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Site - July's Pick Art to Zoo: Teaching with the Power of Objects -- a bimonthly Smithsonian Institute online publication provides lesson plans and activities based on landscape painting. Curriculum
Material and Resources Music Education Launch Site -- provides links to various music related resources including lesson plans for all grade levels. Kids framing Kids -- exhibits an elementary art teacher's comprehensive approach to art education and provides links to lesson and curriculum plans. Cave paintings in France -- displays and discusses the exciting discoveries of the Chauvet Cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche). Good resource site for 5-12 grades. The Louvre (in English) -- take a virtual tour of the renown art museum. Excellent site for K-12 grades. ArtMuseum Network -- provides links to the world's outstanding art museums and features a "Museum of the Week" link. A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s -- provides a hypertext historical account of photography and links to international photography exhibits. Excellent resource site for secondary education student. Art to Zoo: Teaching with the Power of Objects -- a bimonthly Smithsonian Institute online publication provides lesson plans and activities based on landscape painting. The Art Teacher Connection© -- an invaluable comprehensive web site for all grade level art teachers interested in integrating technology into their classrooms. Eyes on Art--excellent teaching resource site for ideas on using the Internet as a resource for art activities. Audience: K-6 teachers. The Detroit Institute of Arts--explore the exhibitions and enjoy the rich visuals. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. National Museum of American Art--virtually visit this national museum, and its rich collection of Latino art. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. An Apprentice's Handbook for Illuminated Manuscripts--excellent site for art history lessons. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. An Interactive Learning Center for using Architecture in the Classroom--features a new section entitled Understanding Architecture where kids interactively explore scientific and artistic principles of architecture. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. K-12 Resources for Music Educators--provides links to resources for K-12 music teachers and students. Hands On Children's Museum--website designed for kids 10-years-old and under. Welcome to the World of Escher--interesting site with informative links; Museum link takes you to a virtual gallery of Escher's art work. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Mrs. Hull's Kindergarten Home Page--a website exhibiting a collection of Kindergarten art work. Japanese Old Tales -- Eleven tales with illustrations appropriate for 5th grade and up.l Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page -- provides resources and information for reading and elementary teachers. The Children's Literature Web Guide -- an excellent and comprehensive web guide of resources and information. Luminarium -- an excellent resource for students of medieval and early modern English literature. Webspeare -- an online resource for high school students and teachers. Common Errors in English -- a reference for secondary students and teachers. The Alphabet Superhighway --provides
lesson plans and a literary magazine for upper elementary school and middle school
students. Sponsored under the U.S. Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative. HyperGrammar-- an online grammar reference for writing labs and secondary education students and teachers. Debate Topics -- provides excellent links to high school debate topics including international resources, selected readings, and an annotated bibliography. Internet Connections: Language Arts -- provides over 100 links for K-12 teachers. SCORE Language Arts -- provides K-12 lesson plans, web-based units and links to many other resources. Booktalks--Quick and Simple is a database of over 500 booktalks geared toward K-12 fiction. Contains an author index, a title index, subject index and interest level index. Although meant for educators, families have found it quite useful also. Excellent sites for 5-6 year-olds, their teachers and parents. Sesame
Street Coloring Page Comprehensive Teachers’ Guide provides step by step guidance through the Professional Cartoonists site so that English and Social Studies teachers can use it with their classes to study everything from current events, politics and government to symbolism, satire, metaphor and irony. The guide will be constantly updated and expanded. Integrating the Internet into the Language Arts Classroom--an online two-day workshop designed for Language Arts teachers in grades 1 through 12. Writer's Toolbox: Internet Resources for Writers--site provides writing related links. Audience: Novice and aspiring professional writers, but resources could be used in 9-12 grades. Project Gutenberg--electronic text versions of literary classics. Audience: Secondary English Teachers. Myths and Legends--comprehensive metasite providing numerous links to myths, legends, global folklore, urban folklore and much, much more. Audience: K-12 teachers, but aimed more for secondary teachers and students. Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature--excellent links to online children's books and other literary information. Audience: Elementary and middle school teachers, students, and parents. Electronic Children's Books--a gopher site providing links to a collection of online children's classics. Audience: K-8 teachers. The English Server Fiction Collection--a site devoted to novels and short stories with links to electronic versions of literary works. Audience: Secondary English and drama teachers. Fairy tales and fables: A collection of Grimm's fairy tales--gopher site providing links to electronic versions of Grimm's fairy tales. Audience: K-12 teachers. The On-line Books Page--index of online electronic books. Audience: Secondary Teachers. The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon--an international forum for the appreciation of haiku. Audience: Secondary teachers and students. EINet Poetry Index--a list of online poetry collections. Audience: Secondary English teachers and students. The New Bartleby--a National Digital Library that currently features the selected works of Theodore Roosevelt. Audience: Secondary English and History teachers and students. Jane Austen Information Page--interactive site with electronic versions of Austen's work in hypertext. Great inquiry site! Audience: Secondary English students and teachers. The Edmund Spenser Home Page--extensive metasite providing electronic versions of Spenser's works and interesting links to related literature. Audience: Secondary Honors English students and teachers. Mark Twain on the Philippines--interesting site exhibiting Twain's satirical writings on the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. Documents his involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League. Audience: Secondary English and History teachers and students. Emily Dickinson--informative site covering the life and works of Emily Dickinson; very interesting list of FAQs. Audience: Secondary English students and teachers. Theodore Tugboat's Online Activity Center--fun interactive site featuring an online coloring book, interactive stories, and links to many other children's sites. Audience: Primary grade teachers, students, and parents. First People Web Sites in the Americas -- large K-12 clearinghouse of business, cultural, educational, and legal links to Indian and Aboriginal web sites. Native American Educational Resources -- very comprehensive metasite constructed to provide all known relevant information resources to the Native American and educational communities. Online Culture and Language Learning -- provides K-12 educators with Internet-based tools to facilitate development of cross-cultural and bilingual competency via computer. World Cultures -- provides advanced high school and college freshman students with an online research textbook of world cultures and history. K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet -- provides an extensive guide to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating online resources on Africa for classroom use, research, and studies. Urban/Minority Families -- contains resources for teachers and parents of Asian, Hispanic, homeless, refugee, immigrant, and at-risk students, including links about family involvement, conflict resolution, and multicultural education. The Children of Southeast Asia--site portraits young people from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. Spotlight on the Harlem Renaissance--a collection of links designed to explore this exciting era of history. Audience K-12 teachers, students, and parents. Cultures Alive!--website maintained by the Learning Channel; explore the globe and participate in culturally rich virtual experiences. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. African-American Issues--provides links to interesting articles and African-American History sites. Audience: Secondary teachers, students, and parents. Photo Tour of the Civil
Rights Movement-- presents a "sampling of images" portraying events in
Seattle during the civil rights movement . Audience: K-12 students, teachers, and parents. Bilingual Education Resources on the Net--valuable links to Bilingual Education resources. Audience: K-12 teachers. Primary Education (K-3) Resources for Bilingual Educators--provides links to resources designed for K-3 bilingual educators and Spanish-speaking children. La Clase Bilingüe--literature-based thematic teaching units for K-6 bilingual classrooms. Technology Services: Bilingual Education Resources English-as-a-Second-Language Learning and Collaboration in Cyberspace by Susana M. Sotillo A bilingual (both English and Spanish) web page. Once at the site you click on Phoenix Elementary School History Corner. The Southern Oregon Historical Society partnered with a Phoenix Elementary to produce pages in both languages about the Mexican celebration of the day of the dead. US Military Directorate of Time -- provides a resource to develop activities for upper-level elementary students to calculate the current time in various world time zones. Life Over Time Activities
-- provides sample activities from the Field Museum in Chicago for elementary school
students, including reference sections and resource listings for more activities. Animal Tracks -- from the publishers (National Wildlife Federation) of Ranger Rick and Your Big Backyard, this site contains information and games developed for upper-level elementary students. Dragonfly -- web site dedicated to promoting scientific investigations by elementary students. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) -- hundreds of resources for K-12 students, educators, and parents. Ask an Expert -- searchable collection of answered questions and resources to e-mail questions to an expert. Great site to use with K-12 students as an Internet activity. SchoolNet Digital Connections -- an incredible digital collection of images, informational resources, historical accounts, and cultural artifacts. Excellent web site for upper level elementary and secondary students and educators. California Heritage Collection -- provides an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. School Librarian Emergency Sites -- a wonderful set of links, categorized and annotated, designed to provide resources for the School Library Media Specialist. The Adventures of Cyberbee--guides teachers on Internet adventures. Creative Classroom Online--provides creative resources and interactive features for K-6 teachers. Doug & Grover Online: Internet Projects Telis--a non-profit education foundation providing quality electronic learning resources. All Tracks--A good starting point for K-1 sites. Tommy's Tooth Ache -- provides instruction about the importance of brushing teeth. Information on Tobacco and Smoking Altered States: Alcohol and Other Drugs in America --website exhibiting the American history of drug use and drug trade. Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. PE Central--website for physical education teachers, students, interested parents, and adults. Features links to Lesson and Assessment Ideas. Audience: K-6 teachers, students, and parents. EDSITEment--humanities-related web site created and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities. Considered to be the best humanities-related educational content on the Internet. Math
Mayan Math -- explores the numerical and calendrical Mayan system as well as providing additional activities for elementary teachers. Another related site which explores the Mayan counting system based on 3 symbols. Project SkyMath -- designed for middle school mathematics teachers. Provides information on how to use the project's 16 classroom activities. Plane Math -- designed to "stimulate and motivate students with physical disabilities in grades 4-7 to pursue aeronautics-related careers." In addition, provides many useful math resources. Fractals -- site for elementary and middle school students to learn about fractals. Lesson plans are based on the NCTM standards, and resources for other math lessons are also available. SCORE Mathematics Lessons -- collection of lesson plans based on the California Mathematics Framework and the NCTM Standards for K-12 teachers. The Explorer -- a collection of K-12 mathematics and science educational resources including instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, and student created materials. Math and Science Gateway -- contains links to 9-12th grade mathematics and science resources for teachers and students. Developed by Cornell University. Ask Dr. Math--a searchable archive of math questions arranged by grade level; questions asked by students and teachers. K-5 List of Math Lessons--list of links to textual lesson plans. 6-8
List of Math Lessons--list of links to textual lesson plans. MegaMath-- designed for the elementary level this site presents unusual and important mathematical ideas. The Spanky Fractal Database--a must see site designed to provide resources for fractal images, software, and information. Audience: Secondary Math teachers and students. The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota--contains great multimedia exhibits about geometric structures. Audience: K-12 teachers. Mathematics in Ancient Greece--an exhibition (primarily a textual presentation) based on documents in the Vatican Library. Audience: K-12 teachers. The Math Forum Student Center--site contains student activities like Problem of the Week and Project of the Month;offers activity links by grade level. Audience: K-12 students, teachers, and parents. Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason--unique presentation of information and resources about math and reasoning. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Interactive
Physics and Math with JAVA-- a set of more than 20 scientifically
accurate, easily understandable, user friendly educational applets.
Audience: K-12 teachers interested in web-based instruction. The Food Zone--provides opportunities to examine how our bodies work and what it needs to run on, as well as fun experiments. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Nutrition and Health--website maintained by the University of Arizona to provide web information on nutrition and health topics. Audience: Secondary Health and Home Economics teachers. Kindergarden -- provides many approaches for designing activities where children interact with plants and the outdoors. Brucie's Buddies -- a club for children age 4 to 14 with the motto of "Kids Caring for the Environment." Teaches students about the environment using online activities. EELink -- provides resources consistent with the key principles of environmental education for K-12 students. EnviroNet--Monitoring Projects for 1997-8 -- contains environmentally-oriented Internet projects, for example, the monitoring of acid rain, bats, birds, coyotes, insects, the ozone, and plants. Project aims to enhance environmental science education for middle and high school students through telecommunications. WhaleNet -- a collaborative telecomputing project that connects student investigators with other students and scientists, both nationally and globally. Web site also contains resources and activities for 4-12 grade students and teachers. Give Water a Hand -- a national watershed education program provides elementary and middle school teachers with resources for implementing an action-oriented project to involve students with water issues. Science Activities -- provides elementary teachers with activity-based science resources. The
Galileo Project -- an awarding winning informational site on Galileo's
life and work. Appropriate for grades 3-12 and teachers.
Site created and maintained by Rice University. Hurricane Storm Center -- contains hurricane resources for elementary teachers; topics include inside a hurricane, survivors, weather instruments, and killer storms. MendelWeb-- contains resources about the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science for teachers and secondary level students. Created by Roger B. Blumberg at Brown University. Neuroscience for Kids -- contains information, activities, and experiments for students to explore the nervous system. KIE - University of Berkley -- web-based learning environment designed for middle and high school students to explore science. The
Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory:
The Early Years
-- Regional Planetary Image Facility -- a collection of more than 300,00 planetary images and data obtained from planetary missions. A great reference for K-12 students and teachers. The Space Educators' Handbook -- part of NASA's Multimedia Space Educators' Handbook, this site provides more than 2,000 files for K-12 students and educators. Also check out Quest, NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative The How Far Does Light Go? Debate -- problem-solving activity for middle and high school students. Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project (CoVis)-- a distributed learning environment for high school students to learn about science using the same tools and thinking processes of scientists. Nanoworld Image Gallery -- contains pictures taken by a scanning electronic microscope pictures of a variety of objects. Scanning Electron
Microscope Image Gallery -- contains images of insects and
spiders, plants samples, and synthetic substances like Velcro. Ebola Outbreak: A Talk with Teachers -- high school students can read a transcripted interview with Dr. Donald P. Francis, a leading AIDS researcher, about the Ebola virus. Introduction to the Viruses -- hypertext resource for high school students and teachers. Micro-Units for Science: Biology - Grades 9-12 -- developed by the National Science Teachers Association. Search the Micro-Units by National Science Education Standards categories or subject areas or by grade level Biology Resources Page -- provides microscope and scanning electron microscope images of cell structures. Mike's Herpetocultural Homepage -- provides photographs and information on reptiles of the Shawnee National Forest. Check out this site listed on Mike's page Herp and Reptile Pictures -- provides links to additional resources and more than 200 photographs of crocodilians, frogs, lizards, turtles, tortoises, and snakes. Green Algae -- contains information and links to related resources for high school students. An additional Marine Life web site for high school students Cnideria: Jellyfish, Corals and Sea Anemones. In Search of Giant Squid -- 4-12 grade students can follow an expedition to track down a giant squid off the coast of New Zealand, and web site provides a comprehensive resource of information and related links. Ocean Link -- an interactive web site containing Marine Science information for 5-12 grade students and teachers. Whales: A Thematic Web Unit -- an integrated unit for K-8 grades. Mutant Fruit Flies -- explains the basics of DNA mutation using fruit flies. Good starting point for 6-12 grade students. Glacier -- middle and high school students learn concepts of earth science, ecology, and environmental science by exploring Antarctica and its important environmental role. Science House -- contains an annotated list of many useful resources for science educators. Computational Science Textbook-- a web-based textbook and teachers' manual for teaching a high school course in computational science. SCORE Science -- contains links to K-12 quality science resources for students and teachers. Scientific American Frontiers School Program--Free Teaching Materials and Interactive Website. A complete biology text on-line written by the page's author. The Academy Curriculum Exchange--within this metasite you can find a good website for science activities for kids. This site has 130 science activities for kids in grades K-5 and is provided by the Organization For Community Networks. Arachnology: The study of arachnids (spiders and their relatives)--if you want to explore spiders, this site provides numerous informational links. Audience: K-6 students and teachers. Dinosauria Online--cool links to dinosaur articles, pictures, all kinds of information relating to excavations, evolution of dinosaurs, fossilization, paleontology, and lots more. Audience: K-8 teachers and students. Earth and Sky--supported by the National Science Foundation this website provides information on topics related to the earth and sky like daily reports on what stars can be seen. Also provides links to a broad range of related topics, links to school stuff including lessons plans and other ideas on how to use the website. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Science/Nature for Kids--ideas, field trips, resources and more for K-12 students, parents and teachers. Teacher Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities--great site for science lesson plans and activities for K-12 teachers. Virtual Frog Dissection Kit--interactive dissection of a frog and links to a Virtual Frog Builder Game, which can be used to test high school students' knowledge of frog anatomy. Audience: Secondary Science teachers and students. Auroras:Paintings in the Sky - Exploratorium--great site for learning about auroras. Provides suggestions for using the site in classrooms. Audience: Secondary Science teachers and students. Africanized Honey Bee Lesson Plans--lesson plans for K-12 students designed to familiarize students with honey bees and bee safety issues through a variety of interesting activities. Amazon Adventure--visit a website created by a group of teachers after their visit to the Amazon rainforest in August, 1996. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Chem 101--great site for chemistry educators features a searchable online textbook, experiments, videos, chat rooms, and a newsgroup. The Internet Webseum of Holography--information on the history and creation of holograms. The Hollo-Kids section is designed for younger students. Whales--an integrated thematic web unit designed for K-5 classrooms. International Arctic Project--gopher site on the International Arctic Project (IAP) expedition; learn about the Arctic region by reading the team's accounts online. Audience: 6-12 teachers and students. Liftoff--interactive Space Shuttle Mission thematic website. Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. The Field Museum--website of Chicago's renowned natural history museum. Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. Wolf Haven International--website devoted to wolf conservation. Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. The Froggy Page--a fun interactive site filled with informational resources for all ages. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. The Weather Unit--provides
an integrated thematic unit featuring interconnected lesson plans
across a broad range of subject matter. Audience: K-6 teachers and
students. Fun
Science Gallery --website designed to support science education,
help make science a fun activity, and assist teachers with science
projects. Audience: 3-8 teachers and students. BLM Resource Explorer--go on location with Bureau of Land Management scientists and ask questions while they're conducting research. Excellent environmental education material. Audience: 4-12 teachers and students. Teaching Resources by the National Council for the Social Studies -- provides teaching resources categorized by Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. New resources are added monthly. Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers -- a list of Internet resources gathered by Dr. Marty Levine, California State University, Northridge (CSUN); includes K-12 lesson plans and resources. SCORE History-Social Science Resources -- lists K-12 resources selected and evaluated by California educators. Sites chosen for accuracy, grade appropriateness, and richness. The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) maintains an excellent list of resources organized by the ten major themes of social studies. History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers -- designed to encourage use of the World Wide Web as a learning and teaching tool and to provide help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using Internet resources in the classroom. Social Studies School Service -- provides grades 4-12 resources on the American Revolution, Women's History, Black History, National Parks, Slavery, lots of Civics sites, and even Shakespeare. Excellent resource site! Check out Online Resources. Animas Expedition: Treasure Hunters & Underwater Archaeology --upper-level elementary and secondary students can virtually view an underwater archaeological adventure exploring 18th century Spanish & Portuguese shipwrecks off of Uruguay. Archaeological Museum of Bologna, Italy -- visit the museum, which consists of a huge number of materials illustrating the oldest history of Bologna: from prehistory to the Roman Period. Its collection of Egyptian antiquities is one of the most important in Europe. Viewthe Egyptian section or the Etruscan section National Archaeological Museum of Athens -- provides a catalogue of museum holdings of ancient artifacts from ancient Greek sites and Egypt. Jamestown Rediscovery -- 5-12th grade students explore the results and exhibit of a ten-year archaeological project, which searched for the remains of 1607 Jamestown, Virginia. The Valley of the Shadow Project -- provides secondary and college students a hypermedia archive of the American Civil War viewed from both sides of the conflict. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: -- a virtual tour of the Supreme Court, the building, the justices, and Supreme Court cases since 1893. U.S. History Out Loud -- provides collection of digitized audio materials from presidential libraries and other archives for use over the World Wide Web. Audience: High school students and teachers. History/Social Studies Website for K-12 Teachers The Smithsonian: America's Treasure House for Learning--the online Smithsonian Institution museums. Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. History--provides links to instructional materials and information for K-12 Teachers. IDB Population Pyramids--great site to create student activities from. For example, population distribution can be shown for over 200 countries. Have students create categories based on the graphs. Assign students a nation to research other features (income distribution, GNP, education) and compare these with the research done by other groups. Audience: Secondary History, Math, and Geography teachers and students. The Library of Congress Exhibitions--a virtual museum of our Nation's historical artifacts. Incredible display of maps (click on MAPS from home page). Audience: K-12 teachers, secondary students, and parents. American
Memory from the Library of Congress--primary sources and archival
materials related to American history and culture. Audience:
K-12 teachers, students, and parents. US Historical Documents--gopher list of a very thorough resource list of textual information. Audience: Secondary History teachers and students. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum--incredible collection of artifacts and exhibits. Excellent site! Audience: K-12 teachers, students, and parents. Beginner's Guide to HTML -- downloadable guide for learning hypertext markup language (HTML). Internet Use: Commonly Asked Questions -- an FYI reference for elementary and secondary school teachers about Internet issues. Internet Navigator -- an online Internet course available for use or for credit. Good information resource for teachers. World Wide Web Workbook -- an online workbook for high school students and teachers to learn WWW basics in a PC lab. Designing Electronic Classrooms Issues regarding computers in the classroom Northwestern University's Smart Classrooms Specific Infrastructure Requirements for New and Renovated Classrooms and Lecture Halls to Support Multimedia Teaching The Computer Lab: A Multimedia Classroom and Computer Lab The
Smarter College Classrooms Home Page Educational Technology -- a collection of resources for educators. Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now discusses the role of technology in education. Educational Technology Network--a very impressive collection of websites that are routinely updated; a visit is a must. Audience: K-12 teachers. Educational Technology in Education Federal Communications Commission: LearnNet Sites--The FCC's Informal Education page. Since technology is believed to have the potential to enhance education. The FCC is working to bring every school in America into the information age. LearnNet is about important FCC policy and education initiatives. An Education Renaissance - CYBERSchools-- CollegeNET --a free Internet guide to colleges and universities. Provides students with a web-based tool for identifying and applying to institutions that fit their needs. Features a free scholarship search database, virtual campus tours, and Financial Aid information. Software Publisher's Association -Education Section--contains information on copyright protection laws and the legal use of intellectual property, current standards for hardware configurations and standards for K-12 curriculum as it pertains to software. The
NODE-Technologies for Learning--information on learning technologies.Site
designed to help make informed decisions about learning technologies
by organizing and contextualizing information, critical analyses and
the experiences of colleagues. Features monthly information
about new teaching technologies, for instance learn about Integrated Learning Packages
viewing comparative analyses, personal experiences, critical reviews
and developer information surrounding software for web-based course
delivery. webED LINKS--metasite useful to faculty and technology specialists Teaching, Learning and Technology -- the National Education Association's Center for Educational Technology's online publication for K-12 educators. Electronic Elementary Magazine: "The E-Link" -- online magazine for elementary educators and students. Provides resources for collaborative activities and showcases student projects. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Free online technology magazine for K-12 school leaders--Electronic School eSchoolNews.Com--The online companion to the K-12 decision makers technology and Internet newspaper. Internet Resources Newsletter (IRN)--free monthly electronic newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists, and social scientists. Meridian--Middle School Computer Technologies Journal National School Networks Newsletter Newspapers
in Education ONLINE EDUCATOR -- Newsletter has free online offerings, and also it is updated every Monday morning each week. Provides numerous links to useful Internet sites and lesson plans. Audience: K-12 teachers. The International Journal of Leadership in Learning The
Well Connected Educator-- is the on-line publishing center and
forum for the K-12 community to read, write, and talk about educational
technology. Designing Web Pages: Six Steps for Web Design -- web site designed to help educators and students develop web pages. Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques -- a good resource for teachers to learn how to navigate through the ocean of information available on the Internet. Integrating the Web into Your Curriculum -- provides a resource page to help teachers develop lesson plans, unit plans, and web sites for their students. Introductions to the physics and Math with JAVA-- a set of more than 20 scientifically accurate, easily understandable, user friendly educational applets. EASI --online email/web workshops on designing universally accessible web pages. Teaching with the Internet Best Practices and Example Teaching with the Internet Examples of Delivery/Strategies WebED--metasite for web-based instruction MiniTools--Three small Win95 applications for authoring Web-based language exercises. One is an updated version of a previously-released JCross crossword-maker, one makes cloze/gap-fill exercises and one makes sentence-ordering exercises. All three packaged together with a full install/uninstall tutorial and help file (download the zip archive about 1.3 meg). Website Rating Tools: http://www.100hot.com/ Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? -- a web site created by high school students as a Think Quest project. The Book Review Forum -- interactive site where 1-12th grade students ages can submit a book review and read reviews written by other Internet submitters. Educational Applications of the Internet -- contains links to many interesting and useful resources for K-12 educators. Check out this site about the Internet in the Classroom. Journey North -- an interactive project dedicated to exploring wildlife migration as well as other environmental issues using an inquiry-based research approach. Provides excellent resources and teacher guides for grades 3-12. Light Walk - Exploratorium -- interesting exploration of sunlight for teachers looking for hands-on science and art ideas. K-12 Oceanography Web Resources-- very extensive list of links categorized by data sets, lesson plans, oceanography metasites, and more links, which includes a through review of the web site. The Electronic Zoo -- provides a searchable database of comprehensive animal resources for K-12 grades. The GLOBE Program -- a network-based global learning community of K-12 students, teachers, scientists and community leaders, investigating environmental issues and exchanging data findings. The JASON Project -- K-12 students and teachers virtually explore the rainforest and conduct a comparative study of temperate, tropical, and fossil rainforests. Sample Curriculum-Based K-12 Educational Telecomputing Projects, Organized by Activity Structures -- provides an extensive list of links grouped by activity structures: keypals, global classrooms, question-and-answer activities, electronic publishing, telefield trips, pooled data analysis, and information searches just to name a few. A bookmark must for teachers interested in classroom technology intergration. Dead Sea Trek--journey to the center of the earth; one man on a bike heads for the Dead Sea. Provides a log, photos, and many resources...sponsored by the Discovery Channel. Audience: K-12 teachers and students. Educational Instructional Units Using Internet Resources Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN)--a leader in the instructional applications of telecommunications since 1985. GSN is a nonprofit educational organization headquartered in San Diego and is dedicated to harnessing the power and tools of the Internet to transcend distance and time.GSN recently created Community Share Program, a website that promotes programs to get schools and their communities working together. Launched in October during GSN's "Community Share Week,'' regularly displays activities designed to assist K-12 schools in utilizing the power of the Internet in sharing and uniting with their communities, as well as with other schools around the world. Interested in groundhogs' day? Check out for information about Pennsylvania's famous weather forecasting animal.View the event live on Feb 16, 1998, includes a teacher's resource section, guide to PA technology and a visitor's guide. Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project--a University of Minnesota-based website. Platform for more than 9,000 schools (many countries) to collaborate on school improvement issues. Project was designed to facilitate the introduction of this networked technology into K-12 schools. Goals of this project to:
WebQuest--"...an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet. "(Bernie Dodge) Webquests created by teachers in a summer graduate class The
WebQuest page Webquests--The New Hampshire Educational Media Association presented a webquest workshop during the summer of 1997. The Designing and Creating a WebQuest Workshop by Brendon White What is a webquest?--a tutorial on HTML and/or JavaScript. A Strategy for using the Internet in a middle school classroom Education 532 The Computer as an Instructional Tool--contains links to web pages that present material for use by elementary students What's News? --An ongoing tri-weekly competition. Students create questions for a fast paced WWW Jeopardy-style game of current events investigation. Global News Challenge-- Weekly LIVE school day Internet Relay Chat current events game. UNICEF Kids' Global Village Game--decision-making game for youth to better understand global issues Sample Internet Lessons and Learning Projects--contains the history of the Internet, Internet terminology, and other links. KidsONLINE: INTERNET ONLINE Summit: Focus on Children--dedicated to making sure that online experiences are safe, educational and entertaining for children. Star Trek Interactive--Ask Lawrence Krauss the author of 'The Physics of Star Trek' questions and review the answers to submitted questions such as, could Warp speed be possible? What about transporters? Deflector shields? Microbe Zoo-Learn about microbes and microbial ecology. Views
of the Solar System- Take an educational tour of the Solar System.
View images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids,
comets and meteoroids. Educational Instructional Units Using Internet Resources--provides links to instructional units designed for K-12 teachers. Classroom Applications for the Internet Learning Quest--provides links to K-12 teacher resources and classrooms applications of the Internet. The
Idea Channel--site sponsored by the same people who produce the
PBS series "Free to Choose" with Milton Friedman.
Kids Web -- collection of subject area links selected for K-12 students by Syracuse University. KidsClick -- a web guide developed by librarians for kids to use as a search tool. MidLink Magazine © The Electronic Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades -- provides fun and educational activities. Book Nook -- provides links to book reports by kids for kids. Teens Only! -- collection of online resources for adolescents. Education Project at Rogers University --WWW-Aided courses to high school juniors and seniors, for high school and university credit. Fun Internet Sites for Kids--a list of five fun links intended for kids. GreatKids--stories about "great" kids in action. The Kids on the Web--provides links to educational and fun sites designed for and about kids; informational links for parents also. Kid's Web--contains informational links easily navigated by kids to interesting sites designed for kids. MidLink Magazine--the electronic magazine for kids in the middle grades. Special Ed Tutoring--provides tutoring to students with learning disabilities using Microsoft=92s NetMeeting. UNICEF Kids' Global Village Game--decision-making game for youth to better understand global issues. What's News?--an ongoing tri-weekly competition. Students create questions for a fast-paced WWW Jeopardy-style game of current events investigation. WorldKids Network--a website for kids to have interactive fun. Harvard Education Letter -- special issue of this publication provides five articles related to parental involvement. Helping Your Child Learn Math: Parent Involvement Materials -- provides information and activities to foster math interest in K-8 students. Helping With Homework: A Parent's Guide to Information Problem-Solving -- an ERIC Digest document designed to help parents guide their child through homework assignments. KidsDentist-- provides information on the best possible dental care for children Parents Guide to the Internet--a U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Office of Educational Technology publication. National
Parent Information Network--links to parenting resources.
Solid Waste Classroom Activities -- Cornell University gopher provides links to K-12 classroom activities. Lesson Plans: Maps - What Do Maps Show? -- provides resources and lesson plans for upper elementary and junior high students. The Lesson Plans Page -- provides plans for elementary school aged children in all content areas. Collaborative Lesson Archive -- explore archives by grade level. Provides lessons for K-12 grades. Educational Resources: Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans -- provides educational resources about interacting with the environment and how to preserve Earth's resources for K-12 students and teachers. Surfing for ABC's Lesson Plan -- K-1st grade lesson plan for teaching kids how to use the Internet. Lesson Plan Collection -- K-12 science and math lesson plans. The Lesson Plan Page -- provides numerous links to gopher and web sites containing lesson and unit plans for K-12 educators. Lesson
plans -- extensive list of lesson plan links and resource
sites for K-12 teachers. URL: http://dewey.ed.brocku.ca/~jkerr/lsnpln.html Sample
Internet Lessons and Learning Projects--valuable site including
History of the Internet, Internet Terminology, and other net links.
The lessons here has been set up for the
These lessons plans and learning projects are provided to schoolnet courtesy of ABENAKI ASSOCIATES. Integrating the NET--suitable for grades k-6 LearningSpace: Using the WWW for Classroom Research Investigation--K-12 teachers submit lesson plans and short discussion. Technology Integrated Lessons Plans (Teacher Zone)--K-6 listing of lesson plans in various subject areas. Teacher Talk Forum--learning resources for secondary students, their parents, and educators. Provides links to various topics including lessons plans and professional development. McGraw
Hill's Resource Village--Free Teaching Resources including online
lesson plans. What's available: free resources, lesson plans, professional
development link provides excellent informational links Classroom Connect--links to in-depth information about using the Internet in the K-12 classroom worldwide. Lesson
Plans by Gibson Associates Educational Hotlists --very comprehensive list of resources and web sites by the Franklin Institute for K-12 teachers and students. Technology in the Classroom -- monthly listing of resource links for elementary teachers. Ed's Oasis Treasure Zone--excellent resource site for K-12 teachers, great organization of links within subject area categories, and an interesting collection of websites. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators National Indian Telecommunications Institute Education Links--a metasite listing many useful resources for K-12 teachers. Vose
General Education Resource Links--another impressive metasite
of resources for K-12 teachers. Math Teacher Link -- delivers professional development opportunities and classroom resources to secondary teachers of mathematics, statistics, and related subjects. Learning Resource Server -- provides links to learning applications of Internet technologies. Access ongoing projects of teachers and students of all grade levels as well as the work of researchers exploring learning environments. Internet Resources on Disabilities -- provides links to various resources for educators. Barrier Free Education--resources for the inclusion of students with disabilities into math and science education; addresses the awareness of special arrangements; geared for college but information is applicable for all grade levels. BonusPoint --a source for knowledge of Internet products, solid advice, quality explanations and training on new technologies. Free online course for credit--Teachers wanted to pilot NASA's Earth System Science graduate course. Link2Learn--Professional Development site created to support teachers in integrating technology into their classrooms.What's available: online tutorials, activities, lesson plans, WORKSHOP KITS to help you teach Internet basics in your classroom, and Self-paced Technology Tutorials for Staff. Teachers@Random --resource center with materials to assist K-4 teachers who use Random House books in the classroom. ThinkQuest--provides free professional development workshops to help teachers learn to exploit the Web, integrate the ThinkQuest Library of Entries into their classes, and be effective coaches for the contest. Advanced Network & Services, Inc. created and operates ThinkQuest. The Well-Connected Educator--a website maintained by the Global Schoolhouse as a forum and learning center for K-12 educators. The National Demonstration Laboratory--a demonstration site and clearinghouse on educational multimedia technologies. In 1994, partnered with Academy for Educational Development (AED) "to provide leadership in the application of new media technologies to human development and educational needs in the U.S. and throughout the world." Tom Snyder Productions--links to professional development and online activities. Technology Training Materials--Education Service Center in Texas, materials designed for use by SDL to train teachers on integrating computers and the Internet into K-12 classrooms. TEACHNET--an interactive website for K-12 teachers; features an online newsletter, a webforum to ask questions and join in discussions, and a lesson ideas section. Web Teacher--great site to learn about the web. Web-based Information Training Center Eisenhower National Clearinghouse--excellent resource site for teachers. Audience: K-12 teachers. Welcome
to the Gifted Resources Home Page--provides links to gifted resources.
Designed for gifted students, their parents, and educators.
AskLN--a question-answering service for teachers and administrators focuses on classroom technology. AskLN is also available from the Learning Network Web sites California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse --evaluates technology resources for the state of California featuring a searchable database of all reviews published over the past 13 years. Educational Technology Page of the Virtual Library The Electronic Map to the Internet Educational
Resources Information Centre (ERIC) and another link to ERIC--ERIC is a federally-funded national
information system. AskERIC--provides
educational information. Began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse
on Information and Technology at Syracuse University and is a SUN
SITE repository. A Pocket Guide to ERIC FastWEB--Free database of 180,000 scholarships offered by associations, corporations, service clubs and other private sources. Maintained by the Chicago-based FastWEB. No charge for the service. General Resources--link to online dictionary, encyclopedia, quotations, thesaurus, and online citation guide. Audience: K-12 teachers. Internet Glossary--interactive glossary of Internet and World Wide Web terminology, linked to related terms and supporting FAQs and learning materials. Good entry point for the self-learner. National Center for Technology Planning:-- a clearinghouse for the exchange of information related to Technology Planning. Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder--a must see for the Internet Explorer! Technology Resource Directory Center--a comprehensive directory developed over 2 years, which covers 155 categories and over 7500 references, including Internet sites related to Technology, Programming, Tools, Computers, Jobs, Tips, Education, Investing, Travel, Real Estate, Reviews, Products, and many others. The
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus-- a new integrated Dictionary-Thesaurus.
Dr. Robert Parks, and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago,
have made the availability of a full dictionary and thesaurus look-up
service. Over 100,000 entries and 50,000 headwords, you ALCOM--National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) is a consortium of Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Akron. Provides summer workshops for gifted students, presentations at local schools, tours for students and educational packages for science students. McRel--Research Center provides links to resources and publications. Audience: K-12 teachers. NASA Classroom Of The Future--take a virtual tour of the Erma Ora Byrd Center, and see the latest developments in educational technologies; explore the numerous links to resources. Audience: K-12 teachers. NASA Education Program--features links to online resources and information about NASA's Programs and Curriculum Support Products. Audience: K-12 teachers. NASA Regional Educator Resource Center (NASA RERC)--resource links to support the efforts of K-12 educators in infusing their classrooms with cutting-edge materials related to the U.S. space program. The National Education Knowledge Industry Associations Voice (NEKIA)--a trade association designed to promote awareness of and investment in the field of educational research and development. Pathways to School Improvement--developed by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory in cooperation with the Regional Educational Laboratory network. Research for better schools--long-term institutional research and development in Education. Essentials of learning for technology written for each grade level. Virginia's Standards of learning for technology by the end of fifth and eighth grade. North Carolina Public Schools Computer Skills Curriculum broken down by grades K-12. JE Hill Multimedia Company Video & CD-ROM catalog--link to a contest to win a $50.00 gift certificate Jones Education Media-- The Leader in Video Education Apple Education:WorldWide --Apple Education news and events, confidential price lists for educators and educational institutions, reports on ACOT projects (Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow) and more. The
Learning Manager (TLM)--"Tools for curriculum development,
instructional design, and course delivery." Web-Learning--Learning with the World International University-- learning for motivated adult learners. Pedagogical Issues Learning in Cyberspace: Computer Mediated Communication and Distance Education--This document was prepared by David Kahle for MIT course 4.207: Digital Communities. URLs of use: NODE's tfl forums page also addresses these issues. A good introduction to cognitive apprenticeship by Susan Berryman--she gives a good account of Collins and Brown, and Lave's thoughts. Morten Paulsen's website offers invaluable information on these issues. Liszt,
the mailing list directory Tile.Net--Comprehensive reference to discussion lists To subscribe type SUBSCRIBE NAME OF
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