 10K Wizard: provides free real-time online access and full-text search of the EDGAR system, thus providing the public a real-time link to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s filings. Users may view the latest SEC filings of more than 68,000 companies, as well as search historical filings, from the start date of each company's existence, by keywords, phrases and names.
50 States' Certification Requirements Links to 50 States' Certification requirements for teachers, administrators, and other P-12 support personnel.
 • AAA Math -Over 1700 pages of free online interactive arithmetic lessons, problems and games for grades K-8.
• Absolute Astronomy: "General facts and statistical information about planets, moons, constellations, stars, galaxies, and Messier objects."
• Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum: Remarkable collection of astronomy resources.
• Acronyms and Abbreviations A listing by subject. So if you or your students aren't exactly sure what it is, you can look it up. Be careful with this one, as it also includes not so appropriate abbreviations.
• ADD Site: A wealtlh of information about attention deficit disorder. Facts, treatment options, research, myths, books, family issues. Sections for children & teens, as well.
• Algebra Tutor: This Algebra site is maintained by Carnegie Mellon University.
• All About Jazz: "All About Jazz, a magazine for Jazz fans by Jazz fans. The premier Jazz site on the Web. Informative and timely yet entertaining and fun, it offers all fans the opportunity to express their opinion on a variety of jazz and jazz-related subjects."
• All Academic: A search engine to find free academic resources (especially professional papers) on education-related topics. Results are cited in MLS, APA, or Chicago style bibliographical format, with links to the resource.
• AllMath: The AllMath home page includes Math Tools (Flash Cards, Metric Converter), Math Games, Mathematician Biographies, a Math Glossary, a Multiplication Table, Metric Conversion Factors, and Ask The Experts feature, and more.
• All TheTests - The search engine and directory to all IQ-Tests, EQ-Tests, Career-Tests, Health-Tests and much more.
• Amazing Picture Machine- helps educators find pictures, maps, and other graphic resources along with sample lesson activities
• Amazing Space- The Space Telescope Science Institute located in Baltimore is responsible for the scientific operation of the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1996, a science teacher teamed up with scientists and engineers from the institute and staff members from the Office of Public Outreach to develop interactive lessons for the World Wide Web. In these pages you will find the interactive lessons they developed (many with ccompanying materials). The suggested levels for individual lessons vary from elementary to high school
• Amazon Books-discount purchases
• American Library Association (source of award-winning books for children and teens & a listing of great web sites for children. Includes ideas for parents)
• American Religion Data Archive -"The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."
• American Ballet Theatre : The American ballet Theatre Web site includes an overview of their current season including repertory archives, dancer biographies and photo gallery, a ballet dictionary, and more.
• Animal Diversity Web: A collection of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology maintained by the University of Michigan
• Annals of Improbable Research: Information on scientific research that is bogus, useless, or (at the very least) questionable. Good materials for classroom use.
• The Apple Museum: "The Apple Museum is dedicated to the history of Apple Computer, Inc. and with more than 350 Apple products listed, the most comprehensive Apple history source on the Internet."
• Archiving Early America: Historic early American documents, trivia, life in Colonial times, Colonial crossword puzzle; a unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared more than 200 years ago.
• Art Teacher on the Net:Links to resources & instructional ideas for the K-12 art educator.
• Architecture Design Images: "This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries,
bibliographies, Web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of
all kinds."
• Art Gallery of Ontario: This gallery is the eighth largest art museum in North America. Its collection comprises more than 24,000 works
• Arts Journal: Daily news articles related to all of the fine arts, including dance, media, music, theatre, and visual arts. Addresses issues and people representing 1,000 years of European, Canadian, modern, Inuit, and contemporary art. in the news.
• Astronomy Magazine: The online version of this wonderful publication offers featured stories, a photo gallery, and more.
• Autisim Society of America and
• Autism Autoimmunity Project
• Autism Research Institute
• Auto World Weekly: Voc. Ed.-Industrial Tech. collection. Auto World Weekly's rich Website includes road tests, daily news, an auto• glossary, forums, car pricing, rebate news, and recall information.
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• Baseball-Reference: Major League Baseball Statistics for each player, team, and league in baseball history. Includes batting, pitching and fielding stats along with leaders, managers, links, books and award winners.
• Barringer Meteorite Crater: This site provides a variety of activities, including interactive quizzes and games, as well as history and current events related to this crater and meteors in general.
• Beehoo: The ultimate resource for all things having to do with bees!
• Ben's Guide to Government for Kids: Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, a feature of the Government Printing Office (GPO), provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.
• Bioethics The most visited bioethics web site in the world.
• Biographies and Works of Famous Painters: From the Web Museum, Paris
• BioInteractive: from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides interactive multimedia such as animations
• Biological Anthropology Web: Information on and discussions of topics related to broadly defined aspects of biological & cultural human variation & adaptation.
• Biology Corner: This site offers resources for biology teachers, including: lesson plans, internet lessons, and WebQuests.
• Biology4Kids- "The web site that teaches biology fundamentals to children and adults."
• BookHive- Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, NC-site full or reviews of children's books, arranged by category
• Black Facts Online: an Internet Search Page designed to make it easy to find out interesting and inspiring facts about events impacting people of African descent.
• Book Adventure: challenges kids wih reading comprehen sion quizzes.
• BrainPops - user friendly and sound packed site for kids, teachers, and parents.
• Brain Materials
• Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D--A great source of information from Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D. of Baylor College of Medicine, Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital.The site features Dr. Perry’s articles on brain development and children: specializing in children in crisis.
• Become a Bug Lover: a site dedicated to insects, and their place in human culture; it includes photos, biographies, and links.
• Bureau of Land Management: contains teacher resources, state programs and contacts.
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 • Cardboard Cognition- This site is the result of work done by graduate students at San Diego State University. It lists the educational objectives, rules for play, and much more about a very large
• CELLS Alive!: If your science class has been studying cells, this site is a must-see. It provides additional photographs, drawings, and movies for student study. A collection of educational games. The "Content by Age Matrix" is especially useful
• A Century of Physics: "The story of physics in the 20th century unfolds like a splendid tapestry teeming with people, ideas, and things." This site offers a searchable database of information, as well as a timeline of the
• Chem4Kids: This site has everything you'll need to help your students understand accomplishments of the century
• Checking Accounts: Resource to help teach student about managing checking accounts.
• Chemguide: This site was created to help advanced level chemistry students to go into more depth in understanding more complex chemical phenomenon.
• Child and Youth Health- This has social, sexual, psychological and physical health information which is written in youth-friendly language.
• Children's Music Archive-This site provides a children's songbook, archived alphabetically. Lyrics and activities are included.
• Children and Computers: Susan Haugland, an early childhood education profession from Denver, helps adults find software for computers that are open-ended and not drill and kill.
• Classics Archive This site offers searchable texts (translated into English) of over 400 works by nearly 60 authors, mainly Greco-Roman, but also some Chinese and Persian literature.
• Columbus Navigation homepage: Learn about Christopher Columbus' use of dead reckoning, celestial navigation, his ships and his crews, and more.
• College Scholarships: This site provides a free listing of a host of college scholarships.
• Computer Industry Almanac: The Computer Industry Almanac positions itself as "The complete resource to the Internet, PC and workstation industries--past, present and future."
• Constitution Society "The Constitution Society is a private non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education on the principles of constitutional republican government. It publishes documentation, engages in litigation, and organizes local citizens groups to work for reform." The Constitution Society has a comprehensive collection of constitutional materials, including books, articles, and tools.
• Connections+ resources linked with subject areas and content standards
• County Studies-maintained by U.S. Library of Congress, provides information describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems.
• Creative Quotations-Creative Quotations is one of the largest quotation websites on the Internet. Creative Quotations are quotes from famous people on their birthday linked to five components of creativity. With 12,000 quotations from more than 2,000 famous people, CQ features at least three famous people for each day of the year.
• Children’s Software Revue: rates thousands of titles of software.
• The Cook's Thesaurus: suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget, and innovative replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.
• Colonial Hall Looking for biographies of famous and lesser-known founding fathers? Check out this site for profiles of more than 100 signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation.
• Critical Reading Reading and Writing Ideas As Well As Words Everyone complains that students cannot read well and yet there is no high school or college course in critical reading. This is the website for just such a course.
• Culinary Cafe: packed with recipes, bulletin boards, chat rooms, a Spice Encyclopedia and helpful hints.
• Currency converter: converts virtually any currency to American dollars, and vice versa.
• Cut And Paste: A History of Photomontage: "Looking at work, techniques, and artists involved in photomontage from the
1920s, 1980s, and the present day."
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• Daily Grammar: Daily Grammar is a free service of Word Place, Inc. Daily Grammar sends you e-mail messages with a grammar lesson five days of the week and a quiz on the sixth day.
• The Dana Foundation- 745 Fifth Ave., Suite 700., New York, NY., 10151 -- Brain Work --The Neuroscience Newsletter, E-Mail--danainfo@danany.dana.org
• Dana BrainWeb: Much information on drugs, substance prevention, including Prevention Online, a clearinghouse for alcohol and drug information.
• The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is the world's first science center devoted entirely to public genetics education and is an operating unit of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an important center for molecular genetics research.
• DefenseLINK: This is the official Web site for the United States Department of Defense.
• Dictionary: Okay, this one is obvious...but what list would be complete without it?
• A Math's Dictionary for Kids: "An animated, interactive maths dictionary for kids which explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language. Lots of online activities."
• Dictionary of Symbolism: The Dictionary of Symbolism "endeavors to provide some possble cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context.
• Dictionary of School Chemistry Experiments This site contains experiments from the "low cost" science teaching movement, simplified versions of classical chemistry experiments, experiments using locally available substances and kitchen chemicals, and environmental chemistry.
• Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases-View of brain (2D and 3D) from cadaver sections MRI scans and computer reconstruction
• Directory of Technical and Vocational Tech Schools: Students, counselors and teachers may this directory of technical and vocational schools to find schools that match the learning and career needs of students.
• Discovery Puzzlemaker: My personal favorite. Use the tools to create your own word searches, crosswords or multiple choice quizzes with your own words, or search the database and use other teacher's creations.
• DOE Information Bridge: This site provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
• Drama Teacher's Resource Room- An award winning Canadian site dedicated to grade 4-12 drama teachers with lesson plans, backstage activities/archives, production ideas, support, other WWW drama links and educator seminar information.
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 • "eSchool News School Funding Center" Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology funding.
• EasyBib A free online tool to aid you in creating a bibliography with AutomaticBibliography Formatting, Alphabetizing, and Printing.
• Earth and Moon viewer: view maps. You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun
• Educational Web Adventures: Educational Web Adventures is an award-winning Web site that offers interactive and in-depth adventures about art, science, history and geography.
• Education World: This site offers one-stop shopping for educational resources, including lesson plans, content-related resources, and more.
• EduHound.com This site is a specialized directory with built-in resource links
offered for free to educators, students and parents.
• ED's Oasis-Check out the Workshops links
• Educational articles in newspapers nationwide
• Educational Hound-An online directory specializing in educational resources for K-12 set. It contains everything from art to museums to virtual explorations
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science-sciences hotlists
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Inquiry and Problem Solving
• Encyclopedia Astronautica: Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica is an interesting resource for information on rockets and other spacecraft, launch vehicles, astronauts and cosmonauts, spaceflight, and space history and exploration.
• Encyclopedia Mythical- This site is one of the largest collections of mythology, folklore, and legends on the Internet. Wonderfully illustrated, this site will keep you busy for hours.
• English To Go: This resource, provided by Reuters News Agency, offers real-life lesson plans for writing. Great ideas for English teachers!
• Environmental Education Online courses and degree programs in Environmental Studies plus web resources for ecotourism, ecocareers, ecoshopping and learning more about
• Environmental Education Link (EEL): develops and organizes internet resources to support effective environmental education in K-12. It includes resources for professionals, for the classroom, lists grants, contains environmental information with an embedded search engine. Information is sorted by topic: includes an online enviroscientists with guaranteed answers within 48 hour, libraries, URLs, data online with access to geographically specific environmental information, and even information sorted by zip code through the Earth’s 911 sections the •
• Environmental Protection Agency: for middle and high school students to explore environmental issues, such as: ozone, acid rain, pollution, radon, waste and recycling, neighborhoods, human health, water, ecosystems, and conservationenvironment
• Exploring Gravity "Exploring Gravity is a set of physics tutorials based upon a selection of topics relating to gravity. They range from the history of how gravitational concepts came about right through to black holes and gravitational waves. The tutorials are loosely aimed at year 11-12."
• ExploreMath: This site offers a wealth of interactive, Shockwave-enhanced, multimedia activities designed to assist in learning about: Points in the plane, Lines/Linear equations, Quadratics/polynomials, Systems, Inequalities, Conic sections, Exponentials/logarithms, Trigonometry, Complex Numbers, Absolute value, Reflections, and Probability. The authors also provide tips for how to teach these topics.
• The Exploding Dictionary The site took publicly available dictionaries, indexed them into a database, and then cross-referenced them to near death, allowing for instant jumps to related or unknown material.
• Evidence-Based Education
• Eyes on Art-visual art, web-based lessons plans with teacher guides
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• FamilyLife 1st: committed to building a community where family life is a priority.
• FactMonster: the largest free reference site just for kids! Get homework help & find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education and health.
• Fear of Physics: a friendly, non-technical place to explore the laws of physics. There are activities for elementary school, and simulations for middle school and high school, including: Sound, Collisions, Making your Jump Shot, and Zero G. Illustrations will appeal to
• Federal Web Locator-links to government agencie
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence site, Free and it's full of great stuff!
• Figure This: A joint project of the National Council for Teachers of mathematics, this site shows kids how match “matters” in daily life, and engages them in a variety of problem sets.
• Figure This! Math Challenges for Families : Figure This!, co-funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, is a national campaign to engage parents and their children in math learning activities that are challenging and fun--and based on the kind of mathematics that middle-school aged children should know and be able to do. At the core of the campaign is a series of 80 math problems that kids and adults can work together, outside of school.
• Food Safety This site provides access to food safety information from various agencies of the federal government. It contains information for consumers, kids, educators, and those in the food service industry, and it includes advice on food and water safety, and news about product recalls and warnings.
• Free Photos This site has free photos for non-commercial use.
• Freeskills.com provides hundreds of free online IT tutorials which range from entry level texts on using word processors through to advanced techniques in web development or database design and network routing. These types of opportunities are useful and cost effective in delivering staff development relating to IT skills
• From Stargazers to Starships- If your scientific curiosity spans everything from Stargazers to Starships,
take a flight through cyberspace to this NASA site. Tutorials about some of the coolest subjects in the universe. Includes a math refresher for algebra and trig.
• Free Translation-translate web pages and text from one language to another.
• Fred's Finds Archive: see also Fred Schouten and Engaged Learning
• Fun Brain: Games teach a wide range of subjects, including fractions, parts of speech, musical notes, U.S. presidents, and constellations.
• Fun and educational sites .Resource for all grade levels.
• Funny Poetry for Children: Lots of juvenile poetry, complete with contests, an "ask the poet" feature, and more.
• Funschool: 400 fun educational games: from first grade Paint Brush Math, Second grade Dinosaur egg game, third through fifth graders test knowlege of geography at Capitol Field Trip.
• Fun Science Gallery: This site offers instructions for building scientific equipment from relatively cheap materials. Projects include
• The Flying Turtle: Science and Technology exploration site. "Explore the flows of the Mysterious Everything through nature and human technology. Discover what Fleas and Catapults have in common. Find out why ants aren't so tough in Super Bugs..." students as something they could accomplish, and the explanations let everyone gain a better understanding of physics.
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 • The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): Records for nearly 7,000 free, full-text educational resources on a wide variety of subjects. is to help alleviate that frustration. It is very comprehensive.
• Geography Network : a global community of data providers. Content comes from sites around the world, with immediate access to the latest maps, data, and related services.
• Global SchoolNet… projects registry page: A great site for announcing or looking for collaborative projects.
• Global Music Network: Covers all types and genres of music. See exclusive live events, buy CDs, listen to complete pieces of music, watch video interviews with artists and tune into GMN radio.
• Govspot.com- GovSpot offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources along with insightful, nonpartisan editorial in one user-friendly spot.
• Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation Writing rules from Purdue University.
• Great Books, this site covers it all! From Common Sense to Leaves of Grass to American and English Poetry1250-1920, each selection is marked by author, year, and bibliographical information. One can view the table of contents of each selection, and link directly to amazon.com for immediate purchase.
• Great Literature Online:HTML versions of classic novels. Adds three or four new novels a week: new author is added once a month.
• Guide to Effective Searching- While three quarters of the Internet users polled cited finding information as their most important use of the Internet, that same percentage also cited their inability to find the information they want as their biggest frustration.
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• The Heart: An Online Exploration- Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
• History of US Presidential Elections: a great resource with historical election information for elections from 1789 -2000. The Atlas has maps, population and electoral summaries with results viewable by year and by state.
• History Matters : "History Matters" is designed for high school & college teachers of U.S. history survey courses. The site offers teaching materials covering the period 1876 to 1946, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
• HistoryCentral.com: This site presents a timeline of major world history events beginning in 10,000 BC and ending with 1999. Links are provided to related Web sites and to additional information. Also offered is a complete history of U.S. Presidential elections, offering state-by state tallies, and graphs of the electoral and popular vote. This election component also links to a biography section covering the lives of the American presidents and first ladies. Another feature of the site is NationbyNation.com, - historical, economic, demographic, and geographic information on all countries of the world.
• The History Place: Information on a variety of topics related to United States history and selected World History topics. It features a Photo of the Week, Speech of the Week, This Month in History, and tips to students on how to create a better history paper.
• The History Net: The portal for history junkies. Site covers all historical events from World History to American History. Learn about the Civil War; Earth's greatest battles; World War II; profiles of historical personalities; history of aviation; historical traveling; eyewitness accounts; and more. Site features onsite archives of features; picture gallery; interactive learning aids; and more.
• History Timelines on the Web-This site features a large collection of historical timelines available online. The start page also includes links to other valuable United States and World History resources.
• Hoover's Online: This site offers a large amount of demographic and financial information on thousands of corporations. If you teach Business Ed. classes, Consumer Education, or any course.
• How Stuff Works - Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then "How Stuff Works" is the place for you! Click on the categories to see hundreds of cool articles!
• Hurricane Storm Science: Go inside a hurricane, read a survivor's story, look at killer storms, and examine weather instruments. With a teacher's guide related to the Stock Market, you'll want to bookmark this site!
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