Classroom Connect
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Intended Audience: K -12 teachers, students, parents
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Site Description: This is a publishing program for the K-12 market that includes
newsletters, books, videos, computer software, seminars and links to online
resources.
Internet School Library Center
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Intended Audience: Teachers, librarians, students
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Site Description: This is a comprehensive guide to children's and young adult
literature, curriculum units, lesson plans and resources in history, math,
science, and social science.
Education Place
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Intended Audience: K-8 teachers and students
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Site Description: This is a resources for teachers and students that includes
a searchable database of lessons plans, 3 interactive games, weekly brainteasers,
and online projects for teachers.
The Educational Launchpad
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Intended Audience: K - 12 teachers, students, parents
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Site Description: This is a link site for other educational links. The categories
include spots on the Web for kids to explore, sounds and images, links to
topics including the Rain Forest, and NASA's K-12 Initiative, The Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History, online dictionary of computing terms, the Library
of Congress, and an Online Virtual Map.
The Family Resource Center
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Intended Audience: Family oriented
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Site Description: Do the kids need help with their homework or a special
project? This site includes weather forecasts, homework help, recipes, brain
teasers, pet advice and more.
Internet School Library Center
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Intended Audience: Teachers, librarians, students
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Site Description: This is a comprehensive guide to children's and young adult
literature, curriculum units, lesson plans and resources in history, math,
science, and social science.
Electronic Field trip to the United
Nations
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Intended Audience: S.S., Around 5/6th grade and up
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Site Description: This site gives background on the UN, shows the UN in action,
and has classroom activities dealing with the United Nations, for example
it talks about the five steps of negotiation and mediation.
Adventure Online
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Intended Audience: S.S., all grades
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Site Description: In May, 1997 two arctic adventurers, one an American and
one an Australian, departed from Paamiut on the western coast of Greenland.
Their goal was to succeed where those before had failed -- achieve the first
ever circumnavigation of the world's largest island. This describes how they
started, why and shows their route.
First
Families
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Intended Audience: S.S., all grades
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Site Description: This site explores First Families throughout history with
links to the White House history, First Ladies, and tours of the White House.
Jason Project
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Intended Audience: S.S., 5th grade & up
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Site Description: Each year, the JASON Project mounts a two-week scientific
expedition to a remote part of the world and broadcasts reports of their
adventure in real time, to a network of educational, research, and cultural
institutions. The site includes newsletters, pictures, curriculum outlines,
and other materials from previous expeditions as well as information on how
to become involved with next year's expedition.
Wacky Web
Tales
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Intended Audience: L.A. 4th grade & up
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Site Description: This gives you tales to choose from, then you fill in the
parts of speech to create your own funny story. You can also send in your
own creations.
Classroom Activities and
Reproducibles
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Intended Audience: All curricular areas, all grades
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Site Description: This is from Scholastic. They have activities for all grades
and areas, but you must first get through the maze of cookies being sent.
The Ultimate Dr.
Seuss Page
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Intended Audience: L.A., All ages
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Site Description: ItÕs no wonder Dr. Seuss is a household name. His
stories have entertained the young and the old for years. This link takes
you to pages honoring his career:
Easter Bunny Greeting Card
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Intended Audience: L.A., All ages
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Site Description: Watch the Easter bunny juggle eggs, then make your own
Easter card.
Santa's Workshop
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Intended Audience: L.A., 3rd & up
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Site Description: Read about SantaÕs workshop and send him a letter
This includes chatting with Santa, How do I get on your nice list?, How to
buy the perfect tree?
Big Turkey Hunt
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Intended Audience: L.A., up to grade 6 maybe
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Site Description: This is a sound effects story. It's fun to do at Thanksgiving.
A narrator reads the story and, as each person (or section of audience) hears
the word assigned to him, he stands up, turns around while making his sound,
and sits down again. At the word "hunt", everyone stands up.
Cincinnati
Zoo & Botanical Garden
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Intended Audience: S.S., 5th and up
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Site Description: This site lists and talks about endangered species around
the world.
Yosemite@ halfdome. com
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Intended Audience: S.S., 4th and up
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Site Description: See the splendors of Yosemite National Park.This has up
to date news, how to get there, where to camp, and many points of interest.
MidLink
Magazine
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Intended Audience: L.A., middle grades
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Site Description: MidLink is an electronic magazine for kids in the middle
grades. Kids write in about many different issues. Some articles include
camping stories, mad libs, a virtual quilt, and I have a dream.
Take
A Byte Out of the World
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Intended Audience: L.A. & S.S., 5th grade and up
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Site Description: This site leads to links of at least ten different countries
with very unique taste treats. Many of the foods throughout these countries
are based on the peoples' religion, economy, and natural resources.
National Geographic
Kids
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Intended Audience: S.S., 5th grade and up
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Site Description: Now you can visit the National Geographic's online zoo
to wrestle a Siberian tiger. The GeoBee Quiz will offer a daily geography
quiz contest.
Amazon Adventures
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Intended Audience: Schools, parents and teachers
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Site Description: This is the adventure of Andrew Mercer, a am a 28 year
old computer programmer working for ANZ Bank in Wellington, New Zealand.
He loves to travel and wants to help students learn to use the Internet to
discover the world outside their homes. He started traveling the Amazon River
in July. He is keeping a daily diary and itinerary of his voyage. He has
lots of photos, discusses the hazards of his trip and even has an audioconference
line.
History/Social Studies Web Site for
K-12 Teachers
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Intended Audience: K-12 classroom teachers can get help in locating and using
the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
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Site Description: The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the
use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide
Social Studies resources. There are around 20 different catergories with
plenty of links to different sites, including educational resources for parents,
student, and teachers.
Lesson Plans & Resources
For social studies Teachers
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Intended Audience: Social Studies teachers
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Site Description: Dr. Marty Levine, Professor of Secondary Education, California
State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources
from the Internet which Social Studies teachers will find useful. The categories
include Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies, Online Activities, Teaching
Current Events, Other Social Studies Resources, National Council for the
Social Studies, Newsgroups and Mailing Lists, Social Studies School Service,
Educational Standards and Curriculum Frameworks, and What's New This Month.
NCSS Online
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Intended Audience: Educators. parents and kids
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Site Description: This is an information source for social studies education.
It includes teachers, student, and parent resources. Founded in 1921, National
Council for the Social Studies has grown to be the largest association in
the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and
supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies.