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These external sites have been selected for their educational value.  Because they are independently owned and operated, the Franklin County Board of Education  is not responsible for their contents.

Title: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

Annotation: A daily updated categorical list of the best sites on the Internet.

URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Title: Education World

Annotation: This site contains only educational Web sites and a search engine allows educators to access these sites without searching the entire Internet.

URL: http://www.education-world.com/

Title: Blue Web ‘ N

Annotation: A searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools).

URL: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Title: Busy Teachers’ Web Site K12

Annotation: A highly recommended list of sites that is great for teachers of all subject areas.

URL: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

Title: Encarta Lesson Collection

Annotation: An extensive lesson collection that one can browse by subject area or search via a search engine. Schoolhouse also contains a terrific list of student and teacher sites.

URL: http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/

Title: Classroom Connect

Annotation: This site includes a wonderful list of recommended Internet sites, a list of schools with sites on the World Wide Web, information on conferences and educational software, and a database for contacting other educators online.

URL: http://www.classroom.net/home.asp

Title: MapQuest

Annotation: Find and print directions to any location by utilizing this useful site. If your not sure how to explain to someone how to get to an away ballgame….print it out.

URL: http://www.mapquest.com/

Title: The Weather Channel

Annotation: A very extensive online weather channel that will yield updated information at any time. View the five-day forecast or read the breaking weather section.

URL: http://www.weather.com

 

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Parents' Sites
Useful and informative web sites for parents.

Title: Berit’s Best Site For Children

Annotation: A directory of safe, recommended sites for children up to age 12.

URL: http://www.beritsbest.com

Title: Facts.org  - A Florida Center for Advisement regarding College

Annotation: Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students

URL: http://www.facts.org

 
Title: CollegeLink.com

Annotation: Apply to college online and find information about various colleges.

URL: http://www.collegelink.com

 

Title: Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)

Annotation: This site is for the outdoor enthusiast to find information about a variety of travel destinations, vacations, gear and much more.

URL: http://www.gorp.com/

 

Title: Family.com

Annotation: Daily features, tools, experts and shopping are just a few of the links that you will find in this site.

URL: http://family.go.com/

 

Title: Family Education Network

Annotation: This informative site is extremely helpful to parents.

URL: http://www.familyeducation.com/home/

 

Title: kidsDoctor

Annotation: Parents can search this site to find general information about health related issues.

URL: http://www.kidsdoctor.com/

 

Title: ParentSoup

Annotation: This fun stop for parents allows for complete searching of resources. Ask experts about your children, money, travel, entertainment, sports and more.

URL: http://www.parentsoup.com/

 

Title: The Children’s Literature Web Guide

Annotation: Explore this great site if you are interested in resources related to books for children and young adults.

URL: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

 

Title: The National Parenting Center

Annotation: An award-winning site dedicated to providing parents with responsible guidance from the world’s most renowned authorities.

URL: http://www.tnpc.com/

 

Title: Vote Smart

Annotation: A fact-filled site that is dedicated to passing along information about politics and politicians.

URL: http://www.vote-smart.org/

 

Title: Yahooligans! Parent Guide

Annotation: This guide contains articles for parents on safe surfing, safe communication and dealing with inappropriate material.

URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/parents/

 

Title: Florida DOE Financial Aid/Scholarship Information...

URL: http://www.FloridaStudentFinancialAid.org

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Title: Encarta Online Encyclopedia

Annotation: A concise, free, online encyclopedia that will aid with student research.

URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encartahome.asp

Title: Research-It!

Annotation: A collection of maps, dictionaries, biographies and other research tools.

URL: http://www.itools.com/research-it/

Title: The Virtual Reference Desk

Annotation: A large assortment of reference sources maintained by the library staff at Purdue University. This site contains a collection of dictionaries that includes a hypertext-linked Webster’s.

URL: http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference

Title: The Family Education Network

Annotation: A click on the “Homework Help” button links students to specific subject areas such as current events or social studies.

URL: http://www.familyeducation.com

Title: KidsConnect

Annotation: Students K-12 can e-mail a question and within two school days receive an answer from a volunteer media specialist. The answer is usually not supplied - just suggestions on how to find it.

URL: http://www.ala.org/ICONN/kcfavorites.html

Title: Ask an Expert

Annotation: An authority in the field you choose will answer your question. Or try the “universal translator”; Enter a word in any language and it will be automatically translated to other languages.

URL:
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html

Title: Ask Dr. Math

Annotation: Students can e-mail a math related question or check the past archives to see if their query has already been answered.

URL: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math

Title: Ask Jeeves For Kids

Annotation: A great place to ask questions such as “Why is the sky blue?”. This site will give quick answers by providing good sites for easy access.

URL: http://www.ajkids.com

Title: FunBrain.Com

Annotation: The number one education site for K-8 makes it fun to learn.

URL: http://www.funbrain.com/