A-Word-A-Day and other features such as Dictionary, Thesaurus and Acronym are available online and via free e-mail subscription.

Academy of Achievement brings you face to face with the extraordinary individuals who have shaped the 20th century. It is an amazing collection -- not merely of artifacts but of people and ideas that can inspire, encourage, and impart the will to achieve.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Amazing! Space. Teaching tools is a new grand entrance to all the educational offerings at Amazing Space. Accessing resources by the "Teaching tools" index gives educators the benefit of a special "overview" for every listing that suggests ways to use the resource in the classroom, gives related materials, and more.

ARTSEDGE, The JFK Center for Performing Arts, supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.

Autoshop 101, Kevin R. Sullivan, Professor of Automotive Technology at Skyline College, San Bruno, California, offers this online series of Automotive Fundamentals. — "The primary focus of this site is to provide my students with course material in the area of Automotive Electronics. However, I have included support for educators, technicians, and students of automotive technology."

Binney & Smith Compelling book report ideas abound; Rich hands-on learning experiences, linked with core curriculum standards. Colorful, creative curriculum ideas for young children. Perfect for preschools, day-care centers, and family child care providers. New lessons are added each week.

Bonus Network Corp, known as the SuperSite for Kids, is one of the most extensive and exciting collections of multimedia student activities and leaning experiences on the Web. The site offers more that 120,000 pages of creative interactive content in every subject area, organized into categories including play, imagine, and explore. Bonus.com is the model for the effective online educational use of color graphics, animation and audio.

CIA World FactBook, 2002. Your tax dollars at work; a terrific resource on researching the nations of the world. Includes full-color maps and flags. The year 2002 marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 59th year of continuous basic intelligence support to the US Government by The World Factbook and its two predecessor programs.

Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.

Classroom Connect, a company focused exclusively on products and services for using the Internet and the Web in K-12 education, has made continuing contributions to advancing the quality of online education.
 

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization, promotes the use of information technologies and the Internet in K-12 education to improve learning. Our members represent school districts, state and local education agencies, nonprofits, companies and individuals who share our vision.

Disney Educational Productions Edu-Station offers a variety of multimedia education features, including CyberLesson Plans on themes such as Native American story telling, stargazing, and food traditions; teacher tested sites and ideas in various content areas; a book nook; and an educator events calendar.

Discovery Channel School offers a full range of K-12 interactive multimedia resources, with links to related content. It includes excellent classroom materials that support its television programs. These have lesson plans in every content area that can be searched by grade level and content, and learning adventures on topics such as the Galapagos Islands, Cleopatra's Palace, and taking a video ride into the eye of a hurricane.

Education Com is an education oriented site that displays curriculum and professional information for students of all age groups as well as parents and teachers. The new Educast 3.0 can also be operated as a stand alone product, and it offers separate content channels including news, lesson plans, current events, interest groups, science and mathematics galleries, and access to USA Today. The site has links to hundreds of other resources.

Educational Cyber Playground site is designed primarily for teachers and offers resources related to technology, arts, linguistics, music, literacy, and many other subjects. The teachers section offers lesson plans, a bulletin board, and links to educational organizations.

Education World is an excellent guide to educational resources on the Web, and offers search word access to a database of more than 120,000 sites that can also be browsed by content area.

FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. The department and more than 40 other federal organizations have created a web site that makes teaching and learning resources from across the federal government available in one place.

Gateway Org A new tool is now available to help teachers choose a site from thousands of learning resources on the Internet. The Gateway Org is designed for teachers to type a topic, grade level, and other information into a search screen that then retrieves, from more than 140 web sites, lessons, instructional units, and other free educational materials on that topic, for that grade level.

Google Directory of reference and education sites, including a collection of links to a variety of government resources geared towards students, i.e., information on financial aid programs, international study, community service, and career development. There is also a portal of educational links for elementary schools, grade-high schools, college and university, distance learning, continuing education, profession courses and research.

Harcourt School Publishers is an outstanding example of a company site that offers online materials and activities to support its curriculum products in every content area. Most are appropriate for any elementary school. The resources are organized by grade level and can be searched.

The History Professor A timeline perspective of world and U.S. history integrated with synopses and original documents of world events. Copies of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, Bios of the Founding Fathers, Presidents, First Ladies, historical figures and much more.

Houghton Mifflin Education Place provides free K-8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Check out our Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, searchable activity database, educational games, collaborative projects, textbook support, online store, and more!

The Great Idea Finder: Celebrating the Spirit of Innovation — Take a glimpse into the past at some of the more unusual inventions and fascinating inventors.

MarcoPolo Site, Search The Marco Polo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

Math Teacher Link This site is designed to offer professional development opportunities and classroom resources to high school math teachers.

A list of many newspapers and news sources published in eight languages; would be a useful site to support secondary or middle school foreign language classes.

NASA CONNECT is an annual series of FREE, 30 minute, standards-based, instructional distance learning programs designed to enhance the teaching of math, science and technology concepts in grades 6-8. A resource-rich educator’s guide describing a hands-on activity and a web activity accompanies each NASA CONNECT program and is available in Adobe Acrobat format. More. ...

Educational Tools The beauty and wonder of the cosmos... "A comprehensive listing of all of our interactive activities, graphic organizers, science content reading selections, and more. A description, suggestions for using the resource in the classroom, and related materials accompany each tool."

NASA's Quest Project brings you a series of lectures by leading astrobiology experts at Ames Research Center on some of the hottest topics in science today. The series focuses on six important questions dealing with life and the universe. Each lecture will be accompanied by a one hour web chat during which you can ask the expert questions.

National Geographic Society On the evening of January 13, 1888, thirty-three men traveled on foot, horseback, and in horsedrawn carriages through the streets of Washington to the Cosmos Club, then on Lafayette Square across from the White House. They convened around a large mahogany table to discuss “the advisability of organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” The entity they were about to create would become the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution in the world.

NY Times Student Connection Who's Who and What's What -- Web Explorer -- Word of the Day -- Student Letters to the Editor -- Science Q & A; A new science question is answered every Tuesday in C. Claiborne Ray's popular Science Q & A column from Tuesday's Science Times section. In addition, a 5-years archive is available. The questions are organized under 12 categories to make browsing the collection simple and fun.

Pitsco offers a comprehensive guide to online education resources, particularly in the science and math curriculum areas including gifted and talented, keypals, lesson plans, online projects and special needs. Each of these links to countless numbers of additional sites in every content area. Its "Ask an Expert" site, which can be accessed directly, offers guidance on getting questions answered, and provides free links to hundreds of experts in fields ranging from astronauts to zoo keepers.

Scholastic Inc. is a comprehensive and well organized site offering an outstanding selection of content targeted for students, teachers and parents. The teacher section includes lesson plans, research tools, online activities by grade level and professional resources. The Web pages are packed with information, and a site map makes it easy to find specific resources.

TeachersFirst is a free Internet web site for K-12 teachers, containing thousands of quality resources for classroom and professional use. The simple design of TeachersFirst saves time and makes it easy to use. Each Web link and lesson plan has a brief review of the content and how it can be used with students, written by a classroom teacher. There is a short tutorial on how the Internet can be used for educational purposes and a variety of other professional materials for teachers.

TeacherSource offers daily updates to educational programming features on PBS, television listings grouped by subject, and links to local station Web sites that are accessed by entering zip codes. The site also offers tips on teaching with technology and television, a teacher programming preview newsletter and links to PBS sites for adults and children. The site offers more than 1,300 standards based lesson plans and activities in every content area that can be searched by age levels ranging from preschool through high school.

Think Quest Org ThinkQuest Programs provide a highly motivating opportunity for students and educators to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others.

Legislative Information on the Internet. A site of the U.S. House of Representatives. Also search Early Congressional Documents including Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution [including the Bill of Rights and Other Amendments].

MS Encarta

FedStats

The Library of Congress

TechEncyclopedia

Acton Public Schools, Acton-Boxborough Regional Schools, Acton, Massachusetts. A four-year, comprehensive high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School serves students from the towns of Acton and Boxborough, which are located twenty-five miles west of Boston. The current population of Acton is 19,100; that of Boxborough is about 4,400.

Decatur City Schools, Decatur, Alabama. Meeting the educational needs of some 8,700 students, the Decatur City Schools provide opportunities for all students to experience success and to be prepared for the years ahead whether it is future education, the world of work, or achieving life-long skills. A staff of approximately 425 is dedicated to the same goals and objectives of providing the best possible education for our students.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Fairbanks, Alaska.

Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego, California: Popular H.S. marching band site with links to other bands.

Newburyport, Located in the heart of one of the oldest and smallest cities in Massachusetts. Situated in a largely rural county, the schools enjoy the benefits of city and country. With almost 2500 students enrolled in five schools, Newburyport has small class sizes.