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The purpose of the site is to use the
Internet to share students’ creativity with the world. In order to accomplish
its goal, the site offers schools the ability to publish student art work
free of charge. The process is easy and guards student privacy. (Parents and
students can help with the publishing process.) A visit to Frequently Asked Questions will
provide specific help in dealing with copyright and parental permission
issues. There is also a section that provides lesson plan ideas for Pre-K through
high school. Students can view the art work of their
peers and even interact with them. Parents and extended family members can
view their children's creative work and provide them encouragement and
appreciation online. There are even fundraising options available. |
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This site is striving to
be a comprehensive
index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image
archives, and other online resources. At present there are indexed over 2,300 art sites and offer, over
95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 artists. |
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The website includes the Journal of Chemical Education --- some
of the articles are freely accessible and others are available by paid
subscriptions. Excellent links. |
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The table of contents of all of the
American Chemical Society journals is accessible from this site. Look at the
Chemical and Engineering News link. Also, check out the link to “What’s that
Stuff” which will explain such items as ink, marshmallows, and other common
chemical substances. |
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The home page has links to many items from
the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Be sure to check out the sections entitled
Resources for Teachers and Traveling Exhibits. |
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This site gives the table of contents for
issues of Scientific American. |
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The home page is a periodic table.
Information is available on each element by clicking on the element in the
table. |
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This site provides an opportunity for middle school students to “practice”
shopping on the Internet while, staying within a specified budget. |
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Cherry Carl, the creator
of the site, retired in 2003 after 35 years as a teacher and Language Arts
Specialist and is now an instructor at the |
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Television station KAIT in |
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This unique site offers thousands of
activities based on the books written and illustrated by Jan Brett. |
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Western Illinois Math Professor’s List of
Sites: problem solving databases, lesson plans, topic sites, computer hints,
web page development, grant funds, and teaching careers in Math |
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This
interactive site offers opportunities for students and teachers to engage in
on-line learning about classical music. Home page tabs like Music Resources,
Instrument Lab, Great Composers, and Activities and Games, offer information
and activities for a wide range of interests and abilities. |
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NIEHS (National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences) Kid’s Page |
This site helps students learn about the impact of the
environment on human health and explains possible careers in health,
medicine, science, mathematics, and the environment. Music is considered an
important part of our environment. There are hundreds of songs to choose.
Lyrics and melodies are available along with links to terms in the songs that
relate to environmental issues. |
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This unique site offers information about the history of popular American folk songs from the 17th century to the early 1900s. Songs are categorized and alphabetized for easy use. Each song has melody, lyrics, history and links to additional resources, if available. |
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DSO (Dallas Symphony
Orchestra) Kids |
Both sites use a familiar room as an
interface to entice students to explore music through instruments, composers,
and listening activities. The Dallas Symphony uses a music room metaphor
while the New York Philharmonic uses an orchestra hall. In both cases, the
user simply runs the mouse over figures in the picture to uncover links.
Clicking on an icon takes the user to a wide variety of engaging activities
and valuable information. Each site has specific resources for parents and
teachers too. |
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The goal of this site is to allow children to experience creative play in the creation of music. Special emphasis is placed on the written tradition. Children will enjoy opportunities to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles |
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Designed for older students, this site’s
goal is to communicate the value and importance of orchestras and the music
that they perform. Visitors are invited to meet a young composer,
concertmaster or instrument builder, take a seat in the orchestra, or try
writing music. There is also a link to the Carnegie Hall’s Listening
Adventure site. |
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Everything from ATisket, A Tasket to Yankee Doodle can be found at this site. Melodies, lyrics, and cute graphics will make this site attractive to mothers, grandmothers, or teachers of young children. |
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Chris Kirwan of St. Mary’s |
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The goal
of the site is "to assist teachers, parents, and others who work with youngsters
to guide them in the process of becoming physically active and healthy for a
lifetime". |
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This site features thousands of in-depth
articles, animations, games, and resources developed by experts in the health
of children and teens. It was created by the Nemours Foundation's Center for
Children's Health Media, with separate areas for kids, teens, and parents so
that navigation is quick and information is age appropriate. Teachers will
find excellent curriculum resource material that is constantly being
updated. |
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This site is intended to help
consumers use nutrition labels to make quick, informed food choices that
contribute to a healthy diet. |
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Grade school, middle school, and high
school teachers can find information and activities for their students
here. The Environmental Protection Agency
designed the site to help students explore their environment and learn how to
protect it. There is also an Ask the
EPA section where students or teachers can formulate questions to be
answered by experts at the agency. |
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Community Learning Network, a site designed to
help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom, provides
educators with curricular resources and links to instructional materials related to global warming and climate change. |
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Here, high school teachers will find a
thorough lesson plan to address the issues surrounding global warming. This lesson is designed for social studies,
debate, language arts, government/citizenship, and current events classes,
grades 9-12. |
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One of geography’s most unusual topics is
the SuperContinent of Gondwana. It is especially relevant if your students
are studying |
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For an
animation of Gondwana’s formation, you can access both a Windows and
Macintosh version. Shockwave plug-in is needed. There is also a “light”
version (in terms of memory) available. See how it all came together, then
was torn apart into the world we know today. |
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This website features photos, maps, photo
of the day, international sites, travels, history, culture, adventure, and
explorations. There is a link just for kids (elementary age), including a
parent link, cartoon factory, GeoBee Challenge, games, and more. |
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The National Council for the Social
Studies website is strictly for teachers. It provides email bulletin sign-up,
information on summer institutes, opportunities to publish your ideas,
legislative updates and information on current events, government, and
history. |
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The
directory is designed to help you identify and contact organizations that
provide information and assistance on a wide range of education-related
topics. |
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National Information Center of Children and
Youth with Disabilities |
This site provides
information in either English or Spanish. It includes research-based
information on effective educational practices. The website has an excellent |
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Children and Adults with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
C.H.A.D.D. website provides information
regarding attention deficits and offers support for educators. |
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This website includes inclusive education
for regular education teachers. It is a how-to website which includes
teaching strategies, legal requirements, and preparation ideas. |
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This is a web site filled with games,
quizzes, and activities for use by educators. Teachers can create accounts
that give paperless quizzes graded by the online with results that are
emailed to the teacher. Teachers may use prepared activities or create their
own. This website is designed for all grade levels (preschool- high school) and
is strong in helping students develop math and reading skills. |
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This is always my first stop when looking
for web sites to help my colleagues. The excellent organization of this site,
plus Ms Shrock’s brief description of each site she recommends makes the job
of finding what you need fast and easy. |
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Created by the |
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Created by Joan Fleitas, Ed.D., R.N., the
purpose of this site is to give children a way to give voice to the wide
range of dilemmas that face children with chronic health issues. In doing so,
the site also sensitizes readers as to what it is like for children to grow
up with a medical problem. This is not a directory of diseases with a list of
ways to diagnose and treat them. This site features opportunities for
children to express themselves and for us to learn from them. |
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First School Preschool
Activities and Crafts: Health and Nutrition |
Designed with toddlers, preschoolers, and
kindergarteners in mind, this site has a wide variety of lessons and
activities to help young children learn about health and nutrition. |
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This site offers pre-school
and early-school content to encourage learning through play for both girls
and boys aged six years and under. |
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This site allows users to research such topics as: learning
disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence,
parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, and
mental health. |
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Many of the sites listed here are among
the 350 sites reviewed in the book, THE SOCIAL WORKER'S INTERNET
HANDBOOK, co-authored by The New Social Worker editor Linda
Grobman and University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
former Dean of External Affairs Gary Grant.
Sites are categorized and alphabetized for easy use. |
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This site was featured on the CBS news
last November. Its purpose is to strengthen our vocabulary while helping to
feed the world’s hungry. To play, Click on the
answer that best defines the word you see on the screen. If you get it right, you get a harder word.
If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 20
grains of rice to the United Nations
World Food Program. |
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Funbrain is a web site filled with games,
quizzes, and activities for use by educators. Teachers can create accounts
that give paperless quizzes graded by the online with results that are
emailed to the teacher. Teachers may use prepared activities or create their
own. This website is designed for all grade levels (preschool- high school)
is strong in helping students develop math and reading skills. |
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This site includes online activities and
quizzes in 150 categories and templates for creating 16 different types of
online activities such as quizzes. Hangman, scrambled words, Concentration,
challenge board games like Jeopardy, internet scavenger hunts, sequencing, and
more. There are activities in 30 languages. Subscription information is available. |
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Miscellaneous |
Summer is a time for teachers to renew the
spirit, rest the body, and prepare for the fall opening-of-school. Consider
shared experiences to bring together your world with the diverse,
multicultural multi-social worlds of your students. In the end, we are all
more alike than different. We just need to explore ideas and to discover
universal themes. Check out these web sites! |
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