General Resources Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- The FREE web site organizes hundreds of federally supported education resources so that they can be searched easily. Categories include arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education. TeenLit.com -- This is a site dedicated to promoting teen literacy and to helping teachers address the needs of adolescent writers. TeenLit provides a forum for teen writers to publish and discuss their writing and a place to review and discuss books they read. LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Information and Resources -- An interactive guide for parents, teachers, and children that includes general information, articles, first-person accounts, artwork, bulletin boards and online chats, links to other resources, and a newsletter Thirteen Ed Online -- Thirteen/WNET's practical service for K-12 educators is designed by teachers for teachers. The site is updated frequently and offers original Web-based lesson plans, in-depth Web site reviews, software samples, and additional resources designed to foster an online education-based community. Basic Educational Materials, Publishers -- "Materials Made For Teachers!" This company offers Basic Math Skills Workbooks in the areas of computational addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills, as well as Basic Language Arts Skills Workbooks in many areas of grammar and sentence writing skills. All skill workbooks are non-graded and can be used as review, remedial, and supplemental resources. Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com -- This outstanding site, provided by the National Geographic Society, includes an atlas with nearly 1800 detailed maps you can print out; a forum for sharing ideas on geographic topics; a description of the 18 U.S. National Geography Standards, with classroom ideas and family activities for each one; and a virtual-reality Xpedition Hall that's open for exploring. BandAides and Blackboards -- A web project designed to sensitize people to what it's like growing up with medical problems. The site includes many stories by children and teens who are dealing with chronic illnesses and other health problems. These young people describe the physical aspects of their medical conditions as well as the social rejection and teasing that they sometimes face. History Alive! Teachers' Curriculum Institute -- An innovative, student-centered approach to history instruction designed to engage students with diverse learning styles. The site has information about curriculum materials for U.S. and world history, professional development seminars, sample activities, and more. Footbag Peace Initiative -- An interesting site that describes how a dedicated group of athletes and educators is using the game of footbag (or "hacky sack") to promote personal health and cultural healing. Definitely worth checking out! OneWorld Classrooms -- An educational, child-friendly, and child-safe site that consists of language arts and curriculum-based "learning adventures" focusing on different regions/cultures of the world, such as East Africa and the Amazon rain forest. Colonial Williamsburg's Resources for Teachers and Students -- "The world's largest and oldest living history museum" tells "the story of our nation's struggle to achieve both freedom and equality." The site also has information about Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trips and some Classroom-Tested Lesson Plans. Scripts for Schools -- Devoted to Readers Theater for students of all ages, this site provides both free scripts for scripts for purchase for use in the classroom. There are also links to related sites on the web. PedagoNet -- A "learning material and resource center" that has a nice database of resources both offered to and requested by teachers Douglass Archives of American Public Address -- A large and well-organized archive of speeches from throughout American history. You can search by speaker, by title, by date, or by topic. Space Educators' Handbook Home Page -- The content at this site is part of NASA's Multimedia Space Educator's Handbook. It includes materials for teaching space technology through science fiction (e.g., Star Trek), QuickTime space movies, space comics, and more. The School Page -- Online help for teachers and administrators New Zealand Education Web -- An extensive collection of on-line educational resources, both within New Zealand and around the world. Take the time to explore different pages for interesting materials in different content areas and featuring significant cultural information. For example, the Te Kete Ipurangi The Online Learning Centre leads to links about nutrition, success for boys, technology, and more. From Now On -- "The Educational Technology Journal" Harnessing the Power of the Web for Classroom Use: A Tutorial -- Part of The Global SchoolNet: engaging students and teachers around the world in learning exchanges. Newton's Apple -- "Public TV's family science show." Get a preview of this season's upcoming shows, download teacher's guides and order other support materials, and send in science questions via e-mail that might be answered in next season's shows. AskERIC -- The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. The site has several search engines to help you find the information you're looking for. Science Learning Network -- An online community of educators, students, schools, science museums, and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. Member museums include the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Miami Museum of Science, the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, the Museum of Science in Boston, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. The GLOBE Program -- Students conduct an array of measurements and observations at their schools and share their data via the Internet with other students and scientists around the world to detail an environmental picture of the globe. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature -- This site offers "a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes, and professional topics." Teachnet.Com: Teacher's Edition Online -- This newsletter has loads of ideas for activities, management strategies, and more. EdWeb -- This site has interesting and well-written web pages about Internet technology and its affect on education. Specific topics include the Information Highway Debate, and WWWEDU: The Web and Education List. WWW Virtual Library -- This site lets you conduct far-reaching searches of the Web, with information conveniently arranged by subject. Internet Public Library -- This library has, among other things, Subject Collections that allow you to search the Web by subject and a Ready Reference section with hotlinks to Internet search engines such as Factbites, Lycos, and Yahoo!. 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