I asked teachers about their favorite sites - the ones that they come back to again and again. The following list include the top sites from teachers across the country.
The sites represented here are a small fraction of the resources available to your classroom through the Web. It won't be long before you'll have your own list of top sites!
http://marvel.loc.gov/homepage/
What do I need to say about the benefits of having the Libary of Congress available? An excellent resource, includes photos from the Civil War, samples of African music, links to sites featuring Latin and Greek literature classics, anything you'd need to know about our government, and much, much more.
http://www.cnn.com
Access to up-to-the-minute news.
http://eyecatchers.com/eyecat/BEST
Features the top 10,000 education sites where you can search by keyword, topic, or checkout award winning sites.
http://www.intercom.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm
Check out local newspapers that are available online.
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/index.html
Art from the Far and Near East.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Award winning site From the Australian National University, includes over 16,000 images, art tutorials for students. Best for the secondary level.
http://pathfinder.com/photo/sighthome.html
From Time Life's famous archives.
http://www.cnam.fr/louvre/
An excellent web art museum organized by period and including thousands of slides and links to other online museums.
http://www.seeusa.com/refrigerator.html
This award winning site features children's art. Students can submit art for a weekly contest. The best five pictures are displayed. And then the internet audience decides via vote what picture goes to the "Hall of Fame."
http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/SlicedExhibit/NoCal.html
An Ansel Adams exhibition featuring the photographer himself talking about his work.
http://www.crayola.com/art_education/
A terrific site including classroom activities, contests, etc.
http://rtuh.com/adl
A call for entries for competitions for student submitted art.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html
http://fur.rscc.cc.tn.us/OWL/ElementsLit.html
For definitions of literary terms
http://owl.trc.purdue.edu
An online writing lab featuring information on correct usage, avoiding sexist language, and links to other resources for writing help.
http://webserver.maclab.comp.uvic.ca/writersguide/welcome.html
For a more detailed list of terms and writing help from the University of Victoria.
http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/
For help with writing for younger students
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/
For literature links
http://www.NeoSoft.com/~jrpotter/karen.html
http://www.lit-arts.com/scriven/scriven.htm
Writing exercises, critiques, and essays.
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~wolinsky/word.htm
A great site to check out if you're into words.
http://twine.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.htm
For great information about Victorian England, check out Brown Universities' web site.
http://www.twc.org/tmmain.htm
A source for finding professional writers.
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html
Students can discuss great works online and view other students works.
http://www.li.net/~scharf/author.html
A directory of sites by about famous authors.
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/chris_manchester/guide.html
http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.htm
http://gsn.org/gsn/roger.home.html
For elementary students. Follow Roger as he travels all over the world in his truck named Bubba.
http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/kids.html:
Great links to children's sites, designed by a father for his nine year old.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/testbook/kidsweb
http://www.pleiades-net.com/voices/girl/girl.html
A moderated bulletin board for girls on a variety of discussion topics.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~fscott/csis.htm
Great links to home pages of special interest to girls.
http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~dennisl/CMS.html
Great places for middle school students to visit including NASA, the Smithsonian, and more.
Great fun!
http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/kids.html
http://www.travlang.com/languages/index.html
http://jw.standford.edu/KIDS/SCHOOL/LANG/hira
Students learn Hiragana, the simplest Japanese character language
http://meteora.usce.edu:8-/~norman/paris/
Explore cafes, monuments, shops, etc - all while practicing French.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/,
The Geometry Forum features a problem of the week, an ask an expert forum (Ask Dr. Math), an internet hunt, and has great additional resources.
http://sasd.k12.pa.us/homepages/AlgebraPOW
Weekly algebra problems are posted.
http://www.mind.net/xethyr/numbers/
What the name suggests!
http://www.ed.hawaii.edu
A source of excellent math projects.
http://ww2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html
Strategies for solving algebra, chemisry, and physics problems.
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http://www.vpw.com/
Both sites provides videos and other classroom materials free of charge.
http://www.solon.com/~cmis/>
Geared toward parents, this site provides children's music reviews and articles on how to interest children in music.
http://www.webcom.com/~music/
An introduction the classical music, containing biographies, history, and guides to classical recordings.
http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnoedmn.html
Information about playing and learning piano. Includes hints on software and finding the right teacher.
http://www.voyagerco.com/cdlink/
http://www.music.sony.com/Music/MusicIndex.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2405/index.html
Music ed lesson plans found here, in addition to great links to other resources.
http://www.mecc.com/ies.html
The MECC Interactive Explorer Series includes MayaQuest, where students explore ancient ruins while connected up to classrooms around the world and Oregon Trail Online, a six week online experience where classrooms - set up as wagons - team up across the country to traverse the trail.
http://nysernet.org/oneida/
Learn more about the Oneida Nation here.
http://www.pitt.edu/~ian/ianres.html
A Web library of public policy sites. Links to good public policy information by the University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.un.org/
The UN's homepage. Includes a daily list of documents issued by the UN.
http://www.doe.gov/
Includes links to previously classified documents regarding nuclear weapons.
http://www.Neosoft.com/citylink
Visit any U.S. city with a homepage.
http://www.npca.org/walk.html
Retrace the Underground Railroad from Maryland to Canada
http://www.globe.gov/schools5.html
This is an excellent resource for monitoring the environment internationally.
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov
Offers incredible projects you can join, hooks up with real scientists, etc.
http://img.arc.nasa.gov/current-projects.html
For a list of NASA's projects that you can join. Also see http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/index.html for an overview of resources. For interesting images from NASA see http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/. Also check out NASA's spacelink at http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/
http://www.gsn.org/gsn/cu.noaa.html
Scientists from the Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sponsor CU-SeeMe videoconferencing for high schools worldwide.
http://kendaco.telebyte.com:80/billband/Possibilities.html
A Magellen 4-star site that looks at using the internet in the science classroom.
http://ics.soe.umich.edu/ed712/IAPIntro.html
Explore the artic alongside famous explorers.
http://sedaar_edu.ciesin.og/
Free CD-ROM where students analayze the relationships beween surface temperature, ice concentration, near surface winds, ice velocity, and cloud cover of the Actic over a six year period.
http://www.discovery.com
Award-winning World Wide Web programming offered around different themes: history, nature, science, people, exploration, technology, etc.
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu
The National Institute for Science Education looks at the science issues behind the headline news. Updated bi-weekly.
http://www.earthsky.com
A radio show on general topics of science interest is accompanied by classroom activities. Classroom materials and schedule available through the web site.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/SolarSystem/homepage.html
Tour the solar system!
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets
Learn more about all of the planets in our solar system.
http://space.rice.edu/
Select "videoconferences" for a full list of CU-SeeMe conferences available online on topics related to space.
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/
See a virtual frog dissection from every angle imaginable.
http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Everything you might want to know about the human heart and more.
http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/cgi-bin/wx-guiz.cgi
Southeast Regional Climate Center offers a weather quiz on their educational page.
http://www.primenet.com/link/weather.html
All sorts of links to interesting weather sites.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
San Francisco's science museum offers interactive science exhibits.
http://www.voyagepub.com/publish/voyage.htm
Voyage Publishing offers current news on the environment that can be used to supplement your curriculum
http://sasd.k12.pa.us/homepages.bio.iq.html
Weekly biology problems are posted for the high school level.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dino/dinos.1.html
A dinosaur exhibit complete with expert narration.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/froggy.html
Pictures and frog sounds from frogs all over the world.
http://www.igc.apc.org/green/green.html.
GREEN has excellent water quality testing resources available for teachers. http://www.igc.apc.org/green/resources.html provides excellent links to other water quality education resources.
http://www.theatre-central.com/dir/res/
Great links to all sorts of online theatre resources.
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