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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.