HS-Science

Science Databases
[|Science in Context]
 * Reliable information for assignments and projects
 * Magazines and academic journals
 * Experiments and statistics
 * Audio and video resources

General Databases
[|Advanced Placement Source]
 * Designed to meet the needs of high school students in AP of IB courses
 * 5,550+ full-text academic journals and magazines

[|Image Quest] Two million plus rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world (DK Images, Getty, National Geographic, et al).

[|JSTOR]
 * 1,000+ academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources in all academic areas.

[|Global Issues in Context]
 * Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
 * Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
 * Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
 * Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
 * Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
 * Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
 * Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
 * Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts

[|MAS Ultra] [|Points of View] > d/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
 * 500 popular, high school magazines
 * 360 full text reference books
 * 85,670 biographies
 * 107,000+ primary source documents
 * 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
 * Full-text database providing students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
 * 280+ topics, each with an over@http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/

Web Sites
[|BioDigital Human]

A 3-D model of male and female bodies. Point your mouse at a part of the human body - the mandible - and it will be identified for you in visually and audibly. Explore with your mouse as this is pretty amazing resource to learn about the human body!

[|Concord Consortium] High-quality, free activities for science, math and engineering

[|National Science Digital Library] (NSDL)
 * Search[| K-12 Resources at NSDL]
 * [|NSDL on iTunes]
 * [|Browse all Collections at NSDL]

[|How Stuff Works]
 * Award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works
 * Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998
 * Now owned by Discovery Communications

[|Kahn Acadamy]
 * 2,400+ videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history
 * 150 practice exercises to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

[|Periodic Table of Videos] - University of Nottingham "Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one"

[|Science Daily]
 * 65,000 research articles, 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries, 1,500 book reviews, and hundreds of educational videos

[|Tree of Life] Follow evolution and explore the variety of life on the planet with the Interactive Tree of Life. Can also search for specific organism (mite, mole, wolf, etc.)

Blogs
[|A Blog Around the Clock] "If you were to pick only one person to follow to keep up with new scientific discoveries and the science community, we recommend Bora Zivkovic." //Booklist//. December 1, 2010. 71.

[|PLoS] "PLoS Blogs has been set up to bring a select group of independent science and medicine bloggers together with the editors and staff who run our blogs. Our independent network is made up of writers who love science and medicine, and scientists and physicians that love to write."

[|Science Magazine Videos] Free videos on wide variety of topic including: Cancer, Cell biology, evolution, medicine, and more.