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  • 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.
  • Crosspoint Anti Racism
    Crosspoint Anti RacismAn international, searchable collection of briefly annotated links covering such topics as anti-racism/anti-fascism, migrants, anti-Semitism/Shoah, migrants/diversity, indigenous people, Jewish resources/Shoah, human rights/refugees, disability resources, Roma/Sinti/Travellers, gays & lesbians, and women's rights. Can be browsed by country or by topic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Resources for Distance Learning Library Services
    Guidelines, discussion groups, conferences, mailing lists, selected readings, a selection of representative distance education Web sites, and related links. By Cynthia W.
  • 21st Century Literacy
    Twenty-First Century LiteracyBertram C. Bruce (Chip)Library and Information Science501 East Daniel St., mc 493University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL 61820217-244-3576; 217-333-3280fax: [email protected]/~chip[A version of this paper appears (1998) under the title, "Current Issues and Future Directions" in J.
  • 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!.
  • A Guide To NASA Educational Programs
    Teacher/Faculty Preparation And Enhancement ProgramsoK-12oHigher EducationStudent Support ProgramsoK-12oHigher Education*Educational Technology Programs*Support of Systemic Improvement Program*Curriculum Support and Dissemination*Research and Developmenthttp://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/2000/nep/programs/index.html.
  • 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.
  • Active Learning with Technology
    The first 6 modules of the Active Learning with Technology professional development portfolio set the stage for understanding how constructivist learning environments are created and implemented. The modules demonstrate learner-centered instructional and classroom management settings such as inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, small group learning, and using commonly available software to support a learner-centered environment.
  • 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.
  • African Music and Dance Ensemble
    The Ensemble broadens access to knowledge about Africa's rich cultural heritage across the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ensemble has taught the skill, artistry and philosophy that inform the African music and dance traditions.
  • African Photography
    African Photography Alphabetical index and collection of images compiled by Afrique en Creations in Paris including Mama Cassett, and Pierrot Men. [In French].
  • 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 About Jazz
    A comprehensive site, All About Jazz contains interviews, a photo gallery, articles, a wonderful interactive timeline, and more.
  • Amazing Picture Machine
    Search for pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet.Excellent collection and easily searchable, with an annotated list of good photograph and image sites and a list of the types of pictures in the database.Good for educational uses, from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
  • American Collection: An Educator's Site
    American Collection: An Educator's SiteHighlighting the works of six-great authors--Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty--the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
  • American Folklife Center
    The American Folklife Center, which houses correspondence, artifacts, sound recordings, and photographs documenting folk arts, has showcased a number of its collections online.
  • American Memory Learning Page
    American Memory Learning Page features dozens of teacher-designed lessons using the many online collections of images, songs, interviews, sheet music, maps, and documents of the Library of Congress. An online workshop by Paddy Bowman of CARTS introduces folklore with activities teachers can replicate with students.
  • 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.
  • Analyze Technology Needs
    Educators will need to take action on three fronts, which include defining what it means to be educated in a digital, knowledge-based society, transforming schools into high-performance learning organizations responsive to this new definition, and establishing new measures for assessing student progress.
  • Ancient World Web
    This site presents annotated lists, gathered into broad categories, of Web sites that document medieval - and older - history, theory, and scholarship. With a few exceptions, coverage stops at 1000 A.D.
  • 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.
  • Anthropological Resources for Teaching Social Studies
    Links to resources for teaching about world cultures, including African American, Latin American, and Native American.
  • 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.
  • Archaeology Public Education
    The Society for American Archaeology Public Education Committee has developed a variety of resources to help educators incorporate archaeology into classroom teaching. Many are now available free on the SAA web site.
  • Archimedes
    This site is a collection of Archimedean miscellanea under continual development. Grade(s): 9 - 12 Synopsis: Get to know the father of integral calculus at this site chock full of everything you ever wanted to know, or didn't know you wanted to know, about Archimedes.
  • Archives of African-American Music&Culture
    Archives of African-American Music&CultureWeb site devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for the purpose of research and study of African-American music and culture.http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc.
  • Art Studio Chalkboard
    This site is a resource for artists and art students focusing on the fundamentals of perspective, shading, and color. Students are also given the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers that relate to techniques and principles of design.
  • Artslynx: International Arts Resources
    Artslynx: International Arts Resources. The amazingly wide scope of this comprehensive arts site includes links to information on organizations and collections; arts advocacy, education, funding, and administration; healing and disabilities; history; and more.
  • Ask Dr. Math
    Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
  • AskA+ Locator
    AskA+ LocatorThis directory of online question answering services (AskA) is "designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet." Each service listing includes identification information (e.g., publisher, e-mail address, contact name, and links), scope, target audience, and a general description of the service. Searchable and browsable.
  • Assessment for Learning
    There is another way in which assessments can contribute to the development of effective schools, one that has been largely ignored.The evolution of assessment in this country over the past five decades has led to the strongly held view that school improvement requires the articulation of high achievement standards, transformation of those expectations into rigorous assessments, and expectation that educators will be held accountable for student achievement as reflected in student test scores.
  • Assessment Help for Teachers
    Teachers make judgments about students every day, based on such formal and informal appraisals of their work as classroom observation, homework assignments, and teacher-made quizzes. Soon, they'll have the first set o fprofessional standards to help guide them in making such decisions.The 220-page "Student Evaluation Standards" is on track to be approved this week by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, a nonprofit group whose members represent 18 national education organizations.
  • Assessment of Learning
    Assessmen is the systematic, on-going, iterative process of monitoring learning in order to determine what we are doing well and what we must improve. Assessment involves observing, describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting information.
  • Assessment Research by Roberta Furger
    Academic research points to the benefits -- and identifies ongoing challenges -- of implementing performance assessments in K-12 classrooms. Studies also identify the impact technology can have and is having on both classroom and large-scale assessments.
  • Assessment Resources
    This PowerPoint presentation introduces the assessment process. It discusses the importance of assessment, standardized testing, authentic assessment, and rubrics.
  • Assessments of Multimedia Technology in Education
    This is a Bibliography of a growing body of research devoted to assessing the effectiveness of multimedia in all levels of education, including corporate and military training.
  • Asssessment and Technology
    Assessment &Technology Project Sampler.
  • 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.
  • Bartelby.com
    Bartelby.com, which began as a research experiment in 1993 at Columbia University, has grown into a high-quality reference tool and an extensive repository of classic literature. It includes works by hundreds of authors: including over 10,000 poems and 86,000 quotations.
  • 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.
  • Best of History Web Sites
    This site provides categorized links to hundreds of "history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Sites with engaging content and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included.
  • Biology Workbench
    Biology Workbench Education Enhancement is a collection of tutorials, project links and a discussion group related to the use of the Biology Workbench protein and nucleic acid sequence multi-database research tool developed by the National Computational Science Alliance and hosted at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. This project invites educators to collaborate and contribute to the development and collection of tutorial.
  • Blackboard
    Transforming the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learningFormed with this vision, Washington D.C.-based Blackboard Inc. has become the leading provider of Internet infrastructure software for e-Education.Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total___e-Education Infrastructure___ for schools, colleges, universities, and other education providers.
  • Blank & Outline Maps
    This collection includes printable outline maps of the world, continents, regions, countries, the states of the U.S., and the provinces of Canada. Maps are free "for educational or personal use at home or in the classroom." From About.com's geography page.
  • 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. ..
  • 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 Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs
    Building Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs Offers an array of publications on components of comprehensive school improvement, professional development, community engagement, selection of classroom instructional approaches, and resource allocations, among other topics.
  • CalPhotos: People and Culture
    A collection of nearly 500 photographs of people and their culture from around the globe. Searchable by location, caption, type, continent, country, U.S.
  • 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.
  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
    "This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."For teachers, use the Curriculum Areas link for helpful hints in finding books in a variety of subject areas, plus lessons plans and display ideas. The site is focused on preK - 8th grade educator's needs.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Chemistry Comes Alive
    Chemistry Comes Alive: Sample Movies - From the Journal of Chemical Education. Exciting movies of some explosive, flaming, and colorful chemical reactions.
  • CHemviz
    ChemVizThe Chemistry Visualization program at NCSA (ChemViz) is a program which uses the power of the World Wide Web in combination with the power of the SGI supercomputer to generate images of atoms, molecules, and atomic orbitals. The user inputs a set of parameters as they are prompted and submits these parameters to the supercomputer.
  • Chinatown Banquet
    Chinatown Banquet A community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese banquet raising awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown, the city's most densely populated residential neighborhood.
  • Classroom Support
    Classroom SupportThese resources help education professionals assess skill levels for both teachers and students, and set grade-appropriate goals for students. This section also includes links to education information, provides teachers with ideas for technology-based lesson plans, and includes the tools necessary for creating appropriate use policies for these new technologies.
  • Climate Prediction Center
    Climate Prediction Center - The Climate Prediction Center serves the public by assessing and forecasting the impacts of short-term climate variability and emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related extreme events. Educational materials include information on the ENSO cycle, and fact sheets and monographs.
  • 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.
  • Communication as the Foundation of Distance Education
    Communication plays a vital role in learning, not only with respect to expository and discussion methods of instruction, but at a more consequential level in the development of higher mental processes through acquiring and learning to manipulate symbols.
  • 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.
  • Computer Based Presentations
    Provides tips for doing computer-based presentations using an LCD panel or data projector. Sections on: using your computer; the presentation equipment, general guidelines and guidelines for the presenter.
  • Connected Teacher
    Connected TeacherConnected Teacher is a free community resource for educators for sharing insights, finding new lesson plans, or visiting the links to educational materials for educators. As a member, you can get expert advice, meet teachers from your area, or report on what's going on in your classroom.
  • Cooper Hewitt, The National Design Museum
    Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible.
  • Critical Issue: Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use
    Whether technology should be used in schools is no longer the issue in education. Instead, the current emphasis is ensuring that technology is used effectively to create new opportunities for learning and to promote student achievement.
  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
    The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 6,400 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.
  • Developing WWW Research Lessons
    This site helps teachers to develop and post a WWW integrated lesson, that creates opportunities for students to solve problems and create new answers, and gives teachers ways to use the WWW as a tool in their classrooms.
  • Digital Classroom
    This well organized site provides materials from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), methods for teaching with primary sources, and sample lesson plans for K-12 teachers. Nearly twenty topics are outlined in Primary Sources and Activities, including such subjects as Constitution Day, the Amistad case, black soldiers during the Civil War, and Jackie Robinson as a civil rights advocate.
  • Digital Photos Online
    Digital Photos OnlineWesley FryerThere used to be a considerable delay between capturing an event on film and sharing the resulting photos with others and it was also very costly. Digital photography, based on bits rather than atoms, is dramatically changing this process.
  • 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.
  • Distance Education Clearinghouse
    Distance Education ClearinghouseComprehensive, annotated, searchable, up-to-date directory of resources.http://www.uwex.edu/disted/Subject: Distance educationCategory: Directories.
  • Drawing in One-point Perspective
    Drawing in One-point Perspective - How do artists draw things so they look three-dimensional? This site explains the principles of one-point perspective, and provides some hands-on activities to help you learn!2005-11-22.
  • 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.
  • Education for All
    Education for All (EFA)The major focus of this searchable site are the findings of basic education assessments of 180 countries. The reports for each country contain funding; issues and goals; statistics on enrollment; literacy; educational levels of teachers; academic and vocational education; evaluation of early childhood, primary, and secondary instruction; and more.
  • Education Week
    Education Week is a national print and online magazine that focuses on current educational issues.
  • 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.
  • Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
    This is a way for teachers to understand, not just the Internet, but the use of technology as media. We describe a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested years ago by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
  • Educator's Reference Desk
    Educator's Reference Desk is a Internet-based service providing education information to teachers and others interested in education.
  • Emerging Influences of Information Technology on School Curriculum
    Just as information technology has improved effectiveness in medicine, finance, manufacturing, and numerous other sectors of society, advanced computing and telecommunications have the potential to help students master complex 21st century skills. Research-based curriculum projects are developing technologies that enable online virtual communities of practice using advanced tools to solve real world problems.
  • emTech - Emerging Technologies
    Below a comprehensive list of web sites useful for teachers, students, administrators, and other professional educators.
  • eNature
    Kudos to the National Audobon Society for this great site. Now, you have access to field guides for more than 4800 species of plants and animals.
  • ETB Thesaurus
    The European Treasury Browser (ETB) Project has recently released amultilingual thesaurus available in eight languages: Danish, English,French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. The thesaurus is"aimed at indexing educational resources" and building an "interoperableinfrastructure to exchange and network metadata on educational resources forschools in Europe." The project seeks to add value to national resourcecollections by allowing teachers and students to locate Europe resources.The thesaurus gives users access to all resources, regardless of theindexing method used.
  • 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.
  • Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
    Time-tested, librarian-created guide to copyright, intellectual property, fair use, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, bias and resource evaluation. Excellent.
  • Evaluating Web Resources
    This site, created by two librarians at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, provides a set of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Types of pages include advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, and personal web pagesThis is an example of learning to evaluate the resources on the web.
  • Evaluation Design and Tools
    Walker's evaluation design model is intended to help answer three basic questions:1. Why should you evaluate your project?2.
  • 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.
  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC)
    Developed as an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, the early Islamic world, and medieval Europe with essays, chronologies and primary texts. Searchable indices for related essays, images, electronic texts, Internet sites and a space-time, cross-cultural chronology.
  • Extend
    This is a web conference site dedicated to discussion on mathematics education.Extend also includes NSF Comprehensive Curriculum Projects for Reform of Mathematics Education. The National Science Foundation has funded several large curriculum development projects for elementary, middle school, and secondary mathematics.
  • Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
    The Michigan State University Library, in partnership with the MSU Museum,have created a fascinating look into American epicurean history with their online trove of influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks.
  • Filters and Filtering
    The Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association has pulled together a lot of information on their site that deals with the filtering issue as well as providing links to more information, including a summary and the full text of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), information on the Neighborhood Children___s Internet Protection Act (NCIPA), news articles, and more. This is a site to guide the individual teacher.
  • Finding Information on the Internet
    The best introduction to Internet searching on the Web. Be sure to check out the section on how to choose search tools - there is an excellent chart comparing the features of the major Web search engines and directories.
  • Five Commentaries: Looking to the Future
    Five Commentaries: A series of responses from experts representing various disciplines and backgrounds to the question: "How can we help ensure computer technology is used equitably, effectively, and ethically to promote positive child development?".
  • Folkstreams(video streaming website) documentaries
    Folkstreams presents the best of American Folklore films. Our site's mission is the wide, free online distribution of video streams of difficult to find independent films and videos depicting American folk, traditional, regional and vernacular culture.
  • Function and Meaning in Classic Mayan Architecture
    score: 1000Full text of an anthology discussing many facets of Mayan buildings including design, construction, ritual architecture, houses, iconography, and more. From a symposium in 1994 at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.
  • Geography Network
    The Geography Network is an online resource to discover and access geographic content, including live maps and data, from many of the world's leading providers.
  • Gina Amenta-Shin Ed. D.
    Gina is a member of ISTE's NETS for Teachers Writing Team and NSCD's Staff Development Standards for Online Learning Team . Through her past experiences as both a doctoral student and professor, Gina has developed multiple perspectives of distance learning - using interactive technology and virtual communities to facilitate online professional development.
  • GIS.COM
    GIS software can help learners of all ages grasp the ways that geography affects their everyday lives and the world around them. GIS helps students and teachers engage in studies that require and promote critical thinking, integrated learning, and multiple intelligences--at any grade level.
  • Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
    Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) This is an international network of students, teachers, and scientists who are studying the global environment. It is made up of over 6,000 schools in more than 70 countries.
  • Google Labs
    This experimental site from the Google search engine "showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time." Play with keyboard shortcuts, telephone searching, a glossary (thesaurus), and more.http://labs.google.com/.
  • Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
    Full text and pictures of the classic, Gray's "Anatomy of the Human Body".
  • Guggenheim.org
    This site introduces you to the five Guggeheim Museums. Venice, Italy; New York; Berlin, GR; Bilbao, Spain; Las Vegas, NV.
  • Guide to African American Documentary Resources
    A highly selective collection of over 80 annotated links to sites "relating to African American history," including academic, government, and other sites, and digitization projects. Searchable and browsable.
  • Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
    This handbook is the product of four years of developing and revising curricula for School for Scanning conferences presented throughout the U.S. by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC).
  • Handheld Education.com
    The purpose of this site is to help teachers and students improve teaching and learning through the use of handheld computers.
  • Handhelds Go to Class - New short film and story!
    In one of the largest school implementations to date, District 230 in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park equipped its three high schools with 2,200 handheld computers in the fall of 2000. Interested teachers were given classroom sets or students could buy or lease the handheld computers.
  • How Does Project-Based Learning Work?
    "We've got to know the curriculum. We've got to know the standards inside and out.
  • Hubble Heritage Project
    The Hubble Heritage Project This site makes the most of what Hubble has to offer, with a gallery of gorgeous images, plus other art inspired by them. It also links to astronomy background resources, the news desk of Hubblesite.org.
  • Illuminations
    Designed to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. Offers interactive lessons for students, lesson plans for teachers, and math applets, all arranged by grade level.
  • In Thy Map Securely Saile
    Maps, Atlases, Charts, and Globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection "Focusing on the New World as it was viewed by the British in the 17th and 18th centuries, this online exhibition examines the ways in which maps and charts were used to provide information on natural resources and settlements in the New World and to reflect the expansion of the British empire across the globe." From the New York Public Library.
  • Index of Native American Cultural Resources
    Index of Native American Cultural Resources A comprehensive directory of Native American information, including Web sites about Native American culture, history, education, and jobs.
  • Information Technology and Disabilities
    This quarterly refereed journal is intended for educators, librarians, academic computing staff, job accommodations/human relations professionals, and others interested in new technology and its effective use by people with disabilities. From EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information).
  • Integrating Internet, Instruction and Curriculum) Engaged Learning Home Page
    The Fermilab LInC Online (Leadership Institute Integrating Internet, Instruction and Curriculum) Engaged Learning Home Page, links to online resources designed to help you understand the indicators of engaged learning, indicators of high technology performance and good project design. Categories include: Engaged Learning Project Simulations Investigating Engaged Learning Analyzing Project Elements Creating a Project Proposal Writing Your Project .
  • InTime: integrating new technologies into the methods of education
    InTime: Integrating new technologies into the methods of education. Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 This Internet site offers a collection of online video vignettes that demonstrate how preK-12 teachers are integrating technology into their classroom lessons.
  • ISTE National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators
    Today's teacher preparation programs provide a variety of alternative paths to initial licensure. They address economic conditions, needs of prospective teachers, and the demands of employing school districts.
  • Justice Learning
    CIVICS EDUCATION WEB SITE, NYTimes.com and NPR have launched (www.justicelearning.org), a free civics Web site designed for high school students and teachers. The Web site is organized around eight distinct civic issues that are updated twice yearly.
  • K12 Handhelds
    K12 HandheldsHandhelds is a company which focuses on handheld computing in education. It provides schools with integrated solutions for handheld use in education that include: planning, professional development, hardware, software and applications, educational bundles, implementation and support, and assessment.
  • KITE - 1000 cases on how to integrate technology in K-12 classrooms
    KITE is a case-based reasoning system that is designed to help K-12 teachers to integrate technology in their classroom. The system has a 1000 cases (July 2003) and has multiple options to search to the context of the teacher.
  • Laptops for All
    * Laptops For All - Includes online filmSince 1996, ROCKMAN ET AL, an independent research firm in San Francisco, has studied the impact of widespread use of laptop technology on teaching and learning. Through both observation and feedback from laptop-using teachers and students, researchers have documented a shift from lectures and other teacher-centered forms of delivery to lessons that are more collaborative and project-oriented.
  • LD Online
    LD Online has a special section on how technology can diminish barriersfor children.
  • Learning styles assessment
    Learning Styles AssessmentRead the word(s) in the left column and pick the description that best expresses how you usually handle each situation.This site contains a matrix to help the user to assess his or her learning styles.
  • Learning to Adapt Lesson Plans to Different Teaching Styles and Computer Configurations
    How do you adapt a lesson to different teaching styles and classroom computer configurations. This is an important resource because many teachers can access the lesson plans, but need to learn to tailor them for their own uses.
  • Learning with Laptop Tech Resources Page
    Technology Coordinator Resources Laurie and Fred Bartels run the laptop program at Rye Country Day School in New York. They put together this website with resources to help you both plan for and use laptops in schools.
  • Lesson Plans Page.Com
    The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans, primarily at the elementary level, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty at The University of Missouri. More recent lesson plans were submitted by the users of this website.
  • Magic Tales of Mexico: Folklore of the Texas-Mexican Border
    Gene Cowan maintains a web page of folktales collected by Gabriel Cordova. Magic Tales of Mexico: Folklore of the Texas-Mexican Border features both English and Mexican translations of several tales passed down orally by family storytellers.
  • Map Machine
    This is an online resource to show maps of many kinds from all over the world, and there are other resources on the site that are printable.
  • Math Across the Curriculum
    Dartmouth College's multidisciplinary program integrates math into everything from music and Earth science to architecture and engineering.
  • Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place
    The Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place is a website dedicated to supporting and improving the preparation of mathematics teachers (preK-16) by providing on-line resources, hot links, and a professional forum for those engaged in the teaching of mathematics content and methods courses, or in the field supervision of beginning teachers.
  • Microcomputer-based Laboratories
    The microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) is a tool for collecting, analyzing, and displaying data from science experiments. It is commonly used in instructional laboratories, and less used in interactive demonstrations.
  • Microscope Imaging Station
    In Summer 2004, the Exploratorium launched the most ambitious microscope facility ever created for use by the general public, the Microscope Imaging Station. The initial phase of the project gives visitors the ability to image living specimens, as well as control the microscopes themselves.
  • Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media
    Extensive clipart, templates, and media for Microsoft Office.
  • MIT Media Lab
    If you've heard of the exploits of this famed lab and wondered what they are currently up to, this site is for you. The lab, founded in 1980, has been involved in a wide range of innovative and visionary technology projects.
  • Museum of the Rockies
    Museum of the RockiesPartnership between Montana State University Libraries and the National Leadership Grant for Libraries, created a database, which will make the Plains Indian cultures accessible via the Internet and World Wide Web. The database is titled Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains.
  • Museums Online
    Museums OnlineMuseumStuff.com is the one-stop shop for museum information, where Internetusers can discover and explore thousands of museums and related resourcesaround the country. This search engine, which features a "broad range ofmuseum 'stuff,'" offers links to various museums, virtual exhibitions,museum events, fun and game sites for secondary and post-secondary students,and educational links.The museum links are arranged in three separatecategories -- art, history, and science -- and can be accessed from the mainpage.
  • My Majors
    Have you decided that you want to go to college, but don't know what you want to major in? If you aren't sure, MyMajors.com can provide useful advice on college and university majors that a high school senior or college freshman with your interests and achievements might do well in. MyMajors.com is designed as a free tool to help high school students select a major by engaging them in a brief interview about their achievements, values and interests.
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Digital Library Technology Project
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Digital Library Technology Project - Core Technologies for the National Information Infrastructure."The Digital Library Technology (DLT) project and the Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (RSD) project, are two related elements of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications component of NASA's High Performance Computing and Communications Program.
  • National Archives and Record Administration: Access to Archival
    Online access to a selection of nearly 50 million historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics. that contains close to 50 million historical records, culled from 350 archival sources from 20 different federal agencies.
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
    This independent federal agency makes "grants to arts organizations and artists in all fifty states and the six U.S. jurisdictions." Find here grant opportunities and applications, programs categorized by genre, relevant publications, and news.
  • National Environmental Directory
    This is "a directory of more than 13,000 organizations in the United States concerned with environmental issues and environmental education." You can search the entire U.S. or by region; each entry has a link to the Web site if available.
  • National Foundation for the Improvement of Education
    NFIE provides grants and technical assistance to teachers, education support personnel, and higher education faculty and staff to improve student learning in the nation's public schools. Find out about new grant opportunities.
  • National Geographic Teacher Community
  • National Hurricane Center
    Get satellite imagery and radar maps of the latest storms at this informative and potentially life-saving resource.
  • National Museum of the American Indian
    The NAMAI web site offers an education section with teacher guides and lists of authentic resources for students: “Your students may have preconceived notions regarding Native Americans. Before visiting the museum, you may want to begin studying ‘fact versus fiction’ concerning indigenous cultures.
  • National Teacher Training Institute: Lesson Plan Database
    National Teacher Training Institute: Lesson Plan Database. Visit this Web site from the National Teacher Training Institute (NTTI) for a set of engaging lesson plans for middle and high school students.
  • Native American/American Indian/First Peoples
    features articles, educational resources, and bibliographies of contemporary and historical Native-themed books as well as bibliographies of books written and/or illustrated by tribal members. The site author is Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of JINGLE DANCER, a contemporary powwow picture book, and an enrolled member of Creek Nation.
  • New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap
    New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap-Updated data available for all 50 states on how each state is fairing in addressing the Digital Divide.
  • New York City: After the Fall
    This site combines audio, text, sound, and motion beautifully. It is a thoughtful presentation about the psychological aftermath of September 11th in New York City.
  • NGA CLASSROOM for Teachers and Students
    The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. Welcome to a place where teachers and students can connect art and curriculum.
  • NOAA - Especially for Teachers
    WeatherYou can find information about tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, tsunamis and all kinds of hazardous weather.Climate Change and Our PlanetYou can find information about climate change, earth science and sciences as it relates to our planet.Oceans and CoastsThis category includes information about fish, marine mammals, our coasts, navigation and the many facets of the waters that surround our nation.Satellites and SpaceThis category includes information about satellites and space.Training, Other Opportunities&External LinksThis category includes information about Operation Pathfinder, the GLOBE Program, NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, as well as external links to other websites.
  • NOAA Education Resources
    A page with many links, including experiments and science fair projects.www.nws.noaa.gov/er/box/education.html.
  • North Carolina State University: Introduction to Videoconferencing
    North Carolina State University: Introduction to Videoconferencing An introduction to videoconferencing. This site includes information about creating and implementing classroom projects using videoconferencing.
  • Origins, Arecibo, Astrobiology
    What are the limits of life? Explore surprising environments on Earth and elsewhere where life is or may be found.
  • Palm Applications in Education
    Palm Applications in Education. Information and reviews on education applications.
  • PLP: Personal Learning Portfolio
    This "PLP" site supports online mentoring, development of work samples, goals and action plans for either individual students of groups. It facilitates validation of work and creation of portfolios of work demonstrating achievement.
  • Portfolios
    special focus area - portfolios and many websites for examination of the use of portfolios.Article: Student Portfolioshttp://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae/al_stufolio.htmlor(PDF 24 KB / 6 pgs)To read and print PDF files, get the Acrobat Reader.Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction, article by Judith Arter et. al.http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed388890.htmlScoring rubrics for portfolioshttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Scoring.htmlElectronic portfolios: Webfolioshttp://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/williams/block/assignments/portfolio.htmlSample use of portfolios for specific skills/disciplineshttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Dividers/Math.htmlhttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Dividers/Science.htmlUse of portfolio for assessment of student outcomeshttp://k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~assess/s04-02.htmSample use of portfolio for certificationhttp://www.snc.edu/educ/edpages/portfolio.htmlhttp://members.tripod.com/lepine/P-Assesm.htmlPortfolio assessment project at SIU at Edwardsvillehttp://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/portwing.htmlA Guide to the Development of Professional Portfolioshttp://www.edu.uleth.ca/fe/ppd/contents.htmlOther resourceshttp://www-tep.ucsd.edu/portfolionews/PNResources.htmlhttp://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/portfoli.
  • Practical Money Skills for Life
    Created by the folks at Visa, this website checks out as a good learning center for all ages. Lessons (look under For Teachers) include Spending Plans (for younger children) up to Living on your Own (for college age students).
  • Recent World Activity
    Find webpages that provide resources for teachers on the topics of earth structure, earthquakes, plate tectonics, and earthquake preparedness. Features: Lesson ideas Graphics/Multimedia Inquiry materials.
  • Reporting School Quality in Standards-Based Accountability Systems
    "Reporting School Quality in Standards-Based Accountability Systems," Spring 2001, from the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. Researcher Robert L.
  • Research It!
    - dictionary, thesaurus, famous quotes, maps, translation .
  • Resource Listing for Weather and Climate
    *Instruction - This document is intended to assist those who teach weather and climate at any level from pre-school through introductory college level courses, by listing some of the available instructional resources. Teachers will find information about resources from the American Meteorological Society and Project Atmosphere including the formation of the Atmospheric Education Resource Agent (AERA) network, DataStreme, AAAS, the American Geological Institute, and others, with information about audiovisual materials, computer software, and data sources.
  • Resources for Teachers at the Folger Shakespeare Library
    The Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institution, is the world's most significant repository of Shakespearean material. Its holdings, which include the largest collection of English Renaissance books outside of the U.K., attract scholars and educators of international repute.
  • Resources from the National Gallery of Art
    The National Gallery of Art can bring the visual arts into your classroom, organization, television network, or library. This federally-funded program has over 120 free-loan education resources.
  • Results Oriented Professional Development
    Never before in the history of education has there been greater recognition of the importance of professional development. Every modern proposal to reform, restructure, or transform schools emphasizes professional development as a primary vehicle in efforts to bring about needed change.
  • Riverweb
    RiverwebThrough harnessing advanced computing and communications technologies, RiverWeb seeks to construct interdisciplinary, digital knowledge networks for the Mississippi River Basin, and other major river systems, with the goal of empowering citizenry to participate more actively in managing the watershed resources during the next century.
  • Robotics Education Project
    NASA's Robotics Education Project is intended to raise children's interest in robotics and promote it as a possible career choice. The Web site highlights many applications of robots, such as space exploration, medicine, and mechanical automation.
  • School Technology and Readiness
    This CEO forum chart(a focus on digital learning)Year 3 Report (PDF version is 742k- please allow several minutes for download)Year 3 STaR Chart (PDF version) a focus on digital learning.
  • Sea-Floor Mapping Technology
    Sea-Floor Mapping Technology -- Data Acquisition USGS Woods Hole Field Center Sea-Floor Mapping Technology--Data Acquistion USGS - U.S. Geological Survey; Coastal and Marine Geology ..
  • Search Engine Watch Blog
    Search Engine Watch Blog The purpose of this blog is to highlight news tidbits and other information not covered in regular Search Engine Watch features. The blog's main contributor is librarian and Search Engine Watch news editor Gary Price, with additional contributions coming from other Search Engine Watch staff.
  • Secondary Assessment tools
    On this site are many types of assessment tools for secondar teachers. Demonstrate mastery of content knowledge and process skills byknowing in advance the criteria for assessment.
  • SIBMAS: International Dictionary of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
    SIBMAS: International Dictionary of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions. A listing of over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime).
  • Singapore Science Centre- ScienceNet: Life Sciences
    Students, teachers, and parents will find great value in ScienceNet, an interactive information service from the Singapore Science Centre. Supported by Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore, ScienceNet is a place for people to get answers to their questions in a wide range of scientific fields.
  • Smithsonian Institute-Museums Listings
    Smithsonian Institute-Museums Listings Portal to all of the Smithsonian Institute's Museums.
  • SOHO: Exploring the Sun
    The International Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a cooperative project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  • Teacher Preparation Star Chart
    Teacher Preparation STaR ChartA Self-Assessment Tool for Colleges of EducationJanuary 2000.
  • Teacher Professional Development
    WestEd projects support teachers___ career-long growth and development, beginning with preservice education and continuing with induction, inservice, and mentoring programs. Professional development efforts also address the learning needs of child-care professionals and professional developers themselves.Which programs are involved with Teacher Professional Development?Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS)Center for Child and Family Studies (CCFS)Center for Prevention and Early Intervention (CPEI)Learning InnovationsNational Center for Improving Science Education (NCISE)Policy ProgramProfessional and Organizational Learning (POL)Science and Mathematics ProgramTeacher Professional Development Program (TPD)Western Regional Educational Laboratory (WREL).
  • Teacher Resource Page
    A compendium of teacher activities for the classroom. Make a barometer or explain the Doppler effect with a classroom activity.
  • Teacher's Mind Resources
    Proposing a teacher-based approach to educational reform, the Teacher's MindResources site is built around a recently published study of education,entitled _Teaching in Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education_. Whilelargely promotional, the site offers a great deal of perspective into thecurrent analysis of reformist trends and initiatives to stand on its own asa valuable source of insight and inspiration to educators at every level.Philosophically, the site's author is convinced that popular efforts toapply "universal" educational standards are meaningless - if they fail totake into account what each teacher brings to the class as an individual.Thus, it focuses on the teacher's mind as a unique tool destined tointerpret every mandated standard differently and uniquely.
  • Teachers Teaching Teachers
    3 BackgroundT3 is teachers teaching teachers to provide the best professional development program for the appropriate use of educational technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science worldwide. There are now T3 courses covering mathematics and science topics from primary school through high school and university.
  • Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources
    Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources This site, created by two librarians at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, provides a set of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Types of pages include advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, and personal web pages.
  • Tech Encyclopedia
    Tech Encyclopedia. "More than 20,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts...
  • Technology and Learning on Line
    Abstract:This World Wide Web (WWW) site presents an online version of TECHNOLOGY&LEARNING, a magazine created for K to 12 school administrators, teachers, and technology coordinators. An article in the issue reviewed, What does research say about technology's impact on education? From the editor of the print publication is included along with interviews from research experts and links to sources of information about related educational research.
  • Technology in the Classroom: Asking the Right Questions
    Lynn Schrum of the International Society for Technology in Education believes that teachers must take the lead to find the best ways to use technology to enhance teaching and learning.She goes on to explain the uses of technology.She says"Technology lends itself to exploration. But before we can use it effectively, we need to value exploration as real teaching and real learning.
  • Technology Resources for Teachers
    Resources to help teachers make the best use of technology in teaching their day-to-day curriculum.Please note that this section is based on abstracts found in ENC's database of K-12 materials. All ENC abstracts are descriptions rather than evaluative reviews.Source www.enc.org.
  • TERC
    Founded in 1965, TERC is a not-for-profit education research and development organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.TERC's mission is to improve mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning. TERC works at the edges of current theory and practice to:*contribute to understanding of learning and teaching*foster professional development*develop applications of new technologies*create curricula and other products*support school reformThey imagine a future in which learners from diverse communities engage in creative, rigorous, and reflective inquiry as an integral part of their lives.
  • Terrorism, Teaching, and Technology
    READING FOR RHETORIC IN SEPTEMBER 11TH DOCUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. Elizabeth Losh University of California, Irvine.
  • The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation by Kathy Schrock
    The author states this as the ABC's or beginning evaluation of web sites for teacher use in quality instruction.
  • The Anacostia Museum and Center for African-American History and Culture
    Focuses on modern African-American history and culture.
  • The Archaeology Channel
    The Archaeology Channel is a public-education project of our nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI). We created this streaming-media website as a way of sharing with people everywhere the important messages of archaeology and indigenous peoples.
  • The Assessment Program at NWREL
    The Assessment Program at NWREL is dedicated to providing the highest quality research, services and products for teachers and schools across the nation and world.http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/Oral CommunicationOur unique approach to oral communication assessment and instruction reinforces both academic and career-related communication competencies.Listed below you will find the NWREL Oral Communication Scoring Guidelines (Rubrics).Scoring GuidesCustomer Service Communication RubricsThe CSR (customer service representative) rubric is a modified version of the EAR model and can be used for instruction and assessment of work-related communication behaviors. Applications include school-to-work and business settings.EAR Related to SCANS Comparison ChartThe E.A.R.
  • The Bioluminescence Web Page
    A collection of beautiful photos and a few movies along with the science behind and current research about bioluminescence. By researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara.
  • The Center for Informal Learning and Schools
    The Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) supports research and scholarship in the improvement of K-12 science education through the study of informal science learning and institutions, and their relationships to schools. Informal science institutions are content-rich resources found in most urban areas throughout the U.S.
  • The Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy
    WHAT IS CSTEEP?The Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP) is an educational research organization located at Boston College in the School of Education. Since its inception in 1980, CSTEEP has conducted research on:*testing, evaluation, and public policy*studies to improve school assessment practices*and international comparative research.CSTEEP conducts its work on both small and large scales, working with individual schools, districts, states, as well as countries to advance educational testing practices and policy, and to improve the quality and fairness of education.
  • The Concord Consortium
    The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. We create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies.
  • The Digital Book Index
    A database of over 60,000 fiction and nonfiction e-books from over 1,800 publishers. Many categories of books are listed, including reference, history, children's, and African American studies.
  • The Digital Classroom
    Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and StudentsThe Digital Classroom! To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources. offerings.Primary Sources and ActivitiesReproducible primary documents, educational units correlated to national academic standards, and cross-curricular connectionsGeneral and National History Day ResearchActivities for learning to do research at the NARA Web sitePublications.
  • The Dirksen Congressional Center's Web Suite
    The Dirksen Congressional Center conducts programming in four areas: historical collections, research, education, and community service. Select from the list on the left to learn more about specific programs.
  • The Dolley Madison Project
    The Dolley Madison Project provides a window onto the domestic, political, and social worlds of Dolley Madison and on the development of elite Washington, D.C. society in the early national period.
  • The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools
    The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban SchoolsResults Obtained from Three-Year New York City Evaluation;Randomized Field Trials ConductedThis is a resource to help teachers, parents and the learning community have a perspective from a research base on the use of vouchers in education.
  • The Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, Mysticism, and More...
    This site provides a series of short glosses on characters and elements from Chinese, Etruscan, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Persian, and Roman mythology. The site features only brief articles on its various topics, but it is an excellent cross-reference resource when basic information is all that is needed.
  • The Exploratorium's Digital Library
    Welcome to the Exploratorium’s Digital Library. 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.
  • The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, & Substance
    This exhibition showcases the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the Library's collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists into the 20th century.
  • The Glory of Chinese Printing
    The Glory of Chinese Printing. This site explores the ancient history of Chinese printing.
  • The Jane Goodall Institute
    The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. With Dr.
  • The LOC.gov Wise Guide
    This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government. The federal government and the Library of Congress, in particular, maintain and develop hundreds of Web sites.
  • The Mission & Principles of Professional Development
    Professional development plays an essential role in successful education reform. Professional development serves as the bridge between where prospective and experienced educators are now and where they will need to be to meet the new challenges of guiding all students in achieving to higher standards of learning and development.
  • The Museum of Afro American History Boston
    The Museum of Afro-American History is dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century. This institution is "dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England." The site features information about museum exhibits, the African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, and the Black Heritage Trail (a "walking tour encompassing the largest collection of historic sites in the country relating to the life of a free African American community prior to the Civil War").
  • The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
    The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is a partnership of UCLA, the University of Colorado, Stanford University, RAND, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, Educational Testing Service, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The CRESST mission focuses on the assessment of educational quality, addressing persistent problems in the design and use of assessment systems to serve multiple purposes.
  • The National Lightning Safety Page
    Here's lots of information about lightning safety. You can download the Online Lightning Quiz to your computer by clicking on the .exe file.
  • The Nineteenth Century in Print
    Take a virtual trip into literary history with "The 19th Century in Print" "The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals" is a great resource for students to explore 19th-century American history through the words and pictures of the authors and illustrators of the period. This fully online collection is a part of the Making America project, a collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Michigan to preserve deteriorating texts, including 23 popular magazines and more than 1,500 books that illuminate themes central to American life in the mid- to late-19th century.
  • The Open Directory
    Largest collections of art resources on the Web. The directory includes sites in the liberal arts (i.e., language) and fine arts (i.e., aesthetics) collected by editors who share their expertise in the spirit of the Open Source movement: to build a high quality free public service.
  • The Pantheon
    The Greek world of gods and goddesses is extremely intricate, and The Pantheon Web site provides an effective way to begin learning about this world, both for beginners and for those looking to brush up on their knowledge of their exploits and times.
  • The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt [QuickTime, RealPlayer]
    The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. This new online exhibit from the National Gallery of Art will be a real treat for those with a passion for the ancient civilization of Egypt.
  • The TEACH Toolkit
    An Online Resource for Understanding Copyright and Distance Education. The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) "updates copyright law pertaining to transmissions of performances and displays of copyrighted materials.
  • The WebQuest Page
    A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
  • Thread Tracker 0.8.7
    Many people working with computers find themselves joining any number ofonline forums, and this helpful application will help them keep track oftheir posts and responses. Essentially, Thread Tracker notifies users whenreplies have been made to their posts and threads.
  • U.S. Education Standards
    Education World presents the objectives of the voluntary National Education Standards for the major subject areas. This site allows educators to stay abreast of the current efforts being made in the area of National Standards.
  • Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School
    Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School Founded by Louis Sullivan and popularized by his famous pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Prairie School of architectural design was predominantly middle western. This site offers a look at elements that define the style, a virtual tour of Prairie School buildings in Minnesota, and an online tour of the exemplary Purcell-Cutts house.
  • Urban Classroom Success Stories
    Urban Classroom Success Stories Featured in October Issue Of Enc Focus. http://www.enc.org/text/focus/ In the fall issue of ENC Focus, teachers who work in urban classrooms sharetheir approaches to math and science instruction, and at the same time point out that their challenge is the same as their colleagues' in suburban and rural schools-to teach all children well.
  • Using Handheld Technologies in School
    This website has handheld technology, the basics , an overview of wireless networking, considerations when buying handhelds. The educational advantages of handhelds, educational concerns and much much more.
  • VESTAC
    VESTAC, Visualization of and Experimentation with Statistical Concepts Grades: 11 - Post-secondary. Synopsis: Statistics students everywhere, take notice: this site will change the way you see statistics, if only because the applets featured here let you actually see representations of abstract concepts in action.
  • VORTEX: Unraveling the Secrets - A Storybook This project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment
    VORTEX: Unraveling the Secrets - A Storybook This project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, helps teachers and students understand facts about tornadoes and shows how the scientific method of making observations, collecting data, and developing and testing hypotheses to reach an informed conclusion is used.
  • Washington During the Civil War
    Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865Although diaries are personal memoirs not usually meant for public viewing,they can sometimes reveal history more vividly and accurately then actualhistory books. With that said, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary ofHoratio Nelson Taft presents three manuscript volumes, totaling 1,240digital images, that document daily life in Washington, DC through the eyesof Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888).
  • Wayback Machine
    The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
  • We'll Sing To Abe Our Song!: Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
    "We'll Sing To Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War"Includes more than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music. The collection spans the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909." Searchable by keyword, and browsable by title, name, subject, and publisher.
  • Window to My Environment
    Window To My Environment (WME) is a powerful web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. A "powerful new web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice." Find regulated facilities, monitoring sites, maps, Superfund sites, air and water quality, fish advisories, and much more.
  • Windows to the Universe
    This site represents interdisciplinary lessons in astronomy, global change, weather, mythology on three levels advance, medium and beginner. There are specialized teacher pages and workpages for students.Lesson Plans and Activities for the ClassroomToolsTeacher WorkbookClassroom ActivitiesEducational LinksTeachers___ Share-A__"ThonEducational Standards SearchClimate and Global ChangeWorkshop for Educators.
  • Witness & Response: September 11 Acquisitions
    Witness & Response: September 11 Acquisitions presents photos, prints, eye-witness accounts, headlines,books, magazines, songs, maps, & videotapes related to September 11, 2001. Photos of ground zero taken during & after the attacks by news photographers in New York City are included, as are press reactions from around the world.
  • Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes
    Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes. An annotated list of more than four dozen phenomenal American women of the twentieth century "who left an indelible mark on our nation." Browse decade by decade or in categories of activists, reformers, politics and government, arts, media, space and science, sports, and exploration.
  • Workable Peace
    The Workable Peace project offers in-depth role plays on Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Ancient Greece, the Middle East, and Rwanda. These materials are designed to integrate into World History and Global Studies courses, and to teach history while also teaching skills of collaboration, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.

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