Carol LaRow

URLs for Educators

List

Search Engines........................................................search the WEB.

Curriculum Materials:............................curriculum ideas for the classroom.

Educational Sites for kids:..........................sites designed specifically for kids

Sites Not to Miss:......................................educational and reference sites

Reference:................................................research on the web

Virtual Field Trips:.......................................takes your class on a tour of a site.

Free Clip Art on the WEB:........................lots of free clip art you can use.

Sounds, movies, AVI, Quick Time:........free files to use in multimedia presentations.

Librarians' Links:......................................... access librarians’ pages of links


Search Engines

Alta Vista....................
Excite.........................
InfoSeek.....................
Lycos.........................
Yahoo........................
WebCrawler...............
clnet search.com..........
Dogpile.......................
AskJeeves...................
Search Listservs...........
Search newsgroups......
Northern Light.............
Search.com..................
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.infoseek.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.search.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.askjeeves.com
http://www.liszt.com/
http://www.dejanews.com
http://www.northernlight.com/
http://www.search.com/


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Curriculum Materials

K-12 Resources - educational project ideas and other resources.. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/index.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators............................. http://kathyschrock.net/
The History Channel.........................................................http://www.historychannel.com/

Historical documents..................................................
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html
Fun with Math.....
http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/scavenger_hunts/spring2000/fun_math/default.html
The Math Forum..........
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
Math Teacher to Teacher site.......... http://forum.swarthmore.edu/t2t/
The Geometry Center........
http://www.geom.umn.edu
MegaMath................
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math
Math Archives...........
http://archives.math.utk.edu/
Kid Link Projects........
http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/intro.html
NASA Space Link..........
http://www.spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
One Sky Many Voices............
http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/
Free Weather Lessons, NASA......................http://fife.ivv.nasa.gov/freeless.htm
The Weather Visualizer...............
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/visualizer/
Online Globes..............
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm
MapQuest, home of the interactive atlas............
http://www.mapquest.com
Information about 5,000+ cities worldwide...........
http://www.city.net
Children's Literature............
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
On-Line Books Page..........
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html
Multicultural Book Review..........
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/ homepage.html
Poetry.............
http://www.english-www.hss.cmu.edu/poetry
Resources for English teachers...........
http://jawbone.clarkston.wednet.edu/pages/English.html
Sites for teachers ................ http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
50 States & Capitals.............
http://www.scvol.com/States/
Bookmark collection/resources for teachers including links to search engines........
http://www.academyonline.com/
How Far is It? (find distance between two cities)... ..............
http://www.indo.com/distance
Mapmaker..........
http://www.loki.ur.utk.edu/ut2kids/maps/map.html
Early American information; source documents.....
http://earlyamerica.com/
Teachers helping Teachers ...................... http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
Survival Guide for New Teachers .............. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/survivalguide/
Social Studies, Lesson Plans......http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/ index.html
Ask Dr. Science........http://www.drscience.com
Scavenger Hunts....... http://sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/scavengerhunts/scavengerhunts.htm
Crossword Puzzles online......http://www.puzzlemaker.com
The Kids and Computers.....http://www2.magmacom.com/~dsleeth/sitetoc.htm
Library of Congress..............
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Smithsonian Institution................
http://www.si.edu
NASA..............
http://www.nasa.gov
Works of Shakespeare........
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
A list of Hot Lists..........
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
Best Education Sites Today........
http://www.eytecatchers.com/eyecat/ BEST/sub-lit.html
Internet Connections....
http://mcrel.org/connect
Schoolhouse......
http://www.nwrel.org/schoolhouse
Web Sites and Resources for Teachers.....
http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009
World Education Exchange.....
http://www.hamline.edu/~kjmaier
Abraham Lincoln......
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/lincoln/home.htm
Filamentality 2.0........
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil
The pH Factor...........
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/
The Exploratorium in San Francisco........
http://www.exploratorium.edu
Diary of the Planet...........
http://www.earthweek.com
PacBell's Blue Web'n.........
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Ask an Expert.......
http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/
Kids' Money...........
http://pages.prodigy.com/kidsmoney/
Physical Education........
http://infoserver.etl.vt.edu/~/PE.Central/
The Animal Diversity Web.......
http://www.oit.itd.umich.edu/projects/ADW/
K-12 Resources for Educators...
http://it.uwp.edu/rainbow/links.html
Educational Links and Lesson Plans.....
http://www.ket.org/Education/in/linkpages.html
Rainforest........
http://www.ran.org/ran/
Classroom Connect.....................http://www.classroom.net/classweb/
Global SchoolNet Foundation .........
http://www.gsn.org/
Science Museums.............http://www.ncsu.edu/imse/3/museums.htm



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Educational Sites for Kids

Yahooligans................................. http://www.yahooligans.com
Mid Link Magazine............... http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink
Kids Did This........... http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kid-lang.html
The Franklin Institute Online .......... http://sln.fi.edu/learning.html
Kidstuff............ http://www.kidstuff.org/
Kid Pub.............http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
The Kids on the Web.................http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
Berit's Best Sites for Children....... http://www.beritsbest.com/
Book Nook...................... http://www.jps.net/gmreed/lit/lit.htm
Global Show and Tell...............http://www.telenaut.com/gst
Kid News.................http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/news/
Kids News, Create a Newsletter....... http://www.kidsnewsdigital.com/
The Kids' Web.............http://www.lws.com/kidsweb/links.htm
MLA Works Cited Format......... http://wwwshs1.bham.wednet.edu/curric/cool/mla.htm
Especially for K-12 Students ...... http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~wwwcoe/kids.html

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Librarians' Links

Librarians' Links...........................................
The Heckman Digital Library .........................
Awesome Library..........................................
Librarians' Links 2 ........................................
Librarians' Index to the Internet .....................
Young Adult Librarians' Help Homepage........

http://home.gwi.net/brhs/lib.html
http://www.calvin.edu/library/
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/librarian.html
http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/
http://lii.org/
http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/

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Sites Not to Miss

Web 66.................................................
NASA...................................................
Apple Computer Information Page..........
The Planets.............................................
Earthquakes...........................................
Weather Map........................................
Texas Educational Network...................
Vose School Educational Resources.......
What's Hot and Cool.............................
MapQuest, interactive atlas....................
CIA Factbook.......................................

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://education.apple.com
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/CURRENT/current.html
http://home.ucar.edu/wx.html
http://www.tnet.edu/
http://www.teleport.com:80/~vincer/
http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi/reviews.html
http://www.mapquest.com
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm

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Free Clip Art on the WEB

http://www.dlaweb.com/clipart1.htm
http://www.onlinebusiness.com/BESTofWEB/clipart.shtml
http://best-of-web.com/computer/clipart_index.shtml
http://www.free-graphics.com/
http://www.clipart.co.uk/

Barry's Clip Art Server
Bonnie's Place....
Sewdoll's Background Map
Marvelicious Bordered Backgrounds
Clipart.Com
The Groan Zone
Bexboomer Creations
Animated Globe Page
My free animated gifs!
FREE GIFS FOR WEBTV 8
MMX5'S GIFS PAGE
4,099 dynamic animated graphics
Clipart Castle
Andy Art, Scream Graphics
CLIP-ART
Clip Art, Clip Art, and more Clip Art!
Library Clipart Collection
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/italian/919/
http://www.sewdoll.com/Webart/SDgraphics.html
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/9402/index.html
http://www.clipart.com/
http://www.groan-zone.net/
http://www.bexboomer.com/
http://people.delphi.com/didonato/globes.htm
http://195.225.3.20/~kidd/animgifs.html
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8363/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/5254/freegifs.html
http://www.bloominbanners.com/free1.htm
http://www.clipartcastle.com/
http://www.andyart.com/
http://www.dorsai.org/~ackerman/clip.html
http://www.desktoppublishing.com/cliplist.html
http://www.netins.net/showcase/meyers/library_clipart/clipart.html
Artists at OnOnline.com, Find Pictures, Movies, Sounds, and Links http://ononline.com/art/artists/artists.htm

Animated gifs:

http://gifsnow.com/
http://www.animfactory.com/af_transportation_train_trolley_page_aa.html




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Sounds, Movies, AVI, Quick Time


WAV.com...............................
Wav Central.............................
Clay’s Sound Emporium..........
MIDI........................................
ALL Wavs................................
NASA Jet Propolsion Lab.........
Johnson Space Center...............
Modern Video Clips..................
Video Links...............................

http://www.wav.com/
http://www.wavcentral.com/
http://slonet.org/~rloomis/
http://www.midifarm.com/midifarm/free.asp
http://www.allwavs.com
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.video/
http://wcgi.pathfinder.com/time/reports/space/johnson.html
http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/viewrec/videoqtl.htm
http://video-links.com/

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Reference

Researchpaper.com.........................
Internet Public Library .....................
AskEric (Virtual Library)..................
Yanoff’s Internet Services List.........
Internet Public Library......................
Library of Congress..........................
Smithsonian Institution.......................
United States Senate.........................
House of Representatives..................
Learning to Use a Browser................
Self-paced tutorial for educators.........
Web Teacher............

http://www.researchpaper.com/
http://www.ipl.org/
http://ericir.syr.edu
spectracom.com/islist
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu
http://lcweb.loc.gov
http://www.si.edu
http://www.senate.gov
http://www.house.gov
http://www.learnthenet.com/ - an Internet guide and tutorial
http://muttley.ucdavis.edu/SPIT/
http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html

Tutorial for Teachers for applying
technology in the classroom.......

http://www.byu.edu/acd1/ed/InSci/286/Welcome.html

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Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Museums..........................................
Virtual Studio...............................................
Mars Pathfinder............................................
Visit the "Eye of a Hurricane.........................
Cyberflight into The eye of Hurricane Opal....
Visit Hawaii .................................................
http://www.icom.org/vlmp
http://www.virtualstudio.com.hk/samples.htm
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/mars/default.html
http://www.doorcounty.org/
http://www.hurricanehunters.com/ cyberfly.htm
http://planet-hawaii.com/ph/byisland.html


Virtual Field Trips on Yahoo......... http://www.yahoo.com/



Follow this path.........Yahoo ---> Education ---> K-12 ---> Resources ---> Links for Kids ---> Virtual Field Trips

  • Live From Antarctica.............Passport to Knowledge project designed to allow students and teachers the opportunity to experience what life is like in the coldest place on the planet.
  • Virtual Field Trips...................a tour through different web sites in order to learn about subjects like saltmarshes or
    volcanoes. Includes lesson plans and teacher resources.
  • White House for Kids.............visit the White House in our nation’s capital
  • Odyssey in Egypt..................interactive Egyptian archaeological excavation for middle school students.
  • Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations...............includes classroom activities, the UN in action, background on the UN, links and other resources, electronic field trip subscription information.

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This web site was created by:

Mrs. Carol LaRow, teacher

Mr. Matthew Garbauskas, student