 • Raptors This site helps students learn about Raptors - "birds of prey, including eagles, hawks, buzzards, falcons and vultures. Less commonly, the term also includes owls."
• Reach Every Child : The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom.
• The Reading Zone (Internet Public Library site, containing make-believe stories poems for new eperienced readers
• RecipeLand: Vocational Education-Family and Consumer Sciences collection. Over 25,000 recipes, indeed by category and title.
• Research on the Web: Research guide, geared towards teachers and librarians, to research on the web. Takes you through 10 different subject categories, with spotlighted topics available each month.
• The Rosetta Project: This resource lists over 1,000 active languages and gives detailed descriptions, origin and current distribution of languages, numbers of speakers, families, typologies, histories, etc. It is a great resource to all those interested in language
• Rulers: "This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases."
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• Safety Alerts: "Comprehensive product recalls and safety warnings. Health and Safety News and Information."
• Salt and Pepper This archive of recipes from various places on the Internet is categorized into several categories for ease of use.
• School Grants A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects.
• Science and Research "Here you will find numerous research and educational resources associated with the field of science. Whether you are a parent, teacher, student, engineer, scientist, mathematician or simply a science lover, science-and-research.com has content that matches your specific interests."
• Sherlockian: Looking for information on the Internet about Sherlock Holmes? You will find it here!
• Skilton's Baseball Links: Skilton's Baseball Links is the World Wide Web's most comprehensive collection of links to baseball related resources, containing over 7500 unique links.
• Scientific American Frontiers
• Scientific Learning-gives information on language based learning disabilities. This sight gives information on language based learning disabilities.
• SearchEdu: Search Engine that unlocks university, academic web sites of over 20 million pages of academic materials from universities, schools, and libraries. Provides convenient access to other reference tools, including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, biographies.
• Search Engine Colossus This site provides access to search engines around the world in many
different categories.
• Simon Wiesenthal Center: The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people. The Center's mandate is a "combination of social action, public outreach, scholarship, education and media projects as it imparts the lessons of the Holocaust and develops educational strategies for teaching tolerance."
• Shakespeare and the Globe: Sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions.
• Sites by Sheridan-educational links by an educator, also web page and graphics craft design.
• SMILE Lab and related website: Ideas to improve literacy and numeracy through movement.
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• Smile Program Mathematics This site is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. The Mathematics lessons are divided into the following categories: Geometry and Measurement, Patterns and Logic, Probability and Statistics, Recreational and Creative Math, Practical and Applied Math, Arithmetic, Graphs and Visuals, Algebra and Trigonometry, and Miscellaneous.
• The Social Psychology Network: claims to be the largest social psychology database on the Internet, with more than 5,000 links to psychology-related resources.
• The Society for Neuroscience: designed with brief reports (Brain Briefings) such as Brain Work-Outs, Gender and the Brain, Nicotine and the Brain, etc.
Solar System Simulator The solar system simulator is the NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. Select from the available options to have the simulator create a color image of your favorite planet or satellite!
• The Solar System in Pictures: pictures and quizzes about all the planets in the solar system.
• The Space Place-Fit the giant planet Jupiter and its moons into your classroom. Explore the peaks and valleys of the ocean's floor without getting all wet. Travel to distance galaxies and back in one class period. Experience the excitement of a gravity-free environment by watching an astronaut eat floating M&Ms. Nearly 100 images are available for classroom use.
• Sports For Women: Complete coverage of women's sports. Fitness and training advice for women. News and scores from pro, college and Olympic sports. WNBA basketball, WTA tennis, LPGA golf, soccer, softball, volleyball.
• STAT-USA¨STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, a site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government.
• StateStandards.com: This site provides links to the learning standards in all of the United States, as well as links to lessons keyed to the standards.
• Statistics Reference: Contains links to calculators and glossaries related to statistics.
• Stimulate Your Senses: a way to learn how brains translate sensory nerve impulses into vivd sights, sounds and smells.
• Story Place: This site has stories, games, and more for preschoolers and elementary in both English and Spanish.
• Stuttering Foundation: a nonprofit source of help with the latest on research regarding stuttering, it is a resource of speech pathologists who specialize in stuttering, as well as resources such including books and videotapes from experts in the field of speech pathology. Hotline number: 800-992-9392
 • Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: This is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like se, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.
• TEACHER'S READ:A site of Dr. Richard Allington, U of Florida researcher on issues of literacy.
• TechEncyclopedia: Definitions of over 20,000 terms. Searchable.
• Telescopes in Education This program allows students to use a remotely controlled telescope
and charge-coupled device (CCD) camera in a real-time, hands-on, interactive environment.
• TCRecord: This site provides research, articles, book summaries and more on key educational topics.
• Teachers' Net- a collection of chat room, mailings, and lesson plans for teachers.
• ThinkQuest 2000 is the international contest for the development of educational Web sites. Entries are conceived, planned implemented by students worldwide, coached by knowledgeable adults.
• The Third Millenium Education Project : The project is creating an online forum in which to display the finest learning resources, latest technologies, and emerging philosophies of education.
• Thomas Edison Papers: The editors of the Thomas A. Edison Papers are pleased to announce that the documents of Parts I-III (1850-1898) are now available online as an edited, searchable collection of images.
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• Time and Date: A collection of resources related to time (clocks, time zones) and dates (calendars). Plus other interesting related information.
• Tongue Twisters -Tongue twisters help students with their speech, alliteration and sometimes their rhyming. A great listing from a speech therapist; many I had not heard before.
• TopoZone: the Web's first interactive topological map of the entire United States. Just type in a name of a place or use latitude and longitude to call up a map.
• Torino Scale : As we enter the new millennium, the Torino Scale is Earth's new way to gauge the potential damage that may occur in the event of an impact from asteroids or other objects from space.
• Toy Tips: This consumer-focused research company provides objective information about toys and their benefits to children of all ages and developmental levels.
• TryScience - TryScience offers tips to parents and teachers on ways to engage students in the world of science. Numerous multimedia activities are available for science adventure and a database of science centers and resources is offered.
 • United Nations : All the information you need about the United Nations, past and present.
• US History.org: Created by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia "to bring American history to life for visitors worldwide on the Internet"
• U.S. Historical Census Data Browser: "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960." Learn about patents and trademarks. Search for trademarks. Good site for student research!
USA Track & Field "USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 50 million adult runners in the United States."
• USA Gymnastics Online: Technique: Gym Marketing for Dummies
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 • The Vaccine Page - "The Vaccine Page is a serious attempt to collect all useful information about vaccines, organize it meaningfully, present it appropriately for each of several distinct audiences interested in vaccines, and ... Keep it up to date."
• Virtual LRC: "The Virtual LRC provides easy access to many of the most important information sites on the Internet, including reference, humanities, history, social sciences, art and art history, biology, biography, careers,government information, health information, lesson plans, sociology, legal information, magazines, medical information , newspapers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and electronic texts or e-texts."
• Vision Learning- Library of science lessons freated by Anthony Carpi, a science instructor at John Jay College in NYC. Along with the tet material, these lessons include figures, photos, and animations of dynamic concepts. Best for high school chemistry classes.
• Virtual Sky: a portal to images of the night sky. We show the sky in many different representations and wavelengths in addition to the optical view that our eyes provide."
• Visual Thesaurus: You'll never use a classic thesaurus again. Plumb Design has created a thesaurus that is thorough and set up more like a web than a listing. It uses a technology called "think map" which this company has created. (I originally thought it was Java) At the very least, check it out.
• Vocabulary Builder: An incredible resource. Some themed vocabulary, three levels, (including root word vocabulary) and SAT vocab.
• Voice of the Shuttle- contains plethora of links to online materials for research in the humanities.
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 • Walt Whitman Archive: The "Walt Whitman Archive" project features Whitman's poetry prose, including his manuscripts, notebooks, letters.
• Web66 International Schools Registry: A listing of all schools in the world.
• Web Art: a showcase of web eclusive art in a virtual-museum atmosphere, including counters, buttons, and wallpaper.
• Web Clip Art - comprehensive collection of links and articles to clip art
• Web Gallery of Art: Contains over 7,300 digital reproductions of European paintings/sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given.
• Web Graphics: Archives of web graphics with over 10K bullets, buttons, balls and clip art.
• Merriam Webster Online: Plenty of word games, the collegiate versions of their dictionary and thesaurus. The Unabridged version is online, but requires an annual membership of $29.95.
• WetCanvas! is an effort to bring information relevant to today's artist to an online format. It is part magazine, part virtual classroom, and part reference site. The site concentrates on providing the following services to visitors: Free virtual gallery space for any artist who wishes for his or her works to be online; A complete array of art lessons and tutorials for all levels of artists; Product comparison and research information for art supplies and services; A virtual community where artists can share ideas, critiques, and other information.
• What They Do This site provides career exploration materials especially suited for younger children.
• Who2 -This is a fast way to find information about famous people online: birth and death dates, famous works, notable trivia and more
• Who Named It: "Comprehensive dictionary of medical eponyms. The stories of diseases, conditions, medical syndromes and the people whose names they carry."
• William Calvin - This site looks at brain related topics.
• Word Safari: Set up like a word hunt, students traverse the world wide web in search of vocabulary and how it is used. Very unique!
• World Art Treasures This site contains digital reproductions of 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, all of them devoted to art from the civilizations of Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, and more.
•World Wide Arts Resources- the definitive, interactive gateway to all eemplars of qualitative arts information
• World Village Project -What if the world were a village? If we were to reduce world population to a village of 1000 inhabitants with all eisting human ratios remaining the same then, this would be our reality: 584 Asians, 124 Africans, 95 Europeans, 84 Latin Americans, 55 Russians, and 52 North Americans along with four Australians and two New Zealanders. Puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?
• World Wide Web of Sports- You name the sport, and you can probably find it on this page. Click on the name of the sport and find Internet resources related to it.
WWW Virtual Library: Neuroscience (Biosciences) (from Cornell University Medical College) This links to all sorts of resources--from psychiatry to Alzheimers to neuroscience to pharmacology and more.
• Word Wizard: to learn about word meanings, literature, slang, quotations and anything concerning words or the English language.
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