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Links to Other WWW Resources
- Homeschooling/Learner-Centered Support Groups
- Curriculum and Study Guides
- Reference Sites
- RE Resources
- Suggested Topic Sites
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Reference Sites
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find.
- ENC (Eisenhower National Clearinghouse) Online
ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
- Visual Thesaurus
The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
- CIA World Factbook
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Religious Education Sites
- HUUmans at Home Topic Pages
"Right here on our own site! The topic pages are in the process of being developed, so please add your input if you could. Also, see the Suggested World Religion Sites listed on this page."
- UUA Religious Education
This is the UUAs Religious Education page, providing launch points for curricula, resources, study guides (in PDF),and "other resources."
- UUA Curriculum Mapping Directory
is the site of the UUAs curriculum mapping directory, "of the most effective and widely used UU curricula currently available." You can order these materials from the UUA bookstore or possibly borrow them from your church, or the Church of the Larger Fellowship, if you are unchurched.
- Terry's RE page
- Rutgers Virtual Religion Index
"This Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major directories & documents within. Our purpose is not to circumvent tours of worthy sites, but to cut down the time spent on surfing & sorting of gopher searches. After all if you know what source has information you can use, chances are you will visit it more often. We offer this free service in hope that you will come here again & again."
- Teaching about Religion with a View to Diversity
This site’s focus is on educators (e.g., classroom teachers, principals, curriculum developers, homeschoolers). It offers a variety of materials, among which are lesson plans, lessons for teachers, links, background information, and position statements. With its emphasis on U.S. pluralism as it concerns individual worldviews, the site is a valuable resource on the topics of teaching about religion and nonreligion, tolerance, diversity, pluralism, and multicultural and civic education.
- Electronic Resources for Religious Studies
Includes links to full texts of most major religious documents and books including the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Diamond Sutra and a searchable Qur'an.
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Suggested Math/Science Sites
- NIH Curriculum Supplement Series
"interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health, one of the world's foremost medical research centers, with state-of-the-art instructional materials."
- CIESE
"CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet."
- Water Science for Schools
- Learning Network
"Explore the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. Learn about the people and cultures who laid the groundwork for math as we know it."
- Natural math
- The Mathman
Calculus By and For Young People(ages 7, yes 7 and up)
- HowStuffWorks
"HowStuffWorks.com is an amazing, award-winning online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works!"
- Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You
"The following activities are provided to help you investigate light, optics, and color. They were written by educators with input from scientists, researchers, students, and teachers. Students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to work together to begin an exploration of concepts that help us learn about how we see our world."
- Homeschool Math
Free resources for homeschool math teaching: worksheet generator, curriculum corner, math textbook for grades 1-5, teaching tips, resource link list emphasizing interactive content and games.
- SpaceWeather.com
"News and information about the Sun-Earth environment."
- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Education Outreach
"JPL Links to Learning contains information regarding how to arrange for a tour of the Laboratory, the Educator Resource Center, JPL's Educational Affairs Office, and various Laboratory education programs and announcements. It also contains classroom activities and lesson plans, teacher resources, and links to other NASA educational programs."
- NASA Mars Exploration Classroom
"For teachers, there are lessons, resources and programs about Mars along with links to standards in mathematics, science and technology."
- NASA Kids
"NASA KIDS offers a fun way for children to learn about NASA's activities and science, using interactive tools and kid-attractive pages. "
- Thursday's Classroom
"The aim of Thursday's Classroom is to provide a connection between NASA research and the classroom. And we don't mean old research! Our weekly lessons --prepared by professional educators and scientists-- are based on breaking Science@NASA news reports."
- Let's Sum Up the Weather
"Let's Sum Up the Weather is an ongoing real-time data project that will take students through the school year, incorporating math, science, social studies, and language arts."
- The Why Files
"Science behind the news"
- Hands on Plastics
"...we have created fun, educational games and activities that you can perform with your students, or at home with your child. Each of these games and activities is designed to teach elementary school students about the positive impact plastics have on our everyday lives."
- Becoming Human
"Journey through the story of human evolution in a broadband documentary experience."
- Project Prosauropod
"Become part of Project Prosauropod and watch as researchers uncover the 200 million year old skeleton of a prosauropod dinosaur. Check in every week to see what discoveries have been made, as well as new animations and photographs of this important specimen."
- Journey North
"Track Wildlife Migration and Spring's Journey North"
- eNature.com
"To get a free local wildlife guide, select a group, enter your e-mail address, then enter a zip code or click on the map below."
- Science Education Company
Robert Krampf, a sort of traveling "Mr. Science," emails a "Science Experiment of the Week" free to subscribers.
- SciTech Daily Review
"Here's the best intelligent, informed science and technology coverage and analysis you can find on a daily basis, sourcing a huge range of great writers and excellent publications."
- Scientists, Inventors and Explorers
A guide to K-12 Science Biography Indexes by Subject and Level.
- BioSciEdNet
Resources accessible through the site will impact the learning of the biological sciences by students with diverse interests and career aspirations.
- Spike's Science Projects
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Kids' Pages
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Suggested Georgraphy/Culture Studies Sites
- National Geographic
"As you’d expect, nationalgeographic.com takes you to the pages of our venerable magazine and into the field with television crews. But you can also explore the Society in ways you might not have expected..."
- Country Reports
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Suggested History/Government Sites
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Suggested Art/Music Sites
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Suggested Reading/Literary/Writing Sites
- SCORE Language Arts
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
- Web English Teacher
"Web English Teacher presents the best of online English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities."
- FreeBooknotes.com
"dedicated to finding all of the sites with free book notes (similar to "cliff notes") and indexing all the individual free study guides and free book summaries for you on one easy to navigate site."
- English Discourse--the e-journal
Publishes the works of undergraduate student writers. Resources for teachers and students. Handouts, syllabi, and more.
- Arts and Letters Daily
Also see our recommended reading list here.
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Suggested World Religion Sites
- ReligiousResources.org
"...a comprehensive, searchable directory of 3850 religious-related Internet resources, organized into 276 categories."
- Beliefnet
A lovely site, where you can subscribe to daily individual faith newsletters, inspirational thoughts for the day, or simply explore and research any or all of a variety of faiths or concepts, under the headings of Spirituality, Culture & Entertainment, Family & Parenting, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhist, Hindu, Earth-Based and Best of Beliefnet.
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- The Baha'i World
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Suggested Social Justice Sites
- The One World Flag
"The One World Kids Curriculum on Diversity, Uniqueness, and Cooperation is a comprehensive, age-appropriate unit of study... designed to be presented in five days (1 topic per day, approximately 2 activities per day)... and unfolding hierarchically."
- democracy.org
"The DEMOCRACY.ORG mission is to: promote education for democratic citizenship, create and strengthen 'learning organizations,' assist individuals and organizations to make and act on decisions based on ethical principles, and promote character education and service learning."
- Educators for Social Responsibility
"ESR's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world."
- Tolerance.org
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance
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