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Links: Link of the Week Archives
| abcTeach - "Free printables for home and classroom" Printable worksheets for K-5 lessons, including fun activity pages, flashcards, crosswords and more. Easy to navigate and updated often. |
| About our Kids - a cenral resource for parents and educators dedicated to the well-being of our kids. Focus is on mental health |
| Animaland -(from ASPCA) - A kid-friendly site about real pets, visit Animaland from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Includes cartoons that teach kids about pet care and an "Ask Azula" section where kids can submit and view responses to questions about animals, such as "Do sharks sleep?" |
| Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection - Beautiful interactive learning exhibits covering a wide variety of topics: Math in Daily Life, Amusement Park Physics, Renaissance, Volcanoes, Personality, and more. Find out why civilizations fail in "Collapse" and what it was like to live in the Middle Ages. These delightful exhibits are well-organized, accurate and include wonderful images and video clips. |
| Arriba Vista - Over 1.5 million kid-friendly web images! Type in what you're looking for and let Arriba Vista do the rest. Search results appear as small "thumbnail" images. Click on the one you want for full size viewing or saving to your computer. |
| Art for Kids - From the Mining Co. Dozens of links to sites for teachers, parents and kids of all ages. |
| Art on the Net - a place where artists join together in sharing their art with others on the Internet. Artists can come to learn how to get themselves and their art up on the Internet.Visit the Artists Studios and Gallery rooms, and find out about art happenings on the net. |
| The-Artists.org - artists with portrait, brief biography, links to articles, essays and interviews; original art, limited edition artprints, photography and posters, multimedia and artist's books. |
| Ask Dr. Universe - Why does electricity shock? Do frogs sleep? Got a question? Meet Dr. W.S. Universe, "the world's most curious cat", brought to you by Washington State University. Read answers to previous questions or ask your own. Searchable. |
| Ask the Space Scientist - Is Pluto still considered a planet? What is a "bad moon"? What happens when black holes touch? Don't ask us, Ask the Space Scientist -- Dr. Sten Odenwald, a Havard-trained astronomer and education and out-reach director at NASA who has answered some 22,000 inquiries from all over the world on every astronomical topic under the sun. Read answers to questions already asked or ask your own. |
| Astronomy Picture Archive - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. May 14, 1999, Landsat 7 Views Planet Earth" is a picture of the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Awesome Library - It's, well, awesome! Something for everyone: kids, teens, parents and teachers. They've organized over 14,000 resources: school resources, games, activities, and more. Be sure to bookmark this one! |
| Back to School from Wire News - A monthly Wired News collection with a little bit of everything for everyone. |
| Bartleby.com - Great books online: literature, reference and verse, all free! |
| bigchalk.com - provides a broad spectrum of educational Internet services to K-12 teachers, students, parents, librarians, and school administrators. Student resources are well-organized and broken down into elementary/middle/high school levels. |
| Biographical Dictionary - "This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords." |
| Children's Express - Children's Express (CE) is an international news service reported and edited by kids ages 8 to 18 for adult print, broadcast, and online media. A nonprofit journalism and leadership organization, CE's mission is to give children a significant voice in the world. |
| Classic Bookshelf - free access to great works of classic literature in a reader-friendly format. |
| Composers and Performers- UCLA Music Library -- search for compositions and discographies, composer societies all over the world, publisher lists, and individual home or fan pages. |
| Dictionary List - Just about every dictionary on the Internet is here. Browse the list or use their search page to look up a word. |
| Do online tutors have the answers? - Homework-help sites, study guides, online tutors, and other Internet resources--what should you know before utilizing these popular resources?. Read this Education Week article, "Online Tutors Say They've Got the Answers" to learn more and to find links to several recommended "cyber-tutors." |
| dragonflytv - "Real Kids, Real Science" Great science resource for kids and teachers. |
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| Education Week's States Facts at a Glance - Facts, figures, and news every state, put together by Education Week, including key players, key statistics, legislative updates, past stories from Education Week and education links. |
| EveryRule.com Rules for just about every board game, card game, computer game, game show and sport, from Mouse Trap to Hearts to fencing to etiquette. |
| Explorer - The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources for K-12 mathematics and science education, including games and hands-on learning activities. Browse through or search for specific interests. |
| First Flight- Airplanes seem to be everywhere now, but did you know that the first ever engine-powered flight happened just 100 years ago? That's right - on December 17, 1903 Orville Wright piloted the first engine-powered flying machine as his big brother, Wilbur, ran alongside. The plane traveled 120 feet in 12 seconds. That was the first of four flights the brothers tried that day. On their fourth and final flight, Wilbur flew for 59 seconds and went 852 feet! Wouldn't they be amazed how quickly we can zoom around the country or the world now? |
| FreeTranslation.com - Ever have a web search turn up exactly what you're looking for -- except the page is in German (or French or...)? Bookmark this site and you'll have a translator at your side forevermore! FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. |
| Fun & Games from the Virtual Museum of Canada - Set sail for mystical Herschel Island, play and learn about 12 musical instruments, hunt dinosaurs, play a caribou gold rush game, or try your hand at "surviving" Sable Island. Don't miss the "All Games" link to bring up all the content available at this unique site for students. |
| Gutenberg Project - e-text project started in 1971; adds an average of one e-text per day. Free, searchable, non-copyrighted material (approximately pre-1923). Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, heavy literature; such as religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, etc, and references; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, encyclopediae, dictionaries, etc. |
| History Channel - "The best search in history." Exhibits, study guides, quizzes, great search utility. "Hear the words that changed the world" - a large collection of speeches you can listen to using the free RealPlayer. |
| The History Net - About.com's History Net is a vast collection of history resources, broken down into categories such as 20th Century History, American, European History, Ancient History, Women's History, etc. Each category is broken down into subcategories, making this huge collection easy to navigate. |
| Holidays Around the World - Holiday fun and information, including recipes, crafts, and games. Learn how holidays are celebrated in other cultures. From Yahooligans. |
| Homework Help from About.com - This very comprehensive site contains original content as well as links to outside resources. Links include desciptions, not just titles, to help you find what you need. Best yet, each section is managed by a guide to keep links current, so you won't be frustrated by clicking on dead links. |
| How Stuff Works - A cool place to learn about how things work in the world around you, such as: How does the engine in your car work? What do gears do? What makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? You can sign up to receive the HSW newsletter, search on a word or concept, and ask a question. |
| Hubble Heritage Gallery - gorgeous images and tons of facts: galaxies, nebulae, stars and planets. Whether you think you're interested in astronomy or not, you will be amazed at this site. |
| HyperHistory Online - a "clickable" synchronoptic ("seeing at the same time") history chart of 3,000 years of world history with a combination of graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. Over a thousand interconnected files; over 6 MB of images and text files; instant display of textual information; easy navigation; includes several hundred links to the web |
| i-Drive - Access your files from anywhere in the world. 25 megabytes of free, secure online disk space; store and access your files from any web browser anywhere. Share your files with friends! |
| IllusionWorks - A comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions. Interactive demonstrations, scientific explanations, school projects, illusion artwork, interactive puzzles, 3D graphics, suggested reading lists, bibliographies, perception links, and much more. |
| Invention Dimension - MIT site; learn about American inventors and their discoveries; new inventor featured every week, with archive of past featured inventors; links and related resources. |
| Kids Domain - PC and Mac shareware and freeware for kids recommended by families and teachers. Demos, reviews, programming for kids, and graphics. Holiday pages with mazes, puzzles, software, and crafts. K-8. |
| Kids Health - Doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence divided into separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design and age-appropriate content. Thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens |
| Kids Hub - Kids Hub is a noncommercial educational portal for upper elementary school and middle school students. It includes free online interactive learning games, puzzles, and quizzes. |
| Kid's Online Resources - Boasting "Education, Homework Help, Entertainment, Way Cool Games, Fun & Music. Serious Stuff for Parents, Teens, & Internet Safety", this site lives up to their promise and then some. Despite the "way cool games" reference, this is a serious collection of resources for kindergarten- through college-age kids and their families. |
| Lafayette School District Technology Resources - One-stop resource to find out what's happening with technology in the K-8 schools. |
| Learn the Net - A+! Easy-to-follow online tutorials covering everything you need to be an Net expert: Internet basics, surfing, searching, email, newsgroups, web publishing, more. |
| Learn2.com - "The #1 most incredibly useful site on the Web." Learn the things that make life easier and more interesting: everything from the essentials of life to the esoteric, from practical to just plain fun. How to tie a necktie, avoid junk mail, hold a garage sale, whistle, capture a mouse... |
| Literacy Education Online (LEO) - The Write Place, the writing center at St. Cloud State U. Students from middle school through college should bookmark this page. Everything 7-12th grade students need to write a great paper -- from organization, time management, grammar and punctuation, citations (include Internet citations), to logical fallacies and style -- you will find it here. |
| Lives, the Biography Resource - Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography. Includes general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections. |
| MAD Scientist Network - It's a 24-hour exploding laboratory! Scientists provide answers to your questions and a variety of oddities and other ends as wel.. Ask questions, view previously answered questions, or search extensive archives. Also includes a library of links to other online resources, as well as "MAD Labs" which features the Edible/Inedible Experiments Archive and A Guided Tour of the Visible Human. |
| Metronome Directory of Composers - A listing of music composers from Baroque to Contemporary, including available links to societie" or fan clubs of your favorite composers. |
| Molecular Expressions - An immense photo gallery, Java tutorials on many kinds of microscopy, a microscopy primer, and silicon zoo, amazing pictures of doodling by chip designers featuring animals, cartoon characters, vehicles, logos, flags, and more await you here. Many of the photos are works of art in their own right, and are available for computer wallpaper or screen saver use. One of the newest features, Science, Optics and You, is a science curriculum related to light, color, and optics, being developed for teachers, students, and parents. |
| National Parent Information Network - for parents and those who work with parents; fosters the exchange of parenting materials. Join the Parenting-L discussion list for topics related to parenting and educating children from birth through adolescence. Send a question to Parents AskERIC, a question-answering service. |
| eNature.com - eNature is an online field guide in the form of a searchable database allowing visitors to identify more than 4,000 plant and animal species of North America. An exciting feature allows you to type in any zip code to bring up plant and animal species indigenous to that region. Type in "94549" and get a close-up view of some of our "neighbors"! |
| NetLibrary - read online or download The Complete Works of Shakespeare or any other of the more than 2,000 books in this new virtual library. It's a comprehensive collection or electronic books, periodicals, journals, technical papers and multimedia. There is a comprehensive "Free Reading" area as well as a Bookstore where e-books are available for purchase. |
| NetSurfer Education - Netsurfer Education is a free e-zine bringing you great education related websites. These truly excellent sites are of interest to parents and teachers alike. Subscribe to the free email newsletter and every month they will bring you a hot-linked HTML gateway to a selection of great online sites. |
| Neuroscience for Kids - maintained by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D. and supported by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center of Research Resources. An excellent site for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system. Enjoy the activities and experiments on your way to learning more about the brain and spinal cord. |
| The New Bay Bridge- Did you know Caltrans is replacing the part of the Bay Bridge connecting Oakland with Yerba Buena Island? It won't be completed until 2007, but you can see what's going on at a web site that illustrates and describes every phase of the new East Span construction. Check out how they balance earthquake safety, artistic design, and concern for the environment. Don't miss the kids section where you get to design your own bridge and see if it can survive an earthquake! |
| New York Times Learning Network - For students in grades 6-12, their teachers and parents. Read the day's top stories, take a news quiz, write a letter to the editor, or ask a reporter a question. Teachers can print out lesson plans and read the latest education news. Parents can join an online discussion, read product reviews or participate with their children in the activities in the student section. |
| Pencil News - MSNBC's recently revamped news site for kids makes news accessible to kids without talking down to them. Still in development, but worth checking out and following to see how it develops. |
| Pink Monkey - Booknotes, study guides, digital library, test preparation, college planning, study links, study skills lessons, message boards, and more. Worth the hassle of registration. |
| The Practice Spot - a wonderful resource for music students, teachers and parents: practice guides, musician's reference shelf including dictionaries, scales manual, sight reading , a note-reading tutorial and more, and discussion forums. |
| PreviewPort.com - a comprehensive online author information center. The International Author Index is a searchable database of author profiles containing photos, bibliographies, and biographies. Find listings of readings, signings, and lectures near you in the coming weeks, browse selections from distinguished literary publications including Book Magazine, Ploughshares, Book Forum, Mother Jones, and Conjunctions in the NewsStand area. Author websites provide information on more than one hundred contemporary prose writers and poets. |
| Q and A Cafe - Communicate "live" with a reference librarian between 2 and 9 p.m. 7 days a week. A collaboration between the Contra Costa County Library and the Golden Gateway Library Network, visitors type in their questions and the librarians send them the answers while they are both online. Librarians can also guide visitors through information searches, displaying Web pages, sending documents from library databases, and suggesting other sources of information. |
| Refdesk.com - Over 20,000 web sites organized for people who don't have the time or inclination to "surf" the Internet. Billed as "the single best source for facts on the Net", this breath-taking site should be every busy person's home page. Updated daily. Be sure to scroll all the way down the page to get the full flavor of this "trusted friend to baffled surfers everywhere." |
| Revealing Things - "[T]he first Smithsonian exhibition to be created specifically for the Internet. Revealing Things uses common, everyday objects to tell stories about people, their cultures, and the meanings they associate with their possessions." Very unusual web experience! |
| River of Words - "The River of Words Project is an international environmental poetry and art contest designed to nurture respect and understanding of the natural world by encouraging children to learn their "ecological address" and to describe through poetry and art their own "place in space." The project employs a variety of classroom and field activities, all explained to teachers in a 50-page curriculum guide distributed to schools, libraries, nature centers, bookstores and youth organizations..." |
| Safe Places to Play - From HUD, this site contains a collection of well-described links to places of interest for kids of all ages. From educational to just plain fun, from coloring a prairie chicken (really) to learning about nuclear science, there's something here for everyone. |
| Science Learning Network - See a cat flea magnified 350 times, learn the stories of the first powered flight and the first transatlantic flight. Test the "pH Factor"...in English or Chinese! Meet teachers who are "Wired@School." ... Learn about "The Science of Sport, and much more. |
| Science U - "...[F]or people who like science. Interactive exhibits make science fun. Engaging multimedia articles and activites make Science U a great place to learn about science...an exciting, creative, and informative science experience at the click of a button." |
| Screen It! - Entertainment Reviews for Parents. If you want to know what's in a movie before you let your kids see it, this is the place on the Internet to go. Everything you need to know beyond the usual "V" for "violence" stuff. |
| Search IQ: ZDNet's Directory of Search Tools - Target your search with these engines and directories specializing in every subject, including Arts, Books, Science, Reference, Business, Computers, Education, Finance, Games, Health, Internet, Kids, MP3, Music, News, Sports, Travel and more. |
| SmartZone - EdView's SmartZone is a collection of over 7 million teacher-reviewed web pages, searchable and categorized by subject and grade levels. |
| SOSIG, The Social Science Information Gateway - a freely available Internet service providing a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. |
| Soda Constructor - This is hard to describe. You to construct 2-D models from springs (or use one of their models), then play around with the laws of physics to do terrible - or comic - things to your creations. Be sure to scroll down for instructions after you've finished blindly fooling around with the spider-looking thing that greets you. |
| SparkNotes Online Study Guides - "The only series of study guides written and produced exclusively by Harvard students and graduates." Free study guides, including many for books frequently recommended by high school teachers. |
| Stanley Music on the Web- Check out StanleyMusic.org - an independent, community-run website for students, parents, and other members of the extended Stanley Middle School (Lafayette, California) music community. Now it is easier than ever to keep up with all the musical events in the classroom and the community. |
| Stephen Hawking's Universe - Science for everyone: Strange Stuff Explained, Universes, Cosmologic al Stars, Unsolved Mysteries, Things to do in the Dark, Ask the Experts, Teacher's Guide, About Stephen Hawking. |
| Tutor.com - Instant access to tutors for live instruction (fee based). Also, "Try Before You Buy": free, one-to-one homework help on school nights. |
| Virtual Earthquake - An interactive computer program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake epicenter is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined. Scroll down to read instructions, then click on the "Execute Virtual Earthquake" button to start the application. Come back and visit the Virtual FlyLab to design your own flies! (find the link in the left-hand menu). |
| YourDictionary.com - A web of online dictionaries. Over 200 languages, specialty English dictionaries, multilanguage dictionaries, thesauri and more. Search box makes for quick lookup of English words. |
| The World Factbook - Reference maps and extensive factual information on the countries of the world, brought to you by the CIA! Created in 2001 and updated periodically. |
| Word Central - World Central really is a place where kids can have fun and learn at the same time. Besides the quick and easy dictionary, there are activities including a "science lab" of English experiments and a "Build Your Own" dictionary. Developed with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum framework. |
| ZEUM - San Francisco's art and technology center for young people. Produce your own videos, animate your favorite character, explore the performing arts and more. Workshops and classes are offered on an on-going basis for youth, ages 8 - 18. |
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