Before using any web site with students, you should make sure to thoroughly review it. This article provides five considerations to evaluate before using a site in your classroom.

Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.

Interactive websites are designed to help you learn through simulations and interaction. Here you will be learning about interactive websites such as Google Maps and Quizlet through a series of three quests. Text sections are available...

This is a two-page PDF of the instructions for a Medieval Diary Multimedia Project. Students choose a character from an Arthurian legend and write a diary as the character. It provides instructions, topics for discussion, format choices,...

In this learning module, students learn how to: use Michigan eLibrary, boolean logic, and dictionary.com; use search engines; choose reputable websites; cite sources; and differentiate between real and fake information. Includes an...

Students explore the distinctions between the quality and appeal of a children's informational website. They use both types of criteria to rate and compare children's informational websites.

Students learn about some of the features that attract and retain visitors to websites. They also learn to recognize the commercial motives that sometimes lie behind these "sticky" sites. Free membership required.

This site includes background information on how James Hargreaves got his inspiration for his invention of the "Spinning Jenny." Also discusses the machine's usefulness and controversy.

What a find! Here you have a detailed chronology and biography of this beloved writer, an introduction and questions and answers by the site's editor, Dr. Zeus, and a chat room to pursue further study. Also includes audio excerpts by...

A great page for state reports! Find a special section for kids from each state as well as some extra sites of interest such as the Kansas State Historical Society for Kids.

Jethro Tull (1674-1741) invented a machine that helped to increase the harvest yield by planting seeds in straight lines, a vast improvement over sowing by hand that led to greater crop yields.

Learn how plants absorb water through either root systems or vessels in their stems with this site. Also understand how important water is to the make up of the plant!

A section of a textbook on European history. It examines what it was like to live in urban settings during the Second Industrial Revolution.

This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explains why the atomic structure of a diamond slows down light and produces a sparkle more brilliant than from any other colorless substance.

Discover the difference between free-falling and weightlessness in this interactive activity from the NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars" Web site.

This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Odyssey of Life" Web site explores the often unwitting relationship we share with the billions of "creepy crawlies" that reside in our bodies and in our homes.

This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.

This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.

Which part of your brain controls your ability to swallow? Your instinct to survive? And how do all the brain's parts function cooperatively? Find out with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Coma" Web site.

An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...

Travel on a Virtual Field Trip to learn more about William Shakespeare. You will find many deep, and thorough websites.

NASA Web Site about the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project which included Donald "Deke" Slayton, one of the original seven American astronauts. The mission was the first joint Soviet-American space mission. Links are provided to descriptions and...

Detailed, comprehensive information on countries and people all over the world. Great tool for discovering facts on world issues, seeing photos, and just exploring the world in general. Also includes quizzes based on the website's content.

A collection of links to websites for creating and scoring rubrics, articles and information about rubrics, rubric templates and generators, and samples of art rubrics.