Internet Resources

Part 2 -- WWW K-12 Educational Sites

Find some great educational resources by using an extensive alphabetical list of K-12 web resources created by Jon Storslee and Michelle Humphries.
 

General

• Web66 - Of course you'll come for the art, but there is also an extensive education resources section
• PlanetK-12 - a great place to search for resources
• Education World - a great place to search for resources
• TeachersFirst - another place to search for resources
• Educational Hotlists @ The Franklin Institute - lists of links by subject. You can find almost anything from this site
• Educational Web Adventures (Eduweb) - a great use of instructional multimedia
• EdWeb - educational resources from around the world
• KidPub - over 14,000 stories written by children, with easy directions for contributing stories from your own students.
• The K12 Testbed
• Education Place Activity Search: K-8 activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents.
• K-12 Online Education Use the K-12 Online page to see what other schools are doing across America.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Cyberspace Middle School A location designed for middle school children that links schools, classes, projects and other locations.
• MidLink Magazine An Electronic Magazine by Kids, for Kids in the Middle Grades
• Houghton Mifflin -- GNN
• NASA's K-12 Education & the Internet
• NASA and JPL Teacher Resources
• Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education
• Boulder Valley School District in Colorado has provided a nice list of Lesson Plan Resources available on the Internet.
• The University of California at San Diego has also developed a variety of lesson plans.
• Visit the Explorer Project at the University of Kansas to use the curriculum data base.
• You may also want to visit Global SchoolNet Foundation Home Page.
• DeweyWeb
• InSite
• The Education Virtual Library
• Links for teachers Wissahickon High School Virtual Libray has lesson plans and standards for art, English, foreign language, health and physical education, music, math and science, social studies.
• Lesson Plan Links on the Internet Links for arts, social studies, science, and math.
• Lesson Plans Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan Links include Science/Math Lesson Plan Links, Language Arts Lessons Plams, Health&Physical Education Lesson Plans, and Social Studies Lesson Plans.
• The Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange -A site for sharing and exchanging teaching ideas and lesson plans.
• Teachers' Toolbox-Curriculum Resources.

Math

• Hotlist: Mathematics
• Mathematics for Students and Teachers
• Math This site provides lots of classroom and curriculum resources for mathematics such as algebra, geometry and problem solving.
• Helping Your Child Learn Math "Office of Educational Research and Improvement" Help your child learn math with activities for children aged 5 through 13.
• Mathematics Archives - Topics in Mathematics There are more than 30 topics and level from k-12 to graduate students.
• Mathematics in Education Sites for K-12, undergraduate, topics and resoureces, and periodicals....and so on.
• Online Math Education Resources Math resources are classified into websites, newsgroup, listserves, and usenet newsgroups.
• Graphics for the Calculus Classroom
• The Geometry Center
• The Math Forum

Science

• Franklin Science Institute:  A huge site of science-related thematic units, lesson plans, and countless other cool stuff!
• K-12 Science Resources on the Web This site focuses on environmental education.
• K-12 Digital Links A consortium of science-related industries, institutions of research and higher education, museums, medical networks, and science organizations that support K-12 science education for Children,Young Adults,Parents,Teachers,Teachers,Administrators.
• New England League for Science Activity The New England League for Science Activity is a consortium of science museums, nature centers, and children's museums inMassachusetts and Vermont who are offering opportunities to middle schoolers in hands-on, inquiry-based informal science activity.
• K-12 Science There are plenty of resources about Anthropology, Archaeology, Paleontology, Applied Science, Biology/Life Science, Curriculum, Chemistry/Chemical Science, Earth Science, Ecology/Environmental Science, General Science, Government, Physics/Physical science. Planetary Scrience, Professional OrganiZatopns.
• K-12 Science Education Links with Special Merit Cell alive, You Can with Breakman and Jax-, The Park School, Science ON-Line Toolkit, Us Science, and Kids on Campus at Cornell University ........these are some links to K-12 education sites which might be particularly useful.
• Science Educator's Home Page This web page serves as a resource for K-12 educators, especially science educators.
• CyberSpace Middle School designed for students in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades who are using the World Wide Web to help get an education and work on science fair projects.
• The Whole Frog Project Tryout their Online Frog Dissection.
• Dinosaur Museum From the Honolulu Comminity College
• Zoology Resource Guide - Animal Index
• Animals
• Museum of Paleontology
• National Weather Service
• The Froggy Page All sorts of things that have to do with frogs

Language

• English The site contains references and search tools, books-On-Line, Shakespeare,and Writers.
• Literature Links
• Composition & Writing Links
• The English Server The English Server is a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Today it offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests.
• Children's Literature Web Guide The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
• Language Learning and the Web At the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Foreign Languages, they have developed a Web server which both provides information on foreign language and international resources on the Web and serves as a local delivery system for multimedia materials.
• Foreign Language Teaching Resources Links include Best educational page, The Gambia resources page, computer hyphenation Home page, a Latin Course, A welsh Course, French Culture lesson, American association of Teachers of French (AATF), languagetaeching resources, Hpw to teach with net, Foreign Language Teaching, ......etc.
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Foriegn Language Idioms The content is the winner in a New York Magazine contest inwhich contestants were asked to take a well-known expression in a foreign language,change a single letter, and provide a definition for the new expression.
• LEARN Server Language Education Alignment Research Network. The projects areserved by the Yamada Language Center.
• Language arts The Second Harvest Curriculum site has 8 different curriculum sites:usborne, grammer, spelling, reading comprehension, reading, writing, foreign languages,and typing and handwriting. Two columns, Gleaning of Grace and Second Harvest Review, are be featured monthly.
• Language Links Links for English and Japanese study

Social Studies

• American Promise - devoted to helping teachers bring democracy to life in their classrooms
• Seminar on United Nations and International Affairs - SUNIA is an exciting program about United Nations and International affairs offered every year in August for over 140 High School students
• ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education This site contains links to other Internet sites. ERIC, the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies Social Science Education, the Social Studies  Development Center of Indiana University, and Indiana University do not necessarily endorse the content of these other sites or the beliefs of any organizations contributing to them.
• Black History Links
• History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers - The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
• NCSS Online - information source for social studies education. Includes teacher, student, and parent resources.
• Washington Social Studies - designed for students and teachers.
• Computers in the Social Studies - journal dedicated to the encouragement of the use of computers and related technology in K-12 social studies classrooms.
• The White House
• 50 States and Capitals
• Hotlist: Geography

Visual Arts

• Arts Education
• ArtsEdNet
• Hotlist: Art
• Artweb

Music

• Classical Insites - interesting site that tells what is going on in classical music today and has composer biographies etc.
• General Music Resources
• Composers
• Music History 102 - A nice music history lesson that you can use as a resource or have your students use
• Classical composer biographies
• Instrumental Music Resources
• Classical Composers
• A Newsletter for Music Teachers
• Yahoo! - Entertainment:Music:Education
• Music Education Links
• Music Resources
• Opera Terms
• UBL: Genre - have you ever wondered how many different types of music there is? This is where you can go to find out
• Organization of American Kodály Educators
• Kodaly Society of Canada
• Music Education Online
• K-12 Resources For Music Educators
• Oldies Music - history, trivia and charts of 50's, 60's and 70's music

Physical Education

• Human Anatomy On-line - InnerBody.com
• Hotlist: Health
• PE Central
• HealthWorld Online Home Page
• Dance Directory

Bilingual Education

• Bilingual Education Resources
• The ESL Quiz Center
• Bilingual Books For Kids ©
• ESTRELLITA

Special Education

• Special Education Resources for K-12-A list of special education resources on the Internet.
• General Educational Links Page is located at the School of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, University of Puget Sound,Tacoma, Washington. Focus on K-12 Microsoft products for K-12 Educational ..
• Special Educational Categories - Special Categories Information and Links. Gifted/Talented Special Needs Gifted / Talented Indiana Department of Education Home Page - hosted by Uranus, Northern Indiana ESC
• Education Program for Gifted Youth - The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) is a continuing project at Stanford University offering computer-based courses in mathematics and the mathematical sciences for bright young students through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
• Gifted and Talented Education Resources - This page started in 1995 as an attempt to begin collecting Internet links and other resources for the gifted and talented
• National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children - a non-profit foundation which provides free information and guidance to parents and educators of gifted and creative children.
• National Association for Gifted Children - not-for-profit organization of educators and parents united to address the unique needs of gifted and talented youth.
• Office of Special Education-History, information, and resources relating to special education
• The Council for Exceptional Children-Dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
• SERI-Special Education Resources on the Internet-Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education.