Internet Literacy

For Teachers and Students












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Classroom Tips

This page is for students.  Students want websites of useable resources like dictionaries, translators and glossaries and good research tools.  They want homework help.  They also want interesting sites with imaginative formats and interactive media.  The links and information on this page give students ideas for resources & information, project ideas and some fun stuff, because learning is fun.

Research Resources

The Internet Public Library

(provides library services to online users)

Word Central Online Dictionary Site

(much more than just a dictionary - a goldmine of the language arts)

Internet Moving Image Archive

(movies and animation archive on a very easy to use site)

The National Science Digital Library

(comprehensive site for science and math)

Basic Web Search Tools

(one page site with dictionaries, thesaurus and search tools)

The Amazing Picture Machine

(find the right picture to illustrate your idea, concept or project)

Free Online Translator

(use to translate your work for your classmates or to read work from another culture)

What You Need to Know About™

(great site for looking up information on a bunch of topics)

Citing Sources

(give the author due credit)

Online Presentation Assistant

(online guide to help you make a good presentation step-by-step)

Homework Help

The Homework Spot

(the original homework help website)

Cool Math

(an interactive site with lots of ways to practice math skills)

Answer Point

(a very good library-sponsored site that puts the reference page up front)

Best of History Websites

(many good links on a very easy-to-use page)

Science Fact File

(terrific resource that goes right to the information you need)

Congress For Kids

(good resource of how our government works in a "non-boring" format)

1001 Periodic Table Quiz Questions

(great site for chemistry and science practice, with good links to other sources)

Ed Heads

(activities for students on a wide range of topics - teachers will want to use it too, but don't tell...)

Fear of Physics

(very good site of visual physics experiments and a good homework help link)

Exemplary List of Education Sites from CyberBee

(a big list of sites for help & research)

Math Problems

(problems, word games and more; a good site for practice)

Maps & Flags of the World

(updated often; an easy site for maps and geography facts)

The Archaeology Channel

(the site to answer the ancient history questions)

The Reference Desk

(commercial site sponsored by Google™, but very well done)

Math Topics Online

(a site for college students in England, this site has a lot of interesting and hard to find applications)

Project Ideas

Numbers in Search of a Problem

(listing of statistics sites, including sports stats)

The Museum of Hoaxes

(is it true or is it a hoax?)

Advance Space

&

Amazing Space

(all about space exploration without the NASA propaganda)

U. S. and World Population Clocks

(government census resource online showing how fast populations are growing)

The History Channel

(companion site to the TV channel)

Science Junction

(a good resource for student, parents and teachers)

Alternate History Timelines

(explore "what if..." in many different timelines)

Pieces of Science

(sort of an online museum with good information; very interactive)

Math in Daily Life

(there really is a use for Algebra)

How Stuff Works

(the site that tells you in plain language how things of all types work)

Fun Stuff

Bad Science Projects

(interesting site of what NOT to do)

Pop Culture Magazine

(a very educational website disguised as fun...be careful, you may learn something)

A GadZillion Things to Think About

(updated often; this site poses the best questions to ponder)

Fun Brain

(interesting games and ideas)

Silly Fun

(a good site for clean, useable jokes and humor)

Our Earth as Art

(satellite and other images make this a very interesting look at earth)

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

(help identify & laugh at the errors in the laws of motion and gravity that can only happen in the movies)

Windows to The Universe

(detailed science site with lots of interactive ideas)

The Jurassic Park Institute

(the online expert on dinos)

The Hubble Telescope Site

(NASA says that the telescope will be obsolete by 2012, so get the most use out of it now!)

Animation Factory The Skeptic's Dictionary

(a collection of strange beliefs and dangerous delusions)

Valley of the Geeks

(truly geek-oriented humor for the internet savvy)

Wav Surfer Brainy Betty

(templates, animations, ideas and lots of other things for good presentations)

 

 

 

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