Duke of Edinburgh Public School

DBE Bookmarks

Virtual Reference Desk

This is the reference section of your library.

Information Services

Government

Canadian

Government of Canada

Government of Ontario

Hansard: Debates of the House of Commons of Canada

InterGov On-Line Information Kiosk

Statistics Canada

International

Central Intelligence Agency Home Page

U.S. Bureau of the Census

United Nations

Welcome To The White House

Libraries around the World

Traditional Libraries

Bodleian Library WWW Server (Oxford, U.K.)

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress site - the official American depository of publications.

National Library of Canada

Portico: The British Library On-Line

Special Libraries Association: Toronto Chapter. Members' Sitings -- News (journals, papers, wires)

The New York Public Library Home Page

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Virtual Libraries

Kids Web - A WWW Digital Library for Schoolkids

Multicultural

Wealth of resource on many countries-- maps, facts, photos, trips, etc.

The Internet Services List

Welcome to Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore

Welcome to UnCoverWeb!

World-Wide Web Virtual Library

Media Sites

Magazines

BYTE Magazine

Discover

Ecola: Newsstand

Economist (U.K.)

Education, Technology, Information, Virtual Museums, Oldies & Goodies, Planning, Staff Development, Consulting, ZINE, Poetry, Electronic Publishing, Futures, Site-Based Decisions, Parents, Kids, Parenting, Gallery

Maclean's

An on-line version of the weekly newsmagazine

Maclean's Magazine (Canada)

Money Magazine

National Geographic - Main Page

Travel with National Geographic to exotic places- past, present, and future.

PC Computing

PC Magazine

PC MAGAZINE on the Web

PC WORLD Online

PC/COMPUTING magazine

The Electronic Newsstand

Newspapers

Canadian

Canada NewsWire Ltd.

Durham News

Financial Post

Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Internet Services

Metroland Community Newspapers

Community weekly or semi-weekly newspapers that provide community information for the GTA

Ottawa Citizen

Southam Newspapers in Canada

National site for Southam's ten daily newspapers

The Toronto Sun (Toronto)

Torstar Electronic Publishing Ltd. - Front Page

Weekly Review of Canadian News Coverage

A weekly summary of Canadian news stories, compiled by the Canadian Press Office in Washington, DC

International

Associated Press

Chicago Tribune

E&P Directory of Online Newspapers

Ecola: Newsstand

New York Times

San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner

San Jose Mercury News

Straits Times Interactive Home Page

The Comic Strip ®

TimesFax

USA Today

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post (Washington, U.S.)

Television

CBC Newsworld OnLine (Canada)

CCN NewsNet Home Page

CNN Interactive (U.S.)

Turner Broadcasting

Museums

Canadian

Canadian Heritage Information Network

Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation home page

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Take a virtual tour to Kleinberg, the official home of Canada's famous Group of Seven.

Royal Ontario Museum - Home Page

Welcome to the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC)

Tour the galleries at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Included are First Nations, Children's Museum, Postal History of Canda and other tours. Join the Museum online at no cost and access its virtual tour.

International

Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations

All you ever wanted to know about the United Nations. A PBS Site

Global Show-n-Tell Museum Wings

Hands On Children's Museum

History of Science Museum - Florence Italy

IMSS - Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence Italy

Natural History Museum (London, U.K.)

Research Exchange with PIN

The Exploratorium is a museum of science

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits. Each year more than 660,000 visitors come to the Exploratorium, over 67,000 children come on field trips, and more than 500 teachers attend professional development programs which focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning in the K-12 classroom.

The Smithsonian Institution Home Page

Internet Searching

Documentation of Online Resources

APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet

Classroom Connect: REVISED How to Cite Internet Resources (10/96)

Guides & Indexes

A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines

Canadian WWW Central Index

Deja News - Power Search Form

Free-Nets & Community Networks

Hints & Tips for Searching the Internet

Introduction to Boolean Searching

Road Map to the Internet - Index

Good Internet Sites from the Technological Horizons in Education Magazine.

Scott's Internet Hot List

Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques

The Guide to Searching the Internet

The Search Is Over

Search Engines

AltaVista Technology

Classroom Connect Search Page

Excite Home

Four11 Online User Directory

HealthGate - Free MEDLINE

HotBot

Infoseek

Infoseek Ultra

Lycos Internet Directory

Net Search

Netscape's Net Search feature-- an excellent starting point.

NLN - Search Engine - written in Java

This search engine is powerful but it takes time to learn.

Open Text Index - Power Search

Point

ProFusion

Real-Time Magellan Searches

Search.com

Web Search Cheat Sheet

Web Search Using Swish

WebCrawler Searching

Welcome to Magellan!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Canada

Yahooligans!

Kids' version of Yahoo. A safe and interesting site.

Reference Tools

Ask Questions on the Internet

Ask a Volcanologist

We have tried to think of all sorts of neat things to show you about volcanoes, but we aren't smart enough to think of everything. So, this is your chance to ask us anything about volcanoes that you want. The people who will answer are Scott Rowland in Hawaii, Chuck Wood and Steve Mattox in North Dakota, and if we get stumped, other volcano experts from around the world.

Ask Shamu a question about marine life. Just type in your question and E-Mail it.

As far as we know, nobody has ever stumped the Harkster with any question concerning the geography of Canada.

How's the weather, Harold? - This is your chance to have a weather question answered by an expert. Just an E-Mail away!

Corporate Sponsored

555-1212.com

AJR NewsLink

Ancestry Search-the #1 Genealogy Site on the Internet

Start here is you are a budding genealogist.

This is the animal information database at Sea World. It contains many useful links to animals. It is a commercial site that is updated often.

Free MEDLINE- The official medial database.

An online dictionary and glossary where searches can be limited by topic or term.

An old favourite - online.

A commercial service for searching full text articles and pictures. Worth the $9.95 cost per month. You can try the service for a short period for free.

Goverment Sponsored

Canadiana -- The Canadian Resource Page

CIA Publications (Including the CIA World Fact Book)

Latest release from the CPI

Library of Congress Home Page

National Atlas on Schoolnet/L'Atlas national sur le Rescol canadien

Other National Government on the Internet - Reseignements d'autres gouvernements nationaux

Contains gov't files and info for a number of countries. Part of the opengov site sponsored by Industry Canada

Company Information, Business Information by Sector provided by Industry Canada

Ontario's official web page

Independent

Dictionary of Computing Contents

My Virtual Reference Desk - Virtual Facts on File

References at a glance on a wide variety of subjects.

University Sponsored

Bartleby Library: Columbia University

Bible Browser Basic Home Page

Crossword and Scrambled Word Solver - Jumble!

If you're like me, the scrambled words and crossword puzzles in the newspaper are an exercise in frustration tolerance. No longer! Let the computer do the work!

Education Sites

A list of sites with excellent curricular potential for professional and classroom application including educational, commercial, governmental, & organizational origins.

Administration

Acceptable Use Policy Ideas

Going Online in School

Helpful hints for child safety, parental involvement, and links to good AUP's.

How to setup Internet Explorer to prevent access to non-registered sites. This technique is not foolproof but is useful as a preventitive measure.

Good site for privacy, parental empowerment, intellectual property rights and issues surrounding use of the Internet. Project OPEN is a partnership of the Interactive Services Association, the National Consumers League and leading online and Internet companies to help consumers get the most out of going online.

Lots of links to Acceptable Use Policies in American and Canadian schools

Corporate

Berit's Best Sites For Children

List of Best Sites for Children! Each site has been carefully selected, reviewed and given a rating out of 5.

A great educational site for teachers that are interested in finding out more about the Internet and how they can use it with their students. - American Site

American Education's Online Newspaper of Record - Details of Education this week.

A great site for educational topics on the Internet

A good starting point for Education Links

Their mission is to inform educators about the challenges that they will face in a changing world and steps they can take to meet these challenges.

IBM's site for educators. Lots of interesting reading and ideas.

This site provides you with leadership through the latest products in technology education, commitment to serving your needs and providing you with new ideas.

A great list of educational resources

Durham Board of Education Curriculum

Intermediate Curriculum Links on the Internet

Compiled by Joan Bowness - Library Media Facilitator

Geography

Sites with generalized geographic info.

Grade 7 - Patterns in Physical Geography

The DBE Grade 7 Geography Curriculum

Environments in the News

Relief

The Canadian Red Cross Society - an international relief agency for victims of natural disasters, wars, etc.

Yahoo's Natural Disasters Category provides many links to sites with information on volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc. as well as disaster relief agencies

Fragile Environments

TP Lesson Plan Category: Environment

Some good ideas for local environmental issues which students could address in their communities.

Ready-made lesson plans on environmental issues associated with water

A fragile environment: Yahoo's oceanography topic page with many links to specific topics.

Yahoo's ecosystems category links students to topics dealing with deserts, oceans, rainforests, wetlands, etc.

Our Community is Unique

LINKS TO SITES WITH OTHER INFORMATION ON THE OAK RIDGES MORAINE

Lots of information on the Oak Ridge Moraine, a major geological feature of Durham Region

Ready-made lesson plans associated with community studies and local issues

Resources

City.Net Argentina

Travel to Australia via City.net

City.net's Queensland site

Travel to New Zealand via City.net

All you really wanted to know about gauchos : their real working lives and their romanticized lives.

River Systems

Index of /natzoo/zooview/exhibits/amazonia/slideshw/

View a series of slides of Amazonia, the area of the Amazon River Basin

World Patterns in Physical Geography

CCRC/GRG's Weather & Satellite Page

Links to various weather maps, television channels, weather satellites, etc.

Learn all about volcanoes around the world, including up-to-the-minute data on current eruptions. .

Take a trip down the Mackenzie River with people who travelled and recorded their adventures.

Images and links to other information regarding Continental Drift Theory

A science experiment, including a diagram of the hydrological cycle

Ready-made lessons plans on the topic of weather

A brief article discussing environmental changes caused by volcanoes

Excellent lessons and projects, at varying levels of expertise and interaction, for students from Grades 6 to 12 on meteorology

Yahoo's hydrology site with links to other water table/hydrological information

Yahoo's meteorology site with excellent links to other resources

Grade 8 - Patterns of Human Geography

The Grade 8 DBE Geography Curriculum

Manufacturing

History of Honda Motor Co., LTD

A history of the Honda Motor Company's world-wide operations

Honda's history, including a listing of the products it has produced over the years

This trade organization advertises the benefits of trade with Japan.

A listing of major employers in Durham Region.

Migration & Mobility

Canadian Legislation and Policy for Refugees, Immigration and Citizenship

Ethnologue Database, by Language Family

Organizes all world language according to language families by geographic regions

Patterns of Our Communty

Durham InfoNET - Durham Region, Ontario, Canada

Home page of DurhamNet with many links to tourism, entertainment, municipal, educational, and other information within the region.

Official page for Durham Region with current information on departments, municipalities, etc.. Good links to each topic.

People in Transition

Aboriginal Peoples of North America

A listing of North American aboriginal peoples

Official Language statistics for Canada in 1991, including ALL first nation languages

A simulation game with good ideas for enacting life in the future, using the people in transition theme

The establishment of Nunavut in northern Canada will give the Inuit control of their ancestral homelands.

An excellent source for Native Canadian information on the Yahoo search engine.

Tourism

Caribbean Environmental Travel Contacts

Eco-tourism links in Caribbean, Central and South America

Official tourism site for Costa Rica which includes maps, activities, sites, etc.

Be an armchair tourist and travel around the world - with a computer and a mouse

An official Tourism Barbados site

Jamaica has been voted a top tourist destination. This is an official Tourism Jamaica site

Travel in Canada via Yahoo.

World Patterns in Human Geography

My Virtual Reference Desk - Virtual Facts on File - World Religion Resources

Virtual facts on most of the world's major religions.

Information, history, activies, and helpful hits for many world languages.

Information on Religions, culture, languages, people, politics, etc.

Geographic, demographic, economic, statistics of countries around the world --- and much more. An excellent reference site.

History

History - Grade 7

Community of New France

1755 - THE ACADIANS (3:20)

Information about the Acadians, including a movie clip.

Information on French Canadian farm life along the St. Lawrence river under the seigneurial system.

An official Parks Canada presentation in both English & French. Includes the fortress of Louisbourg as part of a larger presentation on Cape Breton

Research biographic information on many of the personalities associated with French Canadian history including such notables as Brebeuf, Frontenac, Champlain, etc.

Images of a large number of Canadian history sites for the pre 1760 period.
Note: These are .gif files so are slow to load.

A guided tour of Quebec City, including Place Royale, Lower Town, Winter Carnaval, etc.

Community of Upper Canada

1791 - CANADA ACT (1:36)

An excellent overview of Upper Canada, the province created by the Canada Act of 1791. Links to other topics such as Governor Simcoe, government, etc.

United Empire Loyalists begin to arrive in Canada as a result of the American Revolution

A video of Black Creek Pioneer Village with links to other Canadian historical sites.

An official Governement of Ontario site with links to other appropriate information

A series of videos on history topics prior to 1867.
Distributed by Douglas & McIntyre

A log cabin, sitting in present-day Scarborough

The site of the Glengarry Light Infantry

Local History

Canadian Genealogy and History Links

My Virtual Reference Desk - Virtual Facts on File - Genealogy Resources

Native Communities

Brebeuf's Instructions to the Missionaries

Father Brebeuf gives instructions to his missionary friends on the proper way to interact with the Huron people.

A comprehensive site featuring links to a wide variety of Canadian Indian and Inuit resources, all divided by geographic regions

An early history of the Huronia peoples.

A description of the fort build by the French missionaries and traders in Midland, ON.

SchoolNet's First Nations section contains a wealth of information and links to other sites.

History - Grade 8

Canada: A Changing Society

Strictly Canadian content

Yahoo! Canada

Conflict and Change

History: The rebellion of 1837

Shaping the Nation

British North America, 1866

A description of Upper & Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick prior to Confederation

Canada adds a province

George Brown, from Upper Canada describes the city from his viewpoint

The historic building in Charlottetown where Confederation was born

The Act whereby Canada was declared a nation within the British Commonwealth

Painting and biographical sketches of each of the Fathers of Confederation

Biographical sketches of the wifes of the Fathers of Confederation

Resolutions from the pre-conference that led to the Charlottetown Conference

The Nation Expands

GHOSTS OF THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH - Home Page

Graphics, a quote by Pierre Berton and links to other Klondike information make this a useful site

Imagese, stories, and poetry from the Klondike gold rush

Junior Curriculum Links on the Internet

Compiled by Bob Lamb - Computer Facilitator

Grade 4

Environmental Studies

Astronomy

Aeronautics Activities

AIR&SPACE Magazine

Astronomy Site of the Day

Astronomy WWW Sites

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet

Canadian Space Contributions

CEPS/NASM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Garbo Astronomy image collection

Hubble Space Telescope

NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection

NASA Langley Research Center NASA Online

NASA Space Shuttle Web Archives

NASA Spacelink

NASA Teacher Resource Center Activities

NASA Thesaurus

NASA/Kennedy Space Center Home Page

Kennedy Space Center Home Page

NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM HOMEPAGE

Nerd World : ASTRONOMY

PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE - THE SOLAR SYSTEM

SKY Online - Sky Publishing Corporation

THE BEST of ASTRONOMY INTERNET SITES!

The Galaxy Page

The NASA Homepage

The Nine Planets

Views of the Solar System

Welcome to the Planets

Fruits & Seeds

Dandelion - Science Museum of Minnesota

Experiments

Investigating seed germination.

Seeds of Life

Seeds of Life - Links

Light & Colour

Fish Tank Optics

Classroom activitiees and experimentation procedures for elementary students

A collection of physical science lessons and activities for elementary students.

A UK source which features many science-related activites. This bookmark focuses on many exploratory activities related to light.

Mapping Unit

MAP MAKING - THE UPS AND DOWNS

Ready-made lesson plans for map-making units.

Medieval Community

Castle on the Web

Middle Ages

Middle Ages Internet Links

Mountain Community

: A2Z : The World : Countries & Continents : Europe : Switzerland

Lycos' main Switzerland site, featuring links to many other sources of Swiss information.

Features 8 downloadable jpg images of Swiss scenery.

Links to many other sources of general and specific Swiss information, including Yahoo's guide to Switzerland. Multi-lingual access in the general information section.

Tropical Rainforest

Environment School Kit

Rainforest Workshop Educational Resources

Rainforest Workshop Educational Resources

SAVE THE RAINFORESTS!

SAVE THE RAINFORESTS!

THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST CONSERVATION SOCIETY

THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST CONSERVATION SOCIETY

Tropical Rainforest

Tropical Rainforest

Tropical Rainforest - Science Museum of Minnesota

Tropical Rainforest - Science Museum of Minnesota

Welcome to the Rainforest Action Network Home Page

Welcome to the Rainforest Action Network Home Page

What's New! - Rainforest News

What's New! - Rainforest News

Grade 5

Environmental Studies

Brazil

Cultural Aspects and Community

Insects

Betty's Site

Betty's Site - For Bug Questions

Ask an online expert your bug questions.

Machines

The Usefulness of Simple Machines

Mapping Unit

Nerd World : MAPS

Mexico

City.Net Mexico Categories

Indigenous Peoples of Mexico

Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel Mexico Travel

Nerd World : TRAVEL - MEXICO

The Mexico Travel Guide

New England

Whale Links

Weather

: A2Z : Science & Technology : Meteorology

: A2Z : Science & Technology : Meteorology

GLOBE Science Protocols

Interactive Activities for Students on:
Atmosphere/Climate
Hydrology
Biology/Geology

Interactive Activities for Students on:
Atmosphere/Climate
Hydrology
Biology/Geology

Interactive Reports from Weather Stations in USA, Canada, Mexico, & Cuba

Interactive Reports from Weather Stations in USA, Canada, Mexico, & Cuba

The largest data centre in the world for climactic information

The largest data centre in the world for climactic information

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (weather services; climatic prediction, satellite information, etc.)

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (weather services; climatic prediction, satellite information, etc.)

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois

This area contains a comprehensive collection of the meteorological data, information, and image sites around the
globe. These sites contain products disseminated by, or derived from data from the NWS and other world weather
organizations.

Real-Time Weather Data

Real-Time Weather Data

Information on Natural Disasters

Grade 6

Environmental Studies

Ancient Civilizations

King Tut

Artifacts found in Kin Tut's tomb in 1922. Links from the photographs to other information.

Australia

About Australia! - It's all here.

City.Net Australia Categories

The Australian Travel Information Exchange

Welcome to Australia Online!australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia

Japan

City.Net Japan Categories

Japanese Information

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

Kid's Window on Japan

Mapping Unit

Nerd World : MAPS

Rocks and Minerals

Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery

Rockhounds Information Page

US Geological Survey: Ask-A-Geologist

As a geologist a question about minerals or rocks.

Sound

NH K-6 Science Curriculum Addendum - TABLE OF CONTENTS

Trees

Primary Curriculum Links on the Internet

Compiled by Laurel Galt - Instructional Facilitator

"Learning Train"

Children's Pages at WombatNet

Excite Reviews: Life & Style

Grade 1

Environmental Studies

All About Me

5 Senses

C_3: PARENTING: APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES , Self-Esteem

THE FIVE SENSES

Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

WORKSHOPS ON DEVELOPING SELF-ESTEEM IN CHILDREN

Cover-Ups

Cyber-Pet

Elementary Particles: What Do Bears Do?

ZooNet for Kids

ZooNet Kids at the Discovery Zoo

Exploring My Neighbourhood

Moving About

Animals Adapt to Land: Amphibians (ep2937g)

Cyber-Pet

Elementary Particles: What Do Bears Do?

How Animals Move

The NASA Homepage

ZooNet for Kids

ZooNet Kids at the Discovery Zoo

Special Days

The Month of Tishri

Structures

Grade 2

All Kinds Of Jobs

Careers

I Want To Be A Veterinarian

I Want To Be An Attorney

MN/Dot Office of Aeronautics

When I Grow Up: Page 2

Families

Fun With Food

Food Family and Fun

Food Fun For Kids

Fun things to do w/ your food

Native Wild Animals

Cyber-Pet

National Wildlife Federation -- Education, Teacher Resource

Pittsburgh Zoo - Wildlife

ZooNet - All about Zoos!

Plants

Plants

Plants Conquer The Land (ep2911g)

Plants grades K-3

Plants, Animals, and the Environment

Special Days

The Month of Tishri

Grade 3

Canadian Communities

Banff National Park

Canadian Communities

First Page/Première page - Parkdale/Toronto

Grade Three Social Studies - Identity(Comparing Canadian Communities)

Nova Scotia Tourism

Our Home/Notre foyer

The Month of Tishri

Title Page Inuit

Where we live

Yahoo! Canada

Change

Acid Rain Program's Home Page

Grade Three Science - Heating and Cooling

Insect life cycle

Weather grades K-3

Community Of Living Things

Elementary Particles: What Do Bears Do?

Pittsburgh Zoo - Wildlife

ZooNet - All about Zoos!

Keeping Our Community Clean

Air Pollution, Innovative Technologies, Emission Reduction

Great Lakes Natural Resource Center Home Page

Kindergarten

Environmental Studies

Environment in Fall

.....fall.....winter.....spring.....summer....

Canada Climate

Experiments - Seeds

Introduction - Seeds Dispersal

Seasonal Health Safety Information

Squirrel Facts

Weather grades K-3

Environment in Spring

Earth's Weather

Science Center Lesson - Insect Study

Environment in Winter

Basic Weather Safety

Elementary Particles: What Do Bears Do?

The Amazing Ice Bunnies! (and other polar animals)

Title Page Inuit

wintershoes

Pets

Animal Tracks

Cyber-Pet

Did You Know

PAWS Home Page

Special Days

Government Agencies

B.C. Government - Curriculum & Resources Branch - Integrated Resource Packages

The Integrated Resource Package (IRP) combines four key elements of learning to form a functional curriculum overview
document. IRPs provide the basic information that teachers will require in order to implement the curriculum.

Come join us and explore a wealth of resources, consult with on-line staff, or develop a collaborative project with Canada's SchoolNet.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Home Page Excellent Materials - Lesson Plans, Curriculum-Based Activities.
Well worth the visit!

ENO/REO is an Ontario education telecommunications project.

Today the Global SchoolNet Foundation, a non-profit corporation, is a major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN has had an incredible impact on networking in the K12 community.

You are about to do research? While your journey will have switchbacks, chances are you will take a path that has these steps: wondering about something, seeking information, choosing information, connecting useful information you have found, producing information of your own in a new form and judging the entire process and your product.

Units include: Applied Skills, Fine Arts, English, Career and Personal Planning, Information Technology, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education and International Languages

Other On-Line Educational Resources contains links to General Catalogs and Subject Trees on Education.

The Community Learning Network from British Columbia: an excellent educational resource. CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms.

K-12 Teacher Links on the Net
We've surfed the net looking for great web sites that are of interest to teachers.

TVOntario is now online with a professional development resource for all teachers.
Feel free to explore, and come back often to keep up to date on our new educational opportunities for teachers!

TVOntario lists services, educational happenings, etc. on its web site. This is their official homepage.

This is American but still provides excellent links to current topics in education as well as publications that are of use to educators.

UNICEF Voices of Youth site. sponsored by the United Nations.

Independent

Busy Teacher's Web Site: Lesson Plans/Classroom Activities

This Site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.

This is a collection of 236 exemplary network-based educational activities, collected by Judi Harris. They are available through several different classifications:

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous
number of new World Wide Web sites.

Over 300 pages, sorted by topic, that we have linked to over the past two and a half years.

Ministries of Education Websites

Alberta Education Website

B.C. Education - Home Page

Department of Education - (Saskatchewan) Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training

DRD - Quebec Education - Homepage

ENO/REO Home Page - Ontario Education Network

Manitoba Department of Education & Training

NB TeleEducation - Homepage

Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture

Ontario Ministry of Education and Training

Prince Edward Island Department of Education

Siksik - North West Territories

STEM~Net Newfoundland Homepage

Newfoundland Education Home Page

Special Education Links

Attention Deficit Disorder

Deaf Education

Education of Special Needs Students

Gifted Education

Support Groups

University

AskERIC

AskERIC is.the award-winning Iternet-based education information service of the ERIC System, headquartered at the ERIC
Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse University.

Lessons from this lesson database are intended for distribution to other educators on a nonprofit basis. If you should distribute, please cite the source.

The search engine for all ERIC Digests. This is the fulltext database.

ERIC Digests, a portion of the ERIC Database, are short reports on current education topics produced by each of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses. To search the fulltext database of ERIC Digests, go to the U.S. Department of Education WWW at
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/.

The Teacher Resource Centre is Canadian and is co-operative effort by The Frontenac County Board of Education Frontenac/Lennox & Addington County Roman Catholic Separate School Board Lennox & Addington County Board of Education Queen's University

Subject Disciplines

Internet Sites organized by Subject Discipline

Art

A Picture of the Mona Lisa

A picture of one of the most famous paintings.

This is a pay service for Digital Art Work

A visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto

A corporate site that offers teachers and students art resources and projects.

How to produce Origami and learn the art of paper folding.

A place for Kid's to share artwork and stories

The current exhibit displays images and information relating to Leonardo da Vinci.

An interactive playground for kids and adults.

This museum holds many of the world's priceless treasures. Take a look at its collections of Egyptian, Oriental, Roman, and Greek objets d'art.

If you've got a question about writing or a finicky query about grammar, e-mail it to the grammar busters at Virginia Tech's Writing Center

Welcome to World Wide Arts Resources. We provide the biggest gateway to the arts on the Internet - from happening, groovin' art events to traditional planar exhibitions and museums to way out 3-D cyber galleries - you'll find it here!

Geography

Cartography

Cartography Resources: Commercial

Cartography Resources: Commercial Mapping Provided by the Virtual Library

See relief maps of the U.S. and Southern Ontario

Hands-on activities for making topographical maps in the classroom.

Hands-on activities for making topographical maps in the classroom.

Maps of Canada and the World.

Yahoo's map site with links to other related sites

Ecology

: A2Z : Science & Technology : Oceanography

Environment Canada

Environment School Kit

Kids' Action: Rainforest Animals

Parks Canada

Travel

: A2Z : The World : Countries & Continents

Arctic Circle

Environmental and indigenous peoples issues as well as other topics related to the Arctic Region

A translating dictionary which converts the following languages to and from English:
German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Afrikaans, & Esperanto.

Health

Children's Medical Center Home Page

Dole's Five A Day Characters

HealthWorld Online Home Page

International Food Information Council Foundation

MEDLINE Advanced search

Preview The Heart

Search the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference

The Heart: An Online Exploration

Tossed Salad Productions

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Virtual Hospital Home Page

History

Canadiana

Canada in the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridge

Canadian Confederation

Canadiana -- The Canadian Resource Page

The ultimate authority on all things Canadian.

The Ultimate Index to Canadian history sites prior to Confederation

The ultimate Dewey Decimal classification of Canadian topics - history, geography, travel, etc..

Conduct a quick tour throughout Canadian history in 6 epochs from prehistory to the present.

An indexed database, from Yahoo, of Canadian historical events.

World

1492 Exhibit

Alexander the Great

Dead Sea Scrolls

Gateway to World History

Kelsey Museum Exhibit Galleries

Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum

Military history

Notable Citizens of Planet Earth

Splendors of Ancient Egypt Galleries

The Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia

Treasures of the Czars

Language Arts

Anagram Creator Page

For Young Writers

Language Connect Home Page

Online Writing Lab - Homepage

Purdue University On-line Writing Lab

Requests for Keypals

Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

Shakespeare - Complete Works

Sherlockian Holmepage

The Theodore Tugboat Online Activity Centre

Wacky Web Tales

Writing Across the Curriculum Page

Literature

Children's Literature

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Children's Literature Web Guide

KidLit Children's Literature Home Page

The Children's Book Council

The Purple Crayon: A Children's Book Editor's Site (3.0)

Science Fiction

Babylon 5

Cabinet of Dr. Casey - The Horror Web Page

Future Fantasy Bookstore - Home Page

Linköping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive

Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

Mel's Godzilla Page

Science Fiction Resource Guide

Science Fiction resources

Sci-Fi Channel: The Dominion

SF-lovers

Star Trek Voyager

Math

A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry

Amusing Mathematics Web Pages

Brain Teasers

Calculus&Mathematica

Elementary School Math

Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics

Frame-try

Frank Potter's Science and Math Gems

Geometry Forum Newsgroups

gopher://ericir.syr.edu...1/Lesson/NewLesson/Math

Internet Geometry Hunt

K-12 Activities

K12 and The Math Forum

K-12: Mathematics

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Math

Magic Squares

Math Central - Index

Math Forum - Geometry Problem of the Week

Math Forum Elementary Problem of the Week

Math Forum: K-12 Teachers

Math Sciences

Mathematical Animation Gallery

Mathematical games and recreations

Mathematics Archives Calculus Resources On-Line

Mathematics Archives WWW Server

Mathematics(Mathematics)

MathMagic!

Mathwright Library

MegaMath Text Menu

Synergetics Home Page.

The Home Page for TI Calculator Users

The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math

The Math Forum Home Page

This Is Mega-Mathematics!

Virtual Reality Polyhedra

Music

Classical MIDI Archives

King Biscuit Time

Music Education Online.html

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame + Museum

The Blue Highway

The Complete MIDI File Directory

The Music Educator's Home Page

World of Classical Music

WWW Virtual Library: Music

Science

: A2Z : Science & Technology : Earth Sciences & the Environment

Aurora Page

Discover Magazine

Earth and Moon Viewer

EnviroLink Pre Home Page

Largest online environmental resource in the world.

Environment Canada's home page
English & French

Go behind the scenes and learn about the Science Learning Network.

Preservation of anials and plants around the world.

Sports

Directory of /pub/sports/PICTURES/gif

National Hockey League Official Web Site

SkateWeb: The Figure Skating Page

Sports Illustrated For Kids

World Wide Web of Sports

Miscellaneous

When sites don't fit in a particular section.

Computer Manufacturers

Adobe Systems Incorporated

One of the top suppliers of graphic software and desktop layout programs. Also the place to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

A Canadian company famous for Wordperfect and Corel Draw!

IBM Corporate Home Page - Also contains drivers and assorted utilities for downloads.

A former division of IBM that produces printers. Lots of information on current products and drivers are available for download.

Excellent starting point for an introduction to Microsoft and all their products and services.

Excellent site to find out what is happening with the WWW and this site contains links to the various plug-ins required for special applications on the Internet.

When it comes to networking this is the page to consult. Documentation and drivers are available for download.

A useful glossary of networking terms when you are confused about various acronyms

Another manufacturer of printers. Complete documentation on current models and lots of files for download.

KeyPals

Classroom Connect's Teacher Contact Database

For many years, wired educators have been looking for an easy way to find other teachers who are interested in doing keypal exchanges, projects, and more. They've also been looking for a way to let other teachers know about the things they're doing online, so it would be easy for others to find them and join in.

The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are
provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes
link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal
and project exchanges