As with the Internet Public Library's Ready Reference Collection on education (discussed in the Scout Select Bookmarks for Social Science), John December sacrifices depth of coverage in any single area for breadth across areas. This page is divided into major collections, specialized education sites, documents and reports, and indexes. A search across all of December's subject indexes is...

The Bellingham Public Schools Web site is recommended when you want to collect information and formulate ideas about designing collaborative and educational web-based activities. It offers a selective collection of WWW Curriculum resources by Subject or Grade Level and lesson plans integrating the use of technology into the curriculum. Also provided are a half dozen lessons for adult learning of...

The heart of this site is Boxmind's Online Library, which is a collection of Websites selected for their academic relevance and organized by subject. The search interface is a little strange at first, but easy enough to figure out. Users can choose from 27 subject areas, each with numerous sub-categories, to retrieve a list of briefly annotated Websites on that subject. Searches can also be...

"CYFERNet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families." This metasite offers links to a plethora of resources for those interested in community-based, experiential education, child care issues, and policy-making concerns that impact children, adolescents, and...

This month, Education World, a prime distributor of free K-12 educational materials on the Web, offers its annual "best of" series, collected from the previous twelve months's lesson plans, curriculum articles, book reviews, Website reviews, and other educational aids. There are ten links per series, and the top five offer summary annotations for quick browsing.

Created and maintained by the Institute of International Education (IIE), the largest educational and cultural exchange organization in the US, this new site will quickly prove invaluable to college students and others searching for study abroad opportunities. The IIE has published a pair of well-respected directories to international study opportunities for 50 years, and this site allows users to...

Launched at the end of August by Web resource veteran Kathy Schrock (see the December 1, 1995 Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/1995/scout-951201.html#5 ) and the Discovery Channel School, this new mailing list offers a brief description and link to one educational site each day. The quality of sites featured in the past month has been generally high (but not necessarily new),...

The Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students through the InterNet project is being developed by a collaborative team in the College of Education and the Communication Technology Laboratory at Michigan State University. The mission of the site is to facilitate an integration of the Internet into the K-12 curriculum. This still-developing site features lesson plans on topics from Ellis Island to...

The PBS LearningMedia site is a fun resource for educators with materials covering everything from women's literature to current events. Visitors can click on the Browse PBS Learning Media area to look around for resources by grade levels, subjects, standards, and collections. Returning visitors should peruse the New Features area where they can find helpful fact sheets, activities, and...

The Web's premiere Social Science gateway has gotten even better, with a new interface and several other features that help users find quality social science research and education resources, hand-picked and described by librarians and subject specialists. The heart of SOSIG remains its excellent Internet catalog, which includes thousands of online resources, browseable or searchable by subject...