Hot List of Sites by Lori Anne Wark

Take Me Home.

Australian National Botanic Gardens Biodiversity Server

http://155.187.10.12/anbg.html
Information about Australia and Botanical Gardens. Uses pictures and sound clips.Australian National Botanic Gardens Biodiversity Server

BBN K12 WWW Servers

http://copernicus.bbn.com:70/testbed2/k12/k12Resources.html
Pointers to the best collection of K-12 online resources for beginning Internet users.

A Celebration of Women Writers

Great links to the writings of women.

Central Intelligence Agency

http://www.odci.gov/
CIA Fact Book and good reference maps.

College of Earth and Minerals

http://www.ems.psu.edu/
Good visuals and scholarship.

Education Gophers

gopher://info.asu.edu/11/asu-cwis/education/other
A directory containing links to many of the most valuable Gopher resources in the area of professional education.

Educational Online Sources Gopher List

http://netspace.students.brown.edu/eos/gophers_image.html
Connections to onlineguides to using the net and education-oriented gophers.

Educational Online Sources Web List

http://netspace.students.brown.edu/eos/webs_image.html"
Path: Special coll.: Internet help/guide to education newsgroups
Number of educational sources including a report on a workshop on teaching and learning with the Web and links to other educational sources from language to math and science.

EdWeb: The On-Line K-12 Resource Guide

http://edweb.cnidr.org:90
Information on education, computers in education, and the information highway.

Einet Galaxy Education Page

http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Education.html
Contains a lot of pointers to adult education.

FedWorld Beta Home Page

http://www.fedworld.gov
Information on government report, press releases, IRS information and forms.

Interesting Places for Kids

http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/kids.html
Everything a kid could want to online including art, literature, dinosaurs and geometry.

Internet Directories

gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu
Path: humanities/history/Historical Documents from Queens Public Library/
E-text of historical speeches, 1990 Census data, and science information.

Internet Public Library

http://ipl.sils.umich.edu
A good source for professionals libraries to learn more and communicate with other professional libraries. Also, good section for kids to learn more about the library. Includes a good story section for children. Good graphics.

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Great pictures of every page of the recently recovered Walt Whitman Notebooks; also, the American Memory section has great graphics and excellent scholarship.

Mathematics Archives

http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html
A collection of Internet sites that can be used in the teaching of mathematics.

Montgomery Blair High School

http://goober.mbhs.edu
Innovative student work.

The Nine Planets

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Great visuals and scholarship and easy to navigate. Everything a kid could want to online including art, literature, dinosaurs and geometry.

SchoolWeb Exploration Project

http://k12.cnidr.org:90/swep.html
The Ed Web project, sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and CNIDR is a coalition of K-12 schools, universities and businesses, SchoolWeb helps K-12 schools begin their own Web publishing projects by teaming them up with sponsors who donate internet account and server space. The project is currently lookingn for sponsors and schools interested in participating in SchoolWeb.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Subway

http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/subway.html
Easy to navigate, wide range of museums from across the country, connections to Library of Congress, information on science, art, culture, and history.

Thomas Legislative Information

http://thomas.loc.gov
Good source for learning how U.S. government works, online Congressional records and E-Mail directory of Congress.

Uncle Bob's Kids' Page

http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/kidsi.html
Lots of interesting links to educational sites such as the Franklin Institute Virgual Science Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The White House Collection of American Crafts

http://www.nmaa.si.edu/whc/americancrafts
An interesting look at American crafts and their artists through video, sounds, and pictures.

Volcano World

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
Good pictures and scholarship; click on maps to locate volcanos and ask a volcanologist section.

Vote Smart Project

http://www.oclc.org/VoteSmart/lwv
Voting records, biographical details of service in Congress, performance evaluation, and campaign finance information of candidates, Representatives, and Senators.

Web66 Registry of Schools on the Web

http://web66.coled.umn.edu
Coalition of University of Minnesota College of Education and Hillside Elementary, Minneapolis, MN. Since March of 1994, they have hosted the Internet's most comprehensive list of K-12 School WWW servers. In the spirit of graphical information delivery on the Web, they are now providing a clickable map interface to our list of school web sites. They also provide text-only links to the various country and state lists.

Welcome to the White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov
Information on the workings of the Whitehouse, Cabinet and Government. Sound clips of President, Vice President and Socks the cat.

Wiretap

gopher://wiretap.spies.com
The Wiretap Online Library has a varied great collection of interesting subjects--historical documents, articles about space, Celtic myths, treaties and U.N. resolutions, world constitutions and spoonerisms.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library--Education

http://www.csu.edu.au/education/library.html Online lectures and tutorials, books, software and journals.

Yahoo--A Guide to WWW--Education

http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/education/
Links to educational resources plus sections on grants and college entrance requirements.

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