Resources for MIddle School Students

The following resources have been compiled by staff from our Schools as well as from our Instructional Media and Technology and Curriculum and instructional Services departments specifically for middle school students, parents, and teachers. Before linking to any site outside our server, please read this important message!

PRIMARY RESOURCE Links

MIND - Media Information Network for the District - Pasco County MIND Resources, educational reference resources, current periodicals, streaming video, software tutorials. Many articles are Lexiled, have audio recording, and can be converted into multiple languages

Florida iTunes U - This service offers an additional way to access the valuable educational content available from Florida’s school districts, state agencies, and non-profit organization, access from outside school network

Florida Virtual Library - Primary Sources, Internet Safety, Public Libraries, Open Source, Writing Center, Reference, Study Aids, College and Careers, Resources by Subject Area, Educational Games, and Teacher links

GENERAL Links - Our Favorite 5!

Pasco LEARN Server MOODLE for Schools - District courseware for students and teachers, requires a unique user id and password, in some cases an enrollment key from the teacher

Visual Dictionary Online - From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents.

CyberSafety - Safe Florida - Florida website dedicated to fighting CyberCrime and supporting CyberSafety. Kid Zone, Teen Safety, Parent Tips.

CyberSafety - Net Smartz Workshop - Watch teens share their own “Real-Life Stories” about issues affecting them on the Internet such as cyberbullying, online enticement, and giving out too much personal information.

Internet Safety - Quick Tips - Some rules
to follow to make sure you stay safe when you are using the Internet

Additional GENERAL Links

Study Guides and Strategies - Time management, learning, problem solving, learning with others

How To Study - Study skills articles, math, language arts, notetaking, remembering, studying, taking tests

Study Skills - Tips from R. B. Stewart Middle School

Test Taking - Tips from R. B. Stewart Middle School

Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, audio books, or eBooks. Digitized sheet music. Access available on an iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch

ISTE NETS Standards for Grades 6 - 8 - A general set of profiles describing technology (ICT) literate students at key developmental points in their precollege education. The profiles highlight a few important types of learning activities in which students might engage as the new NETS•S are implemented

Great Web Sites for Kids from ALA - From the American Library Association web site of the month and links to animals, the arts, reference desk, sciences, literature and languages, history and biography, mathematics and computers, social sciences

Free Typing Lessons - Is the premiere site to play free typing games, lessons and tests. Our Typing Tutor is the best way to learn to type. No downloads, installations or registration required.

FunBrain.com - Flashcards, webbooks, classic fun brain, movies, quiz lab, math arcade, reading

Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools - Presentation, video, slideshow, widgets, creativity, image, drawing, audio, mapping, writing, music, organizing, storage, graphing

Search Engine Lists - Search by keyword indexes, subject directories, metasearch engines, student/teacher search engines and dictionaries, site search engines

INeedAPencil.com - Provides free and innovative SAT prep that works

LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Links - Our Favorite 5!

Holt - Elements of Language - Textbook support, become a better communicator. Explore the three main areas of this site to build your writing and media literacy skills.

FCAT Explorer/Reading - The FCAT Explorer helps students learn about and practice the skills tested on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

How To Write an Essay Using the DRAPES Method - The DRAPES method is designed to manage essay planning and come up with ideas for content more easily. Each letter in DRAPES stands for a different component of a good essay: D is Dialogue, R is Rhetorical Question, A is Analogy, P is Personal Experience, E is Example, and S is Statistics.

Copyright - An Interactive Journey for Kids - Follow this interactive ?adventure. Figure out what copyright really means.

Guide to Grammar and Writing - A place where students can look up grammatical issues.

Additional LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Links

Your Road To Better Grammar - Quizes, practice, downloads, games

Scholastic 6 - 8 Language Arts - Online activities

Son of Citation Machine - Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources

Citation Maker - MLA Secondary Citation Maker (based on 7th edition)

Easy Bib - Search and cite books, web sites & over 50 other sources for your works cited list!

Sunshine State young Readers Awards - Annotated book list for grades 6-8

DRAPES Writing Strategy - CLMS - Writing tips from Crews Lake Middle School

Giggle Poetry - Poetry site for kids on the web, poetry class, poetry fun, poetry theater, read and rate, word games

Shmoop Literature - Learning guides to literature, poetry, biography, best sellers, literature overviews in Spanish

Book Talks Quick and Simple - By author, subject, interest level, about book talking, awards

Summer Reading Lists - Pasco County list for secondary students

Grammar Girl for Better Writing - Quick and dirty tips for better writing

MATHEMATICS Links - Our Favorite 5!

FCAT Explorer: Math - The FCAT Explorer helps students learn about and practice the skills tested on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

BIG IDEAS Learning Mathematics Textbook Online - Help with homework, eBook, tutorials, graphic organizer, progress check, vocabulary help and test practice

Middle School Math - The Homework Spot for middle school math lessons, fun games, help and homework.

What’s Special About This Number? - Primes, graphs, digits, sums of powers, bases, combinatorics, powers//polygonal, Fibonacci, geometry, repdigits, algebra, perfect/amicable, pandigital, matrices, divisors, games/puzzles.

FL DOE STEM Resources for Students - Math & Science - Math Opportunities, Competitions, and Clubs for Students.

Additional MATHEMATICS Links

STUDYjams - Online activities for interactive learning Math

Scholastic 6 - 8 Math - Math and more, skills practice, contests, ELL support, holidays

Cool Math - An amusement park of math and more… designed for fun!

Homework Help - Middle School Math

Middle-High School Math - Awsome library, sub-topics, discussions, games, projects

Shmoop Economics - Learning guides

SOCIAL STUDIES Links - Our Favorite 5!

McDougal - Class Zone Creating America - Want to become an American history expert? With all the exciting resources, activities, and links right at your fingertips, you’re well on your way!

McDougal - Class Zone World Cultures & Geography: Western Hemisphere - Want to become an expert in world cultures and geography? With all the exciting resources, activities, and links right at your fingertips, you’re well on your way!

McDougal - Class Zone World Cultures & Geography: Eastern Hemisphere - Want to become a World Cultures and Geography expert on the Eastern Hemisphere? With all the exciting resources, activities, and links right at your fingertips, you’re well on your way!

American Memory - Library of Congress - American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Florida for Kids - Historical Resources - Learn about Florida’s cultures, settlement, and facts about our great state.

Math Dude Tips for Math - Audio podcasts of math quick and dirty tips, iTunes format use from outside the school district network

Additional SOCIAL STUDIES Links

Holt McDougal - Current Events - Textbook support

FL Supreme Court – Making My Vote Count - A Cooperative Educational Program between ?the Florida Supreme Court, Florida’s Historic Capitol, and the ?Museum of Florida History

Primary Source Documents Online - This listing provides links to some of the best internet portals and collections of primary documents. Note that a collection may contain materials for more than one subject area and may offer secondary material as well as primary

100 Milestone Documents - list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965

Scholastic 6 - 8 Social Studies - American history and culture, geography and map skills, world history, news, holidays

Learn About the 50 States - Symbols, ammanacs, economies, geography, state maps, people, government, state forums, state news, cool schools, quizzes, marketplaces, state links

CIA World Fact Book - The World Fact Book provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Internet Resources for Pasco County Students Social Studies

Shmoop Civics - Learning guides, Civics - the Constitution, law, politics, and government - is really about you. Us. The forces that shape the issues that get you fired up. Abortion. Gay marriage. School prayer. Affirmative action. Women’s rights. Gun rights. Students’ First Amendment rights. Which side are you on?

Shmoop History 1450 - 1849 - Learning guides

Shmoop History 1850 - 2010 - Learning guides

Cities Around the World - Click on the name of a city to show a zoomable image centered on that city

Google Directory - Reference > Maps - Collection of online maps

Google News Timeline - Shows Day, Week, Month, Year, Decade - Shows Day, Week, Month, Year, Decade, add more quiries (newspapers, magazines, blogs, news, media)

On-line Mapping Sites

SCIENCE & HEALTH Links - Our Favorite 5!

Holt - Science & Technology Worksheets & Labs - Here you will find a host of resources to help you extend your study of your favorite topics, practice the more difficult ones, and twist your brain along the way!

FCAT Explorer - Science - The FCAT Explorer helps students learn about and practice the skills tested on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

NASA Space Students 5 - 8 - In the Spotlight, Find It Fast, Career Corner, Fun & Games, Homework Topics, NASA Dictionary, Do It Yourself Podcast, Stuff You Can Do.

National Ocean Service - Student menu: 6 – 12 Tutorials (corals, currents, estuaries, global positioning, pollution and tides) 6 – 12 Case Studies (Prince William’s Oily Mess and The Lionfish Invasion) Games, Resources and Projects,

Cyberbullying Film -Digital Citizenship - “Let’s Fight It Together” Cyberbullying Film.

Additional HEALTH & SCIENCE Links

STUDYjams - Online activities for interactive learning Science

Scholastic 6 - 8 Science - Online activities for interactive learning

NASA Missions - Online activities for interactive learning

National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library/NOAA- The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library is an online vault where a comprehensive collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from America’s underwater treasures are securely stored and available for searchable access and download

Science Fair Packets

Health for Grades 7 - 12 Nutrition, my body, mental health, respect, media, health professions, technology safety

Teen Health - Feelings, staying healthy, illness and injuries, how the body works, growing body and mind, kid talk, cooking and recipes, people, places and things that help, staying safe, movies and games, health problems, kids’ dictionary of medical words, health problems of grown-ups

Flu.gov - About the flu, prevention and treatment

Health Education Sites

World Wildlife Federation - Withlacoochee State Forest #1 Coolest Places You’ve Never Seen - Withlacoochee State Forest #1 Coolest Places You’ve Never Seen

FINE ARTS & MUSIC Links - Our Favorite 5!

Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore & Learn - The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

Homework Spot - Fine Arts - Art Kids Rule, Artslynx International (comprehensive guide to music, theatre, art and more) World Wide Arts Resources.

Gutenberg: The Sheet Music Project - Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance. For the most part, the musical pieces created have been chamber music, with composers such as Brahms and Beethoven.

iMovie Tutorials - Tutorial on making your first movie and other iLife applications.

Additional FINE ARTS & MUSIC Links

PowerPoint in the Classroom - How to guide from making slides to taking it with you

Picts4Learning - Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.

Shmoop Music - By song title, in a nut shell and about the song

Classroom Clipart - A Source for Free Clipart, Clip Art Pictures and Illustrations

THE MUSEUM OF ONLINE MUSEUMS - The galleries are updated continuously, and new exhibitions are hung each quarter

Free Clipart - Welcome to quality educational clipart. Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects

Copyright friendly Images and Sound - Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified!

CAREER & TECHNICAL Links - Our Favorite 5!

Occupational Outlook Handbook - For hundreds of different jobs, the handbook tells you the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job and working conditions. The Handbook also gives you job search tips and the job market for each state.

Career Exploration Guides & Resources for Younger Students - Middle School Resources, Careers, Skills, Job Market, Reference.

Nutrition Explorations: Kids’ Nutrition at Its Best - Kids fun food games, nutrition, activities, fuel up to play 60, kitchen, fun links.

Kids.gov - Official Kids’ Portal for the U.S. Government - US Government site on careers, A day in the life of a Special Agent, Iron chefs, Actor, Actuary, and many others.

Vocational Education, Tech Ed, and Tech Prep - Kathy Schrock’s guide for technical/career ed and consumer science.

Additional CAREER & TECHNICAL Links

How Leonardo da Vinci Works: Doing DaVinci - Leonardo da Vinci didn’t just spend his time painting delicate half-smiles on mysterious women, although the Mona Lisa is what most people know him for. When he wasn’t dashing off quick sketches of observations of real life, da Vinci was dreaming up fantastic inventions, from wartime weapons to impossible flying machines

Food Safety Music - Welcome to the Food Safety Music Website that features Dr. Carl Winter’s hilarious and educational food safety music parodies

The Food Network - Super search engine for great tasting recipes

The White House Spring Garden Layout - White House Blog

Pasco County Cooperative Extension 4-H, Agriculture/Livestock, Horticulture, Wildlife - 4-H, Agriculture/Livestock, Horticulture, Wildlife

Air Car Examples

PHYSICAL EDUCATION Links - Our Favorite 5!

President’s Fitness Challenge - Expanded the President’s Challenge into a whole series of programs designed to help improve anyone’s activity level. Young or old. It’s about choosing to live healthier - and finding things you really like to do.

Sports Directories News - Kathy Schrock’s sports directories, sports news popular sports

Additional PHYSICAL EDUCATION Links!

ESOL Links - Our Favorite 5!

Information for Pasco ESOL Students

MIND Resources - Translation to Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and includes audio files. EBSCO translation French and Spanish. World Book, translation French and Spanish. Discovery Educationstreaming closed caption video segments.

Additional ESOL Links

WORLD LANGUAGES Links - Our Favorite 5!

Spanish Textbook - Support resources

French Textbook - Support resources

World Languages in Pasco County Schools Just for Students - Research into language and the brain has demonstrated the following as benefits to students who study a second language.

Spanish Word of the Day - Subscribe to email for word of the day, dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, translator, web resources

All Dictionaries - Dictionaries organized by language, subject

Additional WORLD LANGUAGES Links

Shmoop Literature - Learning guides, literature overviews in Spanish

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