Premium Web Sites
for Parents, Students & Teachers
American Memory
www.memory.loc.gov
American Memory, maintained by the Library of Congress, is an outline gateway to
unique primary source materials that relate to the history and culture of the
United States. The site offers seven million digital items including
manuscripts, sheet music, photographs, films and sound recordings, that are
organized in more than 100 collections, such as Civil War Photographs, History
of the American West, and Voices from the Dustbowl. The searchable content areas
include economics, geography, social sciences and technology. The site also
provides activities and lesson plans for using the collections in classrooms.
BrainPop
www.brainpop.com
BrainPOP is a producer of original animated K-12 educational movies that explain
concepts in English, math, science, health and technology. This
subscription-based site offers more than 300 colorful narrated films on topics
such as asthma, atoms, digestion, static electricity, photography and robots. It
is all correlated to national standards from NCTM, NCTE and NSTA. The site also
provides related educational content including games, quizzes, puzzles and
activities, with opportunities for students to get questions answered and
exchange e-mail with BrainPOP characters.
Crayola Creativity Central
www.crayola.com
This content-rich, free multimedia site presents art resources that are
applicable to every curriculum area from pre-K through high school. Crayola
offers craft and projects ideas for each grade level, instruction on art
techniques for using different types of media, lesson plans and classroom
teaching tips. It includes related content with games, quizzes and an online
calendar featuring daily art ideas. The site has several search engines for
finding topics easily, and hosts an online gallery that is one of the largest
collections of student art on the Web.
Education World
www.educationworld.com
Education World was developed in 1996 as a free resource guide to make it easy
for K-12 educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. It has now
become one of the most comprehensive sources of curriculum materials on the Web,
offering a safe search of more than 500,000 resources, with original content
that is not available elsewhere. This material includes lesson plans, teaching
units, curriculum guides in every subject area, special features tied to the
calendar, school reports, site reviews, professional articles and related
sources.
KidsHealth
www.kidshealth.org
Sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth provides accurate,
doctor-approved, jargon-free health information about children from birth
through adolescence. The site offers separate areas for kids, teens and parents.
Each section has its own design, age-appropriate content and instructional tone,
and offers thousands of original articles, animations, interactive activities,
games and resources developed by health experts.
The New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning
This is a news-centered multimedia education site for grades 3-12, with
up-to-date features that change daily. These include stories and photographs
from the world-famous newspaper with related activities, guided Web tours on
topics such as The Presidential Cabinet or Westward Expansion, news summaries
and quizzes, and a variety of free question services. The network also maintains
an excellent collection of curriculum materials in every content area.
Grade Level Gold
www.gradelevelgold.com
This site is a goldmine of free, teacher-selected online curriculum sites and
materials targeted for each K-12 grade level and subject area. It includes
resources for teachers and parents. Identified teacher advocates update the
content in each area regularly, and send out weekly grade-specific e-mail
identifying curriculum-rich online resources.
The WebQuest Page
edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest
The WebQuest model, developed by Bernie Dodge with Tom March at San Diego State
University, is an inquiry-centered learning investigation where most or all
information is drawn from the Web. This Dodge-hosted site is a forum for
exchanging WebQuest ideas and resources, with examples at every grade level and
content area.
Artsonioa
www.artsonia.com
The mission of this site is "to unleash the creative potential of young artists
throughout the world, and empower them with a voice." It provides an online art
museum where students can display their work electronically for global
audiences. Exhibits are searchable by school name or zip code, and Artsonia also
sponsors art projects and contests, with weekly awards for students and
teachers.
Music Education Online
www.childrensmusicworkshop.com
Music Education Online is one of the most comprehensive collections of
music-related resources on the Web, organized by topics that include brass,
string, percussion and woodwind instruments; orchestras, bands and classical
music; and vocal music.
Bartleby.com - Language Arts & Literature
www.bartleby.com
Bartleby--names after a character in a Melville short story--is one of the
largest up-to-date and comprehensive full-text free public reference libraries
published on the Web, with online references including Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations and Gray's Anatomy, as well as major works of fiction,
nonfiction and verse. The site was started in 1993 an an electronic publishing
research project, and now attracts 40 million users annually.
Kidsreads.com and Teenreads.com
www.kidsreads.com
www.teenreads.com
These related sites are outstanding places for students to find
information about their favorite books, series, authors and characters. Each
site offers reviews of the newest titles, in-depth author profiles, interviews,
announcements of book awards, games, puzzles, contests and opportunities for
readers to write book reports and post ideas.
ENC Online - Mathematics
www.enc.org
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse maintains one of the best selections of
K-12 math, science and technology education resources on the Internet, offering
curriculum materials and services for educators, parents and students. These
include thousands of online teaching materials and lesson plans categorized by
topic, a "Digital Dozen" of featured monthly sites and related curriculum news
that is updated daily.
The Math Forum @ Drexel
www.mathforum.org
The Math Forum, now housed at Drexel University, is truly the "last word" for
in-depth online resources for any topic in mathematics from K-12 through college
and advanced math. The site offers teaching and learning materials for
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability/statistics and calculus, with weekly
and monthly challenges online discussions, a question-answering service and
presentations on key education issues.
eNature.com - Science
www.enature.com
This comprehensive nature resource sponsored by the National Wildlife
Federation, offers free illustrated field guides to more than 4,800 plants and
animals, including amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals, trees and
wildflowers. The site also provides opportunities to learn about various
habitats, keep online field notes, ask questions of experts, participate in
discussions, hear bird songs and receive related newsletters.
CNN Student News - Social Studies
www.cnnstudentnews.com
This information-rich multimedia site relates daily news stories to middle and
high school curriculum content to help learners keep pace with world events. It
offers a variety of teaching and learning resources, including background
articles, online forums, films, sound clips and animations, and a powerful
search engine for finding specific topics.
CountryWatch
www.countrywatch.com/@school
This site is a school research portal with free and subscription-based resources
on world regions including Russia and the newly independent states, the Middle
East and North Africa. The site is designed for interactive learning about
individual countries and their social,. political and economic structures, with
curriculum activities and related resources.
MEDLINEplus - Health Nutrition & P.E.
www.medlineplus.gov
MEDLINEplus authoritative and up-to-date health information from the
National Library of Medicine that is usable by health professionals and
consumers alike. Its many online resources include health news, presentations on
more than 500 wellness topics, multimedia tutorials, drug information, a medical
encyclopedia, dictionaries, and a research tool for locating specific content.
Sports Media
www.sports-media.org
Sports Media provides a platform where athletes, coaches, teachers, students and
instructors can learn and exchange ideas. It offers links to an extensive
collection of online lesson plans and activities on various PE topics, coaching
materials and resources for every sport, with opportunities to get questions
answered by experts.