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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. 

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 is a helpful cite for world history teachers specifically. It has some sample lessons as well as some additional resources for how to teach a world history class and help make it interesting.

You can try this out-- it costs per license for the good stuff. It's a great tool for visual learners and helps explore relationships between words. It also has audio clips for each word, which is helpful.

A helpful site where educators can share ideas for lessons, create modules, and communicate with others in their content area. Covers all subjects. Can also be used to help students with independent study of concepts.

This site lists useful strategies to help students in all subjects. These strategies can be used as interventions to help improve problem areas for students.

This website is a home for links to websites that can help with every aspect of high school English. There are links to help with grammar, literature, book reports, study guides, etc.

Students can go online and go through practice problems and the site tells them if they are wrong/helps them get the right answer.

This website will help me teach lessons on Shakespeare. "No Fear Shakespear", by Sparknotes, will also be given to my students in a study guide format AFTER studying plays written by Shakespeare.

No Fear Shakespeare places the original text written by Shakespeare next to a "translation" into modern English. This is a useful tool because sometimes Middle English can be very intimidating to read, and even if a reader basically understands the meaning, they might not understand all nuances. No Fear Shakespeare helps us to understand what Shakespeare really meant.

The National Human Genome Research institute created this talking glossary of genetic terms to help students learn how to pronunciate key terms. In addition to each term, there are specialists and modern scientists that share their descriptions and experiences related to the term. There are also additonal links to direct further study for students.

The Concord Consortium is a non-profit organization that helps develop technologies for math, science and engineering education. Their free, open source software is available for teachers to download to use in their classes. They include visualizations and models for a broad range of topics.

This is an activity that could be done during Algebra. The essential question being answered is: How can using elimination or substitution in a system of equations determine important statistics in sports? This could be an activity that helps getting students interested in sports involved in the lesson. 

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Provides a detailed list of the most helpful history aid websites, based on a broad subject that has many useful subtopics to truly narrow the information down to a specific event or time period. Also includes many awesome lesson plans.

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. 

This site has some really different activities on it that would be good for a casual day. These would help break up the class from the typical notes.

This cite has complete lesson plans for various grades and subjects, but I think that Social Studies and Science will find it most helpful. There are also activities that the students can do at home or during class.

On this website, you use graphics to create a story. The options are a little limited, but it could help in generating ideas for creative writing. Although this website may seem a little juvenile at first glance, it is actually very fun and I think high schoolers may enjoy it.

Wolfram is a great math program to use to find interactive models to view during class. There are multiple types of mathematics that can be searched, with each result including a brief description and visual that helps understand the concept. 

This is a good site for Social Studies teachers to find US primary source documents to help supplement the material being taught. There are a lot of different sources on here.