Educational Resources

NTeQ Text Ordering

• Prentice Hall 
• Amazon.Com

National Education Sites

• AskERIC
• U.S. Department of Education

Teacher Resources

General

• Classroom Connect
• Favorite Education Places on the Web
• Virtual Schoolhouse
• Global SchoolNet Foundation
• PBS Teacher Connect
• Armadillo's K-12 Resources
• Web66: A K12 WWW Project
• WGCU: The Faculty Lounge
• EdWeb
• Scholastic
• Intel Teachers' Corner
• Teacher Talk

 

Locating Keypals

• Global SchoolNet Foundation
• Scholastic Center
• Classroom Connect
• alt.education.distance
• alt.education.Email-project
• k12.chat.teacher
• misc.education
• Kidsphere, subscribe to kidsphere-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu
• Middle-L, subscribe to listserv@listserv.net

 

Online Projects

• K-12 Net
• IECC-Projects
• Global SchoolNet Foundation
• Academy One

Content Area Experts

• Yahooligans Expert List
• Ask Dr. Math
• Ask an Engineer
• Ask an Author
• Ask an Astronaut
• Ask Mr. Science

Student Resources

• Yahooligans
• CyberKids
• Writers' Corner

Professional Organizations

• Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
• Association for Educational Communications & Technology

Curriculum Resources By Content Area

Language Arts

• Schools of California Online Resources - Language Arts
• Human Language Page
• Emily Dickinson
• Children's Story Books Online

 

Mathematics

• Schools of California Online Resources - Mathematics
• MegaMath
• Math Forum
• Houghton Mifflin's Math Center

 

Science

• Schools of California Online Resources - Science
• Electronic Zoo
• Monarch Watch
• Sea World Teacher Guides
• VolcanoWorld
• US Geological Survey
• EarthViewer
• Periodic Table of Elements
• NASA's Spacelink
• Science Learning Network
• Views of the Solar System
• Weather Underground
• Marine Mammal List

 

Social Studies

• Schools of California Online Resources - History/Social Science
• National Geographic Online
• City.Net
• Guide to the US Congress
• CIA World Fact Book
• The White House
• Library of Congress
• Smithsonian
• World War II on the Web
• K-12 History on the Internet
• Politics Now
• Current World News

 

Arts

• WebMuseum
• World Art Treasures

Curriculum Resources For Internet

• Electronic Learning
• Kidlink
• NASA K-12
• SchoolNet
• Scholastic Net
• Teachnet.Com
• World School
• The Faculty Lounge
• Classroom Connect

Software & Plug-Ins

Software

• California Software Clearing House
• Download.com
• Shareware.com
• PCcomputing.com

 

Plug-Ins

• BrowserWatch Plug
• B&B's Download Plug-Ins
• Real TV Links

Web Design & Classroom Web Pages

• HTML Crash Course for Educators
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Classroom Web
• Web 66 International School Director

Search Tools

 Directories

• Yahoo
• Magellan
• Yahooligans - Directory designed for use by children

 

Search Engines

• Alta Vista - Results extremely comprehensive, can be overwhelming
• Excite - Chooses popular sites; hard to pinpoint specific information
• Lycos - Very comprehensive results based on popularity
• Infoseek - Locates selective, relevant sites; good search parameters
• HotBot - Quick, comprehensive results; excellent search parameters that are user friendly
• Web Crawler - Quick, current searches; display limited to titles only

 

Email Searches

• Four11 Directory - Free; 10 million Email addresses; able to register
• Lookup - Lookup is designed to search the Four 11 directory, and does so more efficiently than Four 11's own search engine

 

Newsgroup Searches

• Deja News - Best search options; powerful
• Sift - Free; articles filtered by topics and listed on a single web page

 

Listserv Searches

• Liszt - Listservs updated weekly, some search parameters offered

 

Software Searches

• Shareware.Com - Over 175,000 files of software; free

 

FTP Searches

• FTP Search - Good search options; searches only file name; over 3,000 sites
• Snoopie - Fast, but can only search on one name

 

Metasearch Engines

• Savvy Search - Searches five databases at once; eliminates duplicates; superior metasearch tool
• All-In-One Search - Offers over 200 search forms on one web site; each search performed individually
• Internet Sleuth - Largest collection of over 900 searchable databases; excellent for locating specific information
• Search.Co - Offers a directory, specialty searches, whole list A-Z