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Useful Websites

Math

http://www.calc101.com*
Has examples for different concepts and also has a derivative solver.

http://mathforum.org*
Contains problems from elementary to discrete math.


Social Studies

http://www.americanpresident.com*
Contains information with short biographies of the U.S. presidents. There are links to other helpful resources, such as historical documents.

http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cidaweb/acdicida.nsf/En/Home*
This is a library of resources for international development.
Useful for any government or world history, class.

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/ushisgov.cfm*
Has practice quizzes for different periods in U.S. History.


English

http://www.biography.com*
Contains several biographies of famous people.

http://www.pinkmonkey.com*
Provides over 380 book notes, study guides, and chapter summaries of literary works.


Gen. Academic

http://www.hmco.com*
Has resources and practice tests for some of the textbooks we use.

http://www.sparknotes.com*
Study guides for literature, philosophy and poetry (math, science, history…) Test prep for SAT and ACT

http://www.gradesaver.com*
Renews of book online.

http://www.howstuffworks.com*
Information about any device, machine or subject related to any branch of science.

http://fcps.blackboard.com
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Students can check their courses for assignments and notes. It is up to the teachers to put information on the site


Dictionary & Thesaurus

http://www.encyclopedia.com*
Free resource offers more than 50,000 concise articles.

http://Dictionary.com
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Contains a dictionary and a thesaurus plus some games and a translator.

http://www.discovery.com*
Provides educational, technology information.

http://encarta.msn.com*
An encyclopedia that you can browse for research.

http://www.webster.com*
One of the best online dictionary and thesaurus.


College & Testing

http://www.collegeboard.com*
Students can register for tests and look at colleges.

http://www.collegenet.com*
An online guide for colleges, universities, and graduate programs, additional information for colleges.

http://www.campustours.com*
Provides pictures, maps, links to websites, and ritual tours at most colleges in the U.S.

http://www.commonapp.org*
Download the common application for college for over 200 colleges and universities. Provides a list of schools who accept the common application

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html*
Has all links of colleges' home pages.


Computer

http://www.warp2search.com*
Provides news for software and hardware.

http://www.tomshardware.com*
Are you planning to buy a new computer, but you are not sure what parts you need or what's the best current computer on the market, take a trip to tomshardware.com

http://www.dslreports.com*
The best up to date information, news and discussion website for all type of broadband connections. If your ISP is tech support can't help you, then this is the best place for solving your problems.


Graphics

http://www.webshots.com*
You get to up load pictures for free.


Miscellaneous

http://www.washingtonpost.com*
Everyday news, articles

http://www.cnn.com*
World news, sports link, video clips of speeches, world wide weather.

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr*
Translator service.

http://www.eonline.com/index.html*
Movie guides and music reviews

http://www.weather.com*
Local hour-by-hour weather forecasts

 

*This web page contains links to one or more web pages that are outside the FCPS network. FCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.