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Links to the State

Arkansas

• AETN - Arkansas Education Telecommunications Network
  • AETN Air, Energy, Recycle, and Water teacher guides.
    To obtain the free-of-charge videos that go with the guides, contact AETN.
  • Station Break News for Educators
• APSCN - Arkansas Public School Computer Network
• ASIS - Arkansas Scholarship Connection
• ASTA- Arkansas Science Teachers' Association
  • Adequate Science Classrooms, Labs, and Equipment
  • Nature of Science and Scientific Theories
• Arkansas Department of Education
• Arkansas Farm Bureau - Ag in the Classroom
• Arkansas Forestry Commission
• Arkansas History - Southwest Arkansas
• Arkansas State Standards and Frameworks
• Education Service Cooperatives
• The Arkansas State Page
• Home Town News
• State Highway Map
• Arkansas Envirothon
• Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
• Arkansas Science Teachers Association
• Arkansas Trees
• EAST project
• Rock Art in Arkansas

Links to the World

ANTHROPOLOGY - ARCHEOLOGY

• Arkansas Archeology Web Resources
• Society for American Archeology

ART

• ArtsEdge - Linking the Arts and Education through Technology
• ArtsEdNet
• A Lifetime of Color
• Coloring Pages - for small children
• Crayola "Day" Pages
• Dallas Museum of Art
• Eyes on Art
• Imagination Factory
• Louvre
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of American Art
• On Line Exhibits
• Oriental Institute Museum
• Prado Museum
• Smithsonian
• Web Museum, Paris

BIOLOGY

Amphibians / Animals / Annelids / Bats / Bears / Bees / Birds / Botany / Butterflies / Fish / Fitness / Food and Nutrition / General Biology / Human / Lesson Plans / Microbiology / Reptiles / Spiders

Amphibians

• Thousand Friends of Frogs
• Virtual Frog - Dissection Kit
• Where Have All the Frogs Gone?

Animals

• African Primates at Home
• Journey North - Global Study of Wildlife Migration
• National Wildlife Federation Kidzone
  • Schoolyard Habitats
• Wolf Education

Annelids

• Signs of Spring - Earthworms
• Worm World

Bats

• Bat Conservation International

Bees

• Bee Alert!

Bears

• Bear Den

Birds

• Backyard Birding
• Bird Monitoring in North America
• Bird Net
• Cornell Ornithology Lab
• Hawkwatch International
• Hummingbird
• Migration Maps
• National Audubon Society
• Raptor Center
• Signs of Spring - Barn Swallows
• Signs of Springs - Red-winged Blackbirds

Botany

• The Great Plant Escape
• Leaf Out
• National Arboretum - Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Butterflies

• Butterfly Website
• Children's Butterfly Site
• North American Butterfly Association

Fish

• Something Fishy

Fitness

• Fitness Files

Food and Nutrition

• Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Food Safety
• Food Safety First
• Kitchen Kids

General Biology

• Biopoint
• Cool Science for Curious Kids
• DNA Day
• DNA From the Beginning
• Electronic Zoo
• Forensics In the Classroom
• Marine Organisms
• Monterey Bay Live Web Cams
• Nature Mapping Program
• San Diego Zoo
• SeaWorld/Busch Gardens
• Seven Bioscience Challenges
• USDA

Human

• Human Anatomy On-Line
• International Museum of Surgical Science
• NeurOn - Neuronlab Online
• Neuroscience for Kids

Insects

• BUGNET
• Entomology
• Global Entomology
• Images of Insects and Their Relatives
• Insects In the Classroom - Lesson Plan
• Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Lesson Plans

• Biology Labs Online
• Biology Lessons for practicing and prospective teachers
• Biology Project - Interactive Online Resource for Learning Biology

Microbiology

• American Society for Microbiology
• Cells Alive!
• DNA Interactive
• Hidden Killer - viruses
• National Human Genome Research: Genetic Education Modules

Reptiles

• Gator Hole
• King Cobra
• Sea Turtle Survival - Satellite Tracking Program

Spiders

• Arachnology home page

CHEMISTRY

• Chemicals: What's In? What's out?
• ChemCenter
• ChemEd
• Chemistry Experiments and Demonstrations
• Chemistry Resources
• Chemistry Resources
• Digital Dozen - The Atoms Family
• Journal of Chemical Education Online
• Molarity Calculator
• Surface Phenomena and Colloids
• Understanding Our World Through Chemistry
• Virtual Chemistry Lab
• WebElements - Periodic Table on the Web
• Yahoo Science - Chemistry

COMPUTER SCIENCE

• Apple Learning Interchange
• Headbone Derby -Interactive Internet Activity - middle school level
• Intel in Education - K-12 Resources
• the Journey Inside - Free Computer Education Kit
• Knowledge Integration Environment
• TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia
• ThinkQuest
• Parent's Guide to the Internet
• Sheppard Software
• WebTeacher Tutorial
• World Wide Web Workbook

EARTH AND SPACE

Astronomy/ General / Groundwater / NASA / NOAA / Oceanography / Remote Sensing / Rocks, Minerals & Fossils / Soil /
Water / Weather and Climate

Astronomy

• Amazing Space
• Astronomy Applets
• Astronomy Labs
• Astronomy Links
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Astrophotography
• Aurora Borealis
• Build A Solar System
• CERES Project
• Classifying Galaxies
• Current Solar Images
• Discover Space
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Earth and Sky Online
• Exploring Space
• Nine Planets - a Multimedia Tour of the Planets
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Imagine the Universe
• Lunar Prospector
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal
• Phases of the Moon
• Planetary Society
• Secret Worlds: The Universe Within (Powers of 10)
• Solar Images, Solar Tour and Solar Classroom
• Solar Storm
• Solar System Simulator
• United States Space Foundation
• Views of the Solar System
• Welcome To the Planets

General Earth Science

• Climate Change - EPA site
• Discover Earth
• Earthcache
• Earthforce
• Earthquake Activity Around the World
• Earthquakes vs. Volcanoes- Webquest for 4-9th grades
• Earthquakes and Faults in The San Francisco Bay Area
• Earthscape
• Earth Science Resources and Animations
• Earthweek
• Forensics In the Classroom
• Geology Slide Sets
• Geoscience Visualizations
• Glacier - Explore Antarctica
• Global Warming Facts and Our Future
• Global Warming Kids Site
• G.L.O.B.E. program
  • Cloud Protocols - online teaching module
  • Multispec
• Live from the Rainforest
• Marine Geology - Research Beneath the Sea
• National Science Digital Library
• Physical Geology
• Plate Tectonics - DLESE Teaching Box
• Revisewise Science
• Strange Days on Planet Earth
• USGS homepage
  • Earthshots
  • Faults - A model of Three Faults
  • Geologic Animations and Paper Models
  • Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
  • Learning Web
  • National Mapping Information
  • This Dynamic Earth - The Story of Plate Tectonics
• U.S. Department of Education
• Virtual Cave
• Virtual Earthquake
• Visualizing Topography
• Volcanoes
• Volcanoes Online
• Volcano Watch
• Volcano World
• Windows to the Universe

Groundwater

• Glossary
• Understanding Groundwater

NASA

• Classroom of the Future
• CORE - Central Operation of Resource for Educators
• CLOUDSAT
• Destination Earth
• Educational Products
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• EOS Educational Materials
• Exploring the Environment
• Fact sheets
• Global Viewer
• HubbleSite
• JPL El Nino Watch
• JPL Imaging Radar
• Image - Sun/Earth Connection
• Imagine the Universe
• Internet Tools for K-12 Teachers and Students
• K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
• Live from Earth and Mars - Mars Pathfinder
• Moonlink, NEARlink and Marslink- internet based classroom modules
• Ozone Hole
• Quest
• Radiation Budget
• Saturn - Cassini Mission
• Scatterometer - Bringing Ocean Winds to You
• Science at NASA
• Spaceweather
• Sun-Earth Connection - Education Forum
• Volcano World
• Women of NASA

NOAA

• Climatic Extremes and Weather Events
• El Nino - La Nina
• El Nino Animation
• GOES satellite images - realtime
• Images and Movies of Hurricanes and Special Events
• NCDC - National Climatic Data Center
• NOAA homepage
• Paleoclimate Info
• US National Weather Service
• Your State's Topography
  

Oceanography

• Ocean Color Viewed from Space
• Reef News - photos
• SeaWiFS Project
• Undersea and Oversee
  

Remote Sensing

• A Global View of the Earth - really cool with lesson plans and lots of info
• ArcExplorer GIS Data Viewer
• Color Landform Atlas of the US
  • *Arkansas
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Earth Observatory
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• EROS Data Center
• GPS Education Module - geared to high school but parts are appropriate for younger grades - click on GPS
• Geostationary Satellite Imagery
• Global Land Cover
• Imagers - Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon
• Landsat Images
• Learning from Space - Space Available
  • *Night Lights of USA
  • *Nighttime Lights of the World
• Looking At Earth From Space Glossary
• Remote Sensing Online Guide
• Remote Sensing Tutorial
• SeaWiFS Project
• Seeing Earth in A New Way
• TerraServer
• Tracking Satellites In Real Time
• Understanding Color-Infrared Photographs and Color Composites
  

Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils

• All Things Cretaceous
• Arkansas Geologic Commission
• Become a Rock Detective
• Chronos - sedimentary geology and paleobiology
• Earth History Illustrations
• Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements
• Geologic Time Machine
• Global Earth History
• Grand Staircase - the Grand Canyon
• Minerals Management
• North American Orogenies
• Oceans of Kansas - paleo
• Palaeogeography
• Paleogeography
• Paleogeography Through Time
• Paleomap Project
• PaleontologyWithout Walls
• Rocky - the Rockhound
• Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection

Soil

• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Once Upon A Sandy Loam - soil stories
• Sammy Soil - A Coloring Book
• Soil Profiles

Water

• Drinking Water - Kids' Stuff
• Give Water A Hand
• Global Water Sampling Program
• International Year of the Ocean
• Marine Geology Image Gallery
• Ocean Planet
• Project WET
• Neptune's Web
• Rivers of Life
• Sea and Sky
• Surf Your Watershed
• Water Cycle - Water on the Move
• Water Education Conservation
• Water Education Resources Poster Set
• Water In the City
• Water Science for Schools
• Water Tidbits
• Water What-Ifs
  • Water Quality and pH
  • Water Quality and Temp
  • Water Quality and Dissolved Oxygen
  • Nitrates/Phosphates
  • Macroinvertebrates
• What's the Red in the Water?
  

Weather and Climate

• Air Quality - Lesson Plans and Data
• Common Questions about Climate Change
• Common Meteorological Conversions
• Daily Planet
• El Nino - Animation
• El Nino - TV page
• Essentials of Weather - DLESE teaching box
• Franklin's Forecast
• Global Warming Is Hot Stuff!
• Images of the Earth System
• Jet Stream - online school for weather
• Hot Air Over Hot Water - El Nino
• Make a Weather Station
• National Hurricane Center
• NOAA Central Library - US Daily Weather Maps Project
• S'Cool - Online Cloud Observations
• Snow Crystals
• StormStock - storm footage library
• U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
• Consequences - The Nature and Implications of Global Change
• USA Today Weather
• Weather Channel
• Weather Eye
• Weathernet homepage
• Weather Underground
• Weather Update - daily graphic update
• Weather Watchers
• Wind - Friend or Foe

ENGLISH/HUMANITIES/LITERATURE

• Anthology of Middle English Literature
• Candlelight Stories
• Children's Literature
• Common Errors in English
• The English Page - Reading list for Classroom Use
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Internet Classics Archive
• Little Planet Times - elementary level
• Shakespeare and the Internet
• Visual Thesaurus
• Webtime Stories
• Writing Argumentative Essays
  

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Atmosphere Problems / Earth Day / Energy / EPA / Environmental General Info / Environmental Lesson Plans / GLOBE program /
National Wildlife Federation / Rainforest / Recycling / US Global Change

Atmosphere Problems

• Discover Earth - Lesson Plans for grades 5 - 12

Earth Day

• Earth Day Groceries Project

Energy

• Energy Conservation Enhancement

EPA

• Education Teaching Aides
• Environmental Kids' Club

Environmental General Info

• Environmental Education for Kids
• Exploring the Environment
• NASA Fact Sheets
• Project Learning Tree
• National Council for Science and the Environment

Environmental Lesson Plans

• Destination Earth
• Project Learning Tree

GLOBE Program

• G.L.O.B.E. program
  • cloud types info
  • Multispec

National Wildlife Federation

• National Wildlife Federation Homepage
  • Animal Tracks
  • Kidszone
  • Water Quality

Rainforest

Recycling

• Composting in Schools

USGlobal Change

• Earthshots: Satellite Imagery of Environmental Change
• U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
  • Conquences - The Nature and Implications of Global Change

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid School Page

GENERAL SCIENCE

• Alternative Strategies for Science Teaching and Assessment
• Aunt Edna's Kitchen
• Bill Nye - the Science Guy
• Exploratorium
• Extreme Science
• Field Museum
• Forensics In the Classroom
• Franklin Institute Science Museum
• G.L.O.B.E. program
  • Multispec
• How Stuff Works
• International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
• Interactive Lectures
• Internet Connections - Science
• Jokes and Science
• Kids.gov
• Learning Web
• Lessons Plans
• National Science Resources Center - more for teachers
• Newton's Apple
• PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science
• Sci4Kids
• Science Class - free online opportunities
• Science Club
• Science Daily
• Science.gov
• Science Jokes
• Science NetLinks
• Science News Online
• Science of Hockey
• Science Online
• Science and Safety
  • It's Elementary
  • Making the Connection
  • Safety and School Science Instruction
• Science Service
• Scientific American
• Scientists Teaching Science
• SciTechResources
• SCORE - online resources for educators
• Sigma Xi - Scientific Research Society Homepage
• Sourcebook for Teaching Science
• Teaching with Interactive Demonstrations
• The Science of Teaching Science
• ThinkQuest
• Tryscience
• the WhyFiles

GEOGRAPHY

• ArcExplorer - GIS Data Viewer
• Arkansas History - Southwest Arkansas
• City Data
• Collapse - Why Do Civilizations Fall?
• ColorBrewer
• Country Studies - Library of Congress
• Deep in the Bush Where the People Rarely Ever Go - elementary level African studies
• ESRI GISEducation
• Geography Zone
• How Far Is It?
• Infomagnet
• Infonation
• Internet Connections - Geography
• Map-It: A Form Based Simple Mapmaker
• Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
• Map of Arkansas - Full Highway Map of the State
• Maps of the U.S.
• Maps of the World
• National Geograhic Homepage
• National Atlas
• National Atlas Maps of the United States
• National Geography Standards
• NOVA - Lost at Sea - the Search for Longitude
• Outline Maps School Page
• TerraSErver - USA
• Tracking Satellites in Real Time
• USGS - United States Geological Survey
• United States Historical Census Data Browser
• Virtually Hawaii
• World Fact Book
• Xpeditions - National Geographic Society Resources

GOVERNMENT/HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES

• 1968 - The Whole World Was Watching - an oral history
• American Folk: folklore and popular culture
• Ancient Egypt
• Aztec Adventure - a Webquest about Pre-Columbian Civilization
• C-SPAN: Washington Journal
• C-SPAN in the Classroom
• Children's Express - news as told by kids
• First Americans for Grade Schoolers
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• History Channel
• History Net
• Internet Connections - History
• Little Horus - elementary/middle school tour of Egypt
• Modern World History
• Middle Ages
• NCSS - National Council for the Social Studies
• Online Social Studies Activities for Teachers
• Oregon Trail - a compendium on the great western journey
• Oaxaca Pottery
• People's Century
• Perseus Project - college level collection of resources
• Places Where Women Made History
• Renaissance
• Sipapu-Chetro Ketl Great Kiva
• Unicef - Voices of Youth
• State of the World's Children- Education
• United Nations
• White House
• White House for Kids
• Words and Deeds in American History
• You Be the Historian
  

MATHEMATICS

• A+ Math
• Ask Dr. Math
• Calculus on the Web
• Calculus Page
• Census Department for Statistics
• Fantastic Math Tips
• FlashCards for Kids
• Fraction Frenzy!
• Fraction Maker
• Fractions
• Fractions
• Fractions - A Tour of Fractions
• Fractions - Exploring Fractions with Shapes
• Fractions - More Fun Fractions
• Fresh Baked Fractions
• Funbrain
• Graphics for the Calculus Classroom
• Internet Connections - Lesson Plans for Math
• K-12 Math Puzzles
• Math Applets
• MATHCOUNTS
• Mathematical on the Web
• Math Forum
  • Elementary School problems and puzzles
• Math Fundamentals - problem of the week
  • Elementary
  • Geometry
• Math in Everyday Life
• Mathleague
• Math Lessons that are Fun! Fun! Fun!
• Mathmania
• Math Resources by Subject
• Measure for Measure
• Measurement Units from Antiquity and the Bible
• Measuring Up (and the Amazing Inch!)
• MegaMath
• NCTM
• PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science
• Statistics Software
• TIMMS
• Visual Calculus
• WebMath
• Worksheet Generator

MUSIC

• River of Song - Music along the Mississippi River
• Virtual Concert

PHYSICS

• American Journal of Physics homepage
• Carder's Physics in Context
• Centripetal Force & Acceleration - virtual lab
• Explore Learning
• Geoscience Enrichment - high school Physics lessons
• Hand Drawn Holograms
• Ideal Gas Law - Welcome to the Pressure Chamber - virtual lab
• iPhysics - physics lessons
• Java Applets on Physics
• Model of A Carousel - Centripetal Force
• Particle Adventure - Interactive Tour of the Inner Workings of the Atom
• Phase Titrations of Water - virtual lab
• Physics 2000 - an Interactive Journey through modern Physics
• Physics Applets
• Physics Laboratory
• Physics Labs
• Physics Lab Tutorials
• Physics Songs
• Physics Today
• Physics Virtual Lab
• Pressure Chamber - Ideal Gas Law
• Theater of Electricity
• Virtual Laboratory
• World Year of Physics

PSYCHOLOGY

• Web Experimental Psychology Lab
• Kaboose

PRESCHOOL

• Cool MAth 4 Kids - Little Links
• Peep and the Big Wide World
• Sesame Street Central
• Seussville

WEBSITES

• ABC Teach
• AETN
• Alvarado' s Cyber Explorers
• A to Z Teacher Stuff
• Best Practices of Technology Integration
• Bid List on Technology Integration
• Bluebonnet Village Craft Network
• Blue Web'N
• Busy Teacher's Web Site K-12
• Certificate Creator
• Certificate of the Month Club
• Classroom Connect
• Classroom Management
• Cool Sites For Teachers
• Copyright and Ethics
  • 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
  • AntiPlagarism Strategies
  • Copyright
  • Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
  • Plagiarized
  • Student Plagiarism in an Online World
• Curriculum Materials - Shodor
• DeskRef: Quick Reference Links
• Discovery Channel
• Discovery Channel School
• Educator's Reference Desk
• Education Week on the Web
• EduHound
• Edutopia
• ENC - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
• Enchanted Learning Crafts
• Encarta Lesson Collection
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Family Crafts
• Fast Company
• For Lesson Plans
• FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Freebies2Go
• Free Stuff 4 Teachers
• Funbrain Links for Kids
• Funschool.com - Free K-6 Interactive Games
• Games Kids Play
• Google Gradebooks
• Gradebook Software
• Grants and Resources - Free Stuff for Teachers
• Great Educatorional Web Sites
• Guides and Tutorials
• Helping Your Students with Homework - A Guide for Teachers
• Homework Central
• INFOMINE - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• inQuiry Almanack
• Interactive Lectures - Summaries of 36 formats
• Internet Magic! Free Stuff for Teachers
• Internet Scout Project - surf smarter, not longer
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• K-12 Practitioners Circle
• KidsBibs - reading resource for K-8
• Kids Domain - Online Games
• KidsZone
• Lesson Plans and Activities
• Lesson Plans Central
• Lesson Plan Page
• LessonPlanz
• Librarians and Media Specialists
  • All Readers
  • Based on the Book
  • Bibliomania
  • Book Reporter
  • Caldecott Medal Page
  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  • Classic Reader
  • Digital Book Index
  • KidsReads
  • LibrarySpot - the best of library and reference sites
  • Newberry Medal
  • Parents Choice
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Reading Corner
  • Reading Lists for Children and Their Families
  • Review of Books
  • Today In Literature
• Middle School.net
• MiddleWeb - Exploring Middle School Reform
• Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
• National Science Foundation
• National Science Resources Center
• FREE New Resources
• NOVA Online - for teachers
• NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
• PALS - Performance Assessment Links in Science
• PBS Online
• PenPals - E-Mail, Listserves, Tips on Penpals
• More than just Key Pals
• PROJECT 2061
• PuzzleMaker
• Puzzlers
• Scholastic for Teachers
• SchoolNotes - for teachers and parents
• School Libraries Online
• Science Netlinks
• Scientific American
• Simplified Technology
• Sites for Teachers
• Sports Illustrated for Kids
• Study Guides and Strategies - Reading, Writing and Math
• Teacher Freebies
• Teacher Leadership Forum
• Teacher Related Freebies
• Teaching With The Web
• Technology Integration: Unit Planning
• TIME magazine online
• Top 101 Site for Teachers
• Unicef
• US Department of Education
  • TIMSS - Third International Mathematics and Science Study
• World Factbook
• Yahoo Kids
• Yahooligans - Web Guide for Kids

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The webmaster is not responsible for the contents of the links noted here.