School
- La Canada High School IRC
- La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation
- LCHS Music Department
- La Canada Unified School District
- Spartan Boosters
- La Canada Teachers Association
- California School Library Association
- Great Schools: LCHS Profile
Community
- Assistance
League of Flintridge
(summer school, drama) - Community Prevention Council
- Crescenta-Caņada YMCA
- La Canada Flintridge (City Website)
- La Caņada Flintridge Public Library
- La Caņada Valley Sun
- Roger Barkley Community Center
- Small Book of Big Issues
College Admissions Information
Articles of Interest
- "Preventing Perfectionism in Children" by Joan Franklin Smutny (National PTA website)
- "A Nation of Wimps" in Nov./Dec., 2004 issue of Psychology Today
- Bullying Article by Dr. Roy Mayer. As seen in Feb. 18, 2005 Intercom.
- "What Teachers Hate About Parents" article in Feb. 21, 2005 issue of Time Magazine.
- Backpack Article From WebMD
- CNN
Money Best Places to Live:
La Canada Flintridge - Disaster Preparedness Checklist from RedCross.org
Education
The following sites were referred to by Kevin Buchanan at the 2/05 PTA meeting:
Sports
Movie Reviews
- Kids-In-Mind
- Plugged In Online
- Grading the Movies
- Screenit.com
- Film Values
- NY Times Family Movie Guide
- Teach With Movies
Other Links
- California State PTA
- CA State PTA - Advocacy
- Child & Family
Web Guide
(parenting resources,
compiled by Tufts University) - EdSource Online (CA Education Issues)
- Ethics Project
- Families First's Ten Resolutions for Parents
- Family Watchdog (see where offenders live near you)
- FlyLady.com (organizing)
- GoCityKids (travel)
- No Name Calling Week
- Super Size Me
- Roadmap to Healthy Foods in Schools
Homework Help
Almanacs
- AlternaTime
- CIA World Factbook
- Daily Almanacs
- Earth Calendar
- Infoplease.com
- Time and Date
- World Flag Database
- World Time Server
Biographies
- Biographical Dictionary
- Britannica Biographies
- Infoplease Biography Search
- Forbes.com People Tracker
- Twentieth Century Authors
Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- American Heritage Dictionary
- British National Corpus
- Encarta World English Dictionary
- Idiom Connection
- Lexicool
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Synonym Dictionary
Encyclopedias
- Encarta Encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia Mythica (Myth/Folklore)
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- Artcyclopedia (Artists/Artwork)
- Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Mathematics Encyclopedia
- McGraw-Hill Science Encyclopedia
- Hyperhistory Online
- Encyclopedia of Psychology
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
General Research
- Academic Info Reference Desk
- Best Info on the Net Reference
- DeskRef
- Digital Librarian
- Infomine
- KnowPlay
- LibDex
- Librarian’s Index to the Internet
- LibrarySpot
- Martindale’s Reference Desk
- Merlot
- RefDesk.com
- Reference Collection at Bartleby.com
- ReferenceDesk.org
- Research It
- Search-It-All
- Virtual Reference Collection
- Virtual Reference Desk
- Xrefer
- World eBook Library
Journal Article Databases
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- PubMed Central
- Highwire Press
- Google Scholar
- MSN Live Academic
- Sage Publications
- Action BioScience
- Public Library of Science
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- Oaister
- Academic Database List
Literature
- Bartleby.com
- Cliff’s Notes
- Gutenberg Project
- Internet Public Library
- Literary Criticism
- Literature.org
- Norton Anthology of English Literature
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Shakespeare - The Complete Works
- Sparks Notes - Literature Study Guides
Social & Economic Issues
- DocuTicker
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Pew Research Center
- RAND Corporation
- Urban Institute
Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Economy at a Glance
- U.S. Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- U.S. Census Bureau
- FedStats
- NetFactual (Internet Statistics)
- Statistics - Government Documents
Style Manuals
- American Heritage Book of English Usage
- A Guide for Writing Research Papers - MLA
- Strunk’s Elements of Style
- Yale Web Style Guide
- APA Cheat Sheets
Yearbooks
- Calendar Zone
- Today’s Calendar
- UNESCO Statistical Yearbook
- UK 2002 Official Yearbook
- Yearbook of Experts & Authorities
Miscellaneous
