INFORMATION LITERACY
ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Resource Web Links

(Page Numbers refer to the class handbook - see your school librarian)

 
MORE WEB LINKS FOR TEACHERS
P. 39 - 52 THE BIG 6 http://www.big6.com

P. 3 From Now On (Educational Technology Journal by Jamie Mackenzie)

http://www.fno.org
   

P. 11 PRIMARY SOURCES- Online Virtual Museums for Teachers and Students

 
Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu

The Detroit Institute of Art

http://www.dia.org

The Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.org

Franklin Institute

http://sln.fi.edu

Minnesota Institute of the Arts

http://www.artsMIA.org

Museum of Modern Art

http://www.moma.org

Museum of Science, Boston

http://www.mos.org

Mystic Seaport

http://www.mystic.org

California Museum of Paleontology

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/exhibits.html

The Thinker – Fine Arts of San Francisco

http://www.thinker.org

United States Holocaust Museum

http://www.ushmm.org
A Holocaust Cybrary http://www.remember.org

Bellingham Antique Radio Museum

http://www.antique-radio.org

High Museum

http://www.high.org

Museum List from MCN

http://www.mcn.edu/resources/sitesonline.htm

The National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov

New Mexico Museum of Natural History

http://museums.state.nm.us/nmmnh/nmmnh.html

Ontario Science Center

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca

Palaeolithic Painted Cave

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

Sea World Animal Data Base

http://www.seaworld.org

The Smithsonian

http://www.smithsonian.org also http://www.si.edu

Web Museum

http://www.ibiblio.org

Virtual Library

http://vlmp.museophile.com

American Museum of Natural History

http://www.amnh.org

Baltimore Museum of Industry

http://thebmi.org

California Museum of Photography

http://cmp1.ucr.edu

To Fly is Everything

http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/air_main.shtml

The Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/louvre.htm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org

Minnesota Institute of the Arts

http://www.artsmia.org

Minnesota Museum of American Art

http://www.mmaa.org

Whitney Museum of American Art

http://www.whitney.org/index.shtml#

American Memory Collection

http://memory.loc.gov
Pacific Science Center - Seattle
http://www.pacsci.org
Seattle Art Museum

http://www.seattleartmuseum.org

The Woodland Park Zoo http://www.zoo.org
The Seattle Aquarium http://www.seattleaquarium.org
Experience Music Project http://www.emplive.com/
OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) http://www.omsi.edu/

Washington State Library Digital Imaging

http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw
Washington State Historical Society http://www.wshs.org/
   
P. 13 PRIMARY SOURCES- Online Projects, Field Trips & Explorations  
Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsn.org
Virtual Field Trips http://www.field-guides.com/
Global Online Adventure Learning Site http://www.goals.com/Index.htm
Virtual Web Cameras (1,000's of live pictures from around the world) http://www.virtualfreesites.com/cams.html
                                                  
P. 14 REFERENCE SITES  

Address/phone #’s

http://www.switchboard.com

Biographies

http://www.biography.com

Define or refine a search

http://www.findspot.com

Genealogy

http://www.usgenweb.com

Holidays

http://www.HolidayFestival.com

Homework Help

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck

Internet Public Library (Youth & Teen)

http://www.ipl.org

KidsClick (Teaches kids how to search)

http://www.worldsofsearching.org/research.html

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov

Maps and Directions

http://www.maps.com

Maps

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps

Math Forum

http://mathforum.org

Movie Data Base

http://www.imdb.com

Museum of Science

http://www.exploratorium.com

Quotations

http://quoteland.com

Reference Desk

http://www.refdesk.com

Research Tools

http://noodletools.com

Teacher Helps

http://school.discovery.com/teachers
   
P. 15 SEARCH ENGINES  

Google

http://www.google.com

Ask Jeeves

http://ww.aj.com

Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com

Altavista

http://www.altavista.com

All The Web                                               

http://alltheweb.com

HotBot                                                        

http://www.hotbot.com

Web Search                                                

http://www.web-search.com

CNET Search                                              

http://www.search.com

WebCrawler                                                

http://www.webcrawler.com

Mamma                                                       

http://www.mamma.com

Northern Light

http://www.northernlight.com

Lycos

http://lycos.com

MSN

http://www.msn.com

Infoseek

http://www.infogo.com

Teoma

http://www.teoma.com

Scirus (for scientific info only)

http://www.scirus.com

Vivisimo

http://www.vivisimo.com

Dogpile

http://www.dogpile.com

Overture

http://overture.com
   
TEACHER RESOURCES:  
LessonPlanz http://www.lessonplanz.com
EduHound (Everything For Education K-12) http://www.eduhound.com/mainpage.cfm

Landmarks For Schools

http://landmark-project.com

Puzzle Maker (online puzzle creator)

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

700+ Great Sites For Kids

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html

Ask Jeeves for Kids

http://www.ajkids.com
Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com
Process Guides: Instructing students in how to interact with information http://webquest.sdsu.edu/processguides/
P. 20 Search Engine Terms http://www.cadenza.org/search_engine_terms
P. 20 Glossary for Information Retrieval http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~weiss/glossary.html
P. 22 WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
WebQuest Development Workshop http://webquest.sdsu.edu/workshops/portland.htm

P. 32 Ellensburg Public Library

http://epl.eburg.com/webpac

The Ellensburg School District                    

http://www.eburg.wednet.edu
ESD 105 (in Yakima) http://www.esd105.wednet.edu
Jeopardy/Who Wants To Be A Millionaire http://www.geocities.com/jcteacher/tech/