Arrlweb - educational activities, teacher support program with lessons and guides for using amateur radio with your class.
Best of Amateur Radio in the Classroom - online newsletter with the best of Amateur Radio in the Classroom for radio activities and projects to use in the classroom.
HowStuffWorks - Ham Radio - here find out about frequencies and transmitting modes, how ham radio serves the community, licensing, and equipment to set up an amateur radio club.
How Stuff Works - articles and animated diagrams that explains how everyday things operate.
How Stuff Works Express - for ages 8 - 14 combines science, technology and the Internet. Features include science topics, web links and activities for exciting quests, puzzles and games, experiments and extraordinary people.
Wonderkorner - check out this question and answer site for kids; hundreds of well researched questions about a variety of curriculum topics that students ask.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet - focuses on the type of questions kids love to ask and adults hate to answer.
Wild'N Whacky Inventions - great site from National Geographic.
The Question and Answer Quick Guide - chart that has many Questions and Answers about the online homework helpers mentioned in the article by Roxanne Schneider.
Animals, Myths and Legends - wonderful collection of "why" stories.
Ask A+ Locator - excellent resource for finding answers to almost any question.
Illustrated Rules of Chess - detailed graphics show the moves for each chess piece, with audio files for the visually impaired.
Chess is Fun - animated help with chess moves, tactics and scoring.
Chesskids Academy - free online chess lessons for kids.
Online
Dictionary - Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia,
examples from classic literature, search by word definition engine,
online dictionary browser, instant word lookup script.
Onelook Dictionaries - type in a word and this search looks through 629 dictionaries to find definitions.
Merriam Webster for Kids - site includes student dictionary, daily buzzwords, an assortment of cool coding games and more.
Biographical Dictionary - massive biographical dictionary contains entries for more than 27,000 people and is searchable by name, birth or death year, position or profession, literacy or artistic works.
Enchanted Learning - is a picture dictionary for younger children. Each of the 1176 entries contains a word, a picture of the word, and the word used in a sentence.
FleetKids.com! - Headbone Interactive and Fleet Financial Group have collaborated to put together a Web site that teaches K - 6 kids about the value of money, good citizenship and teamwork.
Junior Achievement - programs for K - 12, with complete kits for teaching about business, economics and free enterprise.
The Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia - from here you can access information on a variety of really cool subjects.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Grades 9 - 12) - hosted by the University of Tennessee. It is a good place to begin any philosophical research.
CIA World FactBook 2005 - comprehensive source of information on all nations.
Fact Monster - Web site brings an Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help that is organized for kids and is searchable.
Statistics Canada
Community Profiles 2001 - to find
the population of your city or town.
CPL - Frequently Asked Reference Questions - alphabetized collection of facts on a variety of topics.
National Student Research Center - site contains educational philosophy of NSRC plus links to recommended Web sites mostly in the fields of science and technology.
Acronym Finder - investigate the shorthand of different acronyms with this search/database tool.
Quotes of the Day - database of more than 5,000 famous quotations, searchable by author or by quotation.
Homeworkspot.com - is a free homework information portal that groups K-12 homework-related sites into three categories: elementary, middle school, and high school.
Homework Help - Research directory for help with homework for grades 6-12. Categorized by subject areas, the reviewed websites for each subject reflect the topics most frequently studied by middle school students.
Homework Helpers to the Rescue - By Roxanne Schneider, having trouble calculating the hypotenuse of a right triangle? Need a practice test to prep for tomorrow's geography quiz? Follow this link and you'll find to some of the best online destinations for homework help.
How Do the Homework Helpers Compare - chart comparing the various online homework helper Web sites mentioned in the article by Roxanne Schneider.
Cybersleuth Kids - this site helps students with research and homework using categorized, kid-safe sites.
Acceptable use and safety on the Internet - students should know the rules for safety using the Internet.
Kids Guide to the Internet - the website of the book called DK's Kids' Guide to the Internet. All the websites in the book can be found here.
Internet for Kids (K - 8) - this site provides news, Web tutorials, a host for kid-designed Web pages, daily jokes, search tips, information for parents and teachers, and games.
Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School - has Web sites for kids in elementary grades to find information on the Internet for what they are studying in school.
The Internet Schoolhouse - The Internet Schoolhouse is dedicated to guiding our audience of teachers, parents and students to the best educational resources on the net. Our goal is for our audience to be Learners for LIFE!
CyberSmart - ( K - 8 ) - extensive Web site to help teach students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively.
International Children's Digital Library - The world's largest international digital library for children was launched on Nov. 20, 2002. The International Children's Digital Library opens with 200 books in 15 languages representing 27 cultures, with a five-year plan to grow to 10,000 books representing 100 cultures.
Library Spot - links to libraries online plus a reference desk and a reading room with books, journals, magazines, newspapers, newswires, and speeches.
The Internet Public Library - is set up like a real building, with a Reading Room, a Reference Center, and even an Exhibit Hall that displays visual art.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - offers links chosen especially for children.
Camp Silos (K - 8) - is an online exploration of farming with an Iowa slant. This site provides the facts you need to successfully discuss issues that face farmers today and how they manage to perform their work they do.
CBC4Kids -
fun to explore !!
UNICEF - explanation of UNICEF and what it does.
Jump into Snowboarding - Sure, your students groan when asked to do traditional dictionary work. But they'll smile when the assignment is to create a snowboarding dictionary. The beautiful photos of children snowboarding in Alaska will also encourage your students to learn more about this northern state.
WebMonkey for Kids - introduces the world of HTML using a step-by-step tutorial organized into Lessons, Projects, Playground and Tools.
Media Production - turn your students stories into multimedia productions with this detailed nine-week middle school course.
Kids Online Magazine - ( K - 8 ) - published monthly, this magazine features articles, stories, recipes, cratfsa nd artwork created by kids.
The Art of Crime Detection - ( 4 - 8 ) - visit this site and your classroom may become the scene of a terrifically educational crime.
American Sign Language Browser - ( 2 - 12 ) - has QuickTime movies of a real prson performing each sign, along with a helpful explanation of each sign that makes it easier to remember and understand the derivation.
ASL Browser - American Sign Language browser with detailed how to and video of thousands of ASL signs.
Handspeak - online visual langauge dictionary categorized alphabetically and by topic.
ASL Fingerspelling - use the ASL dictionary or try the interactive quiz on sign language.
Festivals.com (K - 8) - some of the more unusual international festivals are highlighted at this site.
KidLink Multicultural Calendar (K - 12) - contains hundreds of links and entries from teachers and classrooms from around the world since 1994.
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections - connect globally with other classrooms for e-pals.
Electric Postcard - send and receive postcards from around the world at this site.
Start Something - is a program that will get students thinking about who they are and what they can do in their life.
Multicultural Pavilion - resources, lessons and intercultural activities.
Birthday Traditions - find out how the traditions of birthday parties started, learn about traditions in different countries and link to famous peoples' birthdays.
Multicultural Pavillion - ( teachers ) - this site contains thousands of outstanding multicultural resources.
Play It Safe in Cyberspace - a free curriculum that aims to help elementary and middle school students become responsible and ethical online citizens.
iEarn - goal is to enhance student learning through interactive projects: "By addressing local, national, and global issues in these projects, students can make a meaningful difference in the quality of life on the planet."
BRIDGE program - Building Respect through Internet Dialogue and Global Education - launched by iEARN.
WebPlay - is a cross-cultural, Internet-based theater project developed by British drama educator Sydney Thornbury.
Time for Kids - Like their print counterparts, online news magazines tend to focus on news items that deal with broad, ongoing issues. Time Magazine, publishers of Time for Kids for elementary aged students in print, now has a Web site where you and your students can explore the news online.
Yahooligans!News - Yahooligans! News is designed strictly for kids. Top stories, monthly interviews, weird news, and pop news are among the regular features.
Facts Behind the News - This site takes current headlines and provides links to background information about the topic.
New York Times Learning Network - comprehensive free Web site brings the daily news into the classroom in an engaging new format.
Turner Learning - includes a CNN Student Bureau component that invites students at certified high schools to participate in authentic learning experiences by reporting news from their own perspective and publishing it on the CNNSB Web site.
Wall Street Journal for Kids - is an award-winning educational program developed by the publishers of the world's premier business newspaper, and devoted to preparing young people for the decisions that will shape their economic future.
Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites - ( 6 - 8 ), Kids Report is an online publication in which Grade 6 - 8 students review curriculum-related Web sites for other middle school students.
PBS Kids - resources for use with Arthur, Sesame Street and others with ideas for using TV in the classroom.
PBS KIDS GO! . Go Figure - PBS KIDS GO! is a new place on PBS for big kids - kids who like to play games, solve puzzles, share their own stories and much more.
PBS KIDS: TECHKNOW - take an instructional quiz about the Internet and earn your license for the Internet from PBS Kids.
Kids123 - (Grades K - 6), an educational portal for students, teachers and parents, here you'll find links to content areas, search engines, virtual field trips and much more.
High School Hub - ( 6 - 12 ), is an academic resource for high school students.
Big6 - this site helps you with teaching initial research skills.
ProQuest K - 12 - ( 4 - 12 ) - is dedicated to helping students with research.
KidsClick - Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians.
How to Search - an instructional page to help students easily find resources to support instruction; includes links to online tutorials, a checklist for framing the research question before beginning to search, and much more. . .
Study Skills (Grades 3 - 8) - site is for anyone who wants to improve his or her academic performance.
How-To-Study - use this website to learn study strategies for listening and notetaking.
OnLine ! Citation Styles Index - a guide for citing Web resources with links to examples.