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Kid Search engines

http://www.yahooligans.com/ - The Yahoo based web search engine for kids�with kid safe sites.
http://www.ajkids.com/ - The Ask Jeeves web search engine for kids

�Regular� Search Engines (a few among the many)

Kid safe clipart

http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/

Aids For Web Design And Development

Making your site accessible to the handicapped: http://www.cast.org/bobby
http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml
Yale Style Manual for Web Documents
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
An online tutorial, written in an easy-to-read style, for creating web documents.
http://www.teacherweb.com/
�. TeacherWeb, your free personal website that's as easy to use as the bulletin board in your classroom. What could be easier than posting assignments, announcements, and other educational material on your own classroom's bulletin board?

With TeacherWeb, you simply type in new homework assignments & special announcements while viewing your website. Then with the click of a button, your updates will be instantly available to your students using any Internet access! Security is built-in -- only you will be able to make updates to your website, using your own password.

And to help your students get the most out of every lesson plan, you can use TeacherWeb to point them to Internet information sources for further study.
http://webpages4teachers.com/
WebPages4Teachers� you are a busy person and finding the time to create your own page is often impossible. So we will create a Web Page for YOU at no cost. Our pages combine reference and resource tools for both you and your students. And that's not all. You can customize your page in a number of meaningful ways. The entire process should only take a few minutes. Once we receive your application we will create your page and within a week or so, you and your class will be able to enjoy an effective, motivational and entertaining page.
http://learningnetwork.com/
Learning Network, the Internet's premier educational source. With principal business offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and Paramus (New Jersey), Learning Network is a series of websites joined together by their ability to serve you, the learner.

Learning Network aims to satisfy every learner's needs by offering learning solutions in five separate but interrelated resource areas, each served by the Learning Network Store:
� K-12, serving students, parents, and teachers
� College, serving students and faculty in colleges and universities
� Professional Development, offering career-building resources and services for professionals
� Lifelong Learning, providing solutions for adults who crave learning for the sake of learning
� Reference Channel, offering everyone an encyclopedic range of topics
http://www.ozedweb.com/
This site is published in Australia. OzEdweb focuses on providing free quality-resources for educators. If you are new to this site, it may help to read the introductory pages
http://www.freefoto.com/index.asp - free photos
http://www.volition.com/fwebmgraph.html
List of sites with free and not-so free graphics. Beware of these sites�some are NOT kid appropriate. Also, click the wrong one site and you end up in the twilight zone, with windows that keep popping up even after your close the windows.
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
Web Site Planning & Development Checklist for School Districts
http://www.hutchal.clara.net/zena/index.htm
An example of a site heavy on creativity with free resources for the artistically minded web-designer. Look at the web tile section to see how different backgrounds and fonts can altar readability.
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/
Earthweb: Easy basic tutorials on almost everything related to web page development
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
Tutorials, scripts, JavaScript samples, articles--at a higher level than Earthweb.

Professional Development Sites

http://www.tappedin.org/
TAPPED IN helps professional development projects, education agencies, philanthropic organizations, and for-profit organizations use the Internet to connect with and support teachers via the Web.
The technology that supports the community is a Web-based multi-user virtual environment designed to support large numbers of education professionals in a single virtual place. An integrated set of communication mechanisms (speaking, whispering, paging, nonverbal actions) and support tools (e.g., virtual whiteboards, sharable text documents, Web page projection, transcript recorders) enable users to be more expressive than with other types of online tools.

Our staff help organizations to quickly and effectively plan and conduct online courses, discussions, focus groups, and Web tours, often in conjunction with face-to-face activities and other online technologies.
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/welcome/
This networked community is designed to help educators develop powerful learning experiences for students through the effective integration of new technologies. Computers, the Internet, and other tools offer the promise of significant improvements in teaching and learning, but fulfilling that promise can be difficult. Through this ENT website, you will have access to thoughtful colleagues, interactive tools, detailed examples of technology-enhanced education, and a valuable collection of on-line resources. The site will help you navigate the expanding territory of new educational technologies with guidance from established principles for teaching and learning (e.g. Teaching for Understanding) through processes for integrating new technologies.
http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/about.cfm
TeacherLine is a comprehensive, professional development Web site designed for college instructors, K-12 teachers, and future teachers. TeacherLine is designed as a source for content, community and collaboration. The TeacherLine site was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

At the heart of TeacherLine is a series of modules produced by leading educators, education institutions and companies. The modules guide educators toward integrating technology into their learning and teaching. The video-rich, learn-by-doing modules are a combination of content and methodology, accessible via the Internet. They are individualized, self-paced and sequenced at various skill levels.

The modules also can be used to earn certificates based on national and state technology standards. Certificates are awarded in four competency areas
http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/community/community.cfm
Community Center
The Community Center is a place that encourages life-long learning. It creates a community of learners, where teachers are vibrant participants in ongoing dialogues about important issues in education. The Community Center is the arena that brings the issues and questions that teachers face in their local communities into a national forum. In the Community Center, educators can communicate with each other live, in online chats, or by posting messages on the discussion board. Each month the Community Center's Feature addresses the needs of the classroom teacher. Feature topics range from standards and accountability to teachers using technology for the first time in their classrooms. There are Live Chats and Panel Discussions, along with an article and a list of resources, associated with the Feature topic each month

Below is a course offering for those educators who wish to learn about online teaching and using PBS learning modules. This is free, sign up for it! Your tax dollars probably paid for it.

Teaching Online: An Introduction

Welcome to Teaching Online: An Introduction, designed for people who are new to PBS TeacherLine and online teaching. Teaching online, or using online resources and tools to support face-to-face instruction, is different from traditional classes, and you may find that you need to adjust your pedagogy or methods for this new environment. You can think of this module as a faculty development workshop to help you learn how to use PBS TeacherLine online modules in conjunction with your teaching, and to learn a few tips about teaching online in general.

As you work your way through the module, you'll learn what to expect from a PBS TeacherLine module, and from interacting with students online. Through special activities, you will have a chance to try out features of PBS TeacherLine, such as the Community Center, Journal, and Discussion Board. You'll also have a chance to examine your software, just to be sure that you'll be equipped to take advantage of things like online videos. Last, but certainly not least, you'll get some tips that will help you get the most out of PBS TeacherLine modules.
http://www.mff.org/
The purpose of the Milken Family Foundation is to discover and advance inventive and effective ways of helping people help themselves and those around them lead productive and satisfying lives. The Foundation advances this mission primarily through its work in education and medical research.
In EDUCATION, the Foundation is committed to:
Strengthening the profession by recognizing and rewarding outstanding educators, and by expanding their professional leadership and policy influence.
Attracting, retaining and motivating the best talent to the teaching profession.

Stimulating creativity and productivity among educators and students of all ages.

Fostering the involvement of both the family and the community in schools.

Helping build vibrant communities�especially by involving young people who have special needs, or who live in neighborhoods considered disadvantaged, in school-based programs that contribute to the revitalization of their community and to the well-being.

Web-Based Student Learning Resources

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting document.
http://www.globalschoolhouse.com/
Global Schoolhouse has joined forces with Lightspan.com to bring you the best online collaborative learning. Please use the links on this page to find Global Schoolhouse content and tools plus easy access to the wealth of material on Lightspan.com
[Collaborative Projects]

To access Global Schoolhouse collaborative projects, including CyberFair, GeoGame, FieldTrips, Newsday, and the Projects Registry, please visit the Lightspan�s Collaborative Projects.

[Communication Tools]

To access Global Schoolhouse communication tools, including Classroom Conferencing, Mailing Lists, and our new Discussion Boards, please visit Lightspan�s Communication Tools.

[Professional Development]

For our new and improved Professional Development area, including Harnessing the Web, please visit Lightspan's Professional Development.
http://www.lightspan.com/
Lightspan.com is a FREE education portal for educators, parents, and students, providing resources, research tools, and grade-specific activities.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. The project is intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and universities.
http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/
Marco Polo document on how to evaluate web site for education purposes.

The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.

MarcoPolo Training is Coming to Your School: MarcoPolo has signed agreements with forty-five states to roll out the MarcoPolo Professional Development Program. As we strive to provide training to every teacher in the country, we are looking for help from principals and administrators who are interested in providing this free training to their K-12 teaching staff.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/index.html
Online Adventure

Creature Feature: Orcas

Known as �wolves of the sea,� orcas are one of the ocean�s top predators. Watch them in action.

Maps & Geography

GeoBee Challenge

Join in the fun of the National Geographic Bee! The finals are on May 23, 2001�are you ready? Take the GeoBee challenge every day.

Lesson Plans

Our National Parks

As the weather gets warmer and vacations loom, explore the way we create and use national parks with these innovative lessons.

Teacher Store

National Geographic for Kids

Introducing our new magazine for students in grades 3-6! Please call 800 368 2728 for information or to subscribe now for fall 2001.

Teacher Community

Geography Alliances

Your local geography alliance offers workshops, field trips, mentoring, and grants to support your efforts in the classroom.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
ATLAS

[Black and White maps for printing.

FORUMS

Message boards for educators and everyone else.

SEARCH

Instant access to education resources from Xpeditions and the other MarcoPolo sites.

BLUE-RIBBON LINKS

Web sites selected for quality and depth of their geographic content.

[Xpedition Hall]

Interactive Learning Museum

Featured Xpedition:

X9: Migration Station

[Standards]

This is the official home of all 18 US Geography Standards.

Helpful Hints

[Activities]

A Reason For The Season

Become a season sleuth. Learn the long and short of the changing seasons.

[Lesson Plans]

Teacher-tested lesson plans sorted by geography standard and grade level.
http://www.econedlink.org/
A site for teaching students about economics, econoedlink is centered on standards and principals of economics. This site has classroom-tested curricula for students of all ages. Econoedlink is sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education., a unique nonprofit partnership of leaders in education, business and labor devoted to helping youngsters learn to think, to choose and to function in a changing global economy.

Our Mission:

To help all students develop economic ways of thinking and problem solving that they can use in their lives as consumers, savers, members of the workforce, responsible citizens, and effective participants in the global economy.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
EDSITEment is the product of a partnership forged in Spring 1997 among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities.

The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.

The EDSITEment experience includes:

A user-friendly website with links to over 100 of the top humanities sites online lesson plans which bring EDSITEment to life for teachers, students, and their families.

EDSITEment was selected as one of five finalists in the Education and Academia category of a Computerworld Smithsonian award for Innovation Network. As a finalist, the EDSITEment website has been accepted into the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. The permanent collection is the world's premier historical record of computing applications and innovations. Finalists demonstrate clearly how information technology is being used to improve society.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html
Sponsored by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this site is an internet resource designed to improve the learning of mathematics for all students.

.The mission of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is to provide the vision and leadership necessary to ensure a mathematics education of the highest quality for all students.

Principles and Standards

NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, published in 2000, provides guidelines for excellence in mathematics education and issue a call for all students to engage in more challenging mathematics. Its content is extended online through the E-Standards (standards.nctm.org) and Illuminations (illuminations.nctm.org).

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/index.html
Science NetLinks is the result of a partnership between the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the WorldCom Foundation. The purpose of Science NetLinks is to provide a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, including lessons, website reviews, news, and forums. To help educators integrate these resources into a standards-based curriculum, all site content is organized around the Benchmarks for Science Literacy. These benchmarks are a set of science literacy goals developed through Project 2061, AAAS' long-term initiative to reform K-12 science education nationwide. Science NetLinks is a dynamic site with new content being added on a regular basis, so check back often.

Site Features

Lessons	Standards-based lessons that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges.
Science Updates	90-second radio programs presenting current science research, as well as questions phoned in to our Science Update hotline (1-800-WHY-ISIT). Science Updates have a summary and suggestions for using the story in the classroom, followed by the full script and Real Audio file for playback.
Website Reviews	Websites are reviewed by the Science NetLinks Board of Reviewing Editors, using strict review criteria.
Educational Super	Sites Sites that have undergone a second, more intense, review by our Blue Ribbon Panel of experts. Educational Super Sites are named as such because they are found to be of xceptional educational merit.
Science Education News	Science Education News is intended to keep science educators up to date on current news, resources, and grants opportunities.
Kinetic City	An online science adventure for grades 3-5, challenging students to save Kinetic City by mastering various science concepts.
Forum	Your opportunity to exchange thoughts and ideas on science education with colleagues�

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Enchanted Learning produces children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment.

Ease of use is a hallmark of our software. Children need the clearest, simplest computer interface, and our material is created so that the navigation and controls are intuitive. Our mission is to produce the best educational material, emphasizing creativity and the pure enjoyment of learning.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
Our goal is to build an online community of teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and citizens at all levels who have an interest in math and math education, working toward this end in the following ways:

Encouraging communication throughout the mathematical community

We are committed to providing discussion opportunities for all those interested in math. Through our growing collection of mailing lists, Web-based discussion areas, and ask-an-expert services, we provide ways for you to participate in conversations, reach others with similar interests, or find an answer to a burning question. See Discussions.

Making math-related web resources more accessible

Although general-purpose Web directories such as Yahoo work well to give you an overview of sites on a particular topic, the depth of material covered is sometimes less than you need. To address this problem, we're working to provide you with the greatest possible coverage of math and math education Web sites. See our Forum Internet Mathematics Library.

Providing high-quality math and math education content

There's a lot of material on the Web, but how good is it, and how does it take advantage of new technologies or implement new pedagogy? We have worked with teachers, students, and researchers to help them put the best of their materials on the Web. This collaborative work is available via the Forum's Web Units.

Offering model interactive projects

The Forum's volunteer 'math doctors' and our archive of answers will help you with your math questions - see Ask Dr. Math. Questions about teaching and math education may be sent to our Teacher2Teacher service. Our Problems of the Week (POWs) are designed to provide creative, non-routine challenges for students in grades three through twelve.

Growing with the Web

We notify you about new sites of interest, feature the latest and best, and host focused and timely discussions of math education and associated source materials. Subscribe to our Newsletter.
http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/ - Canada�s School Net
http://www.cde.state.co.us/index_home.htm - Colorado Department of Education Web Site
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm
The High School Hub is a noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features interactive learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, science, world languages, arts, health, and technology.

The High School Hub is and will remain free to the public and free of advertisements. Registration is not required and visitors are not tracked.
http://www.craniamania.com/home-home.html
CraniaMania is the first competitive academic game site for teenagers featuring weekly competitions, prizes, and real-time games in high school subjects. CraniaMania combines online gaming with academic content and the result is a revolutionary destination embraced by teens and teachers alike. Repeat visits and "stickiness" rival traditional game sites, while CraniaMania's market reach and adoption extends across homes and classrooms worldwide.

CraniaMania games are played at home and at school, for private practice, and in the form of individual, classroom, and school competitions. Teens use CraniaMania to challenge peers across the country or review for standardized exams. Teachers use CraniaMania's curriculum standards-based games in the classroom to reinforce classroom material and run their own competitions.
http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/
http://www.funbrain.com/
K-8 site for kids and teachers. On line quizzes, games, fun! Parent help.

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