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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.

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.

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.

School Tube is a great website where students and teachers can create channels where they can share their videos. There are also lesson plans provided to help teachers use videos in the classroom.

Kaplan Test Prep offers preparation for more than 90 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.

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.

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

This website can be used for practice in reading and English development for children in elementary school and middle school.

Students can create a free account to search through teacher validated websites for accurate information for use on school assignments.

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.

Tweet2Cite is an easy website that allows you to convert tweets into MLA, APA, and Wikipedia citations. As our school is becoming more involved with social networking (school Facebook group and Twitter), it seems fitting to be able to reference Tweets from Twitter, where information can be shared to the masses.

Associated with most of the textbooks at this school, Class Zone has interactive lessons to help advance in lessons and get a deeper meaning for the lesson taught in the class.

This website is full of interactive math lessons free to use.

A site that teaches math. It covers all middle school math topics. Very useful.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards

College Crunch is a tool that helps students plan for college by giving them reviews of different schools and tips on how to prepare financially for college. College Crunch also serves to inform the student about the career that they are pursuing through listing salaries by career.

College Crunch is a great resource for students doing preparing to apply for and doing research on colleges. The site provides reviews and profiles for colleges, and also offers tips in the application and financing processes.

Online tool that offers vocabulary, spelling, writing, parts of speech, handwriting and alphabetical order games to elementary, middle and high-school classes.

This tool can help students learn and explore new words and phrases.

This website is full of games that allows students to learn while only concentrating on having fun on the game that they are playing. This website is especially made for kids in elementary school students but is fun for anyone.