Houston Independent School District
216 Tidwell
Houston, Texas 77022
(713) 696-2690
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Houston Independent School District
216 Tidwell |
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ABC-Clio is a Social Studies resource with three separate databases: World Geography, World History and American History. |
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The AP Photo Archive contains over 500,000 photos from the library of the Associated Press, covering dates from the mid-19th century to date. The archive is searchable by date, topic, and location, as well as, 71 concepts. |
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BigChalk is a periodical resource of articles suitable for schools from hundreds of newspapers, magazines, books, pictures, maps, radio & TV transcripts. |
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CountryWatch has a vast amount of up-to-date political, geographic, and economic information on 192 countries accompanied by maps and data charts as well as a currency converter. In addition, CountryWatch provides the five latest news stories relating to each country. |
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EasyTech is a web-based technology integration system that encourages computer lab teachers and classroom teachers to adopt the use of technology in the lab/classroom while providing essential technology skills for K-5 students. Please contact Elizabeth Perrin for school username and password. |
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ExecuTrain Virtual Campus brings you a full-service, web-based educational program. Courses are available for Foundations Certification (Outlook 98 or XP, Intro to Windows 98, XP or Mac OS9, Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and Word 97 or XP) as well as, PowerPoint, Excel and Access. |
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Grolier Online is a collection of seven encyclopedias ranging from general purpose, elementary, high school, Spanish, science, countries, states and continents, American states and national parks. |
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Nettrekker is a search engine that organizes web sites around the K-12 curricula. All sites are evaluated for academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Resources are aligned with the state standards with 18,000 lesson plans and learning exercises. |
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Turnitin.com is a resource for middle and high school teachers concerned with academic integrity of student work. The primary focus of this service is to prevent plagiarism. Call or contact Debbie Hall at 713-861-1204 or email dhall1@houstonisd.org to obtain School ID# and usage information. |
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Wilson Web is an educational resource for professional educators with professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to education. |
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WorldBook Online is a collection of magazine articles, pictures and video clips, an Atlas and Dictionary and tools for use in teaching research papers. |
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Product Title |
Description | Grade Level | Subject-Grade Level |
| Accelerated Reader |
Reading Incentive |
K-8 |
Reading |
| HyperStudio 4.1 | Multimedia Authoring | 3-12 | All Subjects |
| Inspiration 6.0 | Planning Software | 6-12 | All Subjects |
| KidPix Studio Deluxe | Multimedia Authoring | K-5 | All Subjects |
| Kidspiration | Planning Software | K-5 | All Subjects |
| Larson's Middle School Math | Math Practice | 6-8 | Math |
| Making the Grade | Gradebook program | K-12 | All Subjects |
| MovieWorks | Multimedia Authoring | K-12 | All Subjects |
| Neufeld Understanding Math | Math/Algebra Project | 6-8 | Math |
| STAR Reading | Test software for student reading | K-12 | Reading |
| STAR Math | Test software for student math | K-12 | Math |
| Sibelius | Music Authoring, Performance software | K-12 | All Subjects |
| TimeLiner 5.0 | Timelines, sequencing | K-12 | All Subjects |
| Type to Learn | Typing Practice | K-5 | All Subjects |
| Watch Me! Read | Reading Practice | 1st Grade | Reading |