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This website has a lot of "hands-on, minds-on" activities for teaching high school and middle school. There are also links to print out the handouts that go with each activity. A great tool!

Suspensions dropped 85% in this high school when administration decided to change its approach to behavior management.

This would be a good resource to introduce to your AP students or to students that are thinking about taking AP classes. This website has many resources for students including videos and blogs by students that have enrolled and completed AP courses in high school that explain what it takes to be successful in an AP class and on the AP exam. There is also links that help a student understand how AP courses in high school can help with college and what college majors and careers can AP courses help the student with. There is a link for practice questions for all AP courses, including multiple choice and free response, at the bottom of the page. 

This is an online interactive resource for learning biology. There are lesson plans and activities for both high school and middle school teachers. This is accessbile to people using assistive technologies.

There are easy-to-follow high school biology experiments, and some experiments that relate to recent scientific research and developments. There are also some experiments for elementary and middle schools.

This website has links lesson plans and resources for social studies teachers who are teaching about early river civilizations. It is originally made for middle school, but could be adapted for high school.

US history resources, including activities, worksheets, games, lesson plans, puzzles, posters, presentations, assessments and other ideas for you to use with your high school students.

This is a great site for lesson plans for high school history classes.

The website has many links to other websites that offer assistance to students and teachers alike for many subject areas. It offers homework help, tutorials, as well as help with lesson plans.

This site is really interesting because it is a blogging website that is maintained through a high school teacher and her students. There is also a contact email if teachers were interested in getting permission to allow their students to blog about anything biology related. This would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom while allowing students to learn from videos, podcasts, and articles created by other students from around the United States.

Penalty Shootout Games are interactive, online games that combine high school biology knowledge with a soccer shootout. Good to keep in mind for students who are interested in sports

In the "Educational Resources" section of the National Women's History Museum web site, teachers will find quizzes, timelines, and famous quotes relating to women's history, as well as guidelines for teaching classes in women's history from the elementary to high school levels.

This website lists the common core standards with a link to each skill that needs to be met. Once the link is pressed, there will be a problem that is given for review and a spot to enter the solution. The website will let you know if you answered the question correctly. If you do happen to miss the question, the website will give you the correct answer along with a short review, things to remember, and the step-by-step solution. This is another great resource for both students and teachers. 

I had completely forgotten about this! I used The Onion in high school; it's a satirical based newspaper about politics, local events, entertainment and other various topics. This is a great way to test students' understanding of satire in a fun way.

This site has several virtual manipulatives for grades pre-k through high school, and there is a free trial offered. Virtual manipulatives can be very beneficial when explaining a math concept to students that are visual learners. Math is an especially hard subject to grasp without a visual explanation, but these can help. 

Multiple web links to aid teacher creativity.

This website gives me good ideas on how to connect what I am teaching in the class to things or ideas that the students encounter on a regular basis. There are many ways to expand the learning in the classroom to outside occurrences. 

Describes which courses are required for graduation depending on which year the students begins high school

S.O.S. MATHematics is your free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations! The perfect study site for high school, college students and adult learners. Get help to do your homework, refresh your memory, or prepare for a tes

I have referred to this website for myself mainly however, when teaching high school I feel it is necessary to start teaching students early what requirements they will have to meet for college level papers. This website is a great sources to use for less