Sites of Interest to Educators and Students
Many thanks to North Dakota's Technology & Innovations in Education group for links listed below
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators Kids On The Web Global School Net Join Worldwide Student Projects. AskERIC Educational Resources Databases A&E's Biography 15,000 biographies The Human-Languages Page A must-see for language students Dave's ESL Cafe An extraordinary site The History Library History information by category. The NASA Home Page NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Access Excellence A science site with emphasis on microbiology. The Globe Program Environmental Education and Science Partnership Virtual Frog Dissection National Science Teacher's Association The Public Broadcasting System The Discovery Channel AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT SITES
Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality
CAREER SITES
Career Site CareerWeb Claitor's Job Star Job Web NationJob Network Occupational Outlook Handbook Recruitment On-line, Inc. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION SITES
Copyright Law Center U.S. Copyright Office, The WWW Multimedia Law
EDUCATOR SITES
Classroom Connect Discovery Channel School - information, lesson plans, and classroom activities for k-12 topics. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) - makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government easier to find. Instructional Technology Connections Teachnet.Com
FINANCIAL AID INFO U.S. and Canadian Students
FINAID links to sources of information about student financial aid FastWEB - Financial Aid Search Through the WEB courtesy of the Financial Aid Information page and Student Services, Inc. FastWEB Canada - For Canadian students College Choice Website - College choice, applications, funding advise, etc.
OTHER FINANCIAL AID EDUCATION RELATED SITES. Check for fee information.
American Universities College Express College Guides & Aid Home Page College Solutions Department of Education - Money Matters ETS Net - Educational Testing Service Greek Pages - Fraternities/Sororities Nellie Mae LOAN LINK Student Loan Info On-Line English Grammar PresNet Home Page SAT Test Study Abroad Home Page Your CASO Guide: The Internet University National Center to Improve Practice Promotes the use of technology to enhance educational opportunities for students with disabilities American Optometric Ass ociation - Teaching tools and lesson ideas on vision related topics PlaneMath
RESEARCH, JOURNALS,OTHER
Education Week on the Web - Information about education reform, schools, and the policies that guidethem. NEA - National Education Association U.S. Department of Education General Information about the U.S. Department of Education Home Schooling Page The Virtual Reference Desk and Ask A Question Internet Public Library- Resources by collection General Library Resources - Book Companies, Libraries, and Reference Library of Congress The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Peterson's Education Center Financial Aid Information HUMANITIES RESOURCES
Galaxy's Humanities Page Purdue On-Line Writing Lab MLA, APA, Chicago, BCE citation styles Mark Twain on the WWW Books On-line Teaching the American Literatures ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, Communication
Library of Congresss Resources:The Louvre ArtsEdge forK12 Art Education
SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCES
AMERICAN HISTORYAmerican history information - Comprehensive index Colonial Life - book list and lesson ideas Early America online journal - Includes a place to post questions on colonial history and read replies George Washington and Mount Vernon Jamestown Rediscovered Archaelogical Dig Living History Lesson Plans Thomas Jefferson Williamsburg Colonial Almana ck - Describes colonial Williamsburg The World of Ben Franklin - From the Franklin Institute Science Museum
AMERICAN HISTORY
African Americans in Sciences American history American Revolution Archiving Early America Black history for kids Black History Month Isbell's site on people and events in Black history History from the University of Kansas The History Net History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers National Civil Rights Museum Native American history Vietnam's effect on people's lives AREA STUDIES
African Studies at Penn Asian Studies - WWW Virtual Library Australia Studies WWW Virtual Library Canadian Studies The Center for Middle Eastern Studies French Resources H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online Japanese Studies K-12 THE CIVIL WAR
Civil War Center - LSU Letters home from a US Civil War soldier Compiled by the private's great-grandson. National Civil War Association - Re-enactment camps, resources to research Confederate and Union forces, and links to U.S. Civil War sites Civil War Photographs Library of Congress U.S. Civil War Center some primary source material Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsyl vania and Virginia - Two communities - one on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line
DEMOGRAPHICS / SOCIAL DATA
Census - SSDAN (Social Science Data Analysis Network) Using U.S. Census (1950-1990) Demographic Statistics - Link to data archive through European Fertility Project Ethnicity - Migration Population Index
EDUCATION
Chronicle of Higher Education Subscription required for full access College & University Home Pages K-12 Web66, U of Minnesota
GENERAL HISTORY
Association for History and Computing Groningen, the Netherlands Canadian Journal of History Full-text articles Early Church enyclopedia - The Ecole Initiative Foreign Policy - The U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index H-Net - Lists of their home pages Hanover College Historical texts and documents History Sources - U of Kansas Historical Text Archive Worldwide, especially Latin America Labor history U.S. Department of Labor Medieval documents - Internet Medieval Sourcebook
GEOGRAPHY
The Aurora Page EXPLORES! List of Activities The Great Globe Gallery Groundwater Issues and Resources Historical Geography Group Land Surveying and Geomatics Population Ecology Home Page Unofficial Easter Island Homepage GOVERNMENT - Legislative Branch, Congress, Committee Sites
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Federal Elections Commission Elections, candidates, parties and PACs John C. Stennis Center for Public Service promotes public service Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet legislation, congressional record, how laws are made, and access to the C-SPAN gopher U.S. House of Representatives' World Wide Web Service legislative information, members, committees, and organizations of the House and other U.S. government resources
OTHER SCHOLARLY RESOURCES
American History Links Eighteenth Century Resources Smithsonian Institute POLITICAL SCIENCE
American Presidency Oyez Oyez Oyez: Supreme Court WWW Resource famous cases Political Science Manuscripts Conference papers; abstracts Roper Center public opinion research
SOCIAL STUDIES and HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY
American Memories historical collections Nationa l Center for History in the Schools NCSS Online National Council for the Social Studies Victorian Research Web 19th Century Britain The World War I Document Archive U.S. HISTORY
American Social History Project CUNY Center for Military History Includes books, especially the "Army Green Series" of WW II histories Chicago Historical Society Civil War - Index The Early America Review A Journal the People, Issues and Events of 18th Century America The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory Historical US documents History Resources on the Web U of Virginia Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) U of Minnesota Martin Luther King project Material History of American Religion Project Thomas Jefferson ATLANTIC MONTHLY Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum OTHER
Government:
- Supreme Court information and search U.S. Supreme Court Syllabi.
- Welcome to the White House
- Virtual Tour of the WhiteHouse
- Washington DC Resources
- GNN Currency Converter Current rates - convert currency
- Information ByAgency
- Government Gopher Server
- Email Congress!
- House of Representatives Home Page
- Search for House Bills
- US Senate Gopher
- Thomas - Legislative Informationon the Internet
- CapWeb: A Guide to the U.S.Congress
- U .S. Federal Governmental Agencies (extensive list)
- Toolkit to Help ReinventGovernment
- Project VoteSmart
History and Primary source documents for history students Gateway to World History American History Archive Project CIA WorldFactbook 1995 Life histories - the Ameri can Memory Project Holocaust Memorial Museum and Holocaust curricula Cybr ary of the Holocaust Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit Library ofCongress History and Geography United Nations Info Christopher Columbus Carrie's Cultural Resources Pa ge Benjamin Franklin Collection Economics Resources for Teachers and more Econ Resources Economics and finances information: The Insider Searchable index PCL Map Collection News source World Flags:Top-level Indices HistoricalDocuments WorldStudies: Countries and CountrySpecific Information How Far is It? Calculate the distance between places
SCIENCE RESOURCES ARCHAEOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dinosaur s in Hawaii Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology U of Memphis Israel National Museum of Science Le Ministere de la culture French Primate Info Net - U of Wisconsin, Madison BIOLOGY
Biology Hypertextbook Chapters MIT CELLS alive! The Telegarden WWW Virtual Library: Microscopy CHEMISTRY
The Chemistry Hypermedia Project Classroom CONNECT NIST Chemistry Web Book The Regional Alliance Hub for Mathematics and Science Reform Web Elements Periodic Table on the WWW
EARTH SCIENCE and GEOLOGY
Earth Sciences Directorate NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Volcano World Weather USA Today
ENVIRONMENT
Dupree the Green Iguana EnviroLink Library GORP Great Outdoor Recreation Pages The GW Green University Intiative National Audubon Society The Tree of Life U of Arizona U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wired for Conservation Nature Conservancy
FROG DISSECTION
Computer-Enhanced Science Education: The Whole Frog Project Interactive Frog Dissection On-line Tutorial Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Achoo Healthcare Online HOUSECALL Medical Resources, Inc. Southern California Orthopedic Institute University of Connecticut Health Center Virtual Hospital, The - University of Iowa World Health Organization
HUMAN ANATOMY
Heart: An Online Exploration Seeing more than your eye does The Visual Human Project National Library of Medicine
METEOROLOGY & WEATHER
About Temperature Canadian Meteorological Centre Climate/Weather/Earth Hotlist Daily Planet U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign EarthWatch Weather on Demand Freese-Notis Weather Intellicast Interactive Weather Information Network - National Weather Service Lighthouse Weather Server, The - Online weather information Meteorology Library - WWW Virtual Library National Climatic Data Center PSC Weather Center Interactive Map Plymouth State College SSEC RealTime Data Space and Science Engineering Center Storm Chasers Sunrise/Sunset/Tw ilight and Moonrise/Moonset/Phase Today's Space Weather Weather - University of Georgia Weather USA Today Weather and Climate U of Illinois Weather.com The Weather Channel Weather Main Page CNN Interactive WeatherNet Weather Pictures FTP Directory Weather Processor, Purdue University Weather Underground Weather Unit
PHYSICS
Physics Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology
RAINFOREST
SATELLITE IMAGES
RAIDS Rapid Information Dissemination System Saturn Events Sea Surface Temperature Satellite Images U of Rhode Island Tele-Satellite ONLINE
SCIENCE RESOURCES
Calculators On-Line Center Cornell Theory Center K-12 Gateways, The Discovery Channel Online ExploraNet Exploratorium Franklin Institute Science Museum, The Helios Science News - Helios is updated daily with biomed, space, and technology news. National Science Foundation Science Daily Science for the Millennium NCSA's Multimedia Online Expo
OTHER
NASA The Nine Planets The Daily Planet UIUC Weather Machine Exploratorium Home Page Science World Museum Internet Museum of Holography K-12 Environmental Education and Endangered Species The Insects Home Page and Entomology Notes Franklin Institute of Virtual ScienceMuseum Volcanoes Page and Volcano World Explorer (Math & Science) The Virtual Frog Dissection and also in Spanish, German, Dutch, and French
MATH RESOURCES
Math Magic Geometry Newsgroup Threads This is Mega-Math Ask Dr. Math Explorer Math Resources Calculus Resources Online
INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM
EVALUATING SITES & INFORMATION
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources - By Esther Grassian
LEARNING INTERNET STYLE
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Global SchoolNet Foundation Support services and "training wheels" for educators on the Internet Global Schoolhouse Project
NETIQUETTE
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - By Arlene H. Rinaldi and Florida Atlantic U
SEARCH ENGINES
Webcrawler Internet Public Library Search is Over ZDNet Understanding WWW Search Tools Web Search Cheat Sheet - TriPath Network
TUTORIALS OF THE INTERNET