Gifted kids might enjoy these (And their teachers, too)

Math

Tesselation page Ideas around tessellations: simulations, puzzles, products
Totally tesselated Info and do-its about tessellations
Math of knots Knot theory and activities
Mathsurf - Scott Foresman Activities connected to the math book series
Math tutorials
Comprehensive School Mathematics Program Lessons for all grades as PDF database
My Math Tutor Different tutorials, not all of it free
Living Math annotated bibliography of math books and products
Gaining world supremacy using math that is what the title says - it is an interactive game...
National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives My all time favorite: Don't bother buying all those fraction circles...

Utilities

No graph paper in the house? Graph paper for printing

Math and Culture

Native American Geometry
Mathematical Moments PDF flyers about the history and background of math

Ways/Models to teach math

Math enhancement Centre for Innovation in Math Teaching - new models for math teaching (publications etc.)

Math circles - not really online but the milk-and-cookie-variety

Math Circle
Berkeley Math Circle
San Jose Math Circle
San Diego Math Circle

Music - not all is free but quite a lot

Songs for everybody (German and other languages)
Find free sheet music
Sheet Music Archive
Practice Spot

Visual Arts

Create your own movies online

Science

About life, the universe and everything...

How stuff works - is exactly explained here.
Powers of ten

Physics

Physics definitions page
Units and conversions
Physics News Graphics
Physics Web
The 20 greatest Equations (also Physicsweb)
Motion Mountain - a Physics Textbook - all PDF
Physics Central People - Pictures - Polls
Visual Quantum Mechanics
Particle Physics
Space Time Wrinkles
Martin's collection Physics for physicists plus simulations and Phun

Java and other physics sims

Basic Physics and Optics in Java (Simulations)
Multimedia Demos
Playground Physics
Virtual Lab
Walter Fendt's Physics page (includes links to other pages)

Roller coasters

Coaster Force Roller coaster site
F-Understanding Roller coasters Uses Java - and takes some moments to start.
Amusement Park Physics
Even more roller coaster physics (intel)

Astronomy

Cool Cosmos
NASA for kids Excellent NASA site for kids
Amazing Space

It ain't rocket science...

How to build an easy Rocket
National Association for Rocketry

Geology

Mineral Database
Magnetism of the earth

Weather/Hydrology

Hurricane Hunters
Snowflakes and here, too see the beauty of the winter/ learn the physics
Weather observation page national school weather observation project
Soda bottle Hydrology - just build a model

Biology

Fro-Guts - skip the disection - they also sell it as CD, but there is a free Demo
E.Nature Biology Pages Cool biology database
Owls and more Owls - World Owl Trust
Ornithology Lab at Cornell Birds infos
Genetic Science Learning Center
Univ. Michigan Bio-Kids
Nature shiftExplore Nature

Medicine/Forensic science

Forensic Science Virtual Museum

Archaeology/Palaeontology/Dinosaurs

Virtually dig for an T-Rex
Exploration through time History of Life
The forgotten technology - shows how Stonehenge etc. were built
Geologic and Paleontologic Cookbook
Ancient Civilisations - everything you always wanted to know...

Chemistry

Marshmallow Peep Science
Web-Elements - the periodic system

Geography

National Atlas USA - find every place online
Atlas USA - here, too... plus online puzzles.
World Atlas
Earth Kam

Mixed up sites

Sea and Sky exploration That is what you can do to learn about either.
Scientific toys Do them yourself...
Nasa Sci-Files
US patent office

Science Clubs

Young Entomologists
Bird watcher's digest

Music and Science

Science Songs
More science songs
Even more science songs
Greg's science songs

Commercial Science products

Steve Spangler Science not free but seems a good resource.
American Science Surplus My favorite store around Chicago
Young scientist's club

Social Studies

This kind of mixes in with science - e.g. geography.
Food timeline
Di-Hydro-Mon-Oxide page About the reliability of web sources
History of education and childhood
Cold War Project
Passport in TimeArchaeology and History by the USDA Forest Service
History World SearchTool to find historical dates
Social Studies Units
Finances and money Originally for adults but usable as tools for understanding finances
World Factbook by the CIA


Language(s)

Foreign language(s)

German, Latin and English page
Greek - e.g. reading Euclid
Greek
Online language classes
The Latin Library - all the texts to read...
Free Latin Class
Sign language page

Poetry

Haiku - resources

Written language

How 2 Write Greek Letters (PDF)
Cuneiform Writing
Languages of the World (under construction)
Omniglott - Written Language

Roots

Word Origins

Facts and Collections

Many many palindromes
Sounds of animals in lots of languages
Word Count ToolFrequency of words in the English Language
Quotations Quotations

How 2 Write

Writing resources and links includes infos about standardized testing
Advise on Academic Writing
Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

Learn reading

Learn to read

Dictionaries

Spanish Dictionary
Merriam Webster Online
English-German Dictionary

Mixed/Teacher resources

Wayback Machine - internet archive
Wiki-Encyclopedia
Enchanted Learning
Figure this
Tracing paper for learning writing
Education world Science and Technology
Teacher source by PBS
K-12 education resources
Rethinking school
Teacher Connections by the New York Times
Teacherzone
Montessori at home - links
Roger Taylor#s excellent pages about curriculum development
How to do sourcework
Newberry Library Chicago
Teacher Stuff
Elevator to Dinosaurs, Earth Science and more
Perseus Digital Library
Discovery Channel School
Puzz.com
Scott Kim Puzzles
Puzzlemaker
Logic Links
John Rausch Puzzle World
ENC curriculum resources
Discover Learning Links - Curriculum ideas for teachers
Education World - help with lesson planning
Enchanted Mind-Creativity link
Creativity Portal
Factory Tours USA



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