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One of the Library of Congress' educational resources, use their collection of eight interactive displays about the early Americas to have fun discovering and learning history. Activities include looking through interactive maps, investigating Mayan writings and artifacts, and learning history through paintings. Teachers can use these tools as part of their lesson plans to gain interest in the subject.

myHomework is an app that works on the majority of smart phones and is designed to help students keep track of their classes. Enter your schedule in day or block format and keep track of assignments and due dates. "If you're looking for one schedule and homework reminder service that you can recommend to all of your students regardless of which mobile operating system they use, myHomework is worth trying out" (Richard Byrne).

Zygote Body is a 360 degree view of the human body. Viewers have the option to view one or more of the different layers (muscles, bones, organs, skin, etc) at once. Clicking on a specific body part, such as a rib bone, will tell the viewer the name of the body part, coastal cartilage 2.This tool can be used in Biology classes to educate students on the human body and its systems in a visual and accurate way.

Body Browser gives you a 360 degree view of the human body. You can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. You can turn on all the layers at the same time and alter the transparency of each layer.

The home of Shmoop's video collection. Learn more about literature, history, and math through video analysis from the experts at Shmoop. Newcomers can take a tour of the site and its tools too. It is a website that will help student with any subjects and in addition with ACT. It contains a series of videos, flashcards, guides, and descriptions.

The home of Shmoop's video collection. Learn more about literature, history, and math through video analysis from the experts at Shmoop. Newcomers can take a tour of the site and its tools too.

A website created by USC (University of Southern California) and has great resources like videos of interviews. They even have a interview of a Holocaust survivor which helps students see the perspective of a survivor. Most of the videos are resources are related to the Holocaust.

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 is a website full of many cool science videos. It consists of hundreds of educational videos on various topics. An example is a movie on Mars, called Flying on Mars. In addition to science videos, there are English, art, and social studies videos. There are over ten topics, each consisting of multiple interesting videos.

From the publisher of Nature and Scientific American, Principles of Science is a series of textbooks designed for the world we live in today. The first textbook in the program, Principles of Biology, is a research-oriented, affordable interactive textbook for university-level introductory biology courses.

ZType is a fun typing game that challenges players to type quickly. Words fall from the top of the screen and you have to type them. When you have correctly typed a word your laser shoots it. The object of the game is to shoot the words before they reach the bottom of the screen. ZType is a good tool for students who need to improve their typing abilities. Students entering Patrick Taylor who didn't have a lot of computer access prior to attending will particularly gain from this game because typing is a necessary skill here.

The Periodic Table of Videos is an interactive periodic table of elements but instead of linking to a standard page with facts, it links to a video demonstrating what it does, how it can be used, and it's basic information.

The Digital Public Library of America features digital access to thousands of artifacts and articles of history from museums all over the United States.

The Digital Public Library is a useful resource that is full of exhibitions, maps, and timelines visually represent and describe particular events in history. A person can search for items from other libraries, archives, and museums. Students can use the Digital Public Library to research information about various events in history. If they are visual learners, students can look at the timelines and exhibitions to learn about history.

Garbology is the study of what we do with our waste. All the things we throw away each day-where do they end up? Many of us know that we can reuse, recycle, and compost to help keep waste out of landfills, but how do you know what goes where? Why is it important to reduce the waste we put in landfills? All of this and more is Garbology.

The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base. Basically OpenOffice is an open source that can create, read, and save general format documents and presentations. Because of the general style of OpenOffice, it works with most computers and can also be read in most languages.

With this piece of freeware you can pick a random person from a list of names. Ever needed to solve a dispute fairly? The answer is simple with the Hat! With the ability to save name sets, the number of lists of randomized names is infinite!

World Atlas Atlas of the World is an educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geography information. Teachers and students: free maps of Africa, Europe, USA, Canada, Florida, Caribbean Islands and much more. Worldatlas.com

The garden of praise offers free biblical as well as grade school education. The garden of praise also offers free lesson plans to teachers an online quizzes to students.

This website is for things like the Soccket Ball which is a ball that fills up on energy when people play with it. Thirty minutes of play is three hours of electricity.

OneLook Reverse Dictionary is good for those words that you just cannot remember what they are but can describe them, those "tip of the tongue" moments. Just type in the description of the concept you have in mind and OneLook returns with a list of terms and phrases relevant to that concept.

This is a website that shows the latest news about what is going on in the world of science. It has tabs to find news on all of the topics of science.

3DTin is a free online tool for creating 3D models. There is a gallery of models from which you can find inspiration as well as templates for users who aren't starting from scratch. The model you create can be exported and used on other 3D modeling software. 3DTin can be used to create images that go beyond the usual two dimensions. Using original 3D models for projects and presentations is sure to boost the visual appeal of a student's work and therefore their grade. The tool can also be used to spice up engineering class, in the place of or in conjunction with drawing on graph paper.