Gifted and Talented Gifted and Talented Halcyon: For science -- a central place to ask questions and get them answered. For many subject areas -- some quizzes are ready made and available or you can develop your own quiz on the site. KidsClick!: A general SEARCH engine -- great for kids and many subject areas. Spacelink is for science. It has a great library of pictures of the Earth. Cloudnet: A great place for world languages! MULTIPLE LESSONS IN FRENCH, GERMAN, HMONG, SPANISH, CHINESE AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE. McRel: A good site for teachers. Contains many subject areas. Good for world languages. Promo: Here you will find electronic copies, available for download and printable, of many classics -- pre 1923. Shakespeare. All (not his poetry) his work on line and ready to download and print! EduPlace: A good place for English teachers. Send students to Evaluation Station to check their writing. Newly launched modes include Persuasive Essay and Opinion for Grades 2-5 and Opinion and Story for Grades 6-8. Zuzu: Here's your chance to write a story and get published in the next edition of the ZuZu site! Use your imagination to weave a tale to go with this mysterious picture by children's book artist and author Peter Sis. MathForum: A good teacher resource for many levels of math ... up to calculus. Biographies of women in mathematics. These pages are part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. There are biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos. ThinkQuest: This site is about outer space. You will learn about black holes, comets, constellations, eclipses, observation equipment, phases of the Moon, the planets, the stars and the Sun, and last but not least the Universe. You will find neat pictures, and be able to use a virtual telescope. ENC: A resource for teachers in math and science. Science Gems: Great site with lots of resources for teachers, parents and students -- K-16 support. InnerBody: Good site for human anatomy lessons. The Learning Web, a portion of the USGS web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Visit often and explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth such as plants and animals, land, water, and maps. Learn how Biology, Geology, Hydrology, and Geography can help us understand our changing world. Kidquest: Kids can submit questions to scientists and get them answered. MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. For good measure we provide a variety of oddities and other ends as well. The Science Llearning Network -- resources, news/links and ONLINE MUSEUMS. The St. Louis Science Education Network: Good k-12 links. The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education. Many resources are available in the Adobe Acrobat format. Sponsor for the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Popsci: MORE THAN 550 billion unique documents available on the Web and an estimated 7 million or more pages being added daily. Sites that cover a broad range of topics, from spiral galaxies to an electronics treasure trove, interactive games, video clips, animations, and breathtaking pictures. USACO supports pre-college computing around the world through computer programming competitions and training materials. HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES K-12The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom. HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES: The national councils web page -- great links A-Z! The Oregon Trail web site--the award-winning story of the great western journey. Enjoy the adventure! The U.S. Geological Survey: Topics range from earth quacks to floods to volcanoes. Lots of links! Critical Thinking Skills -- General Site. These links are tailored to the needs of Primary and Secondary Educators and Administrators interested in developing their own critical thinking skills and those of their students. A MODEL FOR HOW TO TEACH WITH THE WEB: This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the Web Quest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with Web Quests will be able to learn from each other.