Links to Explore:

Sites for Students, Staff, and Parents

During the 1999-2000 school year, I began compiling this list of curriculum links as an on-going service for our students, staff, and parents. I have personally reviewed each link; however, as the Internet continues to grow and evolve, I cannot guarantee the accuracy or the appropriateness of these sites in the future. At the time I reviewed them, the sites appeared to be educationally appropriate.

If you wish to suggest additional curriculum sites, or if you find an outdated or an inappropriate link, please contact me at wingatej@netscape.net

Recent Finds!

All about the Olympics, past and present  http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/resource/olympic.htm
The Heart: An Online Exploration             http://www.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Children's Picture Book Database             http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/
Information about Countries                       http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/
WhaleNet                                                     http://whale.wheelock.edu/Students.html
Colonial Gazette                                          http://www.loelem.santacruz.k12.ca.us/classrooms/library/webquest.htm
 
 
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Amazing Picture Machine http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/
Art Teacher on the Net http://www.artmuseums.com/
Crayola http://www.crayola.com/
How to "Read" a Painting: Learning Art Criticism Skills . . . http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic/
Yahooligans! Downloader http://www.yahooligans.com/downloader/pictures/
 
AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS, & FAVORITE CHARACTERS, OH MY!
General Sites
Authors and Illustrators  http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/
ISLMC Authors and Illustrators http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
Literary Birthdays http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/births/bjan.htm
Magic School Bus http://scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus/index.htm
Read In! http://www.readin.org/authors.htm
 
Authors/Illustrators
Alexander, Lloyd http://www.carr.org/authco/alex.htm
Arnold, Caroline http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1264/
Arnosky, Jim http://www.jimarnosky.com/
Avi http://www.avi-writer.com/
Barron, T.A. http://www.tabarron.com
Bourgeois, Paulette http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/bourgeois/
Brett, Jan http://www.janbrett.com
Byars, Betsy http://www.betsybyars.com/
Carle, Eric http://www.eric-carle.com/
Carlson, Nancy http://www.nancycarlson.com
Cleary, Beverly http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/cleary.html
DePaola, Tomie http://www.tomiedepaola.com/
Duncan, Lois http://www.iag.net/~barq/lois.html
Erickson, John http://www.hankthecowdog.com/
Fox, Mem http://www.memfox.net/
George, Jean Craighead http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/
Gibbons, Gail http://www.gailgibbons.com/
Gutman, Dan http://www.dangutman.com/
Hahn, Mary Downing http://www.childrensbookguild.org/hahn.html
Hamilton, Virginia http://www.virginiahamilton.com/
Hobbs, Will http://www.willhobbsauthor.com/
Holub, Joan http://www.joanholub.com/
Irvine, Joan http://www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/
Jacques, Brian  http://www.redwall.org/dave/jacques.html
Johnson, Crockett http://www.cofc.edu/~nelp/purple/index.html
Koller, Jackie http://www.geocities.com/~jackiekoller/
Kurtz, Jane http://www.norshore.net/~JaneKurtz/
Lasky, Kathryn  http://www.xensei.com/users/newfilm/homelsk.htm
MacDonald, Suse  http://www.create4kids.com/index.html
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1090/
Martin, Jr., Bill http://www.tiill.com/bill.htm
McLerran, Alice http://www.alicemclerran.com/
Mora, Pat http://www.patmora.com/
Munsch, Robert http://www.robertmunsch.com/
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/
Paterson, Katherine  http://www.terabithia.com/
Paulsen, Gary http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/
Pilkey, Dav http://www.pilkey.com/
Polacco, Patricia http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
Potter, Beatrix http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/templates/indexstart.cfm
Quackenbush, Robert http://www.rquackenbush.com/
Rathmann, Peggy http://www.peggyrathmann.com/
Sachar, Louis http://www.carr.org/authco/saclouis_sachar.htm
Say, Allen http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/say/index.html
Simon, Seymour  http://www.users.nyc.pipeline.com/~simonsi/
Smith, Lane and Scieszka, Jon http://www.chucklebait.com/
Soto, Gary http://www.garysoto.com/
Spinelli, Jerry http://www.carr.lib.md.us/authco/spinelli-j.htm
Stanley, Diane http://www.dianestanley.com/
Stevens, Janet http://www.janetstevens.com/
Van Allsburg, Chris http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/cva/index.html
Wells, Rosemary http://www.rosemarywells.com/
Wilder, Laura Ingalls http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura.htmlx
Wilder, Laura Ingalls http://www.pinc.com/~jenslegg/
Wilhelm, Hans http://www.hanswilhelm.com/
Winthrop, Elizabeth http://www.absolute-sway.com/winthrop/
Wisniewski, David http://www.carr.org/authco/wisn.htm
Wolff, Ashley  http://www.sirius.com/~wolves/
Wood, Audrey http://www.audreywood.com/
Yolen, Jane http://www.janeyolen.com/
 
Favorite Characters
Arthur http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/
Berenstain Bear Country http://www.berenstainbears.com/
Curious George http://www.curiousgeorge.com/
Hank the Cowdog http://www.hankthecowdog.com/
Little Engine That Could http://www.penguinputnam.com/yreaders/LittleEngine/
Paddington Bear http://www.paddingtonbear.co.uk/
Peter Rabbit http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/templates/indexstart.cfm
Seussville http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville
Thomas the Tank Engine http://www.thomasthetankengine.com/
Winnie the Pooh http://www.penguinputnam.com/Pooh/index.htm
 
BEST BOOK LISTS--OLD AND NEW FAVORITES
100 Picture Books for Everyone http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/gloria.html
Caldecott Medal  http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
Coretta Scott King Award http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/index.html
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award http://www.ala.org/alsc/wilder.html
Mildred L. Batchelder Award http://www.ala.org/alsc/batch.html
Newbery Medal  http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
Notable Books for Children http://www.ala.org/alsc/notable97.html
Pura Belpré Award http://www.ala.org/alsc/belpre.html
 
CAREER EDUCATION
Occupational Outlook Handbook http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
 
CHARACTER EDUCATION
Character Counts Bibliography  http://polk.ga.net/Westside/Charactered.html
Lone Star Leaders http://www.governor.state.tx.us/lonestarleaders.html
No Bully http://www.nobully.org.nz/
When Should Character Be Taught? http://www.masterteacher.com/row/index.html
 
CLIP ART
Pics4Learning http://pics.tech4learning.com/pics/index.htm
School Related Clip Art  http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/barleylibrary/library/tchr/schclipart.htm
 
CURRENT EVENTS AND WEATHER
Dallas Morning News http://www.dallasnews.com/
Fort Worth Star-Telegram http://www.star-telegram.com/
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/
USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/
Yahoo Weather http://weather.yahoo.com/
 
EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCES
Alphabet Soup http://www.alphabet-soup.net/alphabet.html
BillyBear4Kids http://www.billybear4kids.com/
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood http://www.pbs.org/rogers/
NAEYC http://www.naeyc.org/
Perpetual Preschool  http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
Surfing for ABC's Published Project http://mercury.siec.k12.in.us/west/proj/abc/index.html
 
EDUCATION RESOURCES
Core Knowledge Foundation  http://www.coreknowledge.org/
Education Week http://www.edweek.org/
Education World http://www.education-world.com/
EduHound.com http://www.eduhound.com/default.cfm
ERIC Resources http://www.accesseric.org/sites/barak.html
Hot Sites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/hotsite_index.htm
National Library of Education http://www.ed.gov/NLE/
Office of Educational Technology  http://www.ed.gov/Technology/
Pathways to School Improvement http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pathwayg.htm
Texas PTA Online http://www.txpta.org/
 
FAMILY FUN & LEARNING, TOO!
Resources for Parents, Teens & Kids  http://www.ala.org/parents/
America Reads: Just for Kids http://www.ed.gov/americareads/kids.html
America’s Story http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
American Memory Learning Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
Between the Lions http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/lions/index.html
FamiliesConnect  http://www.ala.org/ICONN/familiesconnect.html
KidBibs http://kidbibs.com/home.htm
Kids’ Links http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/kidlinks/
NASA Kids http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
National Geographic World Online  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/world/
Ranger Rick’s Kid Zone http://www.nwf.org/kids/
SeaWorld/Busch Gardens http://www.seaworld.org
White House for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html
 
FOLK LITERATURE
Folklore, Myth and Legend http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
Stories, Legends, and Folktales from Around the World http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/title.htm
 
GENEALOGY
Ancestors http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/
FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.com/
Genealogy Home Page http://www.genhomepage.com/
 
GRAMMAR
Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/fr_punc.html
Handbook of Punctuation Marks http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/engl_126/punct1.htm
Parts of Speech http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/Parts-of-Speech.html
Traditional Grammar http://www.niu.edu/english/deh/grammarbook/title.html
 
GRANTS
Evergreen Project http://www.evergreenproject.com/teachers/standardfr.htm
 
HEALTH, P.E., AND FITNESS
ClinicalTrials.gov  http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/b
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis http://www.mayohealth.org/
National Institutes of Health  http://www.nih.gov/
MEDLINEplus  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
PDRnet for Consumers http://consumer.pdr.net/consumer/
PE Central http://www.pecentral.org/
 
HOLIDAYS
Holidays around the World http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holidays.htm
Kids’ Exchange Holidays http://kidexchange.about.com/kids/kidexchange/msubmenu26.htm
North Pole for Kids http://www.northpole4kids.com/
 
HOMEWORK HELP
B.J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/
Encarta Learning Zone: Homework http://learn.msn.com/homework/
HomeworkCentral.com  http://www.homeworkcentral.com/
Information/Study Skills Success http://www.big6.com/
StudyWeb http://www.studyweb.com/
Virtual Reference Desk http://www.vrd.org/
 
LIBRARIAN RESOURCES
American Library Association http://www.ala.org/
Ann Arbor District Library's Favorite Internet Sites http://www.annarbor.lib.mi.us/referen/favorite.html
Library Joke of the Month  http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/jokeansw.html
Library Media Specialist Resources http://www.bigchalk.com
Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Library Research Service http://www.lrs.org/
Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com/
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
Links to Learn http://www.mikids.com/Library.html
LION  http://www.libertynet.org/lion/
Literary Birthdays http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/births/bjan.htm
Peter Milbury's School Librarian Web Pages http://wombat.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury/lib.html
School Library Resources On The Internet http://www.hi.is/~anne/linksiasl.html
SurfFast.com http://surffast.com/
Texas Library Association http://www.txla.org/
Texas State Library Development Division http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/LD/
 
MATHEMATICS
CoolMath4Kids http://www.coolmath4kids.com/teacherlinks.html
Explorer http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/
Math Hot Sites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/Math.htm
Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html
 
MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES
Black History Highlights http://www.slj.com/articles/surffor/19990101_5934.asp
Hispanic Heritage Month http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson023.shtml
Holidays around the World for K-12 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holidays.htm
Multicultural Calendar http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/multicalendar1.html
Multi-Cultural Calendar  http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site http://www.holidayfestival.com/
Diego Rivera http://www.dia.org/rivera/index.html
 
MUSEUMS
British Museum http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Exploratorium  http://www.exploratorium.edu
Fort Worth Museum of Science & History http://www.fortworthmuseum.org
Franklin Institute http://sln.fi.edu/
Smithsonian Museum http://www.si.edu/
Texas Association of Museums MuseSearch http://www.io.com/~tam/search.html
 
MUSIC
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
Music, Instruments, Lessons http://www.eduhound.com/cat.cfm?subj=Music
 
OLYMPICS 2000
Olympic Curriculum Guide http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/curriculum.htm
Palmerston District Primary School, Canberra, Australia  http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au/olympic/olympic.htm
PARENT PAGES
Brain Research Resources http://www.lili.org/marshall/yd_childdevelopment.html
Children First: National PTA http://www.pta.org/index.stm
Early Childhood Digest  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/digests/98march.html
Elem./Early Childhood Education http://ericeece.org/
Facts for Families  http://www.aacap.org/web/aacap/publications/factsfam/index.htm
Great Sites! http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/
Helping Your Child Series http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/hyc.html
Learning Partners http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/LearnPtnrs/
National Center for Learning Disabilities  http://www.ncld.org/
Parent Resources http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/parents.html
Parent Soup http://www.parentsoup.com/
Screen It! http://www.screenit.com/
Strong Families, Strong Schools http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/strong/
Surfing the Net with Kids http://www.surfnetkids.com/
Texas Reading Initiative http://www.governor.state.tx.us/Reading/index.html
You Can Handle Them All http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
 
P.E.A.K. 2000-01 THEME--CHALLENGES

People, Thinking, Learning Styles, Inventions, Brain, Airplanes

Airplanes http://www.nasa.gov/kids/kids_airplanes.html
How Things Fly http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/siyc/flight/
National Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.si.edu/
 
READING RESOURCES
Between the Lions http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/lions/index.html
Bookhive http://www.bookhive.org/bookhive.htm
Carol Hurst’s Child. Literature Site http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
Children’s Literature Web Guide http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Learning to Read in the Computer

Age

http://www.cast.org/LearningToRead/
Literacy HotSites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/Literacy.htm
Mona Kerby’s The Reading Corner http://www.carr.org/read/
Reading Rainbow http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/
Reading Village http://teams.lacoe.edu/village/welcome.html
StoryPlace http://www.storyplace.org/
 
RESEARCH STARTING POINTS
Alfy http://www.alfy.com/
Ask KidsConnect http://www.ala.org/ICONN/AskKC.html
AskJeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com/
Big6.com Web Site http://big6.com/
Internet School Library Media Center http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
IPL Dewey Decimal Collection  http://www.ipl.org/youth/dewey/
Just for Kids http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/kids.html
KidFusion MetaSearch http://www.profusion.com/kidfusion.html
Kids Click http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
KIDS Report  http://kids.library.wisc.edu/archive/index.html
NoodleTools  http://www.noodletools.com/main.html
Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
Ready Reference, Librarian, and Copyright Sources http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/referenc.html#cite
Research Tools  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/research.html
Texas Library Connection http://www.auto-graphics.com/cgipac/mmx/txlc
Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/
 
SCIENCE
General Sites
Ask Dr. Universe http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/
Bill Nye, the Science Guy http://disney.go.com/DisneyTelevision/BillNye/index.html
Electronic Zoo Animal Species http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
How Things Work http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/
Natural History of Northern Arizona http://edu-source.com/masthead.html
Science Hot Sites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/science.htm
Science Odyssey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/
Sounds of the World's Animals http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
USDA4kids http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html
Vicki Cobb's Kids' Science Page  http://www.vickicobb.com/
Why Files? http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/index.html
 
Biomes/Ecosystems
Evergreen Project http://mbgnet.mobot.org/index2.htm
On the Prairie http://www1.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals/prairie/index.html
 
Botany
D/FW Wildflowers http://www.dfwalmanac.com/wildflowers/links.htm
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center  http://www.wildflower.org/
Photosynthesis  http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html
 
Dinosaurs
Dino Data http://www.dinodata.net/
Dino Russ’s Lair http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/dinos_home.html
Dinosaur National Monument  http://www.nps.gov/dino/
Dinosaurs http://disney.go.com/DisneyTelevision/BillNye/index.html
Dinosaurs in Hawaii! http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hccinfo/dinos/dinos.1.html
Fossils: How They're Formed  http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/dinosaurs/rtmfossi.html
Sue at the Field Museum http://www.fmnh.org/sue/
ZoomDinosaurs http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html
 
Geology
Big Bend National Park Virtual Field Trip  http://geoweb.tamu.edu/faculty/herbert/bigbend/
Virtual Field Trips  http://www.harcourtcollege.com/geology/link.vft.page/vft.html
 
Mammals
Yahooligans Animals http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Yahooligans/animals
ZoomMammals http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/Mammals.shtml
 
Nature & Environment
National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/
National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/nwf/index.html
Protect Our Coral Reefs  http://library.thinkquest.org/J002237/
 
 Space Sciences
Liftoff to Space Exploration http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Astronaut Biographies http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
NASA Homepage http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Image eXchange (NIX) http://nix.nasa.gov/
NASA/JPL Mars Global Surveyor http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/index.html
National Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.si.edu/
Space Exploration http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761556756
StarDate Online (UT McDonald Observatory) http://stardate.utexas.edu/resources/ssguide/planet_form.html
Welcome to the Planets  http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
Wonders of Space http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/dec98/intro.htm
 
Volcanoes
Volcano Lovers http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/031volcano/index.html
Volcano World http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
Volcanoes: Nature's Explosive Spectacles! http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson189.shtml
 
SOCIAL STUDIES
General Sites
Global Web 9 http://www.bestschools.org/hs/sstudies/global9/index.html
History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/
MarcoPolo http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/
National Council for the Social Studies  http://www.ncss.org/
Social Studies Hot Sites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/SocialStudies.htm
 
Ancient Cultures
Ancient Egypt http://www.foshay.k12.ca.us/MAC/Ancient%20Egypt/Index.htm
Ancient Egypt http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
Ancient Egypt http://halley.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/egypt.html
Ancient Egypt – A WebQuest http://www.sctboces.org/teachercenter/webquests/Gina/egypt.htm
Ancient Egypt for Teachers http://www.dia.org/education/egypt-teachers/index.html
Ancient Egypt Webquest http://www.fayette.K12.il.us/techcurr/rhonda/egypt.htm
Ancient Egypt WebQuest http://users.massed.net/~mdurant/AncientEgyptWebquest.htm#top
Ancient Egypt WebQuest http://www.phs.princeton.k12.oh.us/Public/dugan/ra4.html
Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/indexlife.html
Draw Like an Egyptian http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/egyptdraw/egyptdraw.html
Exploring Ancient World Cultures http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm
Rosetta Stone http://www.clemusart.com/archive/pharaoh/rosetta/index.html
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World  http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
 
Countries
CIA World Factbook 1999 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Electronic Embassy http://www.embassy.org/
Explore the World http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/
Geographia http://www.geographia.com/
Great Adventure http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/cmc/cmceng/childeng.html
 
Holocaust
Holocaust Commission http://www.holocaustcommission.org/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  http://www.ushmm.org/education/
 
Middle Ages
Castles of the World  http://www.castles.org/
Castles on the Web  http://www.castlesontheweb.com/
 
Native Americans
American Indian Links http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/ecc/indians.html
Apache and Native American Links http://www.cybertrails.com/~azboater/links/links.html
Native American History Archive  http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha/natribes.html
 
Texas
Governor of Texas http://www.governor.state.tx.us/
Handbook of Texas Online  http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Texas Almanac Online http://www.texasalmanac.com/
Texas County Courthouses http://www.governor.state.tx.us/Texas/courthouses/connection.html
Texas Highways, the Travel Magazine of Texas http://www.texashighways.com/
Texas Trails http://www.lnstar.com/mall/main-areas/txtrails.htm#cities
 
United States
50states.com http://www.50states.com/
Abraham Lincoln Online http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln.html
Adventure to the New World http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/newworld/
American Presidency http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/preshome.html
American Presidents: Life Portraits  http://www.americanpresidents.org/
AOL Presents Government Guide http://www.governmentguide.com/
Campaign 2000  http://www.c-span.org/campaign2000/
Children in Colonial America http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/COLAMER2.HTM
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html
Election 2000 http://www.ncss.org/election2000/
FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov (available Fall 2000)
Harriet Tubman http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
Inside the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/inside-index.html
POTUS--Presidents of the U.S. http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Presidential Libraries http://www.nara.gov/nara/president/address.html
Presidents of the United States http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/presidents.html
TIME 100: 1900 vs. Now http://www.time.com/time/time100/timewarp/timewarp.html
Westward Expansion http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Westward.htm
White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/
White House for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html
 
TEACHER RESOURCES
A to Z Teacher Stuff http://atozteacherstuff.com/
Ask A+ Locator  http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.html
AskERIC http://ericir.syr.edu/
AskJeeves for Teachers http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
Classroom Flyer  http://www.learningcompanyschool.com/school/resource/flyer.asp
Content Literacy Information Consortium (CLIC) http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/clic/
Copyright Basics http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
Education Place http://www.eduplace.com/index.html
Educator's Toolkit http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/
ERIC http://www.accesseric.org/
Gateway to Educational Materials http://www.thegateway.org/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Lesson Planning Center  http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/index.shtml
Lesson Plans and More! http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/garston/49/lessplns.html
Literary Birthdays http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/births/bjan.htm
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
New Teacher Resources http://www.teachersfirst.com/new-tch.shtml
Surf Fast Home Page http://surffast.com/
TEA Teacher’s Tool Bag http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/TeachersToolBag/Home/SiteMap.asp
Teacher Page http://www.ala.org/ICONN/teacher.html
Teacher Resources http://www.homeworkcentral.com/teachers/
Teaching K-8  http://www.teachingk-8.com/
Teaching Resources http://educate.si.edu/resources/resourcedir.html
TEAMS Distance Learning  http://teams.lacoe.edu/
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)  http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/
Works4Me Tips Library http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/growing/works4me/library.html
You Can Handle Them All http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
 
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Active Learning Sites CyberTour http://www.infosearcher.com/cybertours/tours/tour02/
Creating Web-based Lessons: Webquests & Other Internet Projects! http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/
Designing WebQuests http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/designerquest/
PowerPoint in the Classroom http://www.actden.com/pp/
School Home Page Building Blocks http://www.learningspace.org/content/default.html
Technology Hot Sites for K-12 Educators http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/hotsite/Technology.htm

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