The Best K-12 Sites

Education World
www.educationworld.com

Kids Health
www.kidshealth.org

The New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning
Education World was developed in 1996 as a free resource guide to make it easy for K-12 educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.

Sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth provides accurate, doctor-approved, jargon-free health information about children from birth through adolescence.

This is a news-centered multimedia education site for grades 3-12, with up-to-date features that change daily. These include stories and photographs from the newspaper with activities.
Grade Level Gold
www.gradelevelgold.com
The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu
Artsonia
www.artsonia.com
This site is a goldmine of free, teacher-selected online curriculum sites and materials targeted for each K-12 grade level and subject area. The WebQuest model, developed by Bernie Dodge with Tom March at San Diego State University, is an inquiry- centered learning investigation where most or all information is drawn from the Web. The mission of this site is "to unleash the creative potential of young artists throughout the world, and empower them with a voice." It provides an online art museum where students can display their work electronically for global audiences.
Music Education Online
www.childrensmusicworkshop.com
Bartleby.com
www.bartleby.com
Kidsreads.com and Teenreads.com
www.kidsreads.com | www.teenreads.com
Music Education Online is one of the most comprehensive collections of music-related resources on the Web, organized by topic. Bartleby-named after a character in a Melville short story-is one of the largest up-to-date and comprehensive full-text free public reference libraries published on the Web. These related sites are outstanding places for students to find information about their favorite books, series, authors and characters. Each site offers reviews of the newest titles, in-depth author profiles, and much more.
ENC Online
www.enc.org
The Math Forum @ Drexel
mathforum.org
eNature.com
www.enature.com
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse maintains one of the best selections of K-12 math, science and technology education resources on the Internet, offering curriculum materials and services for educators, parents and students. The Math Forum, now housed at Drexel University, is truly the "last word" for in-depth online resources for any topic in mathematics form K-12 through college and advanced math. This site offers teaching and learning materials for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability/statistics and more. This comprehensive nature resource sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, offers free illustrated field guides to more than 4,800 plants and animals, including amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals, trees and wildflowers. This site also provides opportunities to learn about various habitats.
Science NetLinks
www.sciencenetlinks.com
CNN Student News
www.cnnstudentnews.com
CountryWatch.com@school
www.countrywatch.com/@school
This site offers a wealth of free resources to support K-12 science, including standards-based lesson plans, recommended resources grouped by grade levels, and curriculum "benchmarks." The site also uses multimedia technologies, such as radio updates on science topics. This information-rich multimedia site related daily news stories to middle and high school curriculum content to help learners keep pace with world events. It offers a variety of teaching and learning resources, including background articles, online forums, films, sound clips and animations. This site is a school research portal with free and subscription-based resources on world regions including Russia and the newly independent states, the Middle East and North Africa. This site is designed for interactive learning about individual countries and their social, political and economic structures, with curriculum activities and related resources.
ABC-CLIO.com
abc-clio.com
AOL@School
school.aol.com
Beyond Books.com
www.beyondbooks.com
Subscription-based multimedia curriculum and reference resources in history for secondary schools, including American government and world geography. A free education portal for K-12 schools with an easy-to-use interface that delivers age-appropriate curriculum content selected by experts. Standards-based multimedia subscription courses for grades 6-12. It includes multiple selections in science, social studies, literature and language arts featuring student investigations.
HowStuffWorks
www.howstuffworks.com
Nationalgeographic.com
www.nationalgeographic.com/education
Scholastic.com
scholastic.com
Information-packed explanations with animated illustrations on how thousands of devices and processes work-from automobiles to video games- organized by category in searchable content areas. A great variety of geographic resources, including learning adventures, a 3D virtual trip through our solar system, and online tools including a "Map Machine." Interactive book-related activities from a leading publisher and distributor of children's books, with news, online discussions, author profiles, research tools and professional resources.