General Resources

• Alphabet Superhighway - Includes help resources, traveling tutor, exhibit hall, and more.

• Answers.com - A free all-inclusive one-stop center for teachers, librarians, students and parents for quick explanations, definitions, translations and facts. It contains over 3 million topics.

• Assignment: The World - Activities, timelines and more.

• bigchalk, the Education Network - Help with book reports, math & science projects, oral presentations and reading fun.

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• Celebration of Teaching and Learning - This website, from the NYSED Office of Cultural Education, consists of material about and online access to cultural resources.

• Discovery School.com - Homework help and more.

• Family Education Network - Homework & test help and information for college bound students.

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) - In 1997, more than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.

• flight-history.com - Aviation history resources & archives.

• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) - The Gateway to Educational Materials^SM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

• HomeworkCentral - Study & resource help.

• Homework Hotline - Study guides, homework tips, homework helper and more.

• Homework Planet - Study tools & student resources.

• Nationalgeographic.com kids - Homework help

• National Geographic Online - A boarding pass to world wide travel, National Geographic Magazine, World Magazine, Map Machine, and Hot Spots.

• National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) - This site contains links to Internet & multimedia resources.

• NASA Quest - Dedicated to bringing NASA people, space & science to classrooms through the Internet.

• PBS Kids - Games, stories, music and coloring.

• Peace Corps - World Wise Schools

• Smithsonian Institution - Links to all Smithsonian web sites including museums and organizations, traveling exhibits, activities, events and resources.

• Smithsonian Institution for Kids - Fun online stuff

• TeachersCount - Potential teachers can read through the advantages of becoming a teacher as well as learn about the process of entering the profession.

• US Department of Education - Information about learning resources, and preparing for the future.

• US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - This site has background on birds, details on dinosaurs, and resources on rivers or railroads.

• US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Middle school & high school students can go here to explore a wide range of environmental issues.

• US Geological Survey (USGS) - Site includes project ideas, homework help, and research tools.

• US National Archives & Record Administration - Digital Classroom

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