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Math homework help for secondary students
http://www.erols.com/bram Voted “Best Math Homework Helper” by Yahoo! Internet Life, this site offers help on everything from algebra to calculus. Its features include an eMail…
‘Athena’ explores earth and space science for K-12
http://athena.wednet.edu Funded by NASA’s Learning Technologies program, this site includes instructional material and resources for online space, weather, earth, and ocean exploration projects. Your students…
Human Anatomy Online: a great body of work
http://www.innerbody.com/indexbody.html This site contains more than 100 detailed illustrations of the human body, grouped by anatomy system. Each system or organ is accompanied by a…
Brain Teasers add up to math success
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain Every Wednesday evening a new math puzzle is posted here for each of three grade levels‹grades 3 to 4, 5 to 6, and 7+‹along…
A teacher’s guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust This is a remarkable site. With a powerful combination of words, music, photographs, and art, it provides a factual but chilling account of the…
Properly employed, ICS works
Interactive curriculum systems (ICS) have shown that when well-used, they raise students’ standardized test scores. But they have yet to show they consistently improve performance in areas beyond the scope…
The appeal of this art detective is no mystery
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura This is an art history adventure developed by Educational Web Adventures for grades 4 and up. “The Case of Grandpa’s Painting” is…
ICS brings curriculum to life
Software companies that specialize in interactive curriculum systems (ICS) are taking on one of educators’ biggest problems: How to integrate into the classroom the exploding resources of computer-based educational technology,…
Introduce students to Native American authors
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native This site provides biographical information about Native Americans authors, plus bibliographies of their published works and links to interviews, online texts, and tribal web…
What is an eSchool?
As I’ve been crisscrossing the country in recent weeks, many friends and colleagues have asked me to fill them in on the idea of an “eSchool.” So I thought you…