With resources for all ages, these links offer genuine help and reference materials. Plus, each has been reviewed by Kent ISD staff.

Inside the School provides practical teaching strategies and resources to middle and high school teachers online, in a weekly e-zine, and through online seminars and printable reports.

Online Encyclopedias

Encarta Encyclopedia | Encyclopedia Smithsonian | HighBeam: Encyclopedia.com | Curriki

The Encyclopedia will serve as an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet, as well as all those later discovered and described. Encyclopedia of Life will be used as both a teaching and a learning tool, helping scientists, educators, students, and the community at large gain a better understanding of this planet and all who inhabit it.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

Cool School: Where Peace Rules

How about a video game that teaches conflict resolution skills - that is - teaches kids how to not fight? COOL SCHOOL: WHERE PEACE RULES is just that game. Targeted at children from Kindergarten through 2nd grade, the game is set in a fantastic school where all of the objects come to life, depicting conflicts facing children every day.
Cool School: Where Peace Rules

iCue is a collaborative learning community that incorporates gaming, discussion, and video resources in a safe, student-frendly online environment.
http://www.icue.com

Arcademic Skill Builders

Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. This program stems from experience, systematic observations, and research in attempting to understand student learning in school and social situations. Arcademic Skill Builders

Graph Paper for High School Math  

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Arts | History | Math | Science

Arts

Dancer's Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham
Hear music and see video clips, including Graham herself perform movements from "Lamentation." Other featured works include "Appalachian Spring," "Diversion of Angels," and "Errand into the Maze."
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1901

Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
Drawings from one of the world's finest private collections of old master and modern European drawings (1500 - 1889). (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1903

History

The Life of George Washington By David Ramsay 

Ancient Mesopotamia:
This History, Our History explores the everyday lives of people who lived thousands of years ago in the area now called Iraq.  Learn about the "cradle of civilization" through lessons and artifacts organized around 14 themes: archaeology, prehistory, the first farmers, the first cities, daily life, religion, the role of women, the invention of writing, literature, law and government, mathematics and measurement, science and technology, art and architecture, and warfare and empire.
(University of Chicago, Institute of Museum and Library Services)
http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/

Donner Party
provides a transcript, map, and essays for a TV program that tells the harrowing tale of what tragically became one of the most famous of wagon trains.  The Donner party set out from Springfield, Illinois, for California in the spring of 1846.  In July, following the advice of a guide book, they split off from the main body of the wagon train to take an untried shortcut.  Read excerpts from the diary of a Donner party survivor.  (WGBH, National Endowment for the Humanities)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/

Arlington National Cemetery
A hallowed ground where more than 300,000 veterans from all our nation's wars are buried, from the American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan. Learn about Arlington House, the origin of "Taps" and the 21-Gun Salute, training for sentinels of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the Changing of the Guard. (Multiple Agencies)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1897

Independence Day
Drafting of the Declaration of Independence, primary documents from the Constitutional Convention, and how July 4 has been celebrated since the day in 1776 the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration.
http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=257

Kids in the House
Meet the Clerk, Learn about Congress, How Laws Are Made, be a Time Traveler, take a Field Trip!, Fun & Games
Kids in the House

National Mall and Memorial Parks
Information about the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, Ford's Theatre, the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and more. (National Park Service)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1900

New Philadelphia
The story of the first African American to plat and register a town before the Civil War. Born into slavery in 1777 in South Carolina, Frank McWorter moved to Kentucky with his owner, where he married and earned cash as a laborer to purchase freedom for his wife and later himself. He bought a
tract of military land in Illinois, where he and his wife planted and raised enough crops to eventually buy freedom for 16 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1894

Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century
A multimedia exhibit of key events and decisions that U.S. presidents faced in the 20th century: the stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb, Little Rock school integration, Gulf of Tonkin, trip to China, Berlin Wall, and
more. (University of Texas at Austin, National Endowment for the Humanities)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1902

Math

HippoCampus
Provides Multimedia courses and activities based on high school and Advanced Placement course content. Resources for Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus,Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics and US History.
HippoCampus

Science

With an emphasis on hands-on investigations, field work, and doing science like a "real scientist," ScotchScienceFair.com is the most relevant, creative (and fun!) science fair tool on the web.

At ScotchScienceFair.com

Exploring Magnetism
A series of lessons on solar wind, solar flares, space weather, electromagnetism, and earth's magnetism. Map magnetic fields in your environment. Experiment with compass needles and circuits, electric currents and magnets, a jump rope generator, and induction in an aluminum can. Find out about sunspots, time zone math, magnetic reversals, the
magnetosphere, and auroras. (Center for Science Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1892

Materials World Modules Program
Interdisciplinary modules on topics in materials science -- composites, ceramics, concrete, biosensors, biodegradable materials, smart sensors, polymers, food packaging, and sports materials. Modules are inquiry based
and hands-on. They incorporate concepts from chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics. (Northwestern University, National Science Foundation)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1895

National Science Digital Library
The National Science Foundation sponsors the National Science Digital Library, with searchable science, math, and technology resources. Through the library, for example, that search for lessons on volcanoes can be narrowed to just a few select resources that are suitable for a particular grade.
National Science Digital Library

SEGway
A gateway to astronomy and space science resources. Find lessons on auroras, comets, satellites, satellite images of earth, properties of light, Venus, weather on Mars, solar cycle, tracking orbiting spacecraft, classifying galaxies, calculating rotation rates of planets, sunspots, interstellar medium, and electromagnetic radiation. Learn about basic astrophysics research techniques and how satellites "see" the universe at different wavelengths. (Center for Science Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1893

Silencing Genomes
Introduces us to RNAi, a mechanism by which biologists "down-regulate" gene expression and observe the physiological consequences. A series of experiments demonstrate the power of RNAi in a model organism (roundworm C. elegans). Videos, animations, interviews with experts, and other materials are provided. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, National Science Foundation)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1899