fotor
Super cool!
Aviary
mobile app idea

Grammar/Editing

Punctuating Dialogue
practice
Punctuating Dialogue
more practice
Grammar Editing Games
for fun
Comma Quiz
type in the blank
Comma Quiz
multiple choice
Comma Rules Review & Quiz
multiple choice
Comma Quiz 2
retype correctly

Anti-Bullying

Music Clips

YouTube Audio Library
music clips
Freeplay Music
music clips

Blogging

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog, pt. 1
by Richard Byrne
A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog, pt. 2
by Richard Byrne
Ten Important Things...

Wallpaper

Hampton High Library

Crabber Library

Careers

Careeronestop
Careers and Career Information
Big Future: 5 Ways to Find Career Ideas
The College Board
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Bureau of Labor Statistics
myfuture.com
Department of Defense
My Next Move
U.S. Department of Labor
Youth Rules
U.S. Department of Labor

Book Club 2015-2016

Young Adult Library Association Services (YALSA)
Goodreads
Young Adult Book List
Amazon Editors' Young Adult Book Club
YA Books Central
Jewelry
inspired by ya fiction

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart
author bio
Unleashing Readers
WeWereLiars info
Teaching Books
WeWereLiars info

Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys
official website
Between Shades of Gray
book 1
Out of the Easy
book 2
Ruta Sepetys' Facebook page
Salt to the Sea
Ruta's introduction
Salt to the Sea
book trailer
NPR Interview
Out of the Easy
as explained by Ruta (video)
Between Shades of Gray
pick the actors for the movie (on Facebook)

Top 100 YA Books of All Time

Time Magazine
Vote for your all time favorite!
NPR
Goodreads
Mark the ones you've read, the ones you want to read, and the ones you are currently reading!
Amazon

VRC

VRC Booklist 2015-16
Virginia Reader's Choice
purpose, history, and guidelines
I Am Malala, autobiography
book trailer
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
book trailer
Fake ID, by Lamar Giles
book trailer
We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
book trailer

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Romance

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard's site
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard's blog
Red Queen book review
USA Today
Interview with Victoria Aveyard
Publisher's Weekly
Victoria Aveyard on Goodreads
Red Queen official book trailer
Red Queen explained
Epic Reads

Shadow and Bone & Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo
author site
Leigh Bardugo on Goodreads
Shadow and Bone review
New York Times
Six of Crows review
Publisher's Weekly
The Grishaverse
series dedication
Interview with Leigh Bardugo
Entertainment Weekly
Shadow and Bone trailer
Six of Crows trailer

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir
author site
Sabaa Tahir on Goodreads
An Ember in the Ashes review
NPR (National Public Radio)
An Ember in the Ashes trailer & author interview
Entertainment Weekly
An Ember in the Ashes
book site
Sequel article
New York Times

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas
author site
Sarah J. Maas on Goodreads
A Court of Thorns and Roses review
Kirkus
The World of Sarah J. Maas
fanpage blog
A Court of Thorns and Roses trailer
Sarah J. Maas interview
youtube video

Obsidian

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh
author site
Renee Ahdieh on Goodreads
Author Interview
Huffington Post
The Wrath and the Dawn
Penguin Random House publisher
The Wrath and the Dawn trailer 1
The Wrath and the Dawn trailer 2

Best Served Cold

Joe Abercrombie
author site
Joe Abercrombie on Goodreads
Best Served Cold
Orion Publishing
Joe Abercrombie interview
part 1 (with links to parts 2-4)

Book Conventions

Travel Podcast

U.S. News Travel
Top 25 Places to Visit
REI Adventures
Travel by region, activity, and more!
the New York Times Travel
The 41 Places to go in 2011
Best Places In...
Great images to go with descriptions!
Travel Channel
destinations
National Geographic
travel
The Ultimate Travel Wall
Awesome pictures of awesome places
Worldbook Encyclopedia

iMovie

iMovie Tutorial PDF
print out
iMovie Tutorial
Creating a Slideshow
iMovie Tutorial
Titles
iMovie Tutorial
Ken Burns Effect
iMovie Tutorial
Layering Audio
iMovie Tutorial
Video Editing Basics
Teaching with Tech
iMovie tutorials

Sample Podcasts

Amateur Traveler
video podcasts
Travel in 10
travel videocasts
National Geographic
travel videocasts

Research

Gale Resources
databases & nonfiction books
World Book Online
Salem Press Medical/Psychology
research articles database
EasyBib
citations
TumbleBookCloud
an online collection of ebooks, enhanced novels, graphic novels, videos and audio books
Hampton High Library Catalog
online researcher
Find It Virginia
Access free online resources from your local Virginia Public Library
Information Please Almanac
The CIA World Factbook
The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation
Find Articles
search by keyword or subject for access to news journals and magazines
ERIC database
Make sure to click "Full text available on ERIC" before you search.
National Geographic
Reliable source for initial searching