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Ms. Kathleen Menake
Social Studies | CITVC Teacher
Passaic Valley Regional High School
100 East Main Street
Little Falls, New Jersey 07424
E-mail: pvkmenake@yahoo.com
Phone: (973)890-2500 ext. 3049
Fax:(973) 890-0512
(please put Attention: Kathleen Menake) |
Mr. Matthew Conforth
Director of Educational Technology
Passaic Valley Regional High School
100 East Main Street
Little Falls, New Jersey 07424
E-mail: pvmconforth@yahoo.com
Phone: (973) 890-2500 ext. 2541
Fax: (973) 890-0512
(please put Attention: Matthew Conforth) |
www.pvhs.k12.nj.us - Our school's website
www.news.bbc.co.uk - United Kingdom and international news headlines. Contains video and audio webcasts, forums, and in-depth articles
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice - international news, analysis and information from the BBC World Service
www.bigpicturesmallworld.com - BigPictureSmallWorld provides programs for high schools, colleges, and organizations bringing the big picture into sharp focus, inspiring people to impact
www.worldpublicopinion.org - is an international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues.
www.studentnewsdaily.com-- this website provides free current events resources for the classroom, specifically geared towards high school students.
www.ipl.org - The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, Etc...
www.nytimes.com/learning - The New York Times Learning Network is an online current and special events news site for grades 3-12; updated weekdays during the school year
www.un.org - The United Nations website, a global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, security, economic development, and social equity
www.FactCheck.org - this is a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
www.opr.princeton.edu/popclock - The World Population Clock by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.
http://pulitzercenter.org - The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an organization "dedicated to supporting the independent international journalism that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less able to undertake. The Center focuses on under-reported topics, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences."
www.europa.eu - provides an access to information (press releases, legislation, fact-sheets) published by the European Union and its institutions
www.globalization101.org - managed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serves as an informative space for those interested in learning more about changes in the world
www.imf.org - website of the International Monetary Fund which fosters economic growth through international monetary cooperation and temporary financial assistance
www.thinkfinity.org - is Verizon Foundation's comprehensive program and online portal that provides teachers, students, and parents with easy access to an ever-expanding collection of free educational resources, ranging from low-tech to high-tech
www.census.gov - US Census Bureau
www.economist.com - weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion
www.sacmeq.org/statplanet - StatPlanet includes the latest demographic, education, environment, health and socio-economic indicators as current as possible, for more than 200 countries.
www.loc.gov - The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with a large website to go along with it. CITVC uses the Global Gateway page because of its in-depth links to global information and international issues.
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Top_News/photos/1/grid - Daylife is a content gatherer from multiple news sources. It is an excellent visual news site.
http://www.ted.com - Technology, Environment, Design. TED Talks has the brightest minds in those fields, each given twenty minutes to speak about what it is they do. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm - The Population Division of the UN monitors and appraises all areas in the field of population; for example, to check out a country's population growth from 1950 to its projected growth in 2050, click here