On this page you will find links which will lead to sites on the World Wide Web which contain useful information for students and teachers at South East. Links have been organized by curricular area and, in some cases, subdivided into subjects or topics within a curricular area. Some of the links will be identified as supporting specific projects in particular classes.
Suggestions for adding new links to this index should be sent to Pete Muir. Please include the full URL for the site, a hint as to what is included there and any ideas you have for how it might be useful to either students or faculty. Should you find that a link on this page appears to no longer work, please send that message along as well.
Link Index
Art
ArtServe: More than 10,000 images supplied by the Australian National University including prints, architecture, and sculpture, mainly from Mediterranean cultures.
Getty Art History Information Program: Includes an extensive online database of art and architectural terms.
Smithsonian: Access to its museums, including African and Folk art.
WebAcropl: A virtual tour of the Acropolis from a site in Athens.
Business Education
http://www.typingtest.com This web site contains timed typing tests.http://www.learn2type.com Keyboard and 10-pad lessons and timed tests
Foreign Language
French, German, Native American, Japanese, Russian and Spanish link: Jump to literally hundreds of different sites with information about your favorite foreign language and the countries where the languages are spoken.
Global Studies
US History: The Westward Expansion
America's West - Development and History: American West is a visually appealing site that contains easy-to-understand information. If there is anything you want to find out about the American West, this is a good site to check out.
California Gold Rush: The gold rush in California is still affecting us.This site has information on many famous people like John Sutter and Francisco Lopez, who first discovered gold in California. It is organized by a time line, so it is easy to find what you want.
End Of The Oregon Trail: Do you ever wonder what was happening to African Americans during the Westward Expansion? Well, this site has information on that and a whole lot more! The links that are useful for research are: The History of the Trail, Black Pioneers, The Wagons, Stories, and Other Oregon Trail Sites.
Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia: This site is like an encyclopedia. You could find out about almost anything, but I would suggest going to the United States link. When you get there, you could either find your own link or go to topics like Alamo: Torn Over Texas, Little Big Horn, Westward Ho, or California Here I Come.
New Perspectives on the West: This site, made by PBS, contains information on various topics that have to do with the old west. There is extensive information on Native Americans and Lewis and Clark. There is an interactive time line that shows you the highlights of what happened each year from pre-Colombian times to the early twentieth century.
PBS Online - Lewis and Clark: The PBS documentary on the voyage of Lewis and Clark is the topic of this site.
Pony Express Home Station: How would you get mail in the 1800s? You would go to the Pony Express. It may not be as fast, efficient, or reliable as the US postal service or UPS, but in the 1800s it was the fastest way to send mail.
The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty: This site is about the Alamo. It has actual visuals of the Alamo and some pictures of buildings of the time. It has easy to read information including dates, maps (the maps are equal to the actual area during that time period), a time line, events, and biographies about the important people who took action during the battle at the Alamo.
The Erie Canal Home Page: Do you know where the Erie Canal is? Did you know that the Erie Canal was created by people? The print at this site is small, but the information is really interesting. The Gold Rush: The content of the text was very educating, and includes pictures that supplement the information. The site is just a page of links, but if you follow the links according to what you want to learn, you get to places with text.
The US- Mexican War, 1846-1848: One topic there isn't a whole lot of information on is the Mexican War. This site is a great source on that topic.
Voyaging With Lewis and Clark: This site has a wide variety of information ranging from a day by day journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, to maps of the expedition, and even to a site about Sacajawea.
Miscellaneous
American Civil War Ethnography: Thom Caswell has performed a service for any Net-connected teacher getting ready to study the U.S. Civil War. By gathering links by subculture /category (such as "Letters," "Slave Narrative," "Female Perspective," and "Civil War Photos"), a robust Hotlist has been created.
Human Rights Issues in the Mideast and Turkey
Japan: a site with lots of information about Japan
China: a nicely organized site with information about geography, people, language, history and lots more!
Index of Countries: A jump to this page allows you to go to pages for each country of the world. Nice maps and lots of text. Very easy to move around at this site.
The Iowa Legislature: This site contains information about every representative serving in the Iowa House and Senate. It contains information about all bills pending before either chamber and allows you to send email to these elected officials.
World Time Zones: It includes U.S. law on standard time zones, atomic time, legal time, solar time, universal coordinated time and the earth's rotation. It covers all the necessary ground on world time zones.
The History Channel Website: Here's a nice Website for getting access to reliable, primary source historical documentation. Especially useful aspects are the archives of great speeches (especially handy if you are creating a Multimedia Scrapbook) and the This Day In History section.
Russia Interactive Learning Exhibit: This interactive exhibit, part of the Annneberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection, explores how changes have affected the former USSR. Visitors can learn about the country through an interactive atlas and explore famous cities by taking a ride on the Continental Railway. The exhibit also includes a wealth of related web sites of interest.Return to the Link Index
Guidance
Industrial Technology
Roller Coaster Physics: This online resource introduces the science of roller coasters, including weightlessness, hills and dips, and the physiological effects of acceleration. Instructional materials include roller coaster simulator instructions, field estimation tips, and amusement park labs.
Language Arts
Novel Connections
Maniac Magee: This site features a teaching guide with a review of the book and sections on Characters, Things to Notice and Talk About, Activities and Related Readings.
Homelessness: Facts about homelessness, an important element in the book Maniac Magee. This would be a good place to start if you wanted to do some research about the subject.
A Day No Pigs Would Die: The Shakers; a beautiful website featuring sections on history, the Shaker community, Shaker cooking, the Shaker Farm, and home life. There are numerous photographs and drawings.
The Diary of Anne Frank: An impressive website containing sections on Anne. A must-see for anyone looking to extend their knowledge of this girl and her experience.
The Giver: The Lois Lowry file of Ask An Author features a photograph, brief biography, and the answers to seventeen questions from readers.
Miscellaneous
Web66 Author Site: a clearinghouse for information on authors of interest.
Ink spot: Writing-related resources, newsletter for writers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: At this web address you will find a complete, unabridged and searchable database of the ninth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Easier to use than the print version!
Citing on-line Sources: An on-line collection of how to write bibliographic citations of electronic sources.
New York Times: An on-line version of a good newspaper.www.dictionary.com This is a good on-line dictionary.
www.amazon.com Amazon.com is for more than just buying books. You can look up titles to find summaries and reviews about a book. For many books you can even read an excerpt on-line and find out the reading level by clicking on “Text Stats”.
www.majortests.com SAT vocabulary word lists
Life Skills
Interactive Food Finder: This site allows you to pick a fast-food restaurant and find out complete nutritional information on over 10,000 food items!
Mathematics
Math Magic: Math Magic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog.
Blue Web'n Applications Library: a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
Don Archer's World of Fractals: Yes, you can create your own fractal by a simple input of random numbers and functions and see your image displayed on this site with your name on it. You don't need to know any math. It's a collaboration between us and it's free.
BEATCALC: BEATCALC will wake up your brain on Monday morning with a mental math exercise that will stimulate those gray cells. Each Monday you will receive instructions for an exercise that will enable you to do math computations mentally faster than a friend can do them on a calculator. For example, how about learning to square 65 or 95 mentally in quick time? You can beat that calculator!
Aplusmath.com
coolmath4kids.com
Media
Yalsa (Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association) Book lists: Looking for a good book to read? These lists provide a good place to start!
Amazon.com, the Earth's biggest bookstore: If you can't get to Prairie Lights or one of Iowa City's other fine book stores, this is a great way to check the name of a particular book or find out who wrote what. Also contains information about authors, publicity tours, popular reading and more.
US Government Printing Office: Access anything that's printed by the government. Statistics from the Bureau of the Census, bills as recorded in the Congressional Record, Federal budget information, Supreme Court decisions and lots more.
Needle in a Cyperstack--The Info Finder: A librarian's page. This site provides access to other sites that provide access to other sites.... if you've got enough time to look, it will give you a taste of what it's like being a reference librarian; that is, being able to find an answer to any question at any time.
Library of Congress: Our national library. Millions of items from the collection are being digitized plus access to "Thomas" legislative information and more.
Radar Image of North America: It's like having your own "Weather Channel".
Iowa Teen Award: The Iowa Teen Award is sponsored by the Iowa Educational Media Association. Teens read from a selected list of books, then vote on their favorite book of the year. Teen readers are also invited to write reviews of the books they read for publication on this site.
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids: Want to know more about the Internet and some outstanding sites for students and parents? Here is good introductory information plus a few dozen sites with proven appeal for kids that are useful for school-related learning.
Miscellaneous
The Whitehouse: Information on the Whitehouse and what goes on there.
Iowa: Information on Iowa and it's government
Ask Jeeves:
Yahoo
Music
KidWeb Music: This site will act as a gateway to lots of sites about all kinds of information on music.
Welcome to the Classics: A site which will inform you about some of the world's most popular music. Popular music... classical?! Sure!
Mozart's Magical Musical Life: Kids will love this interactive biography of Johannes Amadeus Mozart. The storybook is embellished with pictures, hypertext links to details, and audio files of Mozart's compositions.
Personal Development
KidsHealth: A site devoted to the health of children and teens which was created by medical experts at the Nemours Foundation. It is filled with tons of up-to-date and accurate information about growth, food & fitness, medical and surgical conditions and the latest treatments.
Smoke in the Eye: A site based upon a special Front-line series produced by WGBH of Boston, a public television station regarding smoking, tobacco, the economics of tobacco and more.
The Visible Human Project: The goal of this project is to create a detailed, three-dimensional representation of the male and female human body.
Health Central: In this excellent site you will find forums and news on a wide variety of maladies and prevention.
PHYS: Focuses on health, fitness and nutrition.
Health Info: Fascinating facts and other helpful health information state-by-state, including suicide prevention. Also contains contacts for anyone interested in emergency medical care as a career.
KidsDoctor: This is an on-line encyclopedia of conditions that frequently affect children. You can search by keywords or scroll down an exhaustive list.
Virtual Nutrition Center: You'll find thousands of links to online medical journals and health encyclopedias, and a nutrient-analysis database that lists all the fast-food joints. Also, calorie conversion chart (exercise to calories burned).
Physical Education
PE Central: The ultimate website for physical education teachers, students, parents and interested adults. This site's goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
Reading
Yalsa (Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association
Book lists: Looking for a good book to read? These lists provide a good place to start!
Amazon.com, the Earth's biggest bookstore: If you can't get to Prairie Lights or one of Iowa City's other fine book stores, this is a great way to check the name of a particular book or find out who wrote what. Also contains information about authors, publicity tours, popular reading and more.
The Diary of Anne Frank: An impressive website containing sections on Anne. A must-see for anyone looking to extend their knowledge of this girl and her experience.
The Giver: The Lois Lowry file of Ask An Author features a photograph, brief biography, and the answers to seventeen questions from readers.
Iowa City Public Library
Special Education
Reading Strategies and graphic organizers
Lesson plans and links to a number of literacy-related sites
Reading, vocabulary and organizational strategies
Vocabulary lessons and activities including decoding multi-syllabic words, prefixes and suffixes, content-area vocabulary.
More word lists than you'll ever need!
Academic word lists--words students need to succeed in school.
For kids and teachers: an interactive site for daily buzz words, rhyming dictionaries and more
This site contains Dolch, Fry, academic word lists, 5000 words for SAT test and more
Free interactive word games for students to play online
Interactive games and links to a multitude of sites
Science
Environmental Education: Consistent with the key principles of environmental education, this site's mission is to spread information and ideas that will help people explore the environment and investigate current issues.
Nature: News items, summaries of articles, and job listings from Nature, the prestigious British science weekly.
Science Quotes: Notable quotes from scientists past and present.
El Niño: Check out this site for resources on El Nino, the phenomenon that's wreaking havoc on the world's weather and ocean life.
Dinosaur Information: For the serious enthusiast and rank amateur alike.
Earth Sciences and Map Library: A gateway to UC Berkeley's vast collection of materials in the earth sciences, cartography, climatology, and geography. A great site for map freaks.
National Air and Space Museum: A wonderful site for discovery and experimentation. Readers can explore images and descriptions of current exhibits then follow up with at-home activities.
Popular Science: The wired version of the magazine plus discussion forums and periodic CU-SeeMe events.
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia tour of the system. Loaded with interesting information, including history, current theories, mythology and data gathered by spacecraft.
Exploratorium Science Snacks: The Exploratorium Science Snackbooks show how to build miniature science exhibits with inexpensive, easily available materials. This online resource includes 107 "snacks," each with instructions, advice, helpful hints, and explanations of the science involved.