For Teachers,
Students
& Other Curious Creatures
These are links are in alphabetic order by topic and then by site. If you
use this site and find it helpful, please let me know. Without
feedback it is sometimes hard to be motivated to keep up the site! :-)
Because teachers and students often cannot afford commercial software I want to point out the links to free & Open Source software listed in the "F" category.
Hosting kindly provided by Louie...who just happens to be Lelia's husband.
Links added June, 2009
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A
Activities - Games,
Activities & More (Various topics)from Waterford Press
Alphabet - Bembo's Zoo
American History - Online Activities from the National Museum of American History
Anatomy - Gray's Anatomy Online
Anatomy - Virtual Body - English or Spanish
Animals - About Animals - Wildlife
Animals - Bagheera - A site devoted to endangered species.
Animals - eNature
Animals - Fish FAQ - From Woods Hole
Animals - Happenin' Habitats
Animals - Kid's Planet - Defenders of Wildlife
Animals - Life Cycle of a Salmon
Animals - Listen to Nature
Animals - Nature's Baby Tales by PBS
Animals - Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Animals - SeaWorld Animals
Animals - Shedd Aquarium
Animals - Who Am I? Students listen to sounds to identify animals.
Anthropology -
Written in Bone:
Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
Archeology - The Archeology Channel Video Guide
Art - Articulation: Learning To Look At Art
Art - Art & Cooking - Suggestions for Freebies, Stages of Development, more.
Art - Art & Design (gr. 8-12)
Art - Art Recipes
Art - ARTstor - Images for education & scholarship.
Art - Arty Factory Free Art Lessons
Art - Carmine's Introduction to Color
Art - Education page from the Getty - Lesson plans, links to kid stuff & more.
Art - Explore Art - The Getty Museum - Includes a game section for kids.
Art - Great Performances Lesson Plans & Activities
Art - Kid's Muse - Interactive art activities for kids & families.
Art - KinderArt
Art - Met's Explore & Learn
Art - NGA Kids - National Gallery of Art Kid's Section
Art - Sister Wendy's American Collection - by PBS
Art - Summer Camp Crafts
Astronomy - Amazing Space
Astronomy - Astronomy for Kids
Astronomy - Imagine the Universe
Astronomy - Physics and Astronomy Fun
Astronomy - Solar System Explorer
Astronomy - Solar System Trading Cards
Astronomy - Space
Astronomy - Space Place
Astronomy - Star Child
B
Bingo - Bingo Card Generator
Bingo - Custom Bingo Cards
Biomes - Biomes of the World
Biomes - On the Prairie
Biology - BioEd Online - Biology Teacher Resources - MRSA & more
Birds - Peterson's Field Guide Online
Birds - Bird Watcher's Digest Online
Bridge - Nova's Build A Bridge
Bubbles - Bubbles
Bubbles - Bubblesphere
Bubbles - Secret Solutions
Bugs - Alien Empire
Bugs - Bug Bios
Bugs - The Bug Club
Bugs - Bug Catchers
Bugs - Butterflies & Bugs with Billy Bear
Bugs - Children's Butterfly Site
Bugs - Insectclopedia
Bugs - Welcome to the Hive - by PBS
Building - Building Homes of Our Own - Teachers may order a free CD
Building - Nova's Build A Bridge
Business Games/Sims - Gazillionaire - This is a download.
Business Games/Sims - Lemonade Larry - Multiplication practice.
Business Games/Sims - Rags to Riches - You must register to play.
Business Games/Sims - Young Investors - For kids, teens, parents, teachers.
C
Calendar - Earth Calendar - Holidays and celebrations around the world.
Calendar - 2008 Calendars for Teachers
Camping - Songs for Camp
Carle, Eric - Caterpillar Exchange - This is a bulletin board where teachers
and parents using Eric Carle’s books in creative ways can
submit their ideas.
Character Education - Free resources, materials and lesson plans.
Chemistry - Animated Periodic Table
Chemistry - ChemiCool - Periodic table and more.
Chemistry - Periodic Table Adventure
Chemsitry - Video Periodic Table
Chess - Academic Chess
Chess - Chess Kids Academy - Birmingham News
CIA - Kid's Page
CIA - The World Factbook
Civil War - Civil War Lesson Plans
Clip Art - Also see "Images"
Clip Art - Animal Clip Art
Clip Art - Classroom Clip Art - Has lots of ads.
Clip Art - Clip Art by Subscription
Clip Art - Dino Clip Art
Clip Art - Educational Clip Art from Teacher Files
Clip Art - GIFs Now
Clip Art - Kaboose Clip Art & Icons
Clip Art - Pics 4 Learning
Clip Art - Tim-Tim - Free Drawings for non-commercial use.
Collaborative Projects - Bucket Buddies
Collaborative Projects - Classroom Collaboration - By Classroom Connect.
Collaborative Projects - Collaborative Projects from the C.I.E.S.E.
Collaborative Projects - Collaborative Math Projects
Collaborative Projects - Global School Internet Projects Registry
Community Building - Tribes
Computer - Hardware - Focus on PC Support
Computer - Hardware -How to Clean an LCD Monitor
Computer - Hardware - Intel's The Journey Inside
Computer - Hardware - Take a Look Inside Your PC
Computer Lesson Plans - Detective Digit and the Slap Happy Computer Caper
Computer Lesson Plane - Growing With Technology
Computer Lesson Plans - Keyboarding
Computer Lesson Plans - Spreadsheet Resources
Computer Safety - Anti-Phishing Phil
Computer Safety - Carnegie CyberAcademy
Computer Safety - CISCO - Peter Packet
Computer Safety - Cyberchase - PBS Kids
Computer Safety - ID the Creep
Computer Safety - i-SAFE
Computer Safety - Netiquette Home Page
Computer Safety - NetSmartz for Kids
Computer Safety - NetSmartz for Teens
Computer Safety - Web License from PBS Kids
Computer Software - Free software
Computer Software - Kidspiration & Inspiration
Computer Software - Mrs. Sterlings WordPad
Computer Software Lesson Plans - School Spreadsheet Safari
Computer Software Lesson Plans - Spreadsheet
Computer Software Lesson Plans - Spreadsheet Resources
Computer Software Tutorials - actDEN
Congress - Congress For Kids
Congress - CongressLink
Cooking for the Classroom
Cooking in the Classroom - Easy Recipes for Kids
Cooking in the Classroom - Picture Recipes - Words and pictures!
Cooperative Learning - Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning - Cooperative Learning Center
Crafts - DLTK's Printable Crafts
Crafts - Kaboose Crafts
Crafts - Make Stuff
D
Darwin, Charles - Darwin Correspondence Project
Dewey Decimal System - Do We Really Know Dewey?
Digital Cameras - 1001 Uses for Digital Cameras
Digital Cameras - Make a Digital Quilt
Digital Cameras - Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day
Dinosaurs - Crafts from Kaboose
Dinosaurs - Dino Clip Art
Dinosaurs - Dinosaur Theme Page
Dinosaurs - Dinosaur World - Game to download from BBC
Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs In Their Time & PaleoLab by Carnegie Museum
Dinosaurs - Prehistoric Life from the BBC
Dinosaurs - Surf the Net With Kids Dinosaurs
Dissections - Does Classroom Dissection Deplete Species, Encourage
Cruelty to Animals?
Dissections - Froguts - Subscription
Dissections - Net Frog
Dissections - Owl Pellet Dissection from KidWings.com
Dissections - Virtual Frog Dissection & Virtual Frog Builder
Drama - Children's Creative Theater (gr. 4-8)
Drama - Creative Drama & Theater Education Resource Site
Drama - Readers Theater
E
Early Childhood - Themes for the Early Childhood Educator
Election - Prepare Your Students to Vote
Electricity - Electric Circuit
Electricity - Electrical Safety World
Electricity - Electricity Book
Electricity - Learning Power
Electricity - Power Up!
Email - ePals - Teacher-managed email accounts for students.
When students have email addresses, they can sign up
for services like Google Docs, Google Notebook, etc.
Email - Gaggle - Another school email service.
Email Lesson Plans - Email Etiquette
Email Lesson Plans - Emoticons
Email Lesson plans - Write Right Back: Recognizing Readers’ Needs
and Expectations for E-mail Replies
English - Web English Teacher
F
Fonts - Acid Fonts
Fonts - Free Handwriting Fonts for Teachers - Some free, some commercial.
Fonts - Lumos & Parseltongue Font - Mac & Win for Harry Potter Fans.
Forensics - Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body
Forensics - Written in
Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
Free Software - Adobe Photoshop Express - Free, light version.
Free Software - Audacity - Audacity is free, open source software for
recording and editing sounds. To export to mp3 you will
need the Lame encoder.
Free Software - AVG Anti-virus and AVG Anti-spyware Remember it's only
good if you keep it updated!
Free Software - Google Docs offers free online creation and storage of
documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Free Software - Google Pack - Currently consists of: Google Earth, Norton
Security Scan, Google Desktop, Firefox with Google Toolbar,
Adobe Reader, Skype, StarOffice, Google Toolbar for IE,
Spyware Doctor, Picassa, Google Photos Screensaver,
Google Talk, Real Player. Choose what you'd like from this
smorgasbord of software.
Free Software - Google SketchUp
Free Software - KillDisk - Be sure data is erased from your harddrive.
Free Software - Microsoft Photo Story
Free Software - Open Office.org Compatible with all other major office suites,
the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Free Software - Owl & Mouse Educational Software
Free Software - PC Decrapifier removes many common trial programs and
offers from new computers.
Free Software - Scratch - From MIT: Scratch is a new programming
language that makes it easy to create your own interactive
stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share
your creations on the web.
Free Software - Spyware Blaster
Free Software - Tux Paint is completely free software, released as
“Open Source” software, under the provisions of the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
Free your music from DRM - Article by Bob Rankin
Frogs - Frogland!
G
Games - Cardboard Cognition - A sourcebook of ideas for educational card
and board games.
Games - Elections - online adventure in politics.
Games - Funbrain Game Finder
Games - Great Game List
Games - Kids Games
Gardening - My First Garden - Also in Spanish.
Geography - Browse the World at Mr. Dowling.com
Geography - Digital Photo Archive from the American Geographical Society
Geography - Explore the States
Geography - GeoBee Challenge
Geography - Geo-Globe
Geography - GeoNet
Geography - Geography - From About.com
Geography - My Wonderful World - From National Geographic
Geography - Postcards From America
Geography - Where is That? From Funbrain
Geology - Essentials of Geology: An Introduction to Planet Earth
Geology - Rock Cycle Annimations
Geology - Rocks and Minerals - Elementary theme.
Geometry - Geometry Through Art
Glyphs - Gingerbread Man - From Mailbox magazine.
Glyphs - Glyphs - From Teachers.net
Glyphs - I'm a Star!
Glyphs - Penguin Glyph
Google - See Free Software
Government - Democracy Project - From PBS
Government - FirstGov for Kids
Graphic Organizers - Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers - Graphic Organizers Worksheets
Graphic Organizers - Software - Kidspiration & Inspiration
H
Handwriting - Handwriting for Kids - Sheets to download
Harry Potter - Fonts - Lumos Parseltongue Font - Mac & Win
Harry Potter - Harry Potter Fans.com
Harry Potter - Scholastic H.P. site
Harry Potter - Wizard Crafts
Health - KidsHealth
Health - Moving and Learning
Heroes - HeroicStories
Hypothesis-based Learning - HBL4U - A paradigm for teaching science.
History - America's Stories - From the Library of Congress
History - Birth of a Nation - Teachers Guide - Animated Atlas.com
History - Engaging Students in American History
History - History and Politics Outloud
History - History of televised Presidential debates.
History - Microfilm Gallery - History through old newspaper ads.
History - Passing of a Century
History - This Day in History
History - Year by Year 1900-2008
History - You be the Historian
Hoaxes - April Fools Day Lesson Plan
Hoaxes - Dihydrogen Monoxide - I have my students do a project on the
"dangers" of DHMO every couple of years & don't reveal that it
is a hoax until they are done. :-)
Hoaxes - Hoaxbusters
Hoaxes - Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
Hoaxes - Urban Legends Reference Page
Holidays - The Earth Calendar
Holidays - Holiday Activities - From KinderStart.
Holidays - The Holiday Spot
Holidays - The Holiday Zone
Homework - See Research Project Calculator
I
Images - Life.com image collection free
to use by teachers and students
Insects - See Bugs
Internet Safety - Anti-Phishing Phil - Good for adults too!
Internet Safety - Carnegie CyberAcademy
Internet Safety - CISCO - Peter Packet
Internet Safety - Cyberchase - PBS Kids
Internet Safety - ID the Creep
Internet Safety - i-SAFE
Internet Safety - Netiquette Home Page
Internet Safety - NetSmartz for Kids
Internet Safety - NetSmartz for Teens
Internet Safety - Web License from PBS Kids
Inventions - Hall of Fame - Search by invention or inventor
Inventions - Invention Dimension
Inventions - United States Patent Office Kid's Page
K
Kindergarten - K+
Kindergarten - Kindergarten Connection
Kindergarten - Kinder Korner
Kindergarten - Kindersite Project
Kindergarten - Resource Page
Kites - 20 Kids * 20 Kites * 20 Minutes
Kites - Kites Kids and Education DO Mix!
L
Library of Congress for Kids - America's Story
Life Skills -
Solutions for Your Life
Literature - CyberGuide - Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered
units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
Literature - Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
Literature - Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes:How to Find a Novel, Short Story
or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author
M
Mad Libs - Wacky Web Tales
Maps - Do-it-yourself Color Coded State Maps
Maps - Maps of the World Geographic.org - Has guidelines for using their
maps on your website.
Maps - Online Map Creation
Maps - Outline Maps
Maps - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Maps - Planiglobe - Beta version
Maps - Printable Maps - From National Atlas.gov
Maps - Xpeditions Atlas Maps Made for Printing - From National Geographic
Math - Abacus: The Art of Calculating With Beads
Math - Absurd Math
Math - Amazing Abacus
Math - Base 10 Blocks
Math - Binary Numbers - Lesson Plan Gr.6-9
Math - Brainormous - Games, some to play for free, some to try and buy.
Math - Brain Food - Logic and Word Puzzles
Math - Breaking Away from the Math Book - Projects Gr. K-12
Math - Cool Math
Math - Count On - Interactive games and more.
Math - Create A Graph
Math - Cyberchase PBS Kids - Cyberchase teaches kids that math is
everywhere, everyone can be good at it, and it's fun!
Math - Discovery School Math Links
Math - Escape from Knab - Educational simulation involving financial
decision making.
Math - Experience Math & Science With Gizmos
Math - Exploring Data
Math - Fractions - Fractions
Math - Fractions - No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In
Math - Graph Goodies - Gr. K-2
Math - Math Goodies
Math - Math is Fun!
Math - Math Nerds - Free math help and tutoring.
Math - Mathematics Lessons That Are Fun, Fun, Fun!
Math - Mega-Mathematics - From Los Alamos
Math - Measurement Worksheets - English & Metric
Math - Money
Math - National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Math - Pi - Make a Pi Day Necklace
Math - Pi - Pi Day Songs
Math - Pi - The Story of Pi
Math - Primary Games
Math - PUMAS - Practical Use of Math and Science - From NASA.
Math - Roman Numeral Converter - Works both directions.
Math - Tessellate!
Math - Tessellations - Create with Paint
Math - Tessellation Method With Paint
Math - Tessellations Symmetry and Art
Math - Tessellation Tutorials
Math - What Are Tessellations?
Math - Worksheets
Media Awareness - Action for Media Education - Lesson plans and more.
Media Awareness - Instructional Materials in Media Literacy/Studies
Media Awareness - Media Awareness Network
Money - Change Maker
Money - Electric Money
Money - H.I.P. Pocket Change - U.S. Mint
Money - The History of Money
Money - It's My Life: Money - PBS Kids
Money - Play Moneopolis - Where money sense rules!
Money - Practical Money Skills For Life - Look for free classroom resources.
Money - We're In the Money - Education World Lesson Plans
Museums - Exploratorium - Museum of art, science & human perception.
Museums - Louvre
Museums - MuseumLink's Museum Museum - List U.S. & Canadian and
some International museums.
Museums - Smithsonian Education
Museums - Smithsonian Resources - Search by keyword.
Music - ArtsAlive Instrument Lab
Music - Children's Songs
Music - Edugate's Music Hall
Music - Energy in the Air: Sounds of the Orchestra
Music - Jazz - PBS
Music - Music Teacher's Resource Site
Music - Musically Inclined - "The Ultimate Music Reference"
Music - New York Philharmonic Kid's Zone
Music - Patriotic Music - The story behing the songs.
Music - SFK Music Lab
Music - Songs for Teaching
Music - Strings in the Mountains - Multimedia presentation of Mozart's
"Magical Life and Music".
Music - Symphony: An Interactive Guide
Mythology - MythWeb - Greek mythology
Mythology - Encyclopedia Mythica
N
Names - Behind the Name - The etymology and history of first names.
NASA - Kid's Club
Native Americans - First Nations Histories
Native Americans - First Nations Seeker
Native Americans - Native American Craft Unit
Native Americans - Native Networks
Native Americans - Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
Netiquette - Netiquette Home Page
News -
Today's Front
Pages from the Nuseum - 729 front pages from 68 countries -
Some front pages may contain material that is
objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised.
Newspapers - New York Times Learning Network - Gr. 3-12
Newspapers - World Newspapers and Magazines
O
Oceans - Exploring Oceans on the Web
Oceans - Life on the Rocky Shore
Oceans - Living Fossils of the Deep
Oceans - Oceans Alive!
Oceans - Shedd Aquarium - Lesson plans, interacives and more
Optical Illusions - Exploratorium
Optical Illusions - Exciting World of Optical Illusions
Origami
P-Q
Paper Airplanes - Paper Airplanes
Paper Airplanes - Dare to Fly With Class - Lesson Plan
PDA - PDA Participatory Simulations
Peace - Tolerance.org - Fight hate and promote tolerance.
Peace - Random Acts of Kindness
Phonics - Phonics and Phonemic Awareness for Young Learners
Physics - Amusement Park Physics
Physics - Physics and Astronomy Fun
Plagiarism - Plagiarism and the Web
Poetry - Giggle Poetry
Poetry - Lyrical Lessons Online
Poetry - Poetry Archive
Polar - Exploratorium: Ice Stories
Portfolios - Portfolio Assesment
Portfolios, digital - Common Software Tools for Creating Digital Portfolios
Portfolios, digital - Getting Started With Digital Portfolios
Posters - Free Printable 5x7 posters with option to purchase larger.
Project Organizers - See Research Project
Calculator
Prehistoric Life from the BBC
Pintables - PDF Pad - Documents you can download and print. Graph paper,
calendars, Sudoku and more.
Pintables - Preschoollearners.com
Podcasting - Audacity & Lame - open source software for podcasting
Podcasting - Classroom Audio Podcasting
Podcasting - How to Create Your Own Podcast
Podcasting - How to Podcast
Podcasting - Kirk's Eight Rules of Podcasting
Podcasting - Podcasting by learninginhand
Podcasting - Podcasting in Education
Podcasting - Podcasting in the Classroom
Presidents -
American
Presidents: An online reference resource
Puppetry - Puppetry & Fairy Tales (Gr. 3-6)
Pyramids - Pyramids: The Inside Story - NOVA
Quilts - American Quilt: Identifying your culture using Desktop Publishing
Quilts - Make a Digital Quilt
Quilts - Pigeon Forge Quilt Builder
Quilts - The Me Quilt
R
Rainbows - About Rainbows
Reading Motivation - Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By
Reading Motivation - Between the Lions
Reading Motivation - Book Adventure - Sponsored by Sylvan Learning.
Reading Motivation - Children's Literature Web Guide
Reading Motivation - Children's Storybooks Online
Reading Motivation - Create-a-Reader
Reading Motivation - Learning With Mysteries
Renaissance
Research - Models for Student Web-based Research
Research - Noodle Tools
Research - Research Project Calculator
Resources - Games,
Activities & More (Various topics)from Waterford Press
Resources - Read, Write, Think
Resources - Thinkfinity
S
Science - Anatomy - Gray's Anatomy Online
Science - Bad Science
Science - Bad Science - Recurring Misconseptions In K-6 Textbooks
Science - Cool Science for Curious Kids
Science - Experience Math & Science With Gizmos
Science - From Egg to Chick
Science - How Everyday Things Are Made
Science - The Jason Project
Science - Life Science Safari
Science - Science Classroom Resources - From US NSF
Science - Science Lab
Science - Science Master
Science - Science Mysteries to Solve - National Health Museum
Science - Science News for Kids
Science - Science Objects - From NSTA
Science - Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids
Science - Sprocket Works
Science - Traditions of the Sun - Explore the world's ancient observatories.
Science - Try Science
Science - Who Wants to Win a $1,000,000? - Science game - Jefferson Lab
Science - The Why Files - Science behind the news.
Scientific Method -
A Valid Conclusion?
Testing and Reporting on Hypotheses
Using the Scientific Method
Scientific Method -
ArtsEdge:
Scientific Impressions
Scientific Method -
Mythbusters - Scientific Inquiry
Scientific Method -
Science Spot:
Scientific Method and More
Scientific Method -
Steps of the Scientific Method
Scientific Method -
Time For Kids - Scientific Method
Seuss, Dr. - Seussville University
Shapes -
Shape Book
Patterns
Software - See Free Software
Solar Oven
Spelling Match
Spreadsheets - see Computers
Stock Market - EduStock
Storytelling - Story Art
Supreme Court - Oyez
T
Teacher Site - 4Teachers - Teach with technology.
Teacher Site - A to Z Teacher Stuff - Some free some paid material.
Teacher Site - ABC Teach
Teacher Site - Apple Learning Interchange
Teacher Site - Cyberbee
Teacher Site - edHelper.com
Teacher Site - EducationWorld
Teacher Site - FunBrain's Teacher Resources
Teacher Site - Global SchoolNet
Teacher Site - Google for Educators
Teacher Site - Hot Chalk's Lesson Plans
Teacher Site - Kathy Shrock's Guide
Teacher Site - Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
Teacher Site - NOW Classroom
Teacher Site - Microsoft in Education
Teacher Site - Models for Student Web-based Research
Teacher Site - PBS Teachers
Teacher Site - Teachnet.com
Teacher Site - Teacher Files
Teacher Site - Teachers First
Teacher Site - Teachers' Domain
Teacher Site - TeacherTube - Online community for sharing instructional,
teacher videos.
Teacher Site - TechLEARNING
Teeth - Healthy Teeth
Templates - Big Huge Labs - Create and print projects online.
Templates - The Print Zone
Templates - Timeline Maker
Terrorism & Tolerance
Tessellations - See Math
Thematic Units for Primary Grades
Time - Clocks...Teaching Time
Time - Telling Time Worksheets
Timelines - xtimeline - create timelines online
Translator - Babel Fish
Virginia History -
Written in Bone:
Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
Virtual Fieldtrips - GeologyLink
Virtual Fieldtrips - Glacier National Park
Virtual Fieldtrips - Tramline
Virtual Fieldtrips - Colonial Williamsburg
Virtual Volcano
Vocabulary - Vocabulary.com
W
Weather - Weather Watch - Interactive project
Weather - Web Weather for Kids