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ABC |
ABC television network home page |
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ABC Teach |
Dinosaur printable activity sheets and Dinosaur mini facts. |
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Meet the masterminds of
the world we live in. From
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A & E Channel |
Teacher manuals and show schedules. |
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700+ websites for kids and the adults who care about them. |
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Alta vista |
Excellent Search engine from Digital |
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Discover fascinating facts, enjoy lessons on endangered species |
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The American Presidency |
Great website starting in 1789 through 2001. Very factual with a lot of information and activities to do on the computer. |
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Ancient World Web |
Links to all kinds of sites on the ancient civilizations |
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Ancient History – Exploring Ancient World Cultures |
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Great links to sites dealing with ancient cultures in Greece, Rome, China, etc. |
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Animals of the Rain Forest |
Great information about the animals of the rain forest. |
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Animated American Sign Language Dictionary |
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Site is designed to help you learn more about ASL and the Deaf community. |
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Area Code Lookup |
Find any area code in US or Canada, or type in area code and find its location |
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Ask Jeeves for kids |
A search engine that allows children to pose questions as they really would ask |
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Astronomy for Kids |
www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/astronomy.html
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The solar system, planets, sun, stars. Great for younger kids. |
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www.bcpl.lib.md.us/kidspage/kidspage.html
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Links to hundred’s of great sites for kids. |
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Barlett’s Familiar Quotations |
Guide to familiar quotations |
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Beanie Babies Official Home Page |
Just the place for all you Beanie Baby junkies. Includes new and retired. |
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Benny Good Sport |
A site full of games and activities for kids on health and fitness. |
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Bill Nye – the Science Guy on PBS |
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Science questions answered and able to view science projects done by Bill Nye. |
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Bigchalk |
Educational network for teachers, students, parents – lesson plans, assessments, professional development, and more. |
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Biography Dictionary |
Lists biographies on over 28,000 famous people |
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Book Adventure |
http://www.bookadventure.lycos.com
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A free reading incentive program dedicated to encouraging kids in grades K-8 to read. |
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Busch Gardens Animals Resources |
www.seaworld.org/animal-info/index.htm
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Links to excellent resources on all types of wild creatures |
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Busy Teacher Website K-12 |
Lots of resources, lesson plans and classroom activities. |
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Candy Stand |
Site where students can find games to play that are appropriate. |
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Career Magazine |
Loads of advice on writing resumes and surviving job interviews |
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Cartoon Network |
Site that has games that are on this television network, and also tells about up coming programs. |
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CBS |
CBS television network home page |
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Children’s Literature Web Page |
Great links to all kinds of information on children’s literature on the Internet. |
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Choose the best engine for your purpose |
www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html#broad |
Good explanations of how to search the “net” using the various search engines
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CIA’s Kid Page |
Introduction to function and history of CIA. Designed for school age children. |
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Circus Web: the Circus Past & Present |
Takes you around the world and back in time to the circus past & present |
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Classroom Connect |
An excellent curriculum resource for all K-12 educators.
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Claus.com (A Christmas Site) |
Check on naughty or nice, write to Santa, funny recipes, and track Santa |
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CNN |
CNN television network home page |
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CNN for Teachers |
http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/teachers.ednews/
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CNN television network information for teachers. |
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com – 37 Search Engines |
Combines 37 of the most popular search engines in your search at one time. |
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Computers – History and Development |
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A great site with enormous detail on the history of computers. Worth the visit! |
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Cool Links for Kids |
www.bottco.com/Schooliste/index.html
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An alphabetical list of fun sites for kids and teachers. |
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Cool spot for kids |
Excellent Links to web sites for kids. One of the best on the web. |
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Countries of the World |
Excellent profiles on all the countries of the world in concise form. |
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Cyber Ed: Education and School Website |
Lots of links to good school sites. |
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CyberKids |
www.cyberkids.com or www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us
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An array of fiction, games, art, etc. for inexperience web users |
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Day of the Shadow (Groundhog) |
Celebrate Groundhog's Day |
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Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the web |
http://www.digital-librarian.com
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Fantastic collection of links on most subjects |
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Direct Hit – One Search Engine, Millions of Minds |
Target sites that people most often click to after doing their own search. |
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Discovery Channel |
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
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What’s on television, lesson plans, teaching tools, and more. |
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Discovery Communications |
Discovery Channel’s home page |
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Disney |
Disney Corporation’s home page |
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Dogs |
Site used to search and learn about any type of dog.
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EarthCam – We never close |
Almost live camera shots of all kinds of interesting sites around the world. |
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Earth-life Web |
On-line collection of insects, birds, mammals, etc. |
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Education Place (Houghton-Mifflin) |
Excellent home page for all kinds of student activities. |
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Education World – Where Educators Go to Learn |
Database of over 100,000 sites for educators including lesson plans. |
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Encarta OnLine |
http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp
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Online abridge encyclopedia from Encarta |
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Enchanted Learning |
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Homework help, interactive activities, early childhood activities, language arts, general class help, illustrated dictionaries, geography, science/biology, classroom activities and printouts. |
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Eric’s Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education |
A clearinghouse on disabilities and gifted education from Eric’s website. |
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ESPN |
ESPN Sports Channel’s home page |
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Excite |
Excellent search engine to find information on the Internet |
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ExploraNet: the Exploratorium’s World Wide Web Server |
Visit “Science Snackbook” to get answers to perennial questions. |
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Family Education Network |
Information site for parents and teachers. |
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Family Explorer |
www.parentsoup.com or www.parentplace.com/schoolage/education |
Informational site for teachers and parents. |
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Famous Birthdays |
Famous birthdays listed by name, date, and year. A fun site! |
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Fast Search: All the Web, All the Time |
One of the world’s largest search engines. Links to over 200 million sites. |
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FEMA for Kids |
Excellent introduction to Federal Emergency Management Assoc. Very animated. |
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Flags of All Nations |
Good site. |
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Foreign Languages for Travelers |
Learn enough to get around in other countries. |
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Forefront Curriculum |
Site to enhance science instruction. |
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Franklin Institute |
Franklin Institute homepage. |
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The Free Site |
Free page counters, web space and graphics. Read before downloading! |
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Free Worksheets (mtech) |
Free worksheets and more. |
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Free Worksheets |
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Free worksheets for
English, Math, Math problem solving,
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Free Worksheets |
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Over 3,000 worksheets for teachers on the major subjects. (Mostly elementary) |
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Fun Brain |
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Interactive games for kids featuring math drills and word games. |
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Games Kids Play |
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Great kids games, rules to playground games and verses for jump rope rhymes. |
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Global Schoolhouse |
Internet resources for educators. Site sponsored by Microsoft. |
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GLOBE |
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Links classrooms from more than 20 countries to do cyber-ecology experiments. |
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Globe Schools |
Website that promotes science and math. |
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Goldenbooks |
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Activities and fun -- stories READ to your child. |
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Google – Search Engine |
Google only produces results that match all of your search terms. |
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Gordon’s Entomological Home Page |
An on-line collection of all kinds of bugs. If you go batty about bugs, it is for you. |
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Harry Potter |
The most complete and amazing reference to the wonderful world of Harry Potter. |
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Help-Site |
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Concise how-to manuals, help links, and lots of good computer advice. |
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The
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Archives photographs, timelines, documents, and major speeches. |
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Holidays. a Guide to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Thanksgiving |
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A great site for lots of holiday links. |
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Homes for Birds |
www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~tross/by/house.html
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How to design a birdhouse to attract different kinds of birds. |
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HotBot |
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A great search engine |
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Hotlinks |
www.haa.org/hotlinks/index.asp
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On-line newspapers |
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How a Book is Made |
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Neat Harper Collins site that explains the process of book making. |
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How Things Work by Louis Bloomfield |
www.howthingswork.virginia.edu
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Tells the way many things work. Great site for older students. |
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Information Please Online |
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Online almanac, dictionary and encyclopedia |
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Infoseek |
www.infoseek.go.com or www.guide.infoseek.com
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Search engine to find information on the Internet. |
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Interactive Science Experiments |
www.osc.on.ca or www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
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Control your own science experiments. Requires a plug-in for some experiments. |
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International Chamber of Commerce |
Business around the world for older students. |
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International Lyrics Server |
Find the lyrics to over 86,000 songs.
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International Space Station |
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Learn about space and the different vehicles used to explore space. |
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Internet Movie Database |
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Reviews of all types of movies. (Parents should supervise)
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Internet Public Library |
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Search engine to find information on the Internet. |
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Internet Public Library’s Youth Division |
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Offers content people of all ages can enjoy. |
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Jeeves |
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Don’t know where to
find something on the web, just ask Jeeves the
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Jokes |
Daily jokes that are appropriate. |
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Kelley Blue Book |
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Find current book retail and wholesale values for new and used cars. |
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Kennedy Space Center Home Page |
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Kid Stock |
Mysteries of the stock market revealed. |
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Kids After School Club |
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By Houghton-Mifflin. Brain teasers and just for fun stuff are excellent links. |
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Kids Cookbook - Dole's Resources |
Cookbook for kids and nutritional information. |
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Kids Domain Online Games |
www.kidsdomain.com/games/index.html
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Lots of online games that stimulate thinking. |
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Kids Korner |
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Jokes, games, chat, calendar, links and lots of other fun stuff for kids 14 and under. |
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KIDSCOM |
Kids learn about kids around the world. Find “key” pals and write to presidents. |
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Learning Network |
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Parents, teachers, and students: activities, printables, games, lesson plans, research tools and lots more. |
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Lesson plan page |
Lesson plans for people with disabilities. |
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Lesson plans z |
Over 4,000 lesson plans, printable worksheets, and more for all areas of education. |
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Letter From Job Hunters |
How to create a cover letter, resume, and how to find a job. |
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Library of Congress |
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The Library preserves a collection of more than 119 million items. |
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Little fingers |
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Storybooks, coloring pages, and games |
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LION |
www.libertynet.org/~lion/lion.html
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An information resource for K-12 school librarians. |
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Lycos |
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Search engine to find information on the Internet. |
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Magellan |
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Search engine to find information on the Internet |
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Magic keys |
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A nice selection of young to older kids books to read online. |
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Make Your Own Weather Station |
How to make weather tools and how to use them. |
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Excellent links to hundreds of middle schools sites for teacher and students. |
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Money Central Station |
Students learn about money. |
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Multicultural Calendar |
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Learn how kids worldwide celebrate their country’s holidays and festivals. |
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A part of the
Smithsonian Institution in
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My Facts Page |
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Tons of information to help with your homework. |
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My Virtual Newspaper |
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Just about any newspaper you can think of worldwide. |
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My Virtual Reference Desk |
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An excellent site with tons of links to the tools needed to help kids do homework. |
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Mysterious and Unexplained |
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Search for mysterious creatures, examine unexplained power, etc. |
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NASA Observatory |
Pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff from outer space. |
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NASA Online Interactive Projects |
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive.index.html
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NASA Quest is dedicated to bringing NASA People, Space, and Science to Classrooms through the Internet. |
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NASA, National Air and Space Administration |
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Ultimate site for anyone fascinated by space exploration. |
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Nascar Online |
Homepage for NASCAR racing |
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National Air and
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One of the most popular Smithsonian museums |
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National Geographic Society |
www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html
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Homepage for the National Geographic Society |
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NOAA’s hurricane homepage. |
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National Inventors Hall of Fame |
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Search for inventors by name or date of induction. |
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National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian Institution |
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5 major galleries tell the story of postal history. |
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National Science Teacher Association |
Helping site for teachers and student about science. |
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National Weather Service |
National Weather Service Data |
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National Zoo |
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National Zoo in
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National Basketball Association |
NBA homepage - basketball news. |
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NBC |
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NBC television network homepage. |
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NEA Today Online |
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Recommended students sites include Cool School Tools & Homework Heaven |
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New Middle School Teacher Guide |
www.middleweb.com/1stDResources.html
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Extensive list of links to help beginning teachers with that first year of teaching. |
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New York Times Learning |
Keep up to date with your lessons. Terrific lessons and units for all ages. |
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Nickelodeon |
Fun website from the television network. |
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Nick Jr. |
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Nickelodeon fun website -- lots of activities. |
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Ology |
Collection of information about different ologies: biology, ecology, etc. |
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On-Line Books Page |
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
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Over 11,000 listings.
Provided by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and
researcher at the
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OWL Kids Online |
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Check out Chickadee Net for ages 3 – 8 and Wired Owl for ages 8+ |
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PBS Online |
Public Broadcasting System’s homepage |
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Peer Leadership |
www.awesomelibrary.org/office/main/Young_Leaders/Young_Leaders.html |
Activities for a peer leadership class. |
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Planets of the Solar System |
Information about our solar system and the planets involved. |
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Power Learning with Technology |
See lesson plans and share ideas for using technology in the classroom |
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Presidents of the
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Pictures and biographies of all presidents |
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Puzzlemaker |
Make all kinds of word finds, crossword puzzles, mazes, math puzzles, etc. |
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Questions Answered |
Ask Dr. Universe any question and he will help you to find the answer. |
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Quizzes: Bible |
Fun quizzes about the bible. |
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Quizzes: Music Trivia |
Music trivia quizzes. |
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Develops and delivers children's and family literacy programs that help prepare young children for reading and motivate school-age children to read. |
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Research It – One Stop Reference Desk |
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15 Quick reference sites all rolled into one. |
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Santa’s
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Write to Santa and he writes back, recipes, toyshop, and more. |
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Saving's Calculator |
Learn how to save. |
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Say Howdy "E" Cards |
Cards for all occasions. |
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Scholastic Homepage |
Homepage for Scholastic Publishing. |
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School House Rock |
Memorable songs such as: "Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function?" and more. |
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Sea World |
Learn about marine life and other animals at Sea World. |
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Seussville |
Games and activities around Dr. Seuss characters and books |
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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http://www.pageandmoy.com/articles/seven-wonders-ancient-world.aspx |
Links to seven ancient wonders. |
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Sign Language Instruction |
www.disserv.stu.umn.edu/altform
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Learn to sign and read Braille online and take a fingerspelling quiz. |
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Sites for teachers |
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Pages of sites for teachers with almost anything you need for your classes. |
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Smithsonian Institution |
World-class collection of museums, galleries, and sites. |
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Special Education Resources |
Lesson plan for students with severe special educational needs. |
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Sports Illustrated for Kids |
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A fun site for kids from the Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine. |
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Study Web |
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A fantastic site of 115,000 links for kids and teachers. Sorted by subject. |
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Super Science Site |
www.superscience.com/home.html
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Encourages students and parents to conduct easy science experiments. |
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Teach Now |
Digital books for education. |
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Teaching with Movies |
Character development index, lesson plans. |
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Technology 'Nformation for Teacher (T'NT) |
Technology related lesson plans. |
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Teen Hoopla |
Great resources for12-18 year olds. |
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Teleport.com |
www.teleport.com/~billf/Internet_Lessons_Plans
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A variety of lesson plans. |
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Thursday's Classroom |
Science with NASA. |
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Time for Kids |
Lesson plans, quizzes, activities and lots more! |
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U. S. House of Representatives Homepage |
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United Nations |
Latest information about UN activities. |
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U. S. Mint for Kids |
Money facts. |
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Everyday news and resources for parents and educators. |
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Usborne books |
Books to read online. |
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Valentine's Day: The History |
Discover the history behind Valentine's Day. |
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Vocational Schools |
Find vocational and trade schools in your area. |
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Weekly Reader |
Weekly Reader’s website for parents, students, and teachers. |
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Whale Net |
Discover the lives of sea animals. |
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The White House |
All the information you need on The White House. |
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Why Files |
Takes an item and explains the science behind it. |
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Wild West |
Discover fact about the Wild West. |
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Yahoo |
Search engine to find information on the Internet. |
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Yahooligans |
Database of websites for kids ages 8 – 14 with links to other children – oriented sites. |
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Yellow Pages Book Samples – Hotlists - The Internet Kids & Family Hotlists |
A sampling of Jean Armour Polly’s sites from InternetKids & Family Yellow Pages |
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Your search engine.com |
Search engine for information on the Internet. |
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Youth Sports Network |
www.youthsports.com |
Read about news on sports, find sports camps. |
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ZD Net’s “Find Anything Online” |
Take one of the links to learn to become an expert searcher for online material. |
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Zip Code Lookup – United States Postal Service |
Look up zip codes for
anywhere in the
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Zoom dinosaurs |
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html
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Fact sheets on just about any dinosaur kids can name. |
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ZooNet |
A directory to zoos of the world. |