SCHS Tutoring
- Math tutoring: All teachers in the Mathematics Department help outside of class time. Please consult your student’s teacher via syllabus, website, or email to find out what time(s) s/he is available.
Longmont Public Library Tutoring
- If a student grades 1st-12th needs help with any class they offer free tutoring every Wednesday evening from 5:30-7:30. Just show up!
- If a student is interested in getting volunteer hours and being a tutor for them they can email Elektra Greer to set up a time to talk to her about tutoring with them. Her email address is: [email protected]
Silver Creek HS Library Resources
For-profit tutoring
Many families have located excellent college-age tutors by posting jobs on:
- http://www.colorado.edu/studentemployment/post-job
- http://www.universitytutor.com/
- https://www.wyzant.com/Longmont_tutors.aspx
Math Resources
- Regents Exam Prep Center – A NY High School Test Prep site for math, science & history
- Math Bits – Live long and love math
- WolframAlpha – A fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers
- Education Portal – College Algebra – Very useful college level algebra video series
- Desmos – Free online graphing calculator (iPad app available)
- Khan Academy – 4,500 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice.
- Algebra Review – Offers 10 comprehensive tutorials on radicals and exponents, solving equations and inequalities, functions and first degree curves, and more.
- Cool Math – Algebra 1 students. This site has games, lessons, and resources for solving equations, graphing, etc.
- SOS Mathematics – A free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations.
- Ask Dr. Math – a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic.
English Resources
- The Online Writing Lab (OWL)– The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University is a great resource for students.
- EasyBib – The Automatic Bibliography and Citation Generator
- Turnitin – Turnitin improves the student writing cycle by preventing plagiarism and providing rich feedback to students.
- AP Central – The official AP College Board website. Excellent resources for AP classes.
- What Should I Read Next? – Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.
Social Studies Resources
- CIA World Factbook – The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
- BBC Online – The British Broadcasting Corporation
- New York Times
- I Like to Learn
Spanish Resources
- Pearson Prentice Hall – (Click here for the codes to enter on this website) The textbooks give the web codes that go with the activity that reinforces vocab, grammar, etc.
- Ms. Smits Spanish Resources – Follow the links listed under Blog Roll
- Conjuguemos – The site stores a large amount of practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by our users.
- Study Spanish – If you want to learn to speak Spanish, you’ve come to the right place.
- Spanish Language and Culture
- Word Reference– for Translations
French Resources
- TV5MONDE – the world’s French-language channel.
- Phosphore – French magazine
- Francais Interactif – French resources
- French 1 and 2 Resources – Traditional levels
- French 1, 2 & 3 Resources – Traditional
- Quizlet – For grammar and vocabulary, many short animations and explanations already exist on YouTube. Just google the topic in and choose!
- Conjuguemos – The site stores practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by our users.
- http://www.quia.com/
Science Resources
- Hyper Physics
- Physics Classroom
- PHET Interactive Simulations– Free online Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Earth Science simulations.
- www.dlese.org – for Earth Systems Science
- Companion Site for Environmental Science
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