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Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy and Physiology (Mini-tutorials with Animated Images)
http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/anatomy/frmst.html
Education Research: ERIC (E) & ERIC Clearinghouses (C)
(C) Council for Exceptional Children (Gifted and Special Education)
http://www.ericec.org
(E) ERIC (Do a thesaurus search for your search terms first!)
http://www.eric.ed.gov
(E) ERIC Digests.org (Google searches the database.)
http://www.ericdigests.org
Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
The Educator`s Reference Desk
Lesson plans, links to resources, and archived questions and responses
http://www.eduref.org/
Glossaries
Glossary of Instructional Strategies
http://glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html
Glossary of Common Test Terms - Assessment Terms
http://ags.pearsonassessments.com/glos/
Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/misc/glossary.htm
List of Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries and Gazetteers
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/FAQs/acronyms.html
The Glossarist
" searchable and categorised directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries"
http://www.glossarist.com
Great Books (Magnified Images & Comparison of Editions)
Turning the Pages
View and turn the pages of 15 rare books.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Mark Twain in His Times
Compare Books by Mark Twain Over Time
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/
Helping Girls Succeed
Just for Girls
http://www.4girls.gov/
Teacher`s Domain (Lesson Plans & Multimedia Resources for K-12) (MarshallLibrary)
http://www.teachersdomain.org
Library of Congress SCIENCE TRACER BULLET SERIES
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/
Humanities
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Images (Maps and Americana)
The Archive of Early American Images
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html
Kid-Friendly Sources
AOL for Kids
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/junior
Cybersleuth Kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Kids Click
Sources reveiwed by librarians
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Lycos for Kids
http://www.lycos.com/kids/
Quintura Kids
Visual display of results
http://kids.quintura.com/
Yahoo Kids
http://kids.yahoo.com/
ZOO
http://www.zoo.com/
Custon Search Engines
SweetSearch
http://www.sweetsearch.com
Sweet Search
Categories: high school, middle, and elementary teachers and students
http://www.sweetsearch.com/weblinks.html
RefSeek
"searches web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, & newspapers"
http://www.refseek.com
RefSeek Search Tips
http://www.refseek.com/site/help.html
Lesson Plan Directories
Blue Webn
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm
Kathy Schrocks Guide to Educators ("a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth")
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Librarians Links for K-12
http://www.cfsd.k12.az.us/~vvwww/hotspots2.html
Math
Applied Mathematics and Science Education Repository ("national digital library that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education")
http://amser.org/
National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library
http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/NSDLReports/
Math & Science A=Astronomy G = General M=Math P=Physics
(A) Animations for Teaching Astronomy
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/data/
(A) Solstice and Equinox (explores the meaning of seasons and how the old ways of honoring them have been
http://www.equinox-and-solstice.com/
(G) Explorium: Museum of Science, Art , and Human Perception
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
(G) Mad Scientist (Washington University)
http://www.madsci.org/libs/MAD_libs.html
(G) National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library
http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/NSDLReports/
(G) Natural Disasters from the BBC
Animated guides to volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4972366.stm
(M) Applied Mathematics and Science Education Repository
http://amser.org/
(P) Light Speed (
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/innovation/episode7.html
(P) Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple (Video)
http://bethe.cornell.edu
(P) Surprising Studies of Visual Awareness
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
Must Be Reviewed Sites
Homework Assignment for the "Net Generation"
http://www.lastpageoftheinternet.co.uk/
"The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior"
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/bigger_not_better.pdf
If the World as a Village of 1000 in 2000
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/villageof1000.html
Last Page of the Internet
http://www.w3schools.com/css/lastpage.htm
Peer-review Explained (E) and Critiqued (C)
(C) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) (
http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
(E) Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill20.html
(E) Magazines and Scholarly Journals Compared
http://lib.mnsu.edu/research/scoljou.html
(E) Peer Reviewed / Refeered Process Explained
http://www.lib.waldenu.edu/serials.html
(E) What is a Scholarly Journal? (Simon Fraser University)
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/publicationtypes/periodicaltypes.htm
(E/C) The Peer Review Process (From Loughborough University in the UK)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rowland.pdf
Reading
International Reading Association
http://www.reading.org/
Reading Online
http://www.readingonline.org
Social Studies
American Presidents ("Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA, biographical details, information on staff and advisers, key events, images, links, and articles on the presidents")
http://www.americanpresident.org
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age ("offers historians models for how to use digitized primary sources in survey courses in World History and the History of the Americas")
http://www.historians.org/tl/
Speeches (Audio and Video)
American Rhetoric ("audio and streaming video of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews")
http://www.americanrhetoric.com
Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/
Statistics on Public Schools in the U.S.
SchoolMatters
http://www.schoolmatters.com/