 iHigh.com - Students, parents and alumni can follow local school sports statistics, find activity schedules or support their school through iHigh - in partnership with the National Federation of State High School Associations.
• Insects on the Web: From Iowa State University comes this wealth of information about insects, their biology and control. Jump from this
• The Idea Box Look in the links section for all kinds of great educational web sites and resources.
• The Info Service: Almost 80,000 links to informational sites on the Internet.
• Insects on the Web: "The fascinating stories of insects and the roles they play in our lives. Cultural entomology, insect macrophotography, educational resources and
links to other web sites."
• International Tennis Hall of Fame: This non-profit institution is "dedicated to preserving the history of tennis, inspiring and encouraging junior tennis development, enshrining tennis heroes and heroines and providing a landmark for tennis enthusiasts worldwide."
• Internet Traffic Report "The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections."
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John Barrie's new Internet site, checks submitted material against millions of online pages, separating the real students from the pseudo-scholars with the click of a mouse. His service offers professors an Internet retaliation to sites that deliver students prewritten papers for a fee. At plagiarisms, papers turned in electronically are checked against Web material using the top 20 search engines and compared to a database of other manuscripts, including papers from every university licensing the service.
• Jupiter in Pictures: pictures and picture-quizzes about Jupiter, its rings and its moons.
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 Kennedy Center Home Page- Conducts and supports research on behavioral, intellectual, and brain development. Tips for adults who work with people having developmental disabilities. Links to other sites: EDLAW, DOWN SYNDROME, Virtual School, Kennedy Center’s Gopher Server, ERIC Digest, Waisman Center, Susan Gray School.
• Kids’ Health: packed with medical info for parents, kids and teens. "Calling All Kids" is a mix of tips, news and games. Topics from first aid to nutrition to fitness to pregnancy.
• KidSource Online is a clearinghouse that rates and reviews articles by topic. It focuses on how children learn.
• Kids Mysteries: Mysteries for kids to solve, with scary stories, magic tricks, contests.
• Knowledgeloom - The U.S. Department of Education funds this site to provide educators a place to view best practices in a variety of areas, submit materials, and participate in panel discussions. Relevant research from an "academic" perspective, as well as stories of real schools and their experiences.
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• Landmarks for Schools-various documents for literature, history, and faith.
• LD OnLine-An interactive site full of links and information, research findings, basics about learning disabilities, resources, audio clips, bulletin boards, experts’ opinions section, on- line ordering of products, newsletter, plus a “Kid Zone.”
• Learning Disability Resources
• Lesson Plan Collections This is a very good collection of lesson plan sites. The author has done a good job of annotating each link to facilitate use.
• The Lesson Plans Page: "1,500+ Free Lesson Plans in Math, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Music, PE, Reading, Writing, Geography, Science projects and Science lesson plans. Great educational resource for teachers and parents."
• Lessons from Teachers include links to: Resources; Listservs; Scheduled Chat; News; Media Technology Quiz 1 & 2; Ask Kathy; Jobs; Survey; All about you!; CGI, PERL and JAVA Resources; What's New in Technology; Library Science; Lesson Plans; and PowerPoint to HTML.
• LibrarySpot.com is a virtual library resource center, designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial." Forbes selected Liberalistic as one of the 33 best sites on the Web, and PC Magazine named it one of the Top 100 Web Sites."
• LibraryLand:an Index to Resources for Librarians - A limited, focused search engine and index to major web sites for librarians, allows you to search the contents of web documents at major sites dedicated to the practice of librarianship
• Looking at Student Work: The web site presents the work of educators committed to new ways of looking at student work, ways that emphasize: * teachers looking together at student work with colleagues * focusing on small samples of student work * reflecting on important questions about teaching and learning * using structures and guidelines ("protocols") for looking at and talking about student work.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA is the premier visual arts museum in the Western United States. Its holdings include more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.
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 • Math in Daily Life: How do numbers affect every day decisions? A great intro and explanation here--just what to say when your students complain that they'll "never use any of this stuff anyway!" This site, produced by Annenberg, begs to differ. You'll find lessons on determining
• Math Curriculum Planning-A site for math curriculum planning, with ties to standards and links to many math related sites.
• Math Dictionary for Kids :Australian teacher, Jenny Eather, wrote this animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language.
• Math 'n' Stuff: This is a huge site maintained my a math teacher who uses technology to enhance math teaching and learning.
•MathStories.com:Designed to help grade school children improve their math problem-solving skills. It contains hundreds of pages with over 3,000 math word problems for children to enjoy. Pages sorted by topic, level of difficulty. probability for the stock market and lotto, population growth, and even home decorating. Hey, maybe this math stuff is useful after all!
•MathsYear2000 This site is loaded with math activities for K-8. Numberland encourages students to learn about numbers through number poems, limericks, facts and pictures all behind a giant magic square. In the Games section, there are plenty of java-applets to test young mathematicians.
• Math Goodies - features interactive math lessons usinga problem solving approach
• Math Help From Professor Freedman: This site provides information about basic math and algebra and specifically addresses the needs of the community college adult learner. A student who is frustrated by college math can be helped by identifying their individual learning style and recognizing the instructor's teaching style. This site provides links for students and teachers to information about learning styles, study skills tips, and ways to reduce math anxiety.
• Medieval/Renaissance Food: Primary Sources, Reference, Bibliography, Articles / Publications, Individual Recipes, Other information of interest.
• MegaMaths: is an interactive site for practicing and testing times tables.
• MiddleWeb-educational articles in newspapers nationwide
• MileMarker This online distance utility computes the air mile (straight line) distance between two points or total air mileage for trips with connecting flights. It could be useful for geography lessons.
• A Million Lives "Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries,
letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era, or geography."
• Mind Matters- designed for educators at all levels and is dedicated to the translation of brain research to classroom practice.
• The Mineral Gallery: This site is a database of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens. The descriptions include searchable mineralogical data, plus other information of interest.
• Motorbase- is an online database of automobiles ranging from the very first cars up to the very latest models. The site is designed to be a reference for vehicle enthusiasts around the world and provides model comparisons, pictures, news, statistics and much more.
• A Mystery of Space: Star- This site has information on stars, including lesson plans for teachers, animations, an interactive planetarium, a sighting and story post, and even a constellation poll. It was developed for the ThinkQuest contest.
• Mudcat Cafe: Online magazine for blues and folk music. Features a huge database of folk music (lyrics, audio clips), and a Blues Museum.
• Multiplication: an Adventure in Number Sense relates easy tricks to help a student learn the multiplication tables by memorizing and working from only 13 facts.
• Multnomah County Library Homework Center: : Internet subject directory for k-12, homework-related subjects. The Web resources are reviewed by librarians from Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR)
• Museum of Musical Instruments: "The Museum of Musical Instruments (MoMI) is the world's first virtual museum that features the finest musical instrument collections, including some of the best examples from the 19th and 20th century."
• Museums Around the World - a large eclectic collection of links to online museums.
• MuseumSpot: MuseumSpot.com, a free online cultural information center, combines engaging editorial with a high-utility collection of the best museum-related resources on the Web in one user-friendly spot. Designed for art enthusiasts, families, students, teachers, curators, historians, librarians and anyone who enjoys exploring cultural, historical, scientific and natural attractions from around the world, MuseumSpot.com simplifies the search for the best and most useful sites. From MuseumSpot.com, quickly and easily locate museums by city, state, country and name; find exhibit dates, virtual collections, offbeat attractions, industry resources and much more.
• Multiple Intelligences: This explores the work and ongoing research into MI schools, related to Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Howard Gardner)
• Music Technology Learning Center: Although a commercial retail site, the Music Technology Learning Center provides infofor teachers, students and other musicians understand using computers and MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) products to create and reproduce music
• Music Education Launch Site A valuable source of info, services and resources for thousand of music educators all over the world for over five years.
• Museum of U.S. Essays & Proofs: The Museum of U.S. Essays & Proofs provides scanned images for the study of U.S. Stamp Design. A keen appreciation for the fine art of visual design may be gained through these philatelic specimens.
• Mysteries for Teachers: Access Excellence. This is an educational site run by the National Health Museum, headed by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. A selection of news, ideas and background materials for teachers, including : mystery stories devised as teaching aids; biotechnology education programs in the U. S. ; opportunities to talk online with researchers re: topics in the news, allowing scientists to offer services as advisers to teachers through a mentoring program.
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 • NASA's Visible Earth: This site, another in the outstanding collection of resources provided by NASA, provides an invaluable searchable directory of the images, visualizations and animations of the earth.
• The National Academy Press of the National Research Council : discusses how humans learn: brain, mind, experience, and school
• National Association of School Psychologists: Coping with a National Tragedy: This section of the NASP site offers useful information, links and resources, including the handout "Helping Children Cope With Tuesday's Acts of Terrorism: Tips for Parents and Teachers," to help adults help their children cope with the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. NASP's mission is to promote healthy environments for all children and youth by implementing research-based, effective programs that prevent problems, enhance independence and promote optimal learning.
•National Center for Education Statistics- This is a wonderful site for most any kind of statistical information relating to education in the United States. In addition to finding information for reports to the school board or for a graduate paper, the statistical information found here could also be used as raw data for good math or social studies projects.
• National Biological Information Infrastructure: The NBII is an electronic gateway to biological data and information maintained by federal, state, and local government agencies; private sector organizations; and other partners around the nation and the world.
• National Gallery of Art - "The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Search the collection by medium and school, or choose a Gallery Guide in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish... In-depth studies focus on artists and works of art."
• National Inhalant Prevention Coalition - This site is wealth of information regarding the use of inhalants, or "huffing," and the dangers/effects of such abuse. User-friendly, it has information on what to do as a parent or teacher: materials involved, effects on brain-body, statistics, links and more.
• National Network for Child Care: This site delves into topics including infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, school age children, intellectual, social and emotional issues, brain development, plus ages and stages of childhood.
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) tracks new brain-based policy, has identified several areas in which research on the brain can inform state decisions: early childhood education, school readiness, child care, maternal and child health care, and family support.
• National Parenting Information Network- This contains annotated categorized information from ERIC (the federally funded education Information Center). For parents and professionals, with links to other resources. Publications , Dyslexia, ADD, etc.
• The New Curriculum This site provides teachers with original ideas and multiple
resources in educational technology.
• New York Public Library (recommendations for children and teens)
• NIST Physics Lab: The National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory provides access to a wealth of information useful in teaching high school physics classes.
• Nobel Prize Archive: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive contains up-to-date information of all latest and past Nobel Prize laureates.
• Nutrient Data Laboratory: Resources and a searchable database for values USDA Nutrients. The National Nutrient Data Bank is a repository of information for 100 nutrients for over 7,300 foods.
 • Online Newspapers: Newspapers from various regions allow you to approach current events from different (than yours) points of view? This site provides access to a large number of publications.
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• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant- How many times have you struggled to help your students collect their thoughts and put them on paper? Student's know what they want to say, but translating their thoughts onto paper is often difficult. With the help of Boise State University Professor Chuck Guilford, students will be able to think through the writing process from rough drafts to final polished paper. All the elements of the writing process-organizing, writing, rewriting and editing- are explained clearly and concisely. This web site does not give lesson plans about writing, but it is a good online resource for teaching the writing process.
• Pasta Plus: Pasta recipes by name or region; appetizers; soups; salads; risottos; gnocchi; cheeses; tips on choosing wine; pasta faq; kitchen basics; glossary; cooking classes; shopping sources; and more.
• Performance Assessment Links for Science: PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated interactive resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES).
• Physicians Desk Reference (PDR): PDR.net is a medical and healthcare Web site created by Medical Economics Company, publisher of healthcare magazines and directories including the PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference), "the source trusted by America's physicians for more than 50 years." The site includes sections for Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Oncologists, and Consumers.
• Piece Together History Do History is a site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived.
• Pilgrim Hall Museum: Although this is the home page for the Plymouth, MA, Pilgrim Hall Museum, they have quite a bit of great historical information (illustrated with photos of their artifacts) available on this web site.
• Purportal: an entry site that gives access to five of the Web's leading debunking sites: Snopes; About.com's Urban Legends; CIAC; CERT; and Symantec's (Real) Virus Encyclopedia. There are also special reports and links to most of the better known scams and frauds. A quick check here before passing on the latest great story can save many a red face.
• PuzzleMaker: from Discovery Channel School - is a puzzle and games generation tool. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles. Build your own maze or print one of the pre-made specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.
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• The Quotations Page: "A large site devoted to quotations from famous people and literature. Over 10,000 quotations are available for searching and browsing. Includes the popular Quotes of the Day, Motivational Quotes of the Day, Quote Search, and Random Quotations pages."
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