First things first.

1. What is a WebQuest Anyway?
2. Search the Web -- NO seat belts!

Your Tasks this Week:

• a. Build a Links Page with at least five links and one graphic. (click to See Example)
• b. Build an Assignment page with at least three questions with two linkseach. (click to See Example Homeworklinkspage.html) . .
• c. Create your own HomePage or Class HomePage. (click to See Examples One Two Three
• d. View a Linked Lecture LinkedLecture.html (could be used for homework).

• a. Visit the Sample WebQuests Site and find one webquest you could use in your teaching.
• b. Create your own webquest. Vist the webquest site and look at the training materials there.
• c. Visit the Student created WebQuest

D. Content Area Links

• Getting Started
• Cross-Curricular Sites
• Math Sites
• Science Sites
• Music and Art
• Social Studies, History and Humanities
• English Language Arts/Reading and Literature
• Bilingual and ESL Sites
• Multicultural Sites
• Native American Sites
• Online Projects
• Ask the Experts
• NEW! Safe and Drug Free Sites
• Virtual Religion Index at Rutgers University
• Library Virtual Reference Desk
• Connections Christian Counselling Links page
• STEM~Net's Drama Links
• Links to Physical Education Web Sites
• Howard County's Favorite Physical Education Internet Curriculum Links

• World Lecture Hall: Syllabi and teaching resources for college courses in all content areas. For a good example see History 102 Civil War to Present.
• Virtual Reference Desk: An online Reference Desk.
• EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform
  The purpose of this site is to explore the worlds of educational reform and information technology. With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much, much more. There are also some good discussion lists on this site.
• Gander Academy's Theme-Related Resources
  Created at Gander Academy in Newfoundland, this site contains links to carefully filtered, child-safe sites suitable for primary school activities. Rather than using a search engine, children can search this directory for information related to rainforests, space, endangered species, world nations, language arts sites, and many, many more.
• International Kids' Space
  with Kids' Dictionary of Internet terms, Kids' Art Gallery for artwork created by children under 16 years old, and much, much more!
• Taylor Road Middle School
  For one example of "exemplary practice", you might want to look at this Web site from a school in the Atlanta, Georgia suburbs. Simply type the keywords lesson plans into their search engine screen.
• Virtual Blackboard
  Based on the award-winning Tramline Web Tours, this courseware shows teachers how to use World Wide Web resources to teach a variety of subjects, and serves as a model for teachers to follow in developing their own Internet teaching materials, including their own Web tours. This site, too, is just "getting started". Check out their new modules in various subject areas.
• Web 66: International WWW School Registry
  The most comprehensive listing of all schools throughout the world that have a Web presence.
• Yahooligans
  A search engine just for kids.
• Yahoo!'s Education Links
  A good starting point. It's not a search engine; it contains hierarchically organized educational resources.

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Cross Curricular Sites

• Ask Jeeves for Kids
  This is a search engine for kids. Students type a question on any subject and click "ask". Then the website gives them a list of sites that may have the answer to their question.
• Challenge County
  This website is funded by the Technology Literacy Grant Consortium. Its purpose is to consolidate resources to help teachers integrate technology into Language Arts and Mathematics.
• Chico High School Library, Chico, California
  Helpful Bookmarks From The Chico High School Library: A Good Ideas School Library Selected By The California School Library Association. An excellent high school library site with links to just about any curriculum area imaginable!
• Classroom Connect's "Connected Teacher" website.
  Check out their A+ Web Links -- a nice collection of Internet resources for lesson plans, organized by subject area and grade level.
• Blue Web'n Applications Library, maintained by SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellows
  
• EDSITEment!, Searchable NEH Website for K-12 Teachers
  
• The Global Schoolhouse
  
• Discovery School.com
  
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  
• WELCOME TO EDWEB
• Gander Academy's Theme-Related Resources on the World Wide Web
• Teachers' Internet Users Guide: This guide works with you, designing Internet-based lessons that are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (But useful to all teachers).
• Browse AskERIC Lesson Plans by Subject
• A Dictionary-Thesaurus and more. No word challenge is too tough for Discovery School's Dictionary Plus.
• Puzzle Maker Allows you to create your own crosswords, word searches and other puzzles on line
• Ed's Oasis
  Where you will-- Find Education Treasures, Share Effective Strategies, Build Community with other educators.
  Look under The Treasure Zone for websites for your students. Under each subject area, websites are organized into interactive sites, resource sites, and resource sites for teachers.
• The Educational CyberPlayground
  This large site contains a wealth of information for teachers and students. Under the "Teachers" section you'll find a large database of information, by subject. The site is interactive: you can find and post projects and lessons there as well.
• Global Connections "Cool Connections" Archive
  With links to libraries, encyclopedias, museums, zoos, virtual expeditions, NASA educational resources, etc.
• Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
  Education Place provides free K-8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Check out their Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, searchable activity database, educational games, collaborative projects, textbook support, online store, and more!
• Kid's Web
  Kid's Web goal is to present students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and that contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject section contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to students. There are also links to external lists of material on each subject that more advanced students can browse for further information.
• LETSNet: from Michigan State University College of Education and Ameritech
  LETSNet is a dynamic on-line environment where teachers can develop their understandings of the Web and find ways to effectively use - or make sense of - the World-Wide Web in their classrooms. Resources are organized around classroom teachers' stories, including lesson plans, curriculum standards and guides, pointers to e-mail discussion lists, and many other Internet and Web materials.
• Louisiana Challenge: Activities for the K-12 Classroom
  A collection of lesson plans, multidisciplinary units and collaborative projects developed by Louisiana teachers and geared towards integrating the Internet into education.
• MaMaMedia's "ROMP" web page.
  ROMP: Surf the best websites on the Net. Contains links to many student-friendly websites, organized by category. You can search to find just what you're looking for.
  Note: This is a sophisticated website with many high-end features. If you are using a 486 or a Power PC, you may wish to click "cancel" when the system prompts you to launch mplayer.exe.
• Marshall Elementary School, Lewisburg, Tennessee
  This is Hazel Jobe's excellent website. Check "Sites and Suggestions" in the Internet Integration section - this is a list compiled from many teachers who found these sites particularly useful - with lesson ideas, class projects, and suggestions for integrating them into the curriculum.
• National Geographic Online: Free Teacher-Tested Lesson Plans
  The National Geographic SocietyÕs Geography Education Program works with educators all over the country to produce lessons, units, and activities designed to bring geography into the classroom.
• Oswego City School District K-12 Teacher Resources
  A comprehensive list of links compiled by Dyann K. Schmidel. Check out the curriculum collection and subject guides compiled by Oswego teachers.
• Subject Lesson Plan Links
  Collected by Gleason Sackman, these links are organized by subject and grade level. They cover the core curriculum plus art, theatre arts, business, technology, health, vocational education, and more. As of the end of June 2000, these have now been incorporated into the Connected Teacher website.
• Sunshine State Standards Website
  Developed for the State of Florida, this website ties Florida's Sunshine State Standards to on-line lesson plans, websites, and other resources. Teachers can determine which standard benchmark they wish to address and the website will link them to a lesson plan geared to that benchmark. The site is easy to navigate and includes the state standards, benchmarks, lessons and resources for the main curriculum areas.
• Teaching With The Web
  This is a fantastic list of sites divided by grade levels and sorted by themes, put together by the staff at the Educational Technology Center at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. They originally started with sites for grades 3-5 (their largest section), then added K-2, and are currently working on 6-8 and 9-12.
• TitanWeb: A standards-based database of Internet and teacher-generated resources
  Teachers from Lake Elsinore, California add Internet resources to this growing database of standards-based resources. For example, check out "United States Government" under "History and Social Sciences" for links to primary documents, along with a statement of the state standard.
• WWW Curriculum Resources from Bellingham, Washington School District
  This page provides WWW "windows" to support curriculum - windows leading the student or staff member straight to good content, cutting past needless menu levels and providing annotations to support the user in making wise choices.

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Mathematics

• Ask Dr. Math
• AskEric Math Lesson Plans
• Armadillo's Math Resources
  This comprehensive site contains links to Mathematics Reform, Math Projects, Publications and Organizations, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics, and Integrated Mathematics.
• The Boxer Learning Channel
  This site contains online interactive math tutorials that are perfect for use within lesson plans. These tutorials are fully correlated with the Texas State Standards. There are also resources for teachers and parents, as well as interactive glossaries and a museum.
  Note: To use BOXERmath.COM on a Windows machine, you need to be running either Netscape 4.06 or Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
• Easy Start Algebra
  Easy Start Algebra guides you through algebra skills on three levels. For each skill, there is a problem and a solution. This site also shows you the simple methods that you should use to solve the problems. There are problems dealing with basic methods for creating equations, factoring, functions, and the like.
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Math Education's Resource Finder has a searchable online database of lessons and curricula. This is a good place to search for hard-to-find math resources for secondary schools.
• ExploreMath
  Teachers can use this website with its growing collection of highly interactive multimedia activities to enhance lectures or as the basis for effective lab sessions. You'll need a version 4 browser and Shockwave.
• Explorer
  The Explorer is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education. The Explorer is being developed jointly by the Great Lakes Collaborative and the University of Kansas UNITE group to involve educators and students in creating and using multimedia resources for active learning and "on time" delivery.
• Interactive Mathematics Online
  Describes and illustrates mathematical concepts in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, using simple terminology. For example, check out Function Basics under the algebra section. It's great when you're first working with students on linear and parabolic functions.
• International Mathematical Talent Search
  The International Mathematical Talent Search (IMTS) is a competitive year-round correspondence program in creative mathematical problem solving at the secondary school level. It is open to all students in every country at no cost. There are four rounds of five problems in each year of the IMTS. Students from various countries submit solutions, which are evaluated by an international panel of judges.
• K-12 Statistics
  From MSTE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These are aligned with the NCTM Standard 10 for statistics.
• Mathematics Archives
  This site contains significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level.
• Math and Science Resources
  A short list of very good links to math and science resources, gathered by Ted Nellen.
• Matrix of Modules and Content Areas
  From MSTE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These are primarily authentic activities for advanced math.
• MegaMath!
  A project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop curriculum materials that bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms. Lesson topics include infinity & knot theory.
• Project SkyMath: Making Mathematical Connections
  This Web Page is designed for middle school mathematics teachers. It contains all of the information needed for teachers to use the 16 classroom activities of SkyMath, including the module itself.
• Project STAR
  Houston ISD has created an excellent, sharable database of lesson plans for secondary school math and science, directly linked to the TEKS. This is a "must see" for Texas math and science teachers.
• SCORE Mathematics Lessons
  The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites that link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards and the NCTM standards. Lessons for K-7 and 8-12 are separated and are organized by their main strands with links to specific standards.
• Swarthmore's Internet Mathematics Library
  A collection of varied mathematics resources and lessons. You may also wish to check out their Selected K12 Lesson Plans and Collections.
• Technology in the Mathematics Classroom
  From Truman State University, these lessons and units have been developed by preservice teachers preparing for their full year internships in teaching secondary mathematics. Each lesson has been developed around a specific technological tool.
• WebMath
  WebMath has a number of problems that are classified by mathematical skill -- radicals and polynomials, graphs, and quadratic equations.You click on the type of math operation you're interested in, and WebMath gives you a problem to solve.
• Word Problems for Kids
  This Canadian Web Site contains word problems for students and teachers. The problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12. It's an excellent site to use as students make the transition from arithmetical computation into solving word problems.

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Science

• Instructional Materials in Science Education
• Advanced Placement Biology Esssay Questions
  Here are Essay questions that have appeared on the Exam in the past.
• Armadillo's Science Resources An annotated bibliography of links to good science resources.
• Awesome Library
  Lesson plans for K-12 science from anatomy and archaeology to technology and weather.
• BioChemNet
  by Dyann Schmidel. Contains some of the best chemistry and molecular biology educational resources on the Web.
• Biology Curriculum
  This page contains links to various activities that support the 6th and 7th grade biology curriculum in New Zealand. They can be customized to support U.S. standards as well.
• Cells Alive
  The Cells Alive site offers all kinds of interesting pictures and information about cells, including ongoing slides of cells currently being grown in a culture (such as cancer cells). The site includes a user-friendly search engine to navigate through the various parts of the site. there are sections with labeled diagrams of various types of cells, sections with still shots and video clips,as well as general information sections.
• Chem Finder
  Everything you want to know about chemistry and chemicals can be found using this search engine.
• Classroom of the Future
  The Classroom of the Future (COTF) is a Program at Wheeling Jesuit University. It develops and conducts research on technology-based learning materials that challenge students to solve problems by using datasets and other information resources provided by the four strategic enterprises of NASA: Aero-Space Technology, Human Exploration and Development of Space, Earth Science Enterprise, and Space Science.
• Cruciferous Crusaders
  by the National Leafy Greens Council. These Leafy Greens Lesson Plans encourage students to understand the nutritional benefits and the cancer-fighting elements of leafy greens.
• Dole's "5 a day" Home page
  Dole Food Company's nutrition Web site - visit the Nutrition Center and the "5 a day" program of good eating habits.
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Math Education's Resource Finder has a searchable online database of lessons and curricula. This is a good place to search for hard-to-find science and technology resources for secondary schools.
• Welcome to EE-Link Your Link to Environmental Education Resources on the Internet
• Exploratorium: Science Explorer
  There are lots of wonderful ideas for simple science experiments for children, such as spinning blimps, making a sun clock, reflecting rainbows, and many, many more. Children can carry out activities using resources available at home or in the classroom. Some of the activities present the scientific concepts underlying the experiment, probe the students to experiment further, and ask guiding questions about the results.
• Gander Academy's Earth Science Related Resources on the World Wide Web
• Jason Project
  Oceanography site with expedition journal, student explore-a-zone, teachers' guide, global network of participating organizations and schools, and technology center - see how Jason Project sponsors are using technology to enhance education.
• Kids as Global Scientists
  Kids as Global Scientists'99 engaged students in an inquiry-based middle school weather curriculum during the period February 15, 1999 - April 9, 1999. The project focused on maximizing the educational potential of current computer technology in science classes. Consider joining their "One Sky, Many Voices" forthcoming activity.
• Lincoln Park Zoo
  This excellent site from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo contains a full list of all living beings housed there, including species data sheets for a selection of birds, reptiles, and mammals.
• Living Things
  A collaborative, interactive site developed by the Franklin Institute. Use the Keyword Index and Teacher Tips to help you find your way through this large and varied site.
• NASA Spacelink
  NASA's educational website with information about space science and aeronautics. The Library is the heart of NASA Spacelink and the official home to the NASA Education Division's electronic publications and NASA Television's education schedule. There is also an excellent technical support page at the Educator Focus.
• The Observatorium
  This online "Space Science Newspaper" from NASA keeps teachers and students up to date with the latest scientific happenings. Check out the "Thursday's Classroom" with lesson plans and educational activities linked to the latest breaking science news.
• Paleontology Museum Database
  Are you or your students fascinated with dinosaurs? Then visit the museum's database with its extensive listing of dinosaur-related museums and exhibits in the U.S.
• Particle Adventure
  The Particle Adventure introduces the theory of fundamental particles and forces, called the Standard Model. It explores the experimental evidence and the reasons physicists want to go beyond this theory. In addition, it provides information on particle decay and a brief history section. Check out the Teacher and Student Worksheets, which may be copied freely.
• A Quick Virtual Nuclear Power Plant Tour
  This site is created and maintained by Joseph Gonyeau, a senior nuclear consultant. Written for novices, it offers a wealth of information about nuclear power plants with frequently asked questions, pictures, diagrams, comparisons to other types of energy, and links to other databases with statistics about energy.
• Rivers of Life
  This is an interactive, online project dealing with water and watersheds, developed by the Center for Global Environmental Education. Rivers of Life is a flood of water- related projects, adventures, and initiatives delivered over the Internet to K-12 teachers and learners.
• Science Education Gateway
  Excellent links to award winning science sites. Check out their "Make A Lesson" guidelines for lesson development.
• Science NetLinks
  Science NetLinks strives to be a comprehensive "homepage" for K-12 science educators. Search their library of reviewed websites and lessons by selecting a science Benchmark topic. Several new lesson plans are now available.
  • The first new lesson, "Sorting", grades K-2, Benchmark 8, 2-3 class periods, features activities that focus on sorting and ordering things so that they can be easily retrieved at a later date. These experiences can provide students with the foundation they will need to address more sophisticated information management problems in the future.
  • The grades 3-5, Benchmark 5 lesson "Bird Beaks", 2-3 class periods, encourages students to explore how various organisms satisfy their needs in the environments in which they are typically foud. They can examine the survival needs of different organisms and consider how the conditions in particular habitats can limit what kinds of living things can survive.
  • "Good Food/Good Health", grades 3-5, Benchmark 6, 2-3 class periods, uses online resources to help students explore how food can affect th eir overall effect.
  • "The Mozart Effect", grades 9-12, Benchmark 12, 2-3 class periods, teaches students what happens when the media and/or the public discover a scientific study and extrapolate the message into "truth" without the benefit of a further study. This lesson will also demonstrate how public policy can be based on a faulty study.
• Science Net
  Toronto Public Library's Science Net features science resources, searchable by "A to Z" or "by subject", in both English and French.
• SCORE Science Website
  The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites that link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards for each grade level by unit. This is their science website.
• Seeds Of Life
  Information about seeds, well illustrated with photographs. The Seeds and Man unit introduces students to the beginnings of agriculture; the Voyage of seeds explains how they disperse.
• Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition
  The Coalition's mission is to build a "learning community" to leverage and link science and math educational resources and career information to all children.
• Water Science for Schools
  The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools web site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where students can give opinions and test their water knowledge.

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Music and Art

• ArtiFAQ 2100
  ArtiFAQ 2100 is designed to predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years. Through probing past inspirations and scientific methods students can use available data to make reasonable predictions for the future. This ThinkQuest project was developed by Steve Feld's tenth and eleventh grade students.
• Artsedge: Curriculum Studio
  The Kennedy Center's Curriculum Studio is designed to provide K-12 teachers with curriculum materials, programs, strategies, and other information relating to the performing arts and to national education goals.
• The Art Teacher Connection: Encouraging innovation in art education through technology.
  This site is designed for Visual Art teachers and art students looking for art education resources, images, internet art lessons and helpful tips on how to integrate computer technology into a visual arts curriculum; for Classroom teachers wanting to learn how to connect art activities to their content areas and theme units; and for students who are looking for expert help in the visual arts. An especially good link is: "Lesson Connection Links".
• Fluid Arts
  This is a standards-based lesson for digital art. Students create a logo for a project, using elements of artistic design, color, layout, and the like.
• Incredible Art Department: Favorite Lessons
  Creative art lessons (drama too!) for all grades from early childhood through undergraduate.
• Internet Resources for Music Teachers
  This site from Minnesota contains links to K-12, commercial, and MIDI music resources.
• J.S. Bach Home Page
  This very comprehensive site includes pointers to just about everything about Bach available on the Internet, including listings to his complete works, MIDI files of his recordings, and a calendar of upcoming events related to his music. Searchable and well-organized.
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  The Collection: Painting and Sculpture, Drawings, Prints & Illustrated Books, Architecture & Design, Photography, Film & Video.
• Mona Lisa Lesson Plan
  Created by Steve Feld for grades 6-12, this lesson focuses on Web Site Design as a Tool for Multiple Perspectives. Digital art skills and reflective thinking are critical parts of this lesson.
• Music and Art resources from ConVal High School Library, New Hampshire
  This frame-based site has an excellent, alphabetized, annotated list of links to music and art education resources. There are also theatre resources located at the English Department's resources.
• Music Appreciation Curriculum
  Music Online Telecommunications Environment for Teaching: "MOTET"
  Each page is divided into sections of Learning Outcomes, General Tasks, Classroom Activities, and Assessment. MOTET explores the following areas, each pertaining to the musical events in this project: Melody, Expression, Form & Design, Your Thoughts and Images, Composition & Notation, Historical & Cultural Context, and Curriculum Index.
• Music Education Online: a Guide to K-12 Music Education
  This page is designed to aid music educators, students and parents in connecting with a variety of music education resources located on the Internet as well as providing an interactive bulletin board for posting questions and comments on music. Check out the "music hot links": Links for Instrumental Music, Choral, General, Music Education, Music Institutes, Music Products and much more!
• New Hampshire Public TV Knowledge Network Music Department
  Extensive links to lesson plans, instrumental music home pages, dozens of contemporary music and professional resources.
• The Musical Scientist
  This site teaches the physics of sound and the history of musical instruments in a "fun" way. Kids build toy instruments and prepare demonstrations that explain sound waves, sound transmission, and other principles relevant to music.
• Playbill Online: "Curtains Up"
  An authentic lesson by Steve Feld for digital art. It engages students in the design of posters and playbills, using elements of design, color theory, and the capabilities of digital art software. It can be used for any performance activity in your school. As the posters and PlayBills evolve, have students confer with production staff, so that the materials reflect the production's audience market needs.
• Visual Arts Benchmarking
  The WEB Project and the Visual Arts Teachers Association developed a site for visual arts benchmarking, with a rubric to assess student skill or technique development, illustrated with samples of student work.
• Virginia's Revised Standards of Learning Correlated With The Music Connection, Silver Burdett Ginn
  A standards of learning correlation matrix that ties music education with other core courses, by Theresa Lee.
• The WEB Project
  Based in Montpelier, Vermont, The WEB Project hosts online design conversations about student works of art, music, website design, and multimedia production. Students post their work online, then engage in discussions with teachers, mentors, experts, and other students, in order to revise and refine their work. It also hosts dialogues on textbooks used in language arts classrooms. Most of the website is password-protected. For public access, check out the "shared projects" on The WEB Exchange.
• Web Wonders: Virtual Museums and Tours (compiled by Lindsey Verble)
  • Paris Museums including Palace of Versailles, Musee d'Orsay, Louvre (to visit the Louvre, make sure you have your monitor definition set to 800x600 or you won't be able to navigate the frames).
  • Westminster Abbey with historical information, including a list of the kings and queens of England entombed within the Abbey's walls; also contains audio files.
  • Sistine Chapel with thumbnail photos of the famous ceiling and Last Judgment which you can click to enlarge.
  • Kyoto National Museum with a searchable, online catalogue of the museum's connection, and digital captures of more than 100 of the museum's most famous works.

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Social Studies, History, and Humanities

• Social Studies Virtual Library
• Anyday in History ...find out birthdays, death dates, and special events that happened anyday of the year
• Africa Reparations Movement: This website has been set up for those who are interested in Africa's people both on the continent and in the Diaspora. During your visit to this site you will receive information that is pertinent to the struggle for reparations for the harm done to Africa and the African diaspora through enslavement, colonization, and racism.
• America's West - Development and History
  A PRESENTATION of the History and Development of the American West, from the Frontier- and Pioneer days with the Wild West, to today's Modern West. American West is a visually appealing site with easy-to-understand information. It contains links to other links with large amounts of information about nearly every topic related to the American West.
• Ancient Sites
  This site is mainly a forum for historians to discuss related topics, but there are some nice graphics and some very impressive historical games you can play. Access to this site requires registration.
• Archives of American Public Address
  A collection of speeches by Americans, about American topics, maintained by Northwestern University.
• Biography.com
  A product of A&E television network, this site offers a host of biographies of famous people. Check the "Classroom" for study guides.
• Biography Maker ...a well-presented, engaging way of teaching students the way to write a biography report
• Biographical Dictionary: This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
  Pacific Bell has created six Web-based activities as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.
• California's Gold Rush Country
  This page commemorates the 1849-1999 sesquicentennial of the "49ers" and The Way West.
• Christian Science Monitor
  This is a colorful, easy to access, easy to read site with an extensive menu. Read the newspaper online, then take a weekly news quiz on current events. The quiz is well laid-out. If student answers are wrong, the site gives an overview of the right answer, with links to the original articles.
• Civil War Photographs
  Selected Civil War photographs from the Library of Congress. There are 1118 photographs that include scenes of military personnel, preparations of battle, and battle after effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.
• CongressLink - Connecting Congress, the Clasroom, and the Internet
  CongressLink is a classroom friendly service for teachers and students of history, politics, civics, and related subjects in upper elementary schools through college who want to pursue the study of Congress as a springboard for learning activities related broadly to civic education. The program seeks to facilitate student-centered and inquiry-based learning through the use of a website and involvement in an online learning community. Features include sample lesson plans, suggested student activities, access to original historical documentation from The Center's collections, an annotated list of more than 75 websites on related topics, access to subject matter experts online, and collaborative communications.
• Dennis Boals History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
  A HUGE site with a very thorough set of links to arts, humanities, history, and social studies resources for K-12 educators
• Discoverers Web ...a text-based page with hundreds of links to information on discoverers and explorers, from prehistoric man through modern day
• EconEdLink
  This site explores the connections between economics and real-world issues. They have several lessons that typically can be completed within a single class period. The most recent lesson plan is Is the Price of Gasoline Really Too High? It's for grades 9-12, one class period. The lesson is designed to help students explore the issues associated with gasoline prices. Students examine the concepts of competition, demand, supply, and price to determine whether high gas prices are simply a result of normal supply and demand market forces, or whether firms artifically manipulate gasoline prices.
• EDSITEment
  The grades 6-12 lesson plan, In Old Pompeii was recently added to EDSITEment. In this lesson, students take a virtual field trip to the ruins of Pompeii to learn about everyday life in Roman times. Students then create a travelogue to attract visitors to the site and write an account of their field trip modeled on a description of Pompeii written by Mark Twain.
• Education Calendar ...a monthly posting of significant historical events with links to related Internet sites
• Eyewitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It...a presentation of first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history; includes photographs, pictures, sound files, additional resources, and bibliographic citations
• Exploring Amistad
  The Amistad Revolt was a shipboard uprising off the coast of Cuba that carried itself, inadvertently but fatefully, to the United States--where the Amistad Captives set off an intense legal, political, and popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately America itself. This project of Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, where some of Steven Spielberg's historical movie was filmed, has been designated as a place for discussions of slavery and the rebellion.
• FreedomChannel.com: The first video-on-demand in American politics.
  FreedomChannel.com, a new nonprofit, nonpartisan Internet site provides voters free access to issue videos from presidential candidates, political parties and AmericaÕs leading issue groups. To view the videos, you'll need to download RealPlayer G2.
• Geo Game
  This is a rather sophisticated site -- allow time for it to load. Lead your students on an adventurous ride as they play the Geo Game.
• Gander Academy's History on the World Wide Web
• GeoNet Game
  We hope you will appreciate this challenging game for children in grades 4 and above. The game questions are organized according to the national geography standards. The teachers have designed the game to help children think geographically and to help them build a global context for the information they learn.
• Great American Gold Rush
  A site with information on many famous people who first discovered gold in California, organized along a time line.
• Guide to South Africa
  This website involves five themes of Social Studies: location, region, human interaction, place, and movement. It gives both general and specific information about South Africa. See also the University of Pennsylvania's K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet.
• Genealogy Site Finder a comprehensive directory of over 40,000 genealogy sites on the Web
• Historical Photographs Online
  ...a huge list of links to all types of photo archives; takes some time, but there are some gems here
• History & Social Studies for K-12 Teachers a well-arranged site which includes extensive, annotated links to help social studies teachers find information on the Internet
• The History Channel links, information, and teacher's guides to support the use of this cable channel in the classroom
• The History Net an extensive, content-rich, well set-up site which includes world and US history, interviews, feature articles and much more
• History of Costumean online reproduction of a 1880's book that provides drawings of historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century
   
• History Placean online museum of exhibits related to history including photos, timelines, and other information
• History Timelinesa collection of timelines that can be found on the Net; includes America, places, global, cultural, and resource information
• Horus Gets in Gear (H-GIG) ...an online resource of links for all areas of history
• Houghton Mifflin Education Place : Social Studies Centerlinks to games, projects, activities, and professional resources<
• K-12 History on the Internet Resource Guide great links for history educators
• Mr. Jenkins' History Links ...organized by topic, this site leads the user to many useful history sites
  
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
  This interactive site was written by second graders at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It has a timeline, interactive quiz, and caracter sketches written by second graders. It has additional resources and lessons for teachers. An outstanding site, winner of many awards.
• The Immigrant Corner
  This curriculum unit, "Dramatizing the Immigrant Experience", attempts to help students realize that they have the ability to respond to their many environments in a vivid, creative way, especially if they or their families are recent immigrants.
• Kosovo
  The Kosovo site is hosted by The New York Times and is suitable for History/Geography students in grades 6-12. With all the events happening in Kosovo, this site provides up to date information on the situation there. Check out the "related lesson plans".
• License Plates and Cemeteries
  Two unique lessons written by Jerry Aschermann, addressing Missouri State Standards, that deal with the five major themes in geography. With excellent guidance for teachers, good links, and wonderful illustrations.
• National Archives
  NARA is an independent Federal agency that helps preserve our nation's history by overseeing the management of all Federal records. Among the treasures that await you here online are the cornerstone documents of our government -- the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights -- as well as many of our current and past exhibits. This is a large and busy site, so give it time to load. Check out the "digital classroom".
• NCSS Online: The Information Source for Social Studies Education
  The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is the largest association in the US devoted solely to Social Studies education. The Teaching Resources are categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
• The Oyez Project is located at Northwestern University. It archives summaries of important historical Supreme Court cases. There is also a virtual tour of the Supreme Court.
• SCORE: History/Social Studies website
  The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites to link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards for each grade level by unit. This is the History-Social Studies site. The lessons are designed as problem-based activities (PBL).
• Smithsonian Institute
  This is a huge site. On the Lesson Plans page, you'll find topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
• SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
  This website can help you locate high quality sites on the Internet, which are relevant to social science education and research. Based in the United Kingdom, with a mirror site in Wisconsin, the "What's New" page will keep you abreast of the current upgrade of this site, together with an excellent and varied list of links to articles on all aspects of social studies, national and international.
• Special Collections Digital Center, University of Virginia Library
  With a digital image base, electronic texts, prints and manuscripts, featuring Jefferson's architecture, Mark Twain and his times, and student projects from the American Studies Program.
• Take a Walk through Early American History: The Virginia Settlements
  This fine site about family life in Colonial America was produced through the 1998 Colonial Williamsburg Summer "Institute in Early American History"
• Teaching the Holocaust
  A fine set of lesson plans on the Holocaust by Teresa Moretta, for grades 4-12.
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
  An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, and literature, produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
• This Day in History...find out important (and not-so-important) things that happened any date of the year
• The Most Important People of the 20th Century: TIME has profiled those individuals who Ñ for better or worse Ñ most influenced the last100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor, culminating with Person of the Century:
• U.S. Historical Document Archive
  Full texts of many documents relevant to American History.
• Vietnam Wall Site
  This site offers information about the Vietnam War Memorial, including biographies about all the casualties of that war whose names are carved on The Wall. While it is a sobering site, it also offers information to h elp students understand the reactions associated with the Vietnam War.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  This Website introduces students to primary documents related to women and social movements in the U.S. between 1830 and 1930, including letters and newspaper articles on the role of African American women in the passage of the Woman Suffrage Amendment.

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Language Arts and Literature

• Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Knowand Be Able To Do A PDF File at http://www.aft.org/edissues/rocketscience.htm
• Armadillo's Language Arts and Literature Resources
  With links to the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts, writing centers, drama collections, on-line journals and newsletters, and other literary sources.
• Children's Literature Web Guide
  The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.
• Cyberguides from SCORE
  The California State Department of Education has created four Schools of California Online Resources in Education (SCORE) websites that link Internet resources and lesson plans (called Activities) to California State Content and Thinking Skills Standards for each grade level, by unit. CyberGuides are supplementary units of instruction based on core works of literature, and are part of the SCORE Language Arts website. Also check out the Lessons and Units under the "Teacher Resources" page (one level up).
• Diary Project
  This project is essentially journal writing online. Its inspiration evolved from the book "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo", in which Zlata Filipovic shares her thoughts and feelings as a young girl growing up in Sarajevo. Students are invited to "share their thoughts, hopes, dreams, questions, and ideas with other young people throughout the world via the Internet". Browse the diary by subject and explore areas such as drugs, tolerance, point of view, school, family, loss, racism, violence, stress, relationships, friends, and parents. Entries can be submitted anonymously or by name.
• English/Language Arts Activities
  A nice collection of activities including reading lesson plans, writing assignments, spelling games, novel projects, and much more.
• Gander Academy's Language Arts Resources on the World Wide Web
• Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews. By Virginia Cope and the University of Virginia Library. Contains links to other works of Mark Twain.
• Interactive Literature Foundation
  The Interactive Literature Foundation is a nonprofit organization that exists exclusively to promote interactive literature around the world. Interactive literature is any dynamic art in which multiple participants interact concurrently to create a story.
• International Book Fair
  This project provides a global audience for book reviews by students for students. Students from regions all over the world have a forum to write and read peer book reviews. Visit the American Book Fair Page to read student book reviews, organized alphabetically by author's last name. Read the reviews on Avi's Nothing But the Truth, Crichton's Congo, and Lowry's The Giver, or choose a favorite title of your own.
• Language Arts Lesson Plans
  A very extensive list of links to language arts lesson plans, collected by Vicki and Dick Sharp. Links are alphabetized and annotated, with suggested grade level.
• Library-in-the-Sky
  NWREL's Language Arts Projects
• Literary History
  Developed by Jan Pridmore, the heart of this "web guide for readers, students, and teachers of English literature" is its Web Index of 19th Century English Literature that gives briefly annotated links to Websites, critical and biographical articles, and e-texts for over 50 well-known authors in nineteenth-century English, American, and Scottish literature.
• Monsters, Monsters, Monsters
  by Elissa Gerzog: Classrooms collaboratively design monsters through this Internet E-mail project.
  The two lesson plans for this project are at:
  Participant/Coordinator Plan and
  Whole Language Lesson Plan.
• Mind's Eye Monster Project
  Similar to the previous project, students draw a monster, then send a description of the monster they drew to a partner class. The second group draws the monster based on the written description, then the two drawings are compared.
• My Hero: an interactive writing project
  My hero is produced by the Fund for Innovative TV, in which real life heroes are honored and written about by students across the online world. Students can make submissions about their heroes, whether they be family members, teachers, friends, current public figures, or historical figures. Submissions can include text, audio, and graphics. Visit the Teacher Hero section for a refreshing look at how educators are serving as true role models for our students.
• National Council for Teachers of English
  Check "Teaching Ideas/Resources" - there are links to find teaching ideas and resources from NCTE publications. Content will change frequently.
• Notes Plus
  Notes Plus is a quarterly publication of the National Council of Teachers of English that provides lesson plans and teaching ideas from teachers throughout the country. This website posts a selection of those lesson plans and teaching ideas. Some, like "parents as writing partners", are quite unique: here, students help their parents write a piece of prose or poetry.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
  The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 1180 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
• Outta Ray's Head Lesson Plans
  This site contains a collection of lesson plans with handouts by Ray Saitz and many contributors. All of the lessons have been used and refined in the classroom. These include units on literature, poetry, and writing with interesting, unique activities.
• Reading Lesson Plans
  A short, annotated list of links to online resources for reading activities.
• Reading Lesson Plans
  By Laura Kump. Here are some teacher-tested ideas for reading activities in the classroom, for various grade levels.
• Seussville
  Dr. Seuss has helped generations of Americans learn how to read. The NEA has honored him by making the Cat in the Hat the official mascot for Read Across America. This Dr. Seuss Web site, which is free and open to kids at all ages, features interactive Shockwave games, a monthly Dr. Seuss trivia contest with prizes, a calendar of Seuss events, a catalog of books, videos, and CD-ROMs with all the familiar Seuss characters, and a new series of board games based on Dr. Seuss characters.
• Shakespeare!! His life and works dominated the Oscars this year. Check these out:
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (new link) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare are provided on this site, including the text from all his work and links to the various derivatives of selected words. It also includes a discussion forum, a section of frequently asked questions, and links to other sites. It is invaluable to a person studying Shakespeare or a teacher looking for supplementary research tools.
  • Shakespeare 101 -- Your Shakespeare Classroom on the Internet, by Amy Ulen, an English and drama teacher.
  • J.M. Massi's Shakespeare Classroom -- with study questions for more than 24 plays.
• TeachNet
  Language Arts Projects for Kindergarten Children
• Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts
  The Center's purpose is to establish a coordinated system of teacher education and professional development in the area of language arts for the state of Texas. The Center is a collaborative effort involving the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin and the Region XIII Service Center.
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  The ONLY Integrated English Dictionary and Thesaurus in electronic form!
• WriteRight
  Created by Robynn Swearingen, this site offers quick tips on correct use of the English Language such as passive voice, parts of speech, and tricky words.

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Bilingual and ESL

• Bilingual Social Studies, Grade 4
  These projects are keyed to the State Edition, Texas: Aventuras a travŽs del tiempo, of our new social studies program; however, you may use these projects to complement any social studies curriculum.
• Dave's ESL Cafe
  Where Learning English is Fun! For ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World.
• English Naturally: teaching English through projects in the natural environment
  This site provides authentic English practice in academic skills such as note making, labelling, classifying, referencing, and the like. You develop projects that take place in a natural setting, linking disparate content areas such as art, geography, history, biology, etc. The theory-into-practice has many excellent ideas for elementary ESL teachers.
• Two excellent ESL websites by Marty Levine:
  • ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
  • Bilingual Education
  Also check the Educational Standards and Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages/ESL.
• ESL page from Educational CyberPlayground
  This contains links to excellent sites specifically for ESL/EFL teachers.
• ESLLESSONS.COM
  This is a searchable website. Lessons are posted in the beginning and intermediate levels. Click on "CALL" to access them. There's a particularly interesting intermediate lesson called "Interactive tasks using an online newspaper" - the online newspaper is from the United Arab Emirates, which makes this a multicultural lesson as well.
• Kentucky Migrant Technology Project ESL Page
  Spanish language versions of courses in several major subject areas including arts and humanities, 6th grade math and science, social studies, and practical living.
• Language Academy
  This Web site has online chats and threaded discussion groups for ESL learners and teachers. There are research articles related to bilingual education, links to a variety of relevant Web sites, and even a small set of lesson plans in the teacher resources section. You'll need a frames-based Java-capable browser to view this site (such as Netscape 3.0).
• Little Explorers
  This site has a pictorial dictionary with a Spanish/English alphabetized vocatulary. It offers a selection of activities to pre-K through elementary school students, including a rebus nursery rhyme page with excellent graphics.
• Mexican Newspaper Site
  Current Mexican newspapers are posted to this site, including full-text articles posted in a PDF format. It also includes a chat area for students who wish to practice their Spanish.
• Spanish Language Page (La Pagina de Espanol)
  Created by Cynthia Moore, this site contains songs, tongue twisters, pictures, and other fun activities for elementary Spanish language classrooms.
• Spanish Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
  Compiled by: Carolyn Kotlas, MSLS, Center for Instructional Technology. A host of links to literature, dictionaries, glossaries, pictures, maps, and lots more.
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
  TESOL's mission is to develop the expertise of its members and others involved in teaching English to speakers of other languages to help them foster effective communication in diverse settings while respecting individuals' language rights.
• Thumbs-Up ESL Site
  This site is appropriate for high school bilingual students. It has quizzes, self-study pages, tips and info from the TU ESL Index. It also contains grammar practice, travel and recreational terms, homonyms, sports, weather, kitchen items, and vocabulary builders.

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Multicultural Sites

• AskAsia Instructional Resources
  AskAsia offers a wide variety of educational resources for the classroom, including lesson plans, readings, and resource center locator. All lessons, images, and maps in this area have been copyright-cleared and can be downloaded to use in the classroom. Suitable for K-12 Asian studies curricula, the materials and guidance available here can foster an appreciation of Asian culture that will last throughout your students' lifetime.
• China: Dim Sum: A Connection to Chinese-American Culture
  This site is a thematic, cross curricular, integrated resource for elementary classrooms that enhances awareness and understanding of Chinese-American culture while building basic academic skills. It is full of ideas about the cultural diversity of China, with links that include math, social studies, language arts, science, the arts, celebrations, holidays, and customs. It was researched and developed by students at the Angier School in Newton, Massachusetts, and is suitable for students in grades K-5.
• China Today
  The most comprehensive information base on today's China.
• Cultures Alive!
  Cultures Alive! takes you to thriving cities and remote regions all over the world. You'll touch down on almost every continent, learning about many different countries and the people who live there.
• E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
  This extensive site profiles the nations of the world. View maps and flags, listen to national anthems. There are over 1,400 pages of written text on the nations. Test your knowledge with the monthly quiz. Nations are presented in alphabetical order with flag, map, national anthem, economy, defense, geography, government, people, international agreements, environmental issues, and much, much more.
• India, An Introduction
  This website strives to present a clear picture of India by providing information about the land, its people, culture, and religion, with some historical background. See also Karamjeet Singh's Himalayan Home -- A very comprehensive travel site with information on the Himalayas.
• Israel -- The Holy Land
  Israel's diversity is nowhere better reflected than in its people. Lithuanians, Moroccans, Yemenites, Poles, Germans, Turks, Russians, Americans and Ethiophians are among the Jewish communities of modern Israel. Together with the country's non-jewish citizens - Muslim and Christian Arabs, Bedouin, and Druze this melting pot gives the country its exceptional flavour : a modern society in an antique land that fuses the cultural riches of the Orient and the Occident, the East and the West.
• Journey to Jo'Burg
  This website contains lessons based on Beverly Naidoo's novel, "Journey to Jo'Burg", designed to supplement an interdisciplinary unit on life in Sub-Saharan Africa, past and present. The activities of this CyberGuide focus particularly on the cultural and political themes of the novel. For background on South Africa, see also Guide to South Africa.
• Mexico: Classroom Activities
  Lacey Hogue's website for 5th-7th grade geography has an excellent set of activities aligned with the National Geography Standards.
• Mexico: AITLC Guide
  This is a large, diverse set of links to all aspects of Mexico, including business, climate and weather, history and culture, economics, and much more.
• Minorities in Math, Science, and Technology
  Florida Atlantic University's "MAST Minorities" page provides an annotated list of sources for minorities and women in fields of math, science and technology.
• Russia
  This site offers a brief, easy to understand history of Russia and analysis of recent developments in the region. It is accompanied by an interactive atlas that allows students to view maps, flags, and other information.
• The Samurai's Tale An Internet WebQuest on The Samurai's Tale
  by Erik Haugaard, Bonita Vista Middle School. Japan is one of the most fascinating countries in the world! People who visit this island nation come away intrigued by its history and culture.
• TrackStar: Discovering the Mysteries and Traditions of Spanish Culture
  by Juanita Davis. Links to sites for Cinco de Mayo, Day of the Dead, Mexican Independence Day, Christmas, etc.
• Xpeditions
  This site is sponsored by National Geographic. In a new activity, Raise the Flag for the European Union, students research the countries of the European Union (EU) and use this knowledge, along with their creativity, to create an EU flag. This Family Xpedition asks students to consider the physical and cultural characteristics of member countries, existing maps, and other background information, in order to come up with the right combination of symbols to represent the EU member countries.
• World Cultures Site
  This scholarly resource site entitled 'Exploring Ancient World Cultures' offers essays and other resources about world cultures. It is organized into five different indices, including a chronological index, an image index, and an Internet site index. The image index provides links to museum pieces from the various ages and cultures and offers valuable information about the selected displays.

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Native American Sites

• CankuOta: http://www.turtletrack.org
  This is an "authenticated" Native American Web site. It is constantly being updated by tribal elders to include important information about Native American languages, stories, and other features of their oral tradition.
• First Nations
  First Nations is a great link for teachers. It contains a tremendous number of resources on Native American, aboriginal, and indigenous peoples and nations throughout North America.
• Native American Authors
  This site provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographies, and other information.

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Online Projects

• Join a WEB Project
  By Tammy Payton, Loogootee Elementary School. Whether you want to develop a non-collaborative or a collaborative project, you will gain great insight on how you want to develop your own webpage by joining and participating in one before creating your own. The list below contains some of the more popular sites; Tammy lists many, many projects that do not appear in this collection.
• AmericaQuest
  Join the team of experts and explorers on March 6, 2000, for an exciting journey through the hidden canyons and majestic mesas of the American Southwest. Registration is required.
• Classroom Connect's Quest Page Additional Quest Interactive Expeditions and Travel Around the World.
• Asia with "Pride"
  After a year long voyage to Asia, Pride of Baltimore II, a replica of the 1812-era topsail schooner "Chasseur",is safely home with her captains and crew. To allow students and teachers to be part of this adventure, "Pride II" created a special Web site and an Internet curriculum with logs and pictures from the "teacher aboard", interdisciplinary lessons, the logs of the Baltimore clipper "Chasseur" that went to China in 1816, and teaching suggestions on how to use the resources.
• Meet Amy, The Franklin Institute's resident science student.
  Amy investigates science and technology for us, from a student's point of view. This is part of The Franklin Institute Science Museum, an excellent Web site which offers a host of "Things to Do" for students.
• Blue Ice - Focus on Antarctica
  Blue Ice: Focus On Antarctica is an exciting virtual field trip to Antarctica. In this collaborative on-line unit, students in grades 4-8 learn about the geography, weather, history, geology and wildlife of Antarctica, and begin to consider our role as human beings in the stewardship of all the earth. The program is interdisciplinary and addresses national standards in the above topics as well as creative writing and computer skills. Registration is required.
• Journey North
  Students follow Monarch butterfly migrations, plant a tulip garden, and report their sightings as signs of spring move north. Activities change with the seasons. Registration is required.
• Online Class
  Online Class contains interdisciplinary, inquiry-based units that integrate the Internet into classroom teaching. Next session begins in March 2000. Registration is required. Inquiry-based units include:
  • Blue Ice: Focus on Antarctica
  • Dinosaurs in Cyberspace
  • DoodleOpolis: Adventures in urban architecture
  • Ferrous Wheel: teams of student "engineers" design amusement park rides
  • North American Quilt: Inquiry-based geography units
  • Ocean Explorers: ocean journeys of great explorers
  • Rivers of Life: river ecosystems
  • Zeus Speaks: Ancient Greek history, literature, and mythology

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Ask the Experts

• AskERIC
  AskERIC staff will respond to your question within 2 business days with ERIC database citations and Digests, Internet resources, and referrals to other sources of information.
• AskLN
  AskLN is part of the AT&T Learning Network. Submit a question and the AskLN mentors will answer it for you.
• HomeWork Central
• B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Kids Connect
  KidsConnect is a question-answering, help and referral service to K-12 students on the Internet. The goal of the service is to help students access and use the information available on the Internet effectively and efficiently.
• Pitsco's "Ask an Expert"
  Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer your questions for free!

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NEW! Safe and Drug Free Sites

• In The Mix: Lesson Plans and Discussion Guides
  PBS has collected twenty excellent health and fitness lesson plans. Safe and drug-free topics cover alcohol; dating violence; depression, mental health, and suicide; drug abuse; gun violence; media literacy; schol violence, conflict, resolution, and anger management; self-image; sex; smoking; teen immigrants; and more!!

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Updated October 25, 2000