Provides information about the listserv AWAD, which sends a new vocabulary word a day to your e-mail address. Also offers links to other word-related Internet resources.
Provides resources for students, parents, and K–12 educators and administrators. Sponsors Internet projects throughout the year, including a Mousetrap-Powered Vehicle Competition, the TeleOlympics, and the Math Olympics. Also offers a curriculum database and an index of other online projects.
Offers links to several resources on adult education. Enables the combination of distance education, adult education, and the Internet to deliver instruction. Invites contributions to the collection of resources.
Presents the world of hands-on science and math investigations for K–9 students. Integrates the study of mathematics and science in a meaningful manner, which prompts students to quickly realize the value of mathematics and learn to "work like scientists."
Archives African-American history and culture. Also contains information about many other minority groups. Offers links to the center's manuscript collection, several art collections, traveling history exhibits, and library.
Showcases Apple's vision of the campus of the future, while strengthening the technologies of today. Lists learning technologies such as distance learning, talks about collaboration and information access, and the mobile student. Also contains a link to Highway 1, a non-profit organization formed to support innovative use of new technologies in the legislative environment and democratic process. A Quicktime virtual tour of the University of Southern California is also included.
Contains select resources for both education and general use. Includes lesson plans, ERIC digests, information guides and publications, reference tools, government information, and educational listserv archives.
Offers links to all things scientific that might be of use to teach K–12 or university teachers and students. Categorizes sections by subset of biology, most recent additions, software, and collections, to name a few.
Nonprofit consortium of more than 155 United States law schools. Supports the production, distribution, and use of computer-based instructional materials.
Adds humor to the standard laws of physics. Illustrates each law using cartoon characters.
Serves the gifted population with special programs, job opportunities, and other resources. Provides details about all the CTY programs, and also offers links to other resources.
Offers positive interaction with other parents of preschoolers. Includes a manual and resources for preschoolers to help check readiness for first grade.
Provides information for librarians, educators, and institutions, particularly those within the CIC (Big Ten universities, plus the University of Chicago).
Provides information about the School Development Program, a national school reform project directed by James P. Comer, M.D., the renowned child psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center.
Gives information on integrating computer use to improve middle school science instruction. Provides curriculum guides, software links, and project information.
Provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9–12. Divides the resources into standard subject areas and includes links to online field trips and museums. Also offers journal and research articles.
Details courses, staff, students, and the work done in this department. Contains examples of designs produced by students and staff and also details some of the conferences and shows scheduled.
Focuses on producing high-quality educational software. Features The Digital Frog CD-ROM. Describes DFI and contains a full-featured Web version of The Digital Frog.
Alphabetically catalogs several interesting K–12 curriculum resources from around the world. Helps you research trends in education and creates multicultural or foreign language units. Also highlights links to a Web site created in Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet.
Offers searchable archives of EDUCOM Review, archives of the listserv EDUPAGE, and other online documents. Supports EDUCOM's focus on educational technology in higher education. Also offers links to several other telecom/educational technology-related site and programs.
Provides information on the modern state, such as the national anthem, pictures of modern cities, and sound clips. Also presents pictures and text about ancient Egypt.
Lists all current federally- and state-run gopher and Web servers with an educational focus. Lists a link to each site along with a brief description of the site.
Focuses on geometry and math education. Offers links to resources such as the Coalition of Essential Schools, a Web-based lesson on vectors, a geometry listserv, and more. Also offers a section on projects for students, such "Ask Dr. Math."
Displays hundreds of original 15th to 19th century antique maps. Focuses on displaying and selling original works of the masters of cartography. Offers the works of Schedel, Munster, Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, Hondius, and many others.
Contains activities and projects. Lets students make their own homepages and have e-mail addresses, and use the Internet for research.
Provides information about using video conferencing in the classroom. Includes technology, how-to's, integrating it into the classroom, current projects, and more.
Offers links to a free telnet database, a quarterly publication about distance learning, and the ICDL gopher server.
Contains images and other multimedia files related to earth science. Offers an online tutorial to learn how to use the resources.
Offers a searchable collection of educational links, but offers more than just links to school subject areas. Also reviews online magazines and books about the Internet, and has information about gophers, FTP sites, telnet databases, and listservs.
Consists of four main divisions: reference, youth services, services for librarians and information professionals, and the education division. Contains resources, interactive exhibits, and discussion areas.
News service for students and teachers around the world. Lets you use stories from the services as long as you credit the author, and lets you submit stories. Encourages comments about news gathering, teaching, and computer-related issues in the Discussion sections for students and teachers.
Provides important links for research and training students and teachers to use the vast resources of the Internet.
Specializes in fun and educational toys for children. Offers a list of resources for educators, parents, and kids on the net.
Develops and markets educational and self-improvement software and shareware, combining the latest technologies with time-tested educational methods for the individual, the classroom, and the home.
Provides electronic texts of Mark Twain's works. Offers several works. Also lists other pages with Mark Twain resources.
Provides a wide range of educational services to the national community. Provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9–12.
Provides students, teachers, and the general public information about the rapidly growing field of molecular modeling. Also provides K–12 students with basic concepts in mathematics and their connection to molecular modeling. Contains supporting materials for this project, such as a hypermedia textbook, a library of 3D molecular models, and online challenges for students.
Provides information and resources to educators, producers, students, parents, and others interested in the influence of electronic media on children, youth, and adults. Contains a database on media literacy, as well as links to Internet resources related to the topic.
Features the Magic Carpet series of interactive learning software (in English or Mandarin Chinese). Provides ordering information and information on a 30-day free trial basis.
Provides information for practioners, educators, and researchers in medical, clinical, and occupational toxicology. Also provides poison information.
Serves as a cooperative gateway to all of Massachusetts' educational agencies and organizations. Offers easily accessible FAQ's, listings of current online projects, and job postings.
Provides image maps more than 1,490 still images of the mountain before, during, and after the eruption. Provides information about the people, Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes, other Mount St. Helens resources, plants and animals, and curriculum.
Offers many links on education and resources. Includes an entire section devoted to mathematics, science, and technology.
Offers a collection of servers specifically geared for teachers, students, and administrators. Offers a selection of math and science education resources, connectivity to numerous education servers, journals, and grant and project participation information.
Shares information about educationally relevant Internet resources. Provides list members with a message each day during the school year to help them find resources on the Internet. Offers an organized main index, and the listserv is one way to keep up with the Internet one day at a time.
Nonprofit center for holistic learning and culture in New York City. Offers nearly 1,000 courses annually on topics of alternative health and bodywork disciplines, depth psychologies, sociocultural issues, spiritual and meditative teachings, and multicultural arts. Includes program information and a preview of the center's journal.
Presents a multimedia essay about the solar system, using text, pictures, sounds, and an occasional movie. Briefly describes each of the planets and major moons in the solar system, and illustrates them using pictures from NASA spacecraft.
Contains a collection of online math and science resources, as well as information on WEdNet. Also offers links to public and private online schools and Washington state colleges and universities.
Contains parenting enhancement skills that you can use throughout your impressionable child's life. Presents guidelines for raising happy, healthy children.
Chooses a different monthly aspect of the arts and humanities to create an interactive, multimedia presentation that engages children and promotes creative learning.
Seeks to catalog all United States K–12 schools, colleges, and universities, both public and private, as well as community and technical colleges. Also plans to offer transcript services and scholarship information.
Lists California K–12 and community colleges, as well as several links for teachers, students, and administrators.
Presents a collection of many resources for private, independent, and religiously affiliated schools. Includes separate sections for organizations, school home pages, private school resources guides, and vendor information.
Provides basic skills, GED, job skills, and life-coping skills to a wide range of programs including literacy programs, family literacy, and workplace literacy.
Contains free classic Greek and Latin electronic texts. Offers pointers to other classics etexts found at other archives, organized by institution or archive.
Offers contextualized information on scholarly electronic discussion groups. Provides information for potential and present users and listowners. Serves as a resource for electronic communication scholars, practitioners, and students.
Offers hundreds of topics and thousands of videos and CD-ROMs, from algebra to gardening to music.
Offers an organized math and science virtual bookshelf. Offers pointers to online scientific and mathematical reference works and charts, as well as links to the usual science and math subject areas. Also includes information on ethics in science and software and equipment suppliers.
Nonprofit environmental organization that helps institutions of learning, such as colleges and universities, produce graduates who will become environmental leaders. Provides information about Second Nature's unique educational philosophy.
Contains links to a short list of very useful educational Internet resources. Also offers information on grants, government agencies, and museums.
Lists resources on nanotechnology. Includes DNA nanotechnology, molecular manufacturing, and computational nanotechnolgy.
Tied to the Canadian television show "Street Cents," which teaches young people how to be informed consumers. Covers all of the highlights of the week's program, and also offers a kids club and discussion list.
Text magazine written for learners and teachers of Spanish, produced weekly during the school year. Provides text in Spanish, with vocabulary listed below the text.
Serves as a Web site and gopher for state educators and general use. Includes state educational news, policies, and reform information. Also offers college planning, field trip plans, and connectivity to educational gophers around the world.
Online journal. Covers teaching English as a second language from many perspectives.
Based on a Canadian TV show, "Theodore Tugboat," and designed for young children. Lets kids send a postcard to a friend, download a coloring book page, and help write an interactive story. Also offers a parent/teacher area.
Technology and Information Educational Services of Minnesota, the older sister of InforMNs. Includes access to numerous ongoing school projects, as well as lesson plans, research information, and connectivity to InforMNs.
Provides information on and for urban students, their families, and the educators who serve them. Includes manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews publications, and conference announcements in urban education, among other features.
Offers an information server that acts as a reference desk for all things educational. Includes educational software, Goals 2000 information, as well as primary, secondary, and vocational information.
Provides information about interactive CD-ROM and laserdisc multimedia for science and math education, plus cool science facts, a guide to Internet education resources, educational technology primers, and more.
Provides information about vocational/technical education. Includes information on workplace literacy, tech prep, thinking skills, and training.
Propones the idea that the key to student success is active involvement in the educational process. Provides internships and academic seminar programs to college students that challenge them personally and professionally. Students apply academic theory through practical experience, discover their professional strengths and weaknesses, question chosen career paths, interact with students from across the country, and develop a broad sense of civic and professional responsibility.
Seeks to be a catalyst that integrates the Internet into K–12 school curricula. Facilitates the introduction of Internet technology into K–12 schools by helping them set up servers, design homepages, and find other online schools.
Consists of a clickable map of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and each click takes you to a different region's online schools. Provides the same information in a text format. Also offers school listings by country. Helps find keypals or partners for an online project.
Aims bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together. Provides an online workbook with activities for teachers and students, as well as lesson plans and curriculum guides.
Serves as a clearinghouse for all Civil War materials. Offers links to many Civil War exhibits, continuously updated. Seeks to be objective and look and the causes, events, and aftermath from every viewpoint possible.
Focuses on K–5 kids. Contains images, activities and project ideas.
Offers resources in both Russian and English, as well as links that tell you how to install a Netscape-readable Cyrillic font. Offers online art exhibits, an interactive Russian-English dictionary, basic country information, and more.
Hosts various WWW documents written by Churchill High School students or about Churchill High School.
Includes resources about education and libraries. Contains a variety of K–12 projects, lesson plans, and educational links.
Presents Women in Higher Education, a monthly newsletter for women university administrators, faculty, and staff. Includes news and articles and current job listings.
Offers links to faculty world-wide who use the Web to deliver class materials. Includes syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, multimedia textbooks, and resource materials on almost any subject.
Provides multimedia information about Ben Franklin using pictures, documents, and movies. Covers his family, inventions, diplomacy, philosophy, and leadership. Provides a bibliography for further study of Franklin, his accomplishments, and the time period.
Provides information about the World of the Vikings CD-ROM and research project. The CD-ROM includes two separate resources—the Research Database, created for academic researchers, libraries and schools, and Evidence Boxes, which collect together the best resources from the main archive for younger children. Also offers links to other Internet Viking resources.
Offers a collection of financial aid information on the Internet. Includes links to all online scholarship and fellowship databases and information about grants and loans, as well as links to university financial aid Web and Gopher servers and a link to the online version of Octameron Associates' book, Don't Miss Out: The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid.
Offers assistance in finding money for higher education. Loans, grants, and scholarships are available if you know where to find them, and they do.
Contains home schooling resources, divided into home schooling Web sites, relevant educational directories, and ERIC information guides.
Provides information about home schooling. Offers links to other Web pages, online curriculum guides, listservs, newsgroups, and so on.
Promotes understanding between Americans and Russians. Provides information on almost every aspect of life in the two cultures, and also links to learning and using the Cyrillic alphabet. Offers a related listserv that you can join or access.
Serves the Indian community. Contains information about Indian food, music, culture, entertainment, events, and the online version of India Today.
Focuses on bringing together information about the languages of the world. The language resources listed here come from all around the world, and range from dictionaries to language tutorials to spoken samples of languages. Offers the page in several languages. Provides Quick-Jump links for easy navigation, and should soon be searchable.
I*EARN is the International Education and Resource Network, composed of teachers and young people working together in different parts of the world via a global telecommunications network. The purpose of I*EARN is to enable participants to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful difference in the health and welfare of the planet and its people. Contains information from all the international projects, as well as entry points for the I*EARN member newsgroups.
Offers a solid reputation for pioneering the development of executive education, bringing a truly international perspective to management development in cooperation with some of the most successful companies around the world.
Offers links to almost all other French-related sites. Includes pointers to popular tourist attractions, learning and using the language, and more.
Connects students and teachers to Antarctica. Includes field journals of scientists, teachers guides, Q & A forums, links to resource materials, and so on.
Offers audiotape and coloring book packages designed to introduce the concept of foreign languages to children from preschool level to age 8 or 9 through fun with music, read-alongs, and coloring.
Serves as a free resource for K–12, higher education, and adult education, distance learning. Offers a free telnet database. Explains how to use the database, who to call for help, and NCLD's mission.
A K–12 independent day school located in Denver at which the students completely design their own education and participate in governing the school. Provides detailed information about the school's philosophy, mission, enrollment process, and generally presents a very bright picture of the school.
Focuses on using technology to increase access to arts resources and increase arts education in the K–12 school environment. Features an online newsletter, an information gallery, curriculum guides, and links to other arts-related online information.
Presents book reports by kids on kids' literature. Links reports worldwide into one central point of reference.
Provides information about Brooke High School, located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Includes its newspaper, Babbling Brooke, which gives information about the school system and surrounding coummunities, and information on how to install a Web server and slip servers. Offers thousands of educational and shareware files for ftp/gopher transfer.
K–12 Internet resource for teachers. Organized by subject area with annotated links to sites that lead directly to source materials.
Offers a wide variety of hands-on educational programs for K–12 students. Presents indoor and outdoor displays. Provides trout and other fish to lakes and streams throught the region.
Serves 15,000 K–12 students. Features student and staff work and technical information for other schools.
Nonprofit organization that represents the nation's largest public school systems. Links to local chapter pages.
Contains links to science fairs, Midlink Magazine (for kids by kids), and Virtual Bus Stops (links to online middle schools). Also offers many helpful links for students, such as an online Periodic Table, how to read a map, and so on.
Provides an Internet FAQ on the Internet and K–12 schools. Offers a clickable table of contents for browsing and contains useful information for anyone considering putting the Internet into a K–12 environment.
Offers a downloadable collection of science lesson plans for K–12 science teachers for classroom use.
Contains links to all United States K–12 schools with Internet access, divided by state, and lists the level of access each school currently has (gopher, Web, e-mail only, and so on).
Offers many K–12 links, searchable and subdivided into primary and secondary education, and also into document type.
Describes what is called "Simple School Internet Protocol"—that is, a way to get schools online.
Seeks to bridge the gap between scientific research and education and make the tools for computation available in the classroom (K–12). Offers jumps for teachers looking for resource materials.
Offers a wide variety of K–12 tools. Includes class projects, teaching tools, discussion groups, career guidance, reference information, and school reform plans.
Contains information about Turner Adventure Learning, electronic field trips for K–12. Contains text documents, graphics, and Web links related to each field trip.
Focuses on teachers learning to use the Internet while online, as well as those who have very limited access time. Arranged alphabetically by subject area with two different tables of content—one with subheadings and pictures for those who want to browse and the other with just plain text links to resources. Addresses the real problem of teachers and time.
Offers courses in hardware and software training. Carries courses to train students to become certified Novell Engineers and Administrators (CNE and CNA certification). Also offers courses on PC repair and service.
Serves as a starting place for parents and children exploring the Web together.
Online magazine for K–12 educators using the Internet in the classroom. Both in print and online, Classroom Connect has become a source of pointers and features related to using the Internet in formal education for more than 8,000 monthly readers.
Provides information pertinent to United States education as well. Includes distance learning resource information, connections to other educational and Canadian government gophers and CLN software.
Plans to develop an online service for the students to review lab procedures and results, as well as present lecture material and project animations for all to view.
Offers several links to good distance education resources, especially for colleges and universities. Serves as a good starting point for researching distance learning examples and practices.
Gathers information on teleconferencing technologies, instructional design, programs and courses, and other distance learning resources.
Offers links to international distance learning resources for community and higher education.
Provides a listing of Web sites, gopher sites, listservs, and newsgroups associated with distance education.
Offers a list of links (all resources for distance education) that have Internet support of distance learning included in the definition. Also describes each link.
Plans to become a central "welcoming" and jump station for educators on the Internet. Contains links to educational conferences, policy and reform archives, and subject guides to online resources.
Presents the Toon Town Election Page, an example of an online interactive project. Students from about 50 classes sent in their votes on which cartoon should be "Mayor of ToonTown," and one class posted the results on the Web. They used e-mail ballots and accepted write-in candidates.
Features fossil shark teeth (photos and descriptions) from the prehistoric Great White to the jaws of a modern-day shark. Also offers links to other paleontological sites and posts additional shark sightings on the Internet.
Features, among other exhibits, "Diving in to the Gene Pool," "Remembering Nagasaki," "Ask Us A Question," and a digital library. Also offers The Learning Studio, a collection of science resources for parents, teachers, and kids.
Provides access to online books, magazines, and reference tools. Includes searchable library catalogs.
Offers a collection of links to online science-oriented interactive projects that students can participate in. Also offers subject guides to resources and grant information.
Genetic Engineering (plant tissue culture/ recombinant DNA) is taught to 36 other schools in the state of Colorado using the Internet.
Offers links to many online interactive exhibits, where you control the action on the other end, such as a robot or telescope. Also offers links to online exhibits, such as the Amazon jungle or the Louvre.
Consists of hypertext documents in English, with links giving pronunciation, part of speech, and meaning.
Uses photographs and QuickTime movies to illustrate step-by-step the dissection of a frog. Provides tests along the way to help the student judge mastery of the content.
Provides listings of teachers and classes needing keypals for cross-cultural exchanges and partners for online projects at the K–12 and the college level. Also offers links to listservs and other collections of keypal requests and online projects.
Collaborative learning experience for students around the world. Each year, a two-week scientific expedition is mounted in a remote part of the world and broadcast in real-time, using state-of-the-art technology, to a network of educational, research, and cultural institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the United Kingdom. Lets participating students at the interactive downlink sites "go live" (using telepresence) to the expedition, operate the scientific equipment being used, and talk directly with the scientists at the expedition site.
Serves as a learning environment in which people from all parts of the world can gather to search for new answers to the needs of contemporary society.
Offers links to many good online math sites. Lists lesson plans, curriculum guides, and interactive links such as the Gallery of Interactive Geometry. Also offers listings of math-related newsgroups.
Seeks to involve teachers and students in problem solving. Pairs up registered teams from all over the world to discuss and find ways to solve the challenges posted in each of four categories: K–3, 4–6, 7–9 and 10–12.
Lists several different online reference sources, such as a hypertext Webster's dictionary, a thesaurus, and an acronym dictionary. Also offers several foreign language dictionaries, and computing dictionaries.
The British institution that pioneered distance education as a way to broaden educational opportunities across the country. Offers a comprehensive program that serves as a model for other programs. Also offers links to other online resources.
Offers online projects centering around specific themes, and encourages international participation. Also offers an international keypal search and find center and access to education-related newsgroups.
Serves as a resource for international students seeking to study at a quality American university, college, or English language institute. Lets you browse informative articles and program descriptions, and use the online request information forms to e-mail the school in which you're interested for more information.
Focuses on the development of a community learning network. Also offers links to other good distance education sites and guidebooks.
Presents an amazing online training course that teaches you how to dramatically improve your memory powers—improve exam grades, learn foreign vocabulary, and more.
Uses the Internet to teach basic language skills. Divides modules by subject. Plays an audio clip that provides proper pronunciation of any word you click. Also provides historical and cultural information.
Focuses on internetworking between Hawaiian schools and distance education in general. Contains educational resources for teachers and students, interesting Internet server links, and a good collection of state and local education information from the department of education.
Provides a learning tool instead of dissecting a real frog. The program uses 3D and MRI images that you can manipulate to see the various parts of the body. Includes online tests.
Offers information on both distance education and Internet in the classroom. Lists online projects, links to resources, and professional development information. Also offers a page on preservice teacher preparation.
Cross-references everything from aboriginal studies to zoos. Details the links by alphabetical order, by era, and by region. Offers clickable maps of the world and specific information about many countries. Also offers a list of other online resources.
Lists videos, software, and publications designed to increase literacy. Produces literacy-oriented educational materials. Also offers an order form that you can print out and fill in to receive more information or materials.
Discusses literary censorship and offers links to each work mentioned that is available in electronic format. Also offers a Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 1990s page, as well as links to other sites dealing with censorship.
Tackles tough issues that face scientists every day. Discusses basic versus applied research, breast cancer and genetic screening, and more.
Provides Asian Studies teaching-and-learning resources, pointers to a vast wealth of Asian Studies research material, information about the programs of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, pointers to information about the University, Australia, and studying in Australia.
Offers five accredited degree programs in aviation management, aeronautical science, and aviation computer science. Offers FAA-approved flight training.
Study global ecology and travel around the world to England, India, Philippines, New Zealand, Mexico. Earn college credit, live with families, small group, international faculty. Offers courses in anthropology, biology, ecology, and economic development. Provides an online catalog, slide file, and application.
Presents Grolier Interactive, the international CD-ROM multimedia reference and entertainment publisher of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records, Science Fiction encyclopedia, World Cup Soccer, and Modern Art.
Nonprofit organization that administers a variety of placement schemes and internships (some United Kingdom government-sponsored) for graduates and undergraduate students seeking experience of working for UK-based small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The Harry Singer Foundation was created to get people, especially high school and college students, more actively interested in public policy. Provides free information such as books and pamphlets, as well as points of contact for further interest.
Provides librarians around the world with a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting international cooperation, research and development in all fields of library activity. Presents members and interested individuals an evolving range of electronic information resources and services through the use of Internet technologies.
Provides information about Junior Achievement, such as the purpose, mission, goals, and national contact information. Also lists answers to commonly asked questions and tells why you should volunteer to help this worthwhile organization.
Applies the VIC-2L model, a soil-vegetation-atmospere transfer scheme (SVATS), for macroscale hydrologic simulations of the water and energy balance.
Nonprofit environmental organization with 170,000 members nationwide and a staff of scientists, lawyers, and environmental experts. Features the latest news from the Hill, plus information everyone should have on the state of our air, water, land, and health. NRDC's mission is to protect the world's natural resources and improve the quality of the human environment.
Addresses unmet environmental and community needs. Also contains an application.
Features links to What's New (exhibits), Perspectives, Activities, and Resources, which all provide information on a variety of subjects.
Researches, develops, and disseminates innovative programs in science, mathematics, and technology for educators, schools, and other learning environments. Contains information for educators interested in trying new ideas in learning environments.
Provides a year-round Naval youth education program for young men and women ages 11–18 years old. Learn new skills and gain confidence while aboard Naval ships or air stations.
Non-profit organization that represents the United States's largest school systems. Offers "legislative alerts," information on instruction, curriculum, and standards, as well as other information necessary to the functioning of large urban school systems. Also provides hypertext versions of the council newsletters, council reports, and conference highlights.
Provides state-of-the-art technology in supercomputing and networking to educational institutions, government agencies, and private industry.
Features information on artificial intelligence, including artificial life and genetic algorithms. Also contains many links to other AI sites.
The Centre for Alternative Transportation Fuels is operated by BC Research Inc.(BCRI) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Maintains a database of technical papers to support the technical and business community in this rapidly moving technological area.
Serves as a jumping-off point for exploring planetary and other astronomical data from the Center for Planetary Studies, Regional Planetary Image Facility, and the National Air and Space Museum. Offers links that provide information useful for classes such as activities, images, and calendars of events.
Contains many activities for use in the classroom. Includes a section for teachers and for students.
Contains current information and resources on dream translation techniques and different theoretical orientations regarding dreams. Provides a journal to post dreams and receive feedback. Featyres an archive and guest dreamer.
Serves as a jumping-off point for using the Internet to research the environmental issues. Offers categorized links to resources for teachers, resources for students, and also for higher education.
The LiveText project is based on the belief that the educational applications enabled by networked multimedia technologies will provide the opportunity for educational reform. Provides supporting curricula, lesson plans, and instructional design resources.
Provides cost effective hardware and software systems for microscopic and macroscopic image analysis. A full system performs morphometric cell analysis (length, area, velocity, and shape), currently used for AIDS, neuroimmunology, and biological research. Includes ftp Demo file. Offers basic software and frame grabber board. Also offers color analysis.
Serves the humanities and social sciences. Builds the printed and electronic collections, instructs classes and individuals, and offers general and specialized reference and research assistance to the students, faculty, and staff of Indiana University.
Provides continually updated education-and-the-Internet and other telecom-related statistics. Provides numbers to convince anyone not sure that the Internet really is useful in a learning environment. Lists information in a summary document, and also by state.
Offers techniques to help improve design quality and save design time in the analog world.
Student-driven pages from a school-within-a-school on the campus of Monterey High School, along California's central coast.
Explores the use of high-tech construction materials like epoxy methacrylate. Provides educational information on waterproofing, concrete repair, and restoration.
Innovative research takes place in the BYU Integrated Microelectronics Lab, including MEMS, IC processing techniques, MCMs, and TCAD.
Provides the latest in educational research and products for the home and school.
Provides United States environmental and occupational safety and health regulations. Emphasizes on training. Contains updates on agency interpretations and regulations.
Offers a collection of several different works related to setting up and managing an educational network, mostly philosophical and focused on educational outcomes.
Seeks to create a forum for developing national standards for K–12 technology education. Contains press releases, consensus building workshops, and a newsletter.
Nonprofit organization devoted to researching and implementing the best practices in public schools so that all students achieve standards of educational excellence. Contains an online newsletter, educational resources you can order, and other useful resources. Provides standards information.
Focuses on providing fresh student leadership materials, ideas, and support for the student activity advisor.
Catalogs Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Lists recommended books, recent awards, new authors, resources for parents, teachers, and story tellers, movies based on children's books, and much more. Provides information on how to get your children or class involved in online publication, so the whole world can enjoy their creativity.
Offers a collection of educational and interactive resources. Includes Internet projects, art, civics, interactive games, and science.
Presents a collection of resources for planning your education. Provides information on financial aid, admissions, career planning, and more.
CyberKids was created as a place for kids to learn and have fun. Offers a free online magazine that contains stories and artwork created by kids, as well as online puzzles, games, and more. Also provides keypals from around the globe in CyberKids Interactive.
Brings together resources for teaching ES/FL, such as matching audio to text to help comprehension. Also offers links to the Word a Day vocabulary building e-mail service, and idiom of the Week.
Serves primarily ES/FL students, but also works for multicultural lessons or thematic units. Consists of contributions from international students, such as "Did you know?" about little cultural differences. Also serves as a place to publish your writing (for ES/FL students).
Lets you attend Lincoln's assassination, visit a biochemical laboratory, examine ancient artifacts at the Iceman Museum, and more. Provides a tutorial for new MOOers. Also contains a handy MOO command Index for reference.
A general subject guide page. Categorizes links by subject matter and by age group.
Offers a collection of useful resources for young writers, and anyone teaching young writers. Includes references to workshops, online style guides, publications accepting submissions, and contests.
Provides high school students the opportunity to explore the Internet through the Web.
Provides a collection of multimedia and other resources useful in education. Caution: The fun and humor link leads to a general Internet humor archive, an area that might not be entirely appropriate for children.
Kids Space has been planned for children to enhance basic computer skills through their real participation and use of the Internet. Provides tools for creation of student's own Web pages.
Contains a register of societies and clubs dedicated to re-creating historical events for preservation of artifacts and experiencing other periods of history.
Provides students information about private preparatory schools directly from the institution. Offers listings from several private schools.
Offers supplemental education to every type of student. Provides information on their services and locations.
Contains messages from the World Summit for Social Development. Pertains to topics discussed at the Summit, and although the server doesn't currently accept new messages, you can browse and search old messages by topic.
Provides information to students and attempts to provide them a chance to contribute their own observations, findings, and reflections.
Lets you play the role of a scientist investigating genetic inheritance: manipulate the matings of different fruit flies and see the genetic results of the matings.
Online discussion site for writers. Offers four direct links to information exchange with other writers. Includes other links to assorted Internet sites, mostly related to writing, as well. Note: A few might not be appropriate for children.
Keyboard training for teachers, executives, writers, etc. Includes demo of Ainsworth Keyboard Trainer, as well as special warm-up exercises to improve efficiency and end writer's block.
Features the Schoolhouse, which contains a Recreation Area (information on hands-on projects and hobbies), a Teacher's Lounge (lesson plans and curriculum guides), and a Student Activities Center (online activities and projects). Also features the Internet InfoCenter.
Provides a table of contents to make browsing easy. Offers a collection of resources, from humanities to math to science to software.
Provides information to help educators and schools connect to the Internet. Provides technical information (because Cisco produces networking hardware), but also offers examples of school networking projects. Also offers the Virtual Schoolhouse.
Offers educational nutrition information and delivers it in a clever and fun way: 36 fruit and vegetable characters host the site and make eating five fruits and vegetables a day fun for everyone. Provides nine areas: 5 A Day Program, CD-ROM, Nutrition Center, Fan Mail, Fun Stuff, 5 A Day at School, Newsroom, and Dole.
Provides access to ERIC, employment opportunities, and the state standardized curriculum. Also offers an online telephone directory for the DPI, and a nice teacher and administrator resource page. Features an outline that shows exactly what information links off which page.
Centers on resources showing technology and its role in school reform. Lets you hunt down online educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, and examine success stories of computers in the classroom.
Provides a listing of Internet resources, and rates the linked sites to help Internet users plow through the vast amount of information.
Provides a listing of Internet educational resources, organized by topic and type of resource.
Serves as a subject-oriented guide to Internet resources. Categories include art, health, online museums and libraries, math, science, social sciences, and other resources. Offers art and health links.
Offers education products. Includes mall locations: Mall Central for mall events, freebies, and latest information; the Learning Center; Bookstore; Administrator's Connection; Campus Shops; Stadium; and Kiosk. Sells education products.
Lists several sample letters for different situations, intended to be models for ES/FL students or others learning written English.
Acts as a curriculum resource. Contains a searchable database of lesson plans and curriculum guides aimed at math and science. Also categorizes lists of Web classroom resources.
Teaches teachers how to utilize the resources of the Internet so that they can incorporate the technology into their lesson plans. Lists the mission, virtual faculty, and other relevant data for this project.
Describes many resources for talented and gifted children, their parents, and educators. Overviews giftedness, and lists mailing lists, schools with TAG programs, summer programs, and publications to name a few. Also offers a keypal contact page.
Offers news on educational books, events and technology, guides to relevant sites of use for class and coursework, and sample material to download.
Helps teachers begin using the Internet as an educational tool. Contains back issues of the InfoList Digest, to which you also can subscribe free via e-mail.
Includes teacher discussions, lesson plans, and a collection of gopher lists.
Monthly magazine for educators interested in using the Internet to support inquiry-based learning in the classroom. Offers Internet "hunts," online puzzles, and experiments. Focuses on science education.
Helps teachers both in the field and preservice learn how to integrate technology into the classroom. Offers online project ideas, subject guides, and how-to's for the Internet.
Offers a collection of 236 network-based educational activities, collected by Judi Harris.
Offers links to the Internet designed for middle-school age students. Features current affairs, celebrity information, movie and music reviews, and educational links.
Provides information for educators trying to incorporate astronomy into their curriculum.
Presents articles (in HTML) written by Judi Harris for "The Computing Teacher," including tips and information on using computers, telecommunications, and the Internet in the classroom.
Contains NASA's public online library of lesson plans, satellite and shuttle images, and more. Also offers information on space careers, interdisciplinary units, and software.
Provides information for educators and administrators. Contains information on NSF education projects, grants, and publications.
Offers graduate-credit science and mathematics courses to teachers nationally. Lets teachers participate in the telecomputing courses from convenient home or work locations by using dial-up modem connections or Internet access. Provides teachers with high-quality graduate science courses taught by university scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.
Contains 26 lessons from the 12th season of the television show, Newton's Apple. Topics range from brain mapping to bread chemistry to the Hubble telescope to printing money to a raptor hospital: includes activities, questions, and further investigation suggestions.
Offers a library of reviewed K–12 curriculum and instructional materials (lesson plans, pictures, subject matter, and so on) available on the Internet, indexed according to subject area.
Offers inspirational personal development workshops. Also offers the one-year, part-time dramatherapy certificate course, which commences every September spans six weekends, as well as a summer school (validated by Worcester College).
Contains several pointers to good technical guides to getting your school online. The links reference FAQ's, lists of Internet providers, and technology plans from other online schools.
An archive of 184 works by 17 classical authors (in translation). Provides texts in HTML format and as raw text files. Segments each work into the different books, sections, parts, and so on, whenever possible.
Provides information for ES/FL teachers and students. Includes such resources as interactive exercises and text/audio playback. Also features "Idiom of the Week," a keypal registry, and a recommended software listing. Also offers links to related Internet sites.
