For a quick reference point to high school academic assistance try High School Ace - The Academic Homepage for High School Students.

Want to know how to avoid plagiarism?  See what advice and suggestions Perdue University provides for its students.

   The DISCUS Reference Library is part of the DISCUS Project of the South Carolina State Library which provides reference materials for student and staff use.  To use the following links from home (a login name and password are required and can be obtained from one of your media specialists).  Be sure to enter the password in lower case letters, NOT in capital letters.  The password will change in August of each year.   
     InfoTrac K-12, 9 databases of magazine and journal articles which makes up one part of the DISCUS project available at school and at home for students and teachers to use.  
     SIRS Discoverer is also available from home!  If you haven't used any of the Social Issues Research Series before, you will definitely want to learn more about it by taking a little time and exploring all that it has to offer that will help you begin your research.   
     SIRS Knowledge Source provides wide ranging coverage of our world through 4 different databases that provide an amazing amount of information on countries, current events, government, history, arts and humanities and much, much more. 

When you need to find something out about a famous person's life go to A&E's web site:  Biography.com.  

The Internet Public Library and Awesomelibrary.org has a comprehensive online library of resources for teens, parents and teachers.

Looking for Information on the Ancient Gods and Goddesses?   Try these sites:

Greek Mythology                         Roman Mythology

Ancient Greece                              Ancient Rome

Greek & Roman Mythology

NAHS has purchased this SAT course to help our students prepare for the SAT.  Use it to help you prepare.

For additional help in getting ready for the SAT, go to the SAT Study Guide web site.

Worried about how you'll do on the SAT test?  The New York Times has a different question posted daily to help you stay in practice.  Visit them daily.   

Occupational Outlook Handbook compiled by the U. S. Department of Labor provides up-to-date information about careers.  

Collegerecruiting.com 
Connects high school students with the right colleges based on academic, personal, extracurricular and financial needs and abilities. 
  
Students.gov 
This site provides information on everything from scholarships and loans with a rating system, to career development and opportunities to volunteer. It’s targeted to college students or those planning to attend college. 

The Wiredscholar contains information and interactive tools to assist students, parents and guidance professionals with college preparation, evaluation, selection, application and financing. And if you're big on honors, this site was also recently named in the college-planning category of Forbes.com's "Best of the Web." 

English / Language Arts

For literary criticisms visit the Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection which contains 4699 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.  

Want guidance through the whole literary criticism paper process?  The IPL has that, too. Check out the information listed on their Pathfinders page.

Need help documenting your sources according to MLA style?  Visit this site  to see samples of many different types of resources.  

Easybib.com (FREE service of MLA. This site automatically creates bibliographies for you in either MLA or APA style. Users have the option of saving bibliographies for future use.)

Read for the fun of it!  Be sure to look for the SC Young Adult Book Award titles in the Library and enjoy some of the newest and best written for high school students today.  Here's the list of this years' books.  

Spanish classes might want to look at these web sites for more information about Spanish speaking countries:

Want to stay up-to-date with the news?  Are Current Events what you need?  Keep up with everything at the N Y Times.

EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.  Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads.

Need information about American political parties?  Politics 1 has an alphabetical list of them all, leading with the 2 main parties, the Republican and Democratic Parties.

The Library of Congress' Country Studies site includes cultural details, values and issues of each country, or you might link to the CIA World Factbook to learn more about other countries.  Geographia Homepage also offers in-depth destination guides to over 75 countries. 

Need stuff about one of the 50 States?  Here's a place that "provides links to state home pages, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds flowers, trees, etc."   

If you want to learn more about a particular world city you might try one of these sites:  Cities.com  or  Officialcitysites.org or About.com's pages on cities of the world.  

Ever wondered how people who lived through historical events felt and thought at the time? Visit Eyewitness - a web site with short essays on such events with perspectives from folks who were actually there, such as survivors' accounts of the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
   
Curious about what has happened on this date in history?  One place to find out is at Today in History.  There you can not only learn what happened, but go on to investigate further by clicking on the additional links provided.   

Social Studies Links 
 
 

Having trouble understanding and finding different polygons? Try this site or you could go to the Encyclopedia of Polyhedra and learn all about them and how they got their names. 

Need help and there's not a teacher in sight?  You can e-mail your math questions and be helped by tutors with extensive teaching experience at either of these web sites:   
Gomath.com or Professor Freedman's Math Help  

Just want to find out more about math at the middle school level and above?  Try the Geometry.net for a comprehensive search engine on mathematics.  If parents want to learn more so they can help, check out the parent's page at Math.com.   

Another site with a wide variety of science resources fro students & teachers is the Science Niche.  Check it out!

Web Elements is one of the most up-to-date and complete periodic tables on the Web. Mark Winter of University of Sheffield manages this interactive table. A click on any element leads users to comprehensive data information about that element.   
   
Scientific American magazine has an extensive search engine to help find the latest information in the sciences 

Fascinated by Sea mammals? 
Here's a site to increase your knowledge about the marine environment as a critical link to the survival and health of all life. 

In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st century: the truth about global warming. 

Here's one to help you in all science areas--Searching the Sciences, which lists a variety of web sites that will be useful.

For a visual treat and lots of information about fine art and artists visit these online galleries: The National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.  
     The Louvre Museum in France,   
         The Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to Art of the Ancient World is an interactive journey through the collection of ancient art at The Art Institute of Chicago. This Web site takes you on an expedition to the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Italy using eighteen objects from the museum's distinguished collection. 

has lots of interesting links to help you learn more about how to draw as well as examples of other artists' works.