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• A Guide to Evaluation Primers
  Organization: Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) / Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Abstract: An orientation guide to handbooks and basic primers (introductory pieces) on program evaluation. Primers are directed toward the non-expert, explaining some of the central issues in evaluation and why they are important.
• 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.
• Color�n Colorado. bilingual Web site ( Spanish)
  Color�n 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Martian Microbes?: Looking for Clues to Ancient Life on the Red Planet
  If there was life on Mars in the past, what would confirm that? How could ancient organisms have come into being? This page includes an activity that demonstrates how cell membranes might have formed, as well as links to Webcasts about the search for life on Mars, articles about the search for water, and more.
• MEDtropolis' Virtual Body
  This dramatic site requires a Java-enabled browsers, and but it's well worth a look if your computer can support it. Virtual tours of the brain, heart, skeleton, and digestive tract will be particularly relevant for you and your students.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Smithsonian Education
  Smithsonian Education [pdf. Macromedia Flash Reader, RealOne Player] The diverse buildings that front directly onto the Mall in Washington, D.C.
• A Pintura, Art Detective
  This is a wonderful interactive project that teachs elements of art on several levels.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• GoMath
  This site "is a free on-line mathematics tutor designed to assist students from K-12, and their parents. ..
• InfoUse's Plane Math
  PlaneMath, is a way for you to learn cool things about math and aeronautics on the Internet! The main content is in Activities for Students. Each activity in Applying Flying includes the Lesson; Meet Me, which presents an individual involved in similar real life situations; a Group activity; and Teachers and Parents, which reviews the NCTM Math Standards, objectives, a list of materials needed, and suggestions for related problems.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 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.
• 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.
• 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-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.
• 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 Jazz Improvisation Primer
  A Jazz Improvisation Primer "Here you can find information on almost any topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group." Includes annotated bibliography and discography. Online version of text written by Marc Sabatella.
• A Lifetime of Color
  This is an extraordinary art education site that includes hands-on activities and techniques; galleries of student and professional work; information about art elements, principles, concepts, media, styles, and artists; an interactive art timeline and glossary; online games; teacher resources; and lesson plans for grades K-8.This is a good place to learn some basic techniques. Site is sponsored by Sanford, a manufacturer of art supplies.Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching, Lesson planning, Teaching Aids and devices.
• 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.
• actDEN (Digital Education Network): Software Tutorials and Online Courses
  High-quality software tutorials and online courses for educators, parents and students of all ages.
• 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 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 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 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.
• All About Jazz
  A comprehensive site, All About Jazz contains interviews, a photo gallery, articles, a wonderful interactive timeline, and more.
• Amazing Space
  has an excellent series of inquiry-based activities on their web site entitled Amazing Space; http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/amazing-space.html.
• 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.
• 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.
• An Overview of Reading Comprehension Instruction, Past and Present
  This PowerPoint presentation on comprehension instruction is one of a series of presentations and workshops for teachers produced by Literacy Leaders as part of NREA coursework (Note: these workshops are copyrighted by NREA and the authors. You are welcome to use/adapt them to your school under two conditions: a) that you give credit to the author, and b) that you return a copy of improved/adapted versions of the workshop to the NREA in care of Joan Taylor ([email protected]).
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Anthropological Resources for Teaching Social Studies
  Links to resources for teaching about world cultures, including African American, Latin American, and Native American.
• 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 .
• 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.
• Archeology
  Arizona State University's ample list of links to museums, sites and resources worldwide. archnet.asu.edu.
• 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.
• Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
  Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art. National Museum of Wildlife Art Awarded "Best of the Web: Educational Site" at Museums & the Web 2001! Explore art at this museum in ways you never could before! Tell a story, illustrate it with wildlife, put it to music, and publish it on the Web! (Third grade to adult).
• 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.
• Artsedge
  ArtsEdge is an online resource center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Education and administered by the Kennedy Center Education Department. Its mission is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum.
• 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.
• Astophysics Science Project, Integrating Research and Education
  The ASPIRE Lab is now one of the most innovative and interactive science education websites available on the Internet. You will find not only fun interactive labs, but well designed and produced curriculum content, created by teachers for teachers.
• 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.
• Astrophysics Explorations:
  Stimulating understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration, and discovery. Precollege workshop with curricula and case studies.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• BGuILE learning environments
  BGuILE learning environments bring scientific inquiry into middle school science and high school biology classrooms. The environments consist of computer-based scenarios and associated classroom activities in which students conduct authentic scientific investigations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Biomedical Explorations
  Stimulationg understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration and discovery.
• Blogs in Education
  This page is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students. The use of blogs in instructional settings is limited only by your imagination.
• Blue Web'n
  "Blue Web'n" combines "Blue-Ribbon" and "Web" (or you can think of it as "Blue-Ribbon" in duck talk). Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references,&tools).
• 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.
• 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.
• Casa de Joanna
  Casa de Joanna is a portal to French and Spanish language resources on the Internet. The topics include art, French and Spanish, and teacher resources.
• 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 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).
• CforAT Center for Accessible Technology
  The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) began life in 1983 when a group of parents of children with disabilities came together to develop strategies for including their children into mainstream elementary school settings. With an initial focus on computer technology, these parents developed models whereby kids with disabilities could be fully included in the school curriculum.The Center has kept its inclusion focus, and over time has broadened its goals to include participation in higher education, employment and community.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Children's Butterfly Site
  This site is an good companion site for a unit on butterflies. It contains a photo gallery of butterflies from around the world and coloring pages describing the life cycle of butterflies in several languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Classroom Weather
  This site was designed to help teachers introduce atmospheric processes and the science of meteorology through experimentation and hands-on activities in the classroom.
• 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.
• 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.
• Colonial House (PBS)
  Indentured servitude. No baths or showers.
• Columbia Education Center
  Columbia Education Center Internet-based lessons posted at this Portland, Oregon teachers' resource center.
• 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.
• 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 Literacy Course Tutorial
  Computer Literacy Course TutorialHalifax Regional CAP Association 2001This is a course, on line, and also on a cd that takes teachers through the basics of the Internet.These materials have been developed by the Standardised Materials Training Team of the Halifax Regional CAP Association.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Critical Evaluation of Information Resources
  You can begin evaluating a physical information source (a book or an article for instance) even before you have the physical item in hand. Appraise a source by first examining the bibliographic citation.
• Cybersoace Explorer :Getting to Know Christopher Columbus( 3-5)
  ReadWriteThink, International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English Students complete a cyber scavenger hunt and then use their notes to prepare a timeline and summary report about the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Through activities that promote critical literacy, students are exposed to alternate points of view regarding Columbus and his legacy.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 History
  This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges. The materials on this Web site include a U.S.
• 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 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 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Discovering Native Americans and Their Culture
  Virtual Classroom Tour: Native American CultureStudents explore Native American culture in this innovative lesson plan.http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=VCTNativeAmericans.
• Dr. Saul's Biology in Motion
  Dr. Saul's Biology in Motion - Lots of interactive online activities and exhibits for students and teachers! .
• 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.
• Drought Science for Educators -
  One of NOAA's partners in dealing with the causes and the effects of drought is the National Drought Mitigation Center. This site helps teachers of grades 5-12 incorporate drought into their lectures.
• E Naturalist
  How many times will a mosquito bite? What's the advantage to birds flying in a "V" formation? If you find an egg in a nest, should you "rescue" it? E-naturalist provides answers to these questions, and hundreds more. Visitors have the option of choosing a quick read or a full read on the subject.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Education in Geography
  If you access the general web site there are many resources on line including the magazine, world, but also there is an educational portion that has many teaching resources. There are all kinds of resources, events, and lesson plans here.
• Education World
  Education World is designed to help educators integrate the Internet into the classroom. It contains a wide range of resources for teachers including lesson plans created by teachers and articles written by professionals in the field.
• Education World--Standards Database
  Search for individual state standards or national content standards.
• 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.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  Educator's Reference Desk is a Internet-based service providing education information to teachers and others interested in education.
• EduHound.com
  Extensive collection of briefly annotated links for teachers, administrators, and parents, organized into categories, or browse an alphabetical subject/keyword list. Includes specific subjects (animals, science, etc.) as well as specialized educational resources (home schooling, standards&assessment, etc.).
• 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.
• 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.
• Environmental Science
  Stimulating understanding of computational science through collaboration, experiment, exploration, and discovery.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Pages, a Webquest
  The information source your students use most frequently is likely to be the Web. They will have little trouble actually gathering information these days.
• 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.
• 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 Web Science Workshop
  By clicking the links below, you will find a variety of on-line "Web Lessons.""Web Lessons" are activities intended to help science teachers integrate the Web into their science curriculum. Since a "Web Lessons" may use dynamic content or require communication via the Internet, "Web Lessons" are best done during an active Internet session.
• 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.
• EXPLORES! Using Satellite Data
  Florida State University implements the NOAA Direct Readout Program from the polar orbiting satellites. To date the university has installed over 230 weather satellite ground stations designed to receive live imagery from NOAA 12, 14, and 15 satellites (as the constellation now stands), and also supports WEFAX in about 1/4 of these schools.
• 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 Environment
  Exploring the Environment (ETE) online series, which features an integrated approach to environmental earth science through modules and activities, is developed at the NASA Classroom of the Future; at Wheeling Jesuit University. Through a cooperative agreement with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the ETE online series is supported by NASA's Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Program, which facilitates public use of Earth and Space Science remote sensing databases over the Internet.
• Exploring the Planets Cyber-Center
  Cyber-Center lets students compare their own planetary research with that of scientists. Fascinating photos are shared and the students can read the researchers notes.
• Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground
  Welcome to a collection of children's online astronomy activities. In the following six chapters are hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data.
• 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.
• From Slavery to Freedom, 1824-1909
  Presents nearly 400 pamphlets written by African-Americans. others about slavery, emancipation, African colonization, Reconstruction, & related topics.
• Funbrain.com
  FunBrain has over 50 educational games that children will love to play. Games include a variety in each subject area: math, language arts, science, history, other.
• 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.
• Game Theory
  There’s plenty of material here to draw students young and old into the math of everyday life. Background essays describe how game theory works, and interactive games give visitors a chance to explore risk, strategy, and probability.
• Geography Action
  Geography Action! is an annual conservation and awareness program designed to educate and excite people about natural, cultural, and historic treasures. Each year, they will present a different topic related to conservation and the environment.
• 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.
• Getsmarter.org
  Getsmarter.org, an initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, gives students, parents and teachers a free and private way to compare science and math skills to students worldwide. It also provides warm-up practice quizzes in both math and science.
• 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/.
• Graphics for the calculus classroom
  Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Synopsis: Just follow the bouncing ball to an increased and animated understanding of the applications and graphs of functions.
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
  Full text and pictures of the classic, Gray's "Anatomy of the Human Body".
• Handheld
  HandheldComputer ActivitySuggestionsOrganizing and PlanningReferenceInformationData GatheringData Manipulation and DisplayIndividual LearningCommunicating and Collaboration.
• 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.
• Harlem Renaissance
  The recently launched site offers a rich multimedia exploration of the individuals, places, and creative works that comprised the Harlem Renaissance. Through a wide range of primary sources, the site allows users to tap into the essence of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Harnessing the Power of the Web
  This guide will help you to understand collaborative, project-based learning on the Internet. We use the term NetPBL (Networked, Project-Based Learning) to describe this kind of learning.These resources will help you introduce your students to powerful educational experiences grounded in student-centered, project-based learning well-supported in the literature.
• High School Hub
  The High School Hub is a noncommercial learning portal to high-quality free online educational resources for high school students. It features interactive learning games, puzzles, and quizzes.
• HistoricalVoices.org
  Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education.
• History Detectives
  History Detectives is devoted to solving historical mysteries, searching out the true facts (and falsehoods) behind local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/ History Detectives is devoted to solving historical mysteries, searching out the true facts (and falsehoods) behind local folklore, family legends and interesting objects.
• How Does Project-Based Learning Work?
  "We've got to know the curriculum. We've got to know the standards inside and out.
• Howtoons
  Howtoons "Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids 'How To' build things." Choose the comic of choice to find a graphical way to build such things as a marshmallow shooter, an ice board, and a duct tape body double. The site creators (MIT graduates) hope that these "Tools of Mass Construction" promote a brighter more creative future for children.
• 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.
• Humbul Humanities Hub
  Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and hosted by the University of Oxford, the Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network. The site is geared towards meeting the needs of the humanities community and includes information in areas ranging from language and literature, to American studies, to archaeology, to philosophy.
• 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.
• Imagine Mars Project
  Building on the success of the Mars Millennium Project, the Imagine Mars Project is a national arts, science, and education initiative that challenges K-12 students to design a futuristic Mars community. Students first explore their own community and decide which arts, scientific, and cultural elements will be important on Mars.
• In Depth: Israel and the Palestinians
  Compilation of articles and opinion pieces that look at "the struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians .. [which has been] one of the most enduring and explosive of all the world's conflicts." Includes a timeline, maps, background about leaders and key documents, and details about the Hamas victory in the January 2006 election.
• 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.
• 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).
• International Reading Association (IRA)
  This professional organization's site highlights the latest educational legislation. The organization seeks to promote "high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit." Find publications, program descriptions, professional standards, links, meeting notices, news, and membership information.
• 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.
• iWASwondering.org
  The Web site iWASwondering.org is a project of the National Academy of Sciences intended to showcase the accomplishments of contemporary women in science and to highlight for young people the varied and intriguing careers of some of today's most prominent female scientists. The site draws from and accompanies the publication of a ten-volume series of biographies entitled Women's Adventures in Science, co-published by the Joseph Henry Press (an imprint of the National Academies Press) and Scholastic Library Publishing.
• JASON Project home page
  Grades: Kindergarten - 12 Synopsis: Don't worry, this is not another scary movie installment! This JASON is an educational program that lets students and teachers perform exciting scientific fieldwork from their classrooms, exploring regions from the polar ice caps to the steamy rain forests.
• Jazz in the Schools
  "Jazz in the Schools" is a new web-based, multimedia curriculum from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history. The five-unit, web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit are available free of charge to high school teachers of social studies, U.S.
• K-12 GEOMETRY
  K-12 Geometry The Math Forum has created a section on its Web site devoted to geometry resources. It includes lists of classroom materials, software, interactive resources, and Internet projects.
• K-12 GIS for Educators
  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.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It includes links to lesson plans, clip art, puzzlemaker, science fair ideas, brainboosters and more.
• KidsBank.com
  C'mon in and learn all about banking at KidsBank.com(tm)! Have some fun in this learning website. We hope to help you and your children explore some of the fundamentals of banking.
• 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.
• Knowitall.org
  Created by South Carolina ETV for K–12 students and teachers, Knowitall.org is a free, online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational portal contains image collections, videos, virtual tours, narratives, documents, and interactive games and stories to support and provide quality learning experiences for students using the Internet as an information tool.
• 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.
• Latin American History
  http://www.tropicalamerica.com/ A free online game that explores 500 years of Latin American history. Conceptualized by Los Angeles high school students and artists, explores a rich and painful past unknown to the children of those immigrant families who left the region.
• Learning Resources
  Learning Resources Dozens of TV news stories with full video clips, written transcripts, and audio tracks for struggling readers to improve comprehension skills. With additional exercises.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery [Macromedia Flash Player] In conjunction with the United Nations resolution designating 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition, New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents this Web exhibit. Making use of Schomburg Center materials, as well as items loaned by other public institutions and private collections, the Web exhibition begins with a section entitled "A New People" that traces the complex genetic heritage of today's African- Americans--the vast majority descended from enslaved Africans--but also counting Europeans, Native Americans, and Asians among their ancestors.
• Lewis and Clark as Naturalists
  home.html Lewis and Clark as Naturalists, a Smithsonian Institution web site. In this site, you will be able to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, and discover the flora and fauna as they described it along the way.
• Life Along The Faultline
  Under some conditions, the earth can behave like a liquid when an earthquake hits. With a baking pan full of sand, some water, and a brick, you can see this for yourself Features: Lesson ideas Graphics/Multimedia .
• 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.
• Making Cents out of Centimes ( 3-5)
  EconEdLink, National Council on Economic Education Students learn about the Euro, the currency of Italy and the European Union, and how to exchange dollars for Euros through an online simulation.
• Managing Students with Computers
  Managing students as they perform various independent and group activities is one of the most important and challenging aspects of teaching. But what happens when you introduce computers into the classroom? What do you do when you have students with different levels of computer knowledge? And how do you make sure your students get the most out of your computer resources? This workshop will help you make the most of your students' technology-based learning experiences.
• 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.
• Maps and Images
  - Text adapted from USGS TerraServer and USGS Western Earth Surface Processes Page. Whether on paper or on a computer screen, a map is the best tool available to catalog and view the arrangement of things on the Earth's surface.
• Marco Polo's Lesson Search
  This search engine searches lessons created or reviewed by the Marco Polo partners including the Kennedy Arts Center and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
• MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom
  MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. First launched in 1997 as a collection of standards-based, discipline-specific educational Web sites for K-12 teachers.
• Mars Pathfinder Pathfinder Mission
  Before the MER mission, there was the Pathfinder Mission, which landed on Mars in 1997 and took these incredible images of the Martian surface.
• Master Tools
  Modeling and Simulation Tools for Education Reform MasterTools, developd by the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. are the resulrts of on-going collaborations with the Education, Oreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure ( EOT-Paci) National Center for SuperComputing Applications ( NCSA) George Mason University and other education organizations.
• Mathematics Across the Curriculum
  Mathematics Across the Curriculum features an "electronic bookshelf" of materials for teaching math in art, history, literature, & music, as well as science, engineering, & other disciplines traditionally associated with math. Topics include misleading averages, bar codes, crime statistics, DNA, data analysis, expert systems, gasoline, information theory, medical testing, music & computers, nutrition, polls, population growth, probability, remote sensing, SIDS, & vaccines.
• Mathematics at the Mall
  Overview: In the following lesson, students participate in an activity in which they develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. There are two activities in this lesson.
• 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.
• Mathtools
  This site offers hundreds of math lesson plans, learning activities, and stories for kindergarten through grade 7, and covers algebra, geometry, calculus, and probability and statistics. Specific topics include estimation, fractions, fractals, tessellations, platonic solids, and much more.
• Media Literacy Online Project
  Comprehensive site focused on the influence of media in the lives of children and youth. Includes teacher resources, directories, links to online journals, articles and bibliographies, media organizations, project associates, and media news.
• 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.
• MIT's Open Courseware
  - MIT for free, for you, for me? Yes! This site features lecture notes, reading lists, and problems sets for hundreds of courses in many academic disciplines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.
• Mocular Stepping Stones
  features online activities, including simulations, to help students understand 10 key concepts underlying many biological processes. Topics include atomic structure, random motion, spatial equilibrium, strong chemical bonds, compounds, intermolecular forces, self-assembly, proteins, chemical reactions and catalysis, DNA, and biologica.
• Money Math, Lessons for Life
  is a teacher's guide for helping middle school math students learn how to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement. Lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips are included in the 86-page guide, which draws on real-life examples from personal finance.
• Mongabay.com
  Mongabay.com, a leading environmental science Web site, recently expanded and updated its rainforest site, which has been a major resource for teachers, students, and researchers. The revised site includes environmental profiles and deforestation statistics for more than 60 countries.
• Mozart 2006: 250th Anniversary
  Mozart 2006: 250th Anniversary This site accompanies the festivities surrounding the 250-year celebration of the birth of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 27, 2006. Includes biographical information, information about visiting sites associated with Mozart, descriptions of his works (orchestral, chamber, sacred, and for the state), and a calendar of events in Austria.
• Multicultural Pavilion
  A myriad of conceptualizations exist to describe multicultural education, its purposes, how it is implemented, why it is important.
• Museum of the African Diaspora
  Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Information about this museum in San Francisco, which opened in 2005 and which "celebrates how we all, as one world, have changed and influenced the history and cultures of the African Diaspora." The site features online exhibits such as "thousands of images contributed from visitors all over the world" relating to the African Diaspora and "narratives about people of African descent." Also includes images and information about museum exhibits on art, culture, and history.
• 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 Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  National Council of Teachers of Mathematics • NCTM is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students. • Founded in 1920, NCTM is the world’s largest mathematics education organization, with 100,000 members and 250 Affiliates throughout the United States and Canada.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Math
  ) The NCTM Illuminations Web site is designed to illuminate the new vision for school mathematics presented in NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Provide Internet resources that will help improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
• 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 Parks Associated with African Americans: An Ethnographic Perspective
  National Parks Associated with African Americans: An Ethnographic Perspective is an interactive map that links to some of the many national parks commemorating the African American story in our nation's culture, heritage, and history. It also includes links to parks having less well known or only recently uncovered associations with African Americans.
• National Severe Storm Laboratory's Weather Room
  This page provides general information for kids, parents, and teachers. Elementary school coloring books are available for printing and use for weather education.
• National Story Project with Paul Auster
  The monthly broadcast of the National Story Project was born when writer Paul Auster returned to National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered to focus on telling not just his own stories, but also those of listeners. Read or listen to stories that have aired since November 1999.
• 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.
• NEA- Jazz in the Schools
  traces the history of jazz from its birth in New Orleans to the swing era, bebop, and new frontiers. Five lessons include essays, videos, photos, and nearly 100 music clips of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Louie Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and others.
• New Horizons; NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
  The NASA New Horizons mission, scheduled to be launched in early 2006 and to reach Pluto in 2015, "is the first mission to the last planet -- the initial reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt." Find a mission overview, a FAQ, and facts about mission spacecraft and science. The section "P-K Bits" includes amusing facts.
• 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.
• No Child Left Behind
  Signed into law on January 8, 2002, the No Child Left Behind Bill will significantly impact the terms and conditions of primary and secondary education in America, especially where it comes to how federal monies earmarked for education are allocated.
• 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.
• NOVA
  At this site you will find science resources for the classroom. You can search by curriculum keyword for lesson plans, interactive applets, downloadable teacher guides, streaming video.
• Ocean Explorer
  ScientificAmerican.com has selected the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration�s (NOAA) Ocean Explorer Web site as a winner of its 2003 Sci/Tech Web Awards, one of only five sites in the Earth and Environment category, The NOAA Ocean Exploration program strives to engage broad audiences to enhance America�s environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. Increasing this literacy requires high-quality, effective collaborations between ocean explorers and America�s teachers.
• Ology
  A cleaver, animated site with activities related to "ology", the study of something. Website includes activities about genetics, paleontology,astronomy and biodiversity.
• Online Visual Literacy Project
  Online Visual Literacy Project. An exploration of common visual elements including the dot, the line, shape, direction, texture, color, hue, saturation, value, scale, dimension, and motion.
• Operation DeepScope
  Bring the excitement of current ocean science discoveries to your students using this new Ocean Exploration curriculum Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration: A Curriculum for Grades 6-12 From bioluminescent corals to deep-vent worms, from tropical underwater volcanoes to the Arctic Ocean floor, we know less about the landscape of our ocean than we do about the moon's. Bring the excitement of current ocean science discoveries to your students using this Ocean Exploration curriculum and a CD-ROM of the Ocean Explorer Web site from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• 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.
• PBS Evolution
  (mni Intermedia Bronze Award) The companion resource to PBS�s Evolution documentary series, this site is rich with material about many aspects of species development, from survival and extinction to thoughts about how beliefs in science and faith can co-exist. The impressive library cites sources in many media, from PBS and others, and users can organize search results according to several parameters.
• Performance Assessment Links in Mathematics
  (PALM) is an on-line, standards-based, resource bank of mathematics performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
• Performance Assessment Links in Science
  (PALS) is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks. http://pals.sri.com/ Performance Assessment Links in Mathematics (PALM) is an on-line, standards-based, resource bank of mathematics performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
• Physics Central
  "We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news.
• Physics Education Technology ( PHET)
  produces fun, interactive simulations of physical phenomena. More than 35 simulations let students experiment with circuits, string tension, kinetic and potential energy, radio waves and electromagnetic fields, balloons and static electricity, ideal gas and buoyancy, velocity and acceleration, sound waves and the Doppler effect, and more.
• Podcasting for K-12 Librarians
  Description: This 2006 article provides an introduction to podcasting, and looks at its applications in school libraries. Includes definitions, reasons to use podcasts, steps to creating your own podcasts, further reading, and podcasting resources (podcast content, directories, and recording software).
• Portals of the World
  Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.
• Powerful Patterns ( K-2)
  Illuminations, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend and translate patterns. They make patterns with objects, numbers and shapes, and also explore a variety of patterns in mathematics, physical education, science and social studies.
• 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).
• Primary Research
  Primary Research is the Internet presence of a number of projects involving high school students and local history. Central to all of these projects is collaboration among research institutions such as historical societies, libraries, archives, and museums.
• Project Based Learning Checklist
  Project Based Learning Checklist from www4teachers and the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium (check out the great tools at their site) - This is a cool site where you can easily build a checklist for or with your kids before they write, do an oral or multimedia presentation or an experiment. They will know what to look for when they self-evaluate their work.
• Project Interactivate
  Project Interactivate is mathmatics courseware developed by the Shodor Education Foundation in collaboration with classroom teachers, content experts, curriculum designers and educational technologists. The project contains more than ninety classroom tested interactive activities.
• Project Links
  provides 7 web-based modules for teaching advanced math methods, probability & statistics, differential equations, discrete mathematics, linear systems, & calculus. (NSF) .
• Race and Place , an African American Community in the Jim Crow South
  Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South is a collaborative work with the Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at UVA. The project examines the era of segregation in one community and explores African American politics, families, schools, businesses, churches, and other institutions to gain perspective on African American history and the culture of the segregated South.http://.
• Ready to Learn Television
  - Early learning televsion programs (reading) .
• Real Time Data Sets
  Many of our classroom projects use realtime data sites that are difficult to find. This page contains links to some of the most compelling Internet web sites for educational use.
• 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.
• 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.
• Robin Whirlybird on Her Rotorcraft Adventures: NASA Website
  K-4 teachers can use the newly released 'Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures' to engage young students in science while strengthening their language and vocabulary skills. The NASA Ames Educational Technology Team developed this online, interactive multimedia storybook that explains aeronautics and rotorcraft research to young children.
• Robotics Alliance Program
  Calling all student inventors and aspiring mechanical engineers: The scientists at NASA are looking for a few good minds to participate in the Robotics Alliance Project, a nationwide competition that awards students for designing and building robots. With a fresh look and feel, this longtime NASA web site provides information for teachers and students seeking sponsorships and entry into the 2005-06 FIRST Robotics Competition, an international sporting event that pits student-made robots against one another in a race for mechanical superiority.
• Satellite Oceanography
  Exploring Satellite Oceanography - a set of lesson plans for high school science students from the University of Rhode Island.
• Saudi Aramco World
  Online version of a magazine published by the Saudi Aramco oil company offers a wide range of articles intended to "broaden knowledge of the cultures, history and geography of the Arab and Muslim worlds and their connections with the West." Issues from 1966 to the present are indexed by subject, author, and title. Except for the current issue, illustrations are maintained separately.
• Scholastic Online Activities
  K-12 lessons and activities designed around web resources by educational publisher Scholastic.
• 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.
• Science & Our Food
  In association with the National Science Teachers Association, the Food and Drug Administration offers a supplementary curriculum for middle and high school science teachers.
• Science Explorations
  Ever wonder how the domed tortoise's shell protects it from predators--or what Charles Darwin saw when he visited the Galapagos Islands? Scholastic.com recently launched a new section of its web site, called Science Explorations, as part of an ongoing partnership between Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History to promote science literacy among students in grades 3-10. Students who visit Science Explorations can take part in live chats with scientists from the museum, uncover clues in online investigations and activities, and keep a record of their discoveries in their own field journal.
• Science Learning Network
  Science Learning Network Target Audiences Grades - with lessons in groupings of K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12 Review The Science Learning Network (SLN) is a gateway to some of the most exciting inquiry-based science resources on the Internet. The site is the product of a partnership among six science museums and is funded by Unisys and the National Science Foundation.
• Science with NOAA Research
  - This web page provides middle school science students and teachers with research and investigation experiences using on-line resources. Teachers will find information that will help them prepare students for investigating the various sites in this program.
• Sciencenetlinks.com (Science)
  Science NetLinks provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
• Silk Road Project for Teachers
  For Teachers� Silk Road Encounters Education Kit As a symbol of the crossroads between civilizations, peoples, and cultures, the Silk Roads offer rich materials for students to explore diverse but inter-related topics on geography, trade, art, music, religion, and history. This Kit supplements traditional classroom materials with a Sourcebook, interactive activity plans, audio and visual samplers, as well as reference materials.
• Silk Road, Trade, Travel, War and Faith
  Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith [Macromedia Shockwave] Pathways of travel have led to some of the most compelling and creative cultural exchanges in human history, and the Silk Road was one such pathway. Stretching from China to the Mediterranean, the Silk Road was actually a complex network of interconnected pathways that were influenced by a diverse set of civilizations, including those in China, India, and Turkey.
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database [Java]
  SIMBAD Astronomical Database [Java] "The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross- identifications, and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system." Created by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) in France, the website contains over three million objects, eight and a half million identifiers, one hundred thousand bibliographical references, and four million citations of objects in papers. The data can be searched by object name, coordinates, filters, and by a list of objects.
• SimScience
  SimScience This site uses computer simulations to explain fluid flows, surfaces and membranes, why a dam cracks, and what is crackling noise. Included are WAV sound files and QuickTime movies.
• 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 Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide
  is now online at http://www.folklife.si.edu It presents guidelines that Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for collecting folklife and oral history from family and community members and features a concise, easy-to-use guide to conducting an interview, as well as sample questions that may be adapted to each interviewer's needs and circumstances. The Guide concludes with a few examples of ways to preserve and present findings, further readings, glossary, and sample information and release forms.
• 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).
• Soy Unica! Soy Latina!
  This site is designed to help Hispanic girls ages 9-14 "build and enhance their own self-esteem, mental health, decision-making and assertiveness skills, and to prevent the harmful consequences of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs." Find information about family history, planning for the future, and Latina role models. Includes homework tips.
• Statistics
  With the winning combination of statistics and politics, this Annenberg/CPB Website offers an original, educational, and entertaining online experience. Visitors follow a fictional race between two candidates by reading news bulletins, then learn basic statistical concepts in a real-world context.
• Storyline Online
  The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has created Storyline Online, an online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children’s books aloud. Hand-picked by Book Pals National Program Director Ellen Nathan, a former teacher and librarian, each of the books on this site offers an accompanying lesson plan and activity guide.
• Strange Matter
  Visit this site to explore materials science "the study of stuff. Meet a material (MR fluid) that can help keep buildings safer during earthquakes, and learn how hollow carbon molecules ("Buckyballs") may someday deliver drugs directly to sick cells in your body.
• Superthinkers
  SuperThinkers features a set of original interactive mysteries designed to foster literacy and problem-solving. Created by children's book author & illustrator/educator Peter H.
• Surrounded by Beauty: The Arts of Native AmericaMinneapolis Institute of Arts
  Surrounded by Beauty: The Arts of Native America Minneapolis Institute of Arts. There is no equivalent in the many Native American languages for the word art.
• T4 - A Technology Innovation Challenge Grant Program
  T4 is a 1999 program of the Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Our website provides a resource for teachers, providing a searchable database of webquests developed by classroom teachers.
• 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.
• 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.
• TeachingStrategies.com
  TeachingStrategies.com The early childhood education site for teachers and parents of children from birth through grade three. Includes resources for the education of children in infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, Head Start, school-age, and family child care programs.
• Technology Integration: At a Glance
  When effectively integrated into curriculum, technology tools can extend learning in powerful ways. The Internet and multimedia can provide students and teachers with: • Access to up-to-date, primary source material; •Ways to collaborate with students, teachers, and experts around the world; •Opportunities for expressing understanding via images, sound, and text.
• 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.
• TerraServer
  TerraServer contains 3.3 tera-bytes of high resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps. You can locate imagery by clicking on the map above, entering a city or town name in the "Search TerraServer" form at the top of the page, or entering a U.S.
• The Abacus
  (Scientific American Sci/Tech Award) The under-appreciated abacus is given a worthy devotion on this site, which has been translated into four other languages besides English. Relying largely on javascript, the site features an interactive history of the ancient calculator, and an online tutorial.
• 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 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 Athena Project
  On June 10, 2003, the first Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft was launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. After a seven month flight, it will enter the martian atmosphere in January, 2004.
• 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 Braille Bug
  The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about braille, and to encourage literacy among all children. AFB--a national nonprofit founded in 1921 and the organization to which Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life--addresses the critical issues, such as literacy, that are facing America's ten million blind or visually impaired children and adults.
• The Center for History and New Media
  Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people scholars, students, and the general public--learn about and use the past. This great site combines "the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship." From George Mason University.
• The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education
  Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education provides inquiry-based activities and collaborative projects in science and math. Topics include real-time weather and climate data, air pollution, remote sensing data, the Gulf Stream, water use and testing around the world, boiling water, plants and animals in your schoolyard, measuring the circumference of earth, population growth, and tracking a real airplane in flight to see how vectors and trigonometry are used for navigation.
• The Chemistry of Autumn Colors
  This site briefly describes the chemical process that occurs each fall when the leaves of plants in the Northern Hemisphere change from green "to brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red." From a University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor. Subjects: Fall foliage .
• The Coastal Ocean Observatory Laboratory room (aka COOLroom)
  The Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences (RMCS), in conjunction with the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR) has addressed the need for innovative materials that provide educators with the knowledge and skills they need to develop scientific literacy in their students The COOL Classroom is a series of Internet-based instructional modules that link middle and high school classrooms with active research investigations at the Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences (RMCS) COOLroom, a collaboration of oceanographers studying the coastal ocean off the coast of New Jersey. Here you will find information about how to use the COOL projects and printable teachers guides.
• The Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)
  is an action-oriented organization dedicated to increasing the number and scope of women participating in computing research and higher education. In addition to increasing the number of women involved, we also seek to increase the degree of success they experience and to provide a forum for addressing problems that often fall disproportionately within women's domain.
• 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 Dynamic Earth
  An interactive treasure trove for earth science scholars and students. Information is available in text form and in interactive multimedia.
• The Electronic Naturalist
  Grade(s): K - 8 Synopsis: While the title may seem to be a contradiction in terms (how can anything electronic be natural?), the site itself is a wonderful resource that brings a different nature topic right to students' desktops each week. Topics include "creepy crawlies," fish, reptiles, birds...basically anything that lives in nature.
• 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 Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
  Bob Hoffman, Bob Hoffman, email Bob.Hoffman@_NO_SPAM_sdsu.edu (delete "_NO_SPAM_" from this address before using.), General Editor A publication of San Diego State University Department of Educational Technology This document is best seen with the latest browsers. The following plug-ins are required to fully interact with this document: Download Shockwave | Download QuickTime The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.
• The Encyclopedia of World History
  The good people at Bartleby.com have long prided themselves on providing a host of important works online for the benefit of those seeking online edification. One of the more recent volumes they have placed on their site is The Encyclopedia of World History, edited by Peter N.
• The Fibonacci Series ( 6-8)
  Science NetLinks, American Association for the Advancement of Science Students explore the Fibonacci series of numbers, named for the Italian mathematician Fibonacci (1175-1240). They identify the pattern among the numbers and look for applications of the pattern in both the natural and designed world.
• The Galapagos Islands
  Explore Galápagos Guide to see, hear, and learn about the island wildlife, landscape, and even about the undersea submersible used by scientists in the film to explore the Galápagos waters. Classroom Investigations contains downloadable and online activities to use at home or in class.
• The Gateway
  http://www.thegateway.org/This is a great searching site for K-12 lessons and other teacher's materials.
• The GEEE in Genome
  - "With more than 200 richly illustrated and interactive pages, The Geee! In Genome Web site invites visitors to learn about genes, stem cells, GMOs, cloning and the diversity of life. Primarily targeted at high school students and teachers, there are curriculum-based educational resources, ethical debates, interactive games and opinion polls." You'll need the free Flash player for some of the site.
• The GLOBE Program
  GLOBE -- Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from more than 9,500 schools in over 90 countries collect data that are then used by scientists and other researchers.
• The Globe Program
  This is a time tested environmental program that is truly international. What is The GLOBE Program? GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.
• 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 K-12 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
  The principles of aeronautics for elementary and middle school children, presented in three levels in English and Spanish for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. Curriculum Bridges provides activities that show the relationships between aeronautics and math, language arts, social studies, visual/performing arts, and literature.
• 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 Medici Archive Project
  The Medici family is widely considered one of the most famous and respected patrons of arts during the Renaissance, and their legacy perseveres in the numerous works of art, music, and sculpture that were produced as a result of their beneficence. The archive of the Medici Grand Dukes contains almost three million letters, and offers "the most complete record of any princely regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe." Currently, the Medici Archive Project is developing this site to place many of these letters online, along with a strong interest in the history of costumes and Jewish history during the Renaissance.
• 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 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 New Americans
  The New Americans - "Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century." Watch video clips, listen to music and take a quiz that will challenge your idea of what it means to be "American." Companion site to the independent film shown on PBS. The New Americans Web site offers an online educational adventure for 7th-12th grade students.
• The Olympic Games Theme Collection
  Olympic Themes The Olympic Games Theme Collection featuring sites about past and present Olympians, Athens, the different competitions, mascots, mascots, collectibles, doping, security, the Olympic Truce, and much more. New content added every week.
• 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 Particle Adventure
  - Find answers to the eternal, fundamental questions of physics: "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?" The information on this site is clearly presented and well organized, with fabulous resources for teachers, including student activity sheets and links to particle physics education sites. (This site uses Flash and Shockwave.) This website requires cookies, Javascript, and Macromedia Flash.
• 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 Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
  This exhibition from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture "presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center's collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center's role as the premier public research library in the world devoted to documenting and preserving the histories and cultures of people of African descent worldwide." Subjects: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -- History | Blacks | African Americans | African diaspora | Special libraries -- New York (State) -- New York | Black History Month | New this week.
• The Tomb of Tutankhamon
  This is a site that puts you in the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamon. You have the actual tour of the ways in which the tomb was originally explored after its discovery.
• The Underground Railroad
  During the 1800s, over one hundred thousand enslaved fugitives sought freedom through the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is the symbolic term given to the routes enslaved Black Americans took to gain their freedom as they traveled, often as far as Canada and Mexico.
• The WWW Virtual Library
  The WWW Virtual LibraryAgricultureAgriculture, Gardening, Forestry, Irrigation...Business and EconomicsEconomics, Finance, Marketing, Transportation...ComputingComputing, E-Commerce, Languages, Web...Communications and MediaCommunications, Telecommunications, Journalism...EducationEducation, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics...EngineeringCivil, Chemical, Electrical...HumanitiesAnthropology, History, Museums, Philosophy...Information&LibrariesGeneral Reference, Information Quality, Libraries...International AffairsInternational Security, Sustainable Development, UN...LawArbitration, Law, Legal History...RecreationRecreation and Games, Gardening, Sport...Regional StudiesAfrican, Asian, Latin American, West European...ScienceBiosciences, Health, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry...SocietyPolitical Science, Religion, Social Sciences...
• Time for Kids Black History Month
  Start your tour with the Black History Timeline (Then to Now) to prepare for the interactive quiz game Civil Rights History Challenge. "Retrace the marchers' steps by answering our questions about the fight for equal rights." Next is a popular culture quiz.
• Traces: Historic Archaeology
  Traces: Historic Archaeology (3-5)In this unit, students will "recover" and analyze artifacts from sites in use from the settlement period to the second half of the 19th century. They will look for similarities and differences among the artifacts and the lives they reveal.
• Traditional Japanese Music
  This Internet Guide presents annotations of Web sites that address generally the issue of traditional Japanese music and sites that focus on particular instruments (koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, and taiko). Music plays a large role in the traditional dramatic arts of kabuki and noh, so the guide concludes with annotations of sites addressing these art forms." From the National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies, Indiana University.
• TryScience
  TryScience.org wants you to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through online and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and it's for everyone! That's why TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself.
• 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.
• Understanding Prejudice
  An overview of research on prejudice has been translated into multiple languages as part of an American Psychological Association initiative known as "Prejudice in Any Language: The Prejudice Translation Project." .
• United States State Dept. New Website
  United States State Department To Launch New Website Design http://www.state.gov The Department of State is updating its main website at www.state.gov to improve usability and increase awareness of important news items. The new design streamlines the number of content sections from nine to four:     Issues and Press,     Travel and Business,     Youth and Education, and     About the State Department.
• USGS Learning Web
  K-12 students, can come get what they need to do homework. Put creativity into your project.
• USGS National Mapping Information
  The U.S. government has spent our tax dollars mapping and snapping its territories and the world.
• 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.
• Viewing the Earth
  You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe. Images can be generated based on a full-colour image of the Earth by day and night, a topographical map of the Earth, up-to-date weather satellite imagery, or a composite image of cloud cover superimposed on a map of the Earth, a colour composite which shows clouds, land and sea temperatures, and ice, or the global distribution of water vapour.
• Virtual Knee Surgery
  Perform a virtual knee replacement! In this guided virtual surgery you will use tools such as the scalpel and bone saw. You can also view photos from a real knee surgery.
• Visible Proofs-Forensic Views of the Body
  Companion to a 2006-2008 exhibition that teaches about the history of forensic medicine, items in a forensic laboratory, and recent developments in forensic science. Features galleries of significant cases (such as the autopsy of President Lincoln), technologies, biographies of prominent scientists, and artifacts.
• Visual Quantum Mechanics
  Designed to "introduce quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher level math." Utilizing the Shockwave plug-in, these "interactive computer visualizations and animations provide graphical descriptions of quantum effects." Site explores "properties of light emitting diodes, tunneling diodes, solar cells and even glow-in-the-dark toothbrushes are explored." From the Physics Education Research Group, Kansas State University.
• Voices for Votes"
  involves students in examining primary source documents related to the women's suffrage movement. Students identify methods used to change attitudes about suffrage for women &then create original documents encouraging citizens to vote in current elections.
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
  Features interviews with 23 former slaves (the oldest was 130 at the time of the interview). These nearly 7 hours ofrecordings provide a glimpse of what life was like for slaves & freedmen.
• War and Peace
  "War & Peace" exhibits photos, maps, & documents related to America's wars.Features include a Civil War timeline, letters from soldiers,homefront contributions during World War I & II, American women workers during World War II, man-on-the-street interviews after Pearl Harbor, "The Stars & Stripes" newspaper(for Army troops in France 1918-19), Winston Churchill, the Marshall Plan, Ansel Adam's book of photos of a World War II internment camp, & the Veterans History Project. (LOC) .
• We the People
  Features drafts of the Declaration of Independence & the Gettysburg Address, papers of George Washington & Thomas Jefferson, an Emancipation Proclamation timeline, slave codes, images of presidential inaugurations, how elections have changed, documents on policies aimed to keep peace between white settlers & Native Americans (1783-1815), duties of the President & other governmental officials in 1825, the role of religion in the founding of the colonies, & more. (LOC).
• Weather Watcher 5.4b [Windows Operating System]
  As spring progresses, weather conditions can continue to fluctuate dramatically, something that may foil vacation plans or other outings. Keeping that in mind, visitors may do well to download the Weather Watcher application created by Mike Singer.
• Web Navigation Skills Black Hills State University: Search Engines
  World Wide Web Navigation Skills Educators should be able to navigate the World Wide Web and search effectively for data on the Internet. See the following Web sites for helpful information and tutorials on these skills.
• WebQuest Rubric Template and Rubric Collection
  WebQuest Rubric Template and Rubric Collection can be found at this site produced by Education Service Center Region 20 (San AntonioTX) and teachers in that region.The site features rubrics to evaluate student products created as a result of webquests. Some are based on the excellent rubric template found at the Rubric Collection web site, while the majority are based on the ingenuity and creativity of teachers.http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/rubrics/Default.htm.
• Welcome to Environmental Inquiry!
  Environmental Inquiry (EI) is a website and curriculum series developed at Cornell University to help students conduct environmental science research and participate in communities of fellow student scientists. In 2003, EI won an Environmental Quality Award from EPA for Excellence in Environmental Education.
• 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.
• With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
  Presents more than 80 photos, letters and newspapers manuscripts, maps, music, & films related to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The online exhibit is organized in three parts: previous court cases that laid the ground work for the decision, the argument underpinning the ruling & the public's initial response, & the aftermath. (LOC) .
• 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.
• Women's Words of Wisdom: Thoughts Over Time
  This interactive presentation features quotations from women such as Nellie Bly, Rachel Carson, Amelia Earhart, Ella Fitzgerald, Mary Harris Jones, Annie Oakley, and Harriet Tubman. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
• 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.
• World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
  The international collections of the Library of Congress started with the arrival of the Thomas Jefferson library in 1815. Today the Library's international collections are unparalleled; they are comprehensive in scope and include research materials in more than 460 languages and in many media.
• WWW.4teachers
  This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a free, Web based monthly publication that provides a place where educators and others with interests in K to 12 education can encounter new ideas about technology's role in education. At this site they can express their opinions, share experiences, and be inspired and educated by other teachers' narratives about using technology in educational settings.
• Zoom Into Maps
  offers hundreds of historical maps -- maps showing European exploration of the Americas; migration, population, & economic activity; the growth of roads, railways, canals, river systems, telephone systems, telegraph routes, & radio coverage; landforms, recreational, & wilderness areas; troop movements, battle routes, & campsites during major U.S.military conflicts; & more. The collection features a 2003 map of U.S.
• ‘Lost World’ of wildlife found in Indonesia
  Describing it as the discovery of a “Lost World,” conservation groups and Indonesia on Tuesday said an expedition to one of Asia’s most isolated jungles had found several dozen new species of frogs, butterflies, flowers and birds. * Life Science o Biological evolution + Species is the most fundamental unit of classification.