Teacher Resources:
CHS Teacher Information:
Georgia Teacher Information:
Online News:
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Atlanta Journal Constitution - Student Education Edition
- CNN Student News
- Times-Georgian
- Wall Street Journal
- West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (The West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive includes six newspaper titles published in five west Georgia cities (Butler, Carrollton, Dallas, Douglasville, LaGrange) from 1843 to 1942.)
Online Databases:
(Passwords available at the Circulation Desk)
This section of resources is also available on the Student Resources Page; however, most databases also provide helpful teacher curriculum resources.
Other Online Resources:
(Passwords available at the Circulation Desk)
This section of resources is also available on the Student Resources Page; however, most databases also provide helpful teacher curriculum resources.
- Britannica High School Online Encyclopedia - Online home to Encyclopedia Britannica for high school students. This site contains articles, pictures, videos, and so much more to help with your research on almost any topic. This is a great place to start your research. It also has a student section with research and presentation tips.
- Galileo - GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. GALILEO is an online library portal to authoritative, subscription-only information that is not available through free search engines or Web directories.
- Gale's Global Issues in Context - NEW! Global Issues in Context is a reference database containing news, perspectives, reference materials, primary source documents, audio, video, statistics, and more you can use to analyze and understand the most important issues in the world today.
- Gale's Science In Context: NEW! Science in Context is a reference database containing news, perspectives, reference materials, primary source documents, audio, video, statistics, and more you can use to analyze and understand the most important issues in the Scientific world today.
- Gale's Novels for Students - Gale's Novels for Students is an online collection of the Gale's Novels for Students print volumes. Each volume contains articles discussing the literary and historical significance of 12 to 14 major novels from various cultures and time periods. Each volume includes synopses of plot, characters and themes and much more.
- Literary Reference Center - The Literary Reference Center is a full-text database of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames to help provide a foundation of literary reference works to meet your research needs.
- NoveList - NoveList is a database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. If you are searching for a book to read, this is the tool for you.
- SIRS Issues Researcher - SIRS Issues Researcher is an online database of resources to help understand both sides of an issue by offering relevant, credible resources on major issues and world conflicts of the day. Use SIRS Issues Researcher for background information and analysis for over three-hundred current and pervasive issues.
- Student Reference Center - The Student Reference Center is a database provided by EBSCOhost with information and full-text resources on a variety of topics ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.
Other Online Resources:
- Excellent Wiki of Online Tools for Teachers
- Class Dojo - Class Dojo is a free, online classroom tool to help encourage positive student behaviors and discourage negative behaviors.
- Discovery Streaming - Discovery Streaming is an online collection of over 125,000 multimedia components aligning to your curriculum. See Mrs. Holloway for help registering for this service. Aligned teacher resources are also available.
- Kahoot - Utilize student devices as a classroom response system and create a fun game-like quiz online to review topics with students.
- Khan Academy - The Khan Academy is an online collection of free, academic videos covering math and science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, finance, computing, history and much more. For a complete listing of course offerings, visit https://www.khanacademy.org/library.
- PollDaddy - PollDaddy allows you to create surveys and polls easily for free and online. Once created, polls can be customized and embedded into blogs, wikis, websites.
- Schoology - Schoology provides an online learning management system for schools. Teachers can create, manage, and share academic content.
- Socrative - Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
- TED - TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design and is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short talks (18 minutes or less). TED talk videos cover a wide range of topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.
- USA Test Prep - Create an account and assign practice materials to help prepare students for end-of-course tests.
- Vocabulary Strategies
Great teacher tools for assessment from our "Lunch & Learn." There is an entire section on this website for the "Lunch and Learns" offered this school year.