Education resources by subject areas
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/default.html
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html
- http://www.fix.edu
- This is part of the Smithsonian's traveling Ocean Exhibits. Through pictures, text and sound, they give us a pleasant overview of the oceans affects and its impacts on us.
- http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_overview.html
- What Do Maps Show
- Another excellent USGS learning web program, this grade 5-8 activity gives thumbnail sketches of the different types of maps, with a simple teacher's guide to introduce them and connect them to learning about their relationship to humans and environment.
- http://Info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.html
- The Nine Planets
- This is a multimedia tour of the Solar System; an overview of the history, mythology and current scientific knowledge of each of the planes and moons in our solar system. Each page has text & images, some with movies & sound; additional linked references.
- http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html
- Frank Potter's Science/Math Gems
- From UC Irvine, a wonderful collection of science and math links. The greatest strength of this page (and subsequent links) is its clear and clean organization by field and subject area.
- http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html
- USGS Geological and Geophysical Research
- With this US Geology Service home page, you can not only the latest on earthquakes and earthquake info, but go on-line with geologists, find maps and stories and information about the "Earth", global change and marine & coastal geologic research.
- http://geology.usgs.gov/
- United States Geological Survey Home Page
- Welcome to the U. S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior. USGS is the Nation's largest earth science research and information agency.
- http://info.er.usgs.gov/
- Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
- The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute is a joint
mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Be sure to visit
the "Public Section" linkage. Great support materials for
teachers.
- http://www.stsci.edu/
- Yosemite National Park
- Doing a report on Yosemite [or taking a vacation]?
In particular, for that report, check the section labeled Park
wildlife. Very detailed info regarding the park's mammals and
birds and their locations within the park [listings, not
narrative].
note: very slow initial load. - http://www.compugraph.com/yosemite/
- From the Honolulu Community College we have a virtual tour of their dinosaur fossil museum. Using words, pictures and sound, we receive a brief tour of prehisotric natural history
- http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html
- ZooNet
- Zoonet's Animal image archives; excellent range of animal pictures
- http://www.zoonet.org/gallery.htm
- The Bug Club Home Page
- From the United Kingdom, the Bug Club is a club run for children [and the young at heart] who are interested in bugs and other "creepy crawlies." They also produce a quarterly newsletter
- http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/
- USDA Nutrient Values
- This is a simple Web interface to the USDA Nutrient Database. Nutrient values are available for 100 gram portions
- http://www.rahul.net/cgi-bin/fatfree/usda/usda.cgi
- Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
- Peel away layer after layer of a frog; follow the respiratory system, nervous system and more. After reading this page, be sure to click the "reset" button located at the bottom of their page.
- http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/dissect.html
- Interactive Frog Dissection
- Just what it says! Try it you will not be disappointed
- http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog/menu.html
- The World Wide Web's First Online Virtual Planetarium Facility. Be sure to scroll to the very bottom of the page to "Space Theater Offerings: the adventure begins here" - text, pictures and Hubble telescope photos
- http://www.voicenet.com/~peterscc/index.html
- Superb periodic tables with each element having a variety of links
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/
- UC Berkeley Museum of Palentology
- UC Berkeley's The Museum of Paleontology's purpose is
twofold. First, the Museum serves as a unique and invaluable
storehouse for collections of fossil and modern organisms.
Second, the Museum provides research oppurtunities to faculty
and students. UCMP is widely known for advancing new
technologies such as environmental scanning electron microscopy
and molecular paleontology. These two separate avenues,
collection and research, document the history and evolution of
life.
- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
WeatherNet: Software Library- From the Univ. of Michigan, you will find the largest up to date selection of weather software on the net . You can create high resolution radar maps, access weather services or even track hurricanes. Blue-Skies for the Mac is a must.
- http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/software.html
- Welcome to UM Weather, the Internet's premier source of
weather information. Providing access to thousands of
forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather
links, UM Weather is the most comprehensive and up-to-date
source of weather data on the Web.
- http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
- Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this site provides a many lessons, games and activities with weather as the focal point. These are from math, social science, art, geography, music, science, physical education and more.
- http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/w_unit/weather.html
USDA Nutrient Values- You are what you eat and this site provides a simple Web interface to the USDA Nutrient Database with a searchable index to let know.
- http://www.rahul.net/cgi-bin/fatfree/usda/usda.cgi
- Sports Illustrated Online
- Teachers beware. This does include links to the the
swimsuit issue.
http://CNNSI.com/
- Teachers beware. This does include links to the the
swimsuit issue.
- Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
- Includes direct links to the Nat'l Association for Sport and Physical . Ed and Girls and the Nat'l Association for Women in Sports; these pages include the national standards for Athletic coaches and for physical education
- http://www.aahperd.org/
- The
Newbie's Guide to Sports
- If you're looking for a good place to start with sports links, then this is your launching point. With only links to the best resources on the web, this page tries to make some sense of the kaleidoscope of sports links out there.
- http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/pub/sports.html
- The Official Site of the
National Basketball Association
- The Official Site of the National Basketball Association-complete: schedules, players, scores and stats, news and features
- http://www.nba.com/
- The Official NFL home
page
- The official web site of the NFL, it includes links to every NFL teams home page, injury reports, highlights, history, catalog, schedules and more
- http://www.nfl.com/
- Golf World/Golf Digest
- Includes Golf Digest and Golf World. Articles on tours, PGA, senior PGA, college; NBC and ABC Golf features and more.
- http://www.golf.com/
- Readers theater scripts for elementary, middle, high school and professional. Wonderful stuff, thanks to Aaron Shepard.
- http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/
- The worlds of Dr. Seuss - history, games and stories [a licensed site]
- http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html
- Wow! If it is Shakespeare, it is here. The complete works on-line, teacher guides, text search, study guides, ask an expert and all kinds of related data about the times that Shakespeare was living and writing in. This is a fast, clear easy to use site.
- http://cncn.com/homepages/ken_m/shakespeare.html
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/projects/pack/rom-chrono/chrono.htm
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
- This page was written as a part of the State of California's efforts to provide teachers with direct source materials and lessons plans with a minimum of site-to-site linking. It includes teacher and student cyber-guides, strategies, stories, bilingual materials and more.
- http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/resources/eng2.html
- Urban legends defined, then arranged by type and kind.
- http://www.urbanlegends.com/
- From Canada, The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books & films for Children and Young Adults. Target audience: teachers, parents, storytellers.
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
- http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/info/about.html
- United Nations (Vienna)
- From the UN office at Vienna, this page also contains links to other UN international organizations, as well as information about the International Year of the Family and the international Year of Tolerance.
- http:/www.un.or.at/
- United Nations Development Program
- Public information about the UN: what it is and what it does. This page includes UN General assembly documents, including the Security Council, Economic Council and the Social Council
- http:/www.undp.org/
- CIA Publications and Intelligence Hand Book
- Includes the 1995 World and intelligence fact book, maps, cia publications, key members of government globally, plus an extensive keyword search feature. Terrific for current demographics.
- http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
- APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
- Formed in 1989, it has become the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and economic cooperation amongst its 18 members.
- http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
- Japan Information Network
- JIN has been set up by the Japan Center for Intercultural communications to provide recent information about the society, culture, education and other aspects of Japan.
- http://www.jinjapan.org