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MysteryGuide.com The most highly rated web-site in the Mystery Books collection of the directory, making Go.com the second major web portal to single out Mystery.com as the best in its catagory.

Citizens Bank This site provides essays about several financial situations, including saving for college. The essay contains information on various options for saving money towards your childs education, including certificates of deposit. you can also find information about obtianing personal education loans.

College Money Matters This site maintained by Signet Bank, features information for educational funding, including an outstanding reference area. Also learn about college budgeting,as well asalternative funding options for college.

College Solutions The College Solutions site provides guidance about choosing the right college and finding the financing for it.You can fil out a 10-question survey to determine if you are ready for the decisions required to make a solid choice and be warned abuot the four most often made mistakes during the decision process.

The Student Guide U.S. Department of Education handbook offering awealth of information on government student aid programs .

The Financial Aid Information Page This site has the scoop on ever thing from scholarships to alerts on popular financail aid swindles .

COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN NETWORK Serving as a clearing house for information among existing college savings programs, the site monitors state student aid programs, documents the phenomenal growth in state college saving plans and offers help in contacting each states plan for information.

Libraries

Infoplease.com Answer trivia questions such as"What is the Florida state flower"?at this online reference. Most usefull is its Fact Finder you can use to browse the Web.

OneLook Dictionaries The metasurfer of the dictionary world, OneLook allows you to type in any word and instead of searching just a single volume, OneLook will probe its huge list of specialized and general dictionaries to give you the most comprehensive group of definitions.

A Web of online Dictionaries This group of links allows you many variations on the international- dictionary theme.You'll also find the Esperanto- Russian Dictionary as well as a welsh Spell-Checker.

Alta Vista Translation Services Write a letter in English to your family in a far away country and have it converted to thier native tounge with Altavista's Babelfish translation service!Be advised machines can yeild incorrect results,so make sure you don't use to many idiomatic phrases!

Mr.Smith's E-mail This 1999 version of Mr. Smith goes to Washington , provides you with the forms you'll need to sound off to the White House, Senate, and House of representitives and for when they won't listen there are also forms for selected newspapers, magizines and TV Networks.

FedStats Just about any Government statistics that is public knowledge can be found here.

Learn2.com At this site you can learn all the things that Mother never taught you ! Anything from playing chess to cleaning silverware.Catch up on lessons lost at Learn2.

Internet Public Library -- The IPL , claims to be the first publc library in the internet community geared to finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing and creating quality information resources .

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library This is a nicely organized, cross-referenced site listing everything from aboriginal studies to zoos. history resources of various types. The links are detailed by alphabetical order, by era, and by region.This full-featured site offers clickable maps of the world and specific information about many countries. It also has a list of other online resources. This would be a good place to send a student to start research.

The Mark Twain Library This site provides electronic texts of Mark Twain's works. This site is not yet complete, but there are several works available. It also lists other pages with Mark Twain resources.

Homework Central This site helps students pinpoint the information they need by helping them narrow down their topics.

Schoolwork.org Her you'll find numerous topic catagories along with a fairly comprehensive list of Web sites that contain information about each topic.

Fastweb.com This site helps you search for a scholarship database.

The Homework Page This is a nicely organized general subject guide page. The concept behind the page is researching a homework assignment, so it's easy to use. Links are categorized by subject matter, and also by age group.

Resourses

Southern California University For Professional Studies earn your college degree in the leader in distance learning.

Educational Resources hot link here to more info on a number of topics

Academy One

Academy One is an international, online resources for students, parents, and K-12 educators and administrators. Academy One sponsors Internet projects throughout the year, including a Mousetrap-Powered Vehicle Competition, the TeleOlympics, and the Math Olympics. They also have a curriculum database and an index of other on-line projects. This is a great resource!

This page has good links to several resources on adult education. This site is useful because distance education, adult education, and the Internet can be integrated to work together to deliver instruction. It also asks for user contributions to the collection of resources

The fascinating world of hands-on science and math investigations for K-9 students awaits you at the AIMS Education Foundation! Students quickly become immersed in AIMS activities because they integrate the study of mathematics and science in a meaningful manner. They quickly realize the value of mathematics and learn to "work like scientists."

The two most useful features on this page are the Schoolhouse and the Internet InfoCenter. The Schoolhouse contains a Recreation Area with info on hands-on projects and hobbies, a Teacher's Lounge with lesson plans and curriculum guides, and a Student Activities Center, with online activities and projects. Also available in a text-only version

Apple's Virtual Campus is designed to showcase Apple's vision of the campus of the future, while strengthening the technologies of today. The site lists learning technologies such as distance learning, talks about collaboration and information access, and the mobile student. It also contains a link to Highway 1, a not-for-profit corporation formed to support innovative use of new technologies in the legislative environment and democratic process.

Aristotle is a server at the college of education at Idaho State University. It includes an online newspaper, links to Macintosh software, and a beautiful graphical interface.

A student-produced site, featuring information on AI, including Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms - also contains loads of links to other AI sites.

The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements page includes a Test Review Locater, a catalog of Buros publications, digest articles, and a reviewer application form.

K-12 Internet resource for teachers. Organized by subject area with annotated links to sites that lead directly to source materials. Excellent resource for teachers beginning their exploration of the Internet. More advanced Internet users will like the direct access to resource-rich sites.

A text only site that adds humor to the standard laws of physics. Each law is illustrated by an example using cartoon characters. The site is not only humorous but could also be of educational value to a teacher attempting to make introductory physics more understandable.

This page has a collection of educational and interactive resources. Some resources listed are Internet projects, art, civics, interactive games, and science. Grins' Message, the online story, is especially cute.

This is a nicely organized site offered by the same company that produces Classroom Connect, a newsletter about using Internet in the classroom. The site includes a listing of schools with web pages organized by country, and a page with reviews and information from major educational conferences. They also have a searchable educational resources page with links organized either alphabetically or by subject, as well as links to educational vendors and relevant newsgroups. A very useful page!

Welcome to the College Prep Page, a collection of resources for planing your education. Here you will find information on financial aid, admissions, career planning, and much more.

This site contains many activities for use in the classroom. There is a section for teachers and for students. The online activities could prove useful to students working in class and at home.

This is the Laboratory Web Site developed by the Cornell Theory Center for the Cornell University undergraduate computer graphics course, CS 418. Our goal is to develop an online service for the students to review lab procedures and results, as well as present lecture material and project animations for all to view.

This site provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12. Te resources are divided into standard subject areas, and the page also includes links to online field trips and museums. The site also offers journal and research articles.

This site has links to international distance learning resources for community and higher education. This page is from Canada, where much has been done with using distance technologies for continuing community education. Good examples and links.

ESI Online calls itself a "one-stop educational software resource center", and hosts a large collection of K-12 educational software divided into 19 categories. They also feature the "Product Finder ", a search tool for finding specific products as opposed to browsing the online catalog. You can fill up your "shopping bag" with products along the way, and figure shipping, etc. Very easy to use!

eWorld on the Web Learning Community provides educators, students and parents with a simple and easy way to find extensive educational information on the Web. Users will be directed to information from a wide variety of sources including content from Apple's education division, learning institutions, educational publications and museums.

Galileo is a collection of scores of science lesson plans for K-12 science teachers for classroom use. This is a fairly long file, but in straight text, so the download isn't too long. A useful, straightforward resource.

Genetic Engineering is taught to 36 other schools in the state of Colorado through the Internet

Grolier Interactive, the international CD-ROM multimedia reference and entertainment publisher of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records, Science Fiction encyclopedia, World Cup Soccer, and Modern Art, introduces its new customer-oriented Web site. Featured this month is The Grolier Challenge drawn from comprehensive information on WWII. Take the challenge and win a prize.

Here is another good page listing home schooling resources. It is divided into home schooling Web sites, relevant educational directories, and ERIC info guides. A good collection for getting home school research started.

I*EARN is the International Education and Resource Network, and is composed of teachers and young people working together in different parts of the world via a global telecommunications network. The purpose of I*EARN is to enable participants to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful difference in the health and welfare of the planet and its people. This site holds information from all the international projects, as well as entry points for the I*EARN member newsgroups. A good site for adding an international, multicultural dimension to your class.

This site contains images and other multimedia files related to earth science. The resources are available in either Windows or Mac formats, and the player needed to view the files is available at the site. There is even an online tutorial to learn how to use the resources.

This site is a great place for online information about home-schooling. It's very complete, with links to other web pages, online curriculum guides, listservs, newsgroups, etc. A good site, especially considering the role that the Internet could potentially play in home-schooling and other non-traditional educational methods.

The Cornell Theory Center is committed to providing a wide range of educational services to the national community. This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12.

This page has links to many good online math sites. It lists lesson plans, curriculum guides, and interactive links such as the Gallery of Interactive Geometry. It also has listings of math-related newsgroups.

MathMagic is a K-12 Internet project aimed at involving teachers and students in problem solving. Registered teams from all over the world pair up to discuss and find ways of solving the challenges that are posted in each of four categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. The project has received excellent reviews and is carried by most major math servers that include the K-12 community in their membership.

MATHMOL's goal is to provide students, teachers and the general public with information about the rapidly growing field of molecular modeling, and to provide K-12 students with basic concepts in mathematics and their connection to molecular modeling. This Web site contains supporting materials for this project, such as a hypermedia textbook, a library of 3D molecular models, and online challenges for students. This is a good resource for higher math and science students and teachers.

The Mount St. Helens web site is one of the most comprehensive, self-contained, educational sites, on the web. It is packed with simple to navigate imagemaps, and has over 1490 still images of the mountain before, during and after the eruption. You can find out about: The People, Mount St. Helens & Other Volcanoes, Other Mount St. Helens Resources, Plants and Animals and, there is curriculum available for classroom use.

Extensive amount of links on education and resources. Has whole section devoted to mathematics, science, and technology.

This great site holds NASA's public online library of lesson plans, satellite and shuttle images, and much more. The page is in both image map and text-only formats. It also has information on space careers, interdisciplinary units, and software. This is also available through Telnet.

This site contains 26 lessons from the 12th season of the television show, Newton's Apple. Topics range from brain mapping to bread chemistry to the Hubble telescope to printing money to a raptor hospital: activities, questions, and further investigation suggestions. A useful tool for the teacher and parent.

This site offers information on undergraduate colleges and universities, business, law and medical schools, and other graduate schools. It also gives financial aid tips, and offers a *free* sample of any standardized entry exam (i.e. SAT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, etc.). This is a good research site for those pursuing further education.

This page is a collection of lots of resources for private, independent, and religiously-affiliated schools. The site is divided into organizations, school home pages, private school resources guides, and vendor information. Nicely organized and easy to use.

The purpose of this server is to provide students a fast, free way to get information about private preparatory schools directly from the institution. IT has listings form several private schools, and more are expected as the site near completion. This will become a good resource for those seeking a prep school education.

This server maintains a complete electronic hypertext collection of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, and index, and a glossary. It also has a Bartlett's quotations, and links to other Shakespeare resources on the Internet. If reading Romeo and Juliet from a textbook doesn't interest you, maybe the online version with hypertext links to the glossary will!

This is the homepage of Digital Frog International Inc. (DFI), a company dedicated to producing high quality educational software. Our flagship product, The Digital Frog CD-ROM, won two educational technology awards prior to release, and has received many favourable reviews . Our page describes DFI and contains a fully featured Web version of The Digital Frog. Come have a peek!

This is a multimedia essay about the solar system with text, pictures, soundsand an occasional movie. Each of the planets and major moons in the solar system is briefly described and illustrated with pictures from NASA spacecraft. This is a great source for information for a science project or basic research paper.

An amazing on-line traing course which teaches you how to dramatically improve your memory powers - improve exam grades, learn foreign vocabulary, plus much more.