Adults are responsible for determining appropriateness of all sites before using with children.  Due to the changing nature of the Internet, we can not be held responsible for bad sites although every effort is made to only include child-friendly sites.  Links are listed with those specifically for younger children appearing first and those for all or older students appearing toward the end of the list.

Listings below are grouped by curricular area.

 English Raven an ESL site for children

EFL Teaching Recipes for English Language Learners

Learn Spanish Free Online

Learn French Free Online 

Classic Stories for Children

Aaron Shepard  Stories with nice illustrations for children

Internet 4 classrooms   K-8 skills resources, some linked to TN standards

Stephen Cosgrove's Book Pop Stories for children

Starfall Have fun learning to read

Word images help remember words

Etymology and History of first names

Online Etymology Dictionary where words including slang come from

Linguistics Language Log

OneLook takes the dictionary and thersaurus to places never dreamed before

ASL American Sign Language

28 Rules for English Spelling (and their exceptions)

Free Dictionary and so much more 

NaNoWriMo National Novel Writing Month (November each year) includes young writers' program

Phrontistory - Obscure, lost, rare, 3-letter words

Save the Words - A fun site for looking up interesting words

Free ACT and SAT test prep plus word of the day

Duotrope - a list of publishers for fiction and poetry

KhanAcademy  Learn almost anything for free

Skills help for K-8 students

Every Day Math resources K-5

Soft School K-8 includes French and Spanish, traditional worksheets, quizzes

Math Forum all things math including Ask Dr. Math

MathDoodles math games for kids

Hoodamath  Academic Math Games grades K-12

Aunty Math challenges for K-5 learners

Cool Math  Comprehensive math site

Figure This math challenges for families 

Math Cats activities in an interactive blackboard style

M.C. Escher Mathematics of art

Fractals for elementary and middle schools

Fractal Art Gallery  Arguably the most beautiful fractal gallery in the world with more than 700 fractals

3-D Mandelbrot Fractals - beautiful

Fractal geometry A Yale site

Einstein for Everybody  An understandable text

Abacus the art of calculating with beads (interactive site)

Absurd math Prealgebra from another dimension

Math Humor Jokes, stories, riddles, limericks 

Babylonian mathematics

BeatCalc Beat the Calculator (a free subscription)

Brightstorm Thousands of free videos for homework help and lessons Algebra 1 through Calculus

Explore Math Advanced concepts

Fibonacci numbers and the golden section

Girls go Tech (a Girl Scouts site)

How to Calculate Pi by throwing frozen hot dogs

Web Sudoku - lots of online Sudoku puzzles

Daily Sudoku - a new puzzle every day

More Sudoku - Select your difficulty level

Logical Fallacies and their proofs

Problem of the Week 4 levels of problems elementary - algebra

Numb3rs - the TV show and weekly math problems based on that week's episode's math - An excellent source for high level problems

Beautiful Fibonacci Sequence 3:45 video clip 

KhanAcademy  Learn almost anything for free

K-8 skills some linked to TN standards

Pendulums Harmonic and Non-harmonic Motion

Energy Quest 

Weather Wiz Kids (Indiana site) 

Science Quizzes K-8

Science worksheets and games (links to quizzes above)

Astronomy for Kids An Astronomy magazine site

BrainPop Health, science and technology

Cool Science for Curious Kids (Site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Eco Kids  (Canadian Site) 

Time lapse photography  from Tenerife at more than 2,000 meters above sea level

More time lapse photograhy from Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgierd atop Spain's highest mountain

Science Buddies an award winning, general science fair site

Wonderville a Candian site

Cogito (A Johns-Hopkins site)

Disect a frog tutorial

KhanAcademy  Learn almost anything for free

Einstein for Everybody  An understandable text for older students and adults
 

 World Atlas Free

Japan Kids Web

Meet Me At The Corner Virtual Field Trips (incluides a kids' introduction to geocaching)

National Geographic Kids

Show Me United Kingdom Virtual National Museum

White House Kids' site

Jamestown An innovative virtual site

50 States History, facts and faces

Country Reports Anthems, flags, history, symbols and more

Grand Archeological Sites French

Degree Confluence Project Latitude and longitude intersections in the world

World Sunlight Map Realtime including cloud cover

Xpeditions A National Geographic website

Also visit the Colorado History links on the Resources Page

KhanAcademy  Learn almost anything for free

Classics for Kids Includes many cross-generational children's stories, fairy tales, fables, etc.

Fractal World Gallery Stunningly beautiful fractal art

How does one make art solely by using mathematic formulas?  An explanation

The Getty Museum for kids including jackson Pollack

San Francisco Symphony for kids, create music

Free Sheet Music from the Historic American Sheet Music Collection and Library of Congress

The Animated Internet  Learn how the Internet works through animation

Make Believe Comics (in Spanish, too)

Cartoonster Create cartoons

The Cave of Lascaux Perhaps the world's most famous cave art

Chinese Watermelon Art Amazing carvings that can be used on other veggies, too

Fractal Art Blending art and mathematics by Janet Parke

Microscopic Sculptures by Willard Wigan (click on View Originals)

Blueprint of the Cosmos - Essential patterns in nature

M. C. Escher Official Gallery

Art Daily galleries and other links

Metropolitan Museum of Art An extensive vitual museum

Smithsonian kids

Virtual Museum of Canada Access lesson plans and other educational resources from Canadian museums

Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in art, architecture and music

Web Exhibits Science in art

Time lapse photography  from Tenerife at more than 2,000 meters above sea level

More time lapse photograhy from Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgierd atop Spain's highest mountain

WebMuseum with links to museums around the world

Polyhedra hundreds of paper models

Stephen O'Hanlon's Origami page

Virtual keyboard Electronic keyboard options including different sounds and rhythm

KhanAcademy  Learn almost anything for free