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ArtsEdNet	From the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, a collection of items that support arts education, including lesson plans, curriculum ideas and Internet gateways to museums and other related sites.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	70,000 digital images of famous artwork is available free on this Web site. The images are available at various sizes and resolutions, searchable by keyword, artist, country, or period, and browseable by medium/genre. Teachers guides are also included.
Visible Knowledge Program	VKP pairs artist-instructors with high school educators to explore new ways of integrating contemporary art with math, science, social studies, language arts, and other core high school curricula. The curriculum units are in PDF format and schools are invited to set up online classrooms, post recommended readings, upload students' work and communicate with other classrooms all on the VKP Web site. VKP is an educational outreach and curriculum development program based at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.
Web Gallery of Art	The Web Gallery of Art contains over 10,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A site search engine allows you to find images in the collection using various search criteria. Seven guided tours are presented, including the Sistine Chapel, Art of Spain, and Overview of Italian Painters from 1200 to 1750.
What is a Print?	The Museum of Modern Art in New York shows how prints are made from woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints. Each style includes a short description, a gallery of artworks, and an interactive demonstration of how to create the prints. Requires Flash, or choose the non-Flash version.
Worlds of Art	Explore the world of art with the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the Los Angeles Culture Net. K-12 teachers will discover an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to making use of the Internet to help bring Los Angeles's worlds of art into the classroom. Teachers outside of Los Angeles can also use the lesson plans and resources to build connections between art learning and the art worlds of their own communities.

CURRICULUM
AskERIC	Network information specialists at AskERIC have compiled over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.
CDE	The California Department of Education. Standards.
Discovery Channel School - Search	Select a grade and a subject and this site will provide you with a list of lesson plans.
New York State DOE	N.Y. Department of Education. Resources for middle school teachers.
Outta Ray's Head	Middle and High School English and Library Lessons Online. If time is short and you need lesson plans fast check out Ray Saitz's site. A veteran English, history, art, drama, and special education teacher, he created this site with you in mind. Rationale behind each lesson, handout and evaluation provided.
PBS	A plethora of resources for teachers. Make sure to check out the Recommended Links pages, both new and archives, organized by subject.

DRAMA
ARTSEDGE	The mission of ArtsEdge is to help artists, teachers and students gain access to and/or share information, resources and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. Teachers will find thorough information on current issues in arts education, curriculum resources and even an online arts community. ArtsEdge is developed under a cooperative agreement between the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?	Go through the steps of making a film from the screenwriting to directing, producing, acting, and finally editing. Hands on activities include writing part of a comedy script and managing a budget as the producer. Several glossaries, some background on blacklisting, and a lengthy bibliography included.
Drama Teacher's Resource Room	An award winning Web site dedicated to grade 4-12 drama teachers and includes a variety of resources: lesson plans, backstage activities/archives, production ideas, support, other drama links, and educator seminar information.
Globenext: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar	A ThinkQuest site created by teens. Investigates Julius Caesar as a dramatic text by asking contemporary directors and actors about the challenges and issues that must be confronted when producing the play. Features full interviews with actors and directors, thoughtful consideration of play's historical context, and a complete teacher's guide.
Reader's Theater Editions	"Reader's Theater Editions" is a series of scripts adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others which are mostly humor, fantasy, and retold tales from a variety of cultures. Most scripts are for students in grades 3 to 9. Each script notes genre, culture of origin or setting, theme, suggested reading grade level, number of readers, and approximate reading time. Suggestions for adaptations are also included.

ENGLISH/LITERATURE
Academy of American Poets	This site highlights American poets with biographies, selected poems, and photos. There are also historical and thematic exhibits including Poetry with Children, Poems of Grief, and Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. There is a section about publishing your own poetry. If you have RealAudio, you can hear some of the poets reading their works.
American Verse Project	The American Verse Project assembles and archives electronic versions of American poetry prior to 1920. This collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press makes available the poetry of many, many authors whose works are no longer in print and whose poetry would otherwise be too expensive to use. The site is especially rich with minor poets, though works by Dickinson, Emerson, and other well-known poets can also be found.
Bulfinch Online	This site, which provides the complete text of Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, is maintained by Bob Fisher. The text of each of Bulfinch's studies is linked to explanatory notes. A biography of Bulfinch, a list of cited poets and poetry, & brief descriptions of recommended editions of books is also included.
Classic Bookshelf	Full-text of classics from the ancient world, Medieval classics, classics of the Renaissance, classics of science and spiritual classics
Digital Dante	A comprehensive Web site offering a variety of resources. There is online version of The Divine Comedy (in Dante's Italian and in translation), scholarly criticism, student essays, and a classroom section with a study guide, project ideas, and lesson plans.
English Companion	Jim Burke's site provides a plethora of information from complete lesson plans (which include standards) to graphic organizers and tips for teaching.
English/Language Arts Department	A site by Davide Levine that provides a huge list of diverse links to sites helpful to English teachers. From A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students to Word Play.
Geoffrey Chaucer	Created for Harvard University's Chaucer classes. The site provides a wide range of Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. The site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales. Especially interesting to high school students would be the Life and Manners and Science sections.
Glossary of Literary Terms & A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices	An English professor has created a collection of literary terms and rhetorical devices that offer definitions and examples. You will find terms as common as 'allegory' and 'setting' and terms as uncommon as 'anadiplosis' or 'zeugma.' This site is a searchable database of the glossary, and is especially useful for high school students.
Legends	You'll find Robin Hood, King Arthur, Beowulf, Sigurd, El Cid, and a host of other popular legends of literature here. There are pirates, swashbucklers, selkies, and fairy tales. This site includes primary sources, commentary, additional resource lists, and illustrations of many characters in the legends.
Literature & Life	Created by Twin Cities Public Television, this site explores the Givens Collection, a unique assemblage of African-American literature celebrating the people, ideas and eras that these works represent. Read excerpts from writers from the days of slavery, the Black Renaissance to the present. Online study guides for teachers and RealVideo clips are provided.
Masterpiece Theater's American Collection	This NCTE-sponsored companion site to Masterpiece Theater's American Collection television series provides background information and teaching resources for high school literature teachers and students. James Agee, Langston Hughes, Henry Adams, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Esmerelda Santiago are the featured authors. Biographical essays, recommended links, online texts, lesson plans, and more are provided for each author.
NCTE	National Council of Teachers of English. For educators of English Studies, Literacy and Language Arts.
Perseus Project	This rich site, Tufts University's Classics Department, provides a wealth of information about the classical Western world. The site includes an atlas, encyclopedia, introductory essays to ancient Greek and Roman life, English-to-Greek and English-to-Latin dictionaries, classic texts, and images of art and archaeology.
Poetic License	The Poetic License site complements the television film of the same name, providing a platform for teen performance poets. Teacher’s Lounge includes an extensive curriculum of multimedia resources for the classroom, an e-newsletter, and a discussion area. Teens can post their poems to have others critique their work in the Teen Voices area. The Online Poetry Journal changes monthly.
Poetry 180	A poem a day, for 180 days, is sponsored by the Library of Congress and Poet Laureate Billy Collins and encourages schools to incorporate poetry reading in the daily schedule. Aimed for high school audiences, accessible poems by poets including Jane Kenyon, Forrest Hamer, and Thomas Lux cover topics ranging from grieving to family issues to into whose lawn not to hit a ball. Each poem includes a short description relating what the poem is about. The site offers suggestions on how to read a poem aloud, and with RealPlayer, you can hear Collins read a piece as a model.
Poetry Daily	The Daily Poetry Association spotlights a new work each day from some of the U.S.'s premier and lesser known contemporary poets. Poems are chosen from books or journals currently or imminently available in print or online publications. Biographical information for each poet is also available.
Shakespeare Illustrated	Emory University provides this rich site useful to art and language arts educators. Provides access to paintings and commentary inspired by more than thirty of Shakespeare's works; search by play title or by choosing one of the 130 artists listed. A bibliography is also provided.
Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book	This site, hosted by Northern Illinois University, is a complete and free introduction to the basic syntactic structure of Modern English and the most common prescriptive errors in formal writing. The first half of the book is devote to syntactic structure, the second to prescriptive errors and how to avoid them. The initial screen lets visitors choose specific chapters.
Wired for Books	Ohio University's Donald L. Swaim Collection of radio shows houses 30 minute interviews with over 80 authors including literary greats such as Joseph Heller, Amy Tan, and Maya Angelou. Listeners can also hear parts of Shakespeare's Macbeth, The Iliad in ancient Greek, and The Tell Tale Heart. Younger listeners can hear an interview with Fred Rogers and the Tale of Peter Rabbit. RealAudio is required for listening to the clips.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Page by Page	Creating a Children's Book. Follow the development of a children's book through the creative process to the distribution process. Sections include the idea, the writing, finding the illustrator, the pictures, printing, and selling the book. This site can be viewed in English & French.
Tintin	Join one of the world's favorite adventurers, Tintin, and his dog Snowy, in one of five languages at the official Tintin site. French teachers for decades have used Herge's Tintin comics to entice their students to read in French. You'll meet the cast of characters including the blustering Captain Haddock and learn about the fifty year run of Tintin stories. "Blistering Blue Barnacles!"

GEOGRAPHY
Globe Visualizations	Contour maps, observation maps, globe data points, satellite & model data and more. Amazing!

HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES
Ad*Access Project	From Duke University's advertising collection of images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. AdAccess concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty* and Hygiene, and World War II. Timelines give the background for ad campaigns by noting events in US and International news, companies, inventions, the arts, and sports. Follow ad campaigns over the decades for companies such as Zenith and TWA. The search function is able to search by special features such as language, children in illustrations, coupons, and testimonials.
American Memory Project	American Memory Project. A rich collection of primary source material from the Library of Congress incorporates documents, audio, video, maps, and photographs into forty online exhibitions. You'll find information on everything from the Civil War to vaudeville to folk music to the Great Depression. This is an unbelievable resource for secondary level literature and social studies classes.
Fact, Fiction & the New World	Books played a role in the making of America. This site is in English and Spanish and has over 100 images of explorers, writers, and printers. Topics include the exchange of languages between Europeans and the people they encountered as explorers and missionaries voyaged to the Americas. Navigate using the outline or the gallery of images. There is an interactive quiz called Cabeza De Vaca's American Journey.
Shakespeare's Globe Research Database	This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), provides background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. The focus is the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London and includes pages devoted to the original Globe and other playhouses in Early Modern London, reports and photographic documentaries on reconstruction and performances at the New Globe.
Women Come to the Front:	Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II. This Library of Congress exhibit spotlights eight women who succeeded in “coming to the front” during the war including Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, and May Craig. Their stories tell how women’s role as war correspondents in the field and on the home front grew during the war years although it took decades to regain those advances after women made way for returning veterans.

JOURNALISM
Cable News Network FYI Student Bureau	CNN & Turner Learning provide high school and college journalism students an opportunity to publish Web and video work. Find articles written by students who publish the news from their perspective. The goal of CNNSB is to create the standard by which future reporters and production staff create and view news.
Daryl Cagle’s Pro Cartoonists Index	Political and editorial cartoonists represent varying opinions on current events, making for fascinating studies of art and culture. This site categorizes cartoons by topic. The Teacher’s Guide provides lesson plans and games for all grade ranges, which engage students as they explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons.
HighWired	An online network of high schools and easy-to-use web publishing tools to help you and your students build your own online newspapers. Plus, sign up for the "Classroom Site Builder" — an online tool that lets you assign, manage and showcase student projects on the Web.

MUSIC
Melbourne Symphony Encounter	From Silence to Symphony. As you enter this site, the orchestra tunes for the concert. Watch a video clip of the conductor talking about his role, learn about different periods of music history, see where the different players sit and learn about their instruments. The descriptions include audio clips, construction and a history of the instrument. You will need Shockwave and Quicktime to get the full benefit of this site. Check out the Music Analyzer and The Virtual Composer.
Instrument Encyclopedia	Graduate students at the University of Michigan have created this useful musical instrument encyclopedia provides easy to understand definitions detailing what the instrument is, where it originated and how it is used.
NPR 100	This National Public Radio site lists the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. The site is eclectic, including jazz, pop, rock and roll, musicals, and "serious music." All the selections include brief descriptions, extended audio discussions, and excerpts.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum	The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum site is full of images, sound clips, and information on past and present rock and roll figures. Their site also offers 78 individual lesson plans that span the range of 20th century music. Some of the lessons covered are "Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement," "Pink Floyd and the Carpe Diem Theme," "Woodie Guthrie and the Grapes of Wrath," "Slices of American Pie: The 1960s through Music," and "What's the Problem...Why are You Crying' Alanis Morissette."
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song	This site from the American Memory collection highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff from the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress from the years 1940-1950. There is a biographical essay, timeline, and images of items held in the collection. Woody Guthrie grew up during hard times of poverty, family tragedy, the Depression and the Dust Bowl; yet he left behind hundreds of songs most Americans know from elementary school, including "This Land Is Your Land."

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PBS YOU	PBS YOU is a lifelong learning program service, made possible by your local PBS station. Personal enrichment and college courses available here.
Ednow.com	A collection of education resources "designed to assist education professionals in the quest for information. An on-line interactive education center devoted exclusively to teachers, librarians, media specialists, administrators, and all other education providers."

MATHEMATICS
Earthquaked!	A basic lesson plan for students of algebra. Math skills: learning about logarithms and solving logarithmic Richter scale equations using Internet resources for practical applications.

SCIENCE
Environmental Literacy	"No choices are more important than those we make about the environment..." The teacher's page by the Environmental Literacy Council is "dedicated to helping citizens, especially young people, participate wisely in this arena. An independent, non-profit organization, the Council gives teachers the tools to help students develop environmental literacy."
Leonardo da Vinci	A resource for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston, for the Science Learning Network. Though geared for students in grades 4-8, it is well designed. Has many reproductions of DA Vinci's work and will appeal to all ages.
NSTA	National Science Teachers Association. Teacher Resources includes links to science sites, and ideas you can use in your classroom. Portions of the site are restricted to members only.

STORY TELLING
Story Arts	A site about storytelling by storyteller & author Heahter Forest. The site offers the following subjects: Storytelling in the Classroom, Lesson Plans & Activities, Story Library, Articles, Curriculum Ideas Exchange, Story Arts Theatre.

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