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Avibase-The World Bird Database
Comprehensive site for bird watchers.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Avibase-The World Bird Database is a comprehensive online database available to anyone with an Internet connection. The site is managed by Denis Lepage and is hosted by Bird Studies Canada. It includes summaries, maps, taxonomies, and links to further information.

EdHeads: Activate Your Mind
Nicely interactive site on select science topics.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
This engaging interactive site teaches students about simple machines, the weather, and knee surgery through three animated modules that are tied to state and national science standards.

Elementary Art Lesson Plans
Enjoyable art lessons from a retired teacher.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
As the name suggests, this site offers elementary art lessons from Sandy Meadors, who taught elementary art for 29 years. The lessons are written for elementary students, but many of them could be used for middle- and high-school students.

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
An American Museum of Natural History exhibit hopping with pics and info.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This site from the American Museum of Natural History explores the world of frogs including information about species, reproduction, ecosystems, and more.

High School Journalism
Hold page 1! Visit this site by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Grade Level: 9-12
The American Society of Newspaper Editors created this site as a resource for high school journalism students and their teachers. It provides more than 218 archived lesson plans, comments from the pros, and other resources and information useful to students and teachers.

Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
Map-based resources and lessons for social studies, history, and geography.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms is a project of the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. It features lesson plans built around historically significant map documents that support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula.

Illinois Early Learning Project: Tip Sheets
Early childhood tip sheets for parents, teachers.
Grade Level: Parents, Teachers
This Web site was developed by the state of Illinois as part of the Illinois Early Learning Project to provide a "a source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children." Although written for residents of Illinois, the site is relevant to any parent or teacher of young children.

Just Move
The American Heart Association's site to promote exercise for heart health.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
The American Heart Association created Just Move in an effort to help people learn the importance of nutrition and exercise as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Kanji Alive
An interactive guide to kanji, Japanese character writing.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Kanji Alive, created at the University of Chicago, is an interactive tool for learning to read and write Kanji (a Japanese system of writing that utilizes characters borrowed or adapted from Chinese writing).

Lakota Winter Counts
Native American artifacts "counted" time by picturing a key event each year.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This online exhibit features the Lakota winter histories/calendars from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and the National Museum of the American Indian as well as other general information about the culture and history of the Lakota.

National Gallery of Art: Classroom
Super, easy-to-use site -- a great addition to your "favorites" list.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) Classroom offers lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and other resources to help teachers integrate the arts into the curriculum.

New York Public Library Digital Archive
Extraordinary resource from one of the world's greatest libraries.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
The New York Public Library developed this site to provide free online access to the general public to its more than 363,000 images including photographs, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

North American Mammals
A Smithsonian site all about our furry friends.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This site from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is a "searchable database of all living mammals of North America." The database features detailed descriptions, images, diagrams, and distribution range maps for more 400 mammals native to the North American continent and particularly the United States.

The Official Roald Dahl Site
A big, friendly giant peach of a chocolate factory of a site!
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
This official site of the well loved children's author, Roald Dahl, contains everything you ever wanted to know about Dahl and much more -- including biographical information and photos, lesson plans, and games.

Pyramid History
Browse like an Egyptian! A Web site from the BBC.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Pyramid History, presented by the BBC, offers a great collection of in-depth articles, interactive activities, multimedia galleries, timelines, and more about the Egyptian pyramids.

Science Interactive Body
Highly interactive site on human anatomy.
Grade Level: 9-12
This interactive site, produced by the BBC, allows users to explore the human body through a series of interactive activities.

Visual Fractions
Making fractions come to life with Web technology.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Visual Fractions is a collection of activities that use pie charts, number lines, and other graphics to illustrate fraction operations.

The Wonders of Mathematics
Inquiry-based math activities for K-12.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This site offers a series of inquiry-based mathematics activities that were created by teachers for staff development workshops delivered by the Galileo Educational Network Association (GENA) in conjunction with Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Woodland Park Zoo: Multimedia
Don't try to feed the animals through your computer screen!
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This multimedia area of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, offers students and teachers videos, Web cams, quizzes, and other interactive features to help students learn about animals.

The World War I Document Archive
Strong site about WWI for middle- and high-school use.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
This site, from the Brigham Young University Libraries, offers an online archive of primary documents from World War I. It includes photographs, diaries, and much more.