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10 Secrets to Staying Motivated is an article that gives students advice on how to stay motivated (especially high school students). Along with the ten ways to staying motivated are short explanations on what students can do to stay determined and persistent in high school and in life. Students can use this tool to help them to realize the purpose of high school. By senior year, many high students are close to being burnt out by all of the hard work that they have put into their high school career. This website can help high school students find motivation, even in stressful times.

4 Important Tips for Any College Student is a good website for high school seniors as they prepare for college. This website has four tips for college, but seniors can also use them as they finish high school. They can continue to use them in college. This website can help high school seniors get prepared for college. Although this is for college students, high school seniors can keep these tips in mind as they enter college.

Easy access to other social studies sites for high school students with descriptions and documented sources.

An online tool that can be used for making flow charts or other presentations.

With Lucidchart, anyone can create charts needed for education. Lucidchart is easy and appropriate for school and all ages.

This program, which is now compatible with Google Drive, allows for the easy creation of charts, flow charts and wireframes. This would be put to good use from middle school through high school in order to organize study material, make charts for a class, or create rough sketches of drawings or websites.

Pathbrite provides a free and simple way to create an academic portfolio. It provides a template where you can include transcripts, letters of recommendation, pieces of your work, etc. and showcase it in an exquisite portfolio. Pathbrite also maps out and individual's achievements against those of their peers in a Knowledge Graph. According to Pathbrite, "School admissions officers and employers rely on our Pathbrite Portfolio Platform to get a holistic view of candidates, and to better evaluate their readiness for and organizational fit to the opportunity at hand." Pathbrite can be used by high school students to create portfolios in applying to programs and colleges.

This website is helpful for high school students making the transition to college.

This site allows you to watch high definition videos for science.

Note: click here to see the full syllabus and other related teaching materials. As anyone who's ever done it knows, the art of syllabussing is a fine one. (Yes, it's a word; don't look it up, take my word for it- Syllabussing: creating the perfect syllabus for a college-level course). Open culture is a high-quality cultural and educational media source. A staggering collection of 400 courses, online, for free, from Ivy League universities, such as Stanford, UCLA, Columbia and Oxford University.Courses run from science and art to math and economics.

Soshiku is a free, student organizer to organize assignments or reminders for school. This website is mainly for high school and college students. It is a good way to be reminded of any assignments due and to have them all in one.

CBBC is a BBC television channel whose target audience is aimed towards 4 to 12 year olds. However, I think that high school students could also use this site as an educational tool. Its website features free kids' games, television shows, clips, music, art activities, and news. The television shows and games on this website are fun and educational, usually pertaining to science. Also, the news reports that are featured on this website include world news, sports news, and even entertainment news. Furthermore, there is a really neat section about animals, where children can learn about all different types of animals and the latest news concerning animals.

A site that helps you with math.

Web Math is a great website for any student, even in high school, to get help they need. A lot of students go to tutoring for math and this is a website that can assist when ever you want, especially when you're away from your tutor.

ScienceGeek is a website that includes review powerpoints and information on units of Biology and Chemistry. There are also review quizzes on this site to test your skills of how much you've learned from all the given resources determined to help you.

This website has great tutorials and even a scientific calculator. There also are other great useful tools like math rubric generators and an online graphing calculator. It goes from levels algebra to trigonometry and even area with helpful websites in general math.

This site allows you to draw and print beautiful schematics for lab reports. In-browser simulations make it easy to quickly learn electronics concepts via just-for-fun playing and guided exploration. This site's tools complement undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering classes, as well as high school and college physics curriculums.

This is a French Dictionary. It translate English to French and vice versa. This website can be used by students who have difficulty understanding French. This resourced can be used most grade levels, but it is mostly for middle and high school students.

National Geographic education has photos, videos, maps, games and activities, and homework help. Homework help includes a glossary, encyclopedia, and articles on various subjects. This website offers resources for both middle school and high school students. National Geographic education is a useful and fun resource that can help students learn and understand about various topics in science and social studies. The hands-on activities allow students to engage in learning. The videos and photos are good resources for visual learners.

MorgueFile is a website that provides free high-resolution images for public use. They also provide lessons on photography using the "classroom" feature, and offer a portal of pictures contributed by the morgueFile "community."

An efficient and organized way to find scholarships for high school students looking to go into college.

This website offers two technological tools, one that would be more applicable to elementary students while the second could be used by middle and high school students. The former, Draw Me a Game, allows children to draw their own world and create a video game out of it, exposing them early on to the advantageous aspects of technology at an early age. JellyCam, the latter, allows older students to make a stop-motion video that can be used in subjects such as arts, science, English, and social studies.

This is a free tutoring website. If you need help in math, science, social studies, or languages arts, there are tutors willing to help you. However, it may take a while for a tutor to be able to help you, so you have to be patient.