Enhancing Lessons

First-Steps

Bookmark Favorite Sites

Daily, weekly, or during special events have student report updates from content-specific sites, problem of the day sites, news sites.m N c e There are many daily/weekly sites: Math problem of the week, Today in history, Quotation of the day, Word of the day, Picture of the day, Rainy day publishing, Daily newspaper, Daily Almanac, Daily weather, Today in science, Geography quiz

Post URLs on calendar for annual activities/events

Check How Stuff Works

Research content-specific software

Check with online subject experts

Databases

http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/

Animals 

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/

Dinosaurs

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/dinobase/dinopage.html

Earth Images 

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Maps

http://www.mapquest.com/

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/ (topo/aerial)

http://www.multimap.com/

News

http://pppp.net/links/news/

Newspapers

http://library.uncg.edu/news/

http://www.newspapers.com/

Photos

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov  (select Images)

http://www.pics4learning.com/

http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/image.htm/

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Sounds

http://www.findsounds.com/ (claims kidsafe)

http://acm.cse.msu.edu/~stroheck/kids-mid.htm  (kids)

http://www.yahooligans.com

http://acm.cse.msu.edu/~stroheck/kids-mid.htm

http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm

Communicating with peers (keypals)

http://www.epals.com/

http://www.teaching.com/keypals/

Communicating with experts (ask the expert)

http://www.cln.org/int_expert.html

http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html

General Reference

Reference links:  http://www.barth.lib.in.us/RefLink.html

Reference material (search "education reference" or "reference")

http://www surfpoint.com/Education_Reference/K_12_Programs/

http://www.ipl.org/ref/

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Reference.html

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

http://www.dictionary.com

Glossaries

http://www.jump.net/~fdietz/glossary.htm

Homework/Study guides/Links/Activities

http://www.studyweb.com/

http://www.homework-online.com/

Great sites list

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html