I consider these to be some of the best Internet Resources to use with K-12 students to envoke their problem solving skills, enhance their communication and research skills and stimulate their curiosity and interest in learning.

Recommended by Joyce L. Morris Ed.D, The University of Vermont. Sept, 2005.

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Ask An Expert

Mentors, experts in all subjects, from Artists to Zookeepers

Virtual Architecture

This site provides structure and ideas for designing telecommunication projects even though the 1998 date offers more models than active projects.

The Marco Polo Project

Quality Standards-based curriculum, very high quality. Interactive activities in math and social studies. Good resources in literature and science are also available.

Online Museums

All those questions you were afraid to ask are answered in this interesting site for kids of all ages.

The Exploratorium

A virtual experience to this hands-on-museum. Interactive experiements and information.

Schrock's Guide

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.

WebQuests

WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation

Web Cams

See What's Going on for real. Web cams are all over the world, including a few at IBM.

ThinkQuest Content Websites created by Students-Lots of good examples of what students can do,

TileNet

Mega collections of ListServs

Schools on the Web

See websites of highschools from the US and around the world.

Portals to the World Links to world country information from the Library of Congress
Awesome Library

Links to reviewed educatonal resources for teachers, college students and Teens.

Yahoo's Virtual Trips

Travel to Africa, Asia, the Whitehouse or around the world in a motorboat

Blue Web'N

Pacific Bell's blue ribbon collection of lesson plans, units, projects and resources

Scholastic Teachers

Offers rich educational content and classroom-tested online curriculum

Apple Learning Interchange

Apple's online educational environment designed to support professional educators.
Free Web Sites for Teachers This page is full of great links that provides free websites for teachers.
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