Metasites
A Metasite is a Web site that tries to comprehensively cover a particular discipline, topic or subject area. It may or may not include original content. Some Metasites claim to be “best of” sites; others are less selective and may include sites of varying quality.
- Activity Search – a component of a book publisher’s Web page that allows you to search for activities based on their curriculum area and designated grade level
- Administrator’s Net – includes a job center, administrator chatboard, and live professional development
- ALA/ALSC – great web sites for kids
- The American Civil War Home Page – timelines, graphics, images, letters, diaries, accounts, etc.
- American History From the Colonial Period Until Modern Times – outlines American history and links to information and pictures about people, places and theories important to American history
- The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature
- ArtsEdge Curriculum WebLinks - provides lesson plans that integrate the arts and other subject areas such as science and social studies, also includes primary sources
- Best History Websites
- Bill Nye the Science Guy – background information and experiments for each episode of the television series
- California as I saw It
- California Department of Education – statistics, press releases, initiatives, conferences, legislation of interest to California educators
- California Frameworks – provides a general overview of recommended content and methodology for various subjects taught in California.
- California History Online
- California Learning Resource Network
- California Mission Resource Center
- California Teachers Net – includes a lesson bank, job center, and teacher chatboards
- California to American: A Study in Cultural Change
- CalisPhere: A World of Primary Sources
- Character Education - reviews of character education materials, an annotated bibliography, and links to other character education Web sites
- CIA World Factbook – facts, maps, and graphs for each country covering geography, people, economics, education, etc.
- CNN Current Events – up to the minute U. S. and world news, business, sports, politics, showbiz, etc.
- Content Knowledge – searchable collection of K-12 national standards for a wide variety of subject areas
- The Council for Exceptional Children – current events and background information of interest to parents and teachers
- Cyberguides – Web-based units related to children’s and young adult literature with teacher and student guides; also includes a bilingual section
- Dave’s ESL Cafe - interact with ESL students and teachers from around the world
- EDSITEment – top humanities sites and lesson plans selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Education at the Getty Art Museum
- Educational Hotlists – with almost 30 well-developed categories, this is one of the largest educational content directories
- ERIC Database – an internet accessible version of the largest and most important education database includes records for items entered into the ERIC database from 1966 to the present
- Gateway to Educational Materials – aims to provide one-stop access to thousands of lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational materials
- The Heart: An Online Exploration – information, images, movies, sounds and activities covering the complexity of the heart’s development, structure, and purpose
- The History Channel – search for history resources by topic or time period
- HyperHistory – 3000 years of world history covering science, economics, culture, religion, politics, and war through lifelines, timelines, and maps
- Idea Box – preschool activities organized by subject area; idea of the week and idea of the day categories
- Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math
- iLoveLanguages – language and literature sites from around the world
- The Internet TESL Journal – articles, lesson plans, classroom handouts, and teaching ideas of interest to teachers of English as a second language
- Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – a large listing of educational content that may be browsed via a detailed subject listing or searched via a keyword search engine; instructions for searching the site via a commercial search engine and a “New Sites This Month” section are also components of the site
- Kidshealth
- Learn North Carolina
- Learning Disabilities Online – extensive background information, recent findings, first person accounts of the challenges of dealing with learning disabilities, an ask the expert section, interactive bulleting boards covering various topics, and student art and writing submissions
- Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers – along with lesson plans and resources the site contains a section on current events, a what’s new this month category and social studies standards and curriculum from across the country
- Library Of Congress: American Special Collections – places, landscapes, and the history of social life and culture
- MacMillan/McGraw-Hill California Treasures – student activties
- The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library – search for math resources by type of resource e.g. lesson plans, math topic and grade level
- MEGA Mathematics – unusual and important mathematical ideas; includes activities, vocabulary, background information, evaluation, etc.
- Multicultural Pavilion – emphasizes multicultural resources, how the internet can be used to provide a multicultural education and how to evaluate internet sites from a multicultural perspective
- NASA Education - instructional materials, NASA projects and NASA news
- National Council for the Social Studies – discussion, links categorized by the themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, conferences, etc.
- National Council of English Teachers – teaching ideas, teacher talk and national guidelines
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – math education resources, conferences, and national standards
- National Geographic Kids: Videos
- National Science Teachers Association – legislative update, news, information, projects and online resources
- NCTE: readwritethink
- NeoK12 – educational videos lessons and games for K-12 students
- Newslink – compare the coverage of news events by accessing national, international, and college newspapers
- Nutrition Expedition
- Online Teacher – concise listing of websites for a wide variety of topics covered in Time (the magazine)
- PBS Online – links to current events and teacher resources, listings and descriptions of educational televsion programs and a significant collection of preschool educational content
- PE Central – probably the most comprehensive physical education Web site; includes lessons, assessment ideas, professional information and material related to adapted physical education
- The Physic Front
- Recommended Literature for Science and Math
- Recommended Literature: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve: An annotated list of literature for children and adolescents produced by the California Department of Education
- RefSeek Educational Video Sites
- Remembering the Hmong
- Scholastic Online Activities and Interactive Learning
- Scholastic Teacher Resources
- SCORE: School of California Online Resources for Education – internet resources and teacher-developed lessons that support California’s content standards and curriculum frameworks
- Sea World Animal Resources - quick information, fun facts, an animal information quiz, a song book and more; covers whales, dolphins, animal training, etc.
- Sites for Teachers – lesson plans, classroom projects, interactive web sites, etc.; organized into eight subject categories including ESL/bilingual
- Special Education Resources on the Internet – background information; legal, parent, educator, and inclusion resources; and links to specific categories, such as learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder
- TeachNet – lessons, activities, resources, education news and additional classroom management tips
- Thinkfinity
- Thomas: Legislative Information On the Internet - full text of legislation and the congressional record, the u.s. constitution, how laws are made, etc.
- University of Wisconsin: Ideas
- USA Today – current events, sports, economics, weather and entertainment
- USA Today Weather Index – over 350 weather related topics covering everything from “Why a baseball travels farther at higher altitudes” to “How to calculate air density”
- U.S. Department of Education – education headlines, statistics, funding opportunities, etc.
- Volcano World – an indexed site that includes a “What’s New Section”; volcano information, pictures, movies and games; and a volcano of the week feature
- Views of the Solar System – planets, asteroids, meteorites and comets
- Virtual Architecture: Network-Based Activity Collection – hundreds of network based educational activities organized by activity type and content
- Welcome to the Planets – images from NASA’s planetary exploration program covering the planets and spaceships
- What Works Clearinghouse
- The White House – search white house documents, listen to speeches and view photographs.
- Yahoo K-12 Education – a searchable collection of topics teachers might be interested in; sites were selected by the people at Yahoo
- Yahoo! Kids – a searchable collection of topics kids might be interested in; sites were selected by the people at Yahoo
