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High School Students: Resources by Subject

Art

Art Research Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

Google Arts and Culture (Free): Google Arts and Culture offers free access to visual artwork, musical, dance and theatre performances. In addition, students can virtually visit museums, performance spaces and theatres or search by theme, and zoom in on arts work.

Music, Performing Arts, Art and Architecture Library of Congress Online Collections (6-12, Free)

Sciences

Brooklyn College Library Research Guides: Biology, ChemistryEarth & Environmental Sciences, Physics, Psychology

Molecular Workbench: Free, open source modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science.

PhET Interactive Simulations: The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research, and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

Chem Collective Virtual Labs: The Virtual Lab is an online simulation of a chemistry lab. It is designed to help students link chemical computations with authentic laboratory chemistry. The lab allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents (aqueous) and manipulate them in a manner resembling a real lab.

Computer Science

Computer Science Research Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

Test Preparation

Test Preparation Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

 

English

English Research Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

 

Math

Math Research Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

eMath Instruction: eMath Instruction offers an asynchronous online curriculum for the high school courses of Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and Algebra II + Trigonometry. Each instruction course consists of video lessons and homework sets. These resources are available for free download (except for answer keys) on each course page. For each lesson there is a full length (15-30 minute) YouTube video.

Social Studies

History Research Guide (Brooklyn College Library)

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): DPLA provides access to Primary Source Sets that explore topics in history, literature, and culture. These sets were developed by educators and include teaching guides. DPLA also provides access to a collection of free e-books.