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Kim Handle
Kim Handle
(Brooklyn - United States)

Kim worked for the Professional Development Department in Education at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens for the past three years and has recently accepted a fellowship at Brooklyn College. Kim's undergraduate work was in environmental ...

Age Appropriate Websites for Secondary School Students

BrainPOP

"BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students." Appropriate for elementary and secondary students, the videos on BrainPOP are great homework time references for a number of subject areas.

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HippoCampus

"HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. NROC makes editorial and engineering investment in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation."

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Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

This site includes links to over 40 online educational video resources - the perfect resource for homework and research assignments.

The Best Reference Websites for English Language Learners

"These are links to websites that English Language Learners can easily and quickly use– without having to register or sign-in (or download) — to aid them in spelling, pronouncing, learning the meaning, etc. of a word or phrase they are trying to read or write."

Thinkfinity Student Resources

A project of the Verizon Foundation, this website contains loads of interactive lessons, simulations and more in teacher and student-facing formats. Make sure to use the search bar on the right side of the screen to conduct a more focused search.

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Websites for Kids (Common Sense Media)

"Common Sense Media rates and reviews kids' websites based on child development principles. Our websites for kids reviews offer parents many great alternatives to engage and entertain kids from the youngest ages right through the teen years. We offer in-depth individual reviews and great parent guidance about how to keep kids safe and protect kids' privacy online."