MEGA Links for High School Students!

(Now updated as of January, 2010)

Please Note: If you find any broken links, please don't hesitate to email me and tell me exactly the link(s) and location of the link(s).

Sites with various computer related tutorials etc.

OpenOffice.org (download the free software package that is similar to Microsoft Office)

Tutorials for Open Office (Free software package similar to Microsoft Office)

Open Office Tutorials from openoffice.org

 Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, PowerPoint 2003, 2007, Excel 2003, 2007, and Scratch Quick Audio and Video Tutorials

Online and  printable Microsoft Office tutorials

Microsoft Word 2007 Starters Guide

Learning different software applications

Microsoft Word and links to other software tutorials

Microsoft Office Tutorials

Computer Help Sheets (must have Adobe Acrobat to download several pdf files on this site)

Macintosh Trouble Shoot (if you have a Apple Macintosh Computer this site will help you out)

Intel: The Journey Inside (Introduction to Computers, Circuits and Switches, Digital Information, Microprocessors, The Internet, and Technology and Society)

Yahoo Technology

Cnet.com

Pcmag.com

Computershopper.com

How To Geek (want information on various operating systems and much more this is the site)

3 sites geared towards the International Society for Technology in Education:

A. http://www.iste.org

B. Computer Science

C. Educational Technology Links to other subjects on ISTE!

Lee's Summit, MO R-7 School District

What's Inside a Computer

Various Computer Related Links (some work and others don't)

Free Patents

BASIC Programming Resources and Chipmunk Basic Home Page

BASIC (an acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code") is the name of a family of related high-level programming languages, developed, circa 1963 at Dartmouth College, to provide an accessible and easy-to-learn environment for non-science students to understand and use computers. In the early 1980's, the Basic programming language was built-in to the majority of personal computers sold.

Sites with local and national news!

http://www.newsnet5.com

http://www.fox8cleveland.com

http://www.cleveland.com

http://www.msnbc.com

http://www.espn.com

http://www.cnn.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.abcnews.com

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn 

Searching the Web

(when searching the World Wide Web, try using these popular search engines and research sites)

http://www.discovery.com

http://www.britannica.com

http://www.worldbook.com

http://www.si.edu

http://www.thesaurus.com

http://www.infoplease.com

http://www.google.com

http://www.altavista.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.excite.com

http://www.webcrawler.com

Meriam-Webster Dictionary

Reference Desk

Wikipedia

Visit http://www.google.com/language_tools to type in my web address to translate my site to many different languages including español.  ¡MrShamblin.com en español! ¿Qué podía ser mejor?

Reference Sites

Copyright Issues & Plagiarism

1. B4UCopy - Become Copy Smart! Curriculum guide for teachers of elementary and middle school students. Resources included.
2. Creative Commons - a simple to understand explanation of this concept.
3. Copyright Kids - Founded to advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art, the theater, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property
4. Copyright from CyberBee - interactive resource for learning about copyright issues
5. Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - detailed chart
6. Fair Use Policies - copying work and giving credit for it is still Infringement!
7. A visit to Copyright Bay - Intended to inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting
8. The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use - Rights are strongest and longest at the place where educators need them most: in the classroom.
9. Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use Resources - "compilation of links on this page is for faculty and students who wish to find out how current copyright law effects their use of intellectual property."
10. 10 Big Myths about copyright explained - An essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work
11. IP Tile Teaser - Answer the questions true or false and complete the picture. Interactive game on copyright issues.
12. Plagiarism Checker - free plagiarism detection on the Internet
13. Teaching Copyright - "This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills"
14. U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright basics

General reference locations

1. AllRefer.com - Browse articles in eleven major areas of topics to find brief articles about a large number of thing. While you are there, take a look at their Gazetteer.
2. Ask for Kids allows you to type in an entire question and then gives you possibilities to refine the question. Many of the resources you find are on pages posted on their server rather than links to other locations on the web. However, there are some excellent resources here. You can also type "What does --- mean?" and get a dictionary listing.
3. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources.
4. Calculators On-Line provides links to almost 7000 calculators
5. Computer File Types by Extension - Need to know the difference between .mpp and .mpg, you will find almost every extension here.
6. Conversion - an online conversions calculator for a variety of unit measurements featuring natural language queries.
7. Easy Calculation offers several types of calculators
8. Emoticons - Also known as "Smileys", these symbols are used in emails and chat rooms to convey the body language, facial expressions, and vocal inflections we lack in electronic communication.
9. Explore the Exploratorium - The museum of science, art, and human perception
10. FedStats: A to Z Topical List - the window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.n
11. Homework help sites from Multnomah County Library
12. Homework Center from InfoPlease
13. HTML Color Table - Color swatches and their Hexadecimal Red Green Blue(RGB) values.
14. Internet Resources for Librarians: Includes a neat set of links on ideas about how to write a web page for your library.
15. InternetTools (iTools) - This site promises quick access to the best Internet tools. (Search Tools, Language Tools, Research Tools, Financial Tools, Map Tools, and Internet Tools)
16. The Librarian's Bookmarks: Resources for Teachers Menu lists General Education Web Sites and Subject Area Sites.
17. The Library of Congress - resources for every age group
18. Martindale's Reference Desk has links to many traditional reference sites as well as links to other web resources. This site belongs on the List of Links page also.
19. Measure 4 Measure A collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, or translate. In other words, they do the work for you.
20. Metric Conversion - includes; length, area, volume, mass, force, pressure, work, power, temperature, and fuel mileage
21. My Virtual Reference Desk
22. Newspapers - links to several Australian and UK newspaper sites
23. Phrase Finder - Search the whole database of 5,000 phrases. The search works like a phrases thesaurus. Give it a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way.
24. Primary Resources and Real-World Data - The Internet provides access to a wide range of primary resources such as letters, diaries, journals, logs, data, documents, speeches, and videos.
25. Prime Numbers - This site has a prime number generator and a prime number checker.
26. Reference Desk - pull down menus allow you to locate references for a large number of areas.
27. References - Browse the Web's Best References
28. Research Paper - A guide for writing research papers based on American Psychological Association (APA) Documentation.
29. Research Paper - A guide for writing research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.
30. Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
31. Units Converter - [this site opens as a new page] Interactive calculator for the following measurements:Weight and Mass, Distance and Length, Capacity and Volume, Area, Speed, Temperature, Time, Pressure and Circular Measure.
32. US Counties - Capitol Impact provides an index of state pages. At each state page you will see a map linking to information about the counties of that state.
33. A Web of On-Line Grammars - This page maintains links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web.
34. WWW Virtual Library - Fourteen directories from Agriculture to Society
35. YourDictionary.com - This site says that it is the web's most authoritative and comprehensive language portal
36. Zipcodes - Search for zipcodes

Almanacs & Calendars

1. The American Secular Holidays Calendar - "Let's see ... hmmmm, when is Veterans day?" If you ever ask questions like that, go to this page enter the year and see important dates for that year. This calendar covers years later than 1776. If you are interested, in the year 2195 Earth Day will be Wednesday, 22 April.
2. Calendar - can be reset to any year
3. Daily Almanacs and Holidays - Brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission
4. Federal Holidays - from the Office of Personnel Management
5. Historic Events & Birth dates that occurred on a selected day of the year. This is the most comprehensive index that I have seen on the Internet. Sponsored by Scope Systems Worldwide Industrial Electronics Repair & Services.
6. Holiday List from Kid's Domain - in alphabetical order
7. The Old Farmer's Almanac
8. This Day: calendar and almanac links
9. This Day in History - presented by The History Channel. Other categories offered are this day: in Wall street history, in automotive history and in Civil War History. Click on the links on the left to go to various This Day in History content.
10. Time related sites
11. Today's Calendar and Clock Page
12. Yahoo Directory - Holidays and Observances

Dictionaries

1. Acronym Finder
2. Ask Dr. Dictionary - Look up a word, or look at the Doctor's links to other dictionary sites on the web.
3. FreeDictionary - Has word of the day, quote of the day, article of the day, word game of the day and more.
4. Rhyming Dictionary - You can use it to help write poetry, song lyrics, greeting cards, witticisms, and more.
5. Specialized On-Line Dictionaries in one of 60 areas, from Advertising to Travel.
6. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries featuring 18 languages.
7. Visual Dictionary Online - from Merriam Webster
8. Word Central from Merriam Webster - a customizable dictionary and a daily buzz word
9. WWWebster's Online Dictionary look up a word or a phrase
10. YourDictionary.com - This site says that it is the web's most authoritative and comprehensive language portal

Encyclopedias

1. Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth Edition) - Containing nearly 51,000 entries
2. Encyclopedia.com - Because knowledge is cool.
3. Encyclopedia Smithsonian - helps answer frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology
4. Historica - the Canadian encyclopedia
5. Info Please - encyclopedia
6. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
7. TechEncyclopedia - over 20,000 IT terms

Regional Educational Labs

1. Index of Regional Educational Labs
2. Appalachian Region Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc (AEL) - Specialty Area Rural Education (now known as Edvantia)
3. Central Region - McRel - Mid-continent regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area Curriculum, Learning and Instruction
4. Midwestern Region - NCREL - North Central Regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area Technology
5. Northwestern Region - NWREL - Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - Specialty Area School Change Processes
6. Pacific Region - PREL - Pacific Resources for Education & Learning - Specialty Area Language and Cultural Diversity
7. Mid-Atlantic Region - LSS - Laboratory for Student Success - Specialty Area Urban Education
8. Southeastern Region - SERVE - SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education - Specialty Area Early Childhood Education
9. Southwestern Region - SEDL Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Specialty Area Language and Cultural Diversity

Magazines & TV Online
You won't find Seinfeld, Cheers, or Letterman here. The focus is instruction; web sites for Television channels or shows which support instruction in the classroom, or On-line magazines which would be useful for project-based research.  
 

1. Earth & Sky: Visit the Teacher's Lounge posted by this radio show's home page. Find out how to integrate Earth & Sky into your classroom. Browse their Virtual Textbook then check out their Teacher's Resource Hot List.
2. Discovery Channel Online - TV online
3. Discovery Online presents The Skinny On... a large number of topics. Do you ever wonder "Why There's No Channel 1 on a TV", or "Why You Never See Baby Pigeons?" Find the answers to those and more at this site.
4. Discover Magazine - Science, Technology and the Future
5. Exploratorium Science Snacks - This site is full of Snacks...but they're not the kind you eat. They're the kind you can learn from and have fun with. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium.
   1. Tools for Teaching - from the Exploratorium
6. Find it in the WHY files -Science touches our lives in countless ways. Yet people often think science is relevant only to a white-coated, lab-dwelling elite. The Why Files portrays science as a critical human endeavor conducted by ordinary people. We use news and current events as springboards to explore science, health, environment and technology. Divided into grades 5-8 and grades 9-12.
7. The History Channel: where the past comes alive...online
8. Instructor - the professional journal that teachers of grade levels K through 8 have relied on for more than a century. Some of the features here include sample articles, grant sources, and a sample cyber hunt.
9. The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's gateway to online science
10. New Scientist - magazine.
11. Welcome to the laboratory that never sleeps! The MAD Scientist Network is a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions.
12. National Geographic
13. National Geographic Kids (formerly named World)
14. NOVA Online
15. Odyssey Magazine - the science magazine for young adventurers, ages 10-16
16. Popular Science
17. Science
18. Science and Technology Resources from the Internet Public Library site
19. Science News Online
20. Scientific American - Read article summaries, complete articles, or news items. You can also see previous issues back to 1996.
21. Sky and Telescope Magazine - see the current issue, or look through their archive
22. T.H.E. Journal - Technology Horizons in Education
23. USA Today
24. The Weather Channel
25. Wired [this site opens in a new page]

High School Subjects

Art

Lesson Plans

1. A Mask For All Seasons - create a plaster craft mask to depict the four seasons
2. A. Pintura - Art Detective - an online game about art history and art composition
3. Art History Resources on the Web - from prehistoric to 20th century, there are also links to non-European art and museums
4. The Art Kids - lesson plans for K-6 and 7-12 (Caution: this is a free site hosted by GeoCities and occasionally you will find that it has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Go early in the hour.)
5. Art Webquest - Visual arts; 5th grade but can be adapted - major art movement research; select the paintings which best represent this period in art.
6. Artful Installations: 3D Constructions - 8th grade major art talent class, but it is easily adaptable to all age groups: students use problem-solving skills, communication, and a diversity of tasks to create a three-dimensional version of a two-dimensional painting
7. Blick Art Materials Lesson Plans - search by grade level or by discipline
8. Chasing Vermeer: A DaVinci Code for Children - observe and explore famous paintings by Vermeer. They will do online research about the history of this artist and his paintings, noting the particular use of his light, shadow and interior settings
9. China Culture Quest - Lesson plan - learn about Chinese brush painting, calligraphy, and names then practice using the brush with tempera paint, as they draw and write Chinese words they find in their online research
10. Claude Monet - students explore and appreciate the life and work of Impressionist artist Claude Monet. They gather information to write a biography on him and sketch an original landscape in his style.
11. Claude Monet and his friends and followers - Meet some of the most famous artists
12. Compare and Contrast - Select two works of art from a list of 26. Then click the "Begin Essay" button in the selection box that displays your selections to write your own short essay comparing the works of art. This is a display from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
13. Drawing In One-Point Perspective - Step-by-step instructions for basic one-point
14. How to Draw a Head - multimedia directions on how to draw a head
15. How to Draw tutorials
    1. How to Draw a Dog - progressing from circles to the dog drawing
    2. How to Draw Ears - human ears as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) ears
    3. How to Draw Eyes - human eyes as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) eyes
    4. How to Draw Faces - basic methods to draw general anime faces
    5. How to Draw Hands - human hands as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) hands
    6. How to Draw a Hamster - progressing from circles to the hamster drawing
    7. How to Draw a Jumping Man - progressing from circles to the jumping man drawing
    8. How to Draw a Stretching Woman - progressing from circles to the stretching woman drawing
    9. How to Draw It - how to make stylized cartoon type drawings of lots of animals [47 on the day we found this page]
    10. How to Draw (for Kids) - these step-by-step drawing exercises are designed for children [35 currently listed - mostly animals]
16. Favorite Art Lessons from the incredible Art Department - This site lists lessons from Early Childhood to Undergraduate. Wow! They even have lesson suggestions for days when you will have a substitute.
17. Inside Art - an adventure in art history by Educational Web Adventures
18. KinderArt - art education for kids of all ages
19. Leonardo - Exploring Leonardo; his perspectives, his shorthand and more.
20. Lesson Finder at ArtsEdge - including lesson plans, units, and other ideas
21. Lesson Plan Central - art lesson plans, worksheets, clipart and activities
22. Light Walk - a "light hearted" look at light, shadow, and images. Also, read how to make your own pinhole camera.
23. Light and Color - activities designed to give ideas about light and color
24. Make a Town - a learning project to create a model town using free software (PC/Windows only)
25. Music, Art, and PE Lesson Plans and Resources - from a homeschool site
26. National Gallery of Art presents Adventures with Art Links
    1. James Jacques Tissot
    2. George Catlin
    3. Martin Johnson Heade
    4. Jacques-Louis David
    5. Wassily Kandinsky
    6. John Singleton Copley
    7. Rogier van der Weyden
    8. Frank Stella
27. The National Standards for Arts Education - Developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (under the guidance of the National Committee for Standards in the Arts)
28. Perspective - lesson; learn how to use perspective in your drawings and paintings to create the illusion of depth
29. Picasso - The works of Pablo Picasso are presented at the OnLine Picasso Project (7,044 catalogued works)
30. Teach Art - lesson plans from Sanford
31. Think Art - many lesson plans
32. Visual Art Lesson Plans - from Teachnology

Museums

1. The Art Institute of Chicago
2. Explore and Learn - from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Six activities and four types of learning experiences are provided.
3. Museum Network - 33,000 museums worldwide, links to museum learning adventures on the Web.
4. Webmuseum - exhibits, paintings, and resources.
5. Metropolitan Museum of Art - View exhibitions and installations at the museum. On their Education page you can find an excellent variety of educational experiences with images of works of art and detailed descriptions of educational opportunities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Many of their collections and online programs
7. The National Gallery of Art - one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present - Go there to browse their collection. While there, stop and explore Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley's famous painting of "Watson and the Shark" which was inspired by an event that took place in Havana, Cuba, in 1749.

Resources

1. 4096 Color Wheel - Hover over the wheel to view colors. Click to choose a web-smart color
2. The Alphabet of Art - This site explains, in simple terms, the elements of visual design.
3. ArtKidsRule - Fun Activities, Resources & Tutorials for Kids, Grown-ups & Teachers
4. Art Standards - State and National Standards
5. Color: Design’s Most Exciting Element - a 22 slide ppt show
6. Color Theory - a 22 slide ppt show
7. Color Wheel - a 22 slide show which includes a student assignment
8. Interactive Color Wheel - experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma
9. Physics of Color - a 41 slide ppt show with several great examples
10. Real Color Wheel - Use this Real Color Wheel to match and find pigments that are the correct color oppositions for mixing neutral dark shadow colors without using black pigment. Designed for a natural artist painting on location.
11. The Science of Color - a 19 slide ppt show
12. World Artists Directory - accomplished artists worldwide
13. World Wide Arts Resources provides the definitive gateway to arts information and culture since 1995. Simply select any of the categories or premiere links to begin your exciting adventure. 

Just for Fun

1. The Art Zone - create art online; from the National Gallery of Art.
2. Collage Machine - interactive site that allows students to create their own collages; from the National Gallery of Art
3. Coloring.com - allows students to choose a line drawing and color it on the screen. This site is fairly slow unless you have a very fast connection. Do you have an account yet? Go ahead and register, it's free!
4. Children's Haiku Garden - This garden is for the haiku verses with illustrations from Japanese children and other children from the USA or other countries. 
5. First Palette - fun,educational art activities, very visual, easy-to-follow, and includes supporting resources
6. Mix and Paint with Curious George - select a picture, mix colors of paint and color the picture
7. Mobile - Create your own mobile with this site, from the National Gallery of Art
8. Mondrian Machine - Mondrian called this highly abstract and geometric style neoplasticism. Create your own!
9. My Imaginary City - create your own city
10. On-Line Coloring Pages - drag colors from the palette to the outline drawing, kids can try to match a small thumbnail drawing or use their own creativity
11. Paint Box - create characters, make greeting cards, or just have fun doodling, from the National Gallery of Art
12. PixelFace - interactive portrait maker, from the National Gallery of Art
13. RiverRun - encourages young children to orchestrate a flowing array of colorful shapes and patterns online
14. SwatchBox - a tool for mixing and drawing with millions of colors, from the National Gallery of Art

Dance

1. Dance Style Locator - a growing Online Encyclopedia of World Dance - Use this section to find out background and features of the dance styles represented in performances by People Like Me.
2. Dance Styles - a more general list of styles
3. How to do the Macarena motions which go with each beat
4. Performance Skills - Video on how to perform on stage, facial, spatial awareness and technique
5. Resources For Teaching and Learning Dance - on the DanceArt.com web sites.
6. Turning Techniques in Dance - Video shows technique of turning and how to turn without getting dizzy.

Theatre

1. Arts and Entertainment - Over 7,000 web sites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition
2. A brief guide to Internet resources in Theatre and Performance Studies - multiple links
3. Childdrama - packed with resources for drama teachers in elementary and secondary schools, and for producers of theatre for young audiences
4. Curricular Resources in Drama and Theatre - links to numerous resources [Caution! This page has not been updated recently and you will find dead links]
5. Drama 1 - notes and exercises
6. Drama Curriculum - ideas and lessons
7. Drama Techniques - a summary of 10 top drama techniques to use in your lessons
8. Drama, Theatre Lesson Plans - many to select from
9. Improvisational Theatre - exercises, activities and plans
10. Lesson Plans - Geocities site - could be blocked by school filters
11. Lesson Plans - Childdrama.com
12. Performing Arts Education Resources - links to resources on the Internet
13. Performing Zone - lesson plans in MS Word format
14. Plays to Download - large selection
15. School & Youth Theatre Index - a whole host of features, articles, guides... everything you need (well, almost!) to get started with or develop school or youth theatre, from British Theater Guide
16. Scribbling Women - "a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast"
17. Selected Theatre Resources on the Web - numerous links
18. Theatre Resources - links to performing arts links
19. Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange - many lessons and ideas. (Geocities site: could be blocked by some school filters)
20. Theatre and Drama Resources - by Jimmy Brunelle
21. Understanding Stage Design - lesson plan
22. Upstage Review Theatre Company - This web site is a comprehensive resource for anyone in the drama classroom, in production for a play or musical, or simply in love with theatre.

Music - (the icon indicates sound is available at that site, the icon indicates that the site is interactive )

1. A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments -
2. American Popular Music before 1900 - "music gives us a more accurate picture of people and events than any other method available."
3. Backstage - (from The American Symphony Orchestra League) - Learn about the different instruments and play a musical game with the four different types of instruments.
4. Blank Grand Staff Paper - for music teachers
5. Blank Music Worksheet - provided by lesson tutor
6. Brass Instruments - a brief history of brass instruments
7. Build your own instruments - (from WannaLearn) - directions on how to build numerous instruments
8. Children's Music Web - resources for Kids, Parents, and Teachers, and they also have a list of performers who may be available.
9. Children's Music Portal - teacher Resources Classical songs, Early Childhood collections.
10. Classics for Kids - many activities for students
11. Classics - At Kunst der Fuge you may listen to 5 files/day for free. resource of Classical music in Midi/Zip
12. Contrapunctus Variations - move your cursor and create you own music
13. Counting Music - enter the notes and it counts the music with you
14. Creating Music - many activities to choose from
15. Dallas Symphony Orchestra - excellent resource
16. Digital Composer - Making digital music can be a matter of putting to use some basic programming skills (knowing the computer's "language") and then writing a series of commands for the computer to follow.
17. Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs.
18. Do-a-rein-deer - Make your own music by using the mouse to squeeze the reindeer nose!
19. Drums and Percussion - drum lessons database online
20. Drum Machine - make your own rhythm or drum patterns with popular Unifix cubes.
21. DrumPad - a downloadable program using Excel; Play the drums on your computer
22. Encounter - From Silence to Symphony - Fantastic interactive site that shares information about the creation of a symphony from the instruments, to the conductor to the symphony! Listen to what each instrument sounds like. (This site is designed for broadband users.In order to experience parts of this site you will need both Quicktime and Shockwave plugins)
23. Enjoyment of Music - "selection of more than 250 musical excerpts as you take the quizzes, review transitions between eras, or learn more about 80 composers"
24. Essentials Of Music - Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a site for basic information about classical music.
25. Finale NotePad® 2006 - free music notation software - other software to download, some are free and some are fee-based.
26. Finding your Singing Voice - lesson plan online
27. Fortissimo - a ThinkQuest site with a music dictionary, composer pictures and biographies, instrument pictures, and instrument sounds
28. Fraction Pie Rhythms - connects your knowledge of fractions to musical notes and rhythms
29. Glossary of Musical Terms
30. Good Ear - free ear training on the net
31. Grand Staff Note Speller worksheets
32. Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - from the American Memory section of the Library of Congress
33. Kididdle's Musical Mouseum - a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. If you know the title of the song you're looking for, the Alpha Index is the place to go.
34. Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources
35. Interactive Applet Skill Tests - Three categories of interactives are available at this site; Theory quizzes, Listening quizzes (Aural), and tutorials. on 8/30/2009
36. Instrument Encyclopedia - resources for teachers and more - The purpose of this site is to allow you to explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions as you browse our gallery or search for a favorite instrument.
37. Instruments - large list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
38. Instructional Materials in Music - web sites to enhance your lessons
39. Jazz Age - Welcome to the Jazz Age Page. Listen to sound clips from the past together with people and historical events in the Jazz Age!
40. Keyboard to print
41. Learn about instruments - click on each instrument and hear what it sounds like
42. Make Your Own Instruments - ten presented
43. Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity and grace under pressure.
44. Meter - make rhythmic meters by combining two and three syllables words
45. Metronimo has educational musical games such as identifying composers, instruments and musical notes.
46. Minuetmixer - create your own minuet.
47. Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel - A musical dice game for composing a minuet. This is cool! Give it a try.
48. Music4Education - list of classroom resources
49. Music Chamber - This site was created so that people could gain an understanding and appreciation for chamber music. (a ThinkQuest site)
50. Music Education Online: Music Education Resource Links Page
51. Music Education: Worksheets for Children - bass clef and trebel clef, progressive worksheets, #1 is easiest in each group
52. Music Hotlist posted by the Franklin Institute
53. Music Education Center - multi links; music appreciation to folk instrument instructions to choral and more
54. Music Education - lesson plans, from the Berklee School in Boston
55. Music Education at DataDragon - "explore some parts of music with the DataDragon online tutorials and guides"
56. Music Education Online - main links directory page
57. Music Forms - short explanations of classical music forms, from anthem to variations [no Z's]
58. Music in Connexions: - A K-12 Teacher's Guide - wide variety of offerings, including multi-disciplinary lessons, lesson plans that can be presented by teachers who are not music specialists
59. Music Lesson Plans - Pre K to High School
60. Music Lesson Plans and Webquests
61. Music K-8 Magazine - online magazine
62. Music Notes - an interactive online musical experience - (a ThinkQuest site)
63. Music Maker - Click on the Start button or select a song. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity. You can change instruments and add notes to the score by selecting keys on the piano keyboard.
64. Music Review Worksheet
65. Music Sheet Templates - Print these and create your own music! Bass Clef ; Bass Clef Staff ; Drum Sheet Music ; Generic Music Staff ; Large bass clef staff for young musicians ; Large generic staff for young musicians ; Large treble clef staff for young musicians
66. Music Staves for the SmartBoard - Bass, Treble, Plain
67. Music Teacher Resources - one of the many resources available from the Educational CyberPlayground - look at their index on the left of the page
68. Music: The Unspoken Word - a ThinkQuest site
69. MusicTheory - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
70. Music Theory - tutorials, exercises, questions, references, and many other wonderful selections to choose from
71. Music Theory and Educational Resources - a multi link site with many resources
72. Music Theory Web site - Teoria
73. Music Teachers Chatboard - share your ideas and learn new ones
74. Musical Fraction Bars - your fractions will transform into a musical composition you can see and hear
75. New York Philharmonic Kidzone features several interesting areas; Instrument Storage Room , Composition Workshop, Composers Gallery, and the Instrument Lab
76. Orchestra Song - Learn about instruments, activity sheet and words to song included on site.
77. Orff Music Instruments to Make - instruments which can be easily made and used to enhance the Orff music classroom - Some are suitable for student projects, and some are more advanced.
78. Opera Plots - one hundred opera plots, listed by title
79. Pattern Block Rock - In this activity, you can compose and play your own rhythmic songs using geometric shapes.
80. Performing Arts Digital Library - experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials
81. PianoMouse - Can your young students recognize the sound of specific piano notes or read music? Here is a site to try with your young students on auditory recognition along with note reading.
82. PlayMusic
83. Printable Songs for Teachers - scroll past the Teachnology information to find the list
84. Reading Music - introduction to the most important topics in reading music in an easy to understand way
85. Renaissance Instruments - Elizabethan instruments
86. Renaissance Music - a collection of links from the About network
87. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - list of lesson plans created by educators during past Summer Teacher Institutes
88. Romantic Music - Romanticism is a more radical kind of expression, it seeks out the new, the curious, and the adventurous.
89. San Francisco Symphony KidSite - Go to Instruments of the Orchestra to hear what any of the instruments sound like. Then stop by their Music Lab to see what you can learn.
90. Sibelius Academy Music - The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki, provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well.
91. Sing-Along Songs - presented by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
92. NIEHS Quizzes
    1. Name that Children's Tune
    2. Name that Patriotic Tune
    3. Name that Oldies' Tune
93. Songs for Teaching - stick with the links to Lyrics, that's free but everything else is for sale
94. Music to Play and Sing Worksheets - songs with .pdf worksheets
95. Sounds from the Vault - learn about instruments and their beginning - sound files included
96. Sphinx Kids - music, videos, and games [requires Shockwave]
97. Stearns Collection - one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.
98. The Stearns Collection of Keyboards - [this link opens on a new page] a virtual tour through the Collection to see a sampling of keyboards
99. Strings - learn about the stringed instruments.
100. The Symphony - a Thinkquest site - an interactive guide
101. Stylistic Timeline Of Music History - from the music of ancient times to 21st Century music
102. Take a Seat in the Orchestra - find out about the instruments used in an orchestra
103. Teaching with Songs - from Isabel's ESL site
104. Texas School Music Project - "This site is intended to help you make music with children by providing ideas and information about specific problems common to all specialists in your discipline. Within these pages you will find teaching tips and "tricks of the trade" for music educators of all levels."
105. Virtual Keyboard - several drum beats available to accompany the selected instrument; piano, organ, saxophone, flute, pan pipes, strings, guitar, steel drums, or double bass
106. Western Music History - Romantic Era music
107. Worldwide Internet Music Resources from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University

English as a Second Language

1. Activities for newcomers - When brand new English language learners first enter your school, it can be overwhelming especially if it's the middle of the year. It's hard to know what to do first. Here are some activity-based tips to get you started.
2. Activities for ESL Students - multiple links with activities and exercises.
3. Adult Education ESL teachers guide - Beginning and Intermediate ESL Lessons and Accompanying Teacher Training Modules
4. BookBox - audio-visual stories, ages 2 to Pre-Teen; web-based jukebox of digital books. Hear the books read in a multitude of languages. Individual words can be followed in a number of languages also. You do have to register but it is free registration. The site offers downloads of the stories for a fee, but the online books are free.
5. Business English - Each week learn a new business jargon phrase. From Open English World
6. Casa de Joanna - Language Learning Resources - French and Spanish language thematically organized authentic links
7. Dave's ESL Cafe Idea Cookbook - There are currently 806 recipes (ideas) in 25 categories in this cookbook.
8. English@Home has quite a few resources for learning English. I found the ESL games great fun. Give them a try!
9. English Daily - free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more
10. English-Forum by Aardvark presents interactive English language exercises for use in ESL or EFL classes.
11. English Grammar Quizzes Using JavaScript - Over 1,000 activities for ESL Students; project of The Internet TESL Journal
12. English Grammar The Easy Way - very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students. A great site for concise support.
13. English Listening Language Lab - Listen to the stories or phrases and select the correct answer. Many activities. Great for listening skills!
14. Englishpage.com - Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources; some intrusive banner ads, but they have good resources.
15. English Study Materials and Worksheets - scroll down to find free resources
16. English Worksheets - worksheets to help improve your vocabulary and understanding of English
17. ESL Activity Zone - get lesson plan ideas here!
18. ESL Cafe has a large list of Online English Courses. You might also look through the list of the other 75 topics on the ESL Cafe index page.
19. ESL Cafe Help Center - receive help from ESL/EFL teachers from around the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Don't be shy - ask a question! Afterwards, an ESL/EFL Teacher will try to quickly post an answer onto this page.
20. ESL Flashcards - many to choose from
21. ESL Galaxy - Free teaching materials for ESL, EFL teachers and students, lesson plans on PowerPoint, kids’ worksheets, flash cards, phonetics videos, self-study videos, crosswords, word search, games, etc.
22. ESL go - Help students learn English with lessons, activities and quizzes.
23. ESL Lab - Listening exercises and quizzes. Listen to the conversation and answer the corresponding questions. Your score is immediately tabulated. Note : An Audio Player is needed for this site.
24. ESL Teacher Resources - Links to ESL sites. At the top of the page, get tips for working with ESL students.
25. ESL Tower - video lessons to develop vocabulary and practice listening and pronunciation
26. Everything ESL - Content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students.
27. Family Involvement Storybook - Tomasito's Mother Comes to School. " This bilingual storybook about family involvement at school is designed to engage children and their families. For educators, the printable online storybook is an easy-to-use family involvement tool that supports literacy"
28. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know, then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. You will also find a dictionary for translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced.
29. General Listening Quizzes from Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
30. Help! They Don 't Speak English - A resource guide for educators of limited English proficient students, grades Pre-K - 6
31. Idioms - English Idiom of the Week - From Open English World - Learn a new idiom each week. Conversation done orally to listen to idiom.
32. Idioms and collocations - exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations (consisting of a verb and particle) and idioms
33. Interactive Games for ESL - Have fun and improve your English by playing our matching games online; opposites, synonyms, general phrases and more.
34. Interactive Sites for Learning English - Activities to use in Computer Lab to help Spanish-speaking students learn English.
35. Lab Activity to Practice Proper Usage - 20 multiple choice questions
36. Larry Ferlazzo - "All these sections are specifically designed to assist adults and children who are learning English as their second language"
37. Learn English Feel Good - ESL site with free English grammar exercises and vocabulary quizzes, downloadable grammar handouts, videos, lists of American idioms and phrasal verbs, and more
38. Magnet Boards for ESL Students - move the "word magnets" around to make your own sentences
39. Marie Nuzzi's List of Valuable ESL Resources - Here are many sites with an abundance of ESL information for teachers and students.
40. My Picture Dictionary - Pictures to help students recognize names of objects around them.
41. My Spanish Picture Dictionary - a new online resource to learn Spanish (or English) - Each word in the dictionary has an English-Spanish translation and a photograph of the item.
42. Parlo is a language and culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait! Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. Give the free Diagnostic Test found in the index on the left side. They suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate your students. Select Teacher's Corner Materials in the Teachers portion and then select the English archive to find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish World , French World , Italian World or German World .
43. Pequenet - Spanish language site for little ones - stories, activities and more
44. PIZZAZ! - People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling - An Online Resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language
45. Primary Themes in Spanish - From Enchanted Learning.
46. Reading Proficiency Tests in English -
    1. Grade 3 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    2. Grades 4-5 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    3. Grades 6-8 [57questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    4. Grades 9-12 [60 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
47. Real English - Free Online ESL lessons - This site requires a username and password. Both are available free.
48. Real English Mistakes - Two ESL Quizzes based on actual mistakes (read the directions carefully)
49. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - A Very Large Collection of Quizzes for Students of English as a Second Language
50. Spanish to English -Basic Vocabulary - Spanish to English Translation Games
51. Teaching with the Web - This is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. Some of the areas offered are: web activities, language specific activities and teaching resources.
52. Vocabulary Exercises - Clothes, Appliances, School, Office and more.
53. Vocabulary - Interactive English vocabulary practice with audio

Foreign Language

General Foreign Language Resource

1. AltaVista - Any page on the Internet can be translated from English to one of eight languages:
   Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, or Spanish - or from any of those languages to English.
2. Free Translation - FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.
3. Google Translation - Translate your phrase on iGoogle!
4. PROMT Online - Many languages to choose.
5. Translation Tool from Google - Type in the URL to get a translation of a web site, or type in text to be translated.

Chinese

1. Chinese - Free Mandarin Chinese Flash cards - available both online and as printable PDF files
2. Chinese- English Dictionary - An easy-to-use dictionary with over 34,000 entries. Search by Chinese, pinyin, or English; audio pronunciation
3. Chinese - English Dictionary - Handwriting Recognition, Vocab Lists - Words automatically saved for you in your page or take them with you by turning them into mp3 files to download, Memorization Tests ; Pinyin with Sound - See and hear pronunciation for all examples and conversations; Conversations - Study, edit and save real-life phrases.
4. Chinese Grammar and Lessons
5. Chinese resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning Chinese and about the culture
6. Chinese - Get your own Chinese Name! - tool that creates names based on your English name
7. Chinese - Mandarin Learning Tools - Flashcards, listening practice, dictionary.
8. Chinese - Mandarin Tone Drill - test your knowledge of Mandarin tones
9. Chinese - Numbers - Learn how to pronounce numbers in Chinese! Audio provided
10. Chinese - Pinyin Practice -
11. Chinese - Things you should know about Chinese - information on grammar, dialect, characters, tone and more.
12. Chinese Writing - stages in its evolution
13. Clear Chinese - Chinese language course designed by Dr Xie Tianwei. Free Mandarin Chinese lessons. Each of the 15 units contain easy to understand dialogues, usage notes and a practice page.
14. Chinese Savvy - Dictionary of phrases. (works only in IE)
15. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know, then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. You will also find a dictionary for translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced.
16. Glossaries (by Language) - a large list of language dictionaries [At this site I learned is Chinese for "teach."]
17. Learn to Speak Chinese - Language Exchange via Email, Text Chat and Voice Chat
18. Online Chinese Tools - tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language
19. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.

French

1. About French - lessons on grammar, vocabulary, verb usage. Archive easy to navigate
2. BBC French Resources
3. Jim Becker's French Resources - many useful sites to help you learn French and about French culture
4. Dégustons la nutrition! - Webquest in French on nutrition.
5. French Assistant - online lessons - you must register but registration is free. Audio is provided after you register.
6. The French Connection - collection of Internet links to places and items of interest with a French theme
7. French Links - many links to site with French resources
8. French - English Translation Activities - Basic nouns and verbs vocabulary interactive activities. ( Caution : If you use this site with students, warn them about the banner and pop-up ads )
9. French Language Guide - free tests, vocabulary, resources, pronounciation keys and more.
10. French Language Resource Center - many links to select from
11. French MP3 File of the Week - for learning new French words from your portable music player - a new set of words from various subject areas is posted each week
12. French Vocabulary - tricks for English speakers
13. French World - Listen to music from French-speaking world or read interesting articles in the French Language.
14. Great French Grammar Sites - multilink page.
15. Health - Bonjour, toi et moi, on va se promener à l'intérieur du corps humain
16. Interactive Games in French
17. Languages on the Web - French Links
18. La grotte Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc - A description of a French cave with prehistoric paintings.
19. Le Petit Journal - The free monthly e-magazine of Concorde French Language Publications.
20. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - English-French version
21. Mango - Learn a New Language Online, registration free
22. Mon sport favori - Vous êtes un journaliste qui doit faire la promotion d'un SPORT qui vous emballe dans les pages d'un journal connu.
23. Open School - French Review
24. Paris Pages - a collection of everything regarding the City of Light
25. Profs de français forum - This forum is especially for French teachers and tutors to find information and support from our virtual colleagues
26. Radio France - a French radio station with transmissions and series documentaries approaching various aspects of the contemporary world
27. Subway Information - in French
28. Super French Web sites - Many links to select from.
29. Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
30. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.
31. Vocabulary Training Exercises - in German, French, or Spanish

German

1. American Association of Teachers of German (teaching resources)
2. BBC German resources - teacher and student resources
3. Jim Becker's German Resources - Siites to enhance your knowledge of the German language and German culture
4. Colors - Move your mouse over a colour to see spelling in German. Click on a colour to hear pronunciation.
5. Days of the Month - Short quiz on using numbers as part of the date.
6. German Language Guide - free tests, vocabulary, resources, pronounciation keys and more.
7. German for Travelers - Learn German Thru Audio
8. German World - 30 German phrases with audio
9. Goethe Institute - games, practice, quizzes, and more
10. Interactive Games in German
11. Interactive Vocabulary Game - vocabulary for characteristics
12. Interactive Vocabulary Game - common classroom vocabulary
13. Interactive Vocabulary Game - common classroom objects
14. Interactive Vocabulary Game - ways to meet and greet people in German
15. Interactive German Conversation Game - Drag and Drop activity to test understanding of beginning conversational German.
16. Mango - Learn a New Language Online, registration free
17. Months of the Year quiz - months of the year in German quiz.
18. Online German Course - registration is free; quizzes; many topics to choose.
19. Resources for German - German Grammar help.
20. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - English-German version
21. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.
22. Vocabulary Training Exercises - in German , French, or Spanish

Hebrew

1. Hebrew - Interactive game recognizing alphabet letters
2. HebrewForMe - online vocabulary quizzes
3. Hebrew Dictionary - free online English Hebrew English dictionary
4. Hebrew Games - online games
5. Hebrew - Learn Hebrew - click on the word for the pronunciation
6. Hebrew - Learn Hebrew Videos - Hear Hebrew pronunciation for shopping, animals, computers, body, and reading and writing.
7. Hebrew Videos on Microsoft Excel - Practice your language skills and computer skills at the same time! No audio; written directions to read
8. Hebrew - Learn Hebrew with Pictures and Audio; a Hebrew audio track provides you with the correct pronunciation of each word
9. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know, then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. You will also find a dictionary for translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced.
10. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.

Spanish

1. Basic Vocabulary - Spanish Vocabulary Builder - Click on the picture and hear the word or action in Spanish.
2. Basic Vocabulary - Practice reading and saying common words in Spanish ; Audio pronunciation and text . Free vocab sheets to go along with this.
3. Count to Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
4. Count Backwards from Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
5. Dia de los Muertos - articles, original art, and interactive projects.
6. DicionÃrios-Online.com - Links for dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other references in Portuguese in the InterNet.
7. El Cuentacuentos - Read stories in Spanish.
8. E-Spanyol - online language resource; interactive word practice tool for several vocabulary topics; online vocabulary and grammar tests and more.
9. Centro Virtual Cervantes - This site is entirely in Spanish
10. Interactive Games in Spanish
11. Larry Ferlazzo - Resources designed to assist adults and children who are learning English as their second language
12. Learn Spanish - Authentic pronunciation tutorials along with grammar drills, verb drills and idioms.
13. Learn Spanish - Vocabulary Practice; Help with vocabulary practice. No sound
14. LearnSpanishFeelGood - Grammar and vocabulary practice quizzes for beginners and intermediate level students
15. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - English-Spanish version
16. Mango - Learn a New Language Online, registration free
17. My Spanish Picture Dictionary - Online resource to learn Spanish (or English) - an English-Spanish translation and a photograph of item.
18. Music - Spanish songs - some animated
19. Music - Songs in Spanish
20. Music - Lyrics to songs in Spanish - no audio, just the words to the songs.
21. Music - Lyrics to songs in Spanish
22. Mundo Latino - Tu comunidad en Internet - stories, news, idioms, and more
23. National Food Safety Information in Spanish
24. Paso a Paso - Extend your Prentice Hall textbook with sites for online activities, games, and puzzles, and take self-tests.
25. Spanish - 100 Tests - English to Spanish - online interactive.
26. Spanish - Conjugation Trainer - Perfect, Imperfect, Future Tense, Conditional and more!
27. Spanish Games for Beginners - Four basic games; counting, facial parts, Spanish alphabet, counting backwards.
28. Spanish Language Guide - free tests, vocabulary, resources, pronounciation keys and more.
29. Spanish Lessons - don Quijote - Spanish Language School
30. Spanish to English Translation Activities - Basic nouns and verbs vocabulary interactive activities. ( Caution : banners and pop-up ads )
31. Spanish Vocabulary Practice for Beginners - Vocabulary drills and interactive games; Oklahoma State Dept. of Education.
32. Spanish World
33. Step Star Primary - for beginning Spanish Students
34. Super Links To TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Web site - Many sites with interactive activities,resources and testing.
35. Super Spanish Web sites - Many sites to select from
36. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner at the online community and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.
37. Visual Link Spanish - Twenty-two (veintidós) short, free lessons and one longer 15-minute segment. Each corresponds to a section on their CD that they want to sell to you. However, you can learn over 500 words of the program free online!
38. Vocabulary Training Exercises - in German, French, or Spanish
39. Web Spanish Lessons - Spanish lessons to teach basic knowledge, grammar, and vocabulary for Mexican Spanish

Children's Literature in Spanish or Portuguese

1. Cuentos de mi Tia Panchita Carmen Lyra
2. Literature infantil i juvenil
3. Olha o Olho da menina Marisa Prado  

Additional Spanish Links

Ir de Compras por el Internet  Francisca Camargo

Latinos en los EEUU Gabriela Garger

Los deportes populares Marilyn Bloomberg

Destino: Queretaro Aurora Mordey

Un Día en Madrid  José Villavicencio

Horóscopos , Leandra Marchis

Breve historia de España  Miguel Hernandez

Comida Mexicana , Adriana Rentería

De Vacaciones en Bariloche , Richard Freeman

Hotels in Acapulco  Sue Guenette

El Día de los Muertos Level II-III, Gilberto Moreno

Mi niñez  Marcelo Leal

La Familia Real  Kathleen Jacobs

Las Reglas de Tráfico en Uruguay  Rosemary Soares

Los Desaparecidos de Chile , Gabriela Ibarra-Estrada

Una Visita al Zoo de Madrid  Susan Erdman

Muralism, Muralists, and Murals  Carol Sparks

El Ballet Folklórico de México

El Museo del Prado  Pilar Agudelo

El Tiempo en la América del Sur  Martha Dratsioti

Buceo en Cuba  Marina Kozanova

El Bosque Lluvioso  Carol Sparks

La Batalla de Puebla  Cinco de Mayo   Sharon McKinney

Cuentos Carol Sparks

Comida L, Renato Martinez

Museo el Prado L Renato Martinez

Frida Kahlo Level III,

Periódicos  Renato Martinez

Música L, Renato Martinez

Personajes: Salvador Allende  Renato Martinez

Metro de Madrid  Renato Martinez

El Día de los Muertos en Michoacán Mexico  Miguel Leyto

La Familia Real  Filomena Rocha

El Fútbol Femenino en España  Siobhan Williams

El Surrealismo  Wanda Snow

Frida Kahlo y Ana María Matute  AP Language, Elsa Danner

Jorge Luis Borges and His Work  AP Language, Jairo Jimenez

La Perla - Spanish Speakers I Fremont High School Teachers

Presentaciones de las Danzas en la Ciudad de México   Carol Sparks

Un Museo Virtual Felipe Dobarganes

El Museo del Prado  Kathleen Hagey

Recetas en Español   Carol Hoffman

La Tele Madrileña en la Red   Walter Jansen

Diego Rivera   Lynn Tracadas

Excursiones en México -, Cristian Alvarez

El Tiempo en Chile - Linda Miele

El Día de las Madres   - Isabel Vasquez

Tapas  Level III,IV - Carol Pomares

Los Trenes de España  - Greg Eichler

Los Volcanes Mexicanos  Gail Saucedo

La Lengua de las Jarchas  Julian Randolph

Puerto Rico  Carol Sparks

Fiestas en Peru  Linda Amour

Folk Dances in Spanish Speaking Countries  Gloria Ulloa Rodriguez

"El Velorio" by Francisco Oller  Maritza Salguiero-Carlisle

El Mundo Maya  Carol Sparks

Honduras: A Cultural Lesson in English  Carol Sparks

Deportes en España  Linda Amour

Artistas Mexicanos  Josei Roguero

La Liga Mexicana de Béisbol  Joanne Atkin

Chocolate - The Food of the Gods  Gail Saucedo

What "El Chupacabras" means to me!!!  Diane Rosner

Venta y Compra de Vehículos  Virginia Blankenship

Culture of Spain  Becky Walleen and Andrea Roberds

Un Muralista Mexicano  Guadalupe Diaz

Museums, Museums, Museums!  Carol Parris and Julie Pinzas

Alicate  Carol Sparks

La Cocina de México  Carol Sparks

Las Líneas de Nasca  Heddy Olivos

Los Proximos Conciertos en Madrid  Carol Sparks

El Calendario de Danzas Folklóricas Mexicanas  Carol Sparks

Dos Fiestas  Sandra Mack

Los Números de los Mayas  Maggie Elliott

El Prado  Dawne Ashton

De Vacaciones en Buenos Aires  Lewis Johnson

Other Foreign Language

1. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know, then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates; also a dictionary translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced. .
2. Greek Alphabet - Tutorial
3. Hindi - English to Hindi words
4. Hindi resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning
5. Italian World - Experience Italian language and culture firsthand
6. Italian Resources - Multilink site with many resources
7. Japanese Language -Dictation Quizzes for Japanese Speech
8. Japanese Lessons - Namiko Abe's weekly Japanese lessons from the About network; also a question of the week archive.
9. Japanese Resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning
10. Latin positive/comparative/superlative forms - "review cards provide one form of an adjective and spaces for you to fill in the other positive/comparative/superlative forms"
11. Latin Resources from VRoma - A virtual community for teaching and learning classics
12. Latin Resources - Multilink site with many resources
13. Latin Tutorials - The tutorial covers the period between 1086 and 1733, when Latin was the official language of documents written in England
14. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary: English-Portuguese version
15. Mango - Learn a New Language Online, registration free; Japanese , Italian, Russian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese , Brazilian Portuguese
16. Russian - Practice Russian - learning activities and quizzes
17. Russian Resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning
18. Russian Sign Language - Russian Manual Alphabet used for finger spelling in Russian Sign Language
19. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.

ESL RESOURCES

General ESL Resources

1. Activities for newcomers - When brand new English language learners first enter your school, it can be overwhelming especially if it's the middle of the year. It's hard to know what to do first. Here are some activity-based tips to get you started.
2. Activities for ESL Students - multiple links with activities and exercises.
3. Adult Education ESL teachers guide - Beginning and Intermediate ESL Lessons and Accompanying Teacher Training Modules
4. BookBox - audio-visual stories, ages 2 to Pre-Teen; web-based jukebox of digital books. Hear the books read in a multitude of languages. Individual words can be followed in a number of languages also. You do have to register but it is free registration. The site offers downloads of the stories for a fee, but the online books are free.
5. Business English - Each week learn a new business jargon phrase. From Open English World
6. Casa de Joanna - Language Learning Resources - French and Spanish language thematically organized authentic links
7. Dave's ESL Cafe Idea Cookbook - There are currently 806 recipes (ideas) in 25 categories in this cookbook.
8. English@Home has quite a few resources for learning English. I found the ESL games great fun. Give them a try!
9. English Daily - free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more
10. English-Forum by Aardvark presents interactive English language exercises for use in ESL or EFL classes.
11. English Grammar Quizzes Using JavaScript - Over 1,000 activities for ESL Students; project of The Internet TESL Journal
12. English Grammar The Easy Way - very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students. A great site for concise support.
13. English Listening Language Lab - Listen to the stories or phrases and select the correct answer. Many activities. Great for listening skills!
14. Englishpage.com - Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources; some intrusive banner ads, but they have good resources.
15. English Study Materials and Worksheets - scroll down to find free resources
16. English Worksheets - worksheets to help improve your vocabulary and understanding of English
17. ESL Activity Zone - get lesson plan ideas here!
18. ESL Cafe has a large list of Online English Courses. You might also look through the list of the other 75 topics on the ESL Cafe index page.
19. ESL Cafe Help Center - receive help from ESL/EFL teachers from around the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Don't be shy - ask a question! Afterwards, an ESL/EFL Teacher will try to quickly post an answer onto this page.
20. ESL Flashcards - many to choose from
21. ESL Galaxy - Free teaching materials for ESL, EFL teachers and students, lesson plans on PowerPoint, kids’ worksheets, flash cards, phonetics videos, self-study videos, crosswords, word search, games, etc.
22. ESL go - Help students learn English with lessons, activities and quizzes.
23. ESL Lab - Listening exercises and quizzes. Listen to the conversation and answer the corresponding questions. Your score is immediately tabulated. Note : An Audio Player is needed for this site.
24. ESL Teacher Resources - Links to ESL sites. At the top of the page, get tips for working with ESL students.
25. ESL Tower - video lessons to develop vocabulary and practice listening and pronunciation
26. Everything ESL - Content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students.
27. Family Involvement Storybook - Tomasito's Mother Comes to School. " This bilingual storybook about family involvement at school is designed to engage children and their families. For educators, the printable online storybook is an easy-to-use family involvement tool that supports literacy"
28. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know, then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. You will also find a dictionary for translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced.
29. General Listening Quizzes from Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
30. Help! They Don 't Speak English - A resource guide for educators of limited English proficient students, grades Pre-K - 6
31. Idioms - English Idiom of the Week - From Open English World - Learn a new idiom each week. Conversation done orally to listen to idiom.
32. Idioms and collocations - exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations (consisting of a verb and particle) and idioms
33. Interactive Games for ESL - Have fun and improve your English by playing our matching games online; opposites, synonyms, general phrases and more.
34. Interactive Sites for Learning English - Activities to use in Computer Lab to help Spanish-speaking students learn English.
35. Lab Activity to Practice Proper Usage - 20 multiple choice questions
36. Larry Ferlazzo - "All these sections are specifically designed to assist adults and children who are learning English as their second language"
37. Learn English Feel Good - ESL site with free English grammar exercises and vocabulary quizzes, downloadable grammar handouts, videos, lists of American idioms and phrasal verbs, and more
38. Magnet Boards for ESL Students - move the "word magnets" around to make your own sentences
39. Marie Nuzzi's List of Valuable ESL Resources - Here are many sites with an abundance of ESL information for teachers and students.
40. My Picture Dictionary - Pictures to help students recognize names of objects around them.
41. My Spanish Picture Dictionary - a new online resource to learn Spanish (or English) - Each word in the dictionary has an English-Spanish translation and a photograph of the item.
42. Parlo is a language and culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait! Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. Give the free Diagnostic Test found in the index on the left side. They suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate your students. Select Teacher's Corner Materials in the Teachers portion and then select the English archive to find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish World , French World , Italian World or German World .
43. Pequenet - Spanish language site for little ones - stories, activities and more
44. PIZZAZ! - People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling - An Online Resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language
45. Primary Themes in Spanish - From Enchanted Learning.
46. Reading Proficiency Tests in English -
    1. Grade 3 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    2. Grades 4-5 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    3. Grades 6-8 [57questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    4. Grades 9-12 [60 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
47. Real English - Free Online ESL lessons - This site requires a username and password. Both are available free.
48. Real English Mistakes - Two ESL Quizzes based on actual mistakes (read the directions carefully)
49. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - A Very Large Collection of Quizzes for Students of English as a Second Language
50. Spanish to English -Basic Vocabulary - Spanish to English Translation Games
51. Teaching with the Web - This is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. Some of the areas offered are: web activities, language specific activities and teaching resources.
52. Vocabulary Exercises - Clothes, Appliances, School, Office and more.
53. Vocabulary - Interactive English vocabulary practice with audio

Learn English

1. 108 Vocabulary words -Match the English word to the Spanish word.
2. Adjectives to Describe People and Things - Match game
3. Animals - 46 questions asking the English name of various animals.
4. Asking for Directions - Match game
5. Basic Vocabulary - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
6. Basic Vocabulary - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
7. Body Parts - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
8. Body Parts - Match English words to Spanish words
9. Classroom Objects - Match the English word with the Spanish word.
10. Classroom Vocabulary - Match game translating Spanish into English
11. Daily Routines - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
12. Daily Routine-2 -Match the English word to the Spanish word.
13. Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures - nouns, adjectives, and verbs
14. Emotions -Match the English word to the Spanish word
15. English-Spanish Vocabulary Quizzes - English word is presented with a choice of 4 Spanish words
16. English Vocabulary Quizzes - Most quizzes are multiple choice with an image of the word.
17. ESL for Spanish Speakers - many quizzes to select from. ( Make sure you choose the ones that say all )
18. ESL videos - introduce vocabulary through the use of acting out the words.
19. Going Shopping - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
20. Grammatical Structure - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
21. Greetings - Match the English greeting with the Spanish greeting.
22. Hungry Frog - Match Spanish word with English Word
23. Instruments and Living Vocabulary - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
24. Jobs - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
25. Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - Interactive games - Match games, quizzes and learning activities. Grades 1-10
26. Learn Vocabulary - no visuals, but audio of words presented. Could make flash cards to go along with computer activity.
27. My Spanish Picture Dictionary - a new online resource to learn Spanish (or English) - Each word in the dictionary has an English-Spanish translation and a photograph of the item.
28. Numbers to 100 - Match the English number with the Spanish number.
29. Ordinal Numbers - Put the ordinal numbers in the correct order: cuarto, décimo, noveno, octavo, primero, quinto, segundo, séptimo, sexto, tercero
30. People - Match English words to Spanish words
31. Shopping -Match the English word to the Spanish word.
32. Things to do on Vacation - Match the English word to the Spanish word.
33. Vacuum Tube - Click on a tube to make it "vacuum". Hit the space bar to change tubes. Move the tube end around to suck up bugs
34. Verb Vocabulary - Match game
35. Vocabulary Matching Exercises - Common words with picture clues; pull-down menu to find correct English word.
36. Weather Vocabulary - Match game

HEALTH AND PE

P. E.

1. 5StarHoops - for coaches
2. Archery - Videos and lecture hand outs from MIT
3. Badminton - Play the game virtually and then take a quiz on the rules.
4. Body Conditioning - article about conditioning the body
5. Awesome Library: Physical Education - lesson plans, papers and projects
6. Coach's Clipboard - Basketball coaching
7. Coaches' Training Bulletin - Sports Coach - Inside: the complete guide to successful coaching
8. Why Am I Dehydrated? - Get yourself a glass of water and keep reading to find out!
9. Elementary Objects - Standards based information, printable materials, interactive activities, work sheets, videos, or other educational resources. Grades K-8 Select a grade, then click on Physical Education.
10. The Exercise and Physical Fitness Page - posted by Georgia State University
11. ElectriKids - lesson plans, games and quizzes
12. Energizers - Classroom-based physical activities ( K-2, 3-5, K-5)
13. Ethics -Is the Use of Advanced Materials in Sports Equipment Unethical? - have students debate pros and cons
14. Exercise Targeted Areas of the Body - interactive site that gives suggestions for activities for various body part fitness
15. Exercise training programs - wide range of FREE exercises and exercise training prgrams
16. ExRx - "ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription on the Net) is a free resource for the exercise professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast." ExRx.net consists of over 2000 pages"
17. First Grade Fitness Lesson Plan - student-centered fitness activities that can be integrated into classroom subjects such as physical education, math, science, and health education.
18. Sports and Physical Education Resources - Posted by McNeese State University
19. Fit4Fun- Kids' Fitness - game instructions in text format
20. Fitness Tests - 100 individual fitness tests
21. Game Coaching Tool - A "Must See" site! Interactive virtual whiteboard tool for sports coaches. This is a British site and the names of the games will be different from the ones used in America.
22. Games
    1. Basketball Golf - Make shooting fun and competitive - high school
    2. Castle Ball -practice working together as a team while playing both offense and defense - high school
    3. Games and more - worksheets, lesson plans, and ideas (scroll down to see the list)
    4. Games Kids Play - All those games you played as kid out in the backyard
    5. Gametime Enterprises - Skill Games
    6. Great Game List - Children's Games
    7. Javascript Database of Games
    8. Jump into a Healthy Life - Jump rope Thinkquest
    9. Outdoor Games for kids - Many ideas
    10. Parachute Games - ideas on how to use this in class
    11. PE Activities - many game ideas (Caution: This site may be blocked by some school filters)
    12. P. E. Ideas - ideas to use in your PE program
    13. Playground Games around the World - Ideas and games for outdoors
    14. Plus One Volleyball - move towards the ball while maintaining a body position that permits them to pass the ball to their team mates - high school
    15. Ultimate Frisbee -try to advance the Frisbee past the end line of the basketball court by throwing it to their teammates
23. Girl Power - Sports and Fitness
24. Injuries - How to deal with sports injuries - MDAdvice.com is an award winning internet-based medical site providing highest-quality health information
25. List servs related to health and PE with instructions on how to subscribe.
26. Line Dancing - Step by Step directions (Caution: This site may be blocked by some school filters)
    1. How to Dance the Macarena - instructions and a great animation at the top of the page
    2. Another How-to do the Macarena page
    3. Macarena - music only
27. Making Bodyweight Exercises More Challenging - Information on how to do bodyweight exercises; discusses form
28. Muscles - What is a muscle and how does it work?
29. Muscles - Strength Training - How many reps?
30. PE Central - The Ultimate Web Site for Health and Physical Education Teachers. Weekly activities, lesson plans and lots of links.
31. Pedometer - Gmaps pedometer - Find out how many miles you run. Track your distance with gmaps.
32. Physical Activity Cards - Learn what muscle groups and parts of the body are involved in each sport along with instructions on how to play.
33. Physical Education Interval Workout - Lesson Plan
34. Physical Education Lesson Plans - Jr High and High School
35. Physical Education Lesson Ideas
36. Physical Education Lesson Plans -
37. Physical Education Lesson Plans - from Educator's Reference Desk
38. Physical Education Lesson Plan Page - The page is stored on a free server and if it is over-viewed, Tripod (the free server people), will turn the page off for about two hours.
39. Physical Education Online - Teacher Resources, Activity Ideas, Lessons and more!
40. Racing Crouch - crouch technique to start a race.
41. Run For Your Life: A Twist on Aerobic Exercise - all about aerobic exercise
42. Sports
    1. Free Sports Instruction - free video instruction and tips for many sports
    2. Baseball - The History of Baseball
    3. Basketball - The History of Basketball
    4. Cross Country Running - history of the sport
    5. Field Hockey - rules of the game
    6. Football - The rules of the game.
    7. Hockey Facts Quiz - A fun way to help you students understand more about hockey
    8. Soccer Skills Quiz - educational and fun quiz about the history and techniques of soccer.
    9. Sports Info - Information on over 30 sports.
    10. Swimming Tips and Advice - site is presented in German and English, side-by-side
    11. Volleyball - Mastering the skills
    12. Volleyball - Plus One Volleyball - Lesson plan.
    13. Volleyball Drills -74 drills with instruction
    14. Volleyball Quiz - [this link opens on a new page] 12 question quiz
43. Sports for Lifetime Wellness - site is presented in German and English, side-by-side
44. Sportsmanship - Learn the ways to be a good sport from this NBA Jr. site.
45. Sportsmanship Education - guide to promoting Sportsmanship in your school
46. Sports Muscles and their Functions - Sports Anatomy, Muscular Contraction & Speed Training
47. Strength Training for Women - Exercises with examples on how to perform them.
48. Strength Training - The benefits of a periodized strength training plan; many articles and information
49. National Sportsmanship Day - Sign up for this year's event!
50. Teaching Good Sportsmanship - from the Family Education Network
51. TripleJump Technique - video showing and explaning technique.
52. Using Technology to Support Physical Education in High School - report on ways to use technology with P. E.
53. Walk to school month - Oct 4th
54. Warm-up and Cool-down Ideas -P.E. ideas and resources
55. Weight Training and Strength Training Exercises -
56. Weight Training - Fitness goals
57. Weight Training - Lesson Plan
58. Weight Training Programs - See examples of training programs
59. Weight Training Videos - See correct techniques on video. Get the lecture handouts also!

Nutrition

1. 5 a Day from Dole - Nutrition education and fun activities for kids. In the virtual classroom students have daily assignments for a week. One example, "If you were in charge of your school cafeteria, what fruits and vegetables would serve?"
2. Apple Juice on the Internet - Welcome from AJ and the Jammin' Juicers!
3. Calorie Calculator - enter a food item and get information on calories
4. FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
5. Fruit and Veggie Tracker - Keep your healthy routine on track with this chart.
6. Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the USDA
7. Eating Disorders - index to information about aq variety of eating disorders
8. Food Fit - a really nice food pyramid, and a good explanation of each group.
9. Food Allergy - science behind the most common food allergies and intolerances
10. Healthy Eating - (Elementary grades) interactive whiteboard screens with basic nutritional information
11. The Healthy Refrigerator - Open the door to a healthy heart. [This page opens in a new window. When you are finished at the Healthy Refrigerator, close the window to return to this list]
12. Index of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources - Compiled by the Food and Nutrition Information Center of the USDA.
13. Learn to be Healthy - for teens; have to register, but it is free, journal food choices, activities to select to help make healthy choices.
14. Milk - Where's your mustache?
15. MyPyramid - Posters, tips for healthy eating, activities and more
16. Nutrition Explorations - Kid-friendly site. The fun and easy way to learn about nutrition.

LANGUAGE ARTS MIDDLE / HIGH SCHOOL

1. Aesop's Fables - Short reading passages with a moral to analyze.
2. American English Pronunciation - Fantastic site! Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a lot of practice), and ends with a quiz. Each word in the quiz can be pronounced for the student by clicking on the speaker icon. This site would be good for Language Arts or ESL classes.
3. A Word A Day archive - archives of words that have been used since 1994
4. Bibliographic Style
   1. Bibme - fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page.
   2. Citation Machine - an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property (Students are welcome to use this as well)
   3. Citing Sources- Guide to Library Research - Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper
   4. MLA-Style Bibliography Builder - Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button... you will get an individual entry for a "Works Cited" page, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor.
   5. MLA, APA, AAA, Chicago (Turabian) Citation Guide - from North Seattle Community College Library
   6. Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format from the Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) at Purdue.
   7. Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format from the Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) at Purdue.
5. Bibliomania - Bibliomania has more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources
6. The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
   1. Rules
   2. online quizzes
7. Catalogue of Electronic texts, a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Searchable by author or title.
8. Character Cards - helpful cards to collect data while researching
9. Character Descriptions - write the opposite of the characteristics given.
10. Challenge test - Prepare for national tests using this English Challenge Test
11. A Chapter a Day - Books online divided up into chapters with vocabulary words for the chapter and quotes. Many classical novels here.
12. Chapter Books On-line - Many classic novels online with tools to help students read on line.
13. Class Anatomy - online "class anatomy"- a documentation and analysis of one instructional period.
14. Classic Short Stories - online text of some of the short story classics.
15. Comic Strips - Make up your own comics, using characters, emotions, and more
16. Comic Strips - How to use them in your classroom.
17. Comic Strips - Create your own comics and your own characters also!
18. Common Errors in English Usage - Do you "shutter to think" of horrible misusage of the language? Find that and more at this site.
19. Diagramming Sentences - "Understanding the functions of parts of the speech in a sentence and their relationship to one another can be very helpful in learning to construct good sentences"
20. Drama - The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Audio Radio Shows - "The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them."
21. Every-Day-Edit - provides daily practice in a wide variety of basic language skills with a daily paragraph having ten built-in errors of basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization
22. The Electronic Text Center - The Modern English Collection contains fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.
23. English 11 - Reading and Writing - practice tests from Virginia Department of Education released SOL tests
24. The English Teacher's Companion - Lessons, tools, publications, and much more can be found at this site.
25. English Teacher Resources - Many links for strategies in writing, poetry, literature, reading and more
26. English-Forum by Aardvark presents interactive English language exercises for use in ESL or EFL classes.
27. English Grammar Online - Explanations and examples of English grammar topics, listed by alphabetically order.
28. English Grammar Quizzes - self checking quizzes
29. English Grammar The Easy Way - This site has a very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students. A great site if you want some concise support.
30. Etymologic: The Toughest Word Game on the Web - In this game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected word origin or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented. You need to choose the correct answer to score a point for that question.
31. Fake-Out - A definition guessing game for 3 levels of students; K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Students guess the definition of a chosen word. Tthe real fun comes from submitting their own fake definition for the next quiz. 
32. Fluency through Fables - These Fables will help you to improve your reading comprehension of English. Various sets of questions follow each fable.
33. Folktale of the Month
34. Free Rice - a vocabulary site that donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations with each word you define correctly.
35. Grammar Activities - posted by Ohio University
36. The Grammar Aquarium - many online quizzes
37. Grammar Exercises - many online quizzes
38. Grammar Games - Many different grammar games to select; articles, common errors, parts of speech, adverbs, participles and more.
39. Grammar and Style notes from Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania. Example entry on the subject of Boldface; "There's no reason to use boldface in an academic paper; spend your time writing, not fiddling with the word processor."
40. Grammar and Writing - interactive quizzes
41. Grammar Rules - The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
42. Grammar Worksheets and Printables - Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts
43. Guide to Grammar and Writing - Maintained in memory of Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College in Connecticut. (for use by the college's students and staff and for the general online community)
44. Homonyms and Homophones
    1. A Feast of Homonyms - a Quia quiz
    2. Homonym Practice - a Quia quiz
    3. Homophone Quiz - three levels are available in this BBC quiz
    4. Self-Study Homonym Quizzes - 52 quizzes listed
    5. Word Confusion - choose the Hard level in this FunBrain quiz
    6. Word Pairs - This quiz checks your understanding of homophones. Listen to the sentence and select the correct word from the pair.
45. Idioms - Set one ; Set two
46. Idioms and collocations - exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations (consisting of a verb and particle) that make sense only if looked at together as one single unit (take off/drop out/get over) and idioms - expressions consisting of words that can’t be understood literally. from EnglishGateway site
47. Inference Notes - a way to graph the concept of inference
48. Inference - Inference for Middle School Students - Includes lessons, activities, and graphic organizers
49. Interactive Grammar Quizzes - Grammar and punctuation.
50. Interactive lessons
    1. Middle School [lessons open on a new page]
       1. Bibliographic Blunders (6 - 8) Students use notecards to collect information. (Author - Carolyn Garner)
       2. Information Elimination (6 - 8) Students model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing. (Author - Julie Thompson)
       3. One Source (6 - 8) Students compare primary and secondary sources. (Author - Julie Thompson)
       4. Paraphrase Craze (6 - 8) Students practice paraphrasing for expository writing. (Author - Carol Rine)
       5. Prewriting Tactics (6 - 8) Students organize and group related ideas. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
       6. Trailblazing Conclusions (6 - 8) Students develop a sense of ending by using closure and thought-provoking statements. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
       7. Trailblazing Introductions (6 - 8) Students develop a sense of beginning by using strong leads. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
       8. Which Writing? (6 - 8) Students choose an appropriate format for writing. (Author - Carol Rine)
    2. High School [lesson opens on a new page]
       1. Setting (9 - 12) Travel back in time with Shakespeare's Romeo as he teaches about setting through great works of literature. (Author - Carol Rine)
51. The Internet Classics Archive - bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994
52. Jog Lab - create your own mnemonic by entering target words then choosing jog words from the pull down lists
53. Journalism: Student writing for the real world - Journalism is not just for the newspaper staff! All students can improve their writing as a result of instruction in journalism.
54. KeyNews Paper - "The objectives of The Key New Readers Newspaper Project are two-fold: to provide people with limited reading skills access to the main flow of information in the community and to provide teachers in adult basic education programs with quality materials which are relevant to the adult learner."
55. LawBuzz - stories online about famous trials from the past. No questions for the stories are given, just reading material for reluctant readers.
56. Learn Out Loud - podcasts of novels
57. Literary Elements - Interactive game (from Glencoe)
58. Nursery Rhyme Expansion - practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing. New ideas for old material. Here is a site with stories inspired by nursery rhymes that students can see to help them write their own versions.14 Funny Stories based on Mother Goose Rhymes
59. Literature Quizzes - online quizzes in poetry, essays, comprehension, and story elements
60. Middle and Secondary English - Language Arts - Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators.)
61. Mindomo - interactive graphic organizer (free registration)
62. Navigating the Newspaper - Learn how newspapers package words and pictures. Learn correct terminology for the different parts of the newspaper.
63. Novels On-Line found at the Carnegie Mellon University English server.
64. Novel Guides - from Classzone; activities and suggestions for novels.
65. Novel Guide-Novel Analysis - literary analysis on the web; an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
66. Novels - Teaching Guides - from Harperchildren; " include general discussion questions and suggestions for reaching across the curriculum: math, science, language arts, music, and social studies."
67. Novel Units Online - Novel Guides and Units
68. The On-line Books Page - You may search by author, title, or subject.
69. Parlo is a language and culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait! Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. In their index along the left side you will find a free Diagnostic Test. At the end they suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate where your students are. In the Teachers portion of Parlo's index, select Teacher's Corner Materials and then select the English archive. There you will find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish World, French World, Italian World or German World.
70. Prefixes
    1. Prefix Mix - working with "Pre" and "Post," prefixes with opposite meanings
    2. Prefixes Make New Words - drag and drop the prefixes to complete the words correctly
    3. Prefixes Say Plenty - choose the word that best completes the sentence
71. Poe, Edgar Allen, Quote the Raven - Welcome to TeachersFirst's "Interactive Raven," a look at the vocabulary and literary devices in Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, The Raven. This unit lets users view each stanza of the poem, pointing out Poe's use of some common literary devices.
72. Poetry 180 - Welcome to Poetry 180. A Poem a day for American High School students. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.
73. Poetry Index of Canonical verse at the Carnegie Mellon University English server. Poets from Angelou to Wordsworth.
74. Poetry Interpretation - High School Level - Interpret poems online with an online quiz about each poem.
75. 30 days of Poetry - Each lesson gives you a format to follow and student examples. In many cases your teacher will direct you to write more than one poem in a lesson. This gives you an opportunity to use the form and, most often, create an even better poem in doing so. Enjoy your lessons!
76. Poet's Pantry Tour - Virtual fieldtrip of the many types of poetry. Within the tour there is a list of at least 40 types of poetry and examples of each form!
77. Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin - Help! The power has gone out at HME-TV, and proofreaders are needed to fix TV scripts, memos and other writing at the station. HM has provided a special power screen so your students can help them.
78. Pre-Reading notes - help students prepare for information obtained in reading
79. Proofreading Exercises - online with answers
80. Reading Placement Assessments - tests to download (answer key given)
81. Reading Comprehension - free Reading Comprehension worksheets for Middle and High School students to reinforce skills such as context clues and word meanings
82. Reading Comprehension - for High school students
83. Reading for Results - Online practice, many concepts
84. Reading for Thinking - online passages and questions for many concepts- middle and high school
85. Reading Keys - online passages and questions for many concepts - middle/high school
86. Reading Passages - vocab, word selection, sequencing and conclusion activities.
87. Reading Passages - vocab, word selection, what did you learn, spelling and more.
88. ReadPrint - free online library, thousands of free books.
89. Reading Skill Stories - written for adult ESL learners, these stories can be a timed reading; there is audio for each story so it can be used for a read-along, and there are questions at the end of the stories.
90. Root Words
    1. Putting Down Roots - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete the words.
    2. Putting Down Roots (2) - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete the words.
    3. Putting Your Roots into Action - Now that you know five new roots, start looking for them in unfamiliar words.
    4. Putting Your Roots into Action (2) - Now that you know five more new roots, start looking for them in unfamiliar words.
    5. What's a Root? - In this lesson, you'll work with five roots. Once you know a few roots, you'll see them everywhere.
    6. What's a Root? (2) - In this lesson, you'll work with five more roots. .
91. Schoolhouse: English and Language Arts - Lesson plans and Internet resources in the areas of Poetry, Reading, and Writing. The site also includes Internet resources in the areas of Literature, Philosophy, and Plays. Schoolhouse also includes links to Standards sites.
92. Sentence-combining exercises - a lesson followed by quizzes
93. Short Fiction on the Carnegie Mellon University English server.
94. Short Story Elements - online interactive quiz from Quia
95. Short Story Elements - online quiz
96. Skimming and Scanning - links that contain lessons and activities to practice these skills.
97. SparkNotes - Study Guides, Message Boards, Complete Texts of an enormous amount of various types of literature taught in High Schools. You must register to get to the guides, but registration is free.
98. Speak Up - Speak Up is an opportunity for students to create a cartoon dialogue featuring two or more characters in a range of settings on a variety of topics. Exploring these topics allows students to consider problems and issues that they might encounter in their own lives. Students can also create their own topics.
99. Spelling Test - Take this online spelling test; TCAP format
100. Story Elements Questioning Cards - Great for independent work after reading a book.
101. Story Modules - modules designed to test comprehension of a news story (Click on Story Archives on the left to find the stories)
102. Style Manual by William Strunk Jr. - Reference site to find verse, authors, fiction, nonfiction links.
103. Subject Area Reading Passages - passages dealing with language arts that contain questions based on the format of FCAT
104. Suffixes
     1. Suffixes Make New Words - drag and drop the suffix to the correct root word to make a new word
     2. Suffixes Say a Lot - pick the best definition of the capitalized word
     3. Success with Suffixes - fill in the blanks with words ending in "er"
105. Summarizing and Paraphrasing - online exercises and lessons.
106. Teaching Literature andWriting with Technology -incorporate technology effectively into your courses. The Center provides a multitude of free online resources
107. The Teacher's Desk - A literacy resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. This site is a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities.
108. Think About it cards - excellent task cards to place beside students while reading for information
109. Timed Reading - Read this passage and time yourself!
110. Tools for Reading -"These tools should be used to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions with texts."
111. Visual Thesaurus - Really cool way to look up synonyms. It is just a trial version but you can look up a few words at a time without paying.
112. Vocabulary Enrichment
     1. Analogy Quiz1 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. (HS Level)
     2. Analogy Quiz2 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. (HS Level)
     3. Sentence Completion - Fill in the missing vocabulary words. (Middle/High School level)
     4. Sentence Completion Quiz - Fill in the missing vocabulary words. (Middle/High School level)
     5. Vocabulary Enrichment - Each Quiz picks 10 questions from a fifty word list and you can hear the word spoken, allowing you to not only learn its definition, but how its pronounced.
     6. Vocabulary University - Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. These exercises help prepare for SSAT, PSAT, GED, SAT and ACT tests, they supplement personal vocabulary acquisition, and are being used in home-schooling and ESL programs
     7. Vocaboly - Vocabulary test - Multiple choice, different formats
113. The Word Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.
114. World Wide Words - Each week you will find at least one short article or extended definition of a word which is too new to appear in most dictionaries
115. Words Count - Vocabulary exercises - self checking
116. Writing Tests - ( Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to this section )These tests cover vocabulary, writing style, mechanics, focus, and understanding of the topic. Answer key given.

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Science

General Astronomy Resources

1. Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy. Shockwave is required
2. The Animated Virtual Planetarium - simulations designed to be used in the classroom, or in the lab by students, as demonstrations of various aspects of planetary motions
3. Astronomy Magazine - Bookmark the online version of this popular astronomy publication and come back to it regularly. While you are there, go to Astro for Kids even if you are not a kid, and look at their imaginative "family portrait" of the solar system.
4. Astronomy Net - Astronomy articles, forums, listings, and other resources about Astronomy
5. The Astronomy Picture of the Day - great photos and an explanation each day. Their search feature returns thumbnail images of matches and their archive extends back to June 16, 1995.
6. Atlas of the Universe - nine main maps, each one approximately ten times the scale of the previous one
7. Bad Astronomy - the main Bad Pages; Bad Movies, Bad TV, Bad News, and Popular misconceptions
8. Big Bang Time Machine - go back in time to explore what the universe was like at various times
9. Canadian Astronomy Data Center - links to a large number of image archives.
10. Classroom-Ready Astronomy Lesson Plans - scroll one-third of the way down the page to Sky Paths
11. Constellation Quiz - see how well you know the night sky
12. Earth & Sky - a clear voice for science
13. Field Guide to the Universe - Astronomers
14. History of Astronomy - hosted by the University of Bonn
15. Hubble Space Telescope's greatest hits - some of the best images from 1990-1995, plus links to other Hubble images.
16. Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone - excerpts from the PBS show
17. Mount Wilson Observatory - a virtual tour designed to give a visitor a feel for the observatory grounds and to present some of the history and heritage of Mount Wilson Observatory
18. Mount Wilson Observatory Association - The Mount Wilson Observatory Association (MWOA) is a volunteer organization supporting the Mount Wilson Observatory
19. Mysteries of Deep Space - from PBS Online
20. NASA - home page
21. National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides some useful links to astronomical on-line resources.
22. NOVA - an archive of past NOVA shows on the subject of space
23. Photo Gallery of the National Space Science Data Center
24. Plans for Building a Dobsonian Telescope - "If there were a million amateur astronomers with telescopes, and they were willing to let a few thousand people each look through their telescopes, there would be a chance for the people in the world who wanted to see to see." John Dobson
25. Plans for Building a Dobsonian Telescope - a 52 page document from San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers association
26. Sky & Telescope magazine - near the bottom of the page is a list of twelve interactive observing tools [free regsitration is required to use the tools]
27. Space Exploration History - There are things that are known and things that are unknown; in between is exploration. -Anonymous
28. Space Science Education Resource - from NASA
29. Space Telescope Science Institute - Astronomy resources, data archives and HST
30. StarChild - A Learning Center for Young Astronomers from NASA
31. Stargazing Guide - a handbook for night sky tour guides - four tours available; summer, autumn, winter and spring
32. Star Journey - based on National Geographic's popular map, "The Heavens"
33. Telescope Reviews - reviews of over 100 telescopes, eyepiece reviews, a beginner's advice column, feature articles, and lots more
34. Understanding the Universe - an exploration with the American Museum of Natural History at DiscoverySchool.com
35. Windows to the Universe - the site is written in three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels - levels may be chosen by using the upper button bar of each page of the main site
36. Yahoo Astronomy Directory - Over three dozen sub directories are listed
37. Your Sky - the interactive planetarium of the Web - maps for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location

Near Earth Astronomy

1. Analemma
   1. Analemma - Have you ever seen this figure-8 on a globe and wondered what it is? This set of pages will clear that up for you.
   1. Analemma Project - description of a year long project to capture the analemma
   2. Analemma Sundial Java Applet - interactive site
   3. Earth Analemma from APOD
   4. Figure Eight in the Sky - a new perspective on an old fascination
   5. Martian Analemma from APOD
   6. Paper Plate Education - description of how to conduct an analemma project
   7. Sunrise Analemma from APOD
   8. Viewing and Understanding the Analemma - from Stanford Solar Center
2. Asteroids: Deadly Impact - from National Geographic
3. Aurora
   1. The Aurora Page - Information, links and images about the "Northern Lights".
   2. Aurora Pictures - indexed by aurora seasons from 2000 to 2008
   3. Aurora: Shooting the Aurora Borealis - photography tips and some great pictures