General Sites:
Teacher
Union Reform Network (TURN)
Teachers
Net
Weekly
Reader
E-TECH Ohio
Access
Eric
House of
Math Word Problems for Children
A Plus
Math
Fun School
Toledo
Zoo
Blue
Ribbon Learning Sites
PBS
For Kids
PuzzleMaker
Teachers
Helping Teachers
Classroom
Connect
PBS
Teacher Source
Toledo
Museum of Art
Reference Sites:
My
Facts Page
Ask
Jeeves
Maps
and Geography of the World
Encyclopedia
Britannica's Internet Guide
Info
Ohio
Toledo
Public Library
This compendium of "news, information & expertise on the divide in income, wealth & health" lets the facts speak for themselves. Created by journalists, writers, and researchers, inequality.org is a nonprofit organization that questions conventional measures of progress and prosperity, and looks instead at the new economy's have-nots often ignored by mainstream media coverage. From the quotes and "quick stats" on the front page, we learned that the average US CEO makes more in a day than the typical American worker makes in a year, and 34% of Silicon Valley homeless people have jobs.
While this 3D skeleton site may provide valuable anatomical information to medical students and zoologists, we think it's just plain cool. Besides offering a complete human skeleton (that rotates!), the eSkeletons Project lets you investigate the difference between human and baboon skeletons. Are they really that much different? Well, yes. Notice how the seventh cervical vertebra in humans is much wider and porous than in baboons. Then notice how quickly you can spin the little guy 360 degrees with a few clicks of your mouse. Online anatomy rocks.
Everyday Science - give them two minutes, they'll give you the world.
Lesson Stop A great place for teachers to find lessons and information on different subject areas
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Grades K-12 MathWorld Interactive
MathWorld is dedicated to helping educators and parents motivate their students to solve open-ended word problems, communicate mathematically, and share cultural and geographical information.
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Grades 11-12 Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis (SISA)
SISA allows you and your students to do statistical analysis directly on the Internet. Some of the online procedures are: T-test, Two by Two Table, Ordinal Tests, Correlations; Binomial and Hypergeometric Distributions; Random Numbers, Response Rates, Sample Size, and Significance Testing Calculations.
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Grades 3-12 ExploreMath
This site attempts to bridge "the digital divide with free course pages and the web's finest mathematical multimedia." Educators who aren't tech whizzes can integrate multimedia into their math classes, build web courses and their own math home pages at ExploreMath. The site requires registration, but it's free.
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Keep abreast of what's going on around the country in education with Edweek's news clipping service.
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GRADES K-12; Hatching Eggs
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GRADES PreK-5; Integrating Technology into the Elementary Classroom
Destination Space - National Geographic prepares for blast-off.
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National Endowment for Financial Education - helping you get the information you need to take control of your finances.
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Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - the leg bone's connected to the hip bone.
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Ten Activities for Teaching the Five Senses
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The Learning Page provides free, printable work sheets and lesson plans for elementary teachers or home-schooling teachers.
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America's Story from America's Library
Take a trip back in history with the interactive timeline. Discover exciting facts about all 50 states. Look at America's favorite pasttimes and the songs and the art that make up our cultural quilt.
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This site is designed for educators, parents, and K-12 students who wish to use the Internet in education. The site offers links that are divided into grade-appropriate sections and features links, newsletters, and articles pertaining to the K-12 curriculum.
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This site is designed to help lower-grade students develop their learning skills through multimedia and the Internet. The site features interesting and fun games that test kids' reflexes, skills, and concentration, a section for parents that showcases learning ideas, activities, and tools for children.
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The U.S. Census web site is packed with data - maps, statistics, demographics - find out how to use this information to teach standards-based lessons.
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