Table of Contents

1. Counseling (#370)
2. Curriculum (#375)
3. Distance Learning (#370)
4. Education Alternatives (#370)
5. Educational Technology (#370)
6. Grants (#371)
7. Reform (#371)
8. Special Education (#370)
9. School Management (#371)
10. Teaching and Learning (#370)
11. Telementoring (#370)
12. General/Other (#370)

Counseling (#370)

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Curriculum (#375)

Professional Organizations
English www.ncte.org
mathematics www.nctm.org
reading www.ira.org
science www.nsta.org
social studies www.ncss.org

Annenberg/CPB's Guide to Math & Science Reform, database of 750+ programs for professional development:
ed.info.apple.com/education

Developing educational standards:
putwest.boces.org/standards.html

The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory-McREL
a regional education laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, offers a searchable database of standards and benchmarks for K-12 education.

National Assesment of Educational Progress
offers report cards for curriculum areas

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study
with data on half a million students form 41 countires, has the largest, most comprehensive and most regorous comparative interantional study of schools and students ever.

Knowledge Network Explorer is the offiocial web site of the Pacific Bell initiative. Contains information on education, library news, wired learning in the classroom, products for education, partnerships and collaboration for education, and a whole lot of other valuable information.

Teacher's Magazine is a direct web link to Teacher's Magazine and a great collection of articles and features.

Education Week on the Web is a nice source of information about education, education reform, and education policy.

Telis Home Page is an excellent source of information for the educator.

National Center for History in the Schools contains the outlines of the National Standards for History K-12

Daily Report Card publishes about a half-dozen full text articles dealing with important educational news. Articles change about three times a week.

Council of Chief State School Officers a rich site with extensive research information, especially on school-to-work topics and student achievement.

Developing Educational Standards is the best spot for information on standards without question.

Pathways to School Improvement is the total package for school improvement teams making their way through the phases of the school improvement cycle.

United States Department of Education is the indispensable site for research and information on public education in America.

Bellingham Public Schools an inspiring piece of work which includes: a well-known district technology plan, excellent curriculum links, interdisciplinary projects, and much more. It's the site we should have.

California State Department of Education has links to almost anything about education in California at the state level. Things like the Standards-Based Accountability System, the Challenge Standards, and the State Board of Education can be gleamed from this site.

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Distance Learning (#370)

http://www.usdla.org/
United States Distance Learning Association.

http://www.wested.org/tie/dlrn/
The Distance Learning Research Network.

http://www.hoyle.com/distance.htm
Guide to distance learning on the Web. Links to college programs, K-12, vocational, etc.

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~jmullens/ edlinks.html
EdLinks has tons of good links to commercial, library and general sites pertaining to distance and technology-based learning.

http://www.petersons.com/dlearn/
Peterson's index to distance learning programs.

http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html
A series of guides to distance learning. Very informative site. Excellent resource to find out more about distance learning in general.

http://www.caso.com/
Caso's Internet University has articles, a listing of over 2,000 distance learning programs and links to other distance education sites.

http://www.DETC.org/
The Distance Education and Training Council Online. Has a list of accredited schools and more.

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
The Distance Education Clearinghouse has news, articles, resources and more.

http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/
The International Center for Distance Learning. Has a searchable database of different programs around the world.

http://www.angelfire.com/mo/EmirMohammed/ index.html
The Distance Education for Dummies Homepage. Lots of links to related info sites.

http://www.hol.edu/
Heritage Online has Internet-based distance education courses for teachers.

http://www.tgdlc.org/
The Global Distance Learning Channel. Good resource.

http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/education/distance.html
Information resource for distance education teachers.

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture
Links to distance learning programs worldwide.

http://www.adec.edu/
ADEC is a consortium of universities and land grant institutions providing distance education programs and resources.

http://www.lucent.com/cedl/index.html
Center for Excellence in Distance Learning (CEDL). Put up by Lucent Technologies in cooperation with a number of Universities.

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
Links to distance learning programs worldwide.

http://www.scis.nova.edu/
An example of a particular distance learning program

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Education Alternatives (#370)

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Educational Technology (#370)

WebQuests, ready-made projects for the Net:
www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/webqindx.htm

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Web66: A K-12 World Wide Web Project. Links school servers, helps educators set up their own Internet servers, and more.

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
Teaching and Learning on the WWW contains over 530 examples of how the Web is used as a medium for learning.

http://www.mcrel.org/connect/tech/index.html
Technology Connections deals with child safety and the Internet, technology and teacher education and more by pointing to recent news articles, involved organizations, guidelines, and technological options.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.EDU/insite/
The Information Network of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (InSITE).

http://ernie.wmht.org/trail/trail.htm
K-5 Cybertrail is a fun Internet and technology resource site for teachers and students.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html
Teaching with Electronic Technology. Has lots of links to articles and resources that could be handy in the classroom.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/index.html
Cisco Education Archive and Resources Catalog has a good list of links and resources for teachers.

http://www.edutechnet.com/
Educational Technology Network has educational product reviews, editorials and ideas for utilizing technology in the classroom.

http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/resource/
Good list of resources and informational links dealing with the use of the Internet in the classroom, the use of multimedia in the classroom, case studies, etc.

http://www.iteawww.org/
International Technology Education Association has lots of good technology resource links.

http://minot.com/~nansen/index.html
Technology Coordinators Resource Center.

http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1/tlm/index.html
Sites for Technology in Education.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm
Microsoft's Lessons, Tutorials, and Activities page has lots of educational technology resources.

http://www.13x.com/cgi-bin/cdt/snoop.pl
Concerned about Net Safety? Find out what information is revealed when you visit a Web site.

http://www.pcwebopedia.com/
PC Webopaedia is a handy listing of Web and technology-related terms.

http://www.news.com/
CNET's news.com is a great place to go for all the latest technology news.

http://www.gsh.org/wce/
The Well-Connected Educator is a forum for K-12 educational technology. Has articles, success stories, models, etc.

http://www.academic.com/
AcademicNet is dedicated to fostering the use of technology in teaching and learning.

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/
Technology 'Nformation for Teachers (T'NT) is filled with lesson plans for technology.

http://www.supporthelp.com/
Supporthelp is an online database of technical support numbers that can be searched by product, company or subject area. Very handy.

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/
Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) is dedicated to giving students with disabilities equal access to technology in the classroom.

http://www.infotree.org/teachers.html
Teacher Resources has great links to articles, school Web sites and more.

http://www.breadloaf.middlebury.edu/resources/edtech.html
Another good resource page, complete with brief reviews and grades for each link.

http://www.computelec.com.au/educres/secondary/tech_s.htm
This site has tutorials, projects and more.

http://edweb.gsn.org/
EdWeb has an HTML crash course for educators.

http://www.sun-associates.com/
Sun Associates offers a site that has information and services designed to assist K-12 educators and administrators in their technology planning efforts.

http://www.ncrel.org/
North Central Regional Education Laboratory's educational technology resource page.

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/techgap/welcome.html
Reinventing Schools has articles and resources dealing with important issues in educational technology.

http://ra.terc.edu/alliance/HubHome.html
TERC's Regional Alliance resource site.

http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/
AT&T's learning network is filled with good information and resources for educators.

Welcome to the Educators' Resources
Technology for Teachers
Teachers, Educational Computing and Professional Development
Computer Literacy - Home Page
Computer Literacy Made Easy
T.H.E. Journal
InSITE: The Information Network of SITE
ISTE Home Page
ACM, The First Society in Computing
Computer Literacy, University of Memphis
The Evolution of Computer Literacy for Preservice Teachers
TechWeb's TechLink
Home Page for HyperStudio by Roger Wagner Publishing, Inc.
Communication: Baby Talk to Bytes Theme Activity: Cyberbabble
Invention: Computer Technology - Program Overview
Education Home

The Academic Cooperative is an exciting web site that provides a place for instructors to share information technology and computer science curricula. If you are thinking of adding new courses, enhancing existing courses, or overhauling your entire curriculum, you will find helpful information here.

www.mainfunction.com
Online Trivia Quiz about the History of Computers

Headbone Interactive recently announced its schedule of Internet challenges, called the Headbone Derby.

CyberSurfari headquarters for a one month adventure that started Oct. 21.  Check for new hunts.

EdWeb, by Andy Carvin, great resource for general info about Web and education:
k12.cnidr.org:90/

IBM K-12 Education, with lots of resources and links:
www.solutions.ibm.com/k12

Ideas for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade activities:
www.tc.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Kids.on.Campus/top.pl

K-12 World:
www.k12world.com

Kids Web Digital Library, a "first-stop" for teachers:
www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/

Laser's Edge: Education, Paul's Tips:
www.lasersedge.net/education/paul/paul.html

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Education Site:
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/EduHome.html

Networking handbook for K-12 schools, sponsored by JDL Technologies:
www.jdltech.com/netinfo.htm

Simple Methods of Integrating Technology
Workin' the Web for Education
Teaching with Electronic Technology
101 Internet Ideas
Citing Electronic Resources
My Virtual Reference Desk
Acceptable Use Policies
Monitoring Student Internet Use
Microsoft in Education
PC Webopedia
TCWORLD - technology coordinators
Leadership in Education and Technology Home
EdWeb - Exploring Technology and School Reform
Link to Learn Professional Development
ED392463 Mar 96 Computer Skills for
Information Problem-Solving Learning
and Teaching Technology in Context.
ERIC Digest.
Technology Resources

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Grants (#371)

Toyota Tapestry Grants for Teachers
Annually award up to $500,000 to K-12 science teachers who propose innovative one-year programs offer K-12 sutdents an opporutunity to win up to $10,000. Deadline: Jan. 21, 1998

AT&T Learning Network Grants
Sponsored by the AT&T Foundation, focuses on the ways in which technology is used to enhance teaching and learning. No deadline.

Benton Foundation, for arts funding:
www.benton.org/

Distance Learning Funding Sourcebook:
www.technogrants.com

Federal Register on-line, the official source:
www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/index.html

Foundations, a hub with a proposal writing short course:
www.foundations.org

George Lucas Educational Foundation, seeks to improve teaching and learning through multimedia technology:
www.glef.org/

Mini grants, info and freebies:
www.c3.lanl.gov/~jspeck/mini-grants.shtml

National Endowment for the Arts:
arts.endow.gov/

National Science Foundation, a grant powerhouse!:
www.nsf.gov/

Professional Development Partnerships Project, for putting together those who need and those who can fulfill need:
aed.org

Searchable database of 200+ programs administered by U.S. Dept. of Education, including eligibility criteria and contact info:
inet.ed.gov/cgi-bin/wwwwais_edp

Tons of resources and grants-related links:
infoserv.rttonet.psu.edu/gweb.htm

U.S. Dept. of Education's page with what you need to "Know About" grants:
www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowAbtGrants/

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Reform (#371)

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Special Education (#370)

Special education, an overview of its history, the laws, definitions of disabilities, and availability of on-line medical journals:
curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/specialed/

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School Management (#371)

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Teaching and Learning (#370)

Classroom Connect; all sorts of Web and educational materials: www.classroom.net/classroom/

Smithsonian Institution
Welcome to the Teacher's Lounge
Discovery Channel Online
Education Index
The Learning Group - Personalized Games
I Love Teaching
Classroom Connect
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
50+ Great Sites
A Web of On-line Dictionaries
The Well Connected Educator
Internet Schoolhouse
The Digital Classroom
Gateway to the Academic Internet
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Ask ERIC
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -PowerPoint Presentations
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -Associations
Study WEb
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
Grades Database Search Results
Interesting Places on the Internet
Homework Heaven
Adobe School Resources - Tools for Teachers
Cool Links
The Master Teacher
Welcome to the Education Connection!
Internet Resource Directory Page
Grades Database Search Results
The Electric Library
GRADES Educational Link Archive
Awesome Library
The Tour
Welcome to GlobaLearn!
Web Sites And Resources For Teachers
Classroom Connect
Teacher_Sites.hmtl
K-12 Table of Contents
Armadillo's K-12 resources
TRC's Teacher Tool Box
Global SchoolNet Foundation's Global Schoolhouse
CyberBee
Awesome Library - Classroom Index
Britannica Internet Guide
CyberEducation - Main Page
Curriculum Associates has introduced Learning Online, an Internet/activity book program which covers topics in all curriculum areas, and draws on Internet resources to enhance the lessons.

Headbone Interactive recently announced its schedule of Internet challenges, called the Headbone Derby.

Ingenius has revised its What On Earth! Current events service to include more lesson plans, printable activity sheets, and a searchable archive of stories.
 
CLUE, Calif. Links U Education:
www.clueupdate.com/

Cisco Educational Archives, a huge site, includes the article, "Going to School on the Internet":
sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/

Busy Teacher's K-12 Web Site:
www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/

Quality Education Data (QED) has introduced the QED Education Network, a service for educators.  The service offers forums where educators can debate issues, success stories including curriculum information and teaching strategies, news stories of interest to K-12 educators, a teacher registry, and offers for products and services.

Education World  provides a database of some 50,000 sites that can be searched by grade level-plus education news, lesson plans, and professional development resources.

Net Lessons: Web-Based Projects for Your Classroom

Integrating the Net - lesson plans on integrating information found on the Internet into the curriculum suitable for grades K-6.

International Lessons - a searchable database of lesson plans from around the world and a form that lets you request specific lesson plans.

Kid Info.  a teacher-created site of curriculum information and links for teachers, parents, and students.

The Academic Cooperative is an exciting web site that provides a place for instructors to share information technology and computer science curricula. If you are thinking of adding new courses, enhancing existing courses, or overhauling your entire curriculum, you will find helpful information here.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

Welcome to Teachnet.Com

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Resources for the Educator - Microsoft in K-12 Education

Microsoft Productivity in the Classroom

Quick Success Lesson Search

CRPC GirlTECH Lesson Plans

Internet Lesson Plans

IBM's Teacher's Corner

Gayle's Electronic Classroom

Internet Connections|Lesson Plans and Activities

Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

Working the Web for Educators

www.4teachers.org

Encarta Lesson Collection

Computer Educator's Page

Home of Multimedia Classrooms

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection

National History Day has all the most recent information about History Day, this years theme, including student guides, etc. It also has winning projects from previous years.

History Day in California has the Theme Supplement for History Day. The Theme this year is "Science, Technology, Invention in History."

History WWW-VL - An index of 3,000 historical sites on the Web, compiled by the University of Kansas.

The Oswego School District K-12 Teacher Resources is home to a nice collection of links to teaching resources provide by the Oswego City School District in New York.

Web Sites and Resources for Social Science Teachers were collected by the California State University at Northridge for hardworking teachers.

The Costume Page - A page with over 2,000 links to websites about changing clothing styles throughout history.

Teacher's First - Features resources and lesson plans for K-12 teachers. It includes classroom materials reviewed by teachers, then sorted by subject and grade level.

Homework Central - has a section for teachers that contains over 9000 lesson plans for teachers, software, and utilities.

The Historical Text Archive is a fantastic collection of historical documents and papers about history collected by the Mississippi State University. Includes both American and World History sources.

BlueWeb'n Learning Library is a collection of learning-oriented websites. Lots of activities, lesson plans, etc.

The World Lecture Hall is the ultimate Web resource for the independent student.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - one of the best all-in-one places for educator's on the net. This one has something for everyone.

Education World is like Yahoo! especially made for teachers. A great site to get educational materials.

Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharoahs - A very amusing site mixing Chihuahuas, humor, and Egyptian art together. Includes Neferchuchu's clip art and teacher resources.

Center for Computer-aided Egyptological Research - The CCER has a specialized search engine, menus and sub-menus for computer-aided research on Ancient Egypt. It is provided by Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Busy Teacher's Web site K-12 provides more on line help for classroom teachers, including source materials, lesson plans, and classroom activities.

B.E.S.T. Educational Sites Today a wonderful directory of on line resources for parents, children, and teachers.

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper provides on line help for students working on homework, or research projects. It has 350 helpful sites chosen by 10 year-old B.J.

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the Smithsonian Institution, includes issues of Art to Zoo and Let's Go, curriculum kits, and image libraries for downloading.

SCORE CyberGuides for History/Social Studies - SCORE stands for the "Schools of California Online Resources for Education". This San Bernardino County Office of Education site provides CyberGuides (web-searching activities for students) in the area of History and Social Sciences.

AskERIC provides on line help for classroom teachers. Educating educators is ERIC's primary job.

Smithsonian Magazine Reprints from the Smithsonian Magazine

Dyann K. Schmidel Home Page is an excellent resource for the classroom teacher. It contains all sorts of stuff for educational instruction, Bio-Chem Net, and some dynamite examples of high school web sites.

Adventure Online, gateway to learning projects such as MayaQuest, Blue Ice, and more:
www.adventureonline.com

All things Russian!:
www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/index.html

Amateur astronomers:
www2.ec-lille.fr/eindex.html

Amateur aviators, on planes, flying, top-down views, and more:
146.245.2.151/rec/air/air.html

An "Eighties" Collaboration in Hypertext, and other projects:
www.engl.virginia.edu/

Archaeology, virtual tour/project of current dig in Uadi Natrun, Egypt:
www.scriptorium.org/TheDigSite/

California Web project:
99.106.67.200/calweb/index.html

CERN, the lab in Switzerland where the Web began!:
www.cern.ch

Children's Partnership, with a downloadable report "America's Children & the Information Superhighway":
www.koco.com/CP/report

Cincinnati Zoo, plants and animals, plus a weekly contest:
www.cincyzoo.org

CNN's Web site, always current news:
www.cnn.com

CU-SeeMe Schools Home Page, for videoconferencing projects:
www.gsn.org/gsn/cu/index.html

Discovery Channel Online, a monster site:
www.discovery.com/

Discovery Channel School:
www.school.discovery.com

Electric Library, for kids to use for homework, free 30-day trials:
www.k12.elibrary.com

Electronic Zoo, a large site covering animal-related resources:
netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

Exploratorium, a nifty site:
www.exploratorium.edu

Field Museum of Natural History, currently exhibiting early life on earth and dinosaurs:
www.bvis.uic.edu/museum

Fractal images (math as art), by CNAM of France:
www.cnam.fr/fractals.html

Games, puzzles, riddles, experiments, and activities for kids ages 6 to 12, featuring animated characters by 7th Level:
www.kidsworld.com

Global SchoolNet Foundation's index to active on-line projects:
www.gsn.org/gsn/proj/index.html

Go Ask Alice!, answers to all kinds of medical and health questions:
www.columbia.edu/cu/healthwise/alice.html

Houghton Mifflin's Education Place, lots of K-8 instructional materials and links to on-line projects:
www.eduplace.com

Inventions & Imagination, one theme from Houghton Mifflin's massive site:
www.hmco.com/hmco/school/links/theme_10.html

JASON VII, archive and resources for these undersea electronic field trips and more:
seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/JASON/HTML/JASON_HOME.html

Kids as Global Scientists (KGS), curriculum-based projects:
stripe.colorado.edu/~kgshtml/Home.html

Kids Creativity Cafe:
www.creativity.net

Learner Online, an amazing site from Annenberg/CPB:
www.learner.org

Martindale's, a plethora of discipline-specific or theme-based links:
www-sci.lib.uci.edu:80/~martindale/Ref.html

Mimi's Cyberkitchen, on food, cooking, and more (cause ya gotta eat!):
www.cyber-kitchen.com/

MUFON, Mutual UFO Network, the oldest, largest, and most respected:
www.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/mufon/index.html

NASA-related K-12 learning projects:
quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive.html

National Budget, an on-line simulation:
garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html

National Geographic Online, put on your digital pith helmet!:
www.nationalgeographic.com

Netspedition - a team conducts experiments in remote areas of the Amazon rainforest, posting images and journals depicting their adventures:
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/netspedition

PBS Online, home page for Public Broadcasting System:
www.pbs.org

Smithsonian Institute offers activities, resources, perspectives, and an electronic tour of its museums:
www.si.edu

Solar System Live, simulations and more:
www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html

Starship flight simulation, serious physics:
www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html

Tele-Garden project - literally plant, water, and watch plants grow in a robotic garden:
www.usc.edu/dept/garden

The AIDS Handbook, written by middle school kids for middle school kids:
www.westnet.com/~rickd/AIDS/AIDS1.html

The Princeton Review, resources for those preparing for SAT, GRE, LSAT, and other standardized tests:
www.review.com

Turner Adventure Learning Site, virtual field trips and more:
learning.turner.com/

Volcano Homepage meltdown!:
www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/~jdehn/v-home.htm

Volcano World, lesson plans and classroom activities:
volcano.und.nodak.edu/

VRML (virtual reality modeling language) repository:
www.sdsc.edu/vrml/

Warner Bros. Kids/Animation, activities, etc. from Time Warner, the parent company.
pathfinder.com/@@QmzQRQQAf7zzw8Hf/kids/

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the Smithsonian Institution includes curriculm kits and image libraries for downloading.

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Telementoring (#370)

Hewlett-Packard E-Mail Mentor Program
One of the largest programs of its type and serves as a model for other businesses.  The HP program creates one-to-one mentor relationships between HP employees worldwide and fith-through 12th grade students and teachers throughout the US.  Teachers apply in Sept. for the year-long commitment.

The Electronic Emissary Project
helps teachers with access to the Internet locate experts in different disciplines, for purposes of setting up curriculum-based, electronic exchanges

Telementoring Young Women in Science Engineering and Computing Project

Mentor Center
Internet-based software formerly called NetPals
High School Key Pal Wanted

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General/Other (#370)

Educational Testing Service; focuses on testing and test prep, financial aid, and related issues:
www.ets.org

Council of Chief State Schools Officers' portal to all:
www.ccsso.org/seamenu.htm

Alabama:
www.alsde.edu

Alaska:
www.educ.state.ak.us/

Arizona:
ade.state.az.us/

Arkansas:
arkedu.k12.ar.us

California's "forty-niner" site:
goldmine.cde.ca.gov

Canada's "master" site for K-12:
www.schoolnet.ca

Colorado:
cde.state.co.us/

Connecticut:
www.state.ct.us/sde/

Delaware:
www.dpi.state.de.us/dpi/index.html

Florida:
www.firn.edu/doe/index.html

Georgia, peachy!:
gadoe.gac.peachnet.edu/

Hawaii:
www.K12.hi.us/

Idaho:
www.state.id.us/

Illinois:
www.isbe.state.il.us/homepage.html

Indiana:
ideanet.doe.state.in.us/

Iowa:
www.state.ia.us/educate/

Kansas:
www.ksbe.state.ks.us/

Kentucky:
www.kde.state.ky.us/

Louisiana:
www.doe.state.la.us/

Maine:
www.state.me.us/education/homepage.htm

Maryland:
www.mec.state.md.us/mec/

Massachusetts:
info.doe.mass.edu/

Michigan:
www.mde.state.mi.us/

Minnesota:
www.educ.state.mn.us/

Mississippi:
mdek12.state.ms.us/

Missouri:
services.dese.state.mo.us/

Montana:
161.7.114.15/opi/opi.html

Nebraska:
www.nde.state.ne.us/

New Hampshire:
www.state.nh.us/doe/education.html

New Jersey:
www.state.nj.us/education/

New Mexico:
www.nmche.org/

New York:
/www.nysed.gov/

North Carolina:
www.dpi.state.nc.us/WelcomeJay.html

North Dakota:
www.sendit.nodak.edu/dpi/

Ohio:
www.ode.ohio.gov/

Oklahoma:
www.osrhe.edu/

Oregon:
www.state.or.us/educatio.htm

Pennsylvania:
www.state.pa.us/

Rhode Island:
www.ri.net/RIDE/

South Carolina:
www.state.sc.us/sde/

South Dakota:
www.state.sd.us/state/executive/deca/

Tennessee:
www.state.tn.us/other/sde/homepage.htm

Texas:
www.tenet.edu/

Utah:
www.usoe.k12.ut.us/

Vermont:
www.state.vt.us/educ/

Virginia:
pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/VDOE/

Washington:
www.ospi.wednet.edu/

West Virginia:
wvde.state.wv.us/

Wisconsin:
www.state.wi.us/agencies/dpi/

Wyoming:
www.k12.wy.us/wdehome.html

"Structures," with lesson plans and ideas, an oft-cited reference:
www.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-Structures/Harris-Activity-Structures.html

Teachers Helping Teachers, w/ lesson plans, activities, strategies, etc.:
www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/

Learning Studio, activities, and more from Exploratorium:
www.exploratorium.org/learning_studio/

Loads of K-12 lesson plans!:
teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html

Apple Computer's starting point for educators:
education.apple.com/

SAIC's Education Resources:
la.saic.com/edu.html

AskERIC, portal to Educational Resource Information Clearinghouse (ERIC), which maintains statistics and data on everything related to education:
ericir.syr.edu/

ERIC, a Pocket Guide:
www.cua.edu/www/eric_ae/pocket.html

http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/projects.html
Good list of class and individual Internet projects.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/edfirst/web_learning/ overview.html
Site with ideas of how teachers can use the Internet in the classroom.

http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html
Good Web tutorial. Info on how to navigate the Web, how to use search engines, how to build your own Web site, etc.

http://thelist.internet.com/
Good listing of Internet providers nationwide. Has search options by state, area code, etc.

http://www.homeworkheaven.com/
Great resource site. Has lots of links to a variety of different educational resources (books on line, etc.). Also has a section on writing styles and techniques for papers and essays as well as fiction and poetry.

http://www.headbone.com/
This fun, smooth looking site has lots of fun educational games and allows kids to submit their own jokes.

http://www.weapply.com/
Pretty good site for information on colleges. There's a great link page to tons of different universities' homepages. You can also download applications to these colleges and complete them online or order their free CD-rom.

http://www.classroom.net/
Classroom Connect has good resources, links, interactive classroom adventures and more.

http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/ K12resources.html
Armadillo's K-12 Resources. Good link site to general education news and resource sites.

http://freezone.com/
Fun site with jokes, puzzles, e-pals and the ability for kids to set up their own Web site.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/ ciakids/index.html
The CIA's homepage for kids.

http://www.vote-smart.org/
Very complete information on all state and federal government officials and candidates.

http://www.lightlink.com/ bobp/wedt/
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus is a good online reference.

http://www.kiddesafety.com/
The KIDDE Home Safety Foundation site has home safety tips and games for kids of all ages.

http://www.iste.org
The International Society for Technology in Education homepage has resources, projects, articles and more.

http://www.byu.edu:80/tmcbucs/arts-ed/StanHome.html
This great resource page for drama teachers has unit lesson plans, theater games, improv ideas and standards for different grade levels.

http://www.amerimall.com/educ.htm
This college education resource lists different colleges and programs by subject, also has tips on SAT preparation, etc.

http://mapping-your-future.org/
Mapping Your Future helps you do just that. Goes through the steps of selecting a career path, selecting a school, finding financial aid, searching for a job, etc. Very complete site.

http://www.jobtrak.com/
With over 35,000 visitors per day and 3,000 new job openings daily, Jobtrak is one of the most popular career sites on the Internet.

http://www.ets.org/
Lots of info on standardized tests (SAT, GRE, GMAT, etc.), careers and more.

http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/bosnia/ default.html
Virtual field trip of Bosnia. Talks about the war, etc.

http://www.si.edu/newstart.htm
The Smithsonian Institute on the Web.

http://faculty.creativeanalytics.org
This Web site is designed to assist faculty of post-secondary institutions to become familiar with issues, examples and discussion topics associated with using emerging technologies in teaching and learning.

http://www.us.edu/nasse
The NASSE is an organization for educators who teach space science and who use simulation as part of their teaching activities.

http://www.amug.org/~jpaul/index.html
This site contains numerous educational links organized by subject area and is intended to assist educators in integrating the Web into their lessons and to serve as a springboard for students in researching a topic.

http://pe.central.vt.edu
Physical Education Central is designed for physical educators, classroom teachers, and parents. The intent of the site is to provide the latest information on physical education programs for children and youth.

http://www.mcdougallittell.com
Contains resources for grades 6-12 Literature. Explore Novel Guides, weekly spelling lessons, author spotlights, links to other literature sites, and more.

http://www.globalearn.org
GlobaLearn conducts live expeditions abroad. A team of explorers serves as the eyes and ears of students, meeting children and investigating communities along the expedition route.

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad for Children. This site was written by second graders at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It has a timeline, interactive quiz, lessons for teachers and additional resources.

http://www.ecopsych.com
The Institute of Global Education offers sensory nature activities that improve the self and the environment.

http://psychology.iupui.edu/tao
Images of Taoism.

http://www.CampusTours.com
Virtual campus tours of U.S. colleges and universities.

http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Netguides/strategies.html
This site discusses the best ways to do a search using the Internet.

http://www.k-12world.com
Lots of great resources for students and teachers.

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4347/
Voyagers Now and Then is a site designed and created by fifth grade students. The site attempts to answer the question "How are voyagers now and then similar?"

http://www.libraryvideo.com
The Library Video Company Online's new catalog allows users to quickly browse over 10,000 titles kept in stock.

http://www.borland.com/ programs/education
A new informational Web site designed to promote the awareness and the use of software development tools in Academia.

http://www.puzzlemaker.com
Puzzlemaker allows you to make all kinds of puzzles, mazes and crosswords based on your own word lists.

http://www.wlana.com
WLANA: The Wireless LAN Alliance site's purpose is to generate awareness about the present and future capabilities of wireless local area network technologies.

http://members.aol.com/weemoose/index.html
Wee Moose's Home Page has education resources, grants, quality in education, aviation education, lesson plans and links for students with disabilities.

http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/Sci_ed/
The Internet Biology Education Project aims to evaluate the feasibility of producing and distributing teaching aids and making other resources available through Internet access.

http://members.xoom.com/ideaspider
Idea Spider interactive has educational online games for children.

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/
NSW HSC Online is an information network that services the Higher School Certificate needs of students, teachers, schools and subject associations.

http://node.on.ca
The NODE Learning Technologies Network is a not-for-profit electronic network facilitating information and resource-sharing, collaboration and research in the field of learning technologies for post-secondary education and training.

http://fcae.nova.edu/~pahaldeb/main.html
A first-of-its-kind distance learning training site for teachers in small rural school districts.

http://library.advanced.org/13681/data/ davin2.shtml
Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? Interesting site created by high school students that deals with Leonardo da Vinci.

http://www.gilbertschool.org
Good school site with a variety of general information and specific projects as well as a virtual tour and special subject pages dealing with energy and technology.

http://www.solomax.com
MAX@School is a living adventure novel.

http://www.csun.edu?/~vceed009/
The homepage of California State University, Northridge is a good resource for lesson plans and online activities for K-12 teachers and students.

http://www.philanthropy.com
The Chronicle of Philanthropy online is a great resource for finding a job in the non-profit world. It's fully searchable and has articles and news regarding non-profits as well as Internet resources.

http://ibiscom.com/
Eyewitness&emdash;history through the eyes of those who lived it. A very compelling first-hand account of several historical events told through the journal entries of those who witnessed it.

Elementary Education
MindsEye Monster Exchange
Elementary Educators Home Page

Testing
Quiz Maker Online
ETS Net - makers of ACT SAT GRE

Martindale's Reference Desk is an outstanding collection of reference links and sites, well-organized and fast.

My Virtual Reference Desk is the first place to go when you can't make it to the library, it is the mother of all reference sites.

The BBC Home Page is a great resource for teachers. Check out "Education Online" for programs and resources for teachers.

Teachers Helping Teachers is advice for teachers from teachers on a wide range of subjects.

Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc. is a web page for book lovers. It contains over 320,000 titles, plus a chat area and publishing gossip.

INFOMINE contains selected and annotated scholarly Internet resources.

Librarians' Index to the Internet has Librarian evaluated, annotated resources which are of use to public library users.

Discovery Channel On-line contains more than just a schedule of programs on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel, it also contains a wealth of information for the classroom teacher.

World of Interest is a giant database of informational sites.

The Positive News tells news of medical and technological breakthroughs, heroic people, and just plan good news. You can subscribe (free) to this one and get daily news.

Northern Light examines the full text of web pages as it searches 50+ million sites for the information you seek.

Dyann K. Schmidel Home Page is an excellent resource for the classroom teacher. It contains all sorts of stuff for educational web development, instruction, student research, and some dynamite examples of high school web sites.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - one of the best all-in-one places for educator's on the net. This one has something for everyone.

Education World is like Yahoo! especially made for teachers. A great site to get educational materials.

Amazon is the largest book store on-line in the world.

San Francisco Examiner - The Gate is one of the best big westcoast online newspapers.

Today's San Jose Mercury is an online newspaper with lots of features.

OneWorld News Service carries news of civil rights violations and the environment from more than 80 countries.

KOZ School Life is an interesting site being developed for schools that could grow into an important educational site.

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