EXTERNAL WEB SITE LINKS WITHIN SCHOOL MESSENGER: Many web pages contained within the GVMS web site, including but not limited to class pages and side button links, include links to web sites external to Prince William County Schools Network.  These pages, which are not affiliated with PWCS, may not reflect the views and/or opinions of PWCS.  Prince William County Schools does not control the content of such web sites and does not sponsor nor endorse any messages, products, or services contained on such web sites.

Hero Dogs of 9/11

BrainPOP is an educational program, providing content spanning 7 main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts and Music, and Technology. See a librarian for the username and password.

Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service. This site contains thousands of streaming online videos that can be downloaded or played directly onto Smart Boards. See a librarian for the username and password.

 

Online Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
• The Free Dictionary
• Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary: Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

 

Online Newspapers

• Chicago Tribune 
• Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers provides links to newspapers in the United States and around the world.
• Los Angeles Times 
• New York Times 
• Times Topics Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published in the New York Times on a wide variety of topics.
•  Newseum: Today’s Front Pages
• Washington Post 
• Washington Times 
• World Newspapers and Magazines provides links to world newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, sorted by country and region.

 

Search Engines

Try one of these search engines instead of Google.

• Dewey Browse Web Sites provides links to sites classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12.  
• Duck Duck Go is a general purpose search engine like Google or Bing but without the spam and clutter (web sites that have lots of advertising are banned!). 
• IPL2 is a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected websites.
• KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results! 

 

 Research Product Ideas

• Animoto - Make and share videos
• Audacity - Free audio editor and recorder
• Create Your Own Comic Strip -Make a comic strip or book
• Fakebook - Facebook-inspired template
• Fifty Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/ Book Report & Tell Your Story - Alternate research products
  
• Glogster - Design an interactive poster, or "graphics blog," with text, images, audio and video
• Jing - Gives you the basic tools to share short videos
• New Tools - Tips and links to help you make blogs, presentations, infographics and more!
  
• Photostory - Create a slideshow with this Microsoft download
• Prezi - Online Presentation Tool
  
  

For Book Lovers

• My Next Read is a Symbaloo full of websites to find your next book.
• A Book and a Hug helps you figure out your "reading personality" and find a book to read!  
• Juvenile Series & Sequels database contains over 28,000 books in 3,700 series titles classified into 3 audiences: juvenile easy (birth to 2nd grade), juvenile (2nd to 6th grade) and young adult (6th to 12th grade).
• Read Kiddo Read provides reading suggestions from author James Patterson.
• Virginia Readers Choice provides information about the books chosen on this year's reading list.
• What's Next: Books in Series Database helps you search series fiction.

• Brashares, Ann: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series  
• Cabot, Meg: Princess Diaries, Avalon High and Airhead series
• Collins, Suzanne: Hunger Games and Gregor the Overlander series  
• Flanagan, John: Ranger's Apprentice series    
• Kinney, Jeff: Diary of a Wimpy Kid series   
• Patterson, James: Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Angel, and Witch & Wizard series     
• Rand, Johnathan: American Chillers & Michigan Chillers series   
• Riordan, Rick: Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus & Kane Chronicles series        
• Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter series
   

 

 

Free Rice: Play a game that tests your vocabulary skills and win rice for starving people!   
Fun Brain 
Make-a-flake 
Order in the Library!
Spelling Match Game 
Wimpy Bells 

SOL Review

English

Grade 7 Reading Online Test (2003)

Grade 7 Reading Online Test (2006)

SOL Tutorial Sites from Wise County
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Math

J-Lab Math SOL Practice Tests

SOL Interactive Practice Test from Wise County

SOL Tutorial Sites from Wise County
 

Science

J-Lab Science SOL Practice Tests

SOL Pass covers science for grades 6-8.

SOL Interactive Practice Test from Wise County

SOL Tutorial Sites from Wise County
 

Social Studies

Civics 2007 Released SOL Test

SOL Pass covers U.S. history to 1877, U.S. history from 1877 to present, civics and economics for grades 6-8.

U.S. & Virginia SOL Resources from Rockingham County