| HOMESCHOOL.COM'S TOP 100 WEB SITES |
| Sept. 9, 2004 -------------------- Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites Sponsored By: Oak Meadow The websites listed below represent some of the best educational sites on the Internet today. Homeschool.com based the selection on the following criteria: Is the site educational? Is the site well organized and easy to use? Does the site make good use of the latest Internet technology? Is the site interesting and informative? After reviewing thousands of websites, the following sites have been selected as Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites for 2004. These websites contain some of the best educational content on the Internet today. Almost all of these sites are free or have free sections. (Sabrina's note: I've not linked all these site, if they're not clickable - just copy and paste the address into your browser. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm working as fast as I can!) Art and Music A Lifetime of Color http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/ A.Pintura, Art Detective http://www.eduweb.com/pintura Children's Music Web http://www.childrensmusic.org/ Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art http://www.wildlifeart.org/ArtTales Arts Workshop http://www.childrensmuseum.org/artsworkshop/index.html ArtsEDGE http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ Art Lessons for All Grades http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html Inside Art http://www.eduweb.com/insideart Kinder Art http://www.kinderart.com/ LouvreW3 http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm The @rt-room http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room Webmuseum, Paris http://www.ibiblio.org/wm Coloring.com http://www.coloring.com/ Cyberkids http://www.cyberkids.com/ Fun Brain http://www.funbrain.com/ It's Your Turn Online Games http://www.itsyourturn.com/ Kids' Place http://www.eduplace.com/kids Kids Space http://www.kids-space.org/ World Kids Network http://www.worldkids.net/ Geography and Virtual Travel Amazon Interactive http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html Colonial Williamsburg: Electronic Field Trips http://www.history.org/trips CyberBee http://www.cyberbee.com/ Global Online Adventure Learning Site http://www.goals.com/Index.htm The Jason Project http://www.jasonproject.org/ Virtual Field Trips http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours Xpeditions @ National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions History Ancient Egypt on the Web http://www.guardians.net/egypt Biography.com http://www.biography.com/ Castles on the Web http://www.castlesontheweb.com/ Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/ History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers http://home.comcast.net/~dboals1/boals.html HyperHistory Online http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Justice for Kids and Youth http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage K-12 Africa Guide http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html Lewis and Clark http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark Life in the Middle Ages http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm New Perspectives on the West http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest States and Capitals http://www.50states.com/ The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war The Canada War Museum http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/kidsection/cwmindexeng.html The Civil War Homepage http://www.civil-war.net/ The Oregon Trail http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html The World of the Vikings http://www.worldofthevikings.com/ WestWeb http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html White House for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids Homeschooling About Homeschooling http://www.homeschooling.about.com/ Homeschool Methods http://www.homeschoollearning.com/approaches Peg's Unit Study Planning Page http://members.aol.com/PegFlint/units_how_to_plan.html Math Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math Basket Math Interactive http://www.scienceacademy.com/BI/index.html Exercises in Math Readiness http://math.usask.ca/readin/menu.html KidsBank http://www.kidsbank.com/ Math Goodies.com http://www.mathgoodies.com/ Mega-Mathematics http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math Purple Math http://www.purplemath.com/ Web Math http://www.webmath.com/ Miscellaneous Parent Soup http://www.parentsoup.com/ Teach With Movies http://www.teachwithmovies.org/ The Smart Guide to Financial Aid http://www.finaid.com/ Unconventional Ideas http://www.unconventionalideas.com/ Reading Audrey Wood Club House http://www.audreywood.com/ Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/ Children's Literature Web Guide http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown Pink Monkey http://www.pinkmonkey.com/ Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.net/ Reference Babel Fish - Language Translator http://world.altavista.com/ Britannica http://www.britannica.com/ Discovery School http://school.discovery.com/ Educator's Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/ Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Marco Polo Education Search http://www.meritbadge.com/ New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning ThinkQuest http://www.thinkquest.org/ Science BrainPOP http://www.brainpop.com/ Chem4Kids http://www.chem4kids.com/ Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/ HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Imagine the Universe! http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ InnerBody http://www.innerbody.com/ Kids Dig Reed http://www.kidsdigreed.com/ Life Beyond Earth http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth Museum of Science, Boston: Online Exhibits http://www.mos.org/ NASA Kids http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/ Neuroscience for Kids http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html Nine Planets http://www.nineplanets.org/ Ocean Planet Home Page http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html Sci4Kids http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids StarChild http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/ The Electronic Zoo http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm The Franklin Institute: Learning Resources http://sln.fi.edu/ The MAD Scientist Network http://www.madsci.org/ The Yuckiest Site on the Internet http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/ Try Science http://www.tryscience.org/ Writing CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper http://crayon.net/ MidLink Magazine http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink Researchpaper.com http://www.researchpaper.com/ Take Our Word.com http://www.takeourword.com/ The Write Site http://www.writesite.org/ What Makes a Good Story? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature Word Central http://www.wordcentral.com/ ------------------------------------------------- Note: You have our permission to reprint this newsletter. 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