K-12 Education WWW Servers

Educational Reform

• Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now!

K-12 Curricula/Instructional Materials

• K-12 Servers
• The EdWeb Project Home Page
• K-12World
• Classroom Connect Web Site
  • Welcome to NetSchool!
  • The Lab. Room 500 - Science and Math
  • A digest of past postings and more information about the Classroom Connect Mailing List.
  • Classroom Connect FTP Site includes teaching software, lessons plans, or the latest Internet navigation tools for Macintosh or Windows PCs.
• Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN)
• The Cisco Education Archive
• Web66: A K-12 World Wide Web Project
• Kids Web: A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids
• Doc's Education Resource Pages
• Web Sites and Resources for Teachers - resources for teachers and students, organized into subject areas and Just for Kids.
• EdCentral Web has several different collections of educationally-related Web sites.
• The Electronic Emissary: Bringing Together Students, Teachers, and Subject Matter Experts
• K-12 World: A Global Education Community features links to a wide variety of valuable educational sites for teachers and students.
• Busy Teacher's Web Site is a one-stop Internet site for teachers. Classroom Internet resources are grouped by subject area.
• C-EDRES - education-related Internet resources for K-12 educators.
• Fledge - McGraw-Hill Home Interactive's "safe zone" Web site for students ages 10 and older.
• Houghton Mifflin's education site - chock full of resources
• The Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) Educational Outreach Programs Home Page
• Institute for Learning Technologies
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Online

Science/Mathematics Education

• National Science Foundation WWW Server
• The Practical Uses of Math and Science Examples for Pre-College Education. Scientists help K-12 teachers enrich their presentation of math and science topics by contributing one-page examples based upon their interests and experience. All examples are peer-reviewed. Examples are currently being collected. It is anticipated that the site will be open to general users in Spring or Summer 1997, once the collection contains a number of entries. K-12 teachers (as well as scientists) are also needed now to serve in the pool of PUMAS reviewers. The online "Participant Volunteer/Update Form" can be found on the Navigation portion of the Help page, or from the hyperlink at the top of the PUMAS examples Search page.
• The SOLAR (Standards of Learning and Resources) Classroom. It's goal is to provide lesson plans--designed by teachers and tied to the Virginia SOLs. Lesson plans for grades 3-6 mathematics are currently available.
• NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project. The National Science Teacher's Association and its Scope, Sequence & Coordination website offers science educators and science enthusiasts hundreds of curricular resources derived from A Framework for High School Science Education, an NSTA Publication.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• The GLOBE Program: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
• Global Quest
• The CoVis Project
• CoVis - The Weather Unit (Cross-Curricular Weather-Related Elementary Activities)
• Kids as Global Scientists
• Project Skymath
• Beverly Lynds' (Director, Project Skymath) Favorite URLs
• Bill Nye the Science Guy's Home Page
• Science Friday Kids Connection - fun science experiments
• You Can with Beakman and Jax - science for kids
• SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources - a set of links to science and mathematics Web sites.
• Achieving the Goals--Goal 5: First in the World in Math and Science. Technology Resources.
• Challenger Center Online - Challenger Center for Space Science Education
• The Global Lab Curriculum (TERC)

Instructional Technology

• Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection. The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has released a report describing the issues surrounding the use of new technologies in the classroom and the importance of support to teachers.
• Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) - local affiliate of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Tech Corps. Tech Corps is a non-profit, volunteer organization designed to assist K-12 schools in introducing and integrating new technologies into education.
• U.S. Dept. of Education Technology Initiatives. A page of reports, grants, and other information.
• National Center for Technology Planning. A repository of technology plans maintained at Mississippi State University.
• National Center for Technology Planning
• Cyberhunt--The Search is Online. This online scavenger hunt helps you get more out of your time on the Internet.
• NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
• NASA's Classroom of the Future
• Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) Research

Gender Equity Resources

• Camp T-Equity - A Technology-Immersion Summer Day Camp for Girls
• GirlTECH
• Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics (EYH) Conference (for middle school girls)
• Women of NASA
• Expect the Best from a Girl... - The Women's College Coalition
• The Ada Project - Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computing
• NPAC Education Programs
• JUST FOR THE RIDE
• gURLs
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Cynthia Lanius - Variety of online resources re girls and science, mathematics, and technology.
• Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at the National Research Council (NRC)
• The ElectraPages: Online Directory of Women's Organizations

Virtual Museums

• The Smithsonian Institution
• Science Learning Network - a collaborative initiative of several museums.
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum
• The Tech Museum of Innovation - online interactive museum

Electronic Media (Radio & Television, Books & Periodicals)

• Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing)
• Public Broadcasting System (PBS) ONLINE
• MSNBC
• CNN Interactive (Cable News Network Online)
• USA TODAY
• USA Today Classline has lesson plans for using news in the classroom and a reporter ready for student interaction.
• The Washington Post Online
• The New York Times on the Web
• Scholastic Central
  • Electronic Learning Magazine
• National Geographic Online including lots of pictures and articles.
• National Geographic Online for Kids. Adventures include "Towers of Nature: Tornadoes," where kids track tornadoes; a daily GeoBee Quiz; contests; photography exhibits; and off-line experiments and moderated discussions with scientists, explorers, and photographers. Lesson plans correlate the fun with the school curriculum.
• Discover Magazine's School Science Programs
• SyllabusWeb magazine
• Visit MIT's Media Lab and explore its advanced research into a broad range of technologies including digital TV, computer music and vision, electronic publishing, artificial intelligence, and education-related technologies.

• Using First Class Client - Table of Contents (online User's Manual)
• The FCPS Web Services Page (how to obtain a curator account)
• Find out more about economical videoconferencing using the Connectix QuickCam.

Miscellaneous Resources

• Apple Computer
  • Apple Computer
  • Apple Education
• Kodak Imaging Science
  • Enhancing Learning through Imaging
  • Lesson Plans
  • Teacher's Showcase
• Team Labs Personal Science Laboratory (PSL)

Walter Sanford, WebMaster
Geosystems in Fairfax County Public Schools
Internet: wsanford@wsanford.com