If you encounter a bad link, which you certainly will from time to time, we'll be glad to help you track down the website or webpage you're interested in. All we ask is that you copy our entry, paste it into an email, and include the words "bad link" in your subject line.

- Sponsored by Stenhouse Publishers -

3-Minute Motivators is a collection of over 100 simple, fun activities that will help you use "a little magic" to take a quick break, engage students, and refocus them on the task at hand. Click here to browse Chapter 1 online!

Probability Games - A collection of sites offering dice, spinners and other games. What's in Santa's Sack has a holiday theme!

The Harvard Writing Center - Great resource for teachers; adjustable to student age groups. See, for example, 'Avoid Velcro Transitions.'

International Children's Digital Library - Kids' books from around the world in 15 languages.

Online Halloween Games - Barbara Feldman shares her favorite sites for the fun-est holiday of the year.

We Shall Remain - The five-part PBS series on Native American history, narrated by Benjamin Bratt, is available from this American Experience website.

Hispanic Heritage - EduHound helps celebrate the histories and cultures of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Live at Apollo 11 - When you land at this AOL website, it’s a few hours before the launch of Apollo 11, and there's still quite a bit of work you need to do!

Kids Off the Couch - Middle and elementary school moms devise ways to get kids interested in what's outside.

Health & Medical Careers - Students can begin to explore interesting future careers at this kid-friendly site created by NIH.

Brains Rule - A kid-friendly introduction to brain science, with a special section for teachers and parents.

Magnetism - Use these Surfing the Net with Kids links to have some summer science fun.

Handwriting - When it comes to penmanship, practice makes perfect. Barbara Feldman points to free web resources that can help

Neanderthals on Trial - Were Neanderthals our ancestors, or an evolutionary dead-end? PBS has the answers.

Virtual Microbiology - This online textbook includes “nifty videos that provide exploration of topics like pond microbes and hands-on demonstrations.” (Scout Report)

Newseum - Education World sums it up: "The front pages of more than 700 newspapers from around the world."

Evolution of Life - This site recognizes the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of the Species by offering videos, animations, and documents for teachers that explore the origins of life and evolution.

Vegetable Gardening - Could gardening become a 21st century skill? Check Barbara Feldman's resources of kids.

Screaming Mummies - Is it archaeology or biology? All we know is that middle schoolers will likely be intrigued!

Backyard Conservation - Includes lesson plans useful in teaching students that conservation can begin at home.

Square Roots - Square Root Day is March 3 and Barbara Feldman has some favorite pre-algebra resources.

BBC Holocaust Resources - Includes 17 video and audio broadcasts and related resources, stretching back to 1945.

NSF Classroom Resources - Great collection of some of the best science resources produced in association with the National Science Foundation.

King’s Last March - A audio documentary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last year of life, from American Radio Works, with many speech excerpts and other resources.

Favorite Poem Project – Many products have resulted from this 10-year effort to gather together America's favorite poems. A must-visit if you're teaching poetry -- or just like it!

Art and Marine Science –Giving science students hands-on activities, such as art projects, accesses both right-brain, creative thinking and left-brain, analytical thinking.

Iron Science Teacher – Videos of this regular feature at the San Francisco Exploratorium are great fun and great science.

Online Dictionaries – Barbara Feldman, one of our favorite web seekers, recommends five dictionary sites suitable for the classroom.

Robot Building Projects –This brief article in Edutopia includes info on Lego robots and links to how-to articles.

National Geographic Kids – This highly interactive site is as engaging as the popular print magazine version.

The Perfect Corpse – History and science students will have an above-average interest in this PBS Nova site documenting the exploration of an 8000 year old cemetery in a peat bog near Disneyworld.

SoundJunction – Students can do amazing things with music. Access interactive games, musical excerpts, interviews and videos and compose with easy tools.

The American West – Great site supporting the PBS American Experience series. Includes a teacher's guide and two full-length episodes.

Vocabulary Games –Barbara Feldman picks some of her favorite vocabulary websites, with an emphasis on engaging games.

Research Paper Strategy –This detailed lesson describes how picture books can give middle school students frames for structuring research projects, "freeing them from the language of their encyclopedia sources.".

Science Fair Ideas - Goodness knows, we could all use some! Websurfing educator Barbara Feldman shares several of her favorite resources.

More Links on Our Hot Links Archive Pages