NEW (3/21/01):  More than 20 new learning resources in the arts, foreign languages, health & safety, language arts, science, & social studies have been added to the FREE websites.  Teachers, parents, students, & others are invited to search FREE for teaching & learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations: "http://www.ed.gov/free/

The Internet Public Library is an educational initiative of the University of Michigan School of Information providing library services to the Internet community. Professional librarians staff the IPL with assistance from students and volunteer librarians from around the world. The library maintains a collection of online ready reference works; responds to reference questions; creates web resources; evaluates and categorizes resources on the Internet; and provides a space for exhibits. The site address is http://www.ipl.org/ref/ .

GetNetWise is a project of the Internet Education Foundation helping to ensure that families have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences. The GetNetWise coalition attempts to provide the resources that family and educators need to make informed decisions about young peoples' use of the Internet. This site includes popular resources, including sites relevant to social studies. The site’s address is http://www.getnetwise.org/

Following is a website that provides linkages to many other reference websites:

A website on the economics of Missouri from the Research and Planning Section of the Missouri Department of Economic Development: http://www.ecodev.state.mo.us/research/

A website pertaining to economics with all sorts of links: http://rfe.wustl.edu/sc.html.

The website of the National Council on Economic Education: http://www.nationalcouncil.org/

The website of the NCEE where one may find economics lessons: http://www.economicsamerica.org:90/lessons2/search.htm.

*The website of the Center for Economic Education of the University of Missouri-St. Louis: http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/

A website from the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Center for Economic Education, which one could use to navigate to lessons: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/

A website entitled Wise Pockets World, which has useful personal economics-related items for elementary school students and teachers and for parents of elementary students: http://www.wisepockets.com/

A website with ideas for teaching and learning for kids from the U.S. Mint: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.html

NEW (3/16/01): A website with two national budget simulation games from UC
Berkley's Center for Community Economic Research.
"http://garnet/berkeley.edu:3333/aboutccer.html
"http://garnet/berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget-1.html

NEW (3/16/01): A website for teens pertaining to personal finance and investments:
"http://www.youngmonthly.com/

The National Assessment of Educational Progress has a website where released geography items may be found. See http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ITMRLS/intro.shtml

Missouri Geographic Alliance Website, an excellent place to start, with lessons, links to other sites and much more: http://www.umsl.edu/~mga/geolinks.htm

A website from Geography Computing Facility, University of California at Berkeley that presents geographic images of the surface of the earth to download: http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/

Discovery Adventure activities and links from Smithsonian: http://www.edgate.com/discovery.html

National Geographic web page for teachers: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/education/index.cfm

Maps from National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/

The National Geographic website for kids: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Lessons for geography from National Geographic:

K-4: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideask4/index.html

5-8: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas58/index.html

9-12: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas912/index.html

National Council for Geographic Education Tutorial on the National Geography Standards:

http://www.ncge.org/tutorial/index.html

Lesson plans from ERIC: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Social_St/Geography/index.html

The federal government’s geography website: http://www.ed.gov/free/s-social2.html#Geography (The government has similar Websites for other social science disciplines.)

A website from the U.S. Geographical Survey with information and ideas for lessons pertaining to natural hazards, maps, and the history of the earth: http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/EarthS.html

An excellent introduction to maps from the U.S. Geogological Survey, this site offers printable lesson plans and handouts that teach students how to read road and topographic maps and interpret the legends and measurements: http://info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.html.

A website on how to use maps and globes:

http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Schools/Jefferson/Maps&Globes/MapsGlobesFrame.html

The National Assessment of Educational Progress geography website: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/geography/geo.asp

The Florida Geography Alliance website, which may be used to link to other sites: http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/fga/

A website called the U.S. Community Atlas, in which teachers and students across the country define the nature of "their community" and post descriptions and maps about it. Is "the community" for high schools in Juneau more like "the community" for those in Montpelier or in Honolulu? Do junior high kids in Chicago see things more like kids in Decatur or in Dallas? Participating classes create a profile of their community using HTML documents and GIF/JPG maps, and post them on the web. These presentations are combined on the web and can be searched by characteristic and explored for similarities and differences: http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/atlas/index.html

NEW (2/8/01): Learn about cultures from around the world using this website for elementary students, which was developed by the Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/youth/cquest/

NEW (3/16/01): Learn about changes in the physical geography of the world from this web
A website focused on the Sonoran Desert: http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/sonoran/index2.html

A website called "Geology for Kids": http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8991/

http://web66.umn.edu/schools.html

http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/countries.htm

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/workshop98/sessions/webquest/list.html

A website with a lesson on where to locate a business: http://www.ncrtec.org/tools/camp/gis/gis1.htm

A website on children’s games from all over the world: http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm

A website entitled "Edugreen," which is focused on environmental education: http://edugreen.teri.res.in/

A website with a game called "Gazillionaire," which should help students learn economic concepts, such as competition, capitalism, supply and demand, business costs, and bankruptcy, which I have not actually tried: http://www.gazillionaire.com/gaz/

A website on Australia created by students in an Australian school: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/auzzie.htm

NEW (2/14/01): This website, called "Building the Windy City," is devoted to the architecture of Chicago: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002846/

NEW (2/28/01): Resources for teaching about Japan from the National Clearinghouse for
U.S.-Japan Studies, based at Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~japanhttp://www.indiana.edu/~japan

NEW (3/16/01): A website pertaining to mapping activities for elementary through high school grades from the Nebraska Earth Science Education Network: "http://nesen.unl.edu/teacher/activities/mapping.html
" 

A website on decoding the past using the skills of archaeologists: http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/art-to-zoo/arch/cover.html

The Biography Maker, a website to help students write biographies: http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm

A website focused on archaeology: http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/

NEW (2/27/01): A website focused on the history of mathematics, showing how mathematics ties to culture:  http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/

NEW (2/27/01): A not so interactive website focused on daily life in various acient cultures, which is accompanied by many links to those cultures: http://www.members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html#Others

NEW (2/5/01): A website focused on prehistoric humankind centered around the cave at Lascaux: http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

A website focused on the history of inventions from pottery (8000 B.C.) to Post-It notes: http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

A website called "The History Page," offers a fantastic array of links to sites that span the periods of antiquity; the medieval and Renaissance eras; early modern times; and modern day. The links are creatively chosen to cover a variety of perspectives. For instance, in addition to special links on a wide range of historians and philosophers, the site also points out the importance of women in the various historical epochs. http://www.scholiast.org/history/

A web site focused on ancient world history entitled History Link 101: http://historylink101.com/

A resource for ancient Egypt: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

NEW (2/5/01): A Web Quest website with a classroom research project focused on ancient Egypt designed for the middle school level: http://www.sctboces.org/teachercenter/webquests/Gina/egypt.htm

A website from the PBS Nova series focused on Egyptian pyramids: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

An activity developed by a California teacher where students do research on board games of the ancient world: http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edt628/dstorz/index1.html

A website on the ancient Greek Olympics from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology: http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html

A website on ancient Greece for Middle School Students from Portland State University: http://www.greekciv.pdx.edu/

A website on a "time capsule" activity: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/5537/index_html.html

A resource on the arts of ancient Greece and Rome: http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Beauty/index.html

NEW (2/5/01): A website focused on sites and maps of ancient Scotland: http://www.stonepages.com/ancient_scotland/navigati.htm

A website on the Vikings entitled "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vikings/

Education World’s Millennium Website focused on "The Middle Ages": http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_01.shtml

Education World’s Millennium Website focused on the Age of Exploration:

http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtml

A website focused on the Industrial Revolution: http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/timeline-index.html

A website focused on events and developments of the 20th century: http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/index2.html

A website focused on inventions and engineering feats of the 20^th century: http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/

A website from WETA Public Television station called "A Force More Powerful," which explores the topic of how people resisted oppression with non-violent means during the past century: http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/. The website could also be used to access the websites of many PBS history-related programs.

NEW (2/5/01): A website from World Book focused on the Cold War: http://www.worldbook.com/ptrc/soc_science/html/coldwar.htm
 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress has a website where released U.S. History items may be found. See http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ITMRLS/intro.shtml

A website called "History Matters" from George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

The Library of Congress website: Check out "American Memory." http://lcweb.loc.gov/ (The link called "Thomas" could be used to find current bills introduced in Congress.)

A website on teaching history using historic places using properties in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/

A website on great speeches in American history: http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/

A Library of Congress website for kids: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

A Library of Congress website rich with ideas for teachers and students on the study of history using the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress:
http://www.internet-catalyst.org/projects/amproject/toc.html

The website from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on U.S. history standards and assessments: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/history/history.asp

The website of the National Archives: http://www.nara.gov/

A website on the arts from Smithsonian, which could be used for history studies: http://americanart.si.edu/

A website, called "The Web of Time," on U.S. history from colonial times to the Civil War and beyond: http://theweboftime.com/

A website called "Technology at Home," which has information about technologies that have changed the consumer household in the U.S.: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/

NEW (2/14/01): This website provides ideas for structured Web Quest activities that may be used in conjunction with U.S. history and perhaps other subject matter in social studies: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/ath/library/backintime.htm

NEW (2/28/01): A website on new Americans, having individual stories, immigration past and present, information about how to research family history, and a teachers guide with lesson plans:
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/

NEW (3/16/01): A website focused on learning U.S. history through music:
"http://www.latimes.com/news/learning/launch/historymusic.htm

NEW (3/14/01): This website, entitled "American All," is being developed.  Once completed, it promises to have timelines and historical information about diverse minority groups in the U.S. for the nation as a whole and for each individual state." http://www.americansall.com/

Websites on American Indians:

http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html

A website developed by a fifth-grade class focused on the history of slavery: http://www.africana.com/slavery/

NEW (2/5/01): A website for Black History Month with a number of biographical references that should be of interest to teachers: http://k-6educators.about.com/education/k-6educators/library/blblhistmon.htm

A website on Black American history: http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Tourmenu.htm

A website entitled "The African-American Journey," produced by World Book: http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/

A website with ideas on how to teach about the issue of racial desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/

A website on women’s history: http://www.women.eb.com/

A website, entitled "Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration,focused on exploration in North America from Columbus to Amundsen (1908): http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/index-e.htm

A website from Ben and Jerry’s on Thanksgiving, with references to Native Americans and dealing with inaccuracies often connected with the holiday story: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html

A second website concerned with Thanksgiving: http://members.aol.com/calebj/index.html

Colonial America from Education World’ Millennium Series: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_03.shtml

The American Revolution from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/main.html (National Geographic's Lewis and Clark Site)

http://www.lewisandclark.org/ (Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation)

http://www.lewis-clark.org/ (Discovering Lewis and Clark)

http://www.nps.gov/focl/tour.htm (Fort Clatsop National Memorial Home Site)

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/publishers/falcon/drv_l&c.htm (Lewis and Clark Trail from GORP, Great Outdoor Recreation Pages)

http://www.nps.gov/hafe/lewis.htm (Lewis and Clark at Harpers Ferry)

http://idptv.state.id.us/lc/index.html (Lewis and Clark in Idaho)

http://www.mt.net/~rojomo/landc.htm?12,44 (Letter from Thomas Jefferson)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html (The Journals of Lewis and Clark)

http://www.nps.gov/knri/ (Knife River Indian Villages, Stanton, North Dakota)

http://www.esu3.org/nebraska/nhm/clark.html (Lewis and Clark Campsites in Nebraska)

http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/ (Lewis and Clark in Montana)

http://www.olypen.com/gillde/lance/bibliographies/lewis.htm (An annotated bibliography source)

http://www.acnatsci.org/lewis&clark/index.html (Deals with plants observed by Lewis & Clark)

http://www.wmc.edu/ACAD/BUSTECH/Lewis/Clark.html (Lewis and Clark in Beaverton County, Washington)

http://www.ndlewisandclark.com/ (Lewis and Clark in North Dakota)

http://www.senate.gov/~dorgan/lewis_and_clark/index.html (Lewis and Clark in North Dakota)

http://www.bitterroot.net/usdafs/lcindex.HTML (Lewis and Clark in the Rockies)

http://www.nps.gov/lecl/ (Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail)

http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/ (Lewis and Clark Trail, Relive the Adventure)

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ (PBS Lewis and Clark Site featuring the Video Program of Ken Burns)

http://www.lewisclark.net/ (Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail)

http://people.we.mediaone.net/danslos/home.html ("Looking for Lewis and Clark: On-Line Images")

http://www.mohistory.org/Exhibits4.html (Missouri Historical Society)

http://www.metnet.mt.gov/~Susan_Dreyer/ (A US West-Montana Teacher Network Study Unit)

http://www.lewisandclark200.org/ (Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council)

http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis&Clark/ (Ethnography of Lewis and Clark, Harvard Peabody Museum)

http://greatfallscvb.visitmt.com/ (Relive the Journey of Lewis and Clark in Great Falls)

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html (American Treasures from the Library of Congress)

http://www.amrivers.org/l_c.html (The Rivers of Lewis and Clark, The History Channel)

 
Combined U.S. and World History

NEW (2/28/01): A website with all sorts of items related to the teaching of world and U.S. History
called :HistoryCentral.com: http:www.historycentral.com/

NEW (2/28/01): A website containing many timelines of U.S. History, world history, state history and other items: http://members.theglobecom/algis/

NEW (2/28/01): A University of Kansas website leading to documents from U.S. History, the United Nations, European history, the Catholic Church, the First World War, and world constitutions.
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docsmain.html

NEW (2/8/01): An outstanding website that presents eye-witness accounts of historical events in print, in spoken word, and in photographs: http://www.ibiscom.com/

A website from the History Channel on great speeches from U.S. and world history: http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/

An excellent website on history and humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/

A website from National History Day: http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/

A website from Scholastic for students entitled "History Mystery": http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp

A website with lots of links pertaining to biographies: http://amillionlives.com/

Education World’s list of history links:

http://www.education-world.com/a_special/archives/history.shtml

A website on exploration throughout history focused not only on explorers of Western nations: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/

Retrace the adventures of Spanish Conquistadors five hundred years after they traveled to the Americas in search of fame and fortune, initiating a centuries-long era of imperialism and launching a debate about human rights that continues to this day. Meet the Conquistadors as well as the indigenous peoples they encountered: http://www.PBS.org/conquistadors

A website from National History Day in Missouri with suggestions for research topics in Missouri history: http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/hday.htm