The Internet has been described as taking all of the books and media in the Library of Congress and stacking it all in the middle of the floor.  This would be the Reference Section of that huge library.  I'm sure that there is some kind of link here that would be helpful for finding the facts that you might be looking for.   

[Virtual Libraries] [Dictionaries] [Encyclopedias] [Almanacs/Other] [Periodicals]  

These incredible sources of information are just holding tanks of knowledge.  If you can't find it in here then maybe it's time to call a Library Media Specialist.

1. "Reference Desk"  is a great site for teachers doing research on the internet.  This is like having an entire resource section online. 
2. "Awesome Library" is another virtual library which is easy and fascinating to get lost in.   
3. "Universal Library" calls itself the universal library and its vision is "all access to all knowledge" and it's off to a pretty good start.  
4. "Library Spot" another virtual library of links to virtually everything.   
5. "Library of Congress" is  an incredible resource.  I haven't explored it much, but who would have a better collection of resources then the Library of Congress? 

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These are devoted to resources having to do with the knowledge of language.  There are several sources here that might be useful to someone that is looking for definitions of common or specialized words.

1. "Any Dictionary Imaginable" is a great resource, because it really does seem to have every dictionary imaginable including specialty and foreign language.  It even has access to language games like crossword puzzles and jumbles. 
2. "Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus" is a standard English language dictionary to look up any word that is in the English language.   
3. "Cambridge Dictionary" is another dictionary of the English language.  
4. "WordsMyth" is a site that is specifically a dictionary and thesaurus designed for educators.  
5. "Foreign Languages Dictionary"  This one is a simple to use French to English and English to French.  You can also see that there are many other options for foreign language dictionaries.  
6. "Dictionary of Clichés"  Have you ever been lost to come up with that perfect saying when life seems unbearable?  This dictionary might help you find release. 
7. "Dictionary of Internet Terms"  Have you ever wondered what a cookie was?  Or what a domain name is?  When your technology consultant starts spouting his/her language you can begin to translate him/her.  
8. "Dictionary of Biographies" is a great source of the Who's Who of the notable persons in history.  
9. "Dictionary of Science Quotations"  Have you ever been searching for that perfect quote to add to your website on the importance of science?  Try this site for several quotes devoted to science. 
10. "Dictionary of Science and Technology"  claims that they are THE source for definitions relating to science and technology terms.  
11. "Medical Dictionary" seems to be a great source for medical terms.  Doctors have their own language so it's time to get educated.  

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These sites are devoted to those sites that have searchable articles on a wide variety of subjects.  There are also specialized encyclopedias that cover various aspects of a particular subject.

1. "Encarta Encyclopedia Online" you can access much of the information available through Encarta's multimedia encyclopedia through this site.  
2. "Encyclopedia Britannica"  is another popular general info encyclopedia.  
3. "Columbian Encyclopedia" is another great gen. info. encyclopedia.   
4. "Virtual Encyclopedia" a great free online encyclopedia.  
5. "How Stuff Works" is a great site for learning about technology and inventions.  It has full articles often with graphics and is well presented.  
6. "Smithsonian Encyclopedia" seems to be a great resource for articles and resources relating to the vault of knowledge that is the Smithsonian Institute.  
7. "Artcyclopedia"  is a great encyclopedia devoted entirely to Art.  
8. "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of English and American Literature"  need I say more?  
9. "Encyclopedia Mythica" is a site devoted to Mythology and Folklore.  
10. "Spartacus Encyclopedia Series" articles on several different History related encyclopedias (WW1, WW2, Religion and Society, US History, British History, etc.)  
11. "The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"  
12. "Encyclopedia of Psychology"  
13. "Encyclopedia of Home Improvement" based at Better Homes and Gardens site.
14. "Automotive Encyclopedia" is a site devoted to everything automobile related.  
15. "Medical Encyclopedia" based in the Mayo Clinic so it has to be the best.  
16. "Encyclopedia of Educational Resources"  seems pretty all encompassing.   

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Some of these are almanacs and others are sites that don't have a nice neat category.  Yet, they are essential to any well stocked library.

1. "Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations" is the popular resource of any quote anytime.  
2. "Book of World Facts" is the an almanac published by the Central Intelligence Agency.  If they don't know it then who does?
3. "Etymology of First Names" find out about your name.  
4. "The Farmer's Almanac"     
5. "The American Heritage Book of English Usage" great resource for grammar.  
6. "Afro-American Almanac" almanac devoted to African American history.  
7. "Guinness Book of World Records" 
8. "Baseball Almanac" 
9. "World Almanac" is everything that you can imagine needing in a world almanac. 
10. "Ask an Expert" is a greet expert site grouped by categories. 
11. "Online Calculators" collection of online calculators. 
12. "Comic Strips" have you lost touch with Alley Oop or Dilbert?  Check this out.  
13. "Maps Extravaganza" an online map maker through the experts, National Geographic. 
14. "American Memory" is a site of historical documents available online. 
15. "Book Notes" summaries of classic novels. 
16. "White Pages" search 6 different white pages sources at once. 
17. "Yellow Pages" search several different yellow pages at once. 

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These sites are devoted to periodicals that are updated periodically and are devoted to current events.

Newspapers

1. "Lexington Herald Leader" our hometown newspaper.  
2. "The Courier Journal" is Louisville's newspaper, and it's actually a pretty nice site. 
3. "USA Today" is a popular daily published National daily newspaper. 
4. "New York Times" the popular newspaper has gone multimedia. 
5. "The Washington Post" 
6. "The Saturday Evening Post" 
7. "The Sporting News" online sports newspaper. 
8. "Online Newspapers" is a great central location for several hundred newspapers available online. 

Magazines

1. "Discover Magazine"  is a science and technology related magazine.

2. "Popular Mechanics" is the popular technology advancement magazine.

3. "Popular Science" is today's scientific advancement magazine.

4. "USNews" 

5. "Education Week" 

6. "Creative Classroom" 

7. "T.H.E. Journal" a technology/education based journal. 

8. "Time" 

9. "National Geographic" 

10. "Newsweek" 

11. "Internet and School Magazine" 

12. "Scientific American" 

13. "Science News"   

Mags for Fun

1. "Rolling Stone" 

2. "Mad Magazine" the classic comic magazine's homepage.

3. "The NewYorker"

4. "Entertainment Weekly" 

5. "TVGuide" 

6. "People" 

7. "Men's Health"    

8. "Reader's Digest" 

9. "Sports Illustrated for men and women" 

10. "McCalls" 

11. "Essence" 

12. "Consumer Reports" the classic magazine for comparison shopping.

13. "Contemporary Christian Music" 

14. "ESPN Magazine" 

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A teacher's job is never finished, but there are some powerful tools that I use all the time to make my job easier.  If I need a creative idea to get an abstract thought across to my students, or if I need to get an announcement which I'm sure that at least 85% of my students and their parents will see it, or if my students need to see what they missed in lecture on the day they missed school, or if I have a very large PowerPoint presentation that I worked on at home and I need to transport it to school, or if I need a particular bookmark at home and at school, or any number of problems I can find the answers on the internet. 

[Lesson Plans] [WebQuests] [General Tools] 

These sites are devoted to lesson plan sites that contain other teacher's lesson ideas posted to share.  It's a great source for ideas to use in your classroom.

1. "EdHelper" This site contains thousands of lesson plans on any number of topics.  There are several hundred of them that are designed specifically for using the internet in the classroom.  There are scavenger hunts, webquests, exercises, quizzes, games, etc. for every imaginable topic needed in the classroom.  
2. "Learning Space Instruction Page" This site is a great resource for internet based projects and lessons.  It has categories broken down by grade level. 

3. "Sites for Teachers" This site is a page of lesson plan sites out there.  With links to the internet's vast warehouse of knowledge will teachers become obsolete?  

4. "Learning Page.Com" Lesson Plans, worksheets, projects, etc.

5. "Curriculum Resources" is another integrating the internet into the classroom site that has many, many, good ideas.

6. "Teach-nology" is another of those super sites that contains a lot about everything. 

7. "Lesson Plan Gold-mine" 

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A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet."

1. "Why Webquests" is a great site to what a webquest is and how to design and choose one.
2. "WebQuest Page" If you know what webquests are then you know how powerful they can be and here is a wonderful set of them.
3. "Kiko Webquest Center" this is a site that has a collection of webquests.
4. "Learning With WebQuests" is another collection of webquests put together by education students.
5. "Webquests and Resources" for teachers is a site with a collection of some very good webquests.
6. "EdHelper" is the same one from above, but you can see how useful it is, with lesson plans and webquests.
7. "Over 1200 WebQuests" looks like an impressive site.
8. "More Webquests" is a site that was put together by teachers in Virginia.  I won't hold that against them.

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This is stuff that I couldn't live without, and hopefully you'll find something in this list that you can use.  This will be my most often updated section as I explore and find more ideas.

1. "I Keep Bookmarks" This is a great site for heavy surfers.  When you find some wonderful sites that are perfect for you and your students and you bookmark it, how do you get it home?  If you surf enough then you can't remember where the sites are so you just have to wait to get back to school.  Not anymore, have access to your bookmarks online from any computer with access to the internet.
2. "Schoolnotes.com"  This is a site that I use and maintain for my students and the parents of my students.  It is an online bulletin board that you can post homework assignments, due dates, dates of tests, etc.  Great site and extremely easy to use.  
3. "Freedrive"  This site is a real life saver when I can't e-mail a file to school from home.  It is 20MB of free space on the internet that only I have access to  and you just upload your file from the hard drive and download it to any other computer that has access to the internet.  
4. "Classroom Clipart"  This is a great clipart site for teachers.  Lots and lots of educational related clipart. 
5. "Funbrain.com"  This site is one of my favorites.  I give online quizzes all the time.  They are multiple choice and the answers are emailed to me at home.   There are also many games and quizzes from other teachers that might be useful.  90% of my students prefer to be tested in this way.  
6. "Quia Games"  Here is another incredible website that I use a lot.  With this site you can create review games online.  Games like memory, game show types, concentration, flash cards, etc.  These are good vocabulary and concept review and very easy to make.  
7. "CNet downloads for Education"  This is a great site that I use for school use and for personal use.  It is a site that contains downloadable programs for educators.
8. "TrackStar" set up individual websites for student projects.  Looks like a terrific tool.  

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These are sites that are devoted to learning how to be a better teacher and education in general.  I refuse to believe that there is anyone that already knows everything there is to know about everything.  So everyone should still be learning everyday.  As an educator these sites would help me with my teaching and my learning. 

[News] [Organizations] [SuperSites] [Others] 

Sites used to keep updated on the latest education news and information.

1. "Education Week" great site for teachers to stay up to speed.

2. "Education News.org" great site for teachers to access some news

3. "Fayette County Public Schools"

4. "Kentucky Dept of Education"

5. "US Dept of Education"  

6. "Physics Education News" 

7. "NASA's Education News"

8. "Science Edu News"

9. "New York Times Edu News"

10. "Special Edu News"

11. "Education World News"

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One of the best ways to keep up with the latest trends in education is to join an organization in your specialty area.  This is a set of homepages for you to check out.

1. "KSTA" Kentucky Science Teacher Association

2. "NSTA" National Science Teacher Association

3. "NEA" National Education Association

4. "KEA" Kentucky Education Association

5. "NCTM" National Council of Teachers of Math

6. "PTA" National PTA website

7. "AFT" American Federation of Teachers

8. "NCSS" National Council for the Social Studies

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These sites seem to have all things education.  They are similar to each other, but they all have their own unique methods for presenting their resources.  Explore them at your leisure, but don't get lost.

1. "Education World" 

2. "Teach-Nology" 

3. "The Learning Network"

4. "TeachNet" 

5. "Discovery School"

6. "Education Index"

7. "AtoZ Teacher Stuff"

8. "StudyWeb"

9. "Critical Mass"

10. "EduHound"

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There are many other useful resources for teachers and here are a few more.

1. "Virtual Field Trips" This is a fascinating specialized resource for knowledge.  Can't afford those field trips, then take some virtual ones.  

2. "Research Papers" Having your students doing a research paper and can't figure out how to cite that internet site?  Check out this site and they will show you and answer many other research paper questions while they are at it.

3.  "Tutorials" Did you ever wonder how to use that new software your technology resource teacher put on your classroom computer?  Maybe you can find it on this website.

4.  "Every Rule" Have you ever had some time to kill with your students, but couldn't remember the rules to I Spy?  Well look it up on this site.

5.  "Blank Maps" Do you want to teach some geography, but you can't find any current maps?   

6. "Free Stuff" "Free Things for Teachers"...need I say more?

7. "E-mail Accounts" Free student e-mail accounts that don't get the junk-mail other internet based sites have.  Stay in contact with your students electronically.   

8. "Build a School Website" This is a great site that helps you put a webpage online and helps you maintain it.  Websites online are extremely useful for teachers to use to educate, and this site helps in that. 

9. "Test Timer" Interesting site that might be useful for teachers.  It's a popup clock that is used to keep time during timed tests.  You just type in the times and it gives you the time remaining, and time elapsed.

10. "Lesson Plan Creator" This is a great site that helps create lesson plans that are based on the infamous KTIP lesson template.  It also allows for core content to be added.  Seems to do all the work for you. 

11. "Insult Generator" Thou goatish pottle-deep lewdster!  Thou goatish toad-spotted whey-face! and other Shakespearean insults from this insult generator. 

12. "Rubric Generator" Great site for generating rubrics to go along with many different types of assignments or completely customized.

These are sites that are devoted to life as a journey of decisions and indecisions.  This section is as important to teachers as it is to students, and will also play a prominent role on the students site.  Here are sites that discuss health, college, learning about writing, reading, poetry, etc.  These hopefully will contribute to making us all better and well rounded people.

[Health] [College] [Learning About: Life] [Learning About: Learning] [Learning About: Writing] [Learning About: Reading] [Learning About: Poetry] [Learning About: Mathematics]  [Learning About: Philosophy] [Learning About: History] [Learning About: Famous People]

There are many sites on the internet now that attempt to teach us to live long and healthful lives.  These sites are some of the better ones.

1. "Mayo Clinic" shouldn't the best hospital in the world have the best website on health?

2. "WebMD" is a megasite that seems to have everything health related. 

3. "Dr. Koop" Dr. C. Everett Koop's website of articles relating to health and wellness.

4. "Tackling Tobacco" is an article by Dr. C. Everett Koop on tobacco addiction.

5. "Alcoholism" is an article by Dr. C. Everett Koop on alcoholism.

6. "Sport's Medicine" is a supersite that targets athletics.

7. "Athletic Initiative Against Drugs" is a site that promotes playing "clean"

8. "Health and Fitness" is a site that not only promotes getting active, but shows you how.

9. "Eating Disorders" is the national eating disorder awareness and prevention site.

10. "National Institute on Drug Abuse" drug use is such a universal problem that most students don't know that it is drug abuse anymore.

11. "Mental Health" is an incredible site on mental health education.

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Since as teachers we are also guidance counselors we need to be up on the latest happenings in College planning resources.  These are some incredible resources, I wish they had been available in my day.

1. "Federal Financial Aid" is by far the most asked about resource when planning for college.  Find the answers on this nationally sponsored site.

2. "College Planning" is a site that answers all the right questions.

3. "Money for College" -- two sites that provide directories to available money.  http://www.college-scholarships.com/   and http://www.collegecash.com/

4. "ACT Testing Services" any student contemplating college should take a standardized test.  This is a great resource to help them prepare for it.

5. "College is Possible" is a great site for making college dreams a reality. 

6. "Your Future" is a site based on the military alternatives out there today.

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Several of these sites are designed for teens, but I have also included some for adults as well.  I go to the teen sites some just to stay "with it"

1. "Learn Network" directory for all ages on internet resources. 

2. "Answers for Life for Teens" is a great site sponsored by the internet public library.

3. "Student Center" a webcommunity for teenagers.

4. "US High" a web based high school community. 

5. "Surf the Web Safely" is a God send for parents.

6. "IHigh" is a teen forum and community

7. "Yahoo" great search engine, but also great resource for life.

8. "Religion and Spirituality" resources on faith.

9. "Google's Web directory" great resource organized by topic

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These are great sites for learning about any number of things.  I chose them based on their family orientation and emphasis on education.  You will see some that have already been mentioned in another section, that just proves their versatility.

1. "Resources for the whole family" site based on the family learning together.

2. "Everything Education" two sites EduHound, which I've already mentioned and Cyberbee.

3. "Great Place to Start Learning" seems to have every subject imaginable.

4. "Homework Helpers" boasts that if you can't find it here, it can't be found.

5. "Educational Games, Quizzes, Etc."

6. "Helping Your Child Learn Science"

7. "Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics"

8. "Home Schooling is OK" 

9. "ThinkQuest Library" online tutorials designed by students.

10. "Learning to Learn"

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These are sites that help you in writing or citing or journaling or "what have you".

1. "Online Writing Lab" through Purdue University.

2. "11 Rules of Writing"  "This site is a concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills."

3. "Guide to Grammar and Writing"

4. "What is Punctuation?"

5. "Writing Research Papers" two sites on help with research papers:          Research and Writing and ResearchPaper.com 

6. "Rhetoric Handbook" 

7. "Writing Tool-Phrase Finder" is kind of fun, you just type in a word that you need a phrase for and it generates a list of phrases for you.  Good way to stretch that report.

8. "Citing Electronic Sources"

9. "Evaluating WebSites" so you want to use the internet as a source in a paper, then you need to evaluate it.

10. "Bibliography Tool" helps cite sources for building bibliographies.

11. "Shakespeare Insult Generator" click on this site Thou goatish dismal-dreaming flirt-gill!

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These aren't sites to help you learn to read they are instead sites that help you read.  Sites that have books online.

1. "The Classics Online" an incredible interactive resource for the classics online.

2. "The Complete Works of Shakespeare"

3. "The Online Books Page" over 14,000 titles at my last check.

4. "Full-Text Books Online" has more than just books, they also have study guides, interviews, and articles.

5. "Dave Barry" one of my favorite authors.

6. "Book Notes" summaries of classic novels. 

7. "Study Guides et al."  contains synopses and notes for literature and just about anything else you can think of.

8. "Stories.Com" a place to publish and read other writers stories.

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These sites are web pages to read poetry, and pages to develop skills in writing poetry.

1. "20th Century Poetry" is a personal web page with links to tons of poetry sites.

2. "Poet's Corner" "...Our goal is to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled."

3. "All Things Poetry" really is.

4. "Electronic Poetry Center" an internet poetry network, where original work is publishable...I think.

5. "Poetry Glossary"

6. "How to Write Poetry" a site devoted to writing Poetry Magic.

7. "Tips on Writing Poetry" tips on writing poetry by writers of poetry.

8. "Tips on Writing Song Lyrics" song lyrics are called modern poetry, and this might help you develop a new hobby.

9. "Writing Songs" another website on song lyric writing.

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There are many other useful resources for teachers and here are a few more.

1. "Math Topics" is a site sponsored by Cornell University of math related links.

2. "Math Homework Help" site that you can seek some answers to math questions.

3. "Online Calculators" very useful site for all manner of subjects.

4. "Math Survival Tips by Students" written by students for students.

5. "Ask Dr. Math" 

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There are many other useful resources for teachers and here are a few more.

1. "Philosophy in CyberSpace" looks like a pretty comprehensive site.  I must admit I haven't looked at it much, it hurts my head.  

2. "Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

3. "Great Thinkers" some of histories most profound thinkers.

4. "Quotes that will change your life"

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There are many other useful resources for teachers and here are a few more.

1. "American History" two sites on the history of America:  A Hypertext on American History and An Abridged History of America.

2. "HistoryNet" where history lives on the web.

3. "Distinguished Women in History"

4. "African-Americans in History"

5. "Ancient Documents"

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There are many other useful resources for teachers and here are a few more.

1. "A Dictionary of Biographies" searchable dictionary of biographical information on famous people.

2. "A & E's Biographies" the biography channels index of biograpies

3. "Famous People Index" Famous People is an online biographical reference which chronicles the lives of people throughout the world.

4. "Website on Albert Einstein"

5. "Index of Biographies"

6. "Lives" 'Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. * Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. * Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography. * Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections'

These are sites devoted to entertainment.  They are sites that are involved in providing the world with as much information and as much access to media as possible. 

[Music] [Movies] [News] [Television] [Funny Stuff] [Museums]

These are sites devoted expressly to music topics.  These are certainly not all inclusive, just some that I use.

1. "Billboard Online" find out the top 40 and other music news every day.

2. "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" take a journey through the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

3. "This Day in Rock and Roll History" find out what happened this day in Rock and Roll.

4. "Vh1 online" the music cable channel's website.

5. "Internet Radio" listen to music all day online.

6. "Music News" see what's happening in the industry of music.

7. "Yahoo's Music Links" list of topics devoted to music.

8. "Music Resources" list by topic of music links put together by Sibelius Academy.

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These are sites devoted expressly to movie topics.  These are certainly not all inclusive, just some that I use.

1. "Central Kentucky Movie Listings" if you're lucky enough to live in central Kentucky here are your movies listings.

2. "Movie Listings" everyone else type in your zipcode and get your movie listings.

3. "Movies, Movies, Movies" great commercial movies conglomerate.

4. "American Movie Classics" AMC's website on some of the classics.

5. "Roger Ebert on Movies" read the reviews written by the most read critic around.

6. "Screen It" review for parents to keep up with what is in the movies their kids want to see.

7. "Movies Sounds Page" find wav files of those classic lines from movies.

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These are sites devoted to keeping up with current events through the media of news.

1. "CNN Online"

2. "World News"

3. "Total News"

4. "Satirical News"

5. "ESPN"

6. "Tech News"

7. "Environmental News"

8. "Science News"

9. "News of the Weird"

10. "American Medical News"

11. "Bloomberg's Economic News"

12. "NPR News"

13. "The Ultimate Collection of News Links"

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These are the local and cable televison websites.

1. "KET"

2. "WLEX"

3. "WTVQ"

4. "WKYT"

5. "WDKY"

6. "The Crocodile Hunter"

7. "A&E"

8. "The History Channel"

9. "Discovery Channel"

10. "American Movie Classics"

11. "Public Broadcasting System (PBS)"

12. "Music Television"

13. "TV Land and Nick at Night"

14. "Comedy Central"

15. "TV Guide"

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These are some great sites to explore museums of the world.

1. "Kentucky Basketball Museum"

2. "The Louvre"  

3. "The Met"

4. "The Smithsonian Institute"

5. "Online Museum of Natural History"

6. "Aquariums Nationwide"

7. "Everything Egypt Website"

8. "Museum of Science, Boston"

9. "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"

10. "Cincinnati Zoo"

11. "Basketball Hall of Fame"

12. "Baseball Hall of Fame"

13. "Football Hall of Fame"

14. "National Gallery of Art Museum"

15. "Web Gallery of Art"

16. "Virtual Library's list of Museums"

17. "Topic Museum List" organized by type

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These are sites devoted to clean wholesome humor.

1. "Comic Strips" over 60 different comic strip libraries.

2. "Shakespearen Insult Generator"

3. "Dave Barry"

4. "Joke of the Day"

5. "Comedy Central"

6. "Comedy-O-Rama"

7. "Monty Python Online"

8. "DC Comics"

9. "UComics"

10. "Clean Jokes Network"

11. "Humor.com"

12. "Hampster Dance" just because

13. "Funniest Stuff on the Internet"

14. "Googles' list of humor links"

These are sites that are devoted to General science.  These might be most useful for elementary and middle school teachers and students. 

These are sites devoted to science in general and specifically.

1. "General Science Resources" links to everything science.

2. "Science and Health Site" another page of links to everything science.

3. "Huge List of Sites About Sci and Tech" great site for general science links.

4. "Dictionary of Science Quotations" looking for that quote that will just impact your students science attitudes forever then go to this site.

5. "Dictionary of Science and Tech" great resource to find that elusive definition.

6. "Science of Sports" great site to incorporate reality into education.

7. "How to use a Scientific Calculator" pretty good general site on calculator use.

8. "Online Scientific Calculator" easy to use.

This is my passion of course, but I haven't included everything here...yet.  I will expand this section quite a bit also.  Here you can find several websites devoted to Chemistry Education. 

[Homework Helpers] [General Chemistry Links] [Periodic Tables] 

If you need chemistry help try these sites first.

1. "Dunbar's Chemistry Site" my site and it is getting better all the time.

2. "Tons of Chemistry Tutorials" if you can't find it here then you can't find it.

3. "ChemTeam Website" a specific website devoted to learning chemistry.

4. "Mr. Guch's Chemistry Site" a great Chemistry teacher's website.

5. "Chemistry Education Site" a very basic chemistry learning website.

6. "Chemistry Study Cards" has little study cards you can print out to help you cheat on tests...I mean study for tests.

7. "Chemistry Textbook" a thinkquest hyertextbook.

8. "Chemistry Tutor" a thinkquest tutoring website.

9. "A Chemistry Hypermedia Project" mostly textbased guide to learning chemistry.

10. "General Chemistry Online" is a great site that has lots of images and tutorials and presentations.

11. "Resources to Teach Chemistry" links by categories to teacher resources for teaching chemistry.

12. "Tutorials on Math used in Chemistry" this site has presentations online to cover some of the math used in Chemistry class to solve problems.

13. "ChemTutor" another categorically organized tutorial site for chemistry.

14. "General Chemistry Concepts" great site for lots of information on Chemistry.

15. "ChemMystery" good tutorial site.

16. "Steve Marsden's Chemistry Resources" looks like a great site for AP and Advanced Students -- thanks Anthony

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These are sites that contain all things chemistry.

1. "Chemistry Humor" I don't know what's more sad, the fact that there is such a site or the fact that I like it.

2. "List of Resources" touted as THE starting point for students taking chemistry.

3. "Chemistry Links Galore" High School Hub website.

4. "Erik's Chemistry Site" a man with a little too much time on his hands, but great site.

5. "About.Com's Chemistry Site" tons of resources, already discovered by someone else.

6. "Chemistry TopMarks" links to chemistry on the web.

7. "Chem.Net" site of professional Chemist based websites. 

8. "Chemfinder" site to search for information on chemicals.

9. "NIST Chemistry Book" reference database

10. "Material Safety Data Sheets" from UK.

11. "Chemistry MegaSites" Chemie.de, Chemdex.org, and Yahoo.

12. "Kiwi Web" sites organized by students.

13. "Mole Day" website for mole day.

14. "The Catalyst" is a searchable website for secondary education.

15. "ChemmyBear.com" site of resources.

16. "The Science Center" your guide to science resources on the web.

17. "ACS ChemCenter"

18. "CyberChem" sites compiled by a chemistry professor.

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These are sites that are fully functional periodic tables online.

1. "WebElements" probably the best periodic table on the internet today.

2. "Chemicool" pretty good periodic table.

3. "Comic Book Periodic Table" really cool periodic table, designed by UK.

4. "Chemical Elements"

These are sites that are devoted to learning about Earth Science.  There has been a big push in Kentucky to integrate Earth Science into the curriculum as a full course.  These links might help track down some resources for information about geology, meteorology, and astronomy. 

[Meteorology] [Geology] [Astronomy]

Meteorology

These are sites that are great for learning about forecasting and weather.

1. "Great Weather Site" this has everything you might need for weather information.

2. "Weather Forecasting"  great list of articles related to forecasting the weather.

3. "Global Climate" good site to find out about the climates around the world

4. "Weather Channel" the weather channel

5. "USA Today Weather" great graphics and explanations of weather topics.

6. "Advanced Weather" this is the most comprehensive weather site I've ever seen.

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Geology

These are sites that are great for learning about the earth and its composition.

1. "Volcanoes" this is a great thinkquest site devoted to volcanoes.

2. "Minerals Encyclopedia" great site for all things minerals.

3. "Yahoo's Geology Sites" great list of links devoted to geology.

4. "US Geological Survey" website with information devoted to the United States' geology.

5. "Geology Basics" about.com's geology basics articles.

6. "Geology.com" as long as it lasts, it's a great site.

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Astronomy

These are sites that are great for learning about the universe.

1. "NASA" you have to start with the best

2. "Journey to Jupiter" fascinating journey to the planet through the Galileo telescope.

3. "Topics in Astronomy" great hypertext format collection of topics dealing with astronomy.

4. "Trip to a Blackhole" a virtual look at the theoretical phenomenon.

5. "Imagine the Universe" a glimpse into the mysteries of the universe.

6. "Yahoo's Astronomy links" listed by topics

7. "Astronomy Myths" a site devoted to debunking astronomical myths and misunderstandings

8. "Galaxy lists" great resource for astronomical topics.

9. "Astronomy Picture of the Day" get a picture every day.

These are sites that are devoted to biology type learning.  There are anatomy links and biology links that might be useful. 

[Anatomy] [Biology] 

These are sites that are interesting if you're into anatomy.

1. "Gray's Human Anatomy" great resource for human anatomy.

2. "Human Anatomy and Automobile Anatomy" that's right automobile anatomy.

3. "Neuroscience" great site for neuroscience studies.

4. "Yahoo Anatomy Resources"

5. "CyberAnatomy" 

6. "About.com Anatomy Page" great list of anatomy links.

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These are sites that are great for learning biology.

1. "Biology Textbook" MIT's Biology hypertext book.

2. "Biology Tutorial Site" great tutorial site.

3. "Interactive Cell Website" thinkquest site on the cell

4. "Mr. Biology" great class website.

5. "Virtual Frog Dissecting Site" excellent site 

6. "Cat Dissection" great photojournal of a cat's dissection.

7. "The Yuckiest Site on the Internet"

8. "Senses" biology through the senses.

9. "The Gene School" great thinkquest site for gene education.

10. "Biology HyperText Book" simple biology text book.

11. "Kid Biology Site" Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious children to study biology.

12. "About.Com's biology links"

13. "Crocodile Hunter" Crikey...what a great website for learning about crocodiles.

These are sites that are devoted to Physics resources for educational and entertainment purposes.  Perhaps you can find some use for these sites, but they seem pretty useless to me...just kidding Physics folks.

These are sites that are great for learning Physics.

1. "Physics Educational Website"  great site

2. "Fizzics Fizzle" thinkquest website that is a great take on physics.

3. "Wonderful Optical Illusions" 

4. "Physics Tutorial"

5. "How Stuff Works" great site!

6. "How Things Work"

7. "Physics2000" great mulitmedia website

8. "Great List of Physics Links"

9. "About.com's Physics Links"

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