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Science

The Best Weather Links

• Intended Audience: All ages
• Purdue Weather Processor Satellite Images of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, MPEG Movies, Hurricane & Tropical Storm Tracking Advisories, Strike Zone Report, and an Animated Storm Plot, Weather & Climate Images, 6-10 day climate outlooks - temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture.

Bill Nye, the Science Guy Labs Online

• Intended Audience: K-8 students
• This site is based of Disney's TV program Bill Nye, the Science Guy. The site offers lots of exploration in many different science subjects.

Biological Resources Division

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12
• The BRD works with others to provide the understanding and technologies to support the management and conservation of our nation's biological resources.

Electronic Zoo Net/Vet

• Intended Audience: K-12
• This site provides the learner with almost every animal link available on the internet -- from animal coloring pages to sophisticated sites for research. This is a great site for animal graphics.

Kids Corner

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This is a great for science! It includes links to USGS. many other science sites, and coloring sheets to download on many different animals.

The Magic School Bus...

• Intended Audience: K - 8
• Scholastic's The Magic School Bus®, is based on the award-winning book series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It features a wacky science teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who takes her class of enthusiastic, inquisitive students on educational field trips in her magically transformable bus.

NASA Homepage

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This site takes you to NASA's site where you can learn about aeronautics and space research.

Sea World

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This is a wonderful site. Visit Sea World and Busch Gardens. See oceanography at work. NEEDED url

US Today Weather

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This tells the weather today and forecasts for next week for the United States and the World. It also gives information on tornadoes and hurricanes. It helps the searcher find out about what makes the weather tick.

Views of the Solar System

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond.

Volcano World

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This site is a great source for volcano information on the web.

Volcano World Starting Points

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Research and get information on the active volcanoes of the world. Adk a volcanist any questions you may have. Find volcanoes and links to pages about them. Kids Door! has stories, games, quizzes, and all kinds of fun activities just for kids! The Teaching and Learning Area has lesson plans for teachers, lessons and activities for students, and links to sources of other information about volcanoes. There is also a News and Current Events area.

The Weather Page

• Intended Audience: All ages
• Climate Diagnostics Center's United States Interactive Climate Pages.

World Weather Watch: An Interactive, Weather Project

• Intended Audience: K-12
• Understanding weather conditions in other parts of the United States and the world can be a difficult concept for children. Because they live in the "here and now", children assume that the weather in their area is the same as everywhere else. This project is designed to pair classes located in different climatic zones who will then exchange specific weather information on a weekly basis. At the same time, weather information from all participating classes will be posted on the World Weather Watch Automated Results page so teachers and students can do more global comparisons if they desire.

Zoo Atlanta

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• Take a Virtual Tour of the Atlanta zoo. Hear animal sounds, do game and activities.

Web Libraries

Alice Christie's Home Page

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This site has wonderful links through student pages, links pages, etc. An excellent site with MUCHO information.

American Library Association site for Children, Parents and Caregivers

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• The American Library Association collection of more than 700 Web sites it recommends for children, as well as child-friendly sites for parents and other caregivers.

The Awesome Library

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web with 12,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a search engine. Select who you are (teacher, student, parent) to see an Awesome Library that is designed for you.

Berit's Sites for Children

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This site provides a well organized collection of sites which have been reviewed and approved for young children. She includes: Art Galleries, Astronomy, Environment, Government, Health and Safety, History, Science and Math, World Travel. And she also includes sites for fun: Activity Centers, Crafts and Coloring, Games and Toys, Stories, Magazines, Funnies, Sports and Recreation, Music, and TV and Movies.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This page allows you to search for a specific educational tool such as an Internet lesson or activity for a specific level. You can enter key words to search for a web site, or you can also browse a content table, which includes categories such as web-based tutorials, web-based projects, units/lesson plans, hotlists, and references & tools for subjects ranging from art to health, and more.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This great site has tutorials, activities, projects, lessons, hot lists, resources, and reference tools on tons of subjects.

Educator's Hotlist

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Provided by Technology and Learning Magazine looks at sites carefully before listing them into categories.

Kathy Schrock's Guide

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This is a huge site with a collection of web sites which are appropriate for students. She also includes for teachers.

Midlink Magazines Best Web Sites

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• These sites were picked by MidLink Magazine readers because they are educational, interesting, or just plain fun. They have sites in science and math, fun sites, web author resources, teacher resources, social studies, and grants and funds

Net Projects

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Judi Harris, a professor at the University of Texas, has compiled an extensive list of online projects which are meant to engage students in global and regional research and collaboration. She points you directly to the best place to learn about the project and sign up to participate.

Yahooligans

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• A directory to be used as a web guide for children and teachers

Reference Sites

Kids Web References

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• A great place to look up stuff. It has an Acronym Dictionary, American English Dictionary, Area Code Lookup, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Biographical Dictionary, City/Zip Code Lookup, Current Economic Data, Online Dictionary of Computing, Postal Abbreviations, Roget's Thesaurus, U.S. Census Information (1990), Webster's Dictionary, and World Factbook.

Thor - The Online Resource

• Intended Audience: For All ages 10 - 80
• This library containes English Dictionaries, International Dictionaries, Technical English Dictionaries, Acronym Dictionaries, Thesauri, and other reference tools ( Quotations, International Language aids, etc.)

Web Central -- Reference Sites

• Intended Audience: All ages
• An excellent library source for information on almost anything. It has Dictionaries (all types), Encyclopedias, Calculators, Calendars, Libraries, Who is Who, How Far is it?, Currency Converters, Place, Time, Travel, Reference Sites, computer Terms, Acronyms, Official Sources.

Social Studies

50 States and Capitals

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This gives information and maps of the United States and Capitals.

2000: Gifts to the Planet

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Throughout 1998 and 1999 National Geographic will spotlight global issues that will shape human destiny over the next thousand years. There are Maps of the World, newly revised and based on the latest and Lesson Plans. This is an excellent source for information on the United States. It has a map or the United States, a map of the state capitals, and a lot of good information on each state.

Aegean Map of Greece

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is a clickable map of Greece

Aegean Map of Greece

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• You can click on the map or choose a location from a list to zoom in on a location in Greece.

Africa

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• African art, culture, cooking, and information about each country.

The African Cookbook

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Menus and recipes from Africa, sorted by country and by dish.

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Contains masks and sculptures of Africa, with descriptions of the artifacts.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Cultural, economic, and other information about sections of the continent and the individual countries of Africa. Particularly good for global studies and foreign language classes.

CIA World Fact Book

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12
• This factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency, provides information by the Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State and others on the countries of the world.

Country Digest

• Intended Audience: K - 12; Global Studies students
• This site contains Information about Pacific Rim countries Asia, Indonesia, Western Australia. It includes foods, what to see and do, local customs, what to eat and buy, travel information, and even a few of the native phrases.

Encyclopedia Mythica

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Mythica is a wonderful online encyclopedia about mythology, magic, legends and folklore. Its database can be accessed by Mythology (such as Greek, Latvian, Norse, or Persian) or Folklore, Greek Heroic Legend, and Occult and Mysticism. The encyclopedia is always expanding as readers are invited to add their own entries.

Excite Travel

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is a good site to aid the students in planning a trip somewhere. It has maps, yellow pages, reservations (you don't want them to use), a farefinder, and books on travel that can be ordered. It uses a City.Net that will give you information about many of the cities of the world. You can even learn the language of area you want to visit. Because this is a commercial site where orders can be placed close supervision might be advisable.

FOTW

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Flags Of The World is a site devoted to flags. Here you can read more than 1500 pages and view more than 2500 images about flags.

The Global Schoolhouse

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• At this site you can find and connect with other classroom teachers around the world, find interesting learning projects for your own classroom, build, advertise, and conduct your own original collaborative projects.

The History Channel

• Intended Audience: Third Grade+
• The History Channel provides this wonderful web site. Students of all ages can check out the destination of the day, look at historical hotels, and check the calendar of events. This site also provides a search engine to further your knowledge on historical cities and sites.

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• A wonderful chance to learn the art of paper folding. Create art through origami

Library of Congress: Country Studies

• Intended Audience: Librarians, Teachers, Middle and Secondary Students
• Provides information on 85 countries, with photos, tables, glossaries, and bibliographies having been added. For each country, the political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions are examined. Factual material is presented in outline and chart form that might be accessible even to some elementary students. An important resource!

MapQuest

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This is an Interactive Atlas of cities throughout the world. You only need to type in a street address and the mapmaker creates a map of the neighborhood. Zoom in or out and look for restaurants, shopping areas, parks.

The Mining Company

• Intended Audience: All ages
• This Home Page has over 150 sites in entertainment, business, careers, culture, and many more.

The Mining Company

• Intended Audience: All ages
• This is search web in arts and entertainment, business, careers cultures, and many more.

National Geographic

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This site includes articles resources, products, expeditions, articles, a library, and a geoguide.

National Geographic.com/Kids

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is area for kids. It includes sections on Now Try This, Cartoons, Pen Pals, articles, the world online.

The North American Quilt: A Living Geography

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is an interactive project that covers the subjects Geography, History & Social Studies, Earth Science, Language Arts, Arts, and Crafts. There are weekly geography. Students will conduct research using provided links to US regional resources. They will also be involved in creative writing and art activities including making a "real" quilt, mapping, cataloguing wildlife, identifying watersheds, studying regional and continental weather patterns, and making timelines. Expert guests will be available for student questions via e-mail. There is teacher support through a teachers, weekly activity units, and daily update information. There is a registration charge or you can ask to be put on their "hot list" for further updates.

Virtual Sites Home Page

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Virtual Tours is a collection of over 300 Outstanding Sites offering multimedia tours for the World, Travel, Museums, Exhibits and the US Government.

World Factbook

• Intended Audience: 3 - 12
• This factbook gives basic information about all the countries of the world.

What Do Maps Show?

• Intended Audience: 3 - 12
• This uses several maps to show different information. Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps. Also included are a Teacher Guide and activities on locations, places, relationships, movement, and regions.

Yahoo! Regional Countries

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• You can find out all kinds of information about most of the countries of the world. Some countries have more than others.

Egypt

Akhet Egyptology Index

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Wonderful site! It has pictures and text about mummies, coffin art, a kings list, art, items from the tombs of several kings and queens, and pictures of sculpture. There is even a Clickable Mummy that tells you about each part when it is clicked. The objects are found in the United Kingdom.

Ancient Egypt

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This site has good information about Giza, how did they build the pyramids, the Step Pyramids, Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Mathematics, the Giant Sphinx, and Tutankhamen.

Ancient Egypt -- The Egyptian Pyramids

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Good information about the types of pyramids, how they were built, an introduction to hieroglyphics and Egyptian mathematics, the Sphinx, and Tutankhamen.

Ancient Egypt - Research Ancient Egyptian Gods

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12
• You can find out about the Ancient Egyptian Gods.

Ancient Egyptian Box

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12 , teachers and students
• Why Go to this Site : This is an independent learning package were you can design and create a functional Egyptian boxwhose appearance uses the symbols of Ancient Egypt

The Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple

• Intended Audience: All ages
• Wonderful! This site has a virtual tour of an Ancient Egyptian temple shown with gorgeous pictures. There is also so text and it gives links to other Egyptian sites.

Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12,
• An excellent site that has a Meta Index of all sites in the Ancient World Web, a Geogrpahy Index,, a Subject Index, and a Still Need Help list of search engines.

CMCC - Mysteries of Egypt

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Wonderful site.There is an IMAX film to watch. The main areas to visit an Egyptian Civilization, Egyptian Exhibits, and Tutankhamen. In these areas are loads of pictues with well written text about many areas of Egyptology. In Exyptian Civilization there are links to Geography, Architecture, Government, Writing, Religion, Sciences, Timeline, and Glossary and each area has lots of links written tolink them to other areas of information.

The Curse of the Pharaoh's Tomb

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is a virtual trip through Egypt and a pyramid. In the Fun for Kids Area you can find out how to make a mummy, build a burial chamber.

Dictionary Index

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Site has a glossary of many of the words that we will find when talking about Ancient Egypt.

Directory of Ancient Egyptian Gods

• 5 - 12
• This is an alphbetical listing of the gods of Egypt and a description of each.

Egyptian Gods

• Intended Audience: All ages
• This site has good descriptions of the gods of the Heliopolitan Cosmology: Ra (Re), She, Tefnut (or Tefnet), Geb, Nut (or Nuit), Osiris, Isis, Set (or Seth), Nephthys, Buto (Ureaus Serpent), and the Great Ennead. There are also several neat pictures of gods.

Egyptian Gods

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is list of Egyptian gods and their names in Hieroglyphics

Egyptian Gods and Religions

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This has descriptions of many of the gods. Most of the gods have excellent pictures of the gods also. Be careul, this site takes a long time to load because of all the graphics.

Egyptian Gods - the Great Nine

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Descriptions of 9 of the most important Egyptian gods

Egyptian Gods Summary

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This has descriptions of the Egyptian gods.

Egyptian Ministry of Egypt -- Tour Egypt

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• Many great links to Egypt- Definitions of Egyptian words, a Coloring Page with a History for Kids page, a Pharaonic Village, Egyptain Antiquities, Wild Egypt (a safari), and more.

Egyptian Pyramids Home Page

• 4 - 12
• This site has pictures and text about the Exterior of the Great Pyramid, the Interior of The Great Pyramid, and the Mysteries of the Sphinx.

Egyptology

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This site has links to all types of subjects about Ancient Egypt.

Encyclopedia Mythica

• Intended Audience: Teachers, Students 4 - 12
• An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and magic, with over 4200 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures, and monsters from all over the world. Contains attractive illustrations in the Image Gallery.

Exhibits on Ancient Egypt

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This library of Egyptian museums contains a wealth of information and pictures about the land, gods, mummification, artifacts found all over the world in museums on Egypt.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures

• Intended Audience: Teachers, Older Students
• Contains information on the cultures of the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Europe. The general level of writing and the vocabulary are quite sophisticated, with the material on Europe, for example, containing links to college-level resources on the Middle Ages. Contains quizzes which are a good source of review material, and teachers and students both should appreciate the chronologies.

Egyptian Pyramids Homepage

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This page shows pictures of the outside of the Pyramid of Kephren at Giza and the Great Pyramid, as well as, several pictures of the interior of the Great Pyramid.

The Guardians

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Great site. Lots of information about Egypt with great graphcs. There are many activities for kids. It also has a great clip art area.

K. A. Museum of Ancient Cultures

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• At this site seventh grade students present information on three Mediterranean cultures. Their information includes the mythology, culture, art and achievements of these magnificent cultures.

Independent Learning Packages - Ancient Egypt

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Students design and create an Ancient Egyptian Box to put some of their favorite things in. They use images and symbols of Ancient Egypt to create the box.

A List of Ancient Egyptian Gods

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is a list of Egyptian gods and their descriptions

Map of Ancient Egypt

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is a map of Ancient Egypt using small pictures to show the placement of Ancient Sites.

Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Marks site is another excellent example of how to present graphics and information. The site well organised and is of excellent general interest.

Neferchichi's Clipart and Backgrounds

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Awesome Egyptian Clipart and Backgrounds.

Odyssey in Egypt

• Intended Audience: 5 - 12
• This sites takes you on an archaeological tour of a dig. It shows week by week what happens.

Summary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Descriptions of the notable Egyptian gods.

Upper Lid of an Egyptian Sarcophagus.

• 4-12
• This is a picture and the terxt describing it of the upper lid pf an Egyptian sarcophugus. ( Be sure to click on text, hieroglyphics, mummified body.)

Virtual Tourist

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• This is the Virtual Tourist, a geographic directory of all the WWW servers in the world. It operates in close association with W3C's Master Web Server Directory.

Welcome to Rigby's World of Egypt

• 4 - 12
• This site a well put together site with wonderful pictures and graphics as well as a wealth of information.

The Zone: History

• Intended Audience: 4 - 12
• Nature's role in Ancient Egypt and the symbolic role of nature in Ancient Egyptian religion is discussed.

Language Arts

Animals, Myths & Legends

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• A fun site! I gives information on a few animals, tells a lot of myths and legends, and has a playroom. In the playroom are a Coloring Book, Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and a number of kid activities.

Author Information

• Intended Audience: K - 8
• Author Directories available on the web, a Monthly Highlight of an author's website, Children's Author Directory

Author Spotlight

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• This includes several author Spotlights. Each Author Spotlight includes book summaries, author articles and biographies, classroom connections, Internet links,and an interview.

Authors Welcome The Mining Co.

• Intended Audience: All ages
• This site has net links, features, award reviews, bulletin boards, chat, events, newsletter, feedback, guide biographies about authors.

The Case.com: The Fun and Challenging Mystery Website

• Intended Audience: K - 8
• A neat site! Every Monday a new mini-mystery is posted to solve. On Wednesday, there is a new short story with a twist. And on every other Friday, there is a mystery picture and story to solve. TheCase.com area has more mini mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests. There is a section, Learning with Mysteries, for teachers and an on line link to MysteryNet.com, the Online Mystery Network.

Connections - Children's Book Neews For Parents and Teachers

• Intended Audience: Parents and Teachers, K - 12
• This is a tool that updates parents and teachers about new books being published, old favorites that are back in print, and new ways to use these books to enrich the lives of the children we know.

Fairy Tales Directory for Darsie and Grimm

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• You can find the wonderful Fairy Tales of Darsie and Grimm at this site.

Fake Out

• Intended Audience: K - 6+
• A Weekly Definition Guessing Game with five words each in K - 2, 3 - 5, and 6+. You can also go to Past Games, and it has a Teacher Tips section. Losts of interesting words to work on.

Jason and the Kodikats

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• Jason and the Kodikats is a fantasy for children about a boy from Seattle and his skate board in Anchorage Alaska. This is a book with 11 chapters that you can read online or download.

Jefferson Elementary Writing Gallery

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• Each month a new writing activity is chosen and you can see lesson plans ( past and present) for these activities.

A Language Arts Website: A Learning Site for Middle School Students

• Intended Audience: 5 - 8
• Great webs links and ideas for writing activities for the Middle School student. This site touches on parts of speech, poetry, spelling, etc

My Virtual Reference Desk - My Facts Page

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• There are many newspapers, thesaurus, Weather, Encyclopedias, and and Information Please Home Page with tons of information. It is the untimate fact finder with tons of titles under the subjects: the World, Sports, Entertaiment, the United States, People, Business and Economy, Living, Society, and Science and Technology.

Reading and Literature

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• A wealth of reading material is out on the World Wide Web. Take advantage of the complete texts of many books and then consider posting some of the fine stories written by your students. Publishing their best work to share with the world certainly provides students with a good reason for creating quality writing.

The Realist Wonder Society

• Intended Audience: K - 6
• Fables, screenplays, film stories, and storyteller stories to read and enjoy.

Thor - The Online Resource

• Intended Audience: For All ages 10 - 80
• This library containes English Dictionaries, International Dictionaries, Technical English Dictionaries, Acronym Dictionaries, Thesauri, and other reference tools ( Quotations, International Language aids, etc.)

Wacky Web Tales

• Intended Audience: 4th grade and older
• These are stories where students full in the blanks according to ddirections. When they are finished filling in their blanks, then they get to look at the funny, wacky story they created.

On-Line Reference Works

• Intended Audience: All ages
• Dictionaries, Thesauri, quotations, encyclopedias, internet resources, and usenet resources. Geographical and other place-oriented references: Maps, Addresses and Postal Codes, Area codes, Phone books, Currency exchange, and Miscellaneous (How Far Is It to U.S. Cities and Towns? ) Other references are: Bibliographies, Legal and governmental references, Facts, and General Reference.

Clip Art

Cool Graphics on the Web

• Intended Audience: K - 12+
• Wonderful site! There are lots of great graphics at this site.

Neferchichi's Clipart and Backgrounds

• 4 - 12
• Awesome Egyptian Clipart and Backgrounds.

Web Graphics

• Intended Audience: Anyone who wants cool graphics
• Cool Graphics..Bullets, Buttons, Borders, Dividers, Animation, Backgrounds, Dividers, Navigation Bars, Desktop Patterns, and weekly Tiles, Paisleytiles, and Kali\eidotiles.

Other Sites

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

• Intended Audience: K - 12
• A wonderful chance to learn the art of paper folding. Create art through origami

Kiva International

• Intended Audience: Anyone who need containers and packaging materials.
• Kiva offers both stock and custom units of bulk containers, totes, bins, packaging, pallets, storage, transportation protection, and more. (This is my family's business -- great for your packaging needs anywhere in the country, in fact anywhere in the world..)

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