For K-12 teachers and librarians, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) recently released its annual list of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. This list offers a useful one-stop shop for educators and others in search of free online resources that "encourage a community of learners to explore and discover." These resources are organized into categories including...

This slew of intercultural resources from AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service) offers lesson plans in Cultural Studies, Global Awareness, Human Rights, STEM Education, Social Activism, and Intercultural Learning. Each lesson plan is well-defined and easily implemented, with an overview, objectives, time for the lesson, materials, and a description of the activity. For example, under...

The BBC Education Website (see the May 5, 1995 Scout Report) offers this specialized guide as a service to teachers, students, and parents. BBC Schools Online, is a highly selective guide to curriculum-based online resources related to BBC productions. Resources are briefly described and arranged into six categories according to audience.

The BioEdOnline website has been around for well over a decade, and hundreds of science and medical educators rely on its high-quality instructional materials to complement their classroom activities. This particular set of materials is related to teaching strategies. The items here include What is Science?, Enhancing Your Leadership Presence, Dynamite PowerPoint Designs. Each of these areas...

Cartoons for the Classroom is an excellent resource for high school educators who are looking for ways to use the visual rhetoric of political cartoons to highlight issues in current American politics, civics, and cultural life. Lessons are published every week or two. Each tackles a particular issue, featuring two cartoons on the topic and a list of Talking Points. These usually include...

The University of Washington is responsible for this excellent Website devoted to the history of the Pacific Northwest. The site makes available a generous selection of the Center's voluminous materials in regional history. The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest also provides Curriculum Packets on topics such as "The Gold Rush", "The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State" and the...

The Community Learning Network, provided by the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a K-12 pointer site with over 1,200 links to educational resources. Resources are arranged in 10 major categories, including curricular resources, instructional materials, mailing lists, professional development, and school home pages, among others. Although a great...

William Johnston of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provides this classic and effective site. Using the frog as a model organism, The Whole Frog Project explores the potential uses of visualization and 3D imaging to enhance instruction. The page employs technologies such as MRI, X-ray CT scanning, and direct generation from mathematical descriptions to provide a variety of views of frog...

Provided by Project Whistlestop, the Harry S. Truman online digital archive (reviewed in the July 17, 1998 Scout Report), this site hosts an excellent collection of primary resources for teaching or researching the Korean War. Most of these are offered in the ongoing Week by Week section, which contains a chronology, accounts, letters, presidential calendars, telegrams, memorandums, and other...

The Digital Education Network offers 7th through 12th grade students a chance to expand their knowledge in four areas: NewsDEN, which covers current events for kids and provides tips for teachers on how to integrate the information into their curricula; MathDEN, an interactive math challenge that offers four "stages" for students at different levels and tracks their progress (new question sets are...