KidzSearch - a Google-powered search engine that filters out inappropriate content. It also has a variety of educational features, such as games, videos, and articles.

Kiddle - a search engine that is designed specifically for kids. It features simple, colorful graphics and results that are safe and age-appropriate.

DuckDuckGo For Kids - a privacy-focused search engine that does not track your search history. It also has a "SafeSearch" filter that can be used to block inappropriate content.

Google SafeSearch - a feature that can be enabled in Google to filter out inappropriate content. It is available in both the web browser and the Google app.

Bing Kids - a search engine that is designed for kids. It features safe and age-appropriate results, as well as educational games and activities.

SafeSearch Kids - enhanced by Google Safe Search; for grades K-8; also has social media safety, Tik-Tok safety, teens on Twitter, Safe Instagram, and more

Middle School Students:

These search engines are all safe and reliable, and they offer a variety of features that can help middle school students with their research.

Bing....................https://www.bing.com/
Google................https://www.google.com/
DuckDuckGo.......https://duckduckgo.com/
Ecosia.................https://www.ecosia.org/
StartPage............https://startpage.com/
Qwant..................https://www.qwant.com/
Ixquick.................https://www.startpage.com/
Dogpile................http://www.dogpile.com
Baidu..................https://www.baidu.com/
Naver..................https://www.naver.com/

Elementary Students:

Kiddle.............................https://www.kiddle.co/
KidzSearch.....................https://www.kidzsearch.com/

KidsSearch.....................http://kidssearch.com/
KidRex............................https://www.alarms.org/kidrex/

DibDabDoo.....................http://dibdabdoo.com/
DuckDuckGo..................http://duckduckgo.com/

FactMonster...................https://www.factmonster.com/
Google SafeSearch....... Read About It Here

Kidtopia...........................http://kidssearch.com/

SweetSearch..................https://sweetsearch.com/

KidsClick - Web Search for Kids by Librarians .........https://technologyeduc.com/kids-search-engine/

Curriculum Materials

Tools for Educators - Productivity

SchoolNotes.com

Teachers - Create notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free community service.
Parents and Students - view notes from your teachers by entering your School ZIP Code.
http://www.schoolnotes.com

Apple's iCloud

Use Apple's iCloud storage service and get 5GB of free online storage space for uploading documents, images, files and more.
Store photos and videos to access from any device.
Share files with students and colleagues
Back up your devices so you don't lose your data if your device is lost or stolen.
Use iCloud Mail to send and receive email.
Use iCloud Drive to store files in the cloud.
Use iCloud Find My to track your devices.

Quia - helps educators teach by giving them the tools to create, customize, and share learning activities.

Quia helps students learn by bringing the resources of hundreds of thousands of educators together in one place.
And Quia helps publishers, businesses, and government agencies present their content in an interactive, easy-to-use format with no knowledge of programming languages and very little technical skill.
http://www.Quia.com

Quiz Center

Quiz Center is a powerful tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Without any Web development background whatsoever, you'll be able to make online quizzes that provide instant feedback to you and your students.
Quiz Center is the most flexible and comprehensive quiz-making application on the Web-and it's free!
All you have to do is join My Discovery and set up a Custom Classroom.
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html

The Quiz Factory

Easily create HTML quizes for any purpose.
No grades are recorded with this service.
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/cit/quizzes/quizfactory.html

More Productivity Sites:

Busy Teacher's Website.............................http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

Classroom Connect..................................http://www.classroom.net/

K-12 Curriculum and Lesson Plan Sources......http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/k-12.html

Rubrics and Assessment

Design your own rubrics:

Developing Rubrics for Middle School...http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html

How to Create a Rubric from Scratch .......... .http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Create_Rubric/create_rubric.html

Online Resources for Assessment........http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/online.htm

Oral Presentation Rubric...................http://www.ncsu.edu:80/midlink/rub.pres.html

Power Point Rubric.........................http://www.uni.edu/profdev/rubrics/pptrubric.html

Rubric Builder..............................ht tp://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php3

Rubric Generator...........................http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Other rubrics:

Project Based Learning Scoring Rubric............http://pblmn.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/MMrubric.htm

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Assessment Rubrics..http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/asses.html

Electronic Portfolios:

Digital Portfolios..............................http://www.essentialschools.org/pubs/exhib_schdes/dp/dpframe.htm

Electronic Teaching Portfolios........ http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/class/edlf/589_004/resource.html

Alternative Assessment & Electronic Portfolios....http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios.html

Educational Sites for Kids

Awesome Library.................http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Berit's Best Sites for Children....... http://www.beritsbest.com/
Book Nook...................... http://www.jps.net/gmreed/lit/lit.htm
Especially for K-12 Students ...... http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~wwwcoe/kids.html
Global Show and Tell...........http://www.telenaut.com/gst
Google Historical Voyages And Events........https://sites.google.com/view/historicalvoyages/home
Kids Did This..................... http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kid-lang.html
Kids Korner.............http://www.kids-korner.com/
Kidstuff............ http://www.kidstuff.org/
Kid Pub.............http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Kids WEB..........http://www.npac.syr.edu:80/textbook/kidsweb/
Kid News.........................http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/news/
Kids News, Create a Newsletter....... http://www.kidsnewsdigital.com/
Mid Link Magazine............... http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink
MLA Works Cited Format......... http://wwwshs1.bham.wednet.edu/curric/cool/mla.htm
NASA K-12 Internet Initiative............http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
The Franklin Institute Online .......... http://sln.fi.edu/learning.html
The Kids' Web...................http://www.lws.com/kidsweb/links.htm
The Kids on the Web.................http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
Weather Dude.........................http://www.wxdude.com/
Yahooligans....................... http://www.yahooligans.com

Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Museums.............http://www.icom.org/vlmp
The Amazon Rainforest.......Click here
Discovery Education..........https://www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/
BrainPOP.........https://www.brainpop.com/about/tour/
National Geographic For Kids..........Click here
Smithsonian Learning Lab.......https://learninglab.si.edu/
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours...https://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/virtual-tour
Kennedy Space Center Virtual Tour....https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/streetview.html
The Louvre Virtual Tour..............https://www.louvre.fr/en/online-tours

The Louvre Museum in Virtual Reality ....................https://www.youvisit.com/tour/louvremuseum

Virtual Studio.......... http://www.virtualstudio.com.hk/samples.htm

Mars Pathfinder......http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/mars/default.html

Visit the "Eye of a Hurricane.........http://www.doorcounty.org/

Cyberflight into The eye of Hurricane Opal.....http://www.hurricanehunters.com/ cyberfly.htm

Visit Hawaii ......http://planet-hawaii.com/ph/byisland.html
The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Virtual Tour, National Park Service....https://nationalparkswitht.com/2020/12/07/pearl-harbor-national-memorial-virtual-tour/
Virtual Field Trips on Yahoo...........http://www.yahoo.com/

- - Follow this path.........Yahoo ---> Education ---> K-12 ---> Resources ---> Links for Kids ---> Virtual Field Trips
  - Live From Antarctica.............Passport to Knowledge project designed to allow students and teachers the opportunity to experience what life is like in the coldest place on the planet.
  - Virtual Field Trips...................a tour through different web sites in order to learn about subjects like salt marshes or volcanoes. Includes lesson plans and teacher resources.
  - White House for Kids.............visit the White House in our nation's capital
  - Odyssey in Egypt..................interactive Egyptian archaeological excavation for middle school students.
  - Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations...............includes classroom activities, the UN in action, background on the UN, links and other resources, electronic field trip subscription information.

Free Photos, Clip Art, and Fonts:

Andy Art, Scream Graphics
http://www.andyart.com/
Artists at OnOnline.com: Find Pictures, Movies, Sounds,and Links
http://ononline.com/art/artists/artists.htm
Barry’s Free Clip Art
http://www.barrysclipart.com/index.html
Bexboomer Creations
http://www.bexboomer.com/
Bonnie's Place....
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/italian/919/
CLIP-ART
http://www.dorsai.org/~ackerman/clip.html
Clipart Castle
http://www.bloominbanners.com/free1.htm
Clip Art, Clip Art, and more Clip Art!
http://www.desktoppublishing.com/cliplist.html
Clip Art .Com (thousands of unique free clip art and animations)
http://www.clip-art.com/
Clipart Connection
http://www.clipartconnection.com/index.html
Clip Art Forum
http://chat.arttoday.com/
Clip Art Kingdom
http://www.clipartcastle.com/indexclip-art.shtml
FREE GIFS FOR WEBTV 8
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8363/index.html
Marvelicious Bordered Backgrounds
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/9402/index.html
My Free Animated Gifs
http://195.225.3.20/~kidd/animgifs.html
MMX5'S Gifs Page
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/5254/freegifs.html
Original Free Clip Art
http://www.free-clip-art.net/index2.shtml
Rebel Artist Photos, clipart, and fonts for all design needs
http://www.rebelartist.com/
Sewdoll's Background Map
http://www.sewdoll.com/Webart/SDgraphics.html
The Groan Zone
http://www.groan-zone.net/
4,099 Dynamic Animated Graphics
http://www.bloominbanners.com/free1.htm

Prints and Photographs:

Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress (Note: Some images are copyrighted; please read and determine if there are any restrictions for your use on site's information page)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/

Animated Gifs:

Gifs Now
http://gifsnow.com/

Animation Factory
http://www.animfactory.com/index.html
WEB Developer Animated Gifs Archive
http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/

Fonts:

Mac Fonts
http://www.macfonts.com/
PC Fonts
http://www.pcfonts.com/
Free Fonts at Freeware Fonts.com
http://www.freewarefonts.com/index.html

Sounds, Movies, AVI, QuickTime:

ALL WAVS
http://www.allwavs.com
Clay’s Sound Emporium
http://slonet.org/~rloomis/
Johnson Space Center
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
MIDI
http://www.midifarm.com/midifarm/free.asp
Modern Video Clips
http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/viewrec/videoqtl.htm
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.video/
Sound America
http://www.soundamerica.com
The WAV Place
http://www.thewavplace.com
Video Links
http://video-links.com/
WAV.com
http://www.wav.com/
Wav Central
http://www.wavcentral.com/

Helping Students with Homework

Algebra and Homework Help..........................http://www.algebra.com/

Helping Students with Homework...................http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/index.html

Homework Help..............................................http://www.thwww.com/misterwizard/homework.htm

Homework Help Page ....................................http://www.expage.com/homeworkhelppage/

School or Homework Help..............................http://www.indianchild.com/project_or_homework_help.htm

Project Based Lessons

Project Based Learning, Classroom Resources........http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/pbl.htm

Project Based Lessons with Multimedia....................http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/topics_main.htm

Project Based Learning for middle & high school students...http://www.project-approach.com/default.htm

The Project Approach and Examples.........................http://www.bie.org/pbl/index.html

Grammar Practices

Course in English Grammar...........http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm

Big Dog's Grammar........................http://gabiscott.com/bigdog/

Online Writing Lab.........................http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

Parts of Speech Quiz....................http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/

Pop-Up Grammar..........................http://www.brownlee.org/durk/grammar/

Self- Quizzes................................http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html

Study Guides

Preparing for a Test..............................http://www.su.edu/studaffs/as1K.htm

Collection of Study Sites.......................http://www.howtostudy.com

Study Skills Guides...............................http://www.csbsju.edu/advising/helplist.html

Study Guides and Test Taking Tips.......http://www.eop.mu.edu/study/

Study Strategies....................................http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

Online Books

Bibliomania: Fiction Collection................http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

Bibliomania: Short Story Collection.........http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.htm

Online Books Page..................................http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html

The Complete Works of Shakespeare.....http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare

Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Bartleby......................................http://www.bartleby.com/61/

Encyclopedia Brittanica..............http://www.britanica.com

Dictionary.com............................http://www.dictionary.com

Merriam-Webster........................http://www.m-w.com/

Microsoft Encarta........................http://www.encarta.com

MSN Encarta Dictionary..............http://dictionary.msn.com/

YourDictionary.com.....................http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Librarians' Links

Awesome Library.................................http://www.awesomelibrary.org/librarian.html

Librarians' Index to the Internet.......... http://lii.org/

Librarians' Links..................................http://home.gwi.net/brhs/lib.html

Librarians' Links 2...............................http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/

The Heckman Digital Library...............http://www.calvin.edu/library/

Young Adult Librarians' Help Homepage......http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/

Sites Not to Miss

NASA..............................................http://www.nasa.gov/

Apple Computer Information Page.............http://education.apple.com

Google For Education......................https://edu.google.com/

The Planets........................................http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/

Earthquakes....................................... http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/CURRENT/current.html

Weather Map......................................http://home.ucar.edu/wx.html

Texas Educational Network.....................http://www.tnet.edu/

Vose School Educational Resources...........http://www.teleport.com:80/~vincer/

What's Hot and Cool............................http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi/reviews.html

MapQuest, interactive atlas......................http://www.mapquest.com

CIA Factbook.....................................http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm

Reference

Researchpaper.com..............................http://www.researchpaper.com/

Internet Public Library ..........................http://www.ipl.org/

AskEric (Virtual Library)........................http://ericir.syr.edu

Yanoff’s Palm Newsreader How-To's....http://www.steelbreeze.fsnet.co.uk/palm-yanoff.html

Internet Public Library...........................http://ipl.sils.umich.edu

Library of Congress..............................http://lcweb.loc.gov

Primary Sources, Library of Congress..http://www.memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/primary.htm

Smithsonian Institution........................... http://www.si.edu

United States Senate..............................http://www.senate.gov

House of Representatives........................http://www.house.gov

Learning to Use a Browser - Internet guide & tutorial.. . .http://www.learnthenet.com/

Self-paced tutorial for educators.................http://muttley.ucdavis.edu/SPIT/

Web Teacher.......................................http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html

Tutorial for Teachers for Applying Technology in the Classroom.......http://www.byu.edu/acd1/ed/InSci/286/Welcome.html

Today in History, Library of Congress...http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

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