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Technology in Use

Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing Adventures: A brief list of interactive videoconferencing sites where you and your students can link with others for a virtual field trip. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/adventures.html

Lesson Plans

Busy Teachers Website K-12:  Provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans, classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.   http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

Eric Educational Resources Information Center:  A federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.  http://ericir.syr.edu/

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/

Kid's Web: A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids.  http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/fastindex.html 

Tenet: Provides useful, up-to-date resources for the education community, including teachers, administrators, parents and students.   http://www.tenet.edu

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection: Examples of curriculum-based educational telecomputing projects and resources.  http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Telecollaboration/more-telecollaboration.html

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Effective curriculum resources to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.  http://www.enc.org/

CyberBee:  A variety of educational ideas, tools, links, how-to’s, and treasure hunts.   http://www.cyberbee.com

Newspapers & Magazines

CNN:  The latest news stories from Cable News Network.  http://www.cnn.com

USA Today:  Top US news stories.  http://www.usatoday.com

Art and Literature

Introduction to Art Today:  Over a million images to download including clip art, photos, sound, fonts, and web art.  http://www.arttoday.com/Intro/

Shakespeare Homepage:  The complete works of William Shakespeare listed under comedy, history, tragedy, and poetry.  http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

The Virtual Library Museums:  a distributed directory of on-line museums across the world.  http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html

Poetry for Kids - by Kenn Nesbitt: Poems written by Kenn Nesbitt, steps on how to write poems, other books with poems, other related web-sites, and visits to schools.   http://www.nesbitt.com/poetry/

Metropolitan Museum of Art:    Information since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times.  http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide: An attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Biography Heaven:  Search through the large number of personalities and read their biography. http://www.biography.com/

Database of Award-winning Children's Literature:  Search award-winning children’s literature books by age, setting, historical period, format, genre, ethnicity, language, publication year, keywords, or receiving a specific award.  http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html

Government

Justice for Kids and Youth:  Provides information on different aspects of justice - like internet crimes, drug prevention and laws that protect your rights.  http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/

Federal Resource for Educational Excellence: Search through educational subjects to find related links.   http://www.ed.gov/free/subject.html

Federal Bureau of Investigation:  All you want to know about the Department of Justice FBI. http://www.fbi.gov

Library of Congress Home Page: A collection of millions of items including books, media, films, and maps.  http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Welcome to the White House: Find out what is happening at the white house.  http://www.whitehouse.gov/

State of Texas Government World Wide Web: Tools and resources needed to locate Texas government resources quickly and efficiently.  http://www.texas.gov/index.html#travel

TEA - Texas Education Agency: Educational information relating to programs, rules, curriculum, grants, school data, and services offered by the Texas Education Agency.  http://www.tea.state.tx.us/

U.S. House of Representatives: Find out about members of the House of Representatives and learn about the House operations, rules, committees, and organizations.   http://www.house.gov

National Capital Parks: Look at some of the most significant natural and cultural resources in the United States including Ford's Theatre, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and 60 statues.    http://www.nps.gov/nacc

The Senate: Find your state’s senator, learn about the different types of committees and legislative process, and find out how the Senate works.  http://www.senate.gov

Smithsonian Institute: With millions of artifacts and specimens this research center is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history. http://www.150.si.edu/

Department of Defense: Find U.S. military information.   http://www.defenselink.mil/

Language

Bartlett Familiar Quotations: A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.  http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

History

National Archives and Records Administration's Digital Classroom:  provides activities and worksheets along with other material from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.  http://www.nara.gov/education

Museums and Learning: Find the answers to questions about museums, ways to learn from the objects housed there, and descriptions of different types of museums. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Museum/

The History Channel: Do you know what happened on this day in history?  Listen to speeches, join discussions, search through study guides, and look at TV schedules.  http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

"I have a dream" by Martin Luther King:    http://web66.coled.umn.edu/new/MLK/MLK.html

Black History Month Sites:  In honor of February being Black History month, this brief list of informative and celebratory sites includes timelines and resources to study Black History, ideas, and culture:   http://www.newmedianews.com/020197/hl_blckhistmonth.html

Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues:  The most comprehensive resource on the web for information about the Negro Baseball Leagues.  http://www.blackbaseball.com/

The History Net:  Travel back in time to explore the events that took place relating to World History, American History, Cival War, Battles and World Wars.    http://www.TheHistoryNet.com/

Alamo: The untold story of the Alamo’s early history.  http://www.flash.net/~alamo3/

Cool History:  What happened today in history?  What happened yesterday?  The day before that?…etc, etc, etc,…  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

BBC 's World War I:   Using personal accounts and historical analysis BBC News Online looks back at what became known as "the war to end all wars". http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998//10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm

Math and Science

The Space Place:  Kids can “Do”, “Make”, & “Share” Spacey Things while learning amazing facts.  Also included are classroom activity articles for teachers bringing Space Science and Technology to the Classroom.  http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm

NASA is My Playground:   Learn about “Space and Beyond”, “Rockets and Airplanes”, “Pioneers and Astronauts”, and watch your weight and age be calculated on other planets.    http://nasa.gov/kids.html

Cool Kids Science:  Fun Science projects and on-line activities for K-3^rd grade kids and the entire family.  http://hhmi.org/coolscience/

Online School Yard: Explore the educational array of information and activities for Kids to Grownups.  http://www.onlineschoolyard.com/ 

A Gallery of Interactive On-line Geometry: Build a rainbow using Calculus, play Orbifold pinball, use Conics and Hexagons with Pascal’s Thereom, and enjoy other high level math activities.  http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html

The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math: Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions.  Is the 1500^th number in Pi a 5 or 6?  http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html

Exploratorium:  The Exploratorium's mission is to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people to nurture their curiosity about the world around them.  http://www.exploratorium.edu/

21st Century Problem Solving:  A modern approach to reliable problem solving across the curriculum.  http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html

Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit: View dinosaur skeletons, skulls, and sculptures while listening to narrations about each. http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html

Science for the Millennium: Watch videos explaining how stars are born, the meaning of metacomputing, and how virtual reality is being used.  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/

Volcanos for Kids:  Find out what’s happening at your favorite volcano.  http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Math Helper: Math resources organized by subject for K-adult.  Organizations, research, and professional development opportunities are also available.  If you don’t see it here, there are additional links to get you what you need.   http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/ 

Resources

College Prep: Plan for college, prepare for test (SAT, PSAT, NMSQT, AP & CLEP), explore your college and career opportunities, preview application guidelines, and learn about cost and financial aide.   http://www.collegeboard.org/

Informed Parent: Listen to the voice of the Pediatric Medical Center to learn more about solutions to children’s medical issues. http://www.informedparent.com/

Interactive Parent: From pre-pregnancy to baby care through parenting...

See a world of ideas & information at GeoParent!  http://geoparent.com/ 

The Educational CyberPlayGround: Gives teachers and students in the nation a reason to use a computer, learn to use the world wide web, -- integrate technology, literacy and music into the classroom curriculum.  http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/

Virtual Study Hall: Educational links organized by subjects providing Web sites, encyclopedia articles, learning activities, lesson plans, curriculum-based educational software and Internet products and services. http://www.studyweb.com/

Smart Zones - Safe Surfing for Kids: Educational links organized by subjects and topics providing educational information http://www.edview.com/

The Internet Public Library:  The IPL is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.  Youth Division:  http://www.ipl.org/youth/  & Teen Division:  http://www.ipl.org/teen/

Net Lessons:  Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. http://www.education-world.com/netlessons/

Teachnet.Com:  Lesson Plans for most subjects, helpful hints for teaching or fund raisers, free educational clip art, and teacher to teacher email.  http://www.teachnet.com/

Federal Resource for Educational Excellence:  More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. http://www.ed.gov/free/

Safe Kids: KidsSafe is an informational guide designed to assist parents, grandparents, and caregivers. The site was established as a forum so that people who are entrusted with the safety of a child (or children) can assist one another.  http://www.kidssafe.com/

American Library Association:  The ALA provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. http://www.ala.org/

Wonder Wise Parent Project: An informative, ad banner-free site on parenting and parent-child relationships. The WonderWise Parent is designed for parents, grandparents, foster parents, stepparents, caregivers, teachers, and parent educators.  http://www.ksu.edu/wwparent/wondhome.htm

Global Schoolhouse: Contains 3 main areas:  Collaborative projects-including CyberFair, GeoGame, FieldTrips, Newsday, and the Projects Registry;  Communication tools-including Classroom Conferencing, Mailing Lists, and Discussion Boards; and, Professional Development-including Harnessing the Web.  http://www.gsh.org

Educational Section of Family.com:  Includes parenting tools, checklist, discussion boards, and tips from other parents.  http://www.family.com/Categories/Education/

Super Kids Software Review: Includes software reviews, educational tools and games, and educational worksheets with answers can be generated. http://www.superkids.com/

IPL Ready Reference Collection: The IPL General/Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources gathered together with the needs of the Internet community in mind. It is not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites on every subject, but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific questions quickly and efficiently. http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/

Library Spot:  A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. http://www.libraryspot.com/

Education Week on the Web:  Daily educational news and teacher magazines. http://www.edweek.org/

Financial Assistance 4 Higher Education: Pre-qualify, apply, or find out the status of a student loan.   http://www.nelliemae.org/

The Children's Partnership:  The Children's Partnership is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to inform leaders and the public about the needs of America's 70 million children, and to engage them in ways that benefit children.  One of the current programs is a multi-year project exploring and demonstrating how the Internet and related technologies can best serve children. http://www.childrenspartnership.org

National Geographic:  Subjects relate to travel, adventure, maps, photography, news, education, parents, live events, and exhibitions,   http://www.nationalgeographic.com

Family Ed: There is a parents, teachers, kids, reference, and shop section where you can exchange idea, gather resources, play games, and take quizzes.   http://familyeducation.com/

Teachers.net:  Includes places to chat, meeting rooms, reference and resource tools.  http://www.teachers.net

Kids Dictionary:  A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world.  http://www.Enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html

Safe Kids:  Safety tips for Adult and kids.  Adult-Resources, bulletin board, and newsletter.  Kid-Teasure chest and games.   http://www.sass.ca/

Scholastic Resources:   Teacher, Kids, and Parent resources including books, games, tips, lesson plans, and activities. http://www.scholastic.com/

Parenting Advantages:  A provider of customized learning programs to help children of all learning levels, K–10, make academic progress, increase their self-confidence, and develop a love of learning.  http://www.score.kaplan.com/

Info Safety:  A way that children can safely explore the fun and educational sites found by CyberGuide.  http://www.microsys.com/616/default.htm

College Savings Plans:  This web page is designed to link you to your state's program and provide information about the association serving the state college savings plans. http://www.collegesavings.org

 Future Classrooms:  SitesALIVE! is the premium interactive online expedition website for K-12 worldwide.   http://www.sitesalive.com/

 TeacherSource:  2500+ lesson plans and activities for most subjects. http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

College is Possible:  This site will guide you to the books, websites, and other resources that admissions and financial aid professionals consider most helpful.  http://www.collegeispossible.org/

Dreamscape:  A list of 500 pages of 12,00 virtual reference sites.   http://www.virtualfreesites.com/world.html

Sparknotes.com:  Study guides written by over 100 Harvard students and graduates and contributed to SparkNotes. All of the writers specialize in the subjects they cover--you'll find History PhDs writing on The Fall of Rome and Astrophysics grads covering the Planets. http://www.sparknotes.com

Family Fun

First Grade Backpack:  Topics include reading, interesting places, animals, arithmetic, games, and many cool sites for 1^st graders.  http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/grade1.html

 An Educational Emporium:    A list of favorite educational sites on the Internet.  http://www.taymade.com/taymade/edu/2.htm

 Parenting Children:  Great list of web sites for students and parents to use as reference tools as well as a variety of other links relating to different subjects.

http://childparenting.about.com/parenting/childparenting/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=649408601113852&Mint=649408601113852

 KidsClick!:  Created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

 Interactive Kids Castle: Smithsonian Magazine's Kids' Castle was constructed to be a safe, educational, free and fun place for kids ages 8-16 on the World Wide Web. Kids' Castle features articles written about the things that interest kids today: sports, history, the arts, travel, science and air and space, all with great photos. There are message boards filled with questions to get kids from all over the world talking to each other and thinking creatively. And, of course, Kids' Castle has lots of fun and challenging games and contests.  http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/

 Space Kids:  The following is a description by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education:  "Space related information and games abound at this site, which starts you out with fascinating astronomical news. The space Q&A area offers the opportunity to ask about anything space related."  http://www.spacekids.com

 Kids Domain:  Great on-line lessons over a variety of topics, software reviews, holiday ideas, games, crafts, contest, freebies, icons, and sports.   http://www.kidsdomain.com/

 Cool Cyberliteracy Sites for Kids:  Here’s a list of all of the links to the PBS Kids sites. http://www.pbs.org/kids/techknow/ 

 Humongous Fun:  Children of all ages - kids and parents - connect with Humongous Entertainment's family of adorable original characters. Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam and SPY Fox are recognized as friends that live in richly detailed, interactive worlds where children play and learn as they direct the action in a series of engaging adventures.  http://www.humongous.com/

 Internet School House:  Virtual School Promoting Global Friendship and 21st Century Learning. Educators may enter this virtual education site knowing that the site is designed with the classroom teacher and school curriculum in mind. The site provides a safe place on the net for students to begin work quickly and safely, and helps to keep students on task. Educators find a world of educational sites at their finger tips.   http://www.onr.com/schoolhouse/

 Family.com:  Great ideas, practical advice, and fun stuff to do for the family.  Topics include crafts, pets, parties, raising kids, recipes, and travel.  http://www.family.com/ 

 PBS Online:  A trusted community resource, PBS uses the power of noncommercial television, the Internet and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs and education services that inform, inspire and delight.  http://www.pbs.org/

 Cable in the Classroom:   This $2 million-per-week effort, supported by 39 national cable networks and over 8,500 local cable companies, provides schools across the U.S. with free cable service and over 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming. http://www.ciconline.com/

 Cyberkids - Information, Games and Interviews:  The mission of Cyberkids is to provide a voice for young people on the Internet. We accomplish this in two ways. First, we publish original creative work by kids ages 7 to 12. Second, in the "Kids Connect" area of Cyberkids, we provide chat rooms and message boards where kids can communicate with their peers. If you have teenagers in your family, you may want to direct them to our other site, Cyberteens.  In the "Cyberviews" area, you will find movie, book and product reviews. In the "Launchpad" area, there are links, categorized by subject, to many other Internet sites useful to kids. The "Learning Center" has links to sites where your child can find online tutoring, help with homework, and information on scholarships. Finally, the "Shopping" section provides categorized links to sites that offer products for kids such as clothing, toys and games, and children's software. http://www.cyberkids.com/

 Children's Television Workshop:   Sesame Workshop Online (www.sesamestreet.com) is the recipient of the prestigious 1999 NewMedia Invision "Best of the Web" award. Additionally, the site was honored with a Gold award for "Best Youth Educational Web site," and awards of excellence for "Best Educational Web site" and "Best Web site." http://www.ctw.org 

 Big Bend National Park Tour:   Big Bend National Park Virtual Field Trip is designed to be a guide to the geological history and features of the Big Bend National Park area. http://geoweb.tamu.edu/faculty/herbert/bigbend/

 Funbrain.com:   Enjoy games, quizzes, challenges, and different activities for kids, parents, and teachers.  http://www.funbrain.com

 Water Fun:   Environmental Protection Agency - EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends.  This site includes projects, art, and experiments to involve kids and students with environmental protection.  http://www.epa.gov/ow/kids.html

 Teaching Children: A list of Children’s bestsellers, featured new releases, and special offers and contest. http://www.teachkids.com/ 

 Young Sports Fans:   News, games, e-cards, talkback, buzz, and fantasy sports section. http://www.sikids.com 

 Online Bedtime:  CandlelightStories.com offers the leading independent kids’ site on the Internet. We provide a safe and secure environment for kids to learn and have fun.  In addition to publishing online children's stories and ebooks, we produce our own line of high-quality children's audio programs that present classics like 'Snow White' and 'Puss In Boots' with voice characterizations, music and sound effects.  We also produce non-violent games and activities for kids. http://www.candlelightstories.com 

 Learning Fun at Noddy's:   Alphabet game, stories read aloud, home activities, games, and a user’s guide to using this site. http://www.pbs.org/kids/noddy/

 FleetKids:   Encourages learning through inquiry and getting kids started out on the path to money smarts.  Money smarts means working hard, saving, and investing. And giving something back to the people who helped you out when you needed it and to people who can reach out and help others. Each time your students learn about financial concepts, they'll be earning points which your school can redeem for technology-based rewards. http://www.fleetkids.com/

 5 A Day Web:  Everything you need to get your students excited about eating fruits and vegetables is presented here.  The “5 A Day for Better Health Program” is a national program to encourage all Americans to eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day for good health. http://www.dole5aday.com/

 Museums & Learning: A Guide for Family Visits:   Produced as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and the Smithsonian Office of Education. Both are committed to the highest quality in learning opportunities and the importance of extending them beyond the school day.  The suggestions in the guide address the needs of children between the ages of 4 and 12. You'll see how museums can inspire as well as inform and build skills for both classroom and lifelong learning. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Museum/