Categories of "Exemplary" Online Educational Resources

Trey Martindale, Ward Cates, and Yufeng Qian, 2003

Category 1 Instructional

Addison Wesley Longman Internet Projects

http://hepg.awl.com/weiss/e_iprojects/index.htm

Amazon interactive

http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

Amusement park physics

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/index.html

Anthropology tutorials http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/

A. Pintura, Art Detective

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura

A virtual journey into the universe

http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/

Chem4Kids

http://www.chem4kids.com

Cool science for curious kids

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html

Conflict Yellowstone wolves

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/mtr/
ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm

Einstein revealed

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

Exploring Leonardo

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo

Figure this!

http://www.figurethis.org/index40.htm

For kids only

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/

Genetic science learning center

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/

Geo Mysteries

http://www.childrensmuseum.org/
geomysteries/index2.html

Great Economists and Their Times

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/education/
unfrmd.great/greattimes.html

Headbone Derby

http://www.headbone.com/derby/

Infection detection protection

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/

Inside Art

http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html

Internet Plasma Physics Education

http://ippex.pppl.gov/

Japanese math

http://www.japanese-online.com/math/

Kids at National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Learn Physics Today

http://library.advanced.org/10796

Merriam-Webster Word Central

http://www.wordcentral.com

Microbe World

http://www.microbeworld.org/

Microscopy Primer

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/primer.html

NASA is my playground

http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html

Neuroscience for Kids

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

Oceanography

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/

Process of science activities

http://heg-school.awl.com/bc/companion/
cmr2e/activity/toc.htm

Online National Budget Simulation

http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html

Shape and space in geometry

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/geometry

Science fun with airplanes

http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~flight/

StarChild

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/
StarChild/StarChild.html

The Biology Project

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

http://www.yucky.com/

Venture into Hawaii's coral reefs

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002237/

Water on the Web

http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/index.html

Why is the sky dark at night?

http://www.arachnoid.com/sky/index.html

Writing Den

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den

Category 2 Content Collection

Archimedes and the Crown

http://www.escape.ca/~dcc/eureka/crown.html

A tapestry of time and terrain

http://tapestry.wr.usgs.gov/Default.html

Auto Factory Tour

http://www.ipl.org/auto

Backyard Birding

http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/by/feed.html#0

Big Bend National Park

http://geoweb.tamu.edu/faculty/herbert/bigbend/

Butterflies of North America

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/usa/718.htm

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

http://www.carolhurst.com/

Chemicool periodic table

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/

Children's Music Web

http://www.childrensmusic.org

Common cold

http://www.commoncold.org/

Earth science explorer

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/explorer.html

Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center (CHLC)

http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Crayon

http://crayon.net/

Embryo images

http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/

Enchanted learning

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

EPA Office of Ground Water and
Drinking Water, Kids' Stuff

http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/

Find out why

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/fow/start.htm

Forensic science web pages

http://users.aol.com/murrk/index.htm

GeneLetter

http://www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/index.epl

Guided Tour: Visible Human Project

http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH

Human Genome Project Information

http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html

Imagine the universe

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/

InnerBody

http://www.InnerBody.com

Justice for Kids and Youth

http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage

Kids Connect

http://www.ala.org/ICONN/kctools.html

Kids Health for Kids

http://kidshealth.org/kid/

KinderGarden

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm

Live Internet Seismic Server (LISS)

http://www.liss.org/

Lewis and Clark

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark

Mars Exploration Program

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Microbe Zoo

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/

MidLink Magazine

http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

http://www.nbii.gov/index.html

Native American Indian Resources

http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/mainmenu.html

PhysLINK.com

http://www.physlink.com/

Que tal in the current sky

http://currentsky.com/

Renewable Energy Project

http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/dcastle/renew.html

Science Learning Network

http://www.sln.org

Seeds of Change

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden/

Six billion and beyond

http://www.pbs.org/sixbillion/

Spanish Missions of California

http://tqd.advanced.org/3615

The @rt –room

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html

The Civil War Homepage

http://www.civil-war.net

The First Ladies of the United States of America

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/firstladies.html

The Oregon Trail

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

The Stream Study

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla/Stream-Study/StreamStudyHomePage/StreamStudy.HTML

The White House for Kids

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/

The European Middle Ages

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MA/MA.HTM

USDA for kids

http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html

Vectors

http://mathforum.org/~klotz/Vectors/index.html

webTeacher

http://www.webteacher.org/

Category 3 Research/Archive/News/Database

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov

Ask Dr. Math

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html

AskERIC Virtual Library

http://askeric.org/Virtual/

Ask Jeeves for Kids

http://www.ajkids.com/

eNature.com online field guides

http://www.enature.com/

Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

On-line English Grammar

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/

Researchpaper.com

http://www.researchpaper.com

The Gateway to Educational Materials

http://www.thegateway.org/

The last word science questions and answers

http://www.last-word.com/

The MAD Scientist Network

http://www.madsci.org

Virtual Galapagos

http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/

WestWeb

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb

WWWebster Dictionary

http://www.m-w.com/netdic.htm

Category 4 Learning activities

Creative Java puzzles

http://enchantedmind.com/newjava.htm

Colorful mathematics

http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/~laf/colorful.html

ExploreMath.com

http://www.exploremath.com/index.cfm

ExploreScience.com

http://www.explorescience.com/

Funbrain.com

http://www.funbrain.com/index.html

Gallery of Interactive Geometry

http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html

Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles

http://www.cut-the-knot.com/

Let's count

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/counting/

Megamaths tables

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/megamaths/

MSTE Java

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/java/default.html

Physics and Calculus Problems of the Week

http://www.kent.wednet.edu/pcpow/

Visual fractions

http://www.visualfractions.com/

Virtual labs and simulations

http://home.stlnet.com/~grichert/applets.html

Category 5 List of links

Civil War Page

http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

Digital Librarian: Languages

http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/languages.html

European Renaissance

http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/rena.html

General Certificate of Secondary Education (G.C.S.E.)

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~drayner/indexgcse.htm

HEALTHwindows for kids!

http://www.healthwindows.org/wysk.asp

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

K-12 Africa Guide

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

K-12 Resources for Music Educators

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

Science Learning Network

http://www.sln.org

The American Civil War Home Page

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war

The Children's Literature Web Guide

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown

The Electronic Zoo

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

The World of Viking

http://www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/index.html

Category 6 Teacher Resource

Census in schools

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/schindex.htm

Cody's science education zone

http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/~acody/

Education at National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/

Geometry through art

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~sarah/shapiro/shapiro.introduction.html

Human Genome Program

http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/

Illuminations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Lessons by Susan Boone

http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/sboone/Lessons/lptitle.html

MathPARTERS

http://www2.edc.org/mathpartners/

MathStories.com

http://www.mathstories.com/

Mega-Math

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

One Sky, many Voices

http://www.onesky.umich.edu/

Project LABS

http://www.rohmhaas.com/company/plabs.dir/index.html

Science NetLinks

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/index.html

Sea urchin embryology

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/

Space food and nutrition

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/products/Space.Food.and.Nutrition/

Take Off!

http://www.mcet.edu/nasa

The home page of Peggy E. Schweiger

http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/pschweig/index.html

The potential consequences of climate variability and change

http://www.strategies.org/climate.html

The reality of change

http://www.enc.org/topics/change/

Thursday's classroom

http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/

Tools for understanding

http://www.ups.edu/community/tofu/

Your timesavers, the best lessons

http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/origlessons/index.html

Wonderful world of weather

http://216.0.165.241/curriculum/weatherproj/

Category 7 Vicarious Participation

Discover America Through Postcards

http://www.postcardsfrom.com

Explore the estuary live on the Web

http://www.estuarylive.org/

Extreme 2000

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/

Jason Project

http://www.jasonproject.org/

Mars Team Online

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/

MathStories.com

http://www.mathstories.com/

Operation RubyThroat

http://www.rubythroat.org/

Space Day

http://www.spaceday.com/

The Telegarden

http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden

Category 8 Research/Curriculum Project Online

Rural and Urban Images

http://www.ael.org/nsf/voices/index.htm

The Elephants of Cameroon

http://www.nczooeletrack.org/

Category 9 Personal Expression and Interpersonal
Interaction (PEII)

Cyberkids

http://www.cyberkids.com/

Kids Space

http://www.kids-space.org/

Category 10 Informal Education

America's Homepage: Plymouth, MA

http://www.media3.net/plymouth

Colonial Williamsburg

http://www.history.org

Edison National Historic Site Home Page

http://www.nps.gov/edis/home.htm

Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html

Louvre Online

http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm

Miami Museum of Science

http://www.miamisci.org

Missouri Botanical Gardens: MBGnet Home

http://www.mobot.org/

Museum of Science, Boston

http://www.mos.org

St.Louis Science Center

http://www.slsc.org

The Franklin Institute

http://sln.fi.edu/

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

http://mfah.org/

Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy

http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~kunkel

Helaman Ferguson sculpture

http://www.helasculpt.com/

Ocean Planet Home Page

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

Quarks to quasars

http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm

Solar Max 2000

http://www.solarmax2000.com/

The geometry of war, 1500-1750

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/title.htm

Webmuseum, Paris

http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/

Category 11 Research of Not-For-Profit Organization

Chandra X-ray Observatory Center

http://chandra.harvard.edu/

Invention dimension

http://web.mit.edu/invent/

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/

NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

U.S. Geological Survey

http://www.usgs.gov

Yale Center for Cell Imaging

http://info.med.yale.edu/cellimg/

Category 12 Commercial

CNN Interactive

http://www.cnn.com/

Discovery Kids

http://kids.discovery.com/KIDS/home.html

Disney.com

http://www.disney.com

Foreign Language For Travelers

http://www.travlang.com/languages/

Ink Spot

HTTP://www1.xlibris.com/

National geographic society

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

SurfMonkey Kids Channel

http://www.surfmonkey.com/

U.S. Space Camp

http://www.spacecamp.com

Category 13 Sites Not Found

African American History

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/usa/Afro-Amer

Canada Museum

http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/cmc/cmceng/childeng.html

Civil War World Wide Web

http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/cw.html

CNPS Kids

http://www.calpoly.edu/~dchippin/kids1.html

Cool Science of the Day

http://www.cool-fact.com/

Galapagosquest

http://www.galapagosquest.com

Gallery of Interactive Geometry

http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html

Medical ethics

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/medicalethics/

Montcalm and Wolfe

http://www.kiva.net/~gorham/wolfe.html

SuperFamily.com

http://www.superfamily.com/

Take Off!

http://www.mcet.edu/nasa

The ABsurd MAth odyssey

http://www.learningwave.com/abmath/

Three acres of Houston

http://www.houston.org/

Virtual Cave

http://www.goodearth.com/virtcave.html

Virtual labs and simulations

http://home.stlnet.com/~grichert/applets.html

Want this job? Do your math!

http://www.futures-careers.org/wantthisjob/slideshow.html

Category 14 Duplicated Sites

Figure this (twice)

http://www.figurethis.org/index40.html

Explore Science (twice)

http://www.explorescience.com