Internet Sites for Educators

Below is a list of sites that offer information for educators and their students:

Click on a site name to visit it.


Art, Museums, Architecture

FineArte's Guide to art schools.
http://www.finearte.com/

Art Libraries of North America.
http://caroline.eastlib.ufl.edu.80/arlis/

MIT newsletter for Interactive Arts & New Media.
http://www.intelligent-agent.com/

Learning through Architecture explains how to introduce kids to architecture.
http://whyy.org/aie/aie.html

Digital Edge, from the National Arts Alliance, looks at all issues affecting the new electronic media (i.e., the Internet).
http://www.naa.org/edge.html

ArtsWire features news updates on social, economic an political issues affecting the arts. Great site!
http://www.artswire.org/

Americans for the Arts seeks to attract more private and public funding for the arts.
http://www.artsusa.org/

European League of Institutes of the Arts is an independent network of over 270 arts education institutes in 41 countries.
http://www.elia.ahk.nl/

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture represents 150 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
http://www.acsa-arch.org/

The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design has 32 members that enroll nearly 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students each year.
http://art.aicad.org/aicad/aicad.html

ArtsEdge supports the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Crayola Art Education, with art projects, techniques and more.
http://www.crayola.com/art_education/

Open Studio links to all kinds of arts sites.
http://www.openstudio.org/sites.html

World Wide Arts Resources: A huge "gateway to the arts."
http://wwar.com/


Design/Graphics

The American Institute of Graphic Arts promotes excellence in graphic design.
http://www.aiga.org/

View different types of fractals.
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~user1209/fractals/index.html

A great site "serving Web designers since 1994."
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/KPT.html

A page with royalty-free graphics such as buttons, bullets, etc.
http://pomo.nbn.com/grfx/

More graphics for your Web page, with lots of animations.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603/

Hundreds of free icons, lines, bullets and more.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1448/

Arts-Online's Visual Arts Page, with artists, galleries and more.
http://www.arts-online.com/vis-art/vis-art.htm

Tessellalation Times, from 3D Artist Magazine.
http://www.3dartist.com/

Timecast - The "RealMedia" Audio & Video Web Sites Guide.
http://www.timecast.com/siteguide.html

Center for Image Processing, at the Univ. of Arizona, is a way cool site for education.
http://www.cipe.com

One of the largest fractal databases on the Web.
http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/welcome1.html

The PlugIn Head, with lots of (what else?) plug-ins for Photoshop.
http://pluginhead.eyecandy.com/

VRL's Imaging Machine.
http://www.vrl.com/Imaging/


Theatre, Arts, Dance

The ArtsNet theater sites link page.
http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/Artsites/Theater.html

CyberDance is a collection of over 2,000 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet.
http://www.thepoint.net/~raw/dance.htm

Theatre Central has news, feature stories and updates from the theater community.
http://piano.symgrp.com/playbill/

The WWW's Virtual Library of Dance links includes some of the lesser-known categories, such as Israeli Folk Dancing.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/dance/dance.html

The Dance Directory lists categories like Clogging, Contra, Folk, Tango, Swing and more.
http://www.cyberspace.com/vandehey/dance.html


Music

Internet Resources for Music Teachers has great links for instructors.
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

World Band, collaborative music-making for students.
http://co-nect.bbn.com/WorldBand/CoNECTMusic.html

WWW Virtual Library on music, one of the largest music-related indexes.
http://syy.oulu.fi/music/

Harmonic Vision's Web site includes a great music links page.
http://www.harmonicvision.com/LINKS.HTM

Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied fields.
http://www.musica.uci.edu

The American Music Conference promotes music, music making and music education.
http://www.amc-music.com/

Music Education Resource Links (MERL) includes links matched with NSAE Content Standards.
http://www.cs.uop.edu/~cpiper/musiced.html

The Virtual Music Classroom features a "composer of the month," complete with MIDI files.
http://cnet.unb.ca/achn/kodaly/koteach/

The International Symposium for Progress in Music Education hosts debates, exhibits and more.
http://www.shout.net/~coand/ispme.html

The Music Educators National Conference Web site.
http://www.menc.org/

Internet Resources for Music Scholars
http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/InternetResources.html

The Worldwide Internet Music Resources meta-list, hosted by the University of Indiana. Great classification scheme.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/


Jobs for Teachers

JobTrak is partnered with over 500 college and university career centers nationwide.
http://www.jobtrak.com/

U.S. Department of Interior job announcements page, with application information.
http://info.er.usgs.gov/doi/avads/index.html

Career Resource Center -- one of the most comprehensive career sites on the Web.
http://www.careers.org/index.html

Online career magazine that includes education-related content.
http://www.careermag.com/

Put PJ Scout to work searching for the perfect job.
http://www.nationjob.com/

Find jobs in exotic places.
http://www.coolworks.com/showme/

QuestMatch will match college students with prospective employers, focusing on accounting, engineering or information systems.
http://www.questmatch.com/

Resource site for college students.
http://www.allcampus.com/

The Financial Aid Information Page is loaded with good advice.
http://www.finaid.org/

Education-related job openings at institutions across the nation.
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/employment.html

FastWEB, the Internet's largest free scholarship search service.
http://www.fastweb.com/

The Princeton Review, resources for those preparing for SAT, GRE, LSAT and other standardized tests.
http://www.review.com

CareerWeb lets job seekers search for free.
http://www.cweb.com/


Research Sites for Educators

EPICENTER provides descriptions of educational software and summaries of research journal articles, for all school subjects.
http://www.epicent.com/

The K.I.D.S. Report: Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites.
http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/index.html

Library and Information Science resources.
http://www.ub2.lu.se/lisres.html

Web66, info on how to integrate the Internet into your school, set up a Web server and more.
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/

Tools for librarians, literature teachers, readers and more.
http://www.dra.com/resources/schools/toolsforschools.htm

Educational Software Institute: a large distributor.
http://www.edsoft.com/

A&E Classroom, helping teachers integrate the network's programs into the curriculum.
http://www.aetv.com/aeclassroom/classroom.html

Little Explorers is a picture dictionary with links, for youngsters.
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html

TheWIRE features hot-off-the-press news, from over 100 AP member publications.
http://wire.ap.org/WireWelcome/

MiddleWeb focuses on middle schools while being rich in quality content and links.
http://www.middleweb.com/

The National Park Service's Tools for Teaching page includes museums, historical resources and more.
http://www.nps.gov/crweb1/toolsfor.htm

Teachers.Net is an excellent site, with an online reference desk, active chat board and lesson plan exchange.
http://www.teachers.net/

PedagoNet lets educators find or request resource materials. A grade-specific chat room facilitates peer communication.
http://www.pedagonet.com/

Sound Dogs offers 110 GB of sound files for sale -- some as low as 25 cents. Great for media centers and multimedia projects.
http://www.sounddogs.com/

Find news sites and newspapers from around the globe.
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html#usa

Student.Net is a quirky, but hip site for college students, with personals, popular culture, etc.
http://www.student.net/

A cool site aimed at University students.
http://www.internetuniv.com/

National Geographic's Home Page, with live Web events.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html

Filez - freeware, shareware, and commercial software.
http://www.filez.com/main.html

Best freebies, shareware, freeware and more, as chosen by the editors of PC Computing.
http://www1.zdnet.com/pccomp/1001dl/html/1001.html

Apple Computer's starting spot for educators.
http://education.apple.com/

Busy Teacher's K-12 Web Site.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/

California Education for the Arts.
http://www.cea.edu/

CLUE, Calif. Links U Education.
http://www.clueupdate.com/

Cisco Educational Archives, a huge site, includes article, "Going to School on the Internet".
http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/

CNN, Internet Newsroom, Library & Worldview, great resource for audio & video clips.
http://www.nmis.org/NewsInteractive/CNN/Newsroom/contents.html

Collaborative K-12 project on resource allocations.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/pineapple/index.html

Developing educational standards.
http://putwest.boces.org/standards.html

EdWeb, by Andy Carvin, great resource for general info about Web & education.
http://k12.cnidr.org.90/

IBM K-12 Education, with lots of resources & links.
http://www.solutions.ibm.com/k12

Ideas for 3rd, 4th & 5th grade activities.
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Kids.on.Campus/top.pl

K-12 World.
http://www.k12world.com

Kids Web Digital Library, a "first-stop" for teachers.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/

Laser's Edge Education, Paul's Tips.
http://www.lasersedge.net/education/paul/paul.html

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Education Site.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/EduHome.html

Networking handbook for K-12 schools, sponsored by JDL Technologies.
http://www.jdltech.com/netinfo.htm

Non-profit gifts-in-kind program provides $100 million+ in new donated supplies to schools.
http://www.misslink.net/naeir/naeir.htm

Used equipment is traded & sold by individuals (no businesses).
http://www.creativelement.com/swap/index.html

Virtual Reference Desk, for Educators.
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/

WilsonWeb has breaking news, book awards & more of interest to librarians.
http://www.hwwilson.com/libnews.html


Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities.
http://www.neh.fed.us/

The Freedom Forum, a major supporter of journalism education.
http://www.freedomforum.org/

The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) syllabi and teaching materials home page.
http://english.ttu.edu/attw/syllabi/syl.html

Teachers and Writers Collaborative page.
http://www.twc.org/

The Victorian Web Overview: everything Victorian.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

LitLinks, Literary Links on the Web. A well-designed site.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~englishd/litlinks.htm

Art.Net Links: Literature References with full descriptions.
http://www.art.net/Links/litref.html

Mark Twain resources.
http://marktwain.miningco.com/

Literature and humanities links, organized into well-defined subcategories.
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature.html

Inkspot: Resources For Writers.
http://www.inkspot.com/

The Internet Classics Archive, with almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts.
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

The Ultimate Collection of News Links.
http://pppp.net/links/news/

The Digital Dante Project: a multimedia translation.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html

The C. S. Lewis Web Site.
http://www.cache.net/~john/cslewis/index.html

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Who said What?).
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Adam Rifkin's Literary Links Page.
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/lit.html


World Culture, Languages

Cultures of the Andes: music, photos, poems and stories.
http://www.andes.org/

Cultural Survival helps indigenous peoples and ethnic groups in their relations with national and international societies.
http://www.cs.org/

World Art Treasures assembles 100,000 slides that shed light on civilizations in Egypt, China, Japan, India and Europe.
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/index.html

The World of the Vikings, links to great Viking resources.
http://www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/index.html

The Labyrinth is a server for Medieval Studies.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Irish Education Links.
http://kola.dcu.ie/%7Eiednet/orgs/orgs.htm

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, dedicated to archiving Holocaust information.
http://www.vhf.org/

Links to pages with an international flavor.
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/links/ss_5.html

The Perseus Project Home Page.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Tons of foreign language links.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

Links and resources for ESL teachers.
http://www.educ.wsu.edu/esl/professionallink.html

Dave's ESL Cafe.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html


History

Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/

Archiving Early America has original newspapers, maps and writings from 18th century America.
http://earlyamerica.com/

Exploring Ancient World Cultures on the Web.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/www/index.htm

Castles from around the world, with history, photos, layouts and more.
http://fox.nstn.ca/~tmonk/castle/casttour.html

Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time.
http://tqd.advanced.org/3588/

A Chronology of Russian History, chosen by both Discovery and Encarta!
http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/chrono.html

EuroDocs features links to primary historical documents from Western Europe.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

The Monarchs of England and Great Britain get their own Web page.
http://www.ingress.com/~gail/

An extremely detailed look at Archaic and Classical Greek history.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Secondary/TRM_Overview/

Library of Hindu History, from Ancient to Modern times.
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/

Reeder's Egypt Page: all about Egyptology, this site was awarded by Discovery Channel.
http://www.egyptology.com/reeder/

Rome Resources highlights ancient Roman literature, politics, philosophy and more.
http://www.nltl.columbia.edu/Groups/rome/

The Ancient World Web connects to pages concerning historical matters of all cultures.
http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/julia/AW/subject.html


Language Arts

The Freedom Forum, a major supporter of journalism education.
http://www.freedomforum.org/

The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) syllabi and teaching materials home page.
http://english.ttu.edu/attw/syllabi/syl.html

Teachers and Writers Collaborative page.
http://www.twc.org/

The Victorian Web Overview: everything Victorian.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

LitLinks, Literary Links on the Web. A well-designed site.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~englishd/litlinks.htm

Art.Net Links: Literature References with full descriptions.
http://www.art.net/Links/litref.html

Mark Twain resources.
http://marktwain.miningco.com/

Literature and humanities links, organized into well-defined subcategories.
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature.html

Inkspot: Resources For Writers.
http://www.inkspot.com/

The Internet Classics Archive, with almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts.
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

The Ultimate Collection of News Links.
http://pppp.net/links/news/

The Digital Dante Project: a multimedia translation.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html

The C. S. Lewis Web Site.
http://www.cache.net/~john/cslewis/index.html

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Who said What?).
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Adam Rifkin's Literary Links Page.
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/lit.html


Special Education

Assistive Technology Resource Alliance.
http://www2.atra.com/atra/

LD OnLine is a guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children.
http://www.ldonline.org/

The American Printing House for the Blind provides special media, tools and materials needed for education and life.
http://www.aph.org/

The Conductive Education Information Home Page.
http://members.aol.com/jimceleste/cond_ed/index.html

The Council for Exceptional Children's Home Page.
http://www.cec.sped.org/

The Deaf Resource Page: a large collection of links.
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~tms4s/deaf.html

The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities.
http://www.nichcy.org/

School-to-Work for Disabled Students.
http://www.ici.coled.umn.edu/schooltowork/

Sarah's Special Needs Resource Page has projects for special kids.
http://www.bushnet.qld.edu.au/~sarah/spec_ed/

The BIG PAGE of Special Education links is updated frequently.
http://www.mts.net/%7Ejgreenco/special.html

Indie contains over 5,000 links useful to teachers working with disabled students, including adaptive technology, government, rehabilitation and more.
http://indie.ca/eg/main.html

Special Education links to a myriad of resources including legislation, ADD and more.
http://members.aol.com/LCantlin/se_links.htm

C.H.A.D.D. Online: Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. The parent-based ADD organization.
http://www.chadd.org/

Special education, an overview of its history, the laws, definitions of disabilities & availability of online medical journals.
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/specialed/

DREAMMS for Kids offers computer & adaptive/assistive technology info to parents & instructors.
http://users.aol.com/dreamms/main.htm


Distance Learning

Internet Circumnavigation Education Expedition.
http://www.circumnavigator.com/

Distance Education at a Glance: an overview.
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html

Another Distance Education FAQ, with good links.
http://129.7.160.115/COURSE/DISTEDFAQ/Disted_FAQ.html

The Web-Based Training Info Center.
http://www.clark.net/pub/nractive/wbt.html

Telelearning resources and links, from a Calif. Sept. of Education project
http://www.telis.org/

OceanEXPO, where students follow a fleet of boats as they circle the globe.
http://www.usinternet.com/onlineclass/SOC/NeptuneSub.html

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections, for high-ed and K-12.
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/

Global Show-n-Tell Museum.
http://www.telenaut.com/gst/

Distance Education links for online educators.
http://talon.extramural.uiuc.edu/ramage/education.html

NickNacks has practical tips on developing a collaborative project, finding participants & exchanging varied file formats.
http://www1.minn.net.80/~schubert/NickNacks.html

E-mail Pal Projects worldwide.
http://www.kidlink.org/

GlobaLearn: Trans-Asia expedition.
http://www.globalearn.org/

Sites ALIVE! is a new series of live, interdisciplinary learning adventures.
http://www.sitesalive.com

Jason Project Home Page with audio, video and more.
http://www.jasonproject.org/

CCCNet has online projects, teacher links and more. Cool site!
http://www.cccnet.com/


Weather Information

The Automated Weather Source Nationwide School Weather Network.
http://aws.com/

The Aurora Page: Pictures, links and info on this atmospheric phenomenon.
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/

WeatherNet4 has info on careers, education and more.
http://wxnet4.nbc4.com/education.html

Intellicast has current weather, presented in frames.
http://www.intellicast.com/

Kids as Global Scientists engages students in realtime, inquiry-based weather curriculum.
http://www-kgs.colorado.edu/

Current weather conditions in major U.S. cities.
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/javaweather/forecasts/

Earthview, look at our planet from every which way.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Florida Explores, direct readout & Internet weather data for K-12 classrooms.
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/explores.html

Global Warming Update, presented at American Meteorology Society.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gblwrmupd/global.html

Images & info relevant to weather in the Northeastern U.S.
http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/newx.html

Front & Center: High School Meteorology Source.
http://www.ntplx.net/~markm/

Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Atmospheric Research Home Page.
http://www-ep.es.llnl.gov/www-ep/atm.html

National Weather Service's site has warnings, forecasts, data and maps.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

Online Guide to Meteorology.
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/guide.html

Online Temperature Network.
http://kelvin.nkn.net/

The Weather Channel, includes TV schedule and weather news.
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc

The Weather Underground has imagery, forecasts and curriculum activities for K-12 classrooms.
http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/

The Weather Visualizer showcases detailed maps and images.
http://covis1.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/visualizer/


Sites with Education Links

HUGE education-oriented search engine.
http://www.education-world.com/

Sun Software, Information and Technology Exchange
http://www.sun.com/sunsite/

Hundreds of education-specific links, with some gems not found elsewhere.
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/k-12.html

SAIC's Ed Resource Links caters to K-12 and Hi-Ed, with mucho resources for both.
http://la.saic.com/edu.html#LIBRARIES

10-year-old BJ's links page that was started to help with homework.
http://tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13/

Homeschool Resources on the Web is an awesome links site suited for all educators.
http://www.mint.net/~caronfam/links.htm

Yahoo's Education index.
http://www.yahoo.com/Education/tree.html
 


Sites for Students

The American Civil War: Resources on the Internet site is incredibly comprehensive.
http://www.dsu.edu//~jankej/civilwar.html

Bonus.com is a great site aimed at kids, but with scads of curricula for teachers.
http://www.bonus.com/

Microsoft's Education pages have information on products, pricing and partners.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/

A serious look at "Bad Science" being taught in several disciplines.
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

Mathwright Library lets you download math "books" and read them offline.
http://ike.engr.washington.edu/mathwright/

MainFunction is a resource for teachers and students of computer programming.
http://www.mainfunction.com/

The ChemTeam's chemistry tutorial site has in-depth information on high school and advanced placement chemistry.
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/ChemTeamIndex.html

The premiere gathering place for Bots of all kinds on the Net.
http://www.botspot.com/

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators points toward education-specific sites.
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/

The National Archives and Records Administration's site.
http://www.nara.gov/

The Digital Links is a 'zine for art educators, from The Art Teacher Connection.
http://www.primenet.com/~arted/

This Math Search site lets math teachers find links for specific math areas.
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/iHoundDir/searchEisen.html

ScreenSite contains resources for educators involved with film and television.
http://www.sa.ua.edu/ScreenSite/

A page with resources on Michel Foucault, one of the century's important modern philosophers.
http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/engl/wfl/links/foucault.htm


Government, Policy

Education Policy Analysis Archives.
http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/

Council of Chief State Schools Officers' portal to State Department of Education sites.
http://www.ccsso.org/seamenu.htm

AskERIC, portal to Educational Resource Information Clearinghouse (ERIC), which maintains statistics & data on everything related to education.
http://ericir.syr.edu/

ERIC, a Pocket Guide.
www.cua.edu/www/eric_ae/pocket.html

FedWorld, lots of links to government resources.
http://www.fedworld.gov/

Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/

National School Network Testbed home page, with examples from projects.
http://copernicus.bbn.com/testbed2/bts/bts.html

Patents, a project of the Internet Patent News Service.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html

Thomas, Legislative Information from Library of Congress.
http://thomas.loc.gov

U.S. Dept. of Ed's National Center for Education Statistics' Digest.
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/

U.S. Dept. of Education.
http://www.ed.gov/index.html

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
http://www.uspto.gov/

University of Michigan Document Center links to government documents currently in the news, like pending legislation & department press releases.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/docnews.html


Grants and Funding

Links to federally funded research in the U.S.
http://medoc.gdb.org/best/fed-fund.html

Grant Opportunity Resources: many links!
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/grants/grant_res.html

TRAM: Help with locating funding opportunities from many different agencies.
http://tram.rice.edu/TRAM/

Ed-Tech Alert supports technology funding and planning.
http://www.edtech-alert.com

ASU reSEARCHnet, semi-weekly briefing on latest federal & non-federal funding opportunities.
http://toad.asu.edu/rschpage.html

Available grants & grant-writing info.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/ors1.html

Benton Foundation, for arts funding.
http://www.benton.org/

Council of Foundations.
http://www.cof.org

"Distance Learning Funding Sourcebook."
http://www.technogrants.com

Federal Information Exchange, useful for locating research grants for minority colleges.
http://www.fie.com

Federal Register online, the official source.
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/index.html

Foundations, another hub.
http://www.foundations.org

George Lucas Educational Foundation, seeks to improve teaching & learning via multimedia.
http://glef.org/

Henry Moore Foundation, for arts funding.
http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmf/

Info on federal programs, interest rates, deferments, etc.
http://www.tgslc.org/

Mini grants, info & freebies.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~jspeck/mini-grants.shtml

National Endowment for the Arts.
http://www.nea.org/

National Science Foundation, a grant powerhouse!
http://www.nsf.gov/

Professional Development Partnerships Project, for putting together those who need & those who can fill need.
http://aed.org/special.ed/prodevel/index.html

Searchable database of 200+ programs administered by U.S. Dept. of Education, including eligibility criteria & contact info.
http://inet.ed.gov/cgi-bin/wwwwais_edp

The Foundation Center, a good starting spot.
http://fdncenter.org/

Tons of resources & grants-related links.
http://infoserv.rttonet.psu.edu/gweb.htm

U.S. Dept. of Ed.'s page with what you need to "Know About" grants.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowAbtGrants/


Math

Interactive Mathematics Online.
http://tqd.advanced.org/2647/index.html

The Fractory teaches all about fractals.
http://tqd.advanced.org/3288/

Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics: excellent reference.
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~eww/math/math.html

Project ARISE details a mathematics pilot program, where all math is taught with a real-world context.
http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/ History of Mathematics includes mathematician biographies, chronologies and more. Cool Site!
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/

This site focusing on Women Mathematicians is a pleasant surprise.
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Stories and activities for K-12 students, presented by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

Plane Math features cool things about math and aeronautics.
http://www.planemath.com/

Learning About Education Through Statistics provides data for education.
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/96871.html

The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math: an interactive Q&A.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for mathematics and science education.
http://enc.org/

MathMania has won several awards, includes sections on knots, graphs, sorting networks, finite state machines and more.
http://csr.uvic.ca/~mmania/

The Geometry Center includes Java applications.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/welcome.html

The Mathematics Archives are classified into five main categories, and searchable.
http://archives.math.utk.edu/

The Math Forum Home Page.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

The Midwest Mathematics and Science Consortium (MSC) provides Web sites for support.
http://www.ncrel.org/msc/msc.htm

The Mathematics On-Line BookShelf lets you find information on mathematics books from undergraduate college through research level.
http://mathbookshelf.fullerton.edu/

PBS Mathline: elementary, middle and high school math projects.
http://www.pbs.org/learn/mathline/

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Web site.
http://www.nctm.org/

C4L: Calculus, Concepts, Computers and Cooperative Learning.
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~ccc/

The Abacus: a Java-based virtual abacus.
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/

WWW Virtual Library on mathematics.
http://www.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html


Museums

Home Page of the Louvre Museum, with collections divided into seven departments.
http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm

The J. Paul Getty Museum site includes exhibits and other cultural information.
http://www.getty.edu

The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts gives virtual visitors QuickTime interviews, exhibitions and more.
http://www.lacma.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes a section devoted to education, with programs, resources, indexes and more.
http://www.metmuseum.org/

The Royal Tyrrell Museum site offers a virtual tour for paleontology students and instructors.
http://tyrrell.magtech.ab.ca/home.html

Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Great design and good coverage of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
http://www.moma.org/

Museum Net links to dozens of museums in the United Kingdom.
http://www.museums.co.uk/

National Museum of American Art, a graphically intensive site with much to offer students and educators.
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/

The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (UK) -- collection, conservation & history of these media.
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/

Splendors of Ancient Egypt, by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, showcases more than 200 antiquities spanning 3,000 years.
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/voyager/egypt/tour/index.html

World Wide Art Resources provides a 3,000-category gateway to all types of museums, galleries and arts sites.
http://wwar.com/

Andy Warhol Museum Home Page, a primary resource to gain insight into contemporary art and popular culture.
http://www.clpgh.org/warhol/


Educational Organizations

The Foundation for Independent Higher Education Network is your link to over 600 private colleges & universities in the U.S.
http://www.fihe.org

The United Nations' CyberSchoolBus, with projects and more.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

The Electronic Frontier Foundation: preserve your Internet rights.
http://www.eff.org/

Iris: a global Online community of educators, for student-centered telecommunications projects.
http://www.tmn.com/Organizations/Iris/home.html

The Association for Educational Communications and Technology links professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.
http://www.aect.org/

The IFLA gives librarians worldwide a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting cooperation, research and development in all fields of library activity.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/

The American Library Association's Home Page is here.
http://www.ala.org/

College Art Association.
http://alberti.mit.edu/caa/

EDUCOM, for higher education.
http://educom.edu/

ITEA, International Technology Education Association.
http://www.tmn.com/Organizations/Iris/ITEA.html

League for Innovation in the Community College.
http://www.league.org/

National Center for Technology Planning.
http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1/nctp/index.html

National Center to Improve Practice, for special ed teachers.
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/

National Consortium for School Networking.
http://cosn.org

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
http://www.nctm.org

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Home Page.
http://arts.endow.gov/

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
http://www.neh.fed.us/

National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), info on non-print media covering pre-school to post-graduate levels in all academic areas.
http://www.nicem.com/

National Science Foundation.
http://www.nsf.gov/

National Science Teachers Association.
http://www.nsta.org

National Standards for Arts Education, from American Music Educators.
http://www.amc-music.com

Pathways to School Improvement, includes technology planning & implementation guide.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pathwayg.htm

SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group GRAPHics), sponsors annual conference & more.
http://www.siggraph.org/

Society for Architectural Historians, at Univ. of Pa.
http://www.upenn.edu/sah/

Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, exchange ideas about the use of math in industry.
http://www.siam.org

Software Publishers Association, lots for educators including education software statistics, legislative news & more.
http://www.spa.org


Science

Los Alamos National Laboratory's Science and Technology Page.
http://www.lanl.gov/external/science/

The PaleoNet Pages, everything about Paleontology.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/

Healthfinder is a consumer health and human services information web site from the government.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

The Natural Gas Information and Educational Resources site.
http://www.naturalgas.org/

The Dinosauria: dispelling dinosaur myths.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

Electromagnetic Spectrum: a quick brief.
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/education/reference/emspec/emspectrum.html

Science and Engineering Network News, links to online journals, software archives, image databases and more.
http://www.senn.com/

Nystrom, publisher of globes, maps and atlases, puts their expertise to work on the Web.
http://www.nystromnet.com/

National Science Foundation.
http://www.nsf.org/index1.html

Marine Sciences, interactive projects and more.
http://www.saddleback.cc.ca.us/div/mse/marsci/

Hands-On Science Centers Worldwide.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/sci.html

Excellent site for educators with links to over 2,000 Web resources for classroom use.
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html

Fisher Science Education Site Explorer lets you search 5,000+ sites.
http://www.fisheredu.com/

Bill Nye The Science Guy!
http://www.disney.com/DisneyTelevision/BillNye/index.html

Science Learning Network.
http://www.sln.org/

Optics for Kids explains properties of light in kid-oriented ways.
http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html


Environment, Earth

EE-Link: an in-depth site helping educators explore environmental education on the Web.
http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/

Earthquake info from the US Geology Service.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

Java-enabled page with volcano animations and more.
http://205.240.248.235/

Locate recent seismic activity worldwide along with general and local area maps.
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/quake.html

Edu-Source. Environmental Resources for Education, download dozens of free posters or read about suggested outdoor activities for kids.
http://www.edu-source.com/

Arctic Circle Region, an in-depth look at social and environmental concerns.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/

Scripps' Oceanographic & Earth Science Institutions Directory for the Web.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/

GLOBE, where students, teachers and scientists worldwide work together for environmental education.
http://www.globe.gov/

GIS (Geographic Information Systems): all about it for education.
http://www.esri.com/base/markets/k-12/k-12.html

The GeoTouch Project, an environmental education project involving schools worldwide.
http://www.kids-commons.net/geotouch/GeoTouch.html


Space, Astronomy

National Space Society Online.
http://www.nss.org/

Space News is an independent, newsweekly of the international space community.
http://www.spacenews.com/

The Project Galileo Home Page: Bringing Jupiter to Earth.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

Astrophysics: the Life of a Star.
http://tqd.advanced.org/3103/

Stars and Galaxies: information on how stars behave.
http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html

The Educational Space Simulations Project.
http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Simulations/simserver.html

SETA, Space Environments and Technology Archive System, provides access to SET resources.
http://dbdev.larc.nasa.gov/setas/

Windows to the Universe presents astrology and space science in a neat atmosphere.
http://www.windows.umich.edu/

Ancient Astronomy, with courses, tours and interactive atlas.
http://arcturus.pomona.edu/


Biology, Chemistry

WhaleNet is packed with information, cool activities and tons of resources.
http://whale.wheelock.edu/

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology.
http://www.beloit.edu/~bquest/

Access Excellence gives high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information over the 'Net.
http://www.gene.com/ae/

Eric's Treasure Trove of Chemistry, an excellent reference guide.
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/chem/

The Chem101 Home Page tries to keep a Fun perspective.
http://tqd.advanced.org/3310/higraphics/index.html

Thomas Kornack's Wildflower Photography gallery includes beautiful close-ups of flowers.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~tkorn/wildflowers/

Human Anatomy On-line is fun and easy to use, with nice graphics and anatomy lessons.
http://www.innerbody.com/

National Library of Medicine project producing anatomically detailed, 3D representations of the male and female human body.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

CELLs Alive! looks good, contains tons of cool stuff.
http://www.cellsalive.com/

Yuckiest Site on the Internet: Bug World, Worm World and more.
http://www.nj.com/yucky/

Chemistry for Kids, aimed at all grade levels.
http://144.92.39.64/ice/forkids.html

Chem4Kids is surprisingly comprehensive.
http://members.aol.com/chem4kids/index.html

The Learning Matters of Chemistry has links, online exercises and more.
http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/organic/org-home.html

Social Sciences

Social Science Resources Home Page, with links, lesson plans, etc.
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/ss.html

EduStock features a free realtime stock simulation -- designed by students.
http://portia.advanced.org/3088/welcome/welcome.html

Policy.com covers national and international issues.
http://www.policy.com/

American Identities: with links to various ethnic studies resources.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/ethnic.html

International Economics Gateway, linking to organizations, governments and more.
http://www.access.digex.net/%7Egrimes/gate.html

School Psychology Resources Online, with links for educators, community, parents and students.
http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~sandyste/school_psych.html

Variables, contains news & analysis of legal issues relating to cyberspace, including copyright, the Communications Decency Act & more.
http://www.ggtech.com/facts.html#aclu

The World Wide Web Virtual Library on Law.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/lawindex.html

Social Science Research Network Online.
http://www.ssrn.com/index.html

Population Studies Center, includes population aging research and demography library.
http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/

Participatory Democracy: political commentary, serious source documents and political science links.
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/democracy.html

FedWorld, links to government resources.
http://www.fedworld.gov/

All Politics.
http://www.allpolitics.com/


Minority Studies

African & African American topics, updated portal from WebCrawler.
http://webcrawler.com/select/life.african.html

K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

Women's history, with lessons and exercises.
http://socialstudies.com/mar/women.html

The Victorian Women Writers Project.
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

American minority studies links.
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/cwis/cwis.html

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet.
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/misc/NAresources.html

National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibits, preserves and researches art by women and educates the public about their accomplishments.
http://www.nmwa.org/index.htm

Black History Month site from HarperCollins.
http://www.harpercollins.com/afroamer/index.htm

Girls Claiming Science, hosted by the Emma Willard School.
http://www.emma.troy.ny.us/symposium.html


Anthropology, Archeology

Underwater Archaeology.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/archeosm/en/archeosm.htm

The Archaeological Adventure Site -- check it out!
http://tqd.advanced.org/3011/

Archaeology: A Primer for Families.
http://www.uwlax.edu/Colleges/mvac/arched/aaarch.htm

ROMARCH contains resources on the art and archaeology of Italy and the Roman Provinces.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfoss/ROMARCH.html/

Many links to Egyptian Archaeology.
http://www.dimensional.com/~janf/wtegypt.html

Archaeology -- a virtual tour/project of a current dig in Uadi Natrum, Egypt.
http://www.scriptorium.org/TheDigSite/

ArchNet: archaeological resources available on the Internet.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/ArchNet.html

Anthropology Resources on the Internet, a huge listing and links page.
http://www.nitehawk.com/alleycat/anth-faq.html

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Anthropology.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/v-lib/anthropology.html

PaleoNet is a system of listservs, Web pages and FTP sites for paleontologists that also has an extensive links section.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/Paleonet/


Web Authoring Resources

Technical information on the Web itself.
http://www.webreference.com/

Inquiry.com lets you ask questions to experts on HTML, VRML, JAVA and other subjects.
http://www.inquiry.com/answers/

All the tags for HTML 3.2, in many different languages.
http://werbach.com/barebones/

A useful tool that checks your HTML syntax, spelling and more, online.
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/

Virtual Library of WWW development, with subcategories including Authoring, Multimedia, Reference, Software and more.
http://www.stars.com/Vlib/

A comprehensive site with multiple links to Web creation-related pages.
http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Education/Resources/webweavers.html/

PC Magazine's Internet Toolkit Web stylesheet page.
http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/iu/toolkit/stylesheets.htm

Tips on scanning, including how to scan 3D objects!
http://www.hsdesign.com/scanning/welcome.html

This help page includes links to many virtual "help desks."
http://pick.net/picklist.htm

Everything you ever wanted to know about Cookies.
http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie.fcgi

Ultimate guide to animated GIFs, with tools, techniques and collections.
http://www.dezines.com/ultimate/agifs.html

This commercial site has reams of information for aspiring Web creators.
http://www.webreference.com/

The Site from MSNBC, with site creation lessons, tools and tutorials.
http://www.thesite.com/cgi/toolsfr.cgi/0297w3/tools/tool401_021097.html

Great tips for beginners and experts alike.
http://www.acute.com/promote/graphics/1toolbox.htm

Good page with a lot of HTML-related info, tips and links.
http://www.ecnet.net/users/mupmw7/html.htm 

Another free HTML tutorial.
http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/webmaster.html

Over 65 freeware WebMaster tools.
http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/free.webmaster.html

This page teaches some basics like adding animation, graphics, VRML and more.
http://www.pimall.com/nais/n.web.tips.html

A page with multiple tutorials, including HTML, Frames, Tables, Imagemaps and CGI.
http://www.vservers.com/reference/tutor.html#basics

A detailed lesson on using Netscape Frames.
http://www.newbie.net/frames/3ed/

Popular site that gives a "layman's" HTML tutorial.
http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html

Sequel to the popular "Introduction to HTML."
http://www.cwru.edu/help/interHTML/toc.html

Internet Design and Publishing Center.
http://www.graphic-design.com/

Offline Web Tools for Windows 95.
http://www.windows95.com/apps/offline.html

HTML Design Guide, intermediate level.
http://ncdesign.kyushu-id.ac.jp/html/Normal/html_design.html

HTML Primer, from Nat'l Supercomputing Center at Univ. of Illinois.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

Home Page Creation Tutorial.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/index.html


Teaching and Learning Resources

Classroom Connect has all sorts of Web and K-12 Education materials.
http://www.classroom.net/classroom/

College Board Online, for the college-bound.
http://www.collegeboard.org

"Structures" includes lesson plans & ideas, an oft-cited reference.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-Structures/Harris-Activity-Structures.html

WWW Workbook, a hands-on primer.
http://sln.fi.edu/primer/primer.html

PBS Teacher Connex: detailed info on instructional television and curriculum integration.
http://www.pbs.org/learn/tconnex/index.html

Lesson Plans and Resources for Teachers has a nice links section for online curriculum resources.
http://www.remc4.k12.mi.us/muskegon/lessons.htm

Educational software-related sites.
http://www.csu.edu.au/education/software.html

Discovery Channel's site for K-12.
http://www.school.discovery.com

The Internet Help Page includes a list of sites for beginners.
http://www.ai.org/other/inhelp.html

Looking for Congress info? Here's where you start.
http://policy.net/

JINX is a safe and fun Internet hangout for kids.
http://www.jinx.com

Planet Innovation, a set of tools for implementing technology, good for administrators new to the Internet.
http://planet.rtec.org/

The WorldVillage School House has reviews of educational software, articles, downloads and more.
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/school/html/school.htm

Kidz WebRing, gateway to 400+ kid-created sites, with more added weekly.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6188/kidz.htm

Beginner's Handbook for would-be Webmasters, from The Telemation Project.
www.telis.org/telis/telemat/topic/handbook.htm

Computer Learning Foundation Home Page.
http://www.computerlearning.org/Index.htm



Various Other Education Sites