This page is ALWAYS under construction! However we would like to offer some sites that might be of interest to educators, students, and others interested in learning or in the learning process. I would like to thank Paul Picard, educational technologies resource teacher in Wallingford, Ct. and the teachers who were in The Introduction to the Internet and Email Workshop, that Rick presented in August, 1997, for their input into the creation of this page!
One site is offered by our server, a back to school page. If that might be of interest to you, then please click here. We will try to give a small synopsis for the sites listed below unless the site and/or address function is clear to the reader.
Perhaps one of our favorites and that undoubtedly is due to the fact that the site is "just down the road" from us. It is the Area Cooperative Eductional Services that provides help to area towns in Connecticut. It is filled with links, K-12 lesson plans and projects that may be of value to the educator. Go to: http://www.aces.k12.ct.us/
orhttp://www.aces.k12.ct.us/www/projects.html
Other great sites include the following:
ccc-net.com This site is students on a bike tour around the Mediterranean. It is a great site to see what life is like in the ancient center of civilization.http://www.educast.com This site offers Internet Technology automatically delivered to users via headlines and also offers the means to access the "story" behind the headlines.
http://www.education-world.com This site offers lesson plans for all levels K-12. Just some examples would be the dissolution of Zaire, sun safety, art in our lives, Disney's "Hercules" and how that film can be used to teach mythology. You may want to try this shortcut, http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits This Library of Congress site reveals exhibits that are of interest to all ages. Here students can see the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, women journalists during WWII, and they can examine Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated at the Globe Theater in Washington, D.C.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids In this site kids can build a digital habitat for the Siberian tiger, sail the the seven seas with pirates, and learn what happens when lightening strikes. These are just some of the projects offered to children at this site.
http://www.teachnet.com This is a teachers' resourcecompany that you may find helpful, especially the other address, http://www.teachnet.com/lesson.html
Other sites that we have not had time to develop summaries for include:
http://www.trms.k12.fulton.ga.net
http://www.chre.vt.edu Try math and Language Arts Lessons.
http://www.usacitylink.com/visitcity.html Try out geography and also vacations or city maps.
http://www.ericir.syr.edu National geographic, Newton's apple and Public Broadcasting System lesson plans and projects are offered
http://www.connecticut.com Looking for Connecticut sites? How about 4th grade Wallingford, Ct. curriculum? Take a peak.
http://www.mindspring.com Search this web and you will find book reviews, packets for teaching and a host of other educational and student oriented materials.
http://www.historychannel.com This site is in conjunction with the cable accessed History Channel. It offers lesson plans and projects that can be used with this most important educational media.
http://smg2000.org A stock market game for your classroom
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ray.saitz/biog.htm This is a collection of some excellent lesson plans.
Please visit Technology and Learning Magazine. This site offers movie, book, music and other reviews, but also news and sports information, and opinion columns. Teachers as well as students should find the early childhood and preschool sections of the site amazing for a high school publication. But according to Technology and Learning Magazine, the one aspect of the site that really impressed the staff was the Romeo and Juliet comic book version that was written by a former English teacher at the school!
Internet Sites for Science:
http://www.epa.gov The Environmental Protection Agencyhttp://www.nsf.gov/ The National Science Foundation's World Wide Web server
http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/MartianSunTimes/ Daily weather on Mars as well as earth
http://www.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html Weather Here and There, an integrated weather unit which incorporates interaction with the internetand hands-on collaborative, problem solving activities for grades 4-6.
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~kgshtml/Hurricane_Lesson.html Middle School hurricane activities
http://www.waterline.com for water information
http://www.clu-in.com/ hazardous waste cleanup
http://www.envision.net/osites/geology/geology.html Earth Science and Geology related sites
http://pellican.gmpe.gov Gulf of Mexico Information Network
http://www.epa.gov/HPCC/homep.html High Performance Computing and Communications
http://hoh.mbl.edu The Marine Biological Library
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog Students in high school biology classes can learn the anatomy of a frog and have a better understanding of the anatomy of vertebrae animals in general.
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/ Bill Nye, the science guy, top ten links, a search engine
http://www.nih.gov National Institute of Health Home Page
http:www.igc.apc.org/nwf/ National Wildlife Federation
http://golgo.harvard.edu/biopages/biochem.html Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
http://www.terraquest.com/ Virtual Antartica
http://www.nasa.gov NASA
Internet Sites for History:
http://www.whitehouse.gov The White Househttp://www.lc.gov The Library of Congress
http://artnetweb.com.guggenheim/africa/index.html Africa: the art of a continent
http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/ Chinese History Virtual Library
http://sfmuseum.org The Museum of the City of San Francisco
http://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History
http://www.allpolitics.com All Politics by Time Warner
http://www.census.com The U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.loc.gov/ The Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov The Thomas link to Congress and other sources
Internet Sites for English:
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennialhttp://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth-home.html Medieval form of Romance Languages
http://www.unix.olt.umass.edu/~emilypg/index.html Virtual Emily Dickinson
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/pg_home.html Project Gutenburg
Internet Sites for Mathmatics:
http://alcom.kent.edu/ALCOM/K12/k12.html Science and Math on the Net
http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html Mathmatics Teaching Archive of Internet sites that contain collections of materials that can be used in the teaching of mathmatics at the k-12 level.
http://www.geom.umn.edu Geometry Resources on the Internet including interactive applications, multimedia documents, course materials and archives for Geometry.
Internet Sites for Art:
http://mistral.enst.fr/louvre The Louvre on the Web
http://www.art.net Avante Garde Art on the Web
If you have a site that you think could aid teachers in their lesson and project planning, you could submit it here to email us.
More Sites in all the Disciplines Forthcoming...
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