SUBJECT AREAS

Art
Economics
Foreign language
Geography
Government guidance
History/social studies
Literature
Mathematics
Science

ED TOPICS

Associations Conferences
Curriculum development
Distance learning
Educational resources
Lesson plans portfolios
Research
Schools
Student resources study abroad
Thinkquest
Teacher resources

Art

Economics

• Economic Statistics Briefing Room
  All the charts and stats on the latest government
  economic indicators. Very well laid out and easy to navigate
• The National Debt Clock

Foreign Languages

• Translator
• Language Translation On The Internet - http://www.escapeartist.com/global3/language.htm
• Guide to Web Forms and CGI Scripts for Language Learning
  Review: Learning languages goes beyond "repeat after me" at this site. It serves
  up an online tutorial introducing language teachers to forms and CGI scripting and offers links to resources for learning how to create interactive Web pages. http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html
• BBC Languages - Provides resources to help you learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages through online lessons.
• Resources for Foreign Language Teachers
• Learning Languages K-12

French

• http://www.amfr.com/radioshow/jingles.html
• http://www.comfm.fr/
• http://www.francelink.com/indexE.html
• http://www.amfr.com/
• http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-29.html#radio ************ French sites
• French - ARTFL Project
• Maison de la France www.francetourism.com

Spanish

• My Spanish Dictionary http://www.my-spanish-dictionary.com/articles/spanish-grammar-practice.html
• BikeAbout: Spain Sites on the 'Net  Non-profit site: http://www.bikeabout.org/resource/spain.htm
• Spain and Spanish Culture  Commercial site: http://www.tizz.com/spain/

Geography

• 50 State and Capitals http://www.50states.com/

• Flags of all Countries http://www.theodora.com/flags.html

• How Far is It? http://www.indo.com/distance/

• This Day in History http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

• Country Info: http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: http://www.coptic.net/Egypt/Wonders/

• Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center http://www.fnoc.navy.mil/

Government

• Northwestern Univ. – Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW contains >500 hours of audio and video.  Http://court.it-services.nwu.edu/oyez/
  The Government Spot www.govspot.com.  groups U.S. Government web sites into logical lists. There are other ways to find this information, but none as easy as this. Find the address and phone number for your Congressman and just about anybody else in government; GovSpot has a database of over one million locations.
• The Government Spot

Guidance

• College Boards On-Line  http://www.collegeboard.org/
• http://www.petersons.com/ugrad/
• http://www.review.com/College-Rankings/index.cfm?CFID=4673636&CFTOKEN=19968
• http://www.review.com/college/
• Financial aid calculators  www.collegeboard.org
• Application for Federal Student Aid  www.ed.gov
• Info on 400,000 scholarships  www.fastweb.com
• www.finaid.org
• www.nelliemae.org
• www.salliemae.com

History/Social Studies

• A Directory for History History/Social Studies Website
• Medieval WebQuest

• Adventure Online   http://www.adventureonline.com
  Ever wanted to take your class on a field trip? No, I mean a really DISTANT field trip!
  Adventure Online is an excellent resource that connects "explorers" with classes.
  Students can correspond with Arctic scientists, rain forest archeologists, and other
  researchers in the field.
• American Memory from the LOC  http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
• Bellingham Radio - http://www.antique-radio.org/soundsframe.html
• Egyptian History - Welcome to Akhet Internet - http://www.akhet.freeserve.co.uk/
• History House Books, Stories, and Historical Trivia - http://www.historyhouse.com/
• Egyptian Galleries

  Holocaust Links

  A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Site Map - http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/sitemap/sitemap.htm

  • Anne Frank House
    http://www.channels.ni/annefran.html
  • Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia
  • http://www.ushmm.org/organizations/7.htm
  • Cybrary of the Holocaust
  • http://www.pinsight.com/~write/cybrary/index.html
  • Holocaust Organizations
  • http://www.ushmm.org/uia-bin/uia-list/sites.lst
  • Holocaust Timeline
  • http://www.kaiwann.com/~greg.ihr/misc/timeline.html
  • I*EARN Holocaust / Genocide Project
  • http://www.peg.apc.org/~iearn/hgproject.html
  • Remembering the Holocaust
  • http://werple.mina.net.au/~aragorn/holocaus.htm
  • Rescuers During the Holocaust
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/rescuers.html
  • Shoah
  • http://www.sresearch.com/search/shoah.html
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • http://www.ushmm.org:80/index.html
  • http://www.ushmm.org
  • Wiesenthal Center
  • http://www.wiesenthal.com
  • Holocaust Pictures Exhibit
  • http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html

Literature

• BookWire Reading Room  http://www.bookwire.com/links/readingroom/readingroom.html
• Maya Angelou  http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/worldfest/about.html
• Concordances of Great Books - http://www.concordance.com/
• Electric Soup  http://www.techlearning.com/toty/mcginn.shtml Florence McGinn, Teacher of the Year
• Archipelago, an online literary magazine http://www.archipelago.org/contents.htm
• The Pulitzer Prizes www.pulitzer.org
• The Newbury Medal www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

Math

• Internet Sites for Math Teachers
• Geometry Forum Internet Resource Collection (Swarthmore) http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/
• The Math Forum
  Everything "math-oriented" is either here or linked from here on the Internet. I haven't found a more comprehensive math site anywhere!
  http://forum.swarthmore.edu
• GREAT SITES FOR MATH TEACHERS http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/sites.html
• Math Skills Practice http://www.mathnotes.com/aw_chap2.html
• The Geometer's Sketchpad 3® - http://www.nehs.hc.edu.tw/~ylyen/sketchpa.htm

Science

• Discovery Channel On-Line  http://www.discovery.com/
• Interactive Frog Dissection Kit  http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/
• ExploraNet  http://www.exploratorium.edu/
• NASA’s Quest Project – The Internet in the Classroom  http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
• NASA Human Spaceflight
• Earth Viewer  http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
• Discovery Channel On-Line  http://www.discovery.com/
• Satellite Oceanography Laboratory  http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/satlab/
• NASA Women in Space  http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
• Science Learning Network (http://point.lycos.com/reviews/GradesK-12_12026.html
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry www.chemsoc.org
  
• www.microimg.com/science   Measurement conversions. How many square meters in an acre?
• Science questions answered by "Dr. Universe" of the University of Washington www.wsu.edu/druniverse
• Women of NASA
• TerraServer
• World Chemistry
  

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Associations & Conferences

• The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT)
• AECT
• FETC

Curriculum Development

• Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)  www.ASCD.org goto Education Links
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)   www.NCTM.org goto Search then Assessment
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)  www.NSTA.org. need to search various areas, especially Science Store
• Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) an educational group - search back issues of KAPPAN (12/96. p 315 p 324)  www.pdkintl.org
• American Chemical Association (ACS) - has very large division dedicated to current educational issues  www.acs.org(com?)
• NY Beacons The New York State Learning Standards - http://www.nyise.org/tlc/lessons/
• SCOPE Certificate Program for Computers in the Classroom  www.LI-SCOPE.org
• NetMeeting Adventures

Distance Learning

• Ed-X Distance Learning Channel  www.ed-x.com  3000 Internet courses
• California Virtual University  www.california.edu
• University of Illinois  www.online.uillinois.edu library science, computer
• On-Line Educational Resources A directory by Nasa http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/OER/
• New Promise for online courses and articles on online education:  www.newpromise.com
• Chronicles of Higher Education www.chronicle.com/distance
• Converge Magazine www.convergemag.com
• Hungry Minds www.hungryminds.com describes >24,000 de courses
• Learn.com www.learn.com lets anyone submit a course
• Telecampus www.telecampus.edu search engine for 17,000 classes and info on accreditation

Educational Resources

• Discovery Channel School school.discovery.com
• New York Times Learning Network www.nytimes.com/learning
• PBS Teachersource www.pbs.org/teachersource
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation One of the 5 most viewed academic websites.  Re: civil liberties on the Internet  http://www.eff.org/
• Electronic Journals  http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/
• AskERIC  http://ericir.syr.edu/index.html
• The Global Schoolhouse www.gsn.org
• Community Learning Network - http://www.cln.org/cln.html
• Advanced Placement Exam Prep:  http://www.cramcentral.com/
•  ISTE

  Pitsco's Ask an Expert Main Menu - http://www.askanexpert.com/

• Inter-Links  http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/topical.html
• Developing Educational Standards http://www.putwest.boces.org/Standards.html

Lesson Plans

• WBEA Curriculum http://www.terracom.net/~sstuessy/wbea/apps.html
• Internet in the Class http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/ssn/inclass.htm
• Learn in the Classroom K-12 http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12/learn.htm
• Encarta Lesson Plans  Schoolhouse - http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp
• Kids Inspired Lesson Plans: http://www.business-training-schools.com/bus/kid-inspired-lesson-ideas.html 
• MidLink Magazine for publishing MS papers

Reseach

• Research and Critical Thinking page
• Research-It!a one-stop reference desk
• Xplore Reference or Wired Source: Reference Desk
• John December's site -- Welcome to the Top of the Web -- an excellent starting point for research.

Schools

• St. Paul's School - http://www.sps.edu/
• http://www.harker.pvt.k12.ca.us/
• http://www.ovs.org/
• http://www.thacher.pvt.k12.ca.us/
• http://www.smhall.org/
• http://www.st-andrews.pvt.k12.de.us/
• http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/
• Episcopal Academy  www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/
• St. Andrews  http://www.st-andrews.pvt.k12.de.us/
• Baylor News  http://virtual.chattanooga.net/baylor/news/news.html
• St. Mary’s Hall  http://www.smhall.org/
• Fryeburg Academy (http://www.fryeburgacademy.org/)
• The Thacher School Home Page (http://www.thacher.pvt.k12.ca.us/)
• Ojai Valley School (http://www.ovs.org/)
• Miami Country Day (www.miamicountryday.org)
• BALDWIN SCHOOL ATHLETICS PAGE - http://www.sites.gulf.net/webpresence/baldwin/athleti.html
• Baylor School - http://www.chattanooga.net/baylor/baylor.html
• Choate Rosemary Hall - http://www.choate.edu/
• Compaq.com -- Tucson Unified School District Solutions Story - http://www.compaq.com/solutions/stories/sol_tusd.html
• Concord-Carlisle High School Class Assignments - http://www.colonial.net/cchsweb/assign.html
• Deerfield Academy - http://www.deerfield.edu/index.html
• District Technology - http://www.jessamine.k12.ky.us/tech/
• Lancaster Country Day School - http://www.lcds.pvt.k12.pa.us/
• Swarthmore College - http://www.swarthmore.edu/
• Welcome to CCDS - http://www.ccds.cincinnati.oh.us/
• Welcome to Concord Academy! - http://www.concordacademy.org/
• Westtown School - http://www.westtown.edu/

ART

• Art Departments from Pike High School

SPORTS

• http://www.castilleja.pvt.k12.ca.us/athletics/addresses.html
• http://www.castilleja.pvt.k12.ca.us/athletics/at

Portfolios - student

• Amby's Work Site -- PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT Planning and Design Guide - http://amby.com/kimeldorf/p_mk-08.html
• electronic portfolios student - http://www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us/portfolios/portfolio.html

Student Resources

• Discovery Channel School http://www.discoveryschool.com/
• Advanced Placement Exam Prep:  http://www.cramcentral.com/

Study Abroad

• Iagora www.iagora.com  multilingual gathering spot
• StudyAbroad  www.StudyAbroad.com handbook and links
• Council on International Educational Exchange www.ciee.org Internation ID, work abroad, sites for faculty

Thinkquest

• ThinkQuest    http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/contents.html
• BodyQuest  http://library.advanced.org/10348/

Teacher Resources

• Academic Cooperative Grant Application Process
• AT&T Learning Network
• Building a Virtual Museum Community
• Cheating Sites
• Classics Technology Center on the Web
• Classroom Teacher Network
• Distance Education at Teachers College Columbia University Resources
• EdNext - Your Connection to A World of Knowledge
• EdNext(SM) - Your Connection to A World of Knowledge
• ED's Oasis K-12 Teacher Resources and Opportunities
• Educational Applications of the Intenet HomePage
• E-Mail Discussion Lists
• Featured Schools Global Village Project Proves It's a Small World, After All
• Foreign Language Links RockinghamHS
• Global Village Project
• Home of Multi-Media Classrooms
• Home Page American Memory from the Library of Congress
• Information and Web Pages on Maya Angelou
• Kid Info - The Ultimate Homework and Teacher-Parent Reference Resource
• KidSat Main Page
• MidLink Magazine
• Opinion-Pages (Think Opinions, Ideas and Commentary)
• Oyez Oyez Oyez
• Puzzlemaker - Discovery Channel School
• rubric for evaluating web sites
• SchoolWorld-Homepage
• Science and Technology - Sites for Children
• SCORE VIrtual Museum
• T.H.E. Journal Online February 1999
• TEACHING TIPS
• Teaching with the Web
• Teachnet.Com - Brainstorm of the Day
• The cave of Lascaux
• The Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network
• US History Out Loud
• Welcome to Bluecares.com
• Welcome to How Stuff Works

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