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Family & Consumer Sciences |
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Helpful Links Table of
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Careers |
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Career Cruising |
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http://www.careercruising.com |
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This free site offers tests on careers, resume building, as well as career paths. |
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Illinois Work Net |
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http://www.illinoisworknet.com |
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A comphrehensive website providing information on job applications and resumes, job availability and wages in specific counties, and educational opportunities. |
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Clothing and Textiles |
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Clothing and Textiles Information |
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http://fabriclink.com |
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This website has information on textiles careers, fabric care, current articles on green technology, and much more. |
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Cornell Costume Collection |
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http://char.txa.cornell.edu/treasures/index.html |
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Wonderful historical 19 and 20th century costume collection |
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Custom Apparel Pattern Drafting Software |
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http://www.wildginger.com |
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Free patterns for hospital gowns, U.S. troops draw bag, anti ouch pouch, and accessories. Information on an online Fashion Design class and custom fit patterns. |
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Embroidery Machine Website |
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http://www.secretsof.com |
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This site provides a wealth of information for the embroidery machine user. You can find projects, ideas, tutorials, designs, etc. Some free designs are available. |
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Free newsletters |
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http://newsletters.drgnetwork.com |
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Free online newsletters for sewing related projects. |
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History of Fashion and Dress |
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http://www.costumes.org |
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Free online class. Contains many videos on fashion thru the ages, as well as vintage clothing, costumes for sale, hats and millinery, and “free” stuff. A very comprehensive web site on costumes and fashion. |
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Sewing Projects for Charity |
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http://www.conkerrcancer.org |
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This website provides a pattern for making fun, uplifting pillowcases for young cancer victims. Click on “How to Help” at the top of the home page for complete directions. |
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Sewing Projects for Charity |
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http://www.sewing.org |
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A wonderful website for the secondary clothing teacher. This website has an abundance of ideas for simple sewing projects including charitable sewing ideas and home décor projects. |
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Entrepreneurship |
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Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education |
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http://www.entre-ed.org |
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Get tips for planning an entrepreneurship education curriculum, tap into resources, and find out about special events. |
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Generation E Institute |
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http://www.genei.org |
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This website offers training resources for educators interested in developing entrepreneurship programs. |
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Marketplace for Kids |
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http://www.marketplaceforkids.org |
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Learn more about the Marketplace program, and download learning guides and resources on a variety of topics including advertising, designing a web page, career exploration, and innovative thinking. |
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National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education |
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http://www.entre-ed.org/Standards_Toolkit/ |
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This resource is designed to provide educators with information about standards for developing curricula for entrepreneurship programs. |
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National Entrepreneurship Week |
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http://www.nationaleweek.org |
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The website includes plenty of creative ideas and resources for planning events to celebrate the week |
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NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation |
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http://www.nfib.com/tabid/85/default.aspx |
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The website includes a business simulation program, a supplemental entrepreneurship curriculum for the high school classroom, and other resources. |
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Foods |
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Betty Crocker |
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http://www.bettycrocker.com |
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This website offers numerous short cooking “How to” videos along with recipes. You will also find quick dinner recipes, cooking basics, microwave “rescues”, party themes and recipes, and lots more. |
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Food Safety |
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http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/educate.html |
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Lessons on food safety with excellent video and PowerPoint on food borne illnesses as they relate to pregnant women. |
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Food videos |
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http://www.startcooking.com |
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Excellent short videos on basic food cookery. |
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Institute of Food Technologists |
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http://www.ift.org |
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The education section contains food science music videos and power points as well as lessons and experiments. Click on “education, general education, video and media resources and food safety music site. |
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Rhodes Bread |
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http://www.rhodesbread.com |
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You will find recipes using frozen bread dough. If you click on recipes and then on sculpture, you will find great ideas on how to incorporate bread dough into interesting sculptures. Tommy the Turtle is a fun way to serve a veggie dip. This is also a good idea for extra credit for the student who enjoys “hands on” experiences. |
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Still Tasty - Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide |
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http://www.stilltasty.com/ |
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Are eggs still safe after the expiration date? Can you safely drink milk after the sell-by-date? Should you store bread on the counter or in the fridge? This site answers many of the questions you may have about whether to save or pitch. |
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The Food Time Line |
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http://www.foodtimeline.org/food2.html |
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A must website if you are looking for the history of food, food advertising lesson plans, menus, manners, food styling, etc. To access an interactive quiz on Portion Control, scroll down to Food Psychology and Consumer Satisfaction . Click on Portion Distortion. This website has a wide variety of lesson plans. |
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USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) |
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http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1&ta
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Great self guided programs showing information on labels. |
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Professional and Student Organizations |
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FCCLA Family Community and Career Leaders of America |
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http://www.fcclainc.org |
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Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. |
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IACTE Illinois Career and Technical Education |
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http://www.iacte.org/ |
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IACTE provides resources and services tailored to those who develop, deliver, and administer career and technical education. It is the professional organization for all career and technical educators in Illinois. A state wide conference is held every year. |
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IAFCS Illinois Association of Family and Consumer Sciences |
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http://www.castonline.ilstu.edu/iafcs/ |
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IAFCS is a non-profit professional organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of individual and family life. |
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IFACSTA Illinois Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Association |
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http://www.ifacsta.com |
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The mission of IFACSTA is to promote family and consumer sciences through education. |
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Illinois FCCLA Family Community and Career Leaders of America |
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http://www.ilfccla.org/ |
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This comprehensive website will provide information on affiliation and membership, meetings and conferences, programs and projects, and much more. |
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Resource Management |
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Consumer Jungle |
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http://www.consumerjungle.org/junglemambo/index.php?option=com_content&task
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Lessons and PowerPoints tied to the FCS National Standards on credit, buying cars, scams, wireless phones, buying computers, and independent living. |
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Family Economics and Financial Education (FEFE) |
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http://fefe.arizona.edu |
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This website provides FREE lessons, budget simulations and course outlines. There is also a section that contains 35 Active Learning Tools such as Bingo, The Game of Life, Personality Quadrant, and Financial Facts Feud. If you are teaching Consumer Economics, this website is a must. |
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Money Skills by Visa |
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http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com |
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This site contains lesson plans, worksheets, power points, etc. There are lessons that have been adapted for Special Needs Students. Materials were developed by VISA along with advisors from the financial and consumer education fields. There is a section on innovative educators that features “cutting edge” ideas from teachers across the country. |
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Teacher Resources |
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AAFCS Directory of Online Resources |
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http://www.aafcs.org/fcs/index.html |
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This Directory provides a comprehensive list of valuable resources in the area of Family & Consumer Sciences which directly corresponds to the 16 National Teaching Standards in the discipline.
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About.com |
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http://www.about.com |
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A huge website that includes many sites on curriculum, lesson planning etc. |
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Adobe Technology |
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http://www.adobe.com |
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Adobe has programs to convert files to PDF, create web pages, mix audio and video, etc. Many programs are free to preview. |
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CDWG |
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http://www.cdwg.com |
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A good website for LCD projectors
Click on hardware and then to projectors. Have it sort them by price.
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Digital Wish |
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http://www.Digitalwish.com |
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This website has an excellent powerpoint on how to write grants. It also has information on types of grants that are available to schools/teachers. Note the Target grant for field trips. Up to $700. Deadline September 30, 2010. |
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Donors Choose |
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http://www.donorschoose.org |
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This website provides teachers with supplies for their classrooms. You will be asked to develop a project and justify your request. View the many projects that have been developed and funded. You will be surprised when you find out who is willing to fund your project. |
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Edutopia |
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http://www.edutopia.org/ten-top-tips |
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This website lets you sign up for a new free resource: the PDF Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media. In this PDF, you will find videos, special reports, blogs, and much more. A great way to stay current in the rapidly changing field of technology. |
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Family and Consumer Sciences Resources |
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http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/ksd/kl/KLLibrary/fcsresources.html |
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Very comprehensive site for Family and Consumer Sciences resources |
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Family and Consumer Sciences Resources |
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http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/facs.htm |
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This is a very comprehensive site. You will find many powerpoint presentations and activities in the areas of Child Development, Interior Design, Foods, Clothing and Textiles, Etiquette, Financial Literacy, and Understanding Yourself and Your Family, etc. You will want to spend several hours navigating this site. |
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FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES RESOURCES ONLINE |
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http://members.tripod.com/~kburge/fcs.html |
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Information on grants, free software, lesson plans etc. in all areas of FCS |
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Food Science & Technology Department |
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http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/ |
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Food Safety Music Website that features Dr. Carl Winter's hilarious and educational food safety music parodies.
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Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators |
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http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/vocation.html |
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A website with links for consumer education, fashion, foods, housing, careers, etc. There is a good interactive section on maintaining your checking account. |
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Linda Walker’s Bookmarks on Delicious |
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http://delicious.com/lwalkerioes |
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I have shared my bookmarks on Web 2.0 Technology including Skype, Delicious, embedding You Tube videos in power points and Twitter. This information was used in the 2009 FCS Fall Update Sessions. |
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LOOKING FOR GAMES? |
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http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/Cardboard/Matrix.html |
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A great site for educational games which you can devise for your students. |
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Optical Illusions and Brain Teasers |
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http://www.sightsavers.org/who%20we%20are/interactive/optical%20illusions/1
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Optical illusions have fascinated people for thousands of years, but what exactly are they? |
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Wise Geek |
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http://www.wisegeek.com |
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This website answers short questions about a wide variety of topics. Find out how much you and your students DO or DON’T know about a topic. |
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www.khake.com |
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http://www.khake.com |
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This site is a vocational information center. Find an abundance of information about careers. |
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Test Preparation |
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March 2 Success |
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http://www.march2success.com |
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This website is free and offers an online opportunity for students to try testing with interactive corrective answers. Teachers can logon as “teacher” and record their students’ progress. Sections on English, Math, and Science are included. |
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