• The Discovery Channel is a great place to go for beautifully produced interactive online resources for science topics like volcanoes and weapons and much more. Discovery’s cable shows are also online at this site including our house’s fave, Mythbusters.
• Essay Writing Center has guidelines for, well, essay writing. You’ll find the Basics, Writing Guides, and every Essay Type you can imagine. It’s aimed at college level but can easily be used for secondary grades.
• Merriam Webster’s Visual Dictionary Online contains 6,000 color images linked to 20,000 terms arranged in themes to help you find that doodad thingy and figure out what it’s called. The Game of the Week is a fun vocabulary builder. (HT: Lifehacker) The OneLook Reverse Dictionary lets you enter a definition to find the word you’re looking for.
• What the World Eats, a three-part Time Magazine Photo Essay that presents families from around the world and what’s on their dinner table and their weekly budget. Photos are from the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
• Algebasics provides online Algebra tutorials in flash with audio. Example problems and concepts are organized so you can find the exact type of problem for review. Very handy.

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