Information Commons

All-Music Guide - Comprehensive guide to all types of popular music and musicians.

American Museum of Photography - A virtual museum with photographic exhibitions, a “masterworks” gallery with images from famous artists, and links to a variety of other “photo” sites.

Art Institute of Chicago - Includes virtual collections, materials to aid teachers of art, news about the museum, libraries, and the School of the Art Institute.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - An excellent site including over 3500 digital images, interactive art projects, information about a variety of art history subjects, activity programs for art teachers, and an annotated guide to web sites in the arts.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Provides information about the collections, exhibitions, and activities at Chicago's modern art museum.

ERIC - Site of the Educational Resources Information Center, which provides education information to teachers, librarians, administrators, parents, and others throughout the world.

Academy of American Poets - Searchable database of the works of selected major poets from around the world.

Encyclopedia Mythica - Extensive encyclopedia dealing with mythology and folklore from around the world.

Online Medieval & Classical Library - A thorough site with texts of and links to texts of medieval writing; includes links to the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies and The Labyrinth a helpful guide for students and teachers in the field.

50 States and Capitals

Country Studies/Area Handbook

National Women's History Museum Biographies - The site has biographies of women writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, civil rights crusaders, doctors, artists, entertainers, and more.

Gilder Lehman Institute of American History

National Inventors Hall of Fame

State Dept. Background Notes - Background Notes provides information on countries and international organizations. (NOTE: This information is not currently being updated.)

World Factbook - Current statistics and profiles of countries throughout the world.

Spanish - Learn It Online

AMC 10/12 Questions and Solutions - Questions and Solutions for those who are taking the AMC 10/12 exam, typically held in November.

EnviroLink Network - Provides access to sites dealing with the environmental sciences.

How Stuff Works - Articles describing how common “stuff” such as car engines, modems, etc. actually work.

Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics website with sample questions that our MathCats compete in at Regional and State tournaments.

North Suburban Math League - A website containing information regarding the math league that our MathCats participates in.

Web Elements - A very comprehensive site detailing the periodic table.

The World of Mathematics - Extensive interactive mathematics encyclopedia with over 8,880 entries.

The Theology Library - Comprehensive Catholic site with over 5,100 links to information about the Catholic Church, Saints, social justice issues, scripture, revelations, liturgy, theology, evangelization, official Church documents and doctrine, and other world religions.

The Vatican - the Vatican’s official site.

Virtual Religion Index - A comprehensive list of annotated links relating to religions, and biographical information on a number of holy persons and saints.