Some more sites with royalty-free images for school projects:
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/
http://www.veezzle.com/
http://www.behold.cc/
http://www.infotopia.info/images.html

Mr. Brown's Budget Project for Economics Class:

Careercruising:  http://careercruising.com/
NY Health Insurance:  http://www.ins.state.ny.us/ihmoindx.htm
Wages by area and occupation:  http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm#NY
Cost of living calculator:  http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=35000&city1=27460&2=20620
Tax calculator:  http://www.paycheckcity.com/netpaycalc/netpaycalculator.asp
Groceries: create your list for shopping:  http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HomepageView?storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&langId=-1&clear=true
CraigsList:  http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html

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Try this exercise for an idea of the real costs associated with living on your own:
Reality Check: http://www.californiarealitycheck.com/start.htm

Mr. Brown's Economics Class:

The Stock Market Game!   http://www.stockmarketgame.org/

log in with your team log-in and password

Other sites to use for information on stocks and investing:

http://www.stockwatch.com/  provides information without any ads
http://money.cnn.com/    massive amounts of information on all aspects of the markets
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/contents.html  online version of the investment magazine
http://finance.yahoo.com/  free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources

Access this URL for Mr. Devine's/Ms. Maine's class:

http://www.geogebra.org/cms/

Online Southwestern High School library catalog:
Alexandria Researcher

Ms. Beichner's To Kill A Mockingbird newspaper project

These are some recommended sites to use for locating the information you need:

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=to+-371

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/century/1930s.htm  Highlights from the 1930's

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html  The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. This site is a sampling of these interviews.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html  Interview: Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s

The Great Depression and the New Deal http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro01.html

Read about the Federal Works Progress Administration started by the federal government during the Depression.

Pictures from the American Memory Collection:  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

SWHS databases: teachingbooks.net, General OneFile, World Book Advanced

Mrs. Tilaro's Infectious Diseases class research sites:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Viruses.html
http://epidemic.org/theFacts/viruses/
http://www.medicinenet.com/hepatitis_c/article.htm
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/