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The Arts
  • The Art Studio Chalkboard offers a collection of tutorial pages for older students, focusing on the technical fundamentals of drawing and painting. Topics include linear and atmospheric perspective, compositional models, color theory, and techniques for choosing and applying paint. The newest addition features the Figure-Drawing LAN, dedicated to the fundamentals of drawing the human form.
  • Art Teacher on The Net provides ideas for art projects for everyone from Scouts to senior citizens. Create abstractionist art, a pointillist painting, or a perfumed sachet. Follow links for African Art and make your own Tanzanian rock paintings. Valerie Colston's projects, ranging from interdisciplinary to multicultural, are bound to spark student creativity.
  • ArtFul Mind is a ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers entry that explores the theory and practice of arts education and brain research. Use the Visualize the Arts PowerPoint presentation for a kickoff or play with the WebQuest inquiry activities focusing on arts and arts education.
  • ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary contains definitions of more than 3,100 terms. Whether you build a scavenger hunt around this site or simply encourage your students to explore the many links to examples, quotations, and related information, you'll find it engages their interest. More than 120 longer articles serve as mini-courses on topics such as tessellations, the many faces of the Madonna, or the chronology of mythological art.
  • ArtsEdge
  • ArtsEdNet, an online service for K-12 arts education
  • Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
  • Copyright Questions Copyright is a serious issue for online artists. ArtLex features an article on the definitions, laws, and conventions of copyright, along with several links to the most notable Web sites on the issues of copyright. Educational Cyberground's Arts Education page, includes a section on how to protect your own art on the Internet. Software that allows encryption of images is listed along with tips for embedding "watermarks" in digital art.
  • DigiFest, a student/teacher symposium on digital arts in British Columbia
  • Educational Web Adventure features online art games such as A. Pintura: Art Detective, a 1940s noir-style mystery about art history and art composition; and Inside Art, which has students answering "who, what, where, and how" questions in order to escape from the vortex of a Van Gogh painting. For each page, the Teacher Resources include a study worksheet and key.
  • Eyes on Art teaches students of all ages how to view things artistically. Students create personal online art museums, explore art terms through famous paintings, compare and contrast pairs of paintings, investigate elements of design through different eras, and critique current art work. Art Capades (www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades) is a bilingual adaptation especially for K-3 students.
  • Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources on the Web
  • Go to the KidPix Paint Online to create art work with background landscapes, stamps, and the usual array of paint brushes, pencils and paint cans.
  • Muppets Home Page
  • Music Education Online
  • MusicLand Theme Park (grades 5-8)
  • The Puppetry Home Page
  • Sanford's ArtEdventures introduces primary grade students to shapes, color theory and other art concepts using games, stories and rhymes. All students are invited to submit their art work to the Student Gallery or to visit the Featured Artists for interviews, biographies, and online galleries.
  • Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
  • World Wide Arts Resources is the place to look for artists, museums, online exhibitions, and galleries. Several search options make it easy to locate more than 15,000 artists and their work or to zoom in on hundreds of museums and art centers from around the world. Links to thousands of historic resources provide paths to investigating art's origins and ancestry, while daily news features provide reports on today's art world.
  • Clip Art
  • Music's Charms
  • Photography
    • Digital Camera Resource Page. Everything you ever wanted to know about digital cameras is available with a few mouse clicks at this Web site.
    • Art Education: Teaching the Visual Art. Visit this wonderful Internet site for ideas and lesson plans devoted to art education.
    • ShortCourses in Digital Photograph. Packed with information about digital cameras and the digital process, this site consists of electronic versions of Dennis P. Curtin's highly readable digital photography books.
    • Digital Photography. Point your browser at this URL for an easy-to-read collection of answers to frequently asked questions about digital photography by Anthony Atkielski.
    • ZoneZero. Dedicated to photography as an art form, this Web site hosts several exhibitions of photo images. Information at the site is available in both English and Spanish.
  • Virtual Museums
    • Franklin Institute--You can visit the ocean, forecast the weather, study the heart, and learn the physics of flight at this Philadelphia science museum.
    • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)--Art Safari at New York's MOMA allows kids to interact with art in a variety of ways.
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art--What makes a great work of art great? What should we look for in a picture or sculpture? This Web site for older students helps them understand artists' techniques by looking closely at how the work was created.
    • WebMuseum--The virtual WebMuseum has an extensive collection that includes digitized art from museums around the world.
    • Smithsonian Institution--Just as in Washington, D.C.'s real museums, there's something for everyone online at the Smithsonian.
    • Museum of Unnatural Mystery--In the unconventional Museum of Unnatural Mystery, students can take a scientific look at oddities. Time Travel Tours take them to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and "Things that should be dead but might be still alive" can be found in the Lost Worlds Exhibition. Also: Dinosaur Safari, The Hall of UFO Mysteries.

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Mathematics

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Science
  • Antarctic Ecology Team (grades 8-9)
  • BioDesigns Team (grades 10-11)
  • CELLS Alive! Photos and animations for classroom lessons, lectures or student presentations on biology.
  • Chem4Kids covers the fundamentals of chemistry, allowing students to conduct safe chemistry experiments along the way.
  • Discover magazine Helping students see the relevance of science is fun with Science in the News activities. Discover magazine offers current news, Web features, News Flashes, and a monthly Educator's Guide.
  • EE-Link, Environmental Education on the Internet Lesson Plans
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
  • EnviroLink Network
  • Environmental Protection Agency offers a Student Center and the teacher's Environmental Education Center.
  • The Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) Get your students involved in the Deformed Frogs Debate Mystery or have them join the "How Far Does Light Go?" discussion.
  • Marcopolo (science, economics, humanities, geography)
  • NOVA Here students can follow scientists and explorers reporting on science as it happens.
  • Science Learning Network
  • Syracuse University's Physics Department provides Educational Modules and Simulations, including more recent Virtual Reality models.
  • Virtual Safari
  • The Yuckiest Site on the Internet Focuses on the sorts of questions kids love to ask and adults hate to answer.
  • How Stuff Works Articles and animated diagrams that explain how everyday things such as cars, TVs, toilets, batteries, and airplanes operate.
  • San Francisco's Exploratorium Interactive science exhibits; see interactive illusions, dissect a sheep's brain, make designs shimmer, and more.
  • Cool Science for Curious Kids Activities adapted from some of the country's best children's and science museums.
  • Edible/Inedible Experiments Archive Make and consume such items as food batteries, pop fizz, chewing light, and cheese fractures.
  • The Physics Zone Tutorials for motion, electromagnetism, and nuclear physics.
  • Popular Science Scientific applications, such as the precise measurement of Mount Everest.
  • Scientific American Current news and feature articles, along with interviews, Ask An Expert, Exhibits, and Bookmarks.
  • Scientific American's Electric Collections features links to a variety of museums and exhibits that can be found on the Internet.
  • Thinker Tools Free Mac simulation software for exploring Newtonian force and motion.
  • T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project page (Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations). See how the Twinkie fared in the Rapid Oxidation Test, the Radiation Test, and the Turing Test, to name a few!
  • University of Michigan's Internet Public Library's Science Fair project resource guide
  • The Science of Hockey From San Francisco's Exploratorium hands-on museum.
  • BioChemNet Free directory of some of the best educational biology and chemistry sites on the Web.
  • The United States Geological Survey's Learning Web contains educational resources on geology, hydrology, biology, and geography.
  • University of British Columbia's Earth & Ocean Sciences Image Gallery.
  • Ants and Spiders
    • Myrmecology: The Science About Ants A clickable index offers links to general information about the insect, books, and details on how colonies get started.
    • Spiders At this Australian site designed by kids for kids, you'll find several great pictures and many interesting facts about Australian spiders. There's even a recipe for "Chocolate Spiders," sure to please the most discerning palate.
    • Tarantulas National Geographic's Tarantula Web site.
    • Gander Academy: General Resources on Spiders Interesting tidbits about spiders, including "some awesome spider facts" straight from the mouths of third-graders, as well as spider life histories, and links to hundreds of pictures.
    • Araneae The online home of the University of California at Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology.
  • Dinosaurs
  • Environment
    • National Science Foundation's Find Out Why site: kids can solve science mysteries, discover the best place on a bat to hit a ball, or find out what happens when a meteor hits.
    • The Environmental Protection Agency offers several sites, including the Explorer's Club, with stories, activities and environmental information for younger kids; and Recycle City, with hundreds of ways a town can reduce, reuse, and recycle. At the EPA Student Center older students learn about conservation, ecosystems, air, water, recycling, and human health.
  • Going Ape: Paleontology, Physical Anthropology and Evolution Learn more about Earth's ancient past and the people who lived thousands of years ago by visiting these Web sites.
    • Neandertal News Identification of a 34,000-year-old Neandertal temporal bone from an archeological site in France suggests that Neandertals and early modern humans did not interbreed. Find out more about the bone discovery, complete with maps. Additional information can be found at the virtual Neanderthal Museum in Germany.
    • Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory Learn more about the culture and lifestyle of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain and northwest Europe through pictures and stories.
    • Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 The complete text (presented chapter by chapter) of three popular Darwin works: The Descent of Man (1871), On the Origin of Species (1859), and The Voyage of the Beagle (1909).
    • Fossil Hominids Here, you'll find lots of material to support the theory of human evolution, as well as information on Australopithecines, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Java Man, Peking Man, Piltdown Man, and others.
    • Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The Monkey Trial In 1925, John T. Scopes, a Tennessee high school biology teacher, was convicted of breaking state law by teaching the theory of evolution.Here you can find excerpts from the trial transcripts, photocopies of the relevant pages from Hunter's Civic Biology (the textbook students in John Scopes' biology class read), Tennessee's 1925 and 1967 evolution statutes, trial photos and cartoons, biographies of trial participants, satirical trial reports, plus a resource bibliography.
  • Health and Nutrition
  • Inventions and Inventors on the Net
    • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Kids PagesThe Kids Pages found at this site have areas designed for elementary students, middle and high school students, and parents and teachers. There are contests, games and puzzles designed to encourage students to stretch their problem-solving skills, answers to questions about patents and trademarks, and links to related sites.
    • Inventions with Wild and Wacky Games: National Geographic World This site is very appealing to elementary-aged students because it is easy to navigate and has captivating graphics.
    • Girltech: Invention Upper elementary and middle grade girls will enjoy exploring the invention pages at this site. Visit the She Invents area to learn about women and girls who are inventors.
    • Exploring Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci was not only an extraordinary artist, but also a creator of futuristic inventions hundreds of years before their time. Students in grades 4-8 can use this site to learn about Leonardo: his art work, his inventions, and the times in which he lived.
    • 3M Collaborative Invention Unit What makes an inventor successful? Students can learn about inventors like Benjamin Franklin or Richard G. Drew, who invented Post-Its. They can also visit the Discovery Channel School and Invention Dimension from MIT (grades K-12) to learn more about inventors and inventions. In addition, teachers will appreciate lessons on formulating questions, writing reports about inventors, and how kids can become inventors themselves.
    • Inventure Place Sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, this site features an extensive database of biographic sketches of inventors and their inventions. An excellent reference tool for grades 4-12, it also links to sites about competitions, awards, hands-on museums, and kid stuff sites.
  • Monarchs, Moths and More
    • Monarch Watch Each year, huge swarms of Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles southward from Canada and the U.S. to winter in south-central Mexico. Follow their journey south, learn more about their amazing life cycle, read up on lesson plans, and get students involved in butterfly gardening by checking out the resources at this fabulous monarch site.
    • Butterflies of North America Sponsored by the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, this site invites visitors to identify unknown butterflies by browsing a collection of thumbnail photos.
    • Moths of North America Find out about U.S. moths and the species inhabiting northern Mexico at this information-rich Web site.
    • Children's Butterfly Site This site offers pictures of butterflies common to Great Britain, Western Europe, and North America, a coloring page showing the monarch's life cycle, answers to frequently asked questions, plus an opportunity to have questions answered by an expert.
    • Gypsy Moth in North America At this USDA-sponsored site, you can find out more about the life cycle and natural enemies of the gypsy moth.
    • Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera: Butterflies and Moths This electronic reference will be appreciated by butterfly and moth enthusiasts for its dozens of colorful pictures, essays, plus click-on links.
  • Lighten Up!: The Science of Optics
    • Hello, Red Fox Popular children's author Eric Carle explores the properties of light and color for children ages 5-8in his book, Hello, Red Fox.
    • Patterns in Nature: Light and Optics At this information-rich, must-see site from the Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in Preparation of Teachers (ACEPT) and Arizona State University, you can explore the science of light from several perspectives.
    • Lasers & Optics Everything you ever wanted to know about lasers (in a simple five-part tutorial), plus a brief history of optics are available at this site targeting students in grades 8-12.
    • Elementary School Lesson Plans: Light, Color, & Optics Links to 31 lesson plans for students in grades K-12 are listed by name and arranged by grade level.
    • The Internet Webseum of Holography Get the latest scoop on lasers and holograms from Frank DeFreitas, host of the Internet Laser and Holography TalkShow, and the brains behind the Internet Webseum of Holography.
  • Seismology
    • UPSeis: An Educational Site for Budding Seismologists Developed by the Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Technological University, this easy-to-navigate site teaches kids about seismology and earthquakes.
    • Life Along the Faultline: Life and Science in Earthquake Country--The Exploratorium This site offers general information about seismology and a great deal of information on earthquake activity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Students can read an eyewitness account of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and watch a video clip from the opening World Series game that was being played when the earthquake happened. Also included are Webcasts from various California locations where seismic activity is monitored and studied.
    • Learn2 Prepare for an Earthquake Students in upper elementary grades and above will find good infor-mation at this site about earthquake preparedness strategies.
    • National Earthquake Information Center U.S. Geological Survey's site offers a wealth of information for older students. Visitors can view a near real-time list of earthquakes from around the world, click on an earthquake they'd like to learn more about, and find maps, predicted P-Wave travel times to points around the globe, and much more.
    • Museum of the City of San Francisco: 1906 Earthquake and Fire Students can learn about the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 through eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles, maps, photos and other documents, by visiting a virtual exhibit. Much of the data is text based, which makes it more appropriate for older students, but the information is detailed and covers a broad range of topics.
    • Yahooligans!--The Big Picture: Earthquakes and Volcanoes This page has links to all kinds of information about earthquakes. Recent newspaper and magazine articles, radio reports, photographs and videos, and links to other sites.
  • Sharks
  • Space
    • The Earth and Moon Viewer
    • Embrace Space
    • Moonlink--The space education, outreach and public awareness program for NASA's Lunar Prospector Mission, this site involves middle and high school students in the Prospector's one-year mapping mission.
    • Mars Millennium Project challenges K-12 students to design a livable community for 100 earthlings on the planet Mars in the year 2030.
    • Space Camp With facilities in Alabama, Florida, and California, this private endeavor helps students develop science and technical skills and promotes teamwork and responsibility; and includes a simulated shuttle mission.
    • NASA's Web NASA's firm commitment to education is reflected in the numerous resources it offers on the World Wide Web. Check out these Web pages to learn more about the many educational programs and opportunities afforded by NASA:
      • Center for Educational Technologies/NASA Classroom of the Future The Center for Educational Technologies, the home of NASA's Classroom of the Future research center, produces curriculum materials including the Astronomy Village and BioBlast CD-ROM titles (soon to be available in HTML) and Exploring Our Environment, a set of Web-based lessons involving problem solving.
      • The Learning Technologies Project LTP offers a suite of Internet projects that teachers and students can use to explore NASA resources and learn about space missions. A topic-by-topic index provides an easy way into the lesson ideas.
      • The Mars Exploration Program NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides photos, updates and extensive information about the Mars Exploration program currently under way. The Education page includes curriculum modules for teachers and projects for students--including a link to the Mars Millennium Project that challenges students to design an outer-space community.
      • NASA CORE A division of Spacelink, CORE (for Central Operation of Resources for Educators) offers educators an online catalog of NASA videotapes, CD-ROMs, computer software, 35mm slide sets, and memorabilia. This material can be ordered direct from the Web site or you may request a printed catalog by writing to: NASA Core, Lorain County JVS, 15181 Route 58 S., Oberlin, OH 44074.
      • NASA Education Home Page To learn about yet more resources, visit this cyber-gateway with links to NASA's educational programs and services for educators and students.
      • NASA for Kids The NASA home page for students provides links to kid-oriented pages on topics such as space exploration and planetary science.
      • NASA Spacelink Probably the most comprehensive of NASA's many Web sites, Spacelink contains an electronic library of NASA educational publications, NASA Television's education schedule, and a database of NASA current events topics. A specialized index enables teachers to search NASA's educational archives for resources on specific subjects.
      • NASA's Global Change Master Directory Comprehensive directory about earth science and global change.
      • NASA's Image eXchange Astronomical images are easy to locate by searching NASA's Image eXchange Web site, which contains over 300,000 archived pictures.
      • NASA's Planetary Photojournal NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab offers online photos and information. At the Planetary Photojournal, for example, you can access nearly 2,000 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope or Voyager space probes. Other sections of the site provide access to detailed planet and space mission profiles.
      • NASA's Space Place Learn about astronomy with hands-on activities.
      • National Space Science and Data Center Designed as a "deep archive and general distribution center for lunar and planetary data and images," the NSSDC offers a wealth of photos, audio clips, factoids, timelines and articles about space missions over the years.
      • Quest: NASA K-12 Internet Initiative Dedicated to providing online interactive projects for classroom use, Quest gives students the opportunity to take part in live-broadcast question-and-answer sessions with NASA personnel and other schools.
      • Star Child At this NASA learning center for budding astronomers (sponsored by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center), you'll find oodles of solar system and interstellar information suitable for primary grade instruction. In addition, be sure to explore the "Other Good Places" link to related Web sites for project resources and interactive Internet-based activities.
  • Spiders on the Web
  • Virtual Aquariums
    • The Monterey Bay Aquarium provides a range of learning opportunities for kids and teachers at its E-Quarium Web site.
    • The New England Aquarium provides a range of interactive learning experiences for students, including a virtual tour of the Giant Ocean Tank, a Whale Watch section, and a virtual helicopter flight that follows the Charles River as it winds its way to Boston Harbor.
    • The Tennessee Aquarium. Among the features of this nicely organized site is a robust Amazing Animals area that lets users enjoy behind-the-scenes tours of the creatures who live in the aquarium's galleries.
  • Weather and Meterology

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Media Literacy

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Physical Education
  • Virtual Gym Class Sites
    • Coaching Youth Sports: An Electronic Newsletter for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents Sponsored by the Health and Physical Education Program at Virginia Tech, this site features a bimonthy newsletter with information about motor skill learning and sport skill performance in athletes ages 6-16.
    • SportScience You'll find an electronic encyclopedia of sports medicine (with articles about steroids, ankle injuries, and the benefits of cross-training).
    • Physical Education Lesson Plans Educators from all over the country contribute tried-and-true plans for activities such as Jurassic Park Tag, Duck Duck Goose, Four Square, Target Toss Math, Preschool Obstacle Course, and much, much more.
    • PE Central PE Central provides the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
    • Physical Activity & Disability The Web site of the Physical Activity & Disability Research Group at Leicestershire's Loughborough University (United Kingdom) provides information on sports, physical education, recreation, and rehabilitation for people with special needs.

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Girls and Technology

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Online Projects

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Software Reviews
  • The Technology & Learning Web site offers hundreds of Ký12 software reviews that have appeared in the pages of this magazine. Reviews, product announcements and software award winners can be searched by content area, grade level, and numerous other criteria. New to the site is the Well Connected Educator component, which features teacher-written articles and teacher-recommended Web sites, among other offerings.
  • Children's Software Revue is an online version of the Ký8 printed magazine for parents that focuses on education and home learning software. Teachers are also invited to add their comments to existing reviews.
  • ISTE offers a limited number of topic-based reviews for teachers. At press time, for instance, a page of helpful sites for ESL and language arts