Hampton Roads Academy

The Newsroom

ArtsEdge-integrates music, theater, and visual arts with foreign language, language arts, math, science, phys. ed., social studies and technology

EDSITEment-National Endowment for the Humanities; includes cross-curricular lessons and websites under art & culture, literature & language arts, foreign language, and history & social studies w/subcategories.

Illuminations-National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; provides web resources and lessons.

Read+Write+Think-includes lessons, web resources, and student materials for reading and language arts instruction

Science Netlinks-American Association for the Advancement of Science; includes lessons, resource index, and related web links.

Xpeditions-geographic studies, social and environmental science; lesson plans, interactive activities, printer-friendly maps, and links.

EconEdLink-a large library of online economics lessons for K-12 teachers and students.

Jefferson Lab Science Teacher Resources

TeacherTube- instructional videos for both teacher professional development and student skill/concept instruction

Athena Patron Catalog Database of all the physical materials available in HRA's Ferguson Library/Media Center -no username/password needed

American Government Includes research, lessons with topic explorations, test creator, correlations, e-books, etc. - librarian has school username & password and home username & password

American History Includes research, lessons with topic explorations, test creator, correlations, e-books, etc. - librarian has school username & password and home username & password

World Geography Includes research, lessons with topic explorations, test creator, correlations, e-books, etc, - librarian has school username & password and home username & password

World History: Modern Era Includes research, lessons with topic explorations, test creator, correlations, e-books, etc. - librarian has username & password and home username & password

State Geography Includes research, lessons with topic explorations, test creator, correlations, e-books, etc. - librarian has username & password and home username & password

World Book Online Online reference center with additional info. and also features a Spanish language edition. Username/password not needed for school usage - librarian has home username & password

The World and I: Interdisciplinary Resource A cross-curricular supplement that provides searches in social studies, language arts, science, the Arts, and Spanish - librarian has school and home access username & password

DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals)A free, comprehensive directory of scientific and scholarly research journals - no username/password needed

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)Digital library of education related resources -no username/password needed

AccessMyLibrary- Free access to millions of articles from top magazine, journal, reference work,and newspaper publications - no username/password needed - free registration

Library of VirginiaContains book, journal, newspaper, & periodical catalogs and indices, archives and manuscripts; architectural drawings & plans; business, census, county, city,election, govt., land & military records and resources; genealogical research; vital statistics; and photographic collections.

Intute A database that includes educational and research information on science & technology, arts & humanities, social sciences, and health and life sciences

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource for E-Journals Free and fee-based journals, magazines, and newsletters of scholarly or educational importance

Highwire Press: Stanford University Free and fee-based abstracts and full-text journals from scholarly publishers.

BioMed Central: Open Access Science Journals Publisher of 191 peer-reviewed open access science journals

Science Resource Center A curriculum-oriented science database that offers hundreds of thousands of full-text articles, multi-media, and more. Librarian has school/home passwords

Thomson Gale
includes Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, General OneFile, Student Edition, Professional Collection, Computer Database, LegalTrac, Military & Intelligence Database, InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy, Women in History, Child Development, Business and Company Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module, Junior Edition K-12, Kid's Edition- K12, Kids InfoBits, Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select, Biography Resource Center, and

***Gale Virtual Reference Library including the following e-books: Contemporary Fashion, International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Business Leader Profiles for Students, Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of Small Business, Beachham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Contemporary Novelists, Contemporary Poets, Gale Encyclopedias of Alternative Medicine, Cancer, Genetic Disorders,Medicine, and Multicultural America, Blackbirth Kid's Visual Reference of the United States, Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, Biology, and World of Earth Science. (Librarian has school/home access password.)

WorldCat offers a search for items such as books, periodicals, music, and videos from the catalogs of libraries in these surrounding areas. (No school/home username/password needed)

Democracy Now News(Independent, Unembedded Media)

FreeSpeech.org

Liberty News

Asheville Global Report

Alternate Focus News

Mosaic (World News from the Middle East)

ABC News MSNBC

BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.)

Associated Press

CNN Interactive

Reuters

United Press International