Use these resources to increase the use of the Internet in your curriculum.
| Play
Name that Tune!
Listen to a clip of music and answer 5 questions correctly to have your name put on a "wall of fame" |
Alta
Vista's Babel Fish
Translate text into another language. It's also fun to translate it back to English to see the changes that were made. |
How
far is it?
This service calculates the distance between two places (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing them. |
This all-in-one site has a dictionary, rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, word translator, acronym finder, quotation dictionary, biographical dictionary, maps, area code finder, currency exchange, zip code finder and MORE! |
Earth
and Moon Viewer
Privides many options for checking out satellite views of the Earth and the Moon. Also check out Solar System Live and Your Sky (makes custom star maps for any location on Earth at any date and time). |
Another one stop reference area. Many good links can be found here. |
| HyperHistory
This site presents 3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. |
Virtual
Frog Dissection Kit
This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. Students can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named fluffy. |
National Geographic Society's Map Machine Type in a location and be shown a variety of types of maps. |
| Find
A Grave
Research a famous person's life backward - start with “Why do you think the person was buried here?” |
The
Official US Time
as provided by the government. View the time zones and see where it is night and day. |
www.timeanddate.com
This site will provide current time and date info from around the world. It will also perform time and date related calculations. |
Find resources, projects, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages. Sign up for an online project. |
Education
4 Kids
Educational drill games in math, science, language and social studies. Find interactive flashcards and more. |
Set up an account and give students an easy way to visit the Internet from any computer. |
 This
online activity generates real, peer collected data for student computation,
analysis, and conclusion-building. |
Integrating
the Internet into the Classroom Curriculum
These web pages offer guidelines on how to introduce the Internet to students and what are the three basic ways for using the Internet in the classroom: gathering information, collaborating, and publishing. |
WEB
QUESTS!
Choose a web quest from a very complete list organized by grade level and subject. |
| Reach
Out and Touch an Author
Use the sites provided to find the answers to the set of questions, or choose another activity from this list of CyberBee Treasure Hunts. |
A prescreened directory of more than 20,000 in over 50 categories. |
Watch for more sites to be added to this page!
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