Resources
Use our online catalog to find print books and other items available in the WHS library.
Use the links below to help you find digital books, magazines, and audiobooks.
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- Understanding Media Bias/Fact Checking
- World Languages
Britannica Online School Edition
Britannica Online School Edition offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. The High School level is designed for high school students and contains articles and other resources from the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. Discover nearly 50 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
High School (Gale In Context)
An engaging student experience merges magazines, news, multimedia and more.
APlusPhysics
Designed to help high school physics students and beginning college physics students succeed, APlusPhysics is a free online physics resource that focuses on problem solving, understanding, and real-world applications.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Complete source for peer-reviewed scholarly articles across all academic disciplines
Academy of Achievement: Achiever Universe
The Academy of Achievement, is a non-profit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest achieving individuals in diverse fields.
Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart
This media bias chart is a unique way of laying out the complex media landscape in two dimensions: reliability, on the vertical axis, and bias, on the horizontal axis.
AllSides Media Bias Chart
The AllSides Media Bias Chart analyzes current news sources to help you to easily identify different perspectives so you can get the full picture and think for yourself.
American Panorama
American Panorama, created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques to create maps such as, "Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America" and "The Forced Migration of Enslaved People."
Annenberg Classroom
This resource, developed by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, guides users through various aspects of the Constitution. Use the navigation on the left to explore the Constitution, Supreme Court cases, and controversial issues and their relationship to the Constitution.
ArcGIS Maps of Syracuse & Onondaga County
This database contains maps of Syracuse and Onondaga County that focus on boundaries, businesses, education, health, housing, and transportation.
BBC News Country Profiles
The BBC News Country Profiles provides full profiles that are an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
Banned Book Club from the Digital Public Library of America
DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.
Big Future Career Exploration
Big Future College Exploration, from the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, helps you pick the right career. Users can browse careers or find careers that match their interests.
Big Future College Search
Big Future College Search, from the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, helps you narrow down possible colleges that students could attend based on a variety of preferences, including major, location, type of school, and campus life.
Biography.com
Every life has a story. Biography.com, owned by A & E Television Networks, includes both biographies and daily features.
Britannica Online School Edition
Britannica Online School Edition offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. The High School level is designed for high school students and contains articles and other resources from the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Britannica Social Studies Launchpacks
LaunchPacks: Social Studies features a growing collection of multimedia content sets covering topics from American History to Economics and Business. Username: cres Password: wcsd
Britannica's ProCon.org
ProCon.org, owned by Britannica, looks at a multitude of controversial issues and succinctly compares perspectives of these issues.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Economy At A Glance: Syracuse
This webpage provides data on the economy and jobs in Syracuse.
Business Insights (Gale Business)
Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, stat ...
CNY Fair Housing
NY Fair Housing is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1991, dedicated to eliminating housing discrimination, promoting open communities, and ensuring equal access to housing opportunities for all people in Central and Northern New York. The organization, based in Syracuse, New York, provides: enforcement and litigation, education and outreach, and research and contractual services.
CNY Vitals
CNY Vitals is an initiative of the Central New York Community Foundation. This ‘state of the community’ website provides a common source of data and interactive visualizations on critical topics that affect the health and progress of our region in order to inform community members, spur discussion, identify emerging issues and plan community investments.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.
Central New York Land Trust
The Central New York Land Trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Chemistry Now
Chemistry Now, a product of a partnership between the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NBC Learn, and the National Science Teachers Association, focuses on making the subject come alive in student’s daily lives by drawing from day-to-day examples such as running, eating, or getting cold. This service focuses on publishing video tutorials that dwell on such non-classroom-like topics as “The Chemistry of Fear and Fright”, “the Chemistry of Cheeseburger”, and “the Chemistry of Chocolate”.
Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
City Health Dashboard - Syracuse, New York
This City Health Dashboard webpage, created by NYU Langone Health, provides health-related data for the city of Syracuse, New York.
Climate Central
Hosted by a nonprofit organization that combines science and journalism in an effort to inform the public and decision makers about the effects of climate change. Includes news, 4 blogs, an image gallery, and a large multimedia collection that provides state- and local-level climate information.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Articles on advertising and public relations, linguistics, and related fields
Computer Science (Gale OneFile)
News and reviews on electronics, engineering, communications and more.
Confronting Anti-Black Racism
Understanding and dismantling anti-Black racism is one of the most urgent and persistent issues of our time. Confronting Anti-Black Racism curates Harvard research and resources on the history of racism in the United States and its impact on Black communities. The project introduces and explores a continuous knowledge loop of scholarship, library resources, and real-world experiences of Black Americans. It enables researchers to examine the past and understand the present, giving us the tools to build a better future. Topics include: Public Health, Scientific Racism, Criminal Justice, Space & Design, and Education.
Cornell Program on Applied Demographics (PAD)
Located within the Cornell Population Center at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, the Program on Applied Demographics (PAD) combines skills in demographics, economics, statistics, data gathering and data analysis in order to provide a variety of organizations with data, information and advice. This database provides information about NYS counties and school districts; includes 2020 U.S. Census data; and provides maps for users.
Data USA
Data USA is a free, award-winnng platform created in partnership between Deloitte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Collective Learning Group, and Datawheel, that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data.
Data USA for Onondaga County
This webpage from Data USA, provides data on Onondaga County for income, housing, demographics, elections, etc.
Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is a U.S. political committee that is a major part of the Democrat Party of the United States.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. Discover nearly 50 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Diverse Book Finder
The Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) that have been published since 2002.
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile)
Articles that explore cultural differences, influences in society, and more
DocsTeach
DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.
Education Week
Education Week is the #1 source of non-partisan, high-quality news, and insights covering the K-12 education sector.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile)
Academic articles, reports, news, book reports, and more in the field of education
Election Guide
Election Guide, founded by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, is a comprehensive source of verified election information available online. This database houses details on upcoming nationwide elections and referendums around the world. It also includes data on electoral systems, political parties and candidates, and key issues at stake in each election, along with historical information on all national elections held since the database's creation in 1998.
Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile)
Full-text insights, tips and strategies for students and entrepreneurs.
Environmental Justice from the Environmental Protection Agency
This website provides information on the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about its environmental justice work through its grants and resources, strategic planning, and collaborative partnerships.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Academic articles, videos, case studies, and more on topics in environmental studies
Environmental Topics from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA's environmental topics guides users to the most popular pages within a given environmental topic. This website also provides EPA Articles and News Releases related to popular topics.
Facing History and Ourselves - Resource Library
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes.
FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is an American website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.
Flash Animations for Physics
This website has animations written by David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto to help people visualise a specific topic of Physics.
FultonSearch: Historical Newspapers
A searchable repository of over 47,059,000 historical newspaper pages published in New York State and the United States between 1795 and 2007, frequently updated. Also includes a handful of international newspapers. FultonSearch offers an alternative interface to FultonHistory.com, pointing to files hosted and indexed there.
Gallup
Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the practical aspects of gardening, horticulture, and more
General OneFile (Gale)
Magazine, news, and journal articles on general interest topics and current events
GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a geography game, in which you are dropped somewhere in the world in a street view panorama and your mission is to find clues and guess your location on the world map.
Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
NASA hosts this wealth of multimedia resources dedicated to the topic of climate change.
Google Arts & Culture
A beautifully presented one-stop shop for compellingly curated and contextualized art, history, and culture resources.
Google Fact Check Explorer
Google Fact Check Explorer is designed to facilitate the work of fact checkers, journalists, and researchers in discovering what has and hasn’t been debunked all over the globe. Think of it as a search engine for fact checks that can help you determine fact from fiction.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
Find reliable information on fitness, pregnancy, nutrition and much more.
High School (Gale In Context)
An engaging student experience merges magazines, news, multimedia and more.
History.com
History.com is the official website of the A & E Television Network's History Channel. It includes many articles and videos about history, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Home Improvement (Gale OneFile)
Articles on architectural techniques, zoning requirements, tools, and more
Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the hospitality and tourism fields, plus travel guides and more
HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks explains the curiosities of our world, delving into everything from cyber security and housecleaning tips to the physics of black holes and the history of slang.
I Side With
I Side With has a multitude of information to inform voters and is most famous for its quiz that matches users with the presidential candidate most aligned with their beliefs.
Information Science (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the information and library science profession and related topics
Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile)
Articles on mortgages, labor relations, legal issues, and more
Inventory of Sora Magazines
This Google Doc organizes by subject area all of the magazines available via Sora.
LitCharts A+
LitCharts take a completely new approach to analyzing and explaining literature by preseningt a bulleted-list-style summary of every single plot point in the book side-by-side with analysis and color-coded themes for each point. Every LitChart includes a color-coded Themes Key, which assigns a specific color to each theme. Username: WesthillHS | Password: warriors
Literary Index (Gale Literature)
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and review ...
Mapping Inequity in Syracuse
This webpage, created by the University of Richmond, provides information on redlining in Syracuse, New York.
Media Connect
Media Connect includes Swank Movie Library, Discovery Education, PBS Learning Media, Soundzabound, Feature Films, and Learn360.
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
This resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art beautifully illustrates art's evolution and is great for research.
Middle School (Gale In Context)
Academic articles, images, topic selections, and more for middle schoolers
Military and Intelligence (Gale OneFile)
Articles on governmental policies, socioeconomics effects of war, and more
NYS Historic Newspapers
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. To search the entire collection, use the Search Tab. Or, click on a county to search or browse geographically. This collection contains 1,290,460 issues comprising 12,871,962 pages.
NYSED Onondaga County School Districts Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Onondaga County school districts. It provides links to all school districts in Onondaga County.
NYSED Syracuse City School District Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Syracuse City School District, including demographics, scores, finances, etc.
NYSED Westhill CSD Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Westhill Central School District, including demographics, scores, finances, etc.
National Science Foundation Focus Areas
The U.S. National Science Foundation's focus areas are 15 topics for which they fund research. These include such topics as earth and environment, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, among several more.
New American History
New American History, from the University of Richmond, explores America’s past, harnessing the power of digital media, curiosity and inquiry.
New York Heritage
New York Heritage Digital Collections features a broad range of materials that present a glimpse into our state’s history and culture. Over 350 libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural institutions make their collections available in our repository. These primary source materials span the range of New York State’s history, from the colonial era to present. Our stories are told through photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, books, and more.
New York State Board of Elections - Elected Officials
This New York State Board of Elections webpage provides information on state and local elected officials.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) was created to protect and enhance the environment.
New York State Kids Count
This website provides statistics on children, youth and families in New York from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the New York State Council on Children and Families
News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on.
NewsBank - America's Historical Newspapers
This database breaks down news articles by historical period, then by historical event.
NewsBank - World News
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
NewsBank: Black Life in America
This database is an easy-to-use online resource—updated daily—for every institution working toward social justice and racial equity. It has comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day and is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
Newsbank: Hispanic Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century to the present day Sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals An easy-to-use online resource—updated daily with new material—that illuminates centuries of Hispanic history, culture, and daily life.
NoodleTools
NoodleTools is an online research management platform that promotes critical thinking and authentic research. Stay organized as you evaluate information, build accurate citations, archive source material, take notes, outline topics, and prepare to write.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile)
Articles on direct patient care, healthcare administration, and more
O2CM BOCES Professional eBook Collection
This library contains hundreds of professional development and reference books for educators. Password: ocmboces
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
Onondaga County Board of Elections
This website provides information on Onondaga County election results, voter data, and voter registration.
Onondaga County COVID-19 Data and Reports
This webpage, created by Onondaga County, provides data on the most current testing, cases, and variants for Onondaga County and New York State (including historical data), as well as data regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations, long-term care, and fatalities.
Onondaga County Health Data & Surveillance
The Surveillance program collects, analyzes and interprets data on many different diseases, injuries, and causes of illness or death in Onondaga County. These data are used to: examine risk factors and behaviors related to health in Onondaga County, plan and guide programs that help protect and promote the health of our community; and develop a Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan to ensure that the Health Department’s priorities accurately reflect the needs of the community.
Open Data New York
This state government website provides data for NYS on COVID, environmental issues, education, government, recreation, healthcare, etc.
Open Data Syracuse
This Syracuse City webpage provides data on the city of Syracuse and its neighborhoods.
Opportunity Atlas
Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
Continuously updated information and opinions cover hot issues
Oyez Project
The Oyez Project is an unofficial online multimedia archive website for the Supreme Court of the United States. It was initiated by the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and now also sponsored by Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute and Justia.
Periodic Table of Comic Books
The Periodic Table of Comic Books, managed by the Chemistry Department of the University of Kentucky, makes the periodic table fun to understand by having a collection of comic books related to each element. A colorful periodic table feature is presented. If you click on an element, a list of comic books related to that element pops out.
Peterson's Test and Career Prep (Gale Presents)
Supports users building resumes, job hunting, or searching for careers
Pew Research Center - Research Topics
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Affiliated to the University of Colorado, PhET is a platform dedicated to the provision of interactive simulations for the learning of STEM subjects. The simulations can be run online or they can be downloaded locally all for free. It has millions of these simulations covering physics, math, earth science, biology, and chemistry.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile)
Articles on treatment techniques, experimental research, and more
Plants Database
Published by the United States Department of Agriculture, this database has images, characteristics, and distribution information for plants in the U.S. and its territories are included in this database. Searching is made easy through a variety of options and includes both scientific and common names.
Poets.org
Poets.org is produced by the Academy of American Poets, a nonprofit charitable organization. The site was launched in 1996, becoming the first online resource for poems, poets’ biographies, essays about poetry, and materials for K–12 teachers.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile)
The most popular and current magazines available from all of the Gale resources
Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."[2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.[3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. As of 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.[4]
Race & Architecture Blog
This blog was created by Dr. Charles Davies, a SUNY Buffalo architecture professor, historian, and author of the 2019 book Building Character: the Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style.
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile)
Articles on world religions, philosophies, and related fields
Science (Gale OneFile)
Updated daily, this collection includes 1.6 million articles and 200 journals.
Science Matters
Science Matters is the National Science Foundation's blog, with stories about transforming the world through science.
Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center allows users to conduct keyword searches or browse topics by branch of science. It includes full-text periodicals, books, biographies, essays, 1,000+ science experiments, 2,000+ science videos from top educational publishers, and thousands of high-quality science images.
Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory was created by over five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history to make the history of art accessible to more people and in more places.
Snopes
Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Swank
Swank K-12 Streaming makes it easy for teachers to incorporate high quality films into their lesson plans, whether they are planning for in-person or virtual learning. Our online streaming film library includes thousands of films for educational support, including the top feature films, documentaries and foreign titles.
Syracuse.com - Post Standard Collection
Find all articles from the Post Standard/Syracuse.com from 1986-present. Note that this database does not include images.
Syracuse Community Geography
Syracuse Community Geography works in partnership with community-based organizations and university affiliates to map and spatially analyze topics of concern to Central New York communities. SCG helps communities to identify and address challenges in new ways using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping and other forms of spatial analysis.
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York Genealogy from FamilySearch
This website provides a host of information about Syracuse, New York, throughout hisotry.
TED Ed
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.
TeachingBooks.net
An engaging collection of resources that brings books to life. Username and password: o2cmboces
Teen Health & Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support on topics that include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.
The Royal Society of Chemistry's Interactive Periodic Table
The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.
U.S. Census Bureau Data
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
U.S. Census Bureau Data - Quick Facts about Syracuse
This page provides quick facts regarding the people, businesses, and geography in Syracuse.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
This database has information about natural resources and the environment, with news, maps, image databases, and much more. There is a place to post questions about earthquakes, volcanoes, natural resources, forests, and glaciers plus a collection of resources for students and teachers.
UN Data
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
Verification Handbook
Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.
War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
Articles on war and its causes, current events, terrorism, and more
We Need Diverse Books - Where to Find Diverse Books
This is a compilation of links to websites that contain information about diverse books or bookstores owned by diverse people.
Westhill High School Yearbooks
This collection includes yearbooks from Westhill High School, dating from 1962 - 2018.
What Should I Read Next?
This website gives you recommendations for books based on books you have previously enjoyed.
WorldCat
Have you ever wished you could find out which library is the closest to you that has the book or other item you're looking for? WorldCat will tell you! It contains information about both print and digital resources. Check it out!
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
World Factbook from the CIA
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
World Myths and Legends in Art
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art, this website allows users to explore art from world myths and legends both by theme and culture.
WorldMapper
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps called cartograms, where territories are resized on each map according to the subject of interest.
WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine of national scientific databases and portals in more than 70 countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and over three-quarters of the world's population. WorldWideScience.org is maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in partnership with the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information.
Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country through free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, our teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
Google Arts & Culture
A beautifully presented one-stop shop for compellingly curated and contextualized art, history, and culture resources.
Race & Architecture Blog
This blog was created by Dr. Charles Davies, a SUNY Buffalo architecture professor, historian, and author of the 2019 book Building Character: the Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory was created by over five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history to make the history of art accessible to more people and in more places.
World Myths and Legends in Art
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art, this website allows users to explore art from world myths and legends both by theme and culture.
Academy of Achievement: Achiever Universe
The Academy of Achievement, is a non-profit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest achieving individuals in diverse fields.
Biography.com
Every life has a story. Biography.com, owned by A & E Television Networks, includes both biographies and daily features.
History.com
History.com is the official website of the A & E Television Network's History Channel. It includes many articles and videos about history, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Business Insights (Gale Business)
Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, stat ...
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Articles on advertising and public relations, linguistics, and related fields
Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile)
Full-text insights, tips and strategies for students and entrepreneurs.
Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the hospitality and tourism fields, plus travel guides and more
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
Big Future Career Exploration
Big Future College Exploration, from the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, helps you pick the right career. Users can browse careers or find careers that match their interests.
Big Future College Search
Big Future College Search, from the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, helps you narrow down possible colleges that students could attend based on a variety of preferences, including major, location, type of school, and campus life.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
Computer Science (Gale OneFile)
News and reviews on electronics, engineering, communications and more.
Home Improvement (Gale OneFile)
Articles on architectural techniques, zoning requirements, tools, and more
HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks explains the curiosities of our world, delving into everything from cyber security and housecleaning tips to the physics of black holes and the history of slang.
Information Science (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the information and library science profession and related topics
Banned Book Club from the Digital Public Library of America
DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.
O2CM BOCES Professional eBook Collection
This library contains hundreds of professional development and reference books for educators. Password: ocmboces
Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."[2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.[3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. As of 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.[4]
Unite for Literacy
This free resource provides free picture books with text in multiple languages and narration available in Spanish, English, and Ukrainian.
WorldCat
Have you ever wished you could find out which library is the closest to you that has the book or other item you're looking for? WorldCat will tell you! It contains information about both print and digital resources. Check it out!
Diverse Book Finder
The Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) that have been published since 2002.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Articles on advertising and public relations, linguistics, and related fields
Literary Index (Gale Literature)
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and review ...
LitCharts A+
LitCharts take a completely new approach to analyzing and explaining literature by preseningt a bulleted-list-style summary of every single plot point in the book side-by-side with analysis and color-coded themes for each point. Every LitChart includes a color-coded Themes Key, which assigns a specific color to each theme. Username: WesthillHS | Password: warriors
Poets.org
Poets.org is produced by the Academy of American Poets, a nonprofit charitable organization. The site was launched in 1996, becoming the first online resource for poems, poets’ biographies, essays about poetry, and materials for K–12 teachers.
TeachingBooks.net
An engaging collection of resources that brings books to life. Username and password: o2cmboces
We Need Diverse Books - Where to Find Diverse Books
This is a compilation of links to websites that contain information about diverse books or bookstores owned by diverse people.
WorldCat
Have you ever wished you could find out which library is the closest to you that has the book or other item you're looking for? WorldCat will tell you! It contains information about both print and digital resources. Check it out!
American Panorama
American Panorama, created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques to create maps such as, "Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America" and "The Forced Migration of Enslaved People."
ArcGIS Maps of Syracuse & Onondaga County
This database contains maps of Syracuse and Onondaga County that focus on boundaries, businesses, education, health, housing, and transportation.
BBC News Country Profiles
The BBC News Country Profiles provides full profiles that are an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
Data USA
Data USA is a free, award-winnng platform created in partnership between Deloitte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Collective Learning Group, and Datawheel, that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data.
GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a geography game, in which you are dropped somewhere in the world in a street view panorama and your mission is to find clues and guess your location on the world map.
New York State Disadvantaged Communities Criteria and Maps
New York’s Climate Act recognizes that climate change doesn’t affect all communities equally. The Climate Act charged the Climate Justice Working Group (CJWG) with the development of criteria to identify disadvantaged communities, and both maps and criteria sheets were created.
Opportunity Atlas
Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University
Race and Ethnicity in the US by Dot Density (2020 Census)
This multi-scale map uses dots to represent the population of each race/ethnicity living within an area. Map opens at the state level, centered on the lower 48 states. Data is from U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 PL 94-171 data for tract, block group, and block.
U.S. Census Bureau Data
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
UN Data
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University. The purpose of TRAC is to provide the American people — and institutions of oversight such as Congress, news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars and lawyers — with comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government.
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
World Factbook from the CIA
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
WorldMapper
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps called cartograms, where territories are resized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Annenberg Classroom
This resource, developed by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, guides users through various aspects of the Constitution. Use the navigation on the left to explore the Constitution, Supreme Court cases, and controversial issues and their relationship to the Constitution.
Britannica's ProCon.org
ProCon.org, owned by Britannica, looks at a multitude of controversial issues and succinctly compares perspectives of these issues.
Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is a U.S. political committee that is a major part of the Democrat Party of the United States.
Election Guide
Election Guide, founded by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, is a comprehensive source of verified election information available online. This database houses details on upcoming nationwide elections and referendums around the world. It also includes data on electoral systems, political parties and candidates, and key issues at stake in each election, along with historical information on all national elections held since the database's creation in 1998.
Environmental Justice from the Environmental Protection Agency
This website provides information on the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about its environmental justice work through its grants and resources, strategic planning, and collaborative partnerships.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Academic articles, videos, case studies, and more on topics in environmental studies
FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is an American website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.
Gallup
Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
I Side With
I Side With has a multitude of information to inform voters and is most famous for its quiz that matches users with the presidential candidate most aligned with their beliefs.
Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand critical contemporary topics by providing comprehensive coverage on subjects across politics, business, society, and culture. The database, updated weekly, features in-depth pro/con articles, editorials, and columns, organized for easy navigation and user-friendly research. With expert-written content, primary sources, and supplemental materials, it supports research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing.
New American History
New American History, from the University of Richmond, explores America’s past, harnessing the power of digital media, curiosity and inquiry.
New York State Board of Elections - Elected Officials
This New York State Board of Elections webpage provides information on state and local elected officials.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
Continuously updated information and opinions cover hot issues
Oyez Project
The Oyez Project is an unofficial online multimedia archive website for the Supreme Court of the United States. It was initiated by the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and now also sponsored by Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute and Justia.
Pew Research Center - Research Topics
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. political committee that is a major part of the Republican Party of the United States.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile)
Articles that explore cultural differences, influences in society, and more
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
Find reliable information on fitness, pregnancy, nutrition and much more.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile)
Articles on direct patient care, healthcare administration, and more
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile)
Articles on treatment techniques, experimental research, and more
Teen Health & Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support on topics that include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.
City Health Dashboard - Syracuse, New York
This City Health Dashboard webpage, created by NYU Langone Health, provides health-related data for the city of Syracuse, New York.
Onondaga County Health Data & Surveillance
The Surveillance program collects, analyzes and interprets data on many different diseases, injuries, and causes of illness or death in Onondaga County. These data are used to: examine risk factors and behaviors related to health in Onondaga County, plan and guide programs that help protect and promote the health of our community; and develop a Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan to ensure that the Health Department’s priorities accurately reflect the needs of the community.
The Crash Course
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel, started by John Green and Hank Green, with topics ranging from science to social studies to business to film. Videos are also available in Spanish.
Discovery Education
From science to the performing arts, find attention-grabbing content including Virtual Field Trips, videos, text, podcasts, interactives, behind?the-scenes at major organizations, career spotlights, and more. Track student progress in real-time, check for understanding at strategic steps in the lessons you design with interactive Quiz. Use Studio to build creative lessons and activities that incorporate our timely, relevant content.
Feature Films for Education
The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. Username & pw: ocmsls
Learn360 Streaming Media
Learn360 is a multisubject, easy-to-use K–12 media library (videos, interactives, articles, songs, games, images, and more) that can be used on-site or off.
Media Connect
Media Connect includes Swank Movie Library, Discovery Education, PBS Learning Media, Soundzabound, Feature Films, and Learn360.
Oyez Project
The Oyez Project is an unofficial online multimedia archive website for the Supreme Court of the United States. It was initiated by the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and now also sponsored by Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute and Justia.
Swank
Swank K-12 Streaming makes it easy for teachers to incorporate high quality films into their lesson plans, whether they are planning for in-person or virtual learning. Our online streaming film library includes thousands of films for educational support, including the top feature films, documentaries and foreign titles.
TED Ed
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Complete source for peer-reviewed scholarly articles across all academic disciplines
Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
DocsTeach
DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.
Education Week
Education Week is the #1 source of non-partisan, high-quality news, and insights covering the K-12 education sector.
FultonSearch: Historical Newspapers
A searchable repository of over 47,059,000 historical newspaper pages published in New York State and the United States between 1795 and 2007, frequently updated. Also includes a handful of international newspapers. FultonSearch offers an alternative interface to FultonHistory.com, pointing to files hosted and indexed there.
NewsBank - America's Historical Newspapers
This database breaks down news articles by historical period, then by historical event.
NewsBank - World News
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
NewsBank: Black Life in America
This database is an easy-to-use online resource—updated daily—for every institution working toward social justice and racial equity. It has comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day and is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
Newsbank: Hispanic Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century to the present day Sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals An easy-to-use online resource—updated daily with new material—that illuminates centuries of Hispanic history, culture, and daily life.
New York Times - The Learning Network
The New York Times - The Learning Network's mission is to offer rich and imaginative materials for teaching and learning using New York Times content. Every weekday they offer new educational resources based on the articles, photographs, videos, illustrations, podcasts and graphics published in The New York Times – all for free.
NYS Historic Newspapers
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. To search the entire collection, use the Search Tab. Or, click on a county to search or browse geographically. This collection contains 1,290,460 issues comprising 12,871,962 pages.
Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile)
The most popular and current magazines available from all of the Gale resources
Inventory of Sora Magazines
This Google Doc organizes by subject area all of the magazines available via Sora.
Syracuse.com - Post Standard Collection
Find all articles from the Post Standard/Syracuse.com from 1986-present. Note that this database does not include images.
ArcGIS Maps of Syracuse & Onondaga County
This database contains maps of Syracuse and Onondaga County that focus on boundaries, businesses, education, health, housing, and transportation.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Economy At A Glance: Syracuse
This webpage provides data on the economy and jobs in Syracuse.
Central New York Land Trust
The Central New York Land Trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
City Health Dashboard - Syracuse, New York
This City Health Dashboard webpage, created by NYU Langone Health, provides health-related data for the city of Syracuse, New York.
CNY Fair Housing
NY Fair Housing is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1991, dedicated to eliminating housing discrimination, promoting open communities, and ensuring equal access to housing opportunities for all people in Central and Northern New York. The organization, based in Syracuse, New York, provides: enforcement and litigation, education and outreach, and research and contractual services.
CNY Vitals
CNY Vitals is an initiative of the Central New York Community Foundation. This ‘state of the community’ website provides a common source of data and interactive visualizations on critical topics that affect the health and progress of our region in order to inform community members, spur discussion, identify emerging issues and plan community investments.
Data USA for Onondaga County
This webpage from Data USA, provides data on Onondaga County for income, housing, demographics, elections, etc.
FOCUS Greater Syracuse Reports & Initiatives
FOCUS Greater Syracuse, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization in Onondaga County that has promoted civic engagement, participation, and education in the Central New York community for over 25 years. FOCUS conducts research initiatives focusing on citizens and provides reports and recommendations based on its findings. Their reports are widely used by Onondaga County, Syracuse City, other organizations, businesses, and individuals for future planning purposes.
FultonSearch: Historical Newspapers
A searchable repository of over 47,059,000 historical newspaper pages published in New York State and the United States between 1795 and 2007, frequently updated. Also includes a handful of international newspapers. FultonSearch offers an alternative interface to FultonHistory.com, pointing to files hosted and indexed there.
"The Map: Segregated Syracuse... Still" by Matt Mulcahy
In early 2021, CNY Central news anchor and blogger Matt Mulcahy discovered a 1919 map of Syracuse. The Map is the first known city sanctioned document associating “NEGRO” with redlining. It is the start of a century of government policy that insured racial segregation in Syracuse and Onondaga County and is a precursor to the Home Owners Loan Corporation Maps of 1934. This multi-media blog post from Mulcahy describes what he found and its implications.
The Map: Segregated Syracuse from CNY Central
The Map: Segregated Syracuse is an ongoing reporting project that began in 2021 that examines the issues related to segregation in schools, housing and numerous elements of Syracuse and Onondaga County. The title of this project was inspired by the 1919 Map of Syracuse which is the first known city sanctioned document associating “NEGRO” with redlining. The map was found by a CNY Central reporter, Matt Mulcahy.
Mapping Inequity in Syracuse
This webpage, created by the University of Richmond, provides information on redlining in Syracuse, New York.
Miseducation: Syracuse City School District
Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. This one focuses on the Syracuse City School District.
Miseducation: Westhill Central School District
Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. This one focuses on the Westhill Central School District.
New York Heritage
New York Heritage Digital Collections features a broad range of materials that present a glimpse into our state’s history and culture. Over 350 libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural institutions make their collections available in our repository. These primary source materials span the range of New York State’s history, from the colonial era to present. Our stories are told through photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, books, and more.
New York State Board of Elections - Elected Officials
This New York State Board of Elections webpage provides information on state and local elected officials.
New York State Kids Count
This website provides statistics on children, youth and families in New York from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the New York State Council on Children and Families
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) was created to protect and enhance the environment.
NYSED Onondaga County School Districts Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Onondaga County school districts. It provides links to all school districts in Onondaga County.
NYSED Syracuse City School District Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Syracuse City School District, including demographics, scores, finances, etc.
NYSED Westhill CSD Data
This New York State Education Department webpage provides data on the Westhill Central School District, including demographics, scores, finances, etc.
NYS Historic Newspapers
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. To search the entire collection, use the Search Tab. Or, click on a county to search or browse geographically. This collection contains 1,290,460 issues comprising 12,871,962 pages.
Onondaga County Board of Elections
This website provides information on Onondaga County election results, voter data, and voter registration.
Onondaga County Health Data & Surveillance
The Surveillance program collects, analyzes and interprets data on many different diseases, injuries, and causes of illness or death in Onondaga County. These data are used to: examine risk factors and behaviors related to health in Onondaga County, plan and guide programs that help protect and promote the health of our community; and develop a Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan to ensure that the Health Department’s priorities accurately reflect the needs of the community.
Onondaga County COVID-19 Data and Reports
This webpage, created by Onondaga County, provides data on the most current testing, cases, and variants for Onondaga County and New York State (including historical data), as well as data regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations, long-term care, and fatalities.
Open Data New York
This state government website provides data for NYS on COVID, environmental issues, education, government, recreation, healthcare, etc.
Open Data Syracuse
This Syracuse City webpage provides data on the city of Syracuse and its neighborhoods.
Syracuse.com - Post Standard Collection
Find all articles from the Post Standard/Syracuse.com from 1986-present. Note that this database does not include images.
Syracuse Community Geography
Syracuse Community Geography works in partnership with community-based organizations and university affiliates to map and spatially analyze topics of concern to Central New York communities. SCG helps communities to identify and address challenges in new ways using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping and other forms of spatial analysis.
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York Genealogy from FamilySearch
This website provides a host of information about Syracuse, New York, throughout hisotry.
U.S. Census Bureau Data - Quick Facts about Syracuse
This page provides quick facts regarding the people, businesses, and geography in Syracuse.
Westhill High School Yearbooks
This collection includes yearbooks from Westhill High School, dating from 1962 - 2018.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the practical aspects of gardening, horticulture, and more
Home Improvement (Gale OneFile)
Articles on architectural techniques, zoning requirements, tools, and more
APlusPhysics
Designed to help high school physics students and beginning college physics students succeed, APlusPhysics is a free online physics resource that focuses on problem solving, understanding, and real-world applications.
Central New York Land Trust
The Central New York Land Trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Chemistry Now
Chemistry Now, a product of a partnership between the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NBC Learn, and the National Science Teachers Association, focuses on making the subject come alive in student’s daily lives by drawing from day-to-day examples such as running, eating, or getting cold. This service focuses on publishing video tutorials that dwell on such non-classroom-like topics as “The Chemistry of Fear and Fright”, “the Chemistry of Cheeseburger”, and “the Chemistry of Chocolate”.
Climate Central
Hosted by a nonprofit organization that combines science and journalism in an effort to inform the public and decision makers about the effects of climate change. Includes news, 4 blogs, an image gallery, and a large multimedia collection that provides state- and local-level climate information.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Academic articles, videos, case studies, and more on topics in environmental studies
Environmental Topics from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA's environmental topics guides users to the most popular pages within a given environmental topic. This website also provides EPA Articles and News Releases related to popular topics.
Flash Animations for Physics
This website has animations written by David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto to help people visualise a specific topic of Physics.
Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
NASA hosts this wealth of multimedia resources dedicated to the topic of climate change.
My NASA Data
NASA offers petabytes of global Earth science data collected from satellites but accessing these data in a traditional (or virtual) science classroom can be tricky. Since 2004, My NASA Data has supported students and teachers of grades 3-12 in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data. Full lesson plans, mini lessons, interactives, STEM career connections, and information on NASA GLOBE can be found here.
National Science Foundation Focus Areas
The U.S. National Science Foundation's focus areas are 15 topics for which they fund research. These include such topics as earth and environment, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, among several more.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) was created to protect and enhance the environment.
Periodic Table of Comic Books
The Periodic Table of Comic Books, managed by the Chemistry Department of the University of Kentucky, makes the periodic table fun to understand by having a collection of comic books related to each element. A colorful periodic table feature is presented. If you click on an element, a list of comic books related to that element pops out.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Affiliated to the University of Colorado, PhET is a platform dedicated to the provision of interactive simulations for the learning of STEM subjects. The simulations can be run online or they can be downloaded locally all for free. It has millions of these simulations covering physics, math, earth science, biology, and chemistry.
Plants Database
Published by the United States Department of Agriculture, this database has images, characteristics, and distribution information for plants in the U.S. and its territories are included in this database. Searching is made easy through a variety of options and includes both scientific and common names.
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Although Westhill does subscribe to this database, there are several free articles that are available.
Science Matters
Science Matters is the National Science Foundation's blog, with stories about transforming the world through science.
Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center allows users to conduct keyword searches or browse topics by branch of science. It includes full-text periodicals, books, biographies, essays, 1,000+ science experiments, 2,000+ science videos from top educational publishers, and thousands of high-quality science images.
Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
The Royal Society of Chemistry's Interactive Periodic Table
The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
This database has information about natural resources and the environment, with news, maps, image databases, and much more. There is a place to post questions about earthquakes, volcanoes, natural resources, forests, and glaciers plus a collection of resources for students and teachers.
WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine of national scientific databases and portals in more than 70 countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and over three-quarters of the world's population. WorldWideScience.org is maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in partnership with the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Articles on the practical aspects of gardening, horticulture, and more
Science (Gale OneFile)
Updated daily, this collection includes 1.6 million articles and 200 journals.
Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country through free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, our teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
Britannica Social Studies Launchpacks
LaunchPacks: Social Studies features a growing collection of multimedia content sets covering topics from American History to Economics and Business. Username: cres Password: wcsd
Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
DocsTeach
DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.
Facing History and Ourselves - Resource Library
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
History.com
History.com is the official website of the A & E Television Network's History Channel. It includes many articles and videos about history, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand critical contemporary topics by providing comprehensive coverage on subjects across politics, business, society, and culture. The database, updated weekly, features in-depth pro/con articles, editorials, and columns, organized for easy navigation and user-friendly research. With expert-written content, primary sources, and supplemental materials, it supports research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing.
New American History
New American History, from the University of Richmond, explores America’s past, harnessing the power of digital media, curiosity and inquiry.
New York Times - The Learning Network
The New York Times - The Learning Network's mission is to offer rich and imaginative materials for teaching and learning using New York Times content. Every weekday they offer new educational resources based on the articles, photographs, videos, illustrations, podcasts and graphics published in The New York Times – all for free.
Oyez Project
The Oyez Project is an unofficial online multimedia archive website for the Supreme Court of the United States. It was initiated by the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and now also sponsored by Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute and Justia.
Race & Architecture Blog
This blog was created by Dr. Charles Davies, a SUNY Buffalo architecture professor, historian, and author of the 2019 book Building Character: the Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style.
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile)
Articles on world religions, philosophies, and related fields
War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
Articles on war and its causes, current events, terrorism, and more
WorldMapper
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps called cartograms, where territories are resized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country through free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, our teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart
This media bias chart is a unique way of laying out the complex media landscape in two dimensions: reliability, on the vertical axis, and bias, on the horizontal axis.
AllSides Media Bias Chart
The AllSides Media Bias Chart analyzes current news sources to help you to easily identify different perspectives so you can get the full picture and think for yourself.
FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes.
Google Fact Check Explorer
Google Fact Check Explorer is designed to facilitate the work of fact checkers, journalists, and researchers in discovering what has and hasn’t been debunked all over the globe. Think of it as a search engine for fact checks that can help you determine fact from fiction.
News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
Snopes
Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Verification Handbook
Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile)
Articles that explore cultural differences, influences in society, and more
Newsbank: Hispanic Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century to the present day Sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals An easy-to-use online resource—updated daily with new material—that illuminates centuries of Hispanic history, culture, and daily life.
Unite for Literacy
This free resource provides free picture books with text in multiple languages and narration available in Spanish, English, and Ukrainian.