Sites of General Interest

Click on the AEA Print Publications button to view items previously published in the Alabama School Journal or elsewhere. Other buttons on the right will take you to sites of particular interest to teachers (arranged by subject area) or to parents. For sites related to a particular time such as Black History Month or Read Across America, go to Timely Topics.

The Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu
This is the central jumping-off point for information on and links to the Web sites of all sixteen Smithsonian museums and galleries and the National Zoo. It also links to innumerable other sites on topics as diverse as African art, entomology, and even quilts.

Tolerance.org http://www.tolerance.org/about/index.html
A Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."

Learning Network http://www.learningnetwork.com
Learning Network offers a large array of online educational tools, content, and reference resources for parents, students and teachers. To see a good example of the kinds of materials that are available online, explore this site.

Great Books Index http://books.mirror.org/
A collection of great books, available entirely online. Browse the texts by author or title, and acquaint yourself with the classics online.

PBS Kids http://www.pbs.org/kids
Many of your children's favorite television shows, from the Teletubbies to Sesame Street, have their homes here. You'll also find many educational games featuring these characters, along with links to your local public television station's Web site.

Ask An Expert http://www.askanexpert.com/
A compendium of over 300 Web sites and e-mail addresses that allow you to do just that: ask an expert. Whether you're interested in the Amish, bubbles, or Valley Forge, you'll find an expert to answer your question.

The Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
It's the Louvre. What else needs to be said?

The Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org
The Planetary Society is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes exploration of and dessimination of information about other worlds. You can find much interesting information on their Web site, like 3D maps of Mars' surface, suggested reading, and contests.

Reach Every Child http://www.reacheverychild.com
A new Internet site listing more than 5000 educational resources for all academic subjects, including free, inexpensive, and valuable resources for teachers.

The Newsfilm Library http://www.sc.edu/library/newsfilm/
Residing at the University of South Carolina, the Newsfilm Library is home to a collection of the Fox Movietone newsreels, along with other local newsfilm. Recently added to their site are clips from the newsreel of famous people such as George Bernard Shaw, Babe Ruth, and others. All clips are in RealMovie format, whose player can be downloaded from the site.

ALA's Great Web Sites for Kids http://www.ala.org/greatsites
The American Library Association's collection of over 700 Web sites for children and the adults who care about them.

Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
The LII is a service of the California State Library. Over 500 Internet resources have been compiled and indexed individually on a wide variety of topics, that can be browsed or searched.

Dictionaries Online http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
This site is a compilation of links to dictionaries of countless languages, along with several technical dictionaries. Whether you need information about 'the horse' in French, or just can't seem to remember how to order french fries in Estonian, look here.