Arborwood.com - Education Resources

General Resources
Local School Directory: A completely free website that provides in-depth statistical information regarding K-12 Schools. LocalSchoolDirectory.com has many features for Teachers, Administrators and Parents.
Language Learning Library: This site offers a pretty comprehensive selection of free language learning tutorials.
BBC - Languages: Improve your language learning online. Learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, and other languages on your on time.
NYPL Digital Gallery: Access to over 480,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Academy of Achievement: Introduces men and women who shaped the 20th century. Includes profiles, biographies, and interviews.
Learn2Type: If you have children, Learn2Type offers simpler and educational exercise content designed specifically for youngsters!
Print Free Graph Paper: Print free graph paper online, provided by OnWords.org. Many styles of free, printable graph paper perfect for homework, tests, sketches, craft projects and more.
Teachers Support Network: Visit www.TeachersSupportNetwork.com to match yourself to districts with positions that correspond to your criteria, to contact other teachers, to gather information related to your career, and to find resources for professional development and mentoring to further your careers and reach your goals. Register today - it's free and easy.
PTA Central: A new educational information website which caters to the PTA parent. They provide relevant educational links for Parent Teacher Groups on a local, state and national
level.
Education Atlas: A comprehensive guide to the best education sites on the Web. They're sorted by Education Index/Subject and life stage, so you can find exactly what you're looking for quickly and easily.
Degrees-for-Success.com: A lists schools in a variety of fields including culinary, design, technology, law, healthcare, and business.
Watch Education: Education resource list for colleges, online learning, online course, early childhood, home schooling, education subjects, etc.
Bartleby: Bartleby, the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious.
3D Learner: 3D Learner is an educational organization dedicated to helping children become calm, confident and focused, and improving their reading comprehension with hands-on process.
Junglewalk.com: A large compilation of links to animal movie and animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference. Learn about many different animals, big and small. Watch movies of protozoan animal cells and cheetahs hunting, explore bird sounds, and hear blue whale songs, right here at JungleWalk - your virtual animal encyclopedia.
TexBookLand: TextbookLand is one of the internets oldest and most reliable textbook price comparison services around. We compare your new and used textbook prices at over 20 stores in just a few seconds, so you'll always find the lowest price! Always for free!
UpToTen: You and your child will find an incredible range of fun, educational activities that challenge the mind, encourage creativity, help with problem solving, stimulate memory development, enhance dexterity, and stimulate lateral thinking.
MIT Council on Primary and Secondary Education (CPSE): The projects sponsored by the CPSE include the MIT/Wellesley Teacher Education/Certification Program, Teacher Sabbaticals, and Educational Outreach Programs. The Council's Chairman is also involved in a number of K-12 educational efforts, including the Science and Engineering Program for Teachers, its product, the Network of Educators in Science and Technology, and a collaboration with the Association of American Universities (AAU).
Action Factor, Inc.: Tired of lesson plans and activities for teaching phonics through worksheets and boring drills? Action Factor's Sing your Way Through Phonics^® CDs and Mini-Charts help kids learn to read by capitalizing on their natural playfulness, energy, and creativity.
Dyslexia: This site deals with dyslexia by providing tools to overcome problems with reading, writing, and attention focus. These methods enable children and adults to recognize and control the mental processes that cause distorted perceptions of letters and words.
Dyslexia Parents Resource: Information and resources about dyslexia for parents of children who are, or may be, dyslexic.
Pre-K Smarties: A preschool education resource for parents teaching preschoolers with tips for early reading using phonics, parenting articles, family freebies, and deals on the best educational toys.
MarcoPolo - Internet content for the classroom.: Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities and materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.
Pitsco’s Ask the Expert?: Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer your questions for free!
discoverthis.com: Smart things for kids and adults - Discover how much fun learning can be for all ages with their cool educational toys, kits, robots and more!
Handwriting Help for Kids: Handwriting Help for Kids - Designed by Lisa Marnell, an Occupational Therapist, this site offers free information, advice, and worksheets and activities.
Fontmenu.com: A site offering Block Letter and Cursive handwriting fonts. School fonts have been created with the help of teachers, to ensure best results, and ease of use.
America's Library: This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.
SchoolExpress.com: Follow their links to thousands of free worksheets, hundreds of free software programs, online kid's activities, ePhonics, and links to hundreds of educational Web sites.
Brainpop: BrainPOP features a wide variety of animated movies with a cast of dynamic characters that make it fun for young people to learn about many different health, science and technology topics
KidsClick: This site was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
Global School Net Foundation: Online and offline interactions between the youth of the world, inside and outside of classrooms, in order to build a culture of peace in which the dignity and rights of all human beings are respected.
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
The Gateway to Educational Materials: Teachers, parents, administrators can search or browse The Gateway and find thousands of high quality educational materials.
Eduhound: EduHound.com, a division of T.H.E. Journal, is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents.
Refdesk.com: This site has a huge list of reference sites.
PinkMonkey.com: The one place on the Internet with a comprehensive digital library, literature notes, study guides focused on core subjects, test preparation materials and carefully selected links to other useful educational sites all in one site.
Education World: A comprehensive resource guide where educators can start each day finding the lesson plans and research materials they are looking for.
Lightspan.com: An easy to use educational portal for educators, parents, and students, providing resources, research tools, and grade-specific activities.
Blue Web’n Learning Sites Library: This is a well-organized, searchable database categorized by subject, audience, and type of outstanding Internet learning sites described and rated judged useful for students, teachers, and librarians.
Internet 4Classrooms On Line Tutorials: Here is an extensive list of online tutorials on the use of many technology tools, including: FrontPage, HyperStudio, iMovie, Networking, and PowerPoint.
Wired Teacher: Mrs. Dingman's Third Grade site provides a window into a tech-savvy teacher's wired classroom. Her Internet Scavenger Hunt allows students to learn about a particular topic and practice Internet skills at the same time.
U.S. Department of Education: Useful resources and information for students, parents, teachers, schools and districts.
EdHelper.com: This site was definitely created with the busy teacher in mind. EdHelper.com is a comprehensive collection of links to instructional materials such as lesson plans, Web quests and other resources in all subject areas. Teachers can submit their own lesson plans as well as use worksheet generators to create eight different kinds of work sheets for classroom use.
How-to-Study.com: A wonderful site designed for all ages. A complete guide to studying, taking notes in class, as well as keeping track of assignments.
HomeworkSpot.com: If you are a student, parent or educator, this site was made for you. HomeworkSpot.com is a free K-12 homework resource center that simplifies the search for the best content online. From the site, quickly and easily find resources by grade level and subject, including English, math, science, social studies, art, music, technology, foreign language, health and more.
PTO Today Online: PTO Today is recognized as a leading voice on the issues and challenges PTOs face as they strive to make their schools special places to learn.
National PTA: A non-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers: The ultimate resource for those wanting to learn how to perform research and write a class research paper. Contains information valuable to both secondary and university students.
CIA World Factbook: An extremely popular reference guide for information on the geographic, economic, political, and social conditions of every recognized nation in existence, the CIA World Factbook is a highly recommended source for research data.
Learning Planet: Designed for kids from preschool to 6th grade learning levels, you'll find a great collection of online games there that both entertain and educate.
KidSites.com: If you want the best sites for your kids, come to KidSites.com! Each site is approved before being included in the listings.
bigchalk.com: A comprehensive site designed to help students in nearly all academic subjects including math, philosophy, and law. Subject material is divided by grade, ranging from kindergarten through college.
Teachnet.com: Teachers sharing tips and ideas with other teachers make this website very informative and enjoyable; includes simple to navigate, loaded with easy to use tips, as well as, ideas to help with teaching and classroom management.
IPL Youth Division: Published by the Internet Public Library, this is a wonderful collection of links of interest to youths. Links are divided into categories including books and writing, computers and Internet, dating, health, math and science, and sports. Very extensive and worth a look.
MLT Kids Online: The Milford Township Library of Michigan has provided an extensive collection of links to stories, games, homework help, reading resources and much more.
Family Education.com: Useful information and interactive communication tools. Includes quizzes, polls, discussion groups, and articles on parenting and education subjects. Also included is a network of local school web sites, with school calendars.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet was created to reach children through a "laugh and learn" environment. To meet that goal, Yucky contains a variety of science education modules featuring Wendell the Worm, an animated ace worm reporter, and Dora, his human sidekick.
Discovery Channel School: This web site comes from the producers of cable's Discovery Channel and has educational resources related to topics discussed on the TV network and much more. Includes a database of resources searchable by grade level, subject, and resource type.
Scholastic Central: The online site of Scholastic Books, houses pages for the popular book series "Goosebumps" and the "Magic School Bus." Teachers can purchase books online and check out online educational publications. A great site for kids and educators.
Quia!: Games and quizzes in over 40 subject areas. Tools for making games, flash cards, matching games, concentration (memory) games, word search puzzles, hangman games, and challenge boards.
Education 4 Kids: A place where kids can come and play drill games in subjects such as math, social studies, language, and science.
BBC Education - Words and Pictures: This is a well organized and fun site for young children learning phonics. Includes many games and activities.
Teachers Edition Online: This site gives teachers tips on lesson plans, room decor, classroom management, and curricula, as well as an advice column.
TeacherWeb: Keep students and parents informed of what is happening in class with your free personal website that's as easy to use as the bulletin board in your classroom.
FunBrain.com: Wonderfully illustrated web site with educational games and puzzles designed to teach children of all ages. Divided by grade level from preschool through high school. FunBrain.com will make learning math, science, and history a pleasure.
Holidays on the Net: A terrific interactive site that includes explanations, sounds and graphics of some of the holidays celebrated in America, including Christmas, Jewish holidays, etc. It is a great resource for background information about a variety of holidays and how they are celebrated.
CTW Family Workshop: From the people who bring Sesame Street to children's televisions every day, this is the CTW Family Workshop, a site packed with educational games designed to enlighten young children.
LD Online: This web site is devoted to children with learning disabilities and their parents and teachers. An easy to use web interface makes it easy to learn about special challenges of teaching children with learning disabilities and what options are available for such students.
BJ Pinchbeck: A wonderfully designed site by 12-year-old "Beege" and his father. They have collected more than 550 homework resources.
ePals Classroom Exchange: K-12 students and teachers get a sense of what everyday life is like in a foreign country. E-mail projects are perfect for teacher-monitored school assignments, language arts, cultural learning, history, geography, social studies, science - or just making friends worldwide. This is a completely free service.
American Institute for Foreign Study: Learn the ins and outs of high school and college study abroad program, as well as foreign travel and work programs for young adults.
KIDS,Inc: Preschool and Kindergarten education resources for teachers and parents. Features product descriptions, on-line ordering, education resources, and an on-line administration of a test of social competency.
The New York Times Learning Network: The New York Times has compiled articles, games, and suggested lesson plans to aid in the education of students in grades 3-12.
Weekly Reader Galaxy: From the same people who have brought Weekly Reader magazine into schools for years, this web site is a wonderfully produced online version of the magazine. Resources and articles are provided for parents, kids, and teachers.
Human Anatomy Online: Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or patients who want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.
Library Spot: This site is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians, or just about anyone exploring the Web for research information.
Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias: An annotated listing of online reference guides covering a wide array of categories, including the arts, technology, sciences, history, and much more. This site is somewhat simple in its presentation, but it is extremely comprehensive and worth a look.
Merriam-Webster Online: The online version of the famous English language dictionary. Includes an online dictionary and thesaurus.
Little Explorers: An easy-to-use picture dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids can use Little Explorers as a school reference.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: All of the information from the world-class, Washington, D.C., museum is now available online in this wonderful encyclopedia. Serves as an excellent education aid for students of all ages. Divided by subject category in an alphabetical format.
Smithsonian Education: The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies has created a free educational web site for students, educators, and families based on the Smithsonian Institution's content.
Encarta Online Encyclopedia: Online version of the Microsoft Encarta CD. Although users must pay for full access, the concise version of this encyclopedia is free and allows unlimited use.
CountryWatch.com: Here you will find economic, environmental, political, and cultural facts and statistics from nearly every country in the world.
Online Dictionary Net: English, French, Spanish and over 50 other languages as well as medical and legal professional dictionary in and over 50 other languages.
Study Web: Promoted as the "learning portal," this site is a very comprehensive starting point for finding information on a wide array of academic subjects. Designed in a Yahoo-like format.

Sciences

BBC School Science Clips: A highly interactive, curriculum-led science site for children aged 5-11 and their teachers.
Rocks for Kids: This site is for kids of all ages who love rocks. Here you will find out stuff about rocks & minerals and where to go to find out more. If you already collect rocks then this is the place for you!
Ocean Explorer: An educational Internet offering for all who wish to learn about, discover, and virtually explore the ocean realm. It provides public access to current information on a series of NOAA scientific and educational explorations and activities in the marine environment.
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
World-Science.net: Some of the world's most exciting news from all fields of science appears there, long before it's in the papers.
Ancient Observations - Teacher's Guide: Use this teacher's guide as a basis for exploring ancient astronomy. We've provided classroom activities and supplemental material about the sun, seasons, ancient cultures, and the ways in which these cultures' relationship to the sun was expressed. Each module includes National Science Education Standards, downloadable versions of each activity, links to background material, media to use in your classroom, and more.
Museum of Science and Industry: Books, games, gadgets, and multimedia from the museum in Chicago, with many items of interest to children.
Planetary Science Research Discoveries: An educational site sharing the latest research on meteorites, planets, and other solar system bodies being made by NASA-sponsored scientists. The web site is supported by the Cosmochemistry Program of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and by Hawai`i Space Grant Consortium and is a vital link for planetary and space sciences, and for learning how science works.
Miami Science Museum: This resource contains educational activities relating to different forms of energy, and are being presented by famous gothic horror characters. In order to experience the full capabilities of this site, please make sure that you have javascript turned on in your browser.
Science Toys: Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.
All Science Fair Projects: Here, you will find literally hundreds of experiments of every kind in every discipline of science from chemistry, biology, physics to even human psychology. They have a powerful color-coded search tool that will help quicken your research tremendously.
StarDate Guide: Non-technical information about astronomy and space exploration, including stargazing tips, FAQs, sky almanac, solar system guide.
Sky and Telescope: Sky & Telescope, the Essential Magazine of Astronomy. News, observing
tips, how-to advice, and more!
Seashells.org: This site is devoted to the answering of all your questions you have about seashells, beachcombing, cleaning seashells, preserving sea life, identifying your seashells, and much more.
Chem4Kids: Find out about atoms, chemical reactions, and the elements here.
Fish FAQ: Northeast Fisheries Science Center has complied frequent questions pertaining to fish.
Astonomy.com: This is a colorful magazine for astronomy beginners, full of astronomy news, hints, and resources.
Your Amazing Brain: Explore your brain, take part in real-life experiments and test yourself with our games, illusions and brain-benders.
ScienceMadeSimple.com: Kids learn science the easy, hands-on way with Science Made Simple. Get fun science projects and great experiments using household materials. Clear, detailed answers to children's science questions, science news, and more.
SandlotScience.com: A large collection of optical illusions.
The Why Files?: Provided by the National Institute for Science Education this page includes cool science images, information on science in sports, searchable archives, a forum for discussion, and much more.
Earthquakes for Kids and Grownups: Excellent presentation of earthquake material for educational purposes. The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program provides earthquake science information and knowledge for reducing deaths, injuries, and property damage from earthquakes through understanding of their characteristics and effects and by providing the information and knowledge needed to mitigate these losses.
Animal Diversity: An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. A collection of pictures and information about animals.
Jet Stream Analyses: Obtain real-time and historical information about he jet stream.
International Systems of Units (SI): Everything you wanted to know about the metric system.
NASA's Solar System Exploration: NASA's site for solar system news and missions.
Everyday Mysteries: Fun science facts from the Library of Congress.
Earth and Sky: Earth and Sky radio series now has a Web site where student's can go to listen to Deborah Byrd and Joel Block discuss popular science and astronomy subjects. Check out the sky watching forecast to get viewing conditions, phases of the moon, and more.
Franklin Institute Science Museum: Online version of the famous Philadelphia science museum. Includes games and information about scientific issues; primarily designed for students in grades K-12.
NASA's J-Track Satellite Tracking: Very interesting site that allows users to track the location of many satellites in Earth's orbit in real time. No additional software is necessary; the maps and images of the satellites all appear directly in your web browser.
Bill Nye the Science Guy: The online home of the popular educational television series, this Web site provides detailed instructions for science experiments, science facts and quizzes, and a "teachers’ lounge" for educators.
Discover Magazine Online: This is the online edition of the Discover magazine, which provides current events in the world of science in a jargon-free language suitable for all ages. Serves as a great educational tool to illustrate the relevancy of science in today's world.
NASA Planetary Image Catalog: In this image catalog, NASA has provided a wonderful illustrated guide to the known planets of the universe.
NOVA's Hunt for Alien Worlds: A beautifully designed web site discussing current research in the international search for planets outside of our solar system. Again, this site is written at a fairly general level without relying on any prior knowledge of astronomy.
Ask the Space Scientist: A nice question and answer site for all questions related to astronomy.
Solar Max 2000: Scientists are busy preparing for the upcoming solar max, a period of heightened solar activity that can take place over several years. It has yet to be seen whether the upcoming solar maximum will affect us here on earth. This site will keep you updated with current solar images and research.
Science U: Designed for junior high and high school students interested in science, this site focuses on geometry and astronomy. Several nice online tools, including a planet locator and sky calendar, can be found here, as well as a "library" featuring changing science exhibits.
The Electronic Zoo: This site contains myriad links to information on a wide range of common animals, including primates, birds, rodents, and house pets. A good reference for all ages.
The Dynamic Earth: A wonderfully illustrated and produced site from the U.S. Geological Survey that tells the story of plate tectonics. Great for all ages.
The Structural Geology Page: This is a collection of hypertext links to assorted structural geology and tectonics resources available on the world-wide web that was developed originally by Steven Schimmrich while a graduate student at the University of Illinois.

Mathematics

Math and Reading Help for Kids: Math and Reading Help for Kids is a directory of articles offering tips for homework help, improving test scores, developing positive study habits, and more.
INEW Math: The INEW website provides a large mathematics database which is useful for practicing and sharpening various skills for students in grades K-6. You will find over 500 core math skills with millions of variations, a fun and helpful demonstration to get you started, as well as a brief overview that highlights our mission, benefits and service.
BrainTeasers: Solve these weekly brain teaser math puzzles. Brain teasers are arranged by grade level and include hints in case you need some help.
The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math: An easy-to-use site featuring a question and answer forum for K-12 math questions, as well as a question archive and various math-related frequently asked questions. Great for students looking for help or assistance in their math studies.
S.O.S. Mathematics: The website of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, where you can work with materials to help you do your homework, prepare for a test, or refresh your memory.
Highline Advance Math: This site provides practice quizzes and a homework helper, as well as a detailed curriculum for both first and second year advanced math students.
A+ Math: This site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Includes an online flashcard program, a homework helper, and advanced problems for older students.
Mathpower: This site offers an entertaining way to learn basic math and algebra. Includes tutorial lessons authored by students, math assignments, study skills tips, and much more.
Math Goodies: This site offers interactive math lessons using a problem-solving approach. Homework help, puzzles, and online calculators are also available.
Coolmath4kids: A Web site that makes learning math fun. Has many quizzes, games, and puzzles that teach children arithmetic skills, mathematical reasoning, and subjects like geometry and fractals.
Figure This!: What letters can be read the same upside down as right side up? Why aren’t manhole covers square? Math Challenges for Families! - Check out the many fun and engaging math and logic problems in this site designed to help your family enjoy mathematics.
WebMath: A clever web site that will instantly solve math problems ranging from personal finance and physics to trigonometry and even word problems. Just enter in your own data and let WebMath do the rest.
FHS Precalculus Study Page: Great study resource for high school and college students. Covers such Precalculus topics as functions, exponents, analytic geometry, trigonometry, and an introduction to calculus with derivatives.

Language and Literature

Confusing Words: A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Miscellaneous notes for grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and usage suggestions the author teaches in class.
wikiHow: A collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, they can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 12,825 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
Free Information Society: Historical Sounds in MP3 Format. Spiro Agnew - Hippies · Spiro Agnew - TV News Coverage · Anwar al-Sadat - Peace · Apollo 11 - The Eagle Has Landed, etc.
Online Etymology Dictionary: Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
Reading Rockets: The site is for parents, teachers, and other caring adults. It contains research-based articles on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle; daily news headlines about reading; monthly recommended children's books; exclusive interviews with top children's book authors and illustrators; forums for sharing ideas and thoughts about kids and reading; and links to national and local literacy organizations and resources.
Web English Teacher: Educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale.
Indispensable Writing Resources Site: You'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites.
BBC Education - Word and Games: This is a well organized and fun site for young children learning phonics. Includes many games and activities.
BBC Launguages: Learn Spanish, German, French and Italian and other languages with the BBC Languages site. ... Find out more.
Early Literacy Advisor: The Early Literacy Advisor^TM (ELA) is a computerized system that assists classroom teachers in assessing and promoting early literacy development in children ages 4-6.
Grammar Gorillas: Practice the parts of speech with this fun and simple game.
EFL Playhouse: Activities and resources designed to make both the teaching and learning of phonics more fun for you and your students.
espeeches.com: This Web site provides you with all the tools you need to write a good speech, including a large list of other speech related sites.
Book Adventure: Students in grades K-8 demonstrate their reading comprehension through short quizzes and earn rewards; from Sylvan Learning Center.
Student Guides - Book Reports: Check out The Lakewood Public Library's helpful student guide to writing book reports. It covers everything from selecting a book to writing your final draft.
Cliffs Notes: Web site of the world's most famous brand of supplemental study guides. Includes resources for both students and educators, as well as an online store where students may purchase and download Cliffs Notes.
WordCentral: Merriam-Webster created an easy to use language site for kids!
Web of On-line Dictionaries: A wonderful collection of online dictionaries in over 160 languages. Also included are thesauri and language translation sources. Highly recommended for work in foreign languages.
Handspike - A sign Language Dictionary Online: If you have just recently begun to develop an interest in learning sign language or just want to learn more, this wonderful web site is for you. Drop by for simple animations on how to sign letters, words or even short stories using American Sign Language.
I Love Languages: Formerly known as The Human-Languages Page, this site is an excellent collection of links containing information about nearly every language spoken today, as well as classical languages. If you want to know some basic Japanese vocabulary or the history of the Russian language, this is a great place to start.
World Lingo: This has both a free machine translation service and quotes for human translation automatically. Up to three translators are used for each document to ensure accuracy. The big plus point is that the service is available in over 40 languages.
Bartleby.com: Bartleby.com not only features great books. Now it also provides access to great reference sources. From the Columbia Encyclopedia to the American Heritage Book of English Usage. And it's free.
A Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation.
Just for Kids Who Love Books: Stop by every month for new authors and titles, comments and reviews from kids.
Children's Literature Web Guide: A simple but useful site discussing best-selling children's books and ways various books can be taught to children. In addition, this site includes some links to other information about children's literature and authors of children's books.
Familiar Quotations: This site is rather large, but it is well worth a look. Using authors of various subjects and genres, the site contains oft-quoted excerpts of famous literature, as well as familiar sayings and expressions that are a part of everyday language.
The Academy of American Poets: This website from The Academy of American Poets has an extensive list of poets with bios, photos, poems, and more. Includes discussion forums in which you can share your poems and read what others are writing, seek help in finding a poem, or discuss poetry in general.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Text of Shakespeare's works can be found on this site in their entirety, as well as links to other Shakespeare resources, analyses of his works, and a Shakespeare discussion group.

History and Geography

History Today: History Today publishes essays on all periods, regions and themes of history, many of them by the world’s leading scholars. All are carefully edited and illustrated to make History Today a pleasurable, as well as an informative, read. You can easily explore the depth of our holdings using the search facility at the top of this page.
History of Nations: Please note that much of the history data on this site is from public domain text at the United State Department of State Background Notes.
Stately Knowledge: This site will help you find the facts of any state in the Union, including Washington, D.C. Want to know which hockey teams are in California? How about the size of Montana? All that information can be found here.
Digital History: An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.
Map Machine at National Geographic: Visitors select and view dynamic maps, atlas maps, and geographic information. The dynamic maps are created using geographic information systems (GIS).
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Ever wonder who invented the typewriter? Find out in this well organized list of inventors.
The History Place – Great Speeches Collection: If you're looking for that one famous speech that changed the course of history then this is the place for you. This page provides an excellent reference list of famous speeches categorized by their respective authors.
History and Politics Out Loud: A searchable database of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia.: In this site, you may find introductory information to nations from around the world, as well as maps, national anthems, flags, and tourist information for each country.
50 States and Capitals: Click on the U.S. state of your choice and gain access to a wealth of information about that state and its capital, including climate data, county profiles, state mottos, and more.
ExploreDC.org: Produced by WETA, the Public Broadcasting station in Washington, this website gathers information about local history, Federal City, the Presidents, and the importance of the African American community in the US Capital. Lesson plans were created to support each section, with many ideas for class activities. A timeline and a list of audio files complete the site.
TheHistoryNet: A nice link page to various sources of information about American and world history.
Today in History: Although Today in History pages might be a dime a dozen on the Internet, this is a particularly nice one. Each day is complete with illustrations and detailed explanations of some of the most famous historic events in history.
Library of Congress Exhibitions: Explore American history and society by viewing U.S. Library of Congress exhibitions online through this site.
World History Compass: Another comprehensive link page to materials pertaining to world history. Divided by country, with many countries subdivided by subject and/or time period.
Biographical Dictionary: This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
American Memory: From the U.S. Library of Congress, this site contains many online documentaries about such topics from American history as immigration, presidential elections, and the Great Depression. Includes a search engine to find the topic from American history that you're looking for.
Archiving Early America: This site includes text outlines divided by periods in history, important documents, essays, and biographies.
American and British History Resources on the Internet: Well designed site with information and links related to American and British history. Covers periods from the 16th century to the present, as well as the relationship between America and Britain during the American Revolution.
National Geographic: Online home of National Geographic monthly magazine from Washington, D.C. Includes many articles from the paper magazine, as well as other features only found online.
Historical Maps of the United States: Interesting collection of maps portraying the United States at various times in its history. No additional viewing software is necessary to look at the maps.
Geography Resources: Nice set of geography-related links to help students with schoolwork or simply to satisfy one's curiosity about geography-related issues.
How Far Is It?: A no-frills web utility that allows users to enter two cities from anywhere in the world and returns the distance between them. Other useful information like the cities' longitude and latitudes, elevations, and populations are returned, as well.
Altapedia Online: Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

Arts and Music

KinderArt: One of the largest collection of free art lessons on the Internet. What began in 1996 as a few helpful ideas for teachers and parents, has since grown into an enormous collection of resources featuring over 800 free lesson plans.
Classical Corner: A wonderfully produced site including information on a number of the most famous classical composers and performers. Great for classical enthusiasts, as well as those just entering the world of classical music. Also an excellent resource for students studying music history.
Pianonanny.com: Serves as an online piano instructor for beginning students.
Sheet Music Plus: Search for sheet music by song, composer, or album, and have them delivered to your door.
World Wide Arts Resources: Comprehensive collection of art-related resources on the Web, including artists' home pages, exhibit home pages, and commercial art agencies. Covers all forms of art, such as visual, performing, and architecture.
Internet for the Fine Arts: This web site serves as a clearinghouse for art discussion, artists' web pages, and virtual art galleries on the Internet. The emphasis is on sculpture, computer-generated arts, photography, and other visual arts.
ArtSource: ArtSource is an excellent collection of links to art-related Internet resources. Link categories include architecture resources, art journals, artists' projects, and image collections.
Art History Resources on the Web: This is an extremely comprehensive source of links to art history sites on the Internet. An easy-to-use menu system separates links by time period and geographic location.