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Curriculum Hot Spots on the Web

Lesson Plan Sources

• Ask Eric    
  • ericir.syr.edu

• Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans                                      
  •   www.col-ed.org/cur

Information Indexes

•    Yahoo    
  • www.yahoo.com
•     Yahooligans, The Web Guides for Kids    
  • www.yahooligans.com
•    About.com    
  • www.about.com
•     Britannica    
  • www.britannica.com
•     Galaxy    
  • www.einet.net/galaxy.html
•     Magellan Internet Guide    
  • www.mckinley.com/magellan
•     The WWW Virtual Library    
  • www.vlib.org

Online Research Resources

•    Homework Central    
  • www.homeworkcentral.com                         
•    InfoPlease    
  • www.infoplease.com
•    iTools and Research It    
  • www.itools.com
•    My Virtual Reference Desk    
  • www.refdesk.com
•    National Student Research Center    
  • http://www.youth.net/nsrc  
•    Surf Monkey    
  • http://www.surfmonkey.com

General Curriculum Resource Centers

•     Awesome Library    
  • www.awesomelibrary.com
•     Curriculum Resources and Networking Projects 
  • www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdCurric.html
• Education World    
  • www.education-world.com
• The Library in the Sky    
  • www.nwrel.org/sky
• Web Sites and Resources for Teachers  
  • http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

Libraries and Museums

• American Museum of Natural History     
  • www.amnh.org
• Colonial Williamsburg   
  • www.history.org
• The Exploratorium    
  • www.exploratorium.edu
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum    
  • www.fi.edu
• Hands On Children's Museum     
  • www.hocm.org
• The Internet Public Library    
  • www.ipl.org
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide   
  • www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html
• The Library of Congress    
  • www.lcweb.loc.gov
• National Air and Space Museum    
  • www.nasm.edu
• National Archives and Records Administration     
  • www.nara.gov
• Smithsonian Institution    
  • www.si.edu
• Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum    
  • www.ushmm.org
• The WebMuseum Network    
  • www.metalab.unc.edu/wm/net

Communication Media

• ABC News   
  • www.abcnews.go.com
• CNN Interactive    
  • www.cnn.com
• Discovery Channel Online    
  • www.discovery.com
• Disney.com    
  • www.disney.go.com
• ESPN.com    
  • www.espn.go.com
• History Channel    
  • www.thehistorychannel.com
• MSNBC News Learning Online
  • www.msnbc.com/news/Learning_Front.asp
• National Public Radio Online    
  • www.npr.org
• Newspaper Association of America Hotlinks   
  • www.naa.org/hotlinks
• PBS Online    
  • www.pbs.org
• Time for Kids    
  • www.pathfinder.com/TFK
• U.S. News Classroom Program    
  • www.usnews.com/classroom
• USA Today Education    
  • www.usatoday.com/educate/home.htm
• The Weather Channel    
  • www.weather.com

Source

Dyrli, Odvard.  Curriculum Hot Spots on the Web 2000.  Curriculum Administrator, Vol. 35, No. 9, September, 1999.

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