NetVision

The World Wide Web
As a Resource For
Teaching and Learning the Curriculum:

TRAINING GUIDE:
Educational Web Sites to Visit

from NetVision's
Spring Into The Net
Teachers-Training-Teachers experiment
May 1997

by Thea Jones
Baltimore County (MD) Public Schools

Note (May 2000) -- This page is an archive record of NetVision's efforts. It is not being maintained, and thus many links to educational resources can be expected not to function.

These sites have been organized to show the types of teaching/learning activities that are available on the WWW.

Note: Be sure to scroll through the entire first page of the website before making links. Write a short description of each site and related links.

Contents:
Teacher resources
Collaborative projects
Online mentors
Electronic magazines & publishing sources for students
Schools on the Web
Authentic sources of Information for students

Note: in the paper version of this handout used for training, there is a space of about 1" left between each item to allow for written commentary.

TEACHER RESOURCES

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  1. AskERIC Virtual Library:
    http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/

  2. NASA Spacelink: An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators:
    http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/

  3. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Teachers:
    http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/

  4. U.S. Department of Education:
    http://www.ed.gov/
    (Be sure to try Other Sites)

  5. Eisenhower National Clearinghousefor Math and Science:
    http://www.enc.org/

  6. ICONnect:
    http://www.ala.org/ICONN/

  7. EE-Link: Environmental Education on the Internet:
    http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/

  8. Bellingham Public Schools (Washington State):
    http://www.bham.wednet.edu/

  9. Web66:
    http://web66.coled.umn.edu/

  10. Mathematics Lesson Plans:
    http://forum.swarthmore.edu/math.topics.html

  11. Berlin (Maryland) Middle School's MSPAP Website:
    http://www.intercom.net/user/cmiller/bms/mspap/

  12. Classroom Connect:
    http://www.classroom.net/

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

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  1. The Global SchoolNet's Internet Project Registry:
    http://www.gsn.org/gsn/proj/projects2.html

  2. Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections:
    http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/

  3. Kidlink:
    http://www.kidlink.org/

  4. National Geographic Society:
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

  5. NASA SeaWiFS Projects (includes JASON):
    http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

  6. Classroom Connect: Teacher Contact Database:
    http://www.classroom.net/contact/

  7. Project Center (Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin):
    http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/projects/index.html

  8. The Globe Project:
    http://www.globe.gov/

ONLINE MENTORS

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  1. Ask An Expert:
    http://www.digicity.com/expert.htm

  2. Ask Dr. Math:
    http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html

  3. The Mad Scientist Network:
    http://medschool.wustl.edu/~ysp/MSN/

  4. Pitsco's Ask-An-Expert:
    http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/

  5. AskERIC Question and Answer Service:
    http://ericir.syr.edu/Qa

  6. The NASA K-12 Initiative:
    http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
    (Select Online Interactive Projects)

  7. Ask-A-Geologist:
    http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html

ELECTRONIC MAGAZINES & PUBLISHING SOURCES FOR STUDENTS

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  1. Midlink:
    http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

  2. Positively Poetry:
    http://iquest.com/~e-media/kv/poetry.html

  3. KID PUB:
    http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/

  4. Baltimore Sun:
    http://www.sunspot.net/

  5. Barry's Clip Art Server:
    http://www.barrysclipart.com/

  6. CyberKids:
    http://www.cyberkids.com/

  7. Kid's Web:
    http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/

  8. Hotlinks (online newspapers):
    http://www.naa.org/hot/

SCHOOLS ON THE WEB

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  1. HotList of K-12 Internet School Sites -- USA :
    http://rrnet.com/~gleason/k12.html

  2. Maryland Schools on the Web (Sailor and University of Maryland lists):
    http://www.lib.md.us/mdedu/mdedu.html#k12
    http://www.inform.umd.edu/mdk-12/homepage/

  3. Web66 : International Registry of K12 Schools on the Web:
    http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html

  4. Classroom Connect:
    http://www.classroom.net/
    (select Classroom Web)

AUTHENTIC SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS

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  1. American Memory Project:
    http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

  2. Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War:
    http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html

  3. American History Archive Project (for student research on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars):
    http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/

  4. Afro-America@'s Black History Museum:
    http://www.afroam.org/history/history.html

  5. Excerpts from Slave Narratives:
    http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm

  6. Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust:
    http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/

  7. Citynet (includes worldwide information and maps):
    http://city.net/

  8. Black History Hotlist:
    http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/blackhistory.html

  9. Civil War Archives:
    http://www.dsu.edu:80/~jankej/civilwar.html

  10. Census Information:
    http://www.census.gov/

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Posted: 26 May 1997
Links valid as of: 21 May 1997
Comments and suggestions to: netv-web@umail.umd.edu