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This collection of links is provided to give you
quick access to education related sites. The LRML
staff has actually visited most of these sites and
feels there is something there that may be of use.
We have searched the major commercial search
services and found the deluge of URLs to be
unmanageable, so here are the highlights of our
searches. Some sites are great while other are not
so great. Please note that the commentary provided
is our opinion and you may enjoy the site more or
less than we did. We have tried not to include
commercial sites except where they actually provide
on line curriculum or useful information. We hope
you can use this list a resource now and in the
future.
Curriculm
Resources
- Curriculum
Innovations
- TERC
- SEDL
- A
Look at Social Studies Curriculum
- EdWeb A
interactive K-12 resource guide sponsored by the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Out of
State Districts and Schools
- Beebe,
Arkansas
- Fairfax,
VA
- Field
Experiences Lake Park Elementary is located
in rural south Lowndes County Georgia. Lake Park
Elementary has a very active volunteer program
and good parental involvement.
- Sherwood,
MO
- North
Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
This high school in Durham, North Carolina, was
established in 1978 to offer a higher level of
education to advanced students. It is affiliated
with the University of North Carolina and
accepts only juniors and seniors with highly
intellectual ability. Here you find academic
information and gain real insight into the
school from the students' home pages.
- Fairbanks,
Alaska
- Chop
Point School With an impressive course
listing and a special cross-cultural program in
Mexico, you'll be missing out on something if
you pass up this fine private school, located in
Woolwich, Maine. Also a summer camp!
California
Schools
- New
Mesa School District
- California
Department of Education
- Hollywood
Beach School Pleasant tour around the cyber
grounds of the Oxnard, California K-12 school.
Both parents and kids should enjoy the Space
Shuttle, Geography Challenge, White House and
Sports Illustrated for Kids sections.
- Happy
Valley School Home Page If this silicon-rich
school near Santa Cruz CA couldn't have a
Website, there would be no justice. Well, they
have a sweet one, so maybe there is a God after
all.
- Hoffer
School The Hoffer school in Riverside,
California is one of four elementary schools
collaborating with the University of California
Riverside/ California Museum of Photography on
photography and related media projects in the
museum's VidKids Media Literacy program.
- Nord
Elementary School Nord, located in
California's Northern Sacramento Valley, has
just three teachers and 65 students. Find the
school's basic information, sans flourishes,
here.
- Claremont
High School, Claremont An educational work
in progress, the Claremont High School is
designed to impart information about the
academic environment, students and alumni and
additional K-12 resources. Investigate the inner
workings of the German club, the girls' varsity
soccer team and the school's computing
facilities.
- Loara
High School The home page for this Anaheim,
California high school is nicely designed with
information on curriculum, special programs and
community involvements.
Science &
Math Resources
- SciMath
World Wide Web
- Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory Basically a PR
vehicle for the lab and Department of energy,
but if you look at the research projects there
is great information on a range of science
topics including supercomputing, astronomy, and
fusion energy.
- National
Center for Supercomputing Applications A
very nicely done web page, nice graphics and
cool rollover buttons, and some interesting
information. Go to the educational section. This
site is worth checking out.
- The
Exploratrium Being in San Francisco how
could we leave out The Exploratorium. One of the
treasures of the city, the web site is the next
best thing to going. If you've never been to the
Exploratorium, go now.
- The
Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley
- The
California Academy of Sciences
Other
Resources
- The
SFMOMA Education Department
- Academic
Resources Center This site is from Leon
County, Florida and is maintained by Junior High
Students. I haven't spent much time there, but
it is a fairly good example of what students can
do with the web.
- Excite
Education Indexes Give credit where credit
is due. I used Excite to find many of these
links. I found there preset list to be very
comprehensive, but be prepared to spend some
time digging through them.
- Excite
K-12 Indexes
- Yahoo
Education Indexes
- The
American Medical Association
- The
WWW Virtual Library Contains the Education
Virtual Library which provides a multitude of
educational resources.
Library
Resources
- African American Historical Research
Library has books, photos and a children's
section. 762 Fulton St. 292-6172.
- Alliance
Franchise has the largest collection of
French Literature west of the Louisiana
Purchase. 1345 Bush St. 775-7755.
- California Genealogical Society, is
the home to 30,000 genealogical records,
microfilms, maps and reference books. 300
Brannan St., Suite 409.
- Goethe
Institute has thousands of books,
videotapes, magazines and newspapers... in
German. 931-0428.
- Holocaust Center of Northern
California, has an impressive collection of
material related to this tragic event, 601 14th
St., 751-6040.
- Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually
Impaired Library, contains 500 volumes in
Braille and more! 20 Tenth St., 431-1481.
- S.F. Maritime National Historical
Park, holds more than 20,000 volumes, 500
periodicals, and a collection of oral histories.
Fort Mason Bldg.; 556-9870.
- S.F. Performing Arts Library and
Museum, will allow you to access their
extensive collection of books, magazines, sheet
music and scripts that relate to the performing
arts. 399 Grove, 255-4800.
- Strybing Arboretum Society, Helen Crocker
Russell Library, houses everything you'd
need to know about horticulture and they have a
wonderful collection of children's books. Ninth
Ave. and Lincoln Way, 661-1316.
Internet
Resources
- Online
Psychological Services.
- U.S.
Department of Education/OERL. Information on
educational resources including federal
legislation, funding opportunities, statistics
from the National Center for Education
Statistics, and pointers to other Internet
resources. The anonymous FTP link is
here
- Children's
Literature Web Guide
- ERIC
Clearinghouse on Education and Assessment.
- National
School Network Testbed Research and
development resources for schools, school
districts, and community resources.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook-Buros. Buros Institute
provides test users with descriptive
information, references, and critical reviews of
tests.
- American
Educational Research Association This site
includes information about the AERA, it's
divisions and publications and provides links to
resources for educational researchers.
- AskERIC
Virtual Library. An information site
providing resources for education and a
question-answering service for educators in
K-12. Site includes lesson plans, ERIC digests,
infoguides, publications and clearinghouses,
Internet guides, archives of education-related
listservs, remote access to government
information, library catalogs and other gopher
sites. The anonymous FTP link is
here.
- Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development A new
gopher offering relevant and current resources
of interest to educators, specifically K-12.
- CICNet
K-12 Includes descriptions of resources
written by and for teachers and provides links
to Internet resources.
- ETS Test
Collection Tests and research instruments
from ETS' testing programs as well as other
major U.S. test publishers are available here.
- Kids
Web A subject arrangement targeting
information that is useful and interesting to
K-12 school children.
Staff and
Other Links
These are places we like to visit, were created by
the LRML staff, or are related to our lab.
- Department of
Instructional Technologies
- The Center
for the Enhancement of Teaching
- Tom's
Beehive
- Gary's
Yarns Project (A class project)
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