Bookmarks
Please note: URLs change often and may become obsolete
Topics:
A question and answer forum for math students.
Ask Jeeves For ages 6-12
Information Please search engine for kids
Search results displayed in picture form, family safe
These web sites organize links by popular homework topics
HomeworkNow is a free chat service ready to help students with their research 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This service is funded through a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of Ohio. The service is staffed by public and school librarians all across Ohio. Since September, 2004, librarians have answered well over 18,000 questions.
A collection of kid-friendly links, organized by curriculum area
Web search for kids by librarians
Kidspace at the Internet Public Library
The main portal to the federal government’s 22,000-plus web sites.
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp
Allows citizens to comment on federal government rule-making
Provides disaster management information
Provides e-training courses, e-books and career development resources for government employees.
Info on national parks, historical landmarks and other points of interest
General Education/Internet Resource Ideas
All Children’s Education Network (ACEnet)
connect with others who are educating at-risk children
American Association of School Librarians
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Association for Effective Schools
Berit’s Best Sites for Children
extensive list of links to sites oriented toward elementary-school children
designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms, with over 100 menu pages with over 1,700 links; part of British Columbia’s “Open School”
Free curriculum and open source courseware.
Helps kids evaluate web sites, includes an "information quality checklist."
a great site for lesson plans for language arts, social studies, the arts, and foreign languages; sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Education Week/Teacher Magazine
Includes a searchable database of national and state standards.
eTech Ohio (formerly Schoolnet)
offers families “trusted, credible resources,” sponsored by Kellogg’s
Critical thinking when surfing the web
Infomine: The Scholarly Internet Resource
over 8,500 academically valuable resources, sponsored by the Univ. of Calif.
Institute for Learning Technologies
Microsoft Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Open source course management software.
National Center for Education Statistics
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
National Board Certified Teachers
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators
Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators
offers a searchable database of 500 classroom projects
University of Chicago’s Laboratory Schools (John Dewey)
a junior version (ages 8-14) of the popular Yahoo! search service
"An extensive collection of free printables."
Blue Web’n Learning Applications
A search engine that connects with links in all subject areas
This nonprofit has stored hundreds of lesson plans and activities
Discovery Channel Lesson Plans
An education search engine
"Web resources categorized by topic."
offers a searchable database of 500 classroom projects
VoS: Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
"One of the oldest and most well-maintained sites for electronic texts."
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
All-In-One Search Engine Hints Page
"Earth's Biggest Bookstore"
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
shows how to cite electronic sources
an education search engine
an education search engine
"over 1,750,000 filmography entries in the database, covering over 450,000 people"
introduction to the use of the net in the classroom
an online bookstore search and shopping agent
"over a million used, new, and out of print books in stock every day"
a weekly collection of useful sites
University of Akron Bierce Library
University of Illinois Teacher Resource Center
Choosing the Best Search Engine
Types of Search Tools and Strategies for Selecting the Best (UC Berkeley)
An online editing and proofreading service for students.
"an online film and video database"
(see also the Internet Movie Database listed above in the Reference section)a complete online database of recorded music
Americans for the Arts/National School Boards Association
Online resource center to help school-board members become more effective arts advocates.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Performers (ASCAP) Database
see also BMI and SESACArt on the Web
California Museum of Photography
virtually tour Carnegie Hall
includes Cleveland cultural activities
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Internet Resources for Music Teachers
Museum of Television and Radio
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art
Children's Literature Web Sites
Gives the origins of nursery rhymes.
African-American Children's Literature
The ALAN Review (Assembly for Literature for Adolescents)
"Wide collection of children's books listed by categories."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (University of Illinois)
A Miss Rumphius Award winner
CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS WHO VISIT SCHOOLS
Children's Literature Association
Children's Literature Web Guide
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature
Index to Children's Literature Authors
A truly comprehensive site, focuses on King Arthur and Robin Hood
Little Red Riding Hood Project
Multicultural Children's Literature
(Eric Carle’s) Museum of Picture Book Art
Online Children's E-texts and Multicultural Literature
Children's Picture Book Database
Folk and fairy tales
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Blume, Judy
Byars, Betsy
Cobb, Vicki
DePaola, Tomie
George, Jean Craighead
Gibbons, Gail
Gutman, Dan
Quackenbush, Robert
Beginning with Books (Center for Early Literacy)
A huge collection of online games, puzzles, worksheets, pictures to color.
Early Childhood Education Idea Box
Funschool's Preschool Educational Games
Sorted by author, Reading Recovery level, grade level. Prepared by the Portland Public Schools.
Mrs. Silverman's Second Grade Class
Foreign Language Teaching Forum
Foreign Language Teachers’ Listserv
Send email to FLTEACH@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
UNICEF Voices of Youth
the UNICEF forum for global learning and discussion among young people
The Financial Aid Information Page
(see also Children's Literature)
The ABCs of the Writing Process
Includes examples of journaling activities, rubrics, graphic organizers
American Literature on the Web
Anthology of Middle English Literature
Like Cliff's Notes
Beginning with Books (Center for Early Literacy)
Behind The Name (Etymology of Names)
Join a scheduled discussion about a book your class is reading.
A Miss Rumphius Award winner.
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Newsletter
Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)
CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS WHO VISIT SCHOOLS -
Children's Literature Web Guide
Provides information on how to cite using APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian.
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Offers more than 2200 original reviews of high-quality titles.
contains complete texts of classics
focuses on Mark Twain
Grammar Sites
A collection of classics online.
Interviews with 150 writers and illustrators.
International Reading Association (IRA)
JUST FOR KIDS WHO LOVE BOOKS -
Completely dedicated to making kids avid readers with sections on the Publishers Weekly Children's Bestseller List, How a Book is Made, Reading Corner Reviews, Newbery Medal Books and Caldecott Medal Books; a comprehensive alphabetized listing of author links is the coup de gras for this wonderful site
Key Sites on American Literature
information on books for kids, including author bios, fan clubs, contests
A clearinghouse of language arts sites
focuses on the beat poets
Literary Resources (on the Net)--American
RealAudio files of American poets reading their own work.
Malaspina Great Books Interdisciplinary Matrix
Award winning site in which an investigative reporter snoops the net, Gets involved with interesting characters, and offers hot text links to embellish his adventures; fifteen series on this site and a Christmas edition in the works - great for upper elementary
A middle school site
Interactive mysteries to solve online
Mythology
Mr. Donn's Early & Classical Greece
National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA)(Arthur Applebee, J.Langer)
Newspapers in Education (Detroit Free Press)
New York Times Learning Network
An index of on-line books
Teacher-tested English lessons complete with a rationale for why to use them, and the handouts and evaluations that go with them
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
Offers an in-depth on-line guide to writing Poetry
This is the best site for budding poets to participate, read, judge, and write with the experts.
Here's a rich resource of classic and contemporary poets and poetry from The Atlantic Monthly.
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Every two months, a different style of poetry-haiku, cinquain and limericks, to name a few-is featured at this site. Become a Poetry Pal Partner and submit poems for online publication.
Exposes fraudulent contests
Search an index of all the poets who are currently featured on this site, and discover biographies, photos, poems, and more. Listen to the audio files of authors reading their poetry.
Links to poetry sites from around the world.
Launched by U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, includes a poem for each day of the school year.
Publishing Student Writing
an online writing club
Allows you to compare the work of classic poets in a real-time challenge.
Spotlighted in Edutopia, April/May 2007
Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Editions
Participate in this daylong celebration of reading each April.
A joint project of IRA and NCTE, based on the 1996 Standards.
Margaret Moustafa's Home Page
an electronic journal of the International Reading Association
Supplementary, web-based units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer; each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, objectives, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric
Six Plus One Traits Writing Assessment
TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH INTERACTIVE FICTION
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Trinity College Writing Center
Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
A list of links to sites having to do with words
Journal Writing Workshop
Writing Tips, Guides and Advice
Interactive Algebra Websites for Students
Allows students to practice graphing functions as well as other algebra
National Library of Virtual Manipulations for Interactive Mathematics
Requirements for the New York Regents
Helps to prepare the math requirements for the New York Regents diploma
Hosted by Rick Veazey and the Greenville County schools, SC
Help with homework and other practice
Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason
A Gallery of Interactive Geometry
Database for Math Courses and Lesson Plans
Internet Center for Mathematics Problems
math activities
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Websites
U.S. National Research Center Homepage
National Center for Education Statistics TIMSS Homepage
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
Association for Experiential Education
Developed through the North American Association for Environmental Ed.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
Access Excellence: A Place in Cyberspace for Biology Teaching & Learning
connects teachers with scientists
links to amphibians, arthropods, birds, dinosaurs, fish, mammals, etc.
Chemistry Hypermedia Project at Virginia
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Online
a classified search tool for amateur astronomy
How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life
National Museum of Natural History
includes a virtual tour of the museum
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Northwestern University Astronomy
Periodic Table of Elements on the Internet
archaeology exhibits
Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities
links various biology Web pages, showing the infinite diversity of life on our planet
Weather from the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
"The best place for science information and fun!"
includes labor history
Maintained by the Library of Congress, digitized images and sound files
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
narratives of former slaves from the American South, interviewed by the WPA in the 1930s
The Avalong Project at Yale University Law School
Hundreds of historic documents
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
on-line student debates, investigative reporting, ask-a-legal expert
Databases and E-resources at the Library of Congress
Department of Health and Human Services
Federal Communications Commission
Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebook
Covers hundreds of topics in World History
Smithsonian guidelines for collecting folklife and oral history.
American Family Immigration History Center
Cleveland Public Library's Necrology File
Computer Assisted Genealogy Group
NorthEast Ohio Computer-Aided Genealogy Society
Western Reserve Historical Society
Historic Events and Birth Dates
History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Index of Resources for Historians
Letters from the U.S. Civil War
collection of downloadable maps from Houghton-Mifflin
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Native American Indian Resources
The National Center for History in the Schools
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council on Economic Education
links to state geographic alliances
develops culturally sensitive curriculum material for preschools
Ohio Council for Social Studies (OCSS)
"The Ohio Memory digital scrapbook will bring together historical materials from museums, libraries, and historical societies around the state to create a large collection of primary source materials that provides an overview of the historical experience in Ohio and illuminates specific moments in that history."
Original versions of 100 historical documents on the Internet
link with others researching the same surname
The Time Page: An Examination of Cycles in U.S. History
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
a service of the U.S. Congress through the Library of Congress
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page
Focuses on national geography standards and grade-specific lesson plans.
British Columbia’s Special Education branch of the Ministry of Education
microcomputer technolgy for people with special needs
Council for Exceptional Children
General Special Education Sites
Health and disability related mailing lists
National Center to Improve Practice
promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical, and social/emotional disabilities
Professional Services (longterm care, training, research)
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
Special Needs Education Network
Trace Research and Development Center
assistive technologies for communication, control, and computer access
Center for Gifted Education Policy
Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
Comprehensive Gifted and Talented Resources Page
Educational Services to Academically Talented Students
Gifted and Talented Web Site Resources
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
a government site with links to other health-related sites
The Physician and Sports Medicine
Center for Missing and Exploited Children
How Seventeen Undermines Young Women
Reflections of Girls In The Media
National Women and Media Collection
Young Women and Media Web Site
These sites cross the curriculum and exemplify great uses of this medium!
Classrooms from around the world share discussions
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive 'hands on' exhibits.
Smithsonian guidelines for collecting folk-life and oral history.
listings of projects for classes to take part in
3,000 K-12 science classes around the world are collecting environmental data and posting it to this site
The Interactive Frog Dissection
follow animal migration and other seasonal changes
“more than 11,000 stories written by kids from all over the planet”
KIDS (Kids Identify and Discover Sites)
Includes an image of the week
interactive problem solving
A catalog of collaborative Internet projects.
"The Ohio Memory digital scrapbook will bring together historical materials from museums, libraries, and historical societies around the state to create a large collection of primary source materials that provides an overview of the historical experience in Ohio and illuminates specific moments in that history."
Sites that Publish Student Writing
Smithsonian Institute--Especially for Kids
"leads to various exhibits--Apollo 11, the National Zoo"
Not technically an "educational" site, this site is filled with "Sound Portraits" created by David Isay and heard over National Public Radio. Basically, a great way to teach oral histories. These are the oral histories of "real people."
TrackStar guides a user (student) through a set of sites (URLs).
create your own comics
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
an oral history of Rhode Island Women during WWII, written by students in the Honors English Program, South Kingstown High
Produces an image covering all 360 degrees of a scene
The most popular technology for delivering real-time audio/video
a web page designed by an AP Calculus class as their final exam
Arbor Heights Elementary, West Seattle, WA
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools
Free Web Graphics by Teachnology
logos, graphics, banners, etc.
International Schools on the Web
International School of Amsterdam, Ms. Hos-McGrane's Grades 5 Social Studies
Rockburn Elementary School, Howard Co., Maryland
includes student-created software for use on Macintosh computers
State Department's International School Web Site Directory
Sites for New or Substitute Teachers
Substitute Teacher Survival Site
Free downloadable games
educational material catalog retailer
affiliated with Rev. Billy Graham
First Church of Cyberspace: the first virtual church, founded by Rev. Charles Henderson
Jewish Theological Seminary Distance Ed
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
