CHS Reading Count Quizzes List

CHS Library Online Card Catalog
 

Media Center Table of Contents

Search Tools

Search Engines / Metasearch Engines
Google (www.google.com)

 Metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com) - searches several search engines at once

 Altavista (www.altavista.com)

 Subject Directories
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

 WWW Virtual Library (http://vlib.org/)

Additional Search Sites
Infoseek (www.go.com)

 Ask Jeeves (www.askjeeves.com)

 Help with searching (http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/conferences/pres/srchtool.html)

 Infopeople (http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html) -Provides useful search comparing tools

Reference Sites

Florida Electronic Library (http://flelibrary.org)

 Refdesk.com (http://www.refdesk.com)

 Dictionary and Thesaurus (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm)

 Conversion and Calculations (http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/)

Colleges and Career Resources

College Rankings 2006 (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php)

 Campus Tours – Take a virtual tour of a school (http://www.campustours.com/)

 CollegeNet (http://www.collegenet.com/)

 Schools in the USA (http://www.schoolsintheUSA.com/)

 College Board Online (http://www.collegeboard.com/splash)

 ACT information (http://www.actstudent.org/)

 Scholarship Search Site (http://www.fastweb.com/)

 The smart student guide to financial aid (http://www.finaid.org/)

 Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/)

 Technical Career Guide (http://resumegenie.com/jobs.asp?job=Technical%20Careers)

 PeaceCorps (http://www.peacecorps.gov/) -

 Careers and Jobs (http://www.quintcareers.com/index.html)

Library Resources

E- Library (http://elibrary.bigchalk.com)

 Florida Electronic Library (http://flelibrary.org/)

 Gale Infotrac (http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/lmt/resources/gale.htm)

 Encyclopedias (http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/lmt/resources/Encyclopedia.html)

 Dictionaries (http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/lmt/resources/dictionaries.html)

 Almanacs (http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/LMT/Resources/Almanac.html)

 Maps & Atlas (http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/lmt/resources/atlas.html)

What to Read Next

Reading Rants (http://www.tln.lib.mi.us/%7Eamutch/jen/index.html) – Out of the ordinary teen book lists

 Teenreads (http://www.teenreads.com/index.asp)

 A Poem A Day (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/) - Offers a poem for every day of the school year

 YALSA (http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/)

Local Libraries

Florida Electronic Library (http://flelibrary.org)

 Clearwater Library System (http://www.clearwater-fl.com/cpl/)

 Sunlink (http://sunlink.ucf.edu)

Test Prep and Homework Help

FCAT Explorer (http://www.fcatexplorer.com/)

 Most important SAT words (http://www.vocabulary.com/AOLtopsatwords12.html)

 Stuck on a math problem? Go to Webmath for help (http://www.webmath.com/index.html)

 Online Test Center (http://www.saab.org/)

Fun Stuff

Hobbies and Interests

 CBS Sportsline (http://www.sportsline.com/info/siteindex)

 Surfing (http://www.surfermag.com/)

 All Music World (http://www.allmusic.com/) - Bluegrass and country to gospel and rock

 Who2? (http://www.who2.com/) - A site all about famous people

 Astrology (http://www.astrology.com/) - Check out your daily horoscope

Car Talk (http://cartalk.com/)

 Epicurious  (http://www.epicurious.com/) For people who love to eat

 Humor and Comics

 Comic Page (http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/comicpage3.html)

 Comic Zone (http://www.comiczone.com/)

 Puzzles and Games

 Monthly Crossword Puzzles (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/index.html

 The Grey Labyrinth  (http://www.greylabyrinth.com/)

 Name That Candy bar (http://www.thinkingfountain.org/c/crosssection/namethatbar.html) - How well do you know your candy bars?

 Fun Trivia (http://www.funtrivia.com/) - World’s largest trivia website

Works sited Guide

Citation Styles (http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html)

 RIT Libraries APA Citation Format

(http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/apa.html)

 Online Writing Lab at Purdue University: Researching and Documenting Sources (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html)