Carol LaRow

URLs for Educators

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Search Engines

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

Search Engines for Kids:

Middle School Students:

Kids Search Tools..................................http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Elementary Students:

EduHound..............................................http://www.eduhound.com/mainpage.cfm
Kids Click - Web Search for Kids by Librarians...................http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/
EduPuppy ............................................ http://www.edupuppy.com/default.cfm


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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Historical documents....................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

Librarians' Links

Librarians' Links............ http://home.gwi.net/brhs/lib.html
The Heckman Digital Library ....... http://www.calvin.edu/library/
Awesome Library....... http://www.awesomelibrary.org/librarian.html
Librarians' Links 2 .............. http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/
Librarians' Index to the Internet ......... http://lii.org/
Young Adult Librarians' Help Homepage ....... http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/

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Sites Not to Miss

Web 66...................................http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
NASA.....................................http://www.nasa.gov/
Apple Computer Information Page.................http://education.apple.com
The Planets............................http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/
Earthquakes.............http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/CURRENT/current.html
Weather Map.................................http://home.ucar.edu/wx.html
Texas Educational Network.............http://www.tnet.edu/
Vose School Educational Resources.........http://www.teleport.com:80/~vincer/
What's Hot and Cool..................http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi/reviews.html
MapQuest, interactive atlas.................http://www.mapquest.com
CIA Factbook............http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm

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Free Clip Art on the WEB

Animated gifs:

Sounds, Movies, AVI, Quick Time


WAV.com.............http://www.wav.com/
Wav Central..........http://www.wavcentral.com/
Clay’s Sound Emporium..........http://slonet.org/~rloomis/
MIDI.............http://www.midifarm.com/midifarm/free.asp
ALL Wavs..........http://www.allwavs.com
NASA Jet Propolsion Lab.........http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.video/
Johnson Space Center.....http://wcgi.pathfinder.com/time/reports/space/johnson.html
Modern Video Clips......http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/viewrec/videoqtl.htm
Video Links......http://video-links.com/

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Reference

Researchpaper.com.......http://www.researchpaper.com/
Internet Public Library ..............http://www.ipl.org/
AskEric (Virtual Library)....http://ericir.syr.edu
Yanoff’s Internet Services List....spectracom.com/islist
Internet Public Library.....http://ipl.sils.umich.edu
Library of Congress......http://lcweb.loc.gov
Smithsonian Institution.....http://www.si.edu
United States Senate......http://www.senate.gov
House of Representatives.........http://www.house.gov
Learning to Use a Browser..............http://www.learnthenet.com/ - an Internet guide and tutorial
Self-paced tutorial for educators.........http://muttley.ucdavis.edu/SPIT/
Web Teacher............http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html
Basic Tutorial for Teachers with ideas for applying the technology in theclassroom.......http://www.byu.edu/acd1/ed/InSci/286/Welcome.html

Virtual Field Trips

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