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Welcome Middle School Students!
Protecting Your Reputation in Plain English
See why over-sharing can be a very bad idea.
Palm Beach County Schools brings the best of the web to you right here in Learning Tools! You'll find research tools for your projects, get help with your homework and more using the links below.
Don't Google It! Research It! |
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| Student Resource Center from Gale (InfoTrac) allows you to research source materials such as magazines, newspapers, photographs and more! | |
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World Book Students gives you access to great information in an easy-to-read format. You'll also find lots of images, sound files, and more to enhance your research projects and presentations. |
| netTrekker has all sorts of great websites that teachers have already previewed to make sure they are helpful and accurate. Use netTrekker for Middle School Students to save yourself time when you are looking for great resources online without having to search and search and search. | |
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eLibrary Curriculum has a gigantic collection of materials for your use in presentations, reports, and more. You can find more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, and educator-approved websites. |
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Sirs Discoverer brings you even more information from resources that you just can't find in Google. Thousands of articles, primary source documents, websites, and multimedia (including 13,000+ research-quality images) are available for your use. |
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Internet Public Library Teenspace is a great place to get help on writing research papers and for finding information about a variety ot topics. |
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Visit the Newspaper and Periodical Listing page for a complete list of local and national news outlets where you can find current events and breaking news. |
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Help With Homework! |
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Tim and Moby explain the Mysteries of the Universe at BrainPOP, and give you all sorts of good information that will help you understand the things you do in class. You'll find lots of information about the topics you're studying and all sorts of fun things to do at BrainPOP. |
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Gizmos let you see how math and science work together and let you do cool experiments right on your computer. You'll need a password and login from your teacher to use Gizmos that you can get from your teacher. |
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You'll find many of the textbooks for your courses at your teachers' Edline home pages as well as information about assignments, your progress reports, and news about your class. You can choose your school from this complete listing of Edline sites in Palm Beach County then login with your own account information. |
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Ask a Librarian is a free online reference service that allows you to chat live with a librarian for immediate assistance. (You'll can use this service when you are home but NOT from your classroom.) |
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Get Creative! |
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Glogster.Edu provides a creative, dynamic, and innovative digital environment where you can make virtual posters by combining text, images, sounds and even video. |
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Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text and you can choose from any number of designs to illustrate your writing. |
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Prezi provides free accounts that you can use with your students to create truly fresh and innovative methods for creating presentations. Tired of PowerPoint? Give Prezi a try! |
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A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). |
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Individual Learning |
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CompassLearning Odyssey provides middle school students within the School District of Palm Beach County an excellent opportunity for remediation and course recovery. The program allows students who are falling behind during the school year in one subject to make up course work so they can move on to the next grade. SDPBC Student Login Directions (Available For Middle and Alternative Schools Only) |
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Explore Learning Gizmos can be used in the classroom or from home to explore and visualize the connections between math and science. See your teacher for login information to the site! |
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Vmath provides instruction on math concepts that work hand-on-hand with your classroom lessons. |
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The CORE Assessment Center provides you with the results of the classroom diagnostic tests that you've taken. You only need your student ID number to access reports and find out more about how you're meeting your own learning goals. |
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