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Kinder Castles - Help your children learn about medieval
times through the lesson plans offered through this site.
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper - There are tons of links
here in all sorts of subjects to assist you in finding the
information you need on the internet.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - This is a
collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways
to use them in the classroom and collections of books and
activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes
and professional topics.
Chemistry Instruction at Merlin's Academy of Alchemy - The
best Chemistry courses on the Internet. Self-learning,
self-paced, hyper textbook and email tutoring. Low cost, high
quality chemistry education for home school or institutions.
Chinese Book and Supply Company - We are dedicated to
helping families teach their children the Chinese language
with easy to learn books, audio tapes, and CD's.
Directory of tutors - Search for or register as a tutor.
Search by area code, state, subject, education level. Find a
tutor in your area that is right for you!
DIY Glycolysis Home Page - If you want to learn the
fundamental biochem reaction (glycolosis) this is the place to
go. This self-paced program, developed at the University of
Leeds, is a bit advanced for the young folks but is a great
place to learn some biochem and organic chemistry.
Educational Courses on the Web - Virtual courses on the
Web!
Educational Field Trip Resources - Virtual Field Trips to
interesting, educational and fun sites covering areas such as
science, history, biology, astronomy etc. This is a great
resource to home-schoolers, teachers, parents, daycare
providers or anyone else who might be interested in having it.
Explorations 4 Kids - A directory of web sites for
learning.
Family friendly guide to educational references. - Our
directory of high-quality educational and reference links will
speed you on your way without frustration. Carefully selected
to be useful, interesting, and family-friendly.
Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource Page -
Finite Mathematics.
Free 4 Schools - Free Things for schools, teachers and
kids. Large collection of categorized lesson plans and has the
"Lesson Plan a Day" newsletter.
Free Focusing on Words Newsletter - A free newsletter
about words in the news with an emphasis on words that are
derived from Latin and Greek sources that are used in English.
Home 2 Learn Home study Help - Fahrenheit to/from Celsius
converter, and various pages that you can print out including
math and phonics sheets.
Home school Highway to Learning - Designed to help new
home-scholars quickly find home schooling resources.
i list - A web reference featuring search engines, subject
guides, reference desk, homework help, books online, news
media online, family resources, & more. From the Groton Public
Schools, Groton, CT.
KA Enterprises - Learn to read - Jump Into Products are
reproducible language programs to introduce young children to
reading and writing, phonics and drama.
Kids Infoplease Almanac - A large reference site just for
kids. Find homework help and facts on thousands of subjects,
including sports, entertainment, geography, history,
biography, education and health.
Kimmy Smith's Homepage - teacher links, student resources,
ADHD resources, novel guides, lesson plans, free stuff for
teachers
Arts
and Social Sciences
ADAM -- Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
(ADAM) is an expanding, searchable database of over 1600
internet resources selected by professional librarians for the
benefit of the United Kingdom's Higher Education community.
Sites included in the database pertain to fine art, design,
architecture, applied arts, media, theory, museum studies and
conservation, as well as professional practice related to any
of these areas. Search ADAM by Boolean keyword query.
ARLIS/NA
Members of the arts information community in North America and
worldwide will find information pertaining to the Arts
Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) at this site.
Using keyword searches, retrieve information on departments,
chapters, conferences, reviews, and news, as well as other
ARLIS publications and external Web links.
Art & Craft Shows Net Event Search
Find the nearest arts and craft show, fair or festival at Arts
and Craft Shows. These site features an online database of
more than 2000 arts and crafts events submitted to the
Sunshine Artist magazine. Find an Art and Craft Show, Art and
Craft Fair or Art and Craft Event countrywide. Current
listings cover Mar 1999 through Feb 2000. Users may search the
database by dates, city, state or region, and retrieve a list
of matching dates, events, facilities, cities, and states
presented in chronological order.
Art Guide Search
The WWW Art Guide site employs the Art Spider search engine to
retrieve the URL, title and description of sites relating to
all aspects of art. Users may retrieve results by simple
keyword queries.
Art History at Linkopedia
Linkopedia.com, a Canada-based Web Guide that links to
family-oriented sites, offers access to a variety of Art
History resources in cyberspace. An easy keyword search will
retrieve sites on art history that can provide cultural
enrichment for the entire family.
Art Imagebase at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Sponsored by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art
Image-base consists of more than 60,000 images of renowned
works by over 15,000 artists worldwide. Images may be accessed
by keyword searches, the artist's last name, country or
period. Images are accompanied by information about the work
and the artist who created it. Users are also provided two
display options to view the image.
Art Planet The Internet Fine Art Directory!
Art Planet, the expanding Internet Fine Art Directory,
includes over 7,500 galleries and artists as well as more than
16,000 works in a searchable on-line database. Users may
search by a single keyword or by artist-related fields (first
name, last name, style, medium, century and more). Tabular
results include style, medium, artist name, and company
carrying the artist linked to additional information including
other artists carried, contact information and, when
available, link to the company's homepage.
Arthur from Getty Information Institute
The Getty Information Institute presents ARTHUR (ART media and
text Hub and Retrieval System) as a user-friendly tool to
search and access 30,000 images with accompanying text taken
from 300 Web sites accumulated into five different online
databases. Visitors may search for images by image similarity,
contextual similarity or keyword queries, and keyword searches
may include Boolean operators, truncation and parentheses for
the retrieval of phrases. Users having difficulty selecting
the right search terms may consult the online vocabulary,
which compiles numerous terms for artists, places and
art-terminology from three different databases: ULAN, the
Union List of Artist Names; the Getty Thesaurus of
Geographical Places; and the Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences INFOMINE
Created and maintained by the University of California,
INFOMINE: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences compiles over 900
Internet resources, electronic text archives, e-journals,
online subject guides and databases into one searchable
catalog. Users may retrieve information by keyword or focus on
subject or title fields.
ArtsEdNet
Sponsored by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts,
ArtsEdNet features publications, image galleries, chat rooms,
and ample ideas of infusing art education with creativity and
fun. Search the entire ArtsEdNet Web site or solely the
ArtsEdNet Talk Archive by keyword.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is the official site of the Museum of
Science, Art and Human Perception in San Francisco,
California. Use the Excite search engine for Web servers to
locate current and past online exhibits, Web casts, images and
sounds from among the over 1,000 pages comprising the site.
Don't forget to check out the live Web Cam of the area
surrounding the museum!
Interactive Collector
The Interactive Collector maintains an on-line database of
Internet Auctions and catalogs of previous auctions,
exhibitions, galleries and dealers since 1994. Use simple
keyword queries to locate the collector's item of your dreams.
International Directory of Art Libraries
The International Directory of Art Libraries allows you to
access contact information from more than 3,000 library and
library departments worldwide with specialized holdings in art
and architectural works. Information included are addresses,
telephone numbers, fax numbers, hours of operation, annual
closings, personnel listings, email addresses and Web links.
Internet
Internet Art Resources is an on-line database of information
pertaining to galleries, museums, art shows, art fairs and art
schools that is updated daily. Visitors may search for the
latest art news, news that is a week old, or news over 30 days
old. The database may be searched by keywords utilizing the
Boolean operators AND/OR by exact phrase.
National Gallery of Art Artist/Title Search
Peruse the vast collection of the National Gallery of Art in
Washington D.C. without leaving your computer desk. Visitors
may search for their favorite works of art by the artist's
last name and/or keyword in title. Users may also limit
results to images only.
Sargent at Harvard Search the Database
Over 400 drawings, paintings, sculptures and related works by
American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) which exist
in the Harvard University Art Museums and Portrait Collection
may be accessed at this site, Sargent at Harvard. Images and
accompanying text may be retrieved by full text or keyword
queries or by accession number. Descriptive text includes
accession number; title, medium, date, and dimensions of work;
and credit line.
Smithsonian Web Museums & Organizations
Access any of the Web sites of Smithsonian museums and
organizations, including the National Air and Space Museum,
National Museum of American Art, National Museum of Natural
History, and the National Museum of American History. Results
are presented as titles (with summaries for advanced results
templates) linked to the resources including magazine
articles, photo essays, bibliographies, reviews, reports, and
events, among others. This gateway to Smithsonian Web sites is
sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution itself.
The Internet Art Database
The Internet Art Database (or dART for short) compiles art
works from more than 2000 Web sites created and maintained by
artists, individual collectors, dealers and galleries. Simple
searches can be executed by the first and last name of the
artist, title of the work, medium used, price, year created,
style, subject or simple keyword.
Web Gallery of Art Find a Collection
The Web Gallery of Art is an Irish site that offers access to
more than 5,000 digital reproductions of European paintings
and sculptures from the 11th to 16th Centuries. Most images
are accompanied by biographies of the artist and critiques of
the art work featured. Visitors may search for particular
works by artist, time-line, school, form, type, title and
Boolean-aided keyword searching.
World Wide Arts Resources
The World Wide Arts Resources compiles sites aimed at
educating both young and old about art. The database may be
searched by a simple keyword query.
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