MegaMath reminds us that "mathematics is lively and exciting." This site succeeds at its goal of making math come alive for kids.
Ask Dr. Math is a simple site: Kids submit questions to a mathematician and receive answers.
NCIP - National Center to Improve Practice
NCIP promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational
outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical, and
social/emotional disabilities. NCIP's site contains facilitated discussion
forums (NCIPnet), a vast online library of resources, video products, and
more than 100 links to other websites dealing with technology and/or
students with disabilities.
Research-It!
A multiple reference search tool that specializes in languages, geography,
finance, and shipping & mailing.
KidSource Online
KidSource offers in depth children's education and health care information
and includes articles, discussion forums and more. KidSource sponsor
leading organizations, many in the learning disabilities area for helpful,
timely information. They've also established a public service area to
facilitate donations of used computing equipment to schools, called
Computing EDGE (Equipment donations and grants to education).
Pilot to Physics
This general physics resource includes an Educational resources section.
All About Kids
This family and parenting site is devoted to parenting issues. Based on the
"All About Kids" Parenting Magazine.
Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education (CELCEE)
CELCEE will collect, index, abstract, and disseminate information about
entrepreneurship education. The intent is to make more accessible the rich
array of materials related to entrepreneurship education - curriculum guides,
training support, reports on programs and projects, analyses and evaluations
- that now are scattered throughout a diversity of educational entities, both
public and private and at all levels of education.
Blue Ice: Focus On Antarctica
In this "virtual" field trip to Antarctica, students study the Antarctica
continent together. Focus is on the food web and geology/global warming.
World experts are available by e-mail weekly, and the Web page is full of
information and links to research sources around the world. All discussion is
moderated. Student work (art, writing, essays) is displayed on the Web page.
Nominal fee for participation.
German for Beginners
This site includes materials (links), exercises (web-exercises, traditional
hand-out type exercises, tables of various grammar points, links to German
texts, and a number of old exams), and dictionaries (German<->English
Dictionaries, idiomatic expressions, acronyms, web-terminology, and
'German for Travellers'). Many exercises access an educational MUSH.
Little Planet Times
This newspaper for and by kids encourages reading and writing.
Computers in the Social Studies
The availability of social studies material for computers is expanding at a
fantastic rate. CSS Journal is devoted to promoting the use of computers and
related technology in social studies classrooms K-12.
3-D KnowledgeLand
KnowledgeLand has Java games for kids, sample activities, a 3-D Scavenger
Hunt, a free Reference Library, and more. By Knowledge Adventure, Inc.,
specializing in computer products for ages 2-8.
Eyes on Art
This activity starts by introducing beginning students of art, art history,
humanities, and critical thinking (K-14) to the developed skill of "learning to
look" artistically. Subsequent activities (there are seven in all) build
upon this skill until learners can insightfully analyze and critique any
painting they choose.
Pathways to School Improvement!
Pathways was designed primarily to help school improvement teams as they
progress through the phases of the School Improvement Cycle. Pathways
addresses school improvement issues about students, educators, content,
methods, and environment. Contains practical, action-oriented summaries of
best practice and research, descriptions of schools that have successfully
addressed the issue, and collections of materials to support change.
Virtual Galapagos
Through Virtual Galapagos, students can join a group of writers,
photographers, and scientists as they explore the Galapagos Islands. Students
will be able to communicate with these travelers through a Web-based
conferencing system and live chat sessions. They can also read the travelers'
journals and see photographs of the wildlife that they encounter. Together,
students, travelers, and the creators of Virtual Galapagos will create a
Web-based Education Group Workbook.
Auroras: Painting's in the Sky
Developed by a high school teacher and the Exploratorium, this well-designed
site is an introduction to auroras and the processes that create these
mysterious lights. Stunning aurora images are also included.
What's New in the World of Science
Posted monthly, this online science newsletter contains Real Audio interviews
with scientists, stories on the latest in science, and even hands-on science
activities.
Worm World
Find out about worm body parts, create your own worm bin for recycling
kitchen scraps, and even enjoy worm jokes and - yes - worm art and poetry.
Paul Ehrlich and the Population Boom
This companion Web site to the PBS television documentary looks at the ideas
of one scientist whose theories link overpopulation to a broad range of global
problems. Content includes current statistics, a directory of organizations,
teacher resources, classroom activities, a glossary, a reading list, a
population timeline, and more.
Robert Frost - The Complete Works to December 1920
Another great Project Bartleby site from Columbia University, this Web site
offers the full text of Frost's classic early works: A Boy's Will, North of
Boston, Mountain Interval, and additional poems. AU format audio files are
downloadable for such classics as "After Apple-picking" and "Birches."
Great Books Interdisciplinary Matrix
Intended to support study of the "Great Books" championed by Mortimer
Adler and Charles Van Doren, this site provides links to Internet resources on
150 authors many of whom come from the reading list for "How to Read a
Book." This page cited in Blue Web'n is the matrix of subjects (arts, books,
music, etc.) by era (Antiquity, to 1450, 1450 - 1600, etc.). Also check out the
Great Books World Lecture Hall Study Centre for background essays mostly
by faculty of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, B.C., Canada which
created the site.
John Dewey's Democracy and Education
This is a complete online version of educational philosopher John Dewey's
classic book. Teachers and students of education will appreciate digital access
to a 26 chapters of insightful perspectives that are as fresh as they must have
been when the work was originally published in 1916.
Canadian Youth Business Foundation
The Canadian Youth Business Foundation is a non-profit, private-sector
initiative design to provide mentoring, business support and lending to young
Canadian entrepreneurs who are creating new businesses. The Youth Business
Center offers profiles, advice, a forum, and more.
Whelmers
These science activities will catch the eye and mind of even the most
indifferent student.
Teachers Helping Teachers
This page, by and for teachers, is intended to provide basic teaching tips to
inexperienced teachers, to provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all
teachers, and to provide a forum for experienced teachers to share their
expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.
NickNacks
This resource for collaborative teaching AND learning on the Internet provides
strategies for educators, including practical tips on exchanging files,
leading or participating in a successful project, Internet tools and
resources, and sample projects.
Snigglets Page
This low tech text only page carries a huge collection of "sniglets" which are
defined as: "Any word [or combination of words] that doesn't appear in the
dictionary, but should." Perhaps an example will illustrate better: TILE
COMET (tyl kom' it)n. - "Any streamer of toilet paper attached to your heel as
you emerge from a public restroom." This page could be a great
springboard/fun with language activity.
Smithsonian
Site includes an Overview of Smithsonian Museums, a search capability, the
Encyclopedia Smithsonian (answers to frequently asked questions about the
Smithsonian and other topics), and information on Planning a Visit to the
Smithsonian.
Stox and Investing
This is a page from the Street Cents Website which focuses on helping teens
be "tough consumers." This page offers basic information on investing in
stocks and mutual funds as well as discussion of products and companies.
KidPub
This site receives a lot of hits and posts a lot of stories written by children
and teenagers. Rather than see this as a "vanity press" where the main
objective is to see yourself in print, teachers could use if as a searchable
resource for sample stories and potential collaborators for their students.
Students can also add their writing to interactive chained stories.
Cranes for Peace
Students from 41 states folded paper cranes and sent them to students in
Japan on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Other people
are folding cranes for the girl raped in Okinawa by U.S. servicemen. Take a
look at this page and brainstorm your own project where students can
contribute to others. This page is an excellent example that reaffirms that the
power of the Internet has little to do with technology and lot to do with
humanity.
3-D KnowledgeLand
KnowledgeLand has Java games for kids, sample activities, a 3-D Scavenger
Hunt, a free Reference Library, and more. By Knowledge Adventure, Inc.,
specializing in computer products for ages 2-8.
Helping Your Child Learn to Read
This U.S. Department of Education online resource by Bernice Cullinan and
Brod Bagert provides tips and activities to promote reading for children from
infancy through age 10.
MIT Biology Hypertextbook
This hypertextbook is designed to supplement the MIT Introductory Biology
course materials and give you additional tools to learn introductory biology.
Includes a searchable index and practice problems.
Favorite Teenage Angst Books
A collection of brief book reviews followed by this request for participation:
"What other teenage angst books changed your life? Did Paul Zindel or
Harry Mazer ever make you feel that you MIGHT be ok even if you did have
a pizza face? Tell me about your favorite kid books! Send reviews, stories
from the burning flames of your own tortured adolescence, and expert
zit-popping advice..."
Switchboard: Find a Business
Find over 10 million businesses across the U.S.A. for free, whether or not
they're on the web. Day or night with immediate results.
Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
This site informs those who care about children and their literature about the
best and the latest on the constellation of topics that will enable them to
bring the literature and children together most successfully.
Sites of Interest to Librarians
Includes Librarians' Professional Resources, Innovative Internet
Applications in Libraries, Building Digital Libraries, Success Stories, and
more.
Adventure Bonding Parenting Page
This site offers gutsy suggestions on making family life an adventure &
enjoying your kids. No psychobabble!
CyberTorch: An Educational Project of Heroic Proportions
Developed by the Global SchoolNet Foundation, this online project
helped get students involved in the Coca Cola sponsored Torch Relay.
Coca Cola was able to select 2500 of the torch bearers, and rather than
focus on the athletes, they chose to seek nominations of "local heroes"
from communities through which the relay passed. The CyberTorch
project got students in touch with these local heroes who were
interviewed by the students. The students then wrote narratives about
the heroes which are posted on the Web page. This is a good sample
project whose structure can be applied to other similar events.
Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: a US Supreme Court WWW Resource
Read about and listen to opening arguments from major constitutional
cases heard and decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The
Court began to record its public sessions in October 1955. The site uses
RealAudio so you don't have to wait for downloading sound files.
Check out the page that lists cases by subject.
University Wire
University Wire is a daily electronic newswire for collegiate media.
Community college newspapers can tap into the "Story of the Day" or
interested collegiates or high school students might enjoy reading
through feature articles and campus newspapers from around the
country.
Revolution to Reconstruction
The main body of this hypertext comes from "An outline of American
History," a booklet distributed by the United States Information
Agency, and provides good basic historical information. Other articles
are written by contributors (many are students in the Computing for
Historians classes at the Arts Faculty of the University of Groningen in
the Netherlands. Reading some background on the project could be
helpful.
Odyssey in Egypt
You can explore an archived description of a 10 week dig in 1996 near
the Monastery of St. Anba Bishoi. The images are very good and the
site gives new comers to archaeology an nice day-to-day feel of what it
might be like to work at an excavation site. Classes can sign up to
participate in the 1997 running of the project.
American Verse Project
The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative has taken on the
task of posting American poetry from the 19th Century. As an endeavor
of higher education, emphasis is placed on accuracy of the texts. The
list of posted authors is currently small, but those that are listed
comprise some of the key voices (William Cullen Bryant, Emily
Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edna St.
Vincent Millay,). Once fully developed, this Web site will be a prized
reference for teachers and scholars of American literature.
The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages
These pages are "a new multimedia feature devoted to poets and poetry,
both classic and contemporary. This area will be updated regularly, with
new readings by poets featured in each issue of the magazine, as well as
poetry and essays from The Atlantic's archive." This is a great resource
to expose people to a collection of the current definition of great poetry.
National Poetry Month Website
"The Academy of American Poets has coordinated National Poetry
Month in an effort to spotlight poetry and its vital place in American
culture. The online site for National Poetry Month was created and is
hosted by Book Stacks Unlimited." This site features some of
America's best contemporary poets and is stylistically presented. Try
out the "Create-a-Poem" activity or explore the state of current quality
poetry. Occasionally adult word choice (i.e., it's real poetry for real
people) make this a more useful resource for teachers and college
students than K-12 poetry lovers.
Abraham Lincoln Online
This comprehensive resource for students of the 16th president of the
United States. The contents of the site include: News and Events, Index
to Lincoln Links, This Week in Lincoln History, Lincoln Quiz of the
Month, Historic Lincoln Sites, Speeches and Writings, Resources and
Pictures, and the Friends of Lincoln Mailbag. This site can serve as an
introduction for middle school students, but also attracts Lincoln buffs
who want an online resource to access. Teachers developing units on
Lincoln would have enough here to generate many activities.
Good Quotes by Famous People
Professor Gabriel Robins of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Virginia has compiled an extensive list of great, clever
quotations. For example: "This book fills a much-needed gap" - Moses
Hadas (1900-1966) or "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis" -
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Use then as a sponge activity while you take
attendance or toss them out during an open discussion to get some
divergent thinking going.
Home of the Macbeth and Hamlet Pages
These pages were a homespun creation of Rodger Burnich (a teacher at
Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut) and summarize in a
contemporary, chatty translation the five acts of these two Shakespeare
classics. There are the occasional typos and some Shakespeareans will
take issue with some of Burnich's readings, but the pages could be a
helpful guide to new readers of the plays. With this resource, teachers
might give students the activity of doing another "translation" into the
lingo of "surf dudes," "valley girls," or "hip hoppers."
Pathways to School Improvement!
Pathways was designed primarily to help school improvement teams as they
progress through the phases of the School Improvement Cycle. Pathways addresses
school improvement issues about students, educators, content, methods, and
environment. Contains practical, action-oriented summaries of best practice and
research, descriptions of schools that have successfully addressed the
issue, and collections of materials to support change.
The Theory Into Practice Database
The Theory Into Practice (TIP) database is a tool intended to make learning and
instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief
summarizes of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories
can also be accessed by learning domains.
Geometry Forum - Problem of the Week
The Problem of the Week (POW) is a regular feature of the Geometry Forum, and
provides students an opportunity to answer questions and receive feedback and
recognition from the Forum staff.
Elementary Math Problem of the Week
The problem of the week challenges elementary students with non-routine math
problems and encourages them to verbalize their solutions. In conjunction with a
companion project, students registered for the Elementary Problem of the
Week will develop a relationship with a high school student who will act as
a math mentor.
Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
This hotlist includes links to homeschooling FAQ's, resources, organizations,
people, and magazines, and more.
Cam World
Cam World features 200+ organized links to outdoor cameras worldwide. Includes
information links for every cam listed. This could be a fun resource when
learning about a region or time zones.
The Thinking Fountain
The Thinking Fountain offers surprising connections to science. It is a
living card file full of ideas and activities. Each card highlights an
interesting resource related to science. It then refers you to three other
carefully selected connections that extend the learning process. The goal
is to encourage questioning and inquiry. The Thinking Fountain does this by
modeling the way questions about one thing lead to other topics and
questions, hopefully provoking teachers and students to go off-line and
find out more through observing, interacting, and asking questions about
the world around them.
Zooary
The Zooary is more than just animals! Activities apply fundamental concepts of
biology, chemistry, environmental science, physical science and ecology,
educating students on environmental concerns and conservation. Also
includes career information, teacher tidbits, and more.
A Math Website for Middle School Students
This site provides middle school students with a variety of math links with
suggested activities. This site was designed for a variety of learning
styles and for a variety of learning levels.
The Earth As A System: an introduction to global change
In this University of Florida online course, students learn to view the
Earth as a complex system of interacting components including the
geosphere, biosphere,
hydrosphere, atmosphere, and human activity. The laboratory consists of
web-based exercises that could be used in other settings.
ACEKids
This kid safe and friendly place has over 1000 links to other such places and
excellent original content. Lots of fun and information for kids and parents.
We are looking for great sites for kids from K-12. If you have any suggestions
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