Cyberkids: Launchpad: Educational Resources

Academe This Week: A complimentary service provided by the Chronicle of Higher Education, featuring articles about areas related to continued education
Adolescence Directory On Line (ADOL): An electronic guide to information regarding adolescent issues
Apple Education: Helping to educate the new generation
Apple's Education gopher server: Learn about the new technology in teaching
Applications--Education: A huge wonderful list of educational resources
Argo Sphere: Take a look you might find something you need
AskEric: The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system, supported by the U.S. Department of Education
Association for Experiential Education: Experiential education is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experiences
Aztec Ranch: A site focused on stamp collecting as a teaching tool for geography and social studies.
BBC Education On-line: An interactive service providing details of BBC programs and resources, for preschool, children at school, further education, and adults at work
Blind Children's Center: A non-profit organization available to blind and partially sighted children regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion or ability to pay
College and Career Programs for Deaf Students: Resources for the hearing disabled in career and college programs
Commonwealth of Learning: Going across international boundaries this foundation is widening access to education by utilizing distance education techniques
Curriculum and Instruction: The galaxy search of curriculum and instruction, a really good reference for teachers
Cyberspace Middle School: For students in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades who are using the World Wide Web to help get an education
Interactive Communications & Simulations: Site that runs interactive simulations for students
Digital Campus!: Wonder what their mascot is?
EE-Link, the Environmental Education Server: The Environment we live in is ever changing, learn how we are changing it.
Education - Social Sciences: The galaxy search of education
Education Alliance: An organization based at Brown University that responds to the needs of diverse student populations in the public schools
Educational Hotspots: A list of sites for students that are fun and informative
Teacherjobs.com: The Largest Teacher Placement Service in the U.S. Accredited by the National Association of Teacher Agencies
Educational Resources Centre: This educational site is written in French (Francais), so if you are learning to speak French or you are French this is a great educational site
Educational Testing Service: Up-to-date information about testing services
Welcome to EduHound: The Engine for Everything Education K-12!
Edutainment Page: Dedicated to reviews and discussion of education and home software
eFit.com: eFit.com A Health and Fitness site for you.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Designed to help educators improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics education
Engines For Educators: Information categorized by subject
Engines for Education: A hyper-book about what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, about the role of educational technology in that reform
IU Speech and Hearing Sciences: Study about speeck-language pathology and audiology
Improving Science Education: Training teachers to effectively utilize network resources in the classroom
InQuiry Almanack: A monthly magazine for educators who are interested in using the Internet to support inquiry-based learning in the classroom
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: A service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges
International Education Programs: Offers a variety of year-round English language programs and intensive day-time certificate programs for students and professionals who understand the importance and the benefits of international education
K12 WWW resource: A guide for K-12 schools wishing to get on the internet
Kids on the Web: A body of information that people can use either to let kids play with stuff on the Internet, or to find the things they need for their work related to the care and education of children
LEAP: Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership: A group working hard in Connecticut to engage children in activities that excite them about learning
Learning Research and Development Center: LRDC has probed the nature of thinking, knowing, and understanding in and beyond school
Looking for Student Ambassadors: Become a Global Ambassador, the Global Schoolhouse is looking for students who positively support the building of a global schoolhouse and understanding different cultures
Macintosh Educators Page: What you need to know about your Mac and where to find the info
Math.com
: Lets make math Fun!
National Geographic: Welcome to National Geographic online.
National Missing Children's Location Center-USA: Information about missing children
NCSA Education Program: Works to bridge the gap between scientific research and education and make the tools for computational science available in the classroom
Newton's Apple: PBS offers this gem of educational television for young children to see on-line
Odyssey of the Mind: A program that helps students learn divergent thinking and problem solving skills while participating in a series of challenging and motivating activities, both inside and outside their regular classroom curriculum
On-line Educational Resources: Fosters increased use of new computer and networking technologies to help support accelerated learning programs in education
Pathways to School Improvement: This site addresses school improvement issues about students, educators, content, methods, and environment
Peterson's Education Center: Find out information about college prepatation
Quest: Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
Read Along: Teach your children by reading to them
Resources for the Disabled: A comprehensive listing of resources for people living with disabilities
Sageway: An excellent website that acts as a resource to help direct online parents and kids to the most appropriate areas on the web.
School Psychology Resources Online: Guidance counselors this site has links to most youth psychology probelms
SchoolNet: Get information about Canada's SchoolNet
Serendip Home Page: Both a forum and a continually developing set of resources to support intellectual and social change in education... and in how one makes sense of life
Sites for Educators: Stop by and search through this list of educational resources
Special Education: A list of resource for students who are need some form of special education
Special Education Technology - British Columbia: A Provincial Resource Program established to assist school districts to educate students whose access to the curriculum is restricted primarily due to physical handicap or visual impairment
StarChild Project: Connecting NASA and the K12 Classroom
Student Services: If you are searching for money to fund your education you must stop by here
StudyWEB: Reviews and categorizations over 32,000 focused, academic sites, with 5000+ new sites added monthly by our 100+ researchers. All sites are human selected and reviewed for academic content, approximate grade level, and for visual content where visual aids are available for use in reports.
Subway: The subway will take you to many virtual destinations throughout the Internet
Teacher Education Internet Server: The University of Virginia, and the University of Houston have collaborated to establish a Teacher Education Server on the Internet to explore ways in which the Internet could benefit teacher education programs around the world
Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index: This is the Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes.
Teacher Talk: A publication for preservice, secondary education teachers
Teaching & Learning with the Web: A global workshop for teachers that focuses on sharing ideas regarding technology in the classroom
Teaching with Technology: The beginnings of a collection of WWW sites related to teaching with electronic technology, the Internet and online tools
USA CityLink: The Internet's most comprehensive listing of World Wide Web pages featuring U.S. states and cities
Understanding The Internet: A learning guide showing you how to begin your journey through what we call cyberspace
Videodiscovery: This company provides educational multimedia products on a variety of subjects divided by grade levels
Whales: A Thematic Web Unit: A system for gauging big understanding and learning
World Game: The World Game's mission is to provide the perspective and information needed to solve the critical problems facing global society as we enter the twenty-first century
World Lecture Hall: Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials
World Summit for Social Development: Linkages will provide an on-line archive of materials available from both the preparatory process and the Summit itself
ZIP code finder: Locate zip codes, by street name and district
edu.net: Connecting the classroom with the world using the latest communications technology

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