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Technology Resources
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For Social Studies courses:
Primary Source Investigator (PSI) Online
PSI Online allows students and teachers to easily explore hundreds of photographs, maps, documents, video and other primary sources. The content is searchable and can be organized by chapter, subject, place and period in history.
PSI Online Teacher Version adds instructor resources, like PowerPoint presentations, outline maps, book maps, CPS content and Faculty Guides with chapter overviews.
PSI is now available with: American History: A Survey (Brinkley), Nation of Nations (Davidson), The Unfinished Nation (Brinkley), History of the Modern World (Palmer), The Western Experience (Chambers), and Traditions and Encounters (Bentley).
For Science and Government courses:
ARIS (Assessment, Review and Instruction System)
ARIS is a complete online tutorial, electronic homework and course management system.
ARIS provides all teacher resources online, as well provides the ability to create or edit questions from the question bank, import content, and automatically grade and report easy-to-assign homework, quizzing, and testing.>
ARIS is available with most AP, Honors and Electives science programs and The American Democracy (Patterson).
For Anatomy and Physiology courses:
Anatomy & Physiology Revealed
A&P Revealed uses detailed cadaver photographs blended together with a state-of-the-art layering technique provide a uniquely interactive dissection experience.
A&P Revealed is available with Anatomy and Physiology programs.
For Chemistry Courses:
ChemSkill Builder
Online ChemSkill Builder is a robust web-based electronic homework and tutorial application with over 1500 algorithmically-generated questions for general chemistry. Online ChemSkill Builder allows instructors to easily assign algorithmically generated homework problems to students.
Visit the Online ChemSkill Builder site to purchase.
For Economics courses:
McGraw-Hill's Connect
Connect (formerly Homework Manager) is an online application containing the end-of-chapter material from your McGraw-Hill textbook. Instructors can create online based homework assignments for students, and Homework Manager will automatically grade them and provide feedback.
Connect is used in Economics.
For Literature:
ARIEL CD-ROM
ARIEL is an interactive CD-ROM featuring 28 interactive author casebooks (biographies, interactive texts, timelines, and bibliographies related to a single writer) and including a collection of readings of poems, dramatizations of stories, and brief video lectures by McGraw-Hill authors and other experts. Complete cross-references in the text indicate which authors are featured on ARIEL.
ARIEL is packaged with the Student Edition of Literature books.
For Language Arts courses:
Catalyst
Catalyst 2.0 is a collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help students improve their academic writing and research skills.
The online resources also include interactive tutorials, streaming video and audio, an integrated gradebook, instructor assignable learning activities, electronic writing tutors, a bibliomaker and more than 4,500 writing and grammar exercises.
Catalyst 2.0 is now available with: Literature programs, Rhetorics, and Readers.
For Math courses:
MathZone
MathZone is a complete, online tutorial and course management system for mathematics and statistics.
MathZone courses are designed for specific textbooks, but teachers can customize questions and algorithms, import content, create announcements and due dates for assignments. MathZone has automatic grading and reporting of easy-to-assign algorithmically generated homework, quizzing and testing.
ALEKS
ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs students on the topics they are most ready to learn.
For most courses
EZ Test
EZ Test allows teachers to create tests from book specific test banks and write their own questions. The software is available on CD-ROM or in newer programs exclusively online. With EZ Test Online, the test can be printed or given to students online.
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