Cal Young Middle School

Reliable, annotated websites organized under Resources by Subject, Newspapers & Magazines, Special Collections, For Kids, and For Teens

This link is from Gale's Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center Gold). This link is an example of how you can "share" articles from Student Resources with others through DIIGO!

A picture book site for elementary and middle school students that offers 600+ books and an option for students to create their own books using your own uploaded images.

Search for book series information. Search by author, title, series, ot genre.

"The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Our goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world's organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. Together we can make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information."

"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." From a map of the world, click on a country and then choose from place, time period, topic, or type of item (maps).

"PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture."

NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Follow the "Resources for K-12 Teachers" link (http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/) and then click "Middle School."

Activities, experiments, and cool information about sports and the sciecne behind each sport. Don't miss "Skateboard Science."

" A guide to commonly encountered toxic chemicals, environmental health risks, and the public's health. From the US National Library of Medicine." Interactive!

Topics related to the environment along with ideas and resources for environmental activism. The site is no longer updated but the site still includes many useful links.

Experiments, games, crafts, and projects related to chemistry, engineering, energy, the senses, life sciences, energy, patterns, sound, and water.

"The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color...The site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia."

Suggested websites for specific topics and subjects compiled by Sam especially for Cal Young staff.

Easily create a PDF from any Web address!

Lots of great ideas here, especially #7: Free eLearning Tools

"S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes peer-reviewed lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy (K-16)"

"The story of Artsonia begins with a dream that artwork created from kids around the world can be shared and enjoyed by everyone. If kids say the darndest things, imagine what they draw! Today, due to the passion of thousands of art teachers worldwide, that dream has come true."

A free online library of books, poems, and stories.

"WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals."