Places of Interest on the World Wide Web

Ameritech

www.ameritech.com:1080/community/education/

Check out "Ameritech Schoolhouse," a guide to Internet resources for teachers, students, and parents in Internet InfoCenter (located on the home page).

Centers for Disease Control

www.cdc.gov

Get the latest information available.

Discovery.com

www.discovery.com

This site is a rich resource for teachers. At this location, under Discovery School, teachers will find more than 2,000 Web links that present some information on almost every topic, ranging from free lesson plans in a wide variety of areas to videos/ books on every topic imaginable, including professional development for teachers. The Web location, Science Fair Central, at this address presents a variety of online science experiments for teachers to pull up. For students, the site presents the World Book Encyclopedia online as well as help with homework in all areas. Also, information on upcoming television shows from the Discovery Channel will be featured. The "Mydiscovery" section allows students to join in for free e-mail, but the e-mail comes with certain advertisements and e-mail notices on upcoming shows and other information. Teachers should carefully consider any board-of-education policies concerning this type of advertising prior to using this e-mail service for students.

Fed World

www.fedworld.gov

This is the hub for contacting more than 135 government bulletin boards and information.

InterNIC

www.internic.net

This is a good source for Internet basics. Follow the path: Information -Services/InterNIC InfoGuide/-Internet -Resources/Education K–12/ Gopher Menu.

Library of Congress

www.loc.gov

The Library of Congress location allows students to search the Library of Congress for information on virtually any topic. The location is user friendly, since guides to using the site are provided. Information may be obtained on Congress at Work, Using the Library, and Copyrights. The section "American Memory" allows students to download video segments, sound, and other notes of historical interest. Many students use these brief audio/video segments to create multimedia reports. Imagine the impact of actually seeing a brief segment of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a report on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Lightspan.com

www.gsn.org

Promote distance learning by helping K–12 teachers and their students design and participate in collaborative projects that foster networking on the Internet. This location also offers teachers the opportunity to earn extra income for tutoring.

National Science Teachers Association

www.nsta.org

You can preview NSTA periodicals and learn about organization-sponsored science projects. You can also access the NSTA FTP server or learn about online and off-line -resources.

NetWatch!

www.pulver.com

Track new Internet audio and video products like CU-SeeMe, NetPhone, RealAudio, and other utilities that facilitate real-time voice communication and broadcasting.

World Health Organization

www.who.int

Get information from the WHO.

U.S. Department of Education

www.ed.gov

Get up-to-date information from the U.S. Department of Education (ERIC site).

In using these Websites for your students, teachers should remember that Web addresses do change and sites often go down while a particular location reconstructs the Website. Consequently teachers should preview the Web locations that they plan to use immediately prior to the class in which they plan on accessing them. While most of the Web addresses in this list are accessed hundreds of thousands of times each day, teachers should not count on the popularity of a particular Website as an indicator of either quality or availability. However, a little diligent digging on the part of the teacher can often turn up gems for students to use in their research work.