Let's Collaborate!  There are new Web sites launched daily, so if you visit a good educational resource that is not listed here, please send the site's address and a brief description to me.  Through collaborative cyber effort we can build powerful and practical resources. 

Thank you,

Joette Stefl-Mabry

Aboriginal Art
Songline online gallery of aboriginal art, culture, and music features a slick design and plenty of informative background material,ornate sand painting, cryptic tree bark murals,and vivid nature photography.

Alaska in Panorama
360 Alaska employs state-of-the-art technology to display stunning panoramas of Alaskan wilderness.

Alaska - Wild-Eyed
The Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, placed several video cameras on nearby Gull Island in Kachemak Bay. You can enjoy the view from the cliff tops.

Amazon.com
This online bookstore has over 2.5 million titles, and keeps growing and growing. Everything is discounted up to 40 percent, including 500 popular and up-and-coming titles.

American Museum of Natural History
This museum has turned cyberspace into an interactive showcase for paleontology. For the past two years, the museum has used the Internet to link the world to scientists on the Gobi fossil hunt. A great site to visit.

American Museum of Photography

The American Theatre Web
Provides links and listings in one place for more than 1,000 theaters nationwide. The site's goal is to list as many Web sites from American nonprofit performing arts groups as possible.

Arts & Letters Daily
A portal site for intellectuals.  This regularly updated page links to about 75 carefully chosen articles, essays and book reviews residing elsewhere on the Internet.

ASCD Curriculum/Technology Quarterly

Ask Jeeves for Kids
Using natural language processing viewers can ask "Where can I learn more about hurricanes?" The site will come back with a limited list of preapproved appropriate sites for children. There's even a teachers' guide with suggestions as to how to integrate AJKids into the curriculum.

Assessing Technology - Education Technology Journal

Associated Press
More than one billion served daily.

The Awesome List
Is a great collection of pointers on the Web. John Makulowich, the creator of this list, states that he has gathered "Cyberspace." It is the glory and grandeur of the Internet, the sine qua non of organized by topics, and is one of the deepest and broadest lists currently on the Web.

Balkan Introduction -A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans
This is an ABC News special report. Click on an interactive map for a lesson on each of the region's countries, follow a timeline that begins in 7000 B.C., peruse a list of Who's Who (everyone from Slobodan Milosevic to Richard Holbrooke), and much more.

Barron's Educational Series

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Biography

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Site covers from 1774 to the present.

Blast from the Past
65 million years ago, the dinosaurs became extinct. Why did it happen? Micropaleontologist Dr. Brian Huber of the National Museum of Natural History supports the asteroid collision theory, and he has a 40 centimeter slice of deep sea floor to prove it.

Blue Web'N
A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web

BookWire
A comprehensive guide to books, publishers, and authors.

Breeds
American Rare Breeds Association - Find information on the world's recognized rare dog breeds, as well as breeders and shows.

Built in America
The Federal Government sponsors this Web site featuring photographs, blueprints, and sketches detailing some of our most beloved architectural landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. The collection also features a number of plans for windmills, one-room schoolhouses, and the like.

CIA Kids Page
Bo, a friendly bomb-sniffing golden retriever, invites all young pups out there to find out more about our nation's premiere foreign intelligence agency. Kids can take pop quizzes, try on fun Shockwave disguises, and learn new terms like "data dissemination" and "congressional oversight."

CIA Publications
Including: 1996 Factbook, Maps and Publications, Chiefs of States and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, and the 1995 Factbook on Intelligence.

Civil War on line
The Valley of the Shadow Edward L. Ayers (University of Virginia) has created almost 4,000 pages of digitized newspaper articles, transcriptions of the 1860 Census, tax records, registries of free blacks, compiled service records for both Union and Confederate soldiers, and VRML battle maps. Viewers can create their own "histories" by comparing fragments from diaries, articles in newspapers, and the 1860 Census report.

C/NET
A well-designed site, c/net has information on computing and life in the digital age. It is well-maintained with daily updates and covers everything from breaking technology news to product reviews.  It also produces shareware.com, a "virtual software library" where you can search through 190,000 shareware titles, and search,com a convenient one-stop front end for dozens of major and minor search engines.

Constructivism
The purpose of this resource site is to help educators and students build and use constructivist learning environments (CLEs) delivered by the World Wide Web as tools to promote active learning. Describes sites that cover the constructivism theory, its major contributors, and its relationship to educational technology.

C-SPAN
The online counterpart to the C-SPAN channel.

Children's Literature
The Children's Literature Web Guide is a fabulous Internet resource related to books for children and young adults. It offers the best books of 1996, authors on-line, book talks, conferences and many other links and resources related to the teaching of children's literature.

Christian Science Monitor
This well-respected newspaper has recently redesigned their electronic edition, adding a spiffy page-by-page index. It is  a remarkable job that simulates the browseable aspect of real-life newsprint papers.

Cisco Educational Archives

A PC Magazine Top 100 Web site. It has a vast number of pointers to a variety of educational resources. This site has millions of documents indexed and easy to search. Educators need to check out the Virtual Schoolhouse, which is a library of K-12 links categorized by subject.

CitySearch
You can get detailed content for Austin, Nashville, New York City, Pasadena, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Toronto, and North Carolina's Research Triangle.

MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences

Cloning
An in-depth look at all sides of the cloning debate, explore a comprehensive timeline, read profiles of the key players in the field.

College Rankings - 1999

Columbia Journalism Review
The nation's oldest journalism publication, with twice weekly updates and a searchable archive dating back to 1992.

CNN
One of the best sites on the Web for breaking news, it combines CNN television coverage with AP news articles.

CNN/Pathfinder Year in Review
What were the top ten news stories of 1997, 1998?

Computer Information From Around the World
Created by the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) this site includes listings of Computing Dictionaries, Glossaries, and other Reference Materials, Online Computing Vendors, Electronic Mail Information, and many other useful pointers.

CoSn (Consortium for School Networking)
New Information for classroom projects is constantly being added in the Growing Curriculum area of this gopher.

Developer.com
A leading source for technical information, over 14,000 technology resources can be found in its library.

Discovery Channel Online
The online counterpart to the Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel School
A site with kid-tailored content from the Discovery Channel.

The Digital Journalist
A multimedia magazine for photojournalism in the digital age.

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, the "father of the civil rights movement," was an abolitionist, human rights and women's rights activist, orator, author, and social reformer.

Eblast
Encyclopedia Britannica's educationally inclined Web guide. Eblast bills itself as "the thinking person's guide to the Web."  Has 25 editors and 200 contributors categorizing and rating more than 1,000 diverse sites each week. Eblast, is a free supplement to a subscription-only version of the encyclopedia

EDSITEment
Is a Web site devoted to computer-based instruction in the humanities. It includes links to the top sites in history, social studies, English, language arts, foreign languages, and art history. It also lists learning guides and other resources for the classroom.

Education Technology Journal

eSchool News
The K-12 decision maker's technology and Internet newspaper.

EdWeb Project
Provides information for K-12 teachers including: EdWeb, an online K-12 resource guide, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Global SchoolHouse Project. There are also many links to educational online resources.

EgyptWorld
Explore the ancient pyramids in this virtual museum.

Electric Guitar
From the 1852 Martin acoustic to Prince's Yellow Cloud model, the Smithsonian traces the origins and history of everyone's favorite rock and roll instrument. Learn about the contributions of guitar pioneers such as Leo Fender and Les Paul, then browse the gallery of classic "axes" through the decades.

The Electronic School
Is a quarterly technology magazine for K-12 school leaders. It is a print and online supplement to The American School Board Journal in cooperation with the Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education (ITTE), a program of the National School Boards Association.

Empire Internet Schoolhouse
Provides a collection of K-12 resources, projects, and discussion groups for new Internet users.

Encyclopedia Britannica

ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded national information system. Resources at this gopher site include AskERIC information, education listserv archives, lesson plans, and links to educational resources.

EXPLORA World Wide Web Site
This excellent site provides information on global classroom projects. Most of the projects involve using electronic mail, listserv mailing lists, and the World Wide Web. Many also integrate television, video, and live programs transmitted by satellite. There are also many great links for finding and using educational resources.

Explore Science
Brush up on harmonic motion, genetics, optics, and even your golf game at this shockwave-intensive site devoted to science theory.

Fedstats
Browse the latest public statistics from over 70 agencies of the United States Federal Government

Filamentality
Filamentality quickly and easily builds Web activities and resources. A great first step to take toward Web development.

Florida Department of Education
This site is maintained by the Florida Department of Education and contains pointers to educational resources in schools and universities in the state of Florida.

The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library

Giant Leap for Mankind
LIFE Magazine chronicles a fascinating chapter of the Cold War: the race to be first in space.

Global Warming
Information from the Environmental Protection Agency.

GovBot
Comprehensive, searchable database of government and military web sites.

The Greatest Painters on the Web
Artists from Cezanne to Warhol.

Guinness Book of Records

The HiLite
Honored for overall excellence by the National Scholastic Press Association.

The History Channel - Great Speeches
This outstanding audio collection offers a new speech every day. The archives include over seventy addresses from Martin Luther King Jr., Prince Charles, Paul McCartney, and other leading figures of the century.

The Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum
This museum was named to honor Dr. Ken Hooper, the first paleontologist in the earth sciences departmentat Carleton University in Ottawa. Its virtuality extends from The Mammalarium to Microfossils and Theroretical Paleontology.

The HTML Station
This site provides a quick reference to HTML syntax as well as demonstrations of how HTML tags look online. Basic HTML constructions are explained in the Demonstrations section. There is help on coding tables, frames, image maps, and forms. HTML specifications from Level 1 to Level 3 are covered. A list of HTML character codes, ASCII codes, color codes, HTTP status codes, and more are all listed. In addition there are tutorials and templates to help get you started on creating Web pages.

Hubble Space Station
A public archive of the Hubble space telescope's best photographs. Check in on the first Thursday of every month as the archive is updated.

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
From the leading weekly newspaper of its time, HarpWeek presents exclusive online access to Harper's Weekly coverage of the historic 1868 Johnson Impeachment.

Infonation
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.

Insecta
From the Spencer Entomology Museum at the University of British Columbia, this site is all about insects.

Instrument Encyclopedia
A network of sites created by the Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach at the University of Michigan. Explore over 140 musical instruments from around the world: everything from Australia's dijeridoo to Europe's hurdy-gurdy to Spain's bandurria.

Integrated Technology Projects

Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. It is committed to providing library services to the Internet community: to share what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment; to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries; and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.

Learning With the World
Wonderful ideas and programs to help educators maximize the use of the Internet.

The Library of Congress

Virtual Library
Educational Technologies

Making of America
A vast digital library of primary sources in American social history from the Antebellum Period through Reconstruction.

MapQuest
A site that allows you to locate any spot on the globe, get driving directions within the U.S., and create personalized maps.

The Middle Ages
An exploration of feudal life, religion, health, arts and entertainment, and much more.

Motown at 40
The "sound of young America" enters middle age.

Mungo Park
This is a wonderful site that uses cutting-edge Web technology including audio, video, and surround video to take you on a monthly expedition to an exotic corner of the world.

Muppet Movies Lyrics Archives

Museum of American Financial History

Music for the Nation - the Library of Congress
Consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Mysteries of Deep Space
PBS continues to support its television programs with outstanding online resources. This companion site sports interactive timelines, trivia games, and an extensive Q&A with noted cosmological experts.

NASA's Observatorium
A multimedia exploration of Earth and space.

NASA's Solar System Simulator

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA's Web site

National Book Foundation
Sponsor National Book Awards

National Gallery
Houses a collection of Western European paintings that spans seven centuries.

National Geographic Society
The online offering of National Geographic.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Collection
Over 5,000 public domain photographs and images, dating from the early 1800's to the present.

New York's Underground A cyber venture under New York courtesy of National Geographic.

NYPL Digital Library Collections
The New York Public Library's new online digital image collection.

New York Times Books
Popular literary criticism, with current articles and archives going back to 1980.

The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Iconography of Hope

News Index
News Index performs key word searches on hundreds of online news sources. From the Washington Post to the Jerusalem Post, today's news stories are a click away.

Newshub
Today's newest news, updated every 15 minutes.

Oxford University's Laboratory
A new research unit at Oxford University which fosters and promotes new work in the visual arts.

The Panama Canal
The unkindest cut, the down and dirty story of the Panama Canal by Discovery Online, complete with text, sound, video and a slide show.

Parent Soup
Parents, or anyone else for that matter, can ask advice from a community of other parents in the struggle  through divorce, curfews, adoption, toddlers, teens, and a host of other issues.

Parks and History Association
An online gallery of photos from national parks and historic sites.

Physics (High School)
Mr. Tom Robinson's Physics classes at Kentridge Senior High School have put together an index of all things physical.

People's Century
A companion web site to the PBS TV series of the same name explores "the turbulent events of these hundred years through the revealing personal testimony of the people who were there."

Presidential History
Part of the Grolier Encyclopedia Web site

The Prince of Wales
The official Web site of His Royal Highness.

The Psychedelic Sixties
Focuses on literary tradition and social change.

Research It!
A site that has organized resources on topics from language to geography. The site has a currency converter and an extensive language translator.

Riddles of Changing Climate
National Geographic's climate laboratory.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
The greatest show online.

Roget's Thesaurus

The Face of Russia

Scitech Daily Review
A regularly updated portal of academic Science and Technology sites. 

Sea Turtles
Follow migratory movements of endangered sea turtles being tracked by satellite.

Search Techniques
A site to make your time on the Internet more productive.

Seaworld
Features animals around the world.

Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World An online effort from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Scholastic News - Keeping Kids Informed

Sipapu
A comprehensive look at the Anasazi Indians, prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo people of the Southwestern United States.

Smithsonian's Look at People, Cultures and Things
A site designed specifically for the Internet.

Smithsonian Without Walls
The Smithsonian's first online exhibit designed exclusively for the Web features an array of antique personal possessions, including chemistry sets, wedding shower dolls, Japanese lanterns, and raccoon caps.

Electronic Journal of Sociology
Electronic Journal of Sociology - includes a searchable archive of articles dating back to 1994.

The South Pole
Prepared by the Center for astrophysical Research in Antarctica.

Standards for Students
The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) initiative supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Department of Education, Milken Exchange on Education Technology and Apple Computer, Inc.

Office of the Surgeon General

SYMBOLS.com
An awesome encyclopedia of "western non-pictorial ideograms," searchable by word or image. Currently containing more than 2,500 Western signs, the site delves into the histories, uses, and meanings of everything from Cro-Magnon teeth carving to subway graffiti.

Thai Culture
A resource for learning about the art, theater, film, and other cultural offerings of Thailand.

ThinkQuest Internet Contest
Hundreds of amazing sites created by students from around the world, ages 12 to 19.

Thomas
The Library of Congress's Web site

TrackStar
Provides an easy way to guide a user (student) through a set of pre-selected sites. TrackStar enables the teacher to make a list of sites that is always visible and accessible to the user throughout the entire lesson. Annotations or comments accompany every site.  Another great feature is a continuously updated database of "Tracks" that allows viewing tracks by "grade" or by "subject."

Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
A rather large collection of foreign language dictionaries all gathered together in one place.

The Two Nations of Black America
This PBS Frontline special explores the difference in black experience  between the 1960s and the 1990s, with a focus on the growing class divide within Black America. Included is an essay by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and interviews with such figures as Eldridge Cleaver, Quincy Jones, and Angela Davis.

Tomb of Tutankhamen
Actual text and photos from the 1923 edition of National Geographic. Narrating three days of exploration into the Valley of the Kings, by photojournalist Maynard Owen William.

Mark Twain
A collection of travel papers from the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.

Visual Thesaurus
Relationships between words shown graphically! The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.

Vocabulary
An interactive dictionary and thesaurus that lets you check the words of any online document for meaning and definition.

The Voice
The place where students in elementary and secondary schools on geographic Long Island come to link with one another. Students can learn and contribute to village activities. A place where our teachers and community resources find ideas and create ties. Partially supported by C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Whatis.com
Is a straightforward site that defines every computer-related term clearly and concisely. A must visit!

Weather - Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters
A project of the National Climatic Data Center, the site lists 33 weather disasters dating from 1980 through to the present.

WebEd K-12 Curriculum Links
An exhaustive listing of professionally selected K-12 curriculum links for libraries, schools, and families.

Web Math
Web Math provides online forms that allow problem-solvers to check their work immediately. Also find several types of problems that are solved step-by-step via Java animations and explanatory text.

The WebQuest Page
A central location for information on WebQuests.

About WebQuests
Information from the creator of WebQuest, Bernie Dodge.

WebQuest Information from the Discovery Channel
Kathy Schrock's guide to WebQuest information.

WebQuest Examples from TEAM
C.W. Post, Long Island University, NY.

WebQuest Examples
Pojoaque Boot Camp's WebQuests

WebQuest Template
Information to help teachers create WebQuests.

WebQuest Template
Information to help students create WebQuests.

A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests

Web Site Evaluation
Assessing technology

Web Site Evaluation Rubrics
Examples of Web site evaluation rubrics for students.

Web Tools
Everything for the "handy Web-ster"

Web66
Is a K-12 site designed to facilitate the introduction of Internet technology into the K-12 classroom. The goals of the Web66 project are to help educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers, link K-12 servers and help K-12 educators find and use appropriate resources on the WWW. This project is an extension of the Hillside Elementary cooperative project (with the University of Minnesota College of Education and the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement), and funded by a grant from 3M.

Women In American History
Encyclopaedia Britannica chronicles 400 years of achievements and struggles.

Women in Slavery
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl By Linda Brent, aka Harriet Jacobs. You'll find an amazing story here, written in the last century and told by a woman who did not learn she was a slave until she was six years old. From the first chapter, Childhood, to the conclusion, Free at Last, Ms. Jacobs transports us to a time and place soon not forgotten.

World's Most Dangerous Places
ABC News site follows Robert Pelton, the author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," as he documents his escapades.

World War II - The American Experience: Guts and Glory
This PBS site includes interactive timeline, biographies, and much more.

Frank Lloyd Wright
A grand designer, an iconoclast, and a worshipper of nature. PBS Online explores the life of Frank Lloyd Wright through drawings, photographs, and discussions of the dozens of groundbreaking buildings he constructed.