Curriculum Hotspots

    

The District Administration magazine (http://www.districtadministration.com/) published a guide to the best education sites on the web.  Below is their online list.

If you have any sites to add to the list, or wish a particular site to be removed from the list, please let me know!

Diane 

    

Especially for Kids General Curriculum
Health / Physical Education Information Indexes
Language Arts and Literature Lesson Plan Sources
Libraries and Museums Mathematics
News Sources Online Projects
Professional Organizations Professional Resources
Schools on the Web Science
Search Tools Social Studies
Standard Resources Student Research Resources
Teaching Tools Television / Radio Media
The Arts

  

Especially for Kids
4kids.org
www.4kids.org
Berits Best Sites for Children
www.beritsbest.com
Bonus.com
bonus.com
Cyberkids
www.cyberkids.com
Fun-Attic
www.funattic.com
FunBrain
www.funbrain.com
Funschool
funschool.kaboose.com
KidsCom; KidsCom Jr.
www.kidscom.com
MaMaMedia.com
www.mamamedia.com
MSN Kids
kids.msn.com
    
    
General Curriculum
ABC-CLIO.com
abc-clio.com
Awesome Library
www.awesomelibrary.org
Beyond Books.com
www.beyondbooks.com
B. J. Pinchbecks Homework Helper
school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/ bjpinchbeck
Bonus.com
www.bonus.com
BrainPOP
www.brainpop.com
Funschool.com
www.funschool.com
Grade Level Gold
www.gradelevelgold.com
HowStuffWorks
www.howstuffworks.com
iKnowthat.com
www.iknowthat.com
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators
discoveryschool.com/schrockguide
    
    
Health / Physical Education
Healthopedia.com
www.healthopedia.com
Healthtouch Online
www.healthtouch.com
KidsHealth
www.KidsHealth.org
KidsRunning.com
www.KidsRunning.com
MedlinePlus
www.medlineplus.gov
PE Central
www.pecentral.org
Sports Media
www.sports-media.org
    
    
Information Indexes
About.com
www.about.com
Education Planet
www.educationplanet.com
Education World
www.educationworld.com
EduHound.com
www.eduhound.com
Linkopedia
www.linkopedia.com
StartSpot Network
www.startspot.com
Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
    
    
Language Arts and Literature
AskOxford.com
www.askoxford.com
Bartleby.com
www.bartleby.com
Bookadventure
www.bookadventure.com
The Childrens Book Council
www.cbcbooks.org
The Childrens Literature Web Guide
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
Kidsreads.com
www.kidsreads.com
The Online Books Page
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
The Purple Crayon
www.underdown.org
Spaghetti Book Club
www.spaghettibookclub.org
TeachingBooks.net
www.teachingbooks.net
Teenreads.com
www.teenreads.com
    
    
Lesson Plan Sources
A to Z Teacher Stuff
atozteacherstuff.com
Columbia Education Center
www.col-ed.org
EdHelper.com
www.edhelper.com
Lesson Planet
www.lessonplanet.com
LessonPlansPage.com
www.lessonplanspage.com
McREL Lesson Plans
www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans
www.microsoft.com/education
    
    
Libraries and Museums
American Memory Historical Collections
memory.loc.gov
American Museum of Natural History
www.amnh.org
The Archaeology Channel
www.archaeologychannel.org
Exploratorium
www.exploratorium.edu
The Franklin Institute Online
www.fi.edu
Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html
The Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org
Librarians Internet Index
www.lii.org
The Library of Congress
lcweb.loc.gov
Library Spot
www.libraryspot.com
The Museum of Broadcast Communications
www.museum.tv
Museum Spot
www.museumspot.com
MuseumStuff.com
www.museumstuff.com
The Museum of Television & Radio
www.mtr.org
National Air and Space Museum
www.nasm.si.edu
National Archives
www.archives.gov
National Gallery of Art
www.nga.gov
Smithsonian
www.si.edu
Smithsonian Kids
www.smithsonian.kids.us
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org
    
    
Mathematics
Calculators On-Line Center
www.martindalecenter.com/ Calculators.html
ExploreLearning.com
www.explorelearning.com
GoENC.com
goenc.com
Hotmath
www.hotmath.com
Math.com
www.math.com
MathDL
convergence.mathdl.org
The Math Forum @ Drexel
mathforum.org
Math Goodies
www.mathgoodies.com
NCTM Illuminations
illuminations.nctm.org
    
    
News Sources
ABC News
abcnews.go.com
CNET News.com
news.com
CNN.com
www.cnn.com
Google News
news.google.com
MSNBC News
www.msnbc.msn.com
NBCi
www.nbci.com
Newseum, The Interactive Museum of News
www.newseum.org
NewsVoyager
www.newsvoyager.com
Newsweek Education Program
school.newsweek.com
The New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning
Time for Kids.com
www.timeforkids.com
USA Today Education Online
www.usatoday.com/educate
USNewsclassroom.com
usnewsclassroom.com
The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
wsjclassroom.com
WeeklyReader Online
www.weeklyreader.com
Yahoo News
news.yahoo.com
    
    
Online Projects
ePALS
www.epals.com
Generation YES
www.genyes.org
Global SchoolNet Foundation
www.globalschoolnet.org
iEARNInternational Education and Resource Network
www.iearn.org
The JASON Project
www.jason.org
KIDLINK/KIDPROJ
www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ
NASA Quest
quest.arc.nasa.gov
SitesALIVE!
www.sitesalive.com
Teaching.com
www.teaching.com
ThinkQuest
www.thinkquest.org
The WebQuest Page
webquest.sdsu.edu
    
    
Professional Organizations
AASA, American Association of School Administrators
www.aasa.org
AASL, American Association of School Librarians
www.ala.org/aasl
ACEI, Association for Childhood Education International
www.acei.org
ACTFL, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
www.actfl .org
AECT, Association for Educational Communications and Technology
aect.org
AERA, American Educational Research Association
www.aera.net
AESA, Association of Educational Service Agencies
www.aesa.us
AFT, American Federation of Teachers
www.aft.org
ALA, American Library Association
www.ala.org
ASCA, American School Counselor Association
www.schoolcounselor.org
ASCD, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
www.ascd.org
CEC, Council for Exceptional Children
www.cec.sped.org
CoSN, Consortium for School Networking
www.cosn.org
CUE, Computer-Using Educators
www.cue.org
IRA, International Reading Association
www.reading.org
ISTE, International Society for Technology in Education
www.iste.org
ITEA, International Technology Education Association
www.iteaconnect.org
MENC, The National Association for Music Education
www.menc.org
NAEA, National Art Education Association
www.naea-reston.org
NAESP, National Association of Elementary School Principals
www.naesp.org
NAEYC, National Association for the Education of Young Children
www.naeyc.org
NAGC, National Association for Gifted Children
www.nagc.org
NASPE, National Association for Sport and Physical Education
www.aahperd.org/naspe
NASSP, National Association of Secondary School Principals
www.nassp.org
NBEA, National Business Education Association
www.nbea.org
NCSS, National Council for the Social Studies
www.ncss.org
NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English
www.ncte.org
NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
www.nctm.org
NEA, National Education Association
www.nea.org
NMSA, National Middle School Association
www.nmsa.org
NSBA, National School Boards Association
www.nsba.org
NSTA, National Science Teachers Association
www.nsta.org
PTA, National Parent Teacher Association
www.pta.org
USDLA, United States Distance Learning Association
www.usdla.org
    
    
Professional Resources
Administrators.Net
administrators.net
Blackboard
www.blackboard.com
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology
caret.iste.org
Educational CyberPlayground
www.edu-cyberpg.com
Educational Research Network
www.ernweb.com
Educators Reference Desk
www.eduref.org
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
www.free.ed.gov
Library in the Sky
www.nwrel.org/sky
MIT OpenCourseWare
ocw.mit.edu
National Center for Education Statistics
nces.ed.gov
National Center for Technology Planning
www.nctp.com
National Education Technology Plan
www.nationaledtechplan.org
Network of Regional Technology in Education Consortia
www.rtec.org
OnlineLearning.net
www.onlinelearning.net
SchoolGrants
www.schoolgrants.org
Sites for Teachers
www.sitesforteachers.com
SRA International Grants Web
www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb
TeachersFirst.com
www.teachersfirst.com
Teachers.Net
www.teachers.net
TeacherVision
www.teachervision.com
Teachnet.com
www.teachnet.com
Theory into Practice
tip.psychology.org
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
W3 Schools
www.w3schools.com
    
    
Schools on the Web
American School Directory
www.asd.com
EduHound Schools on the Web
www.eduhoundschoolsontheweb.com
GreatSchools.net
www.greatschools.net
School Directory
www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools
Public Schools in the United States
www.uspublicschools.com
    
    
Science
eNature.com
www.enature.com
GoENC.com
goenc.com
Math and Science Gateway
www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/ MathSciGateway
NASA Education Program
education.nasa.gov
Science NetLinks
www.sciencenetlinks.com
Space.com
www.space.com
Space Educators Handbook
vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
yucky.kids.discovery.com
    
    
Search Tools
A9 Search
www.a9.com
Alltheweb
www.alltheweb.com
AltaVista
www.altavista.com
Answers.com
www.answers.com
Ask.com
www.ask.com
Dogpile
www.dogpile.com
Excite
www.excite.com
Go.com
go.com
Google
www.google.com
Hotbot
www.hotbot.com
InfoSpace
www.infospace.com
LookSmart
www.looksmart.com
Lycos
www.lycos.com
MetaCrawler
www.metacrawler.com
Scirus
www.scirus.com
Search.com
www.search.com
SearchEdu
www.searchedu.com
Search Engine Watch
www.searchenginewatch.com
WebCrawler
www.webcrawler.com
    
    
Social Studies
CNN.com Education
www.cnn.com/education
CountryWatch
www.countrywatch.com
EconEdLink
www.econedlink.org
EyeWitness to History
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
Practical Money Skills for Life
www.practicalmoneyskills.com
Social Studies School Service
www.socialstudies.com
Social Studies Sources
education.indiana.edu/~socialst
Teaching with Documents
www.edteck.com/dbq
    
    
Standard Resources