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• Assistive Media (AM)
  Assistive Media (AM) This site, intended for the "world-wide disability community," provides free audio files of readings of short literary works. Selections are "from reputable mainstream periodicals (The New Yorker, Harper's, Wired, Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, Civilization, Smithsonian,...and more) and independent writers; providing an eclectic mixture of interesting and educational material." Files vary in length with most being under an hour of listening time, and may be listened to online or downloaded for personal use.
• Between the Lions
  Tying in with the television program of the same name, this site offers interactive stories and games for children learning to read and write. Information for parents about the importance of reading to their children, using the local library, and ways to connect art and writing is also included.
• Environmental Explorers' Club
  Environmental education for elementary school students, emphasizing games and activities about conservation, recycling, global warming, Superfund sites, and more. Also find resources for teachers.
• The National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse
  This is a site for "prospective teachers seeking jobs and for school districts and states seeking qualified teachers." How to Find a Job includes job search strategies, where there are teacher shortages, and a database of nationwide and international job banks. There are links to state education departments and state contacts for licensing and financial aid.
• The Space Science Education Resource Directory
  is a convenient way to find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums, and other settings. There are several ways to search this directory: Grade/Subject Search [more info] Topic Search [more info] Custom Search [more info] To do a quick search by keyword, you can use the search box available in the upper left-hand corner of every page.
• Topographic Map Symbols
  This online guide has three brief descriptive sections: What is A Topographic Map, Reading Topographic Maps, and Topographic Map Information, which includes a list of related sites. In addition, there are six sections of specific topographical map symbols: Elevation; Boundaries; Land Surface Features; Water Features; Buildings and Related Features; and Roads, Railroads, and Other.
• AAUP: American Association of University Professors
  This organization's "purpose is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good." In addition to information about the AAUP's activities (academic freedom, governance, legal, research, organizing, lobbying), this site includes numerous statements, reports, and publications about issues in higher education (such as affirmative action, ethics, and tenure).
• AfterSchool.org
  Promising Practices in Afterschool System (PPAS) is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs. The PPAS website is for program directors, staff, volunteers, parents, community members, policymakers, funders, researchers, and others who want to improve the quality of afterschool programs.
• Canela Indians ( of Brazil)
  The Canela Indians of Northeastern Central Brazil. Visit the Canela Indians with a field-trained ethnologist, and read about the challenges of conducting ethnographic research in a beautiful savannah setting.
• Chickscope
  Chickscope is a project to study chicken embryo development using a remotely-controlled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) instrument. It is being developed by educators and researchers from several departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with Illinois teachers.
• Colorín Colorado. bilingual Web site ( Spanish)
  Colorín Colorado is a new bilingual Web site full of information, ideas and practical tips on how Spanish-speaking parents can help their children learn to read and succeed in school. The site features activities, advice and downloadable resources for teachers and librarians to reproduce and distribute to parents in their own communities.
• Consumer Jungle
  Consumer Jungle features consumer education curriculum including printable classroom materials and interactive student activities (Credit Cave Activities include Find the Fees and the Credit Card Safari). Units include the Credit Cave, Surviving Solo (tips for living on your own), Esmarts (safe surfing on the web), Car-fari, and Jingle in the Jungle (the mysteries of phone, cell phones, and internet service).
• Devices of Wonder
  - "Discover the surprising and seductive ancestors of modern cinema, cyborgs, computers, and other optical devices" in this Getty Museum exhibition.
• Digital Himalaya [pdf, QuickTime]
  For those who feel that there may be a paucity of material on the Himalayan region, they will need to take a close look at this fine site provided through a collaboration between the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University. Since its inception in December 2000, the partners have managed to digitize a number of photographic collections, several journals, and a number of short films.
• DNA Interactive
  - This terrific site commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA. You'll find an interactive timeline, learn how the code was cracked, find out how the discovery of the structure of DNA changed the field of biology, and see a chilling section on eugenics.
• Education Policies of the 50 States
  The Milken Exchange on Education Technology "Education Policies of the 50 States" includes facts and figures showing states' budgets for education technology and the standards they are using to assess progress.
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  Also refer to Encyclopedia Smithsonian for answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources from A to Z. (Grades 4-12).
• Fonetiks.org: the Online Language Laboratory
  - Want to learn to speak Thai or Brazilian Portuguese? This online language laboratory can help. It features easy to use audio tutorials on some of the world's major languages.
• Geography IQ
  "Planning a trip? Preparing a school homework assignment? Perhaps you're interested in current events or are just curious about exploring the world around you. GeographyIQ is an online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information." Here is an interactive site that is easy to use .
• Geometry in the Middle Grades
  Geometry Geometry in the Middle Grades In this lesson from Illuminations, students develop informal geometry and spatial thinking. They are given opportunities to create plans, build models, draw, sort, classify, and engage in geometric and mathematical creativity through problem solving.Informal geometry and spatial thinking are vital aspects of the mathematics curriculum for the middle grades.
• Interactive Dig: Hierakonpolis
  During the past few years, Archaeology Magazine has seen fit to document a number of very worthwhile archaeological digs from across the globe. In recent years, the magazine has been out looking for shipwrecks off the Crimea Peninsula and searching for evidence of George Washington’s career as a whiskey distiller at Mount Vernon.
• Kid's Cosmos
  Take a virtual field trip to Mars and learn about the geography of the fourth planet.
• Mars Teacher Pages
  Whether you're a teacher, a parent, or just a curious enthusiast, the collections of activities on these pages will help you delve into an exploration of Mars. We've collected sets of resources grouped around three topics: the search for life on Mars, the Martian environment, and the mechanics of the Mars Exploration Rover itself.
• Mathforum.org (Math)
  The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.
• NASA Astrobiology Resources for Kids
  Could there be life elsewhere in the universe? Explore this fascinating question with online adventures, getting your questions answered online in the "Ask a Biologist" section, and more! This site is by the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Various plug-ins are required.
• National Geographic Society Resources for Teachers On line
  On line adventures, maps and geography, lesson plans, teacher community. special features : Xpeditions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/ Xpedition Hall, activities, standards and lesson plans National Geographic Kids Magazine http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html.
• National Rural Health Association [pdf]
  The antiquated image of the "old-time" family doctor traveling hundreds of miles to see patients widely dispersed across the rural landscape may remain in the minds of some persons, but the truth of the matter is that many persons in rural America have relatively little access to adequate health care. Advocating on the behalf of rural Americans (and their health) is the National Rural Health Association (NRHA).
• Neuroscience for Kids (Science)
  Neuroscience for Kids was started in 1996 by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.
• NGS Classroom Ancient Arcade
  Boost your knowledge of mythological figures with this game of gods and symbols. From the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• Orbital Space Settlements
  Target Audience Grades - 3-5 6-8 9-12 This page from NASA's Educational Resources is best used as a springboard to learn more about orbital space colonies. There are answers to a few general questions (e.g.
• Seeing Space in a Whole New Light
  This is an interactive site which is a tool for understanding space exploration and the various ways in which people train for being in space. You get to meet astronauts, expore the galaxy, This site can be used for independent study or as a beginning learning project on space science education.
• Selected Lessons from the STC Curriculum National Science Resource Center
  Sample lessons from the Life, Earth, and Physical Sciences and Technology curriculum developed by the National Science Resources Center.Use this list to access sample lessons from the STC curriculum. You can view and print these lessons using Adobe Acrobat Reader (download).
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage [RealPlayer, pdf]
  Widely considered one of the most important centers of its kind, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to "promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world". The Center is responsible for producing the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, coordinating the Folkways Recordings, and conducting ethnographic and cultural heritage policy-oriented research.
• Spacewander Round Trip
  This is a 12 minute tour of the universe from the Planetary society. It is interesting and their are rich resources at the end of the ride.
• The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools
  The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (2002) http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=67 Part of the Pew Internet & American Life project, this study compares students' interest and fluency in Internet usage to what is offered them in their schools.
• The Mars Project
  Will Earthlings ever try to inhabit Mars? What would a human colony look like? This site imagines a Mars where humans are landing at a rate of 2,000 a week. Take a look at what some people think is the fate of Mars and then imagine one of your own.
• The Transistor
  Target Audience Grades - 6-8 9-12 Lucent Technologies is the offspring of Bell Labs where the transistor was invented fifty years ago. This site provides pages containing information on the history of the transistor, uses of the transistor, the inventors, current information about these devices, what is a transistor, and an FAQ file.
• Understanding Prejudice
  Understanding Prejudice -This informative site offers educational resources for teachers, special features, and interactive quizzes to help you understand prejudice. The ultimate goal of the site is to help reduce the level of intolerance and bias in contemporary society .
• University of Minnesota: Monarch Lab-Monarchs in the Classroom
  The Monarch Lab website was developed by educators and scientists at the University of Minnesota to present information about monarch butterfly biology and research and to provide students, scientists, and teachers with an interactive forum for discussing monarchs. The site includes informative sections that introduce a variety of monarch research topics such as Growth & Development, Monarch Migration, Natural Enemies, Reproductive Biology, and more.
• Whyville
  ice A group of educators, scientists, artists and Internet experts have recently brought up a Web-based science education site intended to support both home and classroom-based learning by scientific inquiry. The site, www.whyville.net, was established to support a weekly science education article in the Los Angeles Times (see site for details).
• Educator Digital Assets
  Explore the Exploratorium's Digital Assets.They have collected and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities, and other exhibit-related resources. You will be able to search, select and download digital files for educational use.
• Illuminating the Renaissance
  Featuring more than 130 works of art, this exhibition focuses on the finest and most ambitiously illuminated books produced in Flanders (parts of present day Belgium and France) between 1470 and 1560. - This site presents an interactive view of an epoch in Flemish illumination when some of the most stunning works of art of the Renaissance could be found within the pages of books.
• Ilovelanguages.com
  iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer.
• FindNews.org
  A searchable "news information resource helping you find the news on the topics of today's world." There is a categorized directory of links to news sites, including mainstream sources, newspapers, world and local news, business and finance, political, weather and science, health, and major stock exchanges.
• Virtually Lost
  Well, then you've found the right place. This website visually explores being lost in hope of finding what we're all searching for.
• Digital Photography Review
  Digital Photography Review is an independent resource dedicated to the provision of news, reviews and information about Digital Photography and Digital Imaging published at the Internet address www.dpreview.com.
• The Forum Unified Education Technology Suite
  The Forum Unified Education Technology Suite presents a practical, comprehensive, and tested approach to assessing, acquiring, instituting, managing, securing, and using technology in education settings. It will also help individuals who lack extensive experience with technology to develop a better understanding of the terminology, concepts, and fundamental issues influencing technology acquisition and implementation decisions.
• MoneyopolisSM
  is an advanced technology Web site designed to assist in the teaching of sixth through eighth grade math skills. The math skills practiced in MoneyopolisSM are based on standards and objectives published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the standards of learning as defined in several states.
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
  features 10 essays on the Nez Perce, Lushootseed, Chief Seattle, salmon, totem poles, and other topics and tribes. The essays provide context for the thousands of historical photos, texts, and primary sources in the collection.
• Financial Literacy Month
  Learn the basics about getting the most out of your money -- saving, investing, banking, and buying a home. Try an online retirement calculator.
• Smithsonian Education
  Smithsonian Education [pdf. Macromedia Flash Reader, RealOne Player] The diverse buildings that front directly onto the Mall in Washington, D.C.
• The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
  The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing every child with competent, caring, qualified teachers in schools organized for success. In its latest report, No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children, NCTAF finds that high teacher turnover and attrition have become a national crisis that is undermining teaching quality in too many of our schools.
• A Brush with Wildlife
  How do you use balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful work of art? This marvelous website is both a tutorial with animated examples and an interactive tool. You can select a background, select subjects, position and resize them within your composition, create a final draft; then submit it for Critique.
• A Pintura, Art Detective
  This is a wonderful interactive project that teachs elements of art on several levels.
• AbilityHub: Assistive Technology Solutions
  AbilityHub: Assistive Technology Solutions. Assistive technology is for people with disabilities who find it difficult to operate a computer.
• Africa to Atlantic: Dust to Dust
  Article about sand and dust storms in which "the planet's deserts kick up literally millions of tons of dust, and winds send it flying to far-flung destinations where it clogs our lungs, changes soil chemistry, deposits minerals in bodies of water," and cause other environmental damage. Includes a link to images of recent storms, such as the storm in Iraq in August 2005, and links to related sites.
• All Kinds of Minds
  All Kinds of Minds This organization, founded by Dr. Mel Levine, aims "to help students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific, and clinical expertise." Site includes information about the organization's theories and approach, research, and member services.
• allmath.com
  Math Links to games, tutorials, lesson plans worksheets etc. Math games, flash cards, a math glossary, metric conversion tools, and biographies of notable math-related people are presented in a useful, interactive format designed primarily for children.
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources the Study of Women
  en's History and Culture in the United States This site "contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication 'American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States' .. with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site." Includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, images, and other research materials.
• Archimedes' Laboratory
  Inspired by the work methods of scientist Archimedes, this online companion to the print magazine of the same name provides a virtual lab of geometric puzzles to make and solve, games, mazes, and optical illusions. Appropriate for children and adults.
• ArtsEdge
  Developed as a cooperative agreement between the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Department of Education, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ArtsEdge offers standards-based teaching materials, activities, and resources.
• Atlas of the Body: Anatomy and Medical Illustrations
  Atlas of the Body: Anatomy and Medical Illustrations Browse this atlas of the human body by major section (brain, circulatory system, muscles, respiratory system, nervous system, or female reproductive system), or by subsections such as the hand or skull. From the American Medical Association.
• Back to School: The American Student
  A special report from CNN provides profiles of U.S. students, from kindergarten through college, and the specific issues of standardized testing and curricula, budget and consequent program cuts, and teaching current events.
• Before and After the Great Fire of London
  "What did London look like before and after the Great Fire in [September] 1666? View the animation .. to see etchings of the London skyline made before and after the event." Highlights landmarks such as Fleet Street, St.
• Biology Project
  Designed for high school and college biology students, this site has problem sets and tutorials in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Chemicals and Human Health, Developmental Biology, Human Biology, Immunology, Mendelian Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Some modules are available in Spanish.
• Capturing Time: The New York Times Capsule
  "Capturing Time .. was an exhibition [in 1999-2000] at the American Museum of Natural History that explored different concepts of time and the history of time capsules.
• Computer Graphics in Seven Easy Lessons
  Computer Graphics in Seven Easy LessonsThis is a useful site, especially for those of us who are graphics-impaired but still need to make good-looking Web pages. There are seven lessons that take you step-by-step through editing graphics to achieve various effects and a nicely done Art Box that explains all the Paint Shop Pro select and paint tools.
• Concord.org Five Lessons
  Five Lessons: A Taste of the Future, Today Interactive lessons allow students to learn more science and math, earlier and deeper.features activities and software for exploring key math and science concepts. A grapher without numeric values introduces calculus concepts in early grades.
• Cool Cosmos
  This site pulls together various materials for children and adults on the discovery and application of infrared technology. It includes information about infrared astronomy, multiwavelength astronomy, and the discovery of ultraviolet (UV) light.
• Cool Cosmos
  This site pulls together various materials for children and adults on the discovery and application of infrared technology. It includes information about infrared astronomy, multiwavelength astronomy, and the discovery of ultraviolet (UV) light.
• Cyberethics for Kids
  - It's important to be a good citizen wherever you may find yourself, by following the rules of that place. The Internet is a "place" with its own very special rules.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education
  Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) DLESE is a "geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system." It is "being built by a community of educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at all levels and in both formal and informal settings." Resources include links to "lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips," plus materials for educators. Searchable.
• Discovering Lewis and Clark
  Provides extensive coverage of the events and natural history of the expedition. With over 1400 pages and monthly updates, the site contains selections from the expedition journals, photographs, maps, graphics, and sound.
• Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
  Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920This digital collection provides access "to a variety of primary source materials relating to the 1920 lynching of three young black men--Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson--in Duluth, Minnesota." It includes background information on the event, newspaper accounts, legal documents, photographs, oral histories, a timeline, and recommended additional online and print resources. Searchable.
• EDSITEment
  Designed to help educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource, this site covers valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. The Lesson Plans describe teaching goals, skills, and suggested activities in great detail.
• Essential Microsoft Office 2000:Tutorials for Teachers: Word
  Essential Microsoft Office 2000 tutorials from the University of Pittsburgh's Bernie Poole and Rebecca L. Randall.
• Exploratoirum, Journey to Mars
  Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, are speeding toward their January rendezvous with the red planet. For the latest information about their progress, and to see what should be the greatest images of Mars ever taken, the Exploratorium is the place to be.
• Farm Safety 4 Just Kids
  This site has games, quizzes, and other activities designed to teach about safety in a rural environment. The Program Services section has teaching tips and fact sheets on a wide variety of farm safety concerns associated with harvest, equipment, cold weather, livestock, electricity, fire, manure storage, and other possible hazards.
• Games Kids Play
  Games Kids Play. Contributed by users, the rules for games include hide and seek, dodgeball, and hopscotch, as well as jump rope rhymes and variations of jacks and marbles.
• GoMath
  This site "is a free on-line mathematics tutor designed to assist students from K-12, and their parents. ..
• Google Image Search
  GoogleAnother coup for Google. They've hit the Web with the best image search engine.
• ICON: Innovation Curriculum Online Network
  A "digital library of information dealing with K-12 technological literacy." Resources include "lessons, activities, electronic files, technology references, articles, and professional organizations." Registration (free) required to access some materials and services. Searchable by grade level, resource type, technical requirements, and other factors.
• Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826-1919
  "This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection of 12 works ..
• International Reading Association: Choices Booklists
  Each year "thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians select their favorite recently published books to be included in the Choices annotated booklists" published by the International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council. These annotated lists include Children's Choices, Teachers' Choices, and Young Adults' Choices.
• KSDTRadio.org
  Site of KSDT, "a student-run radio station located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego." KSDT "broadcasts solely via streaming MP3 on the internet." The site contains a program schedule, a searchable playlist, discussion forums, the KSDT online magazine, a calendar of local events, and lists of record stores and music venues in the San Diego area. Subjects: College radio stations | Radio stations -- California -- San Diego | University of California, San Diego | Internet radio broadcasting | Calendars.
• Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
  Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII ArkansasThe University of Arkansas and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles focus this site on the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II Arkansas. In an appealing open book format, it provides history, educational links, materials and resources for teachers and the public, reading lists, a timeline, archival photos, recent press articles, downloadable posters, panoramic views, maps pinpointing Rohwer and Jerome camps, and driving directions from Little Rock.
• Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection
  Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection"A collection of Medieval clipart culled from various period sources, most notably woodcuts of the 15th & 16th centuries." Browsable by subject (animals and creatures, biblical scenes and figures, decorative borders and initials, human figures, and plants).
• Mega-Mathematics
  This is Mega-Mathematics! is filled with elementary school lesson plans that teach unusual concepts in higher math: knot theory, map coloring, infinity, formal logic, etc. Each lesson includes background information, vocabulary, lesson, and evaluation activities.
• Microbes.info: The Microbiology Information Portal
  Microbes.info: The Microbiology Information Portal This searchable directory of microbiology resources includes links to sites about specific microbiology disciplines (environmental, food, industrial, medical, veterinary), education, employment, organizations, companies, publications, news, events, articles, and FAQs. The directory, compiled by a microbiologist, includes information of interest to both scientists and the general public.
• Modeling and VisualizationAcross Learning Contexts
  Modeling and Visualization Across Learning Contextshttp://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/mvxcontexts.shtml the "impulses" of the learner are the real foundation of the curriculum is more relevant today than it was when he first formulated it nearly a century ago. As the objects of learning become more complex and the applications more demanding the notion that schooling is about the imparting of simple schemas for knowledge appears less and less tenable.
• Musee
  Free registration is required to access much of the site information and directory listings of 37,000 museums around the world including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology, aquariums, and more. The site features current exhibits, education, entertainment, archive reviews, and shopping links.
• National 4-H Web
  National 4-H Web Begun in the early 1900s to provide educational clubs for rural children, 4-H (head, heart, hands, health) has expanded to urban areas and includes non-agricultural activities. On this site, 4-H clubs can be located by state and county.
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
  National Center for Learning DisabilitiesThe NCLD Web site provides facts, news, resources, and links for persons with learning disabilities and their families. Extensive information on issues such as LD evaluation, legislation, outreach and educational programs, public policy, and legal rights for the learning disabled.
• National Rural Education Association (NREA)
  The site for an "organization of rural school administrators, teachers, board members, regional service agency personnel, researchers, business and industry representatives and others interested in maintaining the vitality of rural school systems across the country." Includes information about events, membership, mini-grants, regional educational laboratories, related links, and more.
• NewsCenter: Up to the Minute News Resources
  Links for major wire services, one-stop shops, search for news, U.S. news, business news, international news, technology, entertainment, and more.
• Origins of American Animation
  The American Memory Project has released 21 short, animated films, and 2 fragments from 1900-1921 (available in RealMedia, MPEG, and QuickTime formats). The bibliographic records are browsable by title, subject, or date as well as searchable by keyword.
• Pathways to School Improvement
  Pathways to School Improvement Designed to help educators apply the latest educational research to topics such as technology in education, math and science education, literacy, school leadership, parent involvement, school to work transition, and more. An excellent feature is the Amazing Picture Machine, an index to graphical resources on the Internet.
• Radio-Locator
  Radio Locator lists all known sites on the Internet that publish information about broadcast radio stations. Currently more than 10,000 radio stations around the world are linked.
• SchwabLearning.org: A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Differences
  SchwabLearning.org is primarily designed for parents of children with learning differences (LD). Here are practical aids for parents to identify and manage their child's learning differences.
• Sci-Math World: An Interactive Internet Workshop
  This site provides annotated Web links to relevant science and math subjects arranged as directories and portals, searchable sites, search engines, and interactive Web sites. Designed and implemented by Robert J.
• Singingfish
  Singingfish 's "technology allows existing search engines, portals, destination sites--any Web site at all--to deliver superior multimedia search results for those seeking streaming audio or video files from across the web.".
• Teaching About Project-Based Learning
  Teaching About Project-Based Learning In this section you will find materials for use in teaching about project-based learning, whether you are conducting a two- or three-hour session or class, or can spend a day or two on the topic. We believe you will find materials from which you can build a set of experiences tailored to your students for the purpose of exploring a number of aspects of project-based learning.
• Technology and Telecommunications for Teachers: Database Tutorial
  This tutorial was created by the Advanced Technology Research Branch of the Hawaii Department of Education to provide supplemental productivity tool information to teachers enrolled in the Technology Telecommunication for Teachers (T3) Program.
• Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)
  Confused by all the information out there? "This interactive library tutorial will prepare you to explore and research in the online world." After completing three 30-minute modules you will be able to identify a variety of information sources, perfect your skills for effectively searching databases and the Web, evaluate the credibility of sources, and cite print and online information. TILT Lite requires no plug-ins and Full TILT has total interactivity.
• The Astronomy Cafe
  An educational and professional resource in astronomy, calling itself "The web site for the astronomically disadvantaged." Includes descriptive articles, links, FAQs, an "Ask the Astronomer" archive of commonly asked astronomy questions, and more. Maintained by a research astronomer.
• The Digital Michelangelo Project
  "Since 1992 [Stanford University] Professor Marc Levoy and his students have been investigating methods for digitizing the shape of three-dimensional objects using laser scanners." This site presents the efforts of "a team of 30 faculty, staff, and students" to scan and produce 3-D computer models of "the sculptures and architecture of Michelangelo." Includes an overview and timeline of the project, photographic essays, video clips, and related links. In English and Italian.
• The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacy
  Diverse voices have outlined the advantages or disadvantages of technology as they have emerged within classrooms, businesses, communities, and families. Enthusiasts vaunt technological changes, which they contend can effect a more equitable distribution of power.
• The Fun Works: For Careers You Never Knew Existed
  This website allows students ages 11-15 to explore various careers in the arts, music, sports, science, technology, medicine, and engineering suited to their personal interests. It includes quizzes to focus on aptitudes, games and puzzles to provide a glimpse of the jobs, and information about necessary education, typical salaries, and the nature of the work.
• The Guide to History of Medicine Resources on the Internet
  This annotated directory of Web sites includes such topics as biographies of physicians and scientists, specific diseases, phrenology, witchcraft, smallpox-infected blankets, 4,000 years of women in science, and Islamic medical arts. It also has a timeline of medical history.
• The Literature Network
  This site includes the text of "over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors" and "over 8500 quotes." Locate materials by browsing a list of authors. Searchable within works of each author.
• The Miracle of Fall
  A directory of links to information about fall foliage and related topics. Includes links to sites about fall color, trees, fall foliage updates and reports, driving and hiking suggestions, photos, lesson plans, activities, autumn gardening and composting, and more.
• The Worst Jobs in History
  This website takes you on a journey through 2,000 years of British history and the worst jobs of each era." Features humorous descriptions of jobs such as Roman gold miner, leech collector, fishwife, and child chimney sweep. Also includes information about current offbeat careers, and links to related sites.
• Twenty-first Century Literacies
  This site discusses four skills needed in society. Disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies.
• U.S. Government RSS Library
  RSS is "a method of summarizing the latest news and information from a website." This site provides access to government sites with RSS feeds. Topics include agriculture, business, education, health, international relations, and science.
• Virginia Historical Society (VHS)
  This organization, founded in 1831, had Chief Justice John Marshall and former president James Madison as founding members. The site provides information about current and past exhibits on topics such as Patrick Henry, car racing and rodding in Virginia, and "The Story of Virginia, an American Experience Long-term exhibition ..
• "21st Century Explorer"
  answers questions that include: Why do we want to travel to Mars? How would your body change in space? Where would a space explorer find water and oxygen? How can we travel faster in space? Student actors (on video) and hands-on activities are featured with each answer. The site is for Grades 3-5 and available in Spanish.
• "Ancient World Mapping Center"
  promotes cartography, historical geography, and geographical information science within the field of ancient studies. The Center is developing a community of scholars, teachers, and specialists to collaborate in the updating and expansion of the spatial and historical reference information assembled by the Classical Atlas Project.
• "Calendars Through the Ages"
  looks at the astronomical basis of calendars, the history of our calendar, and when various countries moved from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Learn about Leap Year, the solar cycle, equinoxes and solstices.
• "Mathematics: Research Overview"
  looks at topics of major research in mathematics: image creation, statistics, inverse problems, CPU testing, materials and nanotechnology, proteins, random graphs, prime numbers, optimization, design, financial mathematics, weather and climate simulation, rare events, and high-dimensional data sets. (NSF) .
• "Moldenhauer Archives"
  presents 130 music manuscripts, letters, and materials from a 3,500-item collection documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era. Essays by musicologists discuss items from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Mozart, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other composers.
• "Physics to Go"
  is a collection of reviewed resources for teaching and learning about astronomy, electricity and magnetism, fluids, light, modern physics, motion and energy, quantum physics, and waves and pendula. (NSF) .
• "Teach the Earth"
  "Teach the Earth" offers hundreds of teaching activities, visualizations, and resources for teaching earth science. Categories include biosphere, climate change, energy/material cycles, geology and human health, geochemistry, hydrosphere and cryosphere, mineralogy, ocean systems, petrology, solar system, and earth history.
• 1Kickthis
  1KickthisFor persons who are perennially bothered when their Internet service provider disconnects their connection during inactive periods, the 1Kickthis application will be a valuable addition. When 1Kickthis is installed, the application simulates Web browsing by randomly visiting different Web sites, without taking up valuable bandwidth space.
• 3D Studio MAX R3 demo
  3D Studio MAX R3 demo:http://www.autodesk.com/dyf/coolstuff/maxdemo_1.htmlWant to find out how 3D computer animation works?Learn about Discreet's amazing animation software. Thisfeature explains and demonstrates 3D Studio MAX R3.Also, try the interactive demo!.
• 4 Minutes About Podcasting
  Podcasting is a kind of homespun Internet "folk radio." Podcasts can be listened to on computers and MP3 players (including the iPod). "Four Minutes about Podcasting is a short film that tells you why podcasting can make your life better, and shows you everything you need to know to set up a simple program to have new podcasts downloaded automatically." By writer and blogger Lisa Williams.
• 4-H Virtual Farm
  Target Audience Grades three to 12 clustered in these groupings. Grades - 3-5 6-8 9-12 Review The 4-H Virtual Farm website gives an excellent insight into potential vocational directions in agriculture.
• 4HUSA.org
  4HUSA.org is the official 4-H site made for, by and about 4-H Youth in the United States. Our site is maintained by a talented group of 4-Hers from across the United States.
• 4t HIT Mail Privacy Lite 1.01
  This small application allows users to send private data (such as various files and messages) embedded in different images, like photographs or other visual images. Along with embedding data in these images, the program uses a strong encrypting algorithm to make Internet communications additionally secure.
• :The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP)
  combines the intellectual resources of the University of California, San Diego, Division of Physical Sciences, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, The Scripps Research Institute and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. It brings together theoreticians and experimentalists from around the world to advance research, using the theoretical tools of physics to understand the fundamental principles governing complex biological systems.
• A Dictionary of Slang
  'A Dictionary of Slang' is an amusing reference guide of the rich and colorful language known as slang. The "monster online dictionary" was created by Ted Duckworth and is written from a British perspective.
• A Guide to Developing a Severe Weather Emergency Plan for Schools
  This guide has been designed for schools, but it can be used by people who work in businesses, shopping malls, depots, hotels and hospitals.
• A professional development school partnership: Conflict and collaboration
  The Professional Develpment School (PDS) is one of the most prominent, compelling, and recent models of teacher education reform. For decades efforts have been made to reform the U.S.
• A Project on Youth Gangs
  This WebQuest is for 11th and 12th grade students. It is designed to help students recognize the danger gangs pose to themselves and their school communities.
• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain
  http://tapestry.usgs.gov/ Through computer processing and enhancement, we have brought together two existing images of the Nation's lower 48 states into a single digital tapestry. Woven into the fabric of this new map are data from previous U.S.
• A Virtual Laptop for Every Kid
  A presentation on statewide, open, enterprise e-learning portals for policy leaders.
• A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
  "The goal of this 'visual sourcebook' is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society." Features a timeline with links to information and images, and essays on topics such as ancient tombs, Buddhism, clothing, and gardens. Includes maps, discussion questions, and bibliographies.
• A Web Quest Series on Creating Non-Violent Schools
  This siteoffers comprehensive web-based activities where students explore questions related to school safety and consider a variety of ways to help create non-violent schools. Web-based activities include a Hotlist, Subject Sampler, Knowledge Hunt, Concept Builder, Insight Reflector and WebQuest.
• About The Advanced Applications Database (AAD)
  The NLANR Advanced Applications Database provides a wealth of information on applications and resources, with pointers to many research groups in many fields across the country and around the world. At present this collection includes over 4,000 applications, projects, and resources from more than 30 countries with nearly 1,000 contact personnel.
• Adbusters' Culture Jammers Headquarters
  Adbusters is a group of very talented media professionals who want us to challenge what we see and subsequently think. Exploring this website is a good introduction to what makes the web valuable: users can look beyond mass media's filters.
• Africa Photos from the California Academy of Sciences
  Nearly 700 images of "African animals, plants, landscapes, and people/culture." Searchable by name, type, country, location, and photographer. A part of CalPhotos, from the Digital Library Project, University of California, Berkeley.
• Africa South of the Sahara: Internet and Computing
  An annotated directory of websites related to Internet and computer technology use and access in Africa. Also includes a link to resources for South Africa.
• African American World
  African American World - PBS brings together lots of resources in an effort to cover the African American experience from slavery to today. There are online interactive exhibits, biographical profiles, and teachers' guides.
• African Art- Aesthetics and Meaning
  African Art- Aesthetics and Meaning http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/Introduction.htmlAfrican artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express.
• African Online Digital Library (AODL)
  "The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context." The site features "guides to best practices in digitizing text and multimedia resources" and galleries of digitized images. A project of Michigan State University's Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online (MATRIX) and African partners.
• Africans in America
  Presentation of Americans journey through slavery in 4 parts. For each section, you will find a historical narrative, a resource bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, commentaries, and a teacher's guide.
• Afrigeneas
  A site with specialized resources, links, and message goards dedicated to the particular challenges of researching African-American ancestors.
• Afro-Louisiana History and Geneology, 1719-1820
  A database of information on 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It contains "African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid for slaves, and slaves' testimony and emancipations." Searchable by name, master, gender, racial designation, time period, plantation location, and origin.
• Alexandria Digital Library
  Alexandria Digital Library."Project Alexandria will develop a digital library providing easy access to large and diverse collections of maps, images and pictorial materials as well as a full range of new electronic library services. The project is centered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with its major collections of maps and images and its strong research focus in the area of spatially-indexed information.
• All in One Metasearch
  - Access to 800 search engines.
• All Info-About Poetry
  While there are many sites offering a diverse selection of poems and versefrom the best-known names from previous historical eras, few Web sites offermore contemporary poems. Paula Bardell, a poet and fiction writer fromBritain, has established this Web site as a means to disseminate the works(and discussions) of a varied group of contemporary poets from around theworld.
• Alta Vista Translation Service
  Submit text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will translate it from English to Spanish or Spanish to English with the click of the mouse! Grammar and accent marks are not perfect but a surprisingly understandable translation appears. Also translates from English to French, Portuguese, German, or Italian.
• America's Story (Library of Congress)
  America's Story from "America's Library" wants you to have fun with history while learning. Using a story-like format, you will be taken back in time and shown things you never heard or saw before.
• American Foundation for the Blind
  This site provides information and resources for the blind or visually impaired, support organizations, and the general public on "blindness and low vision, Helen Keller, and such issues as advocacy, aging and vision loss, education, employment, literacy, technology, and web accessibility." Visitors can browse the Helen Keller repositories and collections of her personal material, view message and job boards, subscribe to online journals, and visit an online bookstore with specialized material for the blind.
• American Memory Project
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. From the U.S.
• Amusement Park Physics
  (ENC Digital Dozen Award) Visit this site to discover the forces behind the fun. Users learn about the laws of physics through such activities as building their own rollercoasters and predicting the outcome of bumper-car collisions.
• An African American One Room School
  Pierre Samuel du Pont and Delaware's African-American Schools The early 20th century in America, a period characterized by nationwide social reform, is often referred to as the Progressive Era. During this period, more and more people recognized that education was the best guarantee of economic success for young people.
• Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
  The Anacostia Museum is a community based and constituency focused museum that increases public awareness of the Black experience through research, programs and exhibitions.
• Ancient China (British Museum)
  http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html The site is divided into five 'chapters' which address themes or topics relevant to ancient China. Within each 'chapter' there are three sections: Story (narratives), Explore (pupil controls the order in which they access the information) and Challenge (historical, analytical, mathematical, or observational activities).
• Ancient Egypt -- The British Museum
  Let's hear it for the British Museum. Their staff has created a website dealing with many areas of study of Ancient Egypt.
• Ancient Near East.net
  The ancient Near East has been the birthplace of some of civilization's most important advances, among them written language, the impulse to urbanism, and crop cultivation. Created and maintained by Paul James Cowie (a doctoral student at Australia's Macquarie University), the site is a fine resource for both scholars and the general public.
• AncientScripts.com
  According to the site creator, Lawrence K. Lo, "The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites.
• Anecdotage
  Anecdotagehttp://anecdotage.com/ Anecdotage is home to several thousand anecdotes. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines an anecdote as "a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident." Anecdotage is chock-full of just such.
• Animal Diversity Web
  Animal Diversity Web (Scientific American Sci/Tech award) This well-organized site does what's nearly impossible: offers an easy-to-understand explanation of biological names and how they relate to evolution. And there's more here than just family trees.
• Animated Gifs, Backgrounds, Graphics, Icons, Sounds, Movies
  Great collection backgrounds, animated GIFs, icons, and other small graphics for student Web page designers. Additionally there are more than 150 sound files in WAV and MIDI formats and a very few movies in QuickTime and AVI formats.
• AOL@School
  http://www.aolatschool.com/ Foe teachers this web site furnishes professional development, lesson plans, special needs and counseling, subjects and standards, education news, research and references, and classroom tips. For the school this web site furnishes http://www.aolatschool.com/order/index.adp Free AOL E-Mail Free e-mail, instant messaging and chat Exclusive Content from Your State Easy access to state curriculum standards, news and education initiatives Free Built-In Internet Filters Students connect only to age-appropriate content -- CIPA compliant .
• Applemusic.com
  Right now you need a Mac and the iTunes program, but pretty soon Windows PC users will be able to take advantage of this, the best (legal) music service online today. Its brilliance lies in its simplicity: you pay 99 cents per track, with no monthly fee, and you can burn the songs to a CD, stash ‘em in your iPod or both.
• ArabNet
  Designed to serve as a clearinghouse of information about the Arab world,ArabNet is a valuable source of current news coverage, along with providingcountry profiles of almost every nation in the Middle East. The homepagefeatures a Latest News section that provides hyperlinks to English-languagearticles offering coverage from many different media sources on topicalstories within the Middle East.
• Archaeology Exhibits
  A wide range of information about archaeology. General Archaeology contains a timeline of its development in the U.S.; an overview of the laws for the U.S., Minnesota, and the British Isles; dating techniques; the use of technology; and related links.
• Archeology
  Arizona State University's ample list of links to museums, sites and resources worldwide. archnet.asu.edu.
• Art Interactive
  Making art is about creating something that represents an idea or vision that is all your own. It involves making choices about materials, shapes, composition, color, texture, and even scale.
• Artopia
  A website for middle school students about the visual and performing arts. "Students can closely examine important works of art and take part in activities that teach about styles, principles and processes of each art form." Topics include dance, theater, media arts, music, painting, and sculpture.
• Arts Edge Lesson Plan, the Poetics of Hip Hop
  High school classroom materials focusing on the analysis of hip hop lyrics to "provide students with a greater understanding of rhythm, form, diction, and sound in poetry." Includes activities, readings, and links to related lesson plans and websites. From the National Arts and Education Network (ArtsEdge), a program of the John F.
• ArtsConnectEd
  Extensive resources for teaching fine arts, including interactives There is an art gallery, an art database,playground, professional development package for teachers downloadable, pdf. and library of lesson plans and archives.
• Ask a Librarian
  Email your research questions or chat online with a Library of Congress reference librarian.
• Ask Dr. Math
  Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
• Ask Jeeves
  One experience all Net users share is "search engine frustration." Some choose to become experts at Boolean logic, others learn which search engine to choose based upon the task at hand. Isn't the answer really to make software that's smarter? Isn't that what the Web did for the Net? Ask Jeeves takes the first leap forward in search engine technology in years.
• Aspire
  SPIRE -- Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computational Research in Education Publisher:ASPIRE (Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computational Research in Education)Contributor:Format:text/HTMLDate:09/07/2004Identifier: textbookLanguage:enDescription:ASPIRE (Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computational Research in Education) hosts an online computational science textbook suitable for both high school and undergraduate coursework. The text is project oriented and features a number of algorithm/programming exercises with accessible solutions.Relation:Contact:Edna Gentry.
• Assessment of Technological Infrastructure in Native Communities
  This government report examines the access of Native peoples to essential technologies, including computers and the Internet.
• Assessment Rubric for Course Websites
  Assessment Rubric for Course Websites Organization: Stout School of Education, University of Wisconsin. • Focus: Simple website assessment rubrics for self-assessment or peer feedback.
• Astronauts' Views of the Home Planet: Earth from Space
  Astronauts' Views of the Home Planet: Earth from Space - Fascinating images of Earth from the Space Shuttle! Searchable by type of image such as images relating to Earth-human interaction, hurricanes and weather, and more.
• Astronomy and Space Classroom Resources
  provides lessons and web resources from the National Science Digital Library. Learn about amateur telescope making, black holes, UFOs, astronomy research, myths and misconceptions about astronomy, space weather, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the structure and evolution of the universe.
• Astronomy and Space Classroom Resources
  provides lessons and web resources from the National Science Digital Library. Learn about amateur telescope making, black holes, UFOs, astronomy research, myths and misconceptions about astronomy, space weather, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the structure and evolution of the universe.
• Astronomycenter.org
  Features reviewed resources for teaching about asteroids, astrobiology, the big bang theory, black holes, cosmology, dark matter, galaxies, the Milky Way, telescopes & satellites, planet formation, planetary atmospheres, space exploration, stars, the sun, & more. (NSF) Welcome to the alpha test version of astronomycenter.org, a collection of Astronomy 101 digital resources for teachers and students.
• Astronomycenter.org
  features reviewed resources for teaching about asteroids, astrobiology, the big bang theory, black holes, cosmology, dark matter, galaxies, the Milky Way, telescopes & satellites, planet formation, planetary atmospheres, space exploration, stars, the sun, & more. (NSF) Welcome to the alpha test version of astronomycenter.org, a collection of Astronomy 101 digital resources for teachers and students.
• Astrophysics Explorations:
  Stimulating understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration, and discovery. Precollege workshop with curricula and case studies.
• At Home Astronomy
  At Home Astronomy - Hands-on science experiments for the whole family from The Center for Science Education at UC Berkeleyhttp://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/.
• Athens 2004 Olympics
  Feature articles and activities related to the 2004 summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Covers Olympics history, athletes, and specific sports.
• Awesome Library
  Multicultural Site This site organizes 14,000 resources. Find lesson plans, field trips, photos, maps, and online video.
• Backyard Jungle
  (Big Chalk.com Top Web Site) You don�t have to travel any further than your own backyard�and your computer�to take a look at the science that�s just out the back door. This kid-friendly online community allows users to create maps of their natural surroundings (both real and imaginary) and chart the flora and fauna they see.
• Balanced Assessment
  Balanced Assessment offers over 300 mathematics assessment tasks for grades K-12. Topics and activities include averages, addition, area, batting orders, bicycle rides, chance of rain, chance of survival, cheetah's lunch, classroom groups, cost of living, dart boards, detective stories, Fermi estimates, genetic codes, gestation and longevity, graphing, gravity, intersections, logarithms, oil consumption, rectangles, rising prices, squares and circles, stock market, triangles, volume, and more.
• Balanced Assessment
  From 1993 to 2003, the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics Program existed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The project group developed a large collection of innovative mathematics assessment tasks for grades K to 12, and trained teachers to use these assessments in their classrooms.
• Balanced Assessments
    Balanced Assessment offers over 300 mathematics assessment tasks for grades K-12. Topics and activities include averages, addition, area, batting orders, bicycle rides, chance of rain, chance of survival, cheetah's lunch, classroom groups, cost of living, dart boards, detective stories, Fermi estimates, genetic codes, gestation and longevity, graphing, gravity, intersections, logarithms, oil consumption, rectangles, rising prices, squares and circles, stock market, triangles, volume, and more.
• Basic Internet Searching Seminar
  Basic 3-step tutorial with practice exercises This online tutorial is primarily set up to be used in a live, hands-on instructional setting. It is also made available here as an example of hands-on instructional techniques and for those who would like to try it on their own.
• BBC Online
  News form the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
• BBC: Civilisations
  Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline. The rise and fall of civilizations over the history of humankind is a difficult thing to accurately depict in graphic form, but this BBC online presentation is a wholly engrossing way to look at the transformation and dissemination of religions and ideologies.
• Becoming a Scientist
  DescriptionThis resource contains 11 video clips of prominent biomedical researchers responding to the question: What qualities do you need to succeed in biomedical research? All of the researchers are Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators. Transcripts are available on the site.
• Beginning Library Research on African American Studies
  This research site provides a reference guide on the historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans. It was composed by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Services and contains numerous subject categories, including race/identity, press, literature, and history.
• BellSouth's Digital Storyteller
  The BellSouth Digital Storyteller project is an opportunity for students to learn history first hand by interviewing veterans from WWII and Korea. After selecting a topic from the History Curriculum Standards, students identify veterans who have actually experienced the event(s) they are studying.
• Benjamin Franklin , in his Own Words
  "Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words" shows the breadth of Franklin's accomplishments through key letters, broadsides, and other documents. This exhibit, marking the tercentenary of Franklin's birth (1706), focuses on his achievements as a politician and statesman, as well as a printer and writer, an inventor and scientist.
• Bet the Farm
  Synopsis: Developed by the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus, Ohio, this interactive, online game tests users' agricultural knowledge and skills. Players assume the role of a farmer and make a series of choices on what products to raise, how to manage product growth, and how to market the harvest in an effort to keep the farm profitable at the end of the year.http://www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/farm/farmFrame.htm.
• Biocomplexity
  http://bioquest.org/biocomplexity/The Biocomplexity Project is an initiative of the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium to develop strategies for integrating biocomplexity and its multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving in undergraduate education. Key goals of this project are to: 1.
• Biodefense: A Need for Public Understanding ( education)
  [pdf] In the light of the recent concerns over the threat and possibility of bioterrorism, the Office of Science Education at the National Institutes of Health has recently released this informative pamphlet (originally published in fall 2002) for teachers hoping to broaden the topic in the classroom. The publication itself gives teacher an opportunity to discuss how public health decisions are made, explain the role of vaccination in public health, and how to effectively address student concerns about bioterrorist attacks.
• Biography
  - over 20,000 short biographies from Cambridge Dictionary of Biography .
• Biological Diversity in Food and Agriculture
  Across the world, debates about the potential dangers of genetically modified food and the importance of biological diversity continue to dominate a good deal of public discourse, particularly with regard to developing nations. This website, designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, explores some of the many issues surrounding biodiversity in food and agriculture, with important sections devoted to genetic resources, ecosystems, and the socio-economic impacts upon this diversity.
• Biology Classroom Resources
  provides lessons and resources from the National Science Digital Library. Learn about cells, slugs, whales and dolphins, lions and tigers, turtles, biotechnology, biodiversity, genomics, paleontology, and Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Biology in Motion
  Having trouble finding illustrations, diagrams, and interactive activities to supplement biology lectures for your students? Want to provide a visual representation of the passage of blood through the human cardiovascular system--or have your students conduct an online experiment in cell division? "Biology in Motion" offers these and many other features. Based on the premise that the web provides an ideal vehicle for teaching biology, developers have assembled a collection of learning activities, animations, and cartoons designed to help explain difficult, but widely taught, biological concepts.
• Biology Workbench
  The Biology Workbench is widely recognized as a significant bioinformatics resource that provides a suite of interactive tools which draw on a host of biology databases and allows people to compare molecular sequences using high performance computing facilities, visualize and manipulate molecular structures, and generate phylogenetic hypotheses. The Biology Student Workbench brings the advanced computational infrastructure used by today\'s scientists to any student desktop machine with a web browser to provide a rich environment for student inquiry.
• Biomedical Explorations
  Stimulationg understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration and discovery.
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
  This is the right place for civil-rights history Highlight the many triumphs and historical milestones of the 1960s and the Civil Rights movement with this new web site from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Formed in partnership with regional communications carrier BellSouth Corp., this interactive repository features a number of useful resources for teaching and learning.
• BitLaw: a Resource on Technology Law
  BitLaw: a Resource on Technology LawA well-organized and useful tool on technology law, this site contains "over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues." The major topics covered include Patent Law, Software Patents, Trademark Law, Internet Law, Legal Links, Copyright Law, Primary Sources, and Forms and Contracts. http://www.bitlaw.com/.
• Black Facts Online
  Black Facts OnlineBlack Facts Online is a large "online database of Black History information." Users can search the database by date (month and day) or keyword for facts.
• Blogbib: An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging,
  Blogbib: An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, With a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs "This annotated bibliography includes definitions, articles about blogging and about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to presentations on blogging. ..
• Blogger
  What is Blogger?Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly -- whenever the urge strikes. Blogger is the leading tool in the rapidly growing area of web publishing known as weblogs, or "blogs."What is a weblog/blog?A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically_like a what's new page or a journal.
• Blogs in Education
  Created by the Instructional Technology Center at the University of Houston at Clear Lake, this site is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students. "Options for instructors using blogs: Content-related blog as professional practice, Networking and personal knowledge sharing, Instructional tips for students, Course announcements and readings, Annotated links Knowledge management.
• Bluetooth
  Bluetooth: FAQ & Knowledge Base view detail comment email this Questions and answers about this wireless connection system for personal computers and other related handheld devices, which was named after a Viking and king of Denmark. Topics addressed include situations in which Bluetooth may be used and wireless technology issues.
• Bluetooth: FAQ & Knowledge Base
  Questions and answers about this wireless connection system for personal computers and other related handheld devices, which was named after a Viking and king of Denmark. Topics addressed include situations in which Bluetooth may be used and wireless technology issues.
• Bridge to Classroom Understanding of Earthquakes
  Designing and building a bridge to withstand earthquakes is no easy challenge. Explore the science, technology and people involved in the bridge with these interactive learning modules and simulations! http://www.newbaybridge.org/classroom/index.html Features: Lesson ideas Online interactivity Graphics/Multimedia.
• Bridging the Home and School: A Case Study
  In today's society, there are many new technologies that educators have at their disposal to use both inside and outside of theclassroom. One such technology was the focus of the first stage of an on-going project on the "open school" model.
• Building a Digital Workforce
  Taking action to close the IT skills gap in the current and future workforce is a critical challenge for business, labor, education, government, and the nonprofit sector that requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. This report sets out NPA's Digital Economic Opportunity Committee's recommendations for increasing the number of U.S.
• Building a new structure for school leadership.
  Presents a conundrum about school leaders: asked to assume responsibilities they are largely unequipped to assume. Charts a way out of this conundrum through an understanding of large scale instructional improvement.
• Building Effective Teacher Teams
  Middle grades teacher Bill Ferriter loves the group of teachers he's worked with to develop a high-functioning professional learning team. "Over the past year, we have worked hard together in a school founded on the principles of a learning community...(b)ut we've stumbled over the past month.
• Business Schools.com
  Business Schools.com This site is designed to provide detailed information on many different aspects of pursuing an undergraduate or advanced degree in business, along with providing related information on available scholarships and potential career options. Developed as part of the All Schools online network, visitors to the site can search their database of over 1500 schools by state, country, specialty, and educational level.
• Calculus-Help.com
  Calculus-Help.com Grade(s): 11 - 12 Teaching Calculus? This is a site for you. A site that has a recording of the Quadratic Formula Song is obviously full of creative ideas for helping students learn calculus.
• Calendars Through the Ages
  (New Scientist Weblinks selection) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday—it wasn't always like this. Learn how our current Gregorian calendar developed, and about calendars of other cultures, on this interesting Web site.
• California Digital Library
  Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the University of California, the California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world\'s scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve. Established in 1997 as a UC library, the CDL has become one of the largest digital libraries in the world.
• CARET
  The Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions. The site allows you to browse questions and answers, search for studies, and receive notification of new research related to your interests.
• CARET: Center for Applied Research in Education Technology
  CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions.
• Cartoonbank.com
  This is a division of The New Yorker magazine company, "with more than 85,000 records in our central archive-including all the cartoons ever published in The New Yorker. More than 20,000 of those images are available right here on our web site." These cartoons can be searched by keyword, caption, publication date, artist, and other fields.
• Case Creator - A Video-based Case Creation Tool
  The Case Creator allows you to import up to five videos and their corresponding transcripts, synchronize the videos with the transcripts, search the transcripts and cue the video to the desired search result. You can add bookmarks and annotations to the videos and share them with your students.
• Case Study on System Reform -Interactive Model
  GLEF ProjectINTERACTIVE FEATURE What does it take to transform an under- performing urban school district? A new multimedia case study on the Union City Public Schools explores this question in detail.
• Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging Over 500 images
  Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging: A Guide to NSSDC's Planetary Image Archives The imaging catalog contains a collection of over 500 images of the solar system bodies, including the sun, earth, moon, planets, and other astronomical objects taken by various space flight missions. The images are browsable by the individual missions, Hubble Space Telescope, and earth-based radar, providing information on the image's location, time, and imaging details.
• Center for Digital Storytelling
  The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.
• Center for History and New Media
  Center for History and New Media (CHNM) - This great site combines "the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship." From George Mason University. Various plug-ins are required.
• Center for Innovative Learning Technology
  CILT focuses much of its work in four cross-institutional theme teams: Visualization and Modeling, Ubiquitous Computing, Community Tools, and Assessments for Learning. Within the broader field of learning technologies, these themes were selected as areas of critical challenge and important opportunity.Each theme team is composed of two or more leaders in the field, a postdoctoral scholar, and a broader network of participants who collaborate through workshops and projects to set agendas and further the work of the field.
• Center for Media Literacy
  All about teaching media literacy The components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML's Five Key Questions of Media Literacy.    I.
• Center for Women and Information Technology
  This site provides links to online resources relating to women and information technology (IT) including news, learning the basics of computers, careers in IT, training and certification, and more. There is also a bibliography and a FAQ (with links to many outside resources).
• Centuries of Citizenship, A Constitutional Timeline
  is an interactive timeline of events marking more than 200 years of our constitutional history. These events tell the evolving story of our Constitution & the role it continues to play in our lives.
• Cezanne In Provence
  marks the centenary of the death of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), a founding father of modern art. He created some of the most powerful and innovative paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Cezanne in Provence
  Cézanne in Provence Companion to "the principal international exhibition marking 2006 as the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). ..
• Changing the Face of Medicine
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/ an online exhibit of women in medicine "Discover the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine. The individuals featured here provide an intriguing glimpse of the broader community of women doctors who are making a difference.
• Chemistry Coach
  Chemistry coach Grade(s): 10 - 12 Synopsis: You'll find an immense variety of online tutorials, which cover--among other things--how to write up data findings and how students will be evaluated in labs. Other tutorials cover chemistry concepts such as the Bohr theory, the Periodic table, and balancing equations.
• Chemistry Comes Alive
  Chemistry Comes Alive: Sample Movies - From the Journal of Chemical Education. Exciting movies of some explosive, flaming, and colorful chemical reactions.
• Chemistry of How Things Work
  Chemistry of How Things Work and Decisions - Good and Bad - that Bring Chemistry into Our Life Twelve case studies of chemistry in the products we use and the situations we meet. ChemCases.com helps you evaluate the decisions behind these products and situations.
• Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Life
  Extensive site produced as a joint effort by several people associated with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Includes broad topical headings such as: Restoration & Protection, Bay Grasses, Harmful Algae, Bay Monitoring, Bay Life Guide, and Bay Education.
• Chicano Arts Digital Image Collection
  This collection of 500 images with descriptions is a representative sampling of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) at UC Santa Barbara's library. They are a small cross-section of four of California's most important Chicano Latino cultural arts centers and galleries: San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, Los Angeles' Self-Help Graphics and Art, San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, and Sacramento's Royal Chicano Air Force.
• Children in History
  Children sailed with Columbus, mediated between English colonists and Indians, were kidnapped into slavery, fought in the Revolution and the Civil War, labored in coal mines and factories and stood at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. Hear their words and see their pictures in this Web site put together by historians Steve Mintz and Sara McNeil presenting American history through children's voices.
• Chronic Teacher Turnover in Urban Elementary Schools [pdf]
  The Education Policy Analysis Archives is well regarded for its peer- reviewed articles that deal with a broad range of topics related to education policy, ranging from articles on college graduation rates to developing culturally sensitive teaching materials. One of the most recent articles will be of great interest to those with an interest in the problem of teacher turnover and attrition in urban elementary schools.
• CIESE Online Classroom Resources
  The New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education Resource page lists some of the finest projects and lesson ideas created for K-12 science education. To participate in science projects that can only be done using Internet resources, take a look at "The Gulf Stream: A Global Investigation" or , "The Morgan Tutorial," which investigates the field of genetics.
• Civil War and Reconstruction
  provides documents and images for learning about "fugitive from labor" cases and black soldiers in the Civil War. The site includes Civil War photos by Mathew Brady and letters, telegrams, and photos illustrating factors that affected the Civil War.
• Classical Music Search
  Identify melodies by playing a musical phrase on a digital piano keyboard! This search engine will sift through a database of more than 1,500 well-known classical compositions to create a list of pieces containing that phrase. The list produced by the search includes composer, title, and brief MIDI files.
• Classroom Connect
  Classroom Connect is a provider of professional development and online curriculum resources that foster successful use of the Internet in education. They offer the K-12 education community a customized subscription service package that includes the professional learning programmes and standard-based classroom learning materials available, complete with face-to-face training and ongoing customer support.
• Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World
  "An interactive guide to the Ancient Art Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago" that focuses on the three cultures of the ancient Mediterranean: Italy, Egypt, and Greece. Eighteen objects are featured, each with close-up views and related stories in audio.
• Coastal Explorations
  Coastal Explorations is a virtual photojournal that allows learners to explore the coasts of New Jersey and California. explore a variety of coastal formations and unique features in many different locations along the California and New Jersey coasts.
• Code Talk
  Code Talk is a federal inter-agency Native American website that provides information for Native American communities. Code Talk is hosted by the U.S.
• Collaborative Action Research Model
  Collaborative Action Research Model. A study team of two or more researchers is formed for a year long study commitment.
• Colonial House (PBS)
  Indentured servitude. No baths or showers.
• Common-place
  Common-placeA quarterly interactive journal "for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture. A bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks--and listens--to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900." Includes articles, reviews, and discussion forums.
• Comparison of Search Engine User Interface Capabilities
  This table shows "the search tool features different robot-driven search engines offer." Created by Gillian Westera, a librarian at Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia.
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
  This comprehensive resource for English teachers, students and Shakespeare enthusiasts includes a Shakespeare discussion area, Shakespeare Internet resources, chronological and alphabetical listing of plays, familiar quotations, and glossary.
• Computational Chemistry
  Stimulating understanding of computational chemistry through collaboration, experiment, exploration and discovery.
• Computer Crime: A Lesson Plan for Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Children
  Computer Crime: A Lesson Plan for Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Children looks at issues in the field of computer crime, including predatory behavior and breaking into systems to vandalize and/or steal information and intellectual property. The site also offers a "Code of Responsible Computing" as developed by the Computer Learning Foundation.
• Computer Virus Index
  Computer Virus IndexThese are the complete virus-l and alt.comp.virus newsgroup FAQs. Considered to be the most complete, authoritative, and current information on computer viruses.
• Conservation Central
  About Conservation Central Conservation Central is a habitat education program, presented by Fujifilm, our Partner in Conservation Education. This program explores the temperate forest, home of the giant panda and black bear, through the online activities such as Design a Panda Habitat Try your hand at designing a new giant panda habitat for Mei Xiang and Tian Tian.
• Consumer Jungle: Promoting Consumer Literacy for Young Adults
  Consumer Jungle is a web-based program that helps turn high school students into savvy consumers. Site includes student activities, unit plans for teachers and information for parents.
• Cool Robot Of The Week
  Cool Robot of the Week - Each week, the NASA Space Telerobotics Program features a new robotics-related Web site. The archive contains hundreds of past selections.The honor of being listed as "Cool Robot Of The Week" is bestowed upon those robotics-related web sites which portray highly innovative solutions to robotics problems, describe unique approaches to implementing robotics system, or present exciting interfaces for the dissemination of robotics-related information or promoting robotics technology.
• Cool Science for Curious Kids
  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology on screen, off screen and in between. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.htmlhttp://.
• Coping with a National Tragedy
  Includes coping with terrorism, promoting tolerance, recognizing severe trauma reaction, managing anger and other strong emotions, preventing suicide, school memorials, children and war, and helping children with special needs cope.
• Copyright Kids
  Whenever you write a poem or story or even a paper for your class, or a drawing or other artwork, you automatically own the copyright to it. Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or creators of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual works.
• Coral Reefs
  Access NOAA's Coral Reef online. Here you will find the latest news on coral reefs as well as links to the various NOAA web sites with additional information.
• Count Us In
  Count Us In (ENC Digital Dozen Award) The games on this Web site are geared to younger children, with fancifully-illustrated exercises to help them grasp basic number concepts. Addition, subtraction, and number recognition are conveyed through cartoons of everyday activities such as bowling, boarding a bus, and visiting the beach.
• Create a Graph
  "Create a Graph" helps students create their own graphs & charts. This online tool can be used to make 4 kinds of charts & graphs: bar graphs, line graphs, area graphs, & pie charts.
• Creative Experiences for Young Children. Third Edition
  Noting that a creative approach to early childhood education allows teachers to reinforce the foundation of achievement by encouraging and expanding upon children's play activities, this book provides teacher-developed ideas and strategies for creating learning communities in the early childhood classroom.
• Creative Quotations
  http://creativequotations.com/This searchable database cites the source of each quotation. The quotations can also be brought up by month and day.
• Critical Evaluation of a Web Page -- Lesson Plan
  Grades 6-8...from the master, Kathy Schrock Technology Research Tools * Students use technology to locate, evaluate and collect information from a variety of sources. * Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources concerning real world problems.
• DesertUSA
  This site calls itself an "online travel and adventure guide to the desert regions of the American Southwest." It is much more. There are sections devoted to animals, plants, people (Native Americans, explorers, and ancient peoples), geology, Places to Go (parks, towns, museums, etc), Things to Do (rock, climbing, auto touring, water sports, hiking, etc.), recipes, and more.
• Design Your Own Robot
  Design Your Own Robot from Museum of Science, Boston Robots have long been part of the popular imagination. Most people have some vague ideas about robots from having read about them in science fiction stories or seeing them in movies, on television, and elsewhere.
• Designing Accessible Web Sites
  Designing Accessible Web Sites - how to make your pages more accessible to users with disabilities.
• Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
  Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing A browsable dictionary of "abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms ..
• Digital Classroom Assets IMLS
  Thanks to IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), over 2000 digital photographs, QuickTime movies, PDF and Word files selected for educators are now available for free at: Search the database by keyword, display the results, select the ones you want to use, and download them onto your desktop.
• Digital Information Fluency Project
  Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment.
• Digital Library at the Exploratorium
  Digital Library at the Exploratorium The different collections in the library include digital media and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities in PDF and html formats, QuickTime movies, streaming media, and audio files. You may search, select and download digital files for individual, noncommercial educational use.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education
  presents thousands of reviewed resources on atmospheric science, biology, chemistry, climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography, geology, mineralogy & petrology, hydrology, mathematics, natural hazards, ocean sciences, physics, soil science, space science, & more. (NSF) .
• Digital Photo Librarian Image Editor 4.0
  For persons hoping to catalog and modify extensive digitized photo collections, the Digital Photo Librarian application will be a welcome addition to their software library. The application allows users to manage large photo collections, along with providing the capability of supporting a variety of image formats.
• Digital Photography: Fun With Photos
  Many different tips for teachers when working with digital imagery. Topics include working with graphics, scanning, activity ideas and PhotoShop tips.
• Digital Toolbox
  This well-designed site has tutorials for Microsoft's Front Page and PowerPoint applications. In addition you will find links to tutorials and help pages for learning HTML; Adobe Photoshop; and Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave.
• Digital Universe Portal
  What Is The Digital Universe? The Digital Universe is a pilot program for a network of web portals that will become the largest reliable information resource in history. The Digital Universe features a seamless new visual navigation system and a unique activity-based system for organizing the best of the Web through functions such as Explore, and later, Communicate, Watch, Blog, and Play.
• Digital Video for the Web
  This extensive resource covers all aspects of putting digital media on the web. It covers: needs; production, users computer; data rates; media architecture; streaming, video standards and formats; codecs; compression; frames; sampling; and optimization.
• Digital Workshops
       offers online professional development for teachers in math      and science, language arts, and other areas.  Watch      presentations on vocabulary, phonemic awareness, reading and      writing in the content areas, algebra, measurement and      geometry, computation, linear equations, differentiated      instruction, history, inclusive classrooms, using data to      improve instruction, No Child Left Behind basics, and more.      Many states offer professional development credit for teachers      who participate.  (ED)      http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/.
• Digitales The art of telling digital stories
  Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity.
• Digitales, The Art of Telling Digital Stories
  Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity.
• Dinosaurs
  Helps students answer questions about dinosaurs dinosaur "a dinosaur"? Where did they live? What caused their mass extinction? Students can participate in a virtual dinosaur discovery, follow milestones in dinosaur evolution, & see behind-the-scenes slideshows of the lab environment where vertebrate specimens are prepared for exhibits & research. (NMNH,SI) .
• Dinosphere: Now You're in THEIR World
  Using actual specimens from the Dinosphere: Now You're in Their World exhibit, The Children's Museum staff along with local educators and university professionals collaborated to create engaging, K-8 standards-based online activities and WebQuests. There are eight activities for K - 2, divided into nonreader, early reader, and reader categories.
• Dis Information
  With the slogan: "Information is Power" this is the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom appears in the corporate owned media conglomerates. A selected database, some accompanied with short reviews, from quality news sources and Web sites found interesting, provocative and essential.
• Discover Our Earth
  Welcome to the Teacher's Guide to Cornell University's Discover Our Earth pages. The Discover Our Earth project provides a variety of resources designed to help you and your students explore Earth processes by accessing primary Earth science data.
• dMarie Time Capsule
  A simple tool to help locate news headlines based on the date you enter. Quick Page will automatically generate a Time Capsule page for you.
• DMTCS: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
  DMTCS: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science This "is a high standard peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to rapid publication of innovative research which covers the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and puts a certain emphasis on the intersection of these two fields." Includes abstracts and full text of articles from issues back to 1997. Searchable.
• Documents [International Olympic Committee]
  Collection of official documents from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), covering topics such as the 2004 Athens Olympics, choice of host city, marketing, records, and conferences. Includes documents from the Olympic Studies Center, the Olympic Museum Lausanne, and other IOC-related groups.
• Dr. Saul's Biology in Motion
  Dr. Saul's Biology in Motion - Lots of interactive online activities and exhibits for students and teachers! .
• Drawing the Western Frontier
  - This exhibit from the Smithsonian features the work of James E. Taylor, a 19th century illustrator who accompanied Gen.
• Dream Anatomy Learning Station
  Learning Station Explore Dream Anatomy Learning Station, a companion educational web site for the Dream Anatomy exhibition created by and displayed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland. Dream Anatomy presents a rich collection of images and artifacts reflecting "anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present." Using the fascinating stories and images of the exhibition, the Learning Station provides lesson plans and activities designed especially for educators and students at 6-12 grade levels.
• DSLreports.com
  DSLreports.comLots of information on DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and general broadband availability (including cable and satellite hookups). The site provides news; user reviews of providers; a database of providers (search by zip code); information on competing and future broadband alternatives; a directory of resources including technology, hot high speed sites, and security; and a tools section that includes bandwith speed tests, ping, packet loss testing, and much more.
• e School News online
  A monthly newsletter published during the school year discussing K-12 educational technology, available in both print and electronic formats.
• E-Learning Guru
  ****This site is jam packed with "how to" articles, templates andcalculators in the tool box, dozens of white papers, time saving booksummaries and links to the best sites on the net. Looking at e-learningfor your schools; begin with the article e-Learning Alphabet Soup.
• e-Mission: Operation Montserrat
  e-Mission: Operation Montserrat is based on a real historical event. The volcano on the normally tranquil island of Montserrat has come to life.
• Earth and Environmental Science Research Overview
  examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate? What can rock layers tell us about earth's history? How can we understand the forces that lead to earthquakes and volcanoes? How can organisms live without sunlight? How do long-term changes affect earth's ecosystems? (NSF) .
• Earth From Space
  Fascinating images of Earth from the Space Shuttle! Searchable by type of image such as images relating to Earth-human interaction, hurricanes and weather, and more.
• Earth Observatory
  If you love earth science, or just thinking about the systems of the earth, this is the ultimate web site. This website uses maps, views from satellites and a lot of information that is databased or aggregated to explain, explore, and show data about the earth in scientific ways.
• Earth Observing System (EOS) Education Project*
  The Earth Observing System (EOS) Education Project disseminates Earth system science imagery and supportive curriculum to the global kindergarten through undergraduate level (K-16) education community. The EOS Education Project provides Internet-based and on-site training for the K-16 education community in the interpretation, utilization and relevancy of EOS mission imagery.
• EarthCam
  Started in 1996, the EarthCam company was one of the first corporations to begin delivering services designed to assist those persons seeking to set up the necessary infrastructure to send live images across the globe. This free site is a helpful way to take a peek at literally thousands of places (including some rather unusual ones) around the world.
• Earthlights at Night NASA Goddard
  This is a website that shows the concentration of light, artificial from the earth's surface to show megacities, and the patterns of population on the earth's surface.
• Earthquake Activity World Map
  Click on a point to go to a particular region on the world map. There you can click again to find more detailed information on recent earthquakes.
• Educating Jane
  EducatingJane.com is a national site for girls, their parents and educators dedicated to girls' self-esteem, self-awareness, and involvement in the world. Education is our highest priority.
• Education Magazine
  Education Magazinehttp://www.education-world.com/Education World is a periodical published in both print and electronic formats. The magazine addresses current educational issues.
• Education Week
  Education Week is a national print and online magazine that focuses on current educational issues.
• Education@Palm
  Education@Palmhttp://www.palm.com/education/Latest information, from Palm, on what Palm is doing for education. Includes News and Events, Software Solutions, Success Stories, Programs, and Resource Library.
• Educational Resources on Asia
  Educational Resources on AsiaThis site provides resources and links to educational material relating to Asia. These include reference works, online periodicals, educational films and suppliers, K-12 curriculum materials and vendors, full-text of significant historical documents (primarily constitutional), as well as demographic, economic, educational, and political statistics.
• Educators as Partners for Learning
  Educators as Partners for Learninghttp://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.htmlA National Program to Improve Science Education in Grades 4-9 Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the PacificProject ASTRO links professional and amateur astronomers with 4th - 9th grade teachers in their communities. After the astronomer-teacher partners are trained together at 2-day workshops, each volunteer astronomer "adopts" a class or youth group and makes at least four visits during the year.
• EGroups
  Have you ever wanted to set up an e-mailing list or online discussion group, but didn't know how? eGroups is just the ticket: a free, easy to use discussion tool that will help you set up and manage group communication. eGroups automatically archives list messages, allows users to set their own preferences, and even allows you to build a group calendar that can automatically send reminders to the group for events on the calendar.
• Election 2002
  1. Election 2002: Youth and Technology Candidate Information Program- Adapt & use these "off-the-shelf" advocacy tools to raise awareness amongcandidates and the public about the technology gap faced by youth andlow-incomecommunities.
• Emotional Intelligence At a Glance
  Episodes of school violence have focused attention on "quick fix" solutions, but the answer doesn't lie in equipping schools with metal detectors. We must help students develop the skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflict nonviolently, and respect differences.
• emTech - Emerging Technologies
  Below a comprehensive list of web sites useful for teachers, students, administrators, and other professional educators.
• Energy & Recycling
  Explores the link between solid waste & energy, the history of garbage, how landfills work, & related topics. Biographies of pioneers in energy &"energy news you can use" are offered for students.
• Environmental Science
  Stimulating understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration, and discovery.
• Ethics in Computing
  Browse or search for information about the basics of ethics in computing or specific topics such as privacy, free speech, computer abuse, intellectual property, risks, commerce, and social justice in this tidily organized set of links.
• Ethnology Database ( Bishop museum-pacific region)
  "Photographs and detailed information...for more than 400 cultural objects" from the Pacific region. Surfboards, hula drums, barkcloth, quilts, featherwork, makaloa mats, wooden bowls, and stone pounders are included in the online exhibit.
• Ethnomathematics Digital Library
  Welcome to the pilot Ethnomathematics Digital Library. The EDL is planned as a resource network, with links to relevant websites worldwide.
• Ethomathematic on the Web
  EthnomathematicsSites listed by ethnicity/geographySites listed by social categoriesSites listed by utility.
• Excelencia Para Todos--Excellence for All: The Progress of Hispanic Education and the Challenges of the New Century. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley (Bell Multicultural High School, Washington, DC, March 15, 2000)
  The main theme of Richard W. Riley's speech is the importance of quality education to America's Latino community.
• Experiencing War (Voices of War): Stories from the Veterans
  This is a preview of the Web site which accompanies the second book of stories from the collections of the Veterans History Project. Forever a Soldier: Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service contains 37 tales of servicemen and women who served our country in every major war from World War I through the current conflict in Iraq.
• Exploratorium: Origins
  Explore the extraordinary places, people, tools and ideas behind the search for the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself. We�ve all stood outside at night and admired the stars, wondering how they were created and whether there might be life somewhere among them Looking at the sky, you might wonder how life arose and evolved, and how the smallest pieces of matter come together to make up all that we see in the vast universe.
• Explore Your Knowledge
  Explore Your Knowledge challenges students to try their hand at 4th and 8th grade math & science questions taken from the Third International Mathematics & Science Study.
• exploreMarsnow.org
  This site presents an interactive, three-dimensional model of a possible base station and habitat for the first humans on Mars. It includes the base exterior, the layout, work and living spaces, greenhouse, Mars car, robot rovers, and, and other details.
• Exploring Other Number Patterns ( 3-5)
  Illuminations, The National Council of Teachers of MathematicsStudents analyze numeric patterns, including the Fibonacci series of numbers, so named for the Italian mathematician (1175-1240) who discovered their sequence. They also describe numeric patterns and then record them in table form.
• Exploring the Env