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Web Sites of Interest to Educators
- 21st Century Teachers Web Site
- 21st Century Teachers is a joint undertaking by several leading education organizations to encourage, recognize, and support educators who are developing skills in new technologies and using them in innovative ways withå students and colleagues.
- 58th Best Pictures of the Year
- A Space Library
- Abcteach
- A quality educational site offering FREE printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms, ideas, lessons and much more. Teachers who like creative ways to teach, check out the NEW, abcTeach. A Must See!
- About - Education
- About Education Channel at About (formerly About.com) is a collection of "vertical niche sites" on topics such as distance learning, financial aid/scholarships, grad school admissions, and vo-tech education.
- Adventure Online
- Lesson plans and materials for a variety of adventures all over the world.
- AEL-Appalachian Educational Laboratory
- Specialty area: Rural Education
- Alexandria Library
- All About Writing! Learn how to write well
- Almanac Source Fact Monster's Almanac Search
- Easy way to get answers to almanac questions.
- American Studies Electronic Crossroads
- Anthems, Flags, Maps and the Nations of the World
- A site dedicated to increasing cultural awareness through links to information about countries and their peoples, and opportunities to hear their national anthems.
- Around the world in 80 (and more) webcams
- Links to web cams all over the world.
- AskERIC Virtual Library, The
- Same as the gopher site only with a graphical interface.
- Astrobiology At NASA
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
- Atlapedia Online
- Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
- B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
- Site set up by a student to help other students.
- Bck2Skol
- A Class on the Net for Librarians with Little or No Net Experience
- Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology
- Big Bands Home Page - The Start of a Musical ...
- bigchalk: Main
- Teachers, parents, and students can find a wide range of online support at this site including homework help, research tips, and study aids.
- Biodiversity Count
- BRAINTRACK - University-Index
- Calling itself 'the world's most complete Education-index this handy site lists URLs for over 5300 higher education institutions in 152 countries of the world.
- Campus Program: University and College Resources
- The index-style home page at CampusProgram.com could have been plucked from Lycos or LookSmart. Click the Science category and you get a page with 35 subcategories that range from Actuarial Science to Zoology.
- Center for Media Education
- Covers controversial issues, such as equal access to new communications systems, online advertising that targets children, etc.
- Children Accessing Controversial Information
- Classroom Connect
- An extremely comprehensive Internet starter site for teachers.
- Cloud Forest Alive Homepage
- Visit the Central American Cloud Forest via rich audio, video, and text information.
- College and University Home Pages
- College Tip @ college-tip.com
- College Tip is a bare-bones directory of college portals, testing services, and other academic sites.
- CollegeLearning.com/home page
- CollegeLearning.com is a distance-education portal with some 100 partners that range from community colleges to state universities.
- Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons
- This group of lesson plans came from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. They were done by a consortium of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States.
- Columbia Guide to Online Style
- Gone are the days when bibliographies refer only to paper printed resources. Explore the new world of citing electronic sources.
- Common Errors in English
- The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak. Tips on hundreds of confusing words and pairs.
- Connections+
- Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards (From Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education).
- Curricular Resources & Networking Projects
- Provides links to a number of education-related projects around the world.
- CyberU - Education, Online Courses, Distance Education
- CyberU limits its mission to online distance education. Participating schools include a sprinkling of big-name institutions such as Syracuse University, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA.
- DeweyWeb
- DeweyWeb appears to be evolving into a sort of "clearinghouse" for experiments in electronic experiential education. Many projects using DeweyWeb share staff and resources. In this vein, this page consists of pointers to the real projects.
- Discovery Channel School
- Information on educational programming available on the Discovery Channel and lesson plans and resources to go with those programs.
- Disney.com
- The site boasts an abundance of activities for the younger set, including games created by Macromedia's Shockwave, starring Disney's world-famous cast of animated characters.
- dMarie Time Capsule
- Enter your birthdate and see what was going on then: news headlines, who was in office, retail prices, average income for the year, Academy Award winners, and sports headlines.
- Earth from Space
- EarthaMaps
- Education World
- Site by American Fidelity Educational Services with links to other education sites. Has a searchable database of 20,000 URLs.
- Educational Web Adventures (Eduweb)
- Election 2000 Materials
- Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by t...
- Embark Home Page
- Embark.com is the most ambitious -- and indisputably the best -- of the full-service portals. The site is organized conveniently into sections for first-time collegians, grad students, online distance learners, and international students.
- Exhibits Collection -- Collapse
- Exploratorium Snack
- ExploreScience.com
- Physics, mechanics, and life sciences are featured on this site with demonstrations and lab activities to explore.
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
- An on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds, featuring its own essays and primary texts.
- Fact Monster: Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia...
- Site for young students with info on everything from dragons and giants to pets and proverbs.
- Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
- Tutorial for finding information on the net.
- Flags of All Countries
- This award-winning site offers images of flags throughout the world, and includes links to sites on immigration.
- FRBSF American Currency Exhibit
- Free Training with Freeskills.com
- More than 200 courses covering Microsoft, Unix, Lotus, Novell, Macintosh, Corel, Databases, Programming, Graphics, Desktop Publishing, Contact Management, Accountancy, the Desktop and the Internet.
- FreeSkills
- Has more than an 200 free online training courses.
- Gestalt of Online Searching
- Information for teachers on using the web for student research.
- Global School Net
- Global School House's interactive projects to advance learning.
- Global Show-n-Tell
- Displays children's artwork.
- Global Statistics at Xist.org
- There are parts dealing with the regions of the world and the countries belonging to that region. Then there is a more global part with statistics on every country of the world. And then there is also a part with rankings.
- Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future...
- Handbook of Forensic Services: Introduction
- HandSpeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online
- HandSpeaktm is the largest, fast-growing popular sign language dictionary online.
- Hewlett Packard E-mail Mentor Program
- Historic Wings : the online magazine of aviation...
- Historical United States Census Data Browser
- History 102: Photo Gallery (by Subjects)
- History Channel
- Provides This Day in History as well as articles of interest and search engine.
- Insects on the Web
- A very talented and dedicated guy named Dexter Sear has created a colorful, visually stunning site that's perfect for kids and curious adults.
- Institute for Better Education Through Resource Technology
- U.S. political news, opinion, rumor, and analysis from CNN, Newsweek, and the Washington Post.
- Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections Projects
- The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
- Introduction to Windows to the Universe
- International Society for Technology in Education
- IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line, Electron...
- The National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education lists some 9,000 colleges, universities, and vocational schools at Ipeds College Opportunities On-Line.
- IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line
- Just Think Foundation
- Addresses the fundamental issues related to the ways in which traditional and interactive media influence the behavior, attitudes and thinking of young people.
- Kids Click!
- Web search for kids by librarians.
- Kim Komando: America's Digital Goddess
- LAB--Northeast and Islands Regional Education Laboratory at Brown University
- Specialty Area: School Reform and Professional Development.
- Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial
- This Web site will teach you to Habla Espanol for free. Work at your own pace through 75 clearly written tutorials. Each covers a different topic, from Days of the Week to Preterit vs. Imperfect Review.
- Lexical FreeNet
- Site allows the user to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator.
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers
- Lives, the Biography Resource
- Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous.
- LSS--Laboratory for Student Success
- Specialty Area: Urban Education.
- Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
- Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Schoolhouse
- MainFunction Sources for Education
- Map Collections Home Page
- Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
- The Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI), located at the Maricopa Community Colleges, is considered a national model for motivating, infusing, and promoting innovation and change in the community college environment
- McREL--Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory
- Specialty Area: Curriculum, Learning and Instruction.
- Measuring Up 2000
- Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Just type in a word, click Look it up and get the definition and spelling.
- MindEdge
- MindEdge is another site where you'll find both on-site and online courses. Search the database for a course and get a list of results with class names, prices, and enrollment dates.
- Modern Educator Resource Center
- Videos and other classroom material on a variety of subjects.
- Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
- Webpage that is correlated with the TV show.
- museum.com
- The database hopes to eventually categorize by subject and keywords all the museums of the world. The site is simple and easy to use. It consists of links and an effective local search engine.
- Museum of History
- NASA Human SpaceFlight
- NASA's Visible Earth
- Search NASA's vast database of stunning images, animations, and visualizations of our planet.
- NASA's Visible Earth
- National Zoo PandaCam 1
- nature genome gateway - human genome
- NCREL--North Central Regional Education Laboratory
- Specialty Area: Technology.
- NeoFlora - The World's Largest Plant Database!
- Claiming to be the world's largest plant database, site has over 38,000 entries with everything from trees to tropicals.
- New York Times Learning Network
- Building on news and archives from the NYT, the network connects teachers of grades 6-12, their students and parents to news and education resources.
- NEWSEUM: WAR STORIES
- NWREL--Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
- Specialty Area: School Change Processes.
- Oceanography: An ONR Science & Technology
- ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
- Explains four citation styles for handling Internet resources and provides examples.
- Online Courses, Learning & Distance Education aÉ
- A directory of courses, classes, tutorials, workshops and degree programs offered exclusively online and available to adult learners worldwide
- Ontario Science Centre
- Provides interactive science activities.
- PC World
- Parliamentary Procedure by John A. Cagle
- PEP: Resources for Parents, Educators & Publishers
- A total overview of the children's software industry. Includes over 100 pages of information, industry news, product reviews, searchable databases. Registry of 500+ educational software publishers.
- Peterson's Home Page
- If you get past the ad clutter, you'll find databases on everything from four-year colleges to online extension courses to study-abroad programs.
- Philosophy in Cyberspace
- Picturing the Century
- Photos from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access
- For for an out-of-this-world journey take a pictorial tour of the solar system courtesy of NASA. The Planetary Photojournal also lets you keep track of new image releases.
- Population Reference Bureau 2000 World Population...
- Site contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for all geographic entities with populations of 150,000 or more.
- Project Learning Tree
- You will be able to see real projects of teachers and students, access the work of researchers who are articulating new visions of what learning can be, and learn how to create new knowledge yourself.
- Quest, NASA K-12 Initiative Page
- Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative.
- Rutgers University Libraries: Research & Reference...
- Sailing Around the World: Out of Bounds
- Sailing Around the World: Out of Bounds, the Web story of a small crew and a dog who left Newport, R.I. in the fall of 1996 on a three-year voyage.
- Say Yes for Children!
- School.Net
- schoolwork.ugh or schoolwork.org
- The Library Association of Rockland County has developed a resource that can help students get started on research papers and study up on English and foreign languages.
- ScienceMaster.com
- Scientific American: Explore!
- From genomes to Jupiter's moons, many important scientific discoveries took place in 2000 as featured in this Scientific American review.
- Secrets of the Pharohs
- SEDL--Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
- Specialty Area: Language and Cultural Diversity.
- SERVE--SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education
- Specialty Area: Early Childhood Education.
- short stories at east of the web
- Free short stories to read online.
- short stories at east of the web
- Smithsonian Institution
- Visit the Smithsonian Institution online and you can not only tour current exhibits but also do research in the museums' archives and participate in educational programs.
- SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
- A well organized space reference site including coverage of current space missions and links to other space related reference sites.
- SpellOnLine: International Spell Checking
- Student Guide 2001-2002
- Student Guide to WWW Research
- Study Guides for testing, reading, writing, a research paper
- TEACH-NOLOGY
- We offer FREE 21,000+ lesson plans, 5600+ FREE worksheets and printables, 950+ teacher downloads, 60 teaching themes, teaching tips, and a ton of FREE web tools for teachers.
- Technology Planning and Developing Curriculum
- Links to sources of information implementation of technology in schools.
- The Cambridge History of English and American...
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- Provides interactive discovery type activities.
- The Complete History Of The Discovery Of Cinematography...
- Trace the history of moving pictures from prehistoric shadow plays to today's blockbusters.
- The DICT Development Group
- The Getty
- The Master Teacher
- The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
- The Tax History Project at Tax Analysts
- The Word Detective
- Site is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.
- TheHistoryNet - Where History Lives on the Web
- Site provides an archive of history- related articles, first person accounts, profiles, photos and interviews regarding a wide range of American and world history topics.
- Thinking Fountain!
- One thing about kids: Anything and everything fascinates them, at least for a while. Realizing this, the folks at the Science Museum have set up a Web site called the Thinking Fountain.
- ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 2000 Winners
- Tufts University Child And Family WebGuide
- Virtual Cave
- Vocabulary.com
- Site offers a wide variety of free vocabulary puzzles and tests, plus lesson plans for teachers, to enhance vocabulary mastery.
- Web Sites and Resources for Teachers
- Welcome to the Particle Adventure
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars?
- Test your knowledge of math and science as you work your way to the million dollar level! Although the questions you will answer are real, the money, unfortunately, is not.
- Wind Force Scale
- WordCentral.Com - Dictionary - Daily Buzzword...
- Word Central not only has standard dictionary capabilities but also lets kids compile their own dictionaries of words they have looked up.
- www.4teachers.org
- Provides information about teachers using the internet in the classroom and ideas for those teachers who would like to.
