Showing posts with label American government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American government. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Best Places for Legal Info

These sites are some of the best online information on past and current legal cases in the United States, specifically Supreme Court Cases

  • Federal Legal Information Through Electronics (FLITE) - Supreme Court Decisions - More than 7,000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports. Search by case or by keyword.
  • FindLaw: Supreme Court Center - Guide to historic documents, biographies, Supreme Court decisions, and constitutional law topics.
  • Jurist - U.S. Supreme Court Site - Contains scholarly articles and news pertaining to the Supreme Court, plus links to similar sites.
  • Law.com - U.S. Supreme Court Monitor - Features current news, summaries of decisions, and information on upcoming cases.
  • On the Docket - Includes a current listing of pending cases, dates for scheduled oral arguments, the questions presented to the Court and citations for the lower court opinions. From Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
  • Oyez - Database on major constitutional cases heard by the United States Supreme Court, with multimedia resources including digital audio of oral arguments and delivery of the Court's opinion.
  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - National organization advocating individual rights, by litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States. Position papers, updates on legislation, how to obtain legal advice.
  • Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles: http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummary/index.asp

Friday, January 15, 2010

New U.S. Government textbook is online

The full text of the Prentice Hall American Government textbook is online and accessible to all students at Granada. Just click on this link: https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp.


Your login is your Gaggle username (first initial of first name followed by your student ID number). The password is exactly the same as your password for Hotmath. Just check your Gaggle email for all the logins and passcodes for our databases.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

HippoCampus: Homework Help in Math, Science, and Social Studies


Hippo Campus is an online study center for students and a professional development resource for teachers from the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education. Teachers in specific subject areas can create individual teacher pages that allow students to access narrated presentations on topics related to each subject area.

Web URL: http://www.hippocampus.org/ 

HippoCampus offers lessons, standards, topic outlines and tutorial support at college preparation and AP levels for...
  • Algebra I
  • American Government
  • Biology
  • Calculus
  • Environmental Science
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Statistics
  • U.S. History

Thursday, September 11, 2008

American Government


Student Companion Site to MacGruder's American Government by William A. McClenaghan, 2002, California edition