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More than just your standard links to curriculum resources, these links focus on
sites that are engaging, interactive, and offer audio and/or video components.
Arts & Music
Classical Archives - Classical music audio archives
Classical MIDI - Classical music audio files
Daily.wav - Awesome collection of audio quotes from movies, interviews
History Channel - Famous speeches in: Politics & Government, Science & Technology, Arts, Entertainment & Culture, and War & Diplomacy.
Leonard DiVinci - excellent multimedia thinkquest
Louis Armstrong - good lesson plan with audio!
Old-Time Radio - Audio clips from old-time radio days, broadcasts, music, stars
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Education Related
Academic Benchmarks - United States map and links to each state's standards.
APA Format - Writing in APA format? Try this link for help.
Brainpop - "Technology: Innovations, Inventions & Discoveries" Interactive animated videos, games
EducationAtlas - Directory of resources in education
Edutopia - George Lucas Foundation, over 70 documentaries and interviews with xperts on topics such as assessment, emotional intelligence, and project-based learning.
Virtual Field Trips
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Language Arts
Aesop's Fables - Link to images and audio for Aesop's Fable and other popular tales
APA Format - Writing in APA format? Try this link for help.
Between the Lions - Collection of entertaining video and audio clips on phonemic awareness and early reading skills. Most suitable for pre K - 2nd grade students.
Center for Digital Storytelling - non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.
Literacy Matters - PowerPoint presentation on integrating technology into a Language Arts curriculum
Play Kids Games - Fun games you design for kids in math and language arts.
Reading Rainbow - Offers a preview video clip of each of its episodes. Teacher guides, family activity sheets, and related web sites.
Wired for Books - Audio interviews and readings by famous authors.
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Online Lesson/Curriculum Design
MyT4L - learn the steps to designing successful projects, including multimedia and rubrics
NEA Course Design Templates - for higher education
Webquest Page- San Diego State's guide to designing webquests
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Math
Aster - Math audio-recordings for the blind
Basic Math Flashcards Basic math flash cards with 7 degrees of difficulty.
Integers - Introducing integers with Flash and audio
Learner.org Courses for elementary and middle school teachers for learning math, videos, interactive activities.
Learner.org: algebra - Algebra lessons/videos
Learner.org: symmetry - Symmetry videos
Mathpower.com - math help for the adult learner, learner anxiety, motivation
Play Kids Games - Fun games you design for kids in math and language arts.
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Physical Education/Health
Brainpop - "All About Your Body and How it Works" Interactive animated videos, games
Discovery Health - Great resources supporting the TV show.
Howstuffworks - Animations showing how stuff works in science, health, travel, computers and more!
Sports Participation - middle school lesson plan
TobaccoFree.org - Audio and video on "The Truth About Tobacco"
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Science
American Field Guide:PBS - Over 1400 video clips, including Animals, Ecosystems, Human History, Earth and Space, Livelihoods, Plants and more. Includes Teacher Resources for middle/high school students.
Animal Planet - Videos, pics, games that support this TV show.
Brainpop - "How the World Works" Interactive animated videos, games
Chemsoc - Visual Period Table videos
Discovery Channel - Great video and games in science.
Evolution: PBS- Nice flash simulation and discovery activity with materials.
History Channel- Famous speeches in: Politics & Government, Science & Technology, Arts, Entertainment & Culture, and War & Diplomacy.
Howstuffworks - Animations showing how stuff works in science, health, travel, computers and more!
National Geographic.kids - Interesting science "quick flicks"
NASA - Multimedia Resouces for space and science
NOVA - Science videos online, cool!
Online Cat Dissection - high school level, video, interesting and kind of yucky
Scientific American Frontiers: PBS - Offers a video archive that includes all of its episodes from 1990 to the present.
Xpedition Hall - Geography virtual museum, climb mountains, visit a dig, cool!
Vega.org - Links to lots of science videos online, nice
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Social Studies
ABC News - video broadcasts, great for use in current events class.
Brainpop - "How People Behave in Society" Interactive animated videos, games
Charles Lingdbergh - Audio clips of radio broadcasts and interviews.
CNN.com - Extensive news coverage with lots of multimedia.
Conversations with History Interviews with a wide range of historical figures.
Digital History Tons of resources and multimedia on history
Discovering Lewis and Clark Includes photographs, interactive maps, audio files and illustrations from the expedition journals of Lewis and Clark
History Channel - Famous speeches in: Politics & Government, Science & Technology, Arts, Entertainment & Culture, and War & Diplomacy.
Howstuffworks - Animations showing how stuff works in science, health, travel, computers and more!
Holocaust Memorial Museum Excellent resources for teaching the about the Holocaust
The Civil War Music Site - all audio songs, photographs, from the Civil War era.
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Special Education
AccessDL - University of Washington: Resources on Accessible Distance Learning
ITAP - Idaho Assistive Technology Project, information for educators on assistive technologies.
Joy Zabala - SETT Framework
USDE - Requirements for Accessible Electronic and Information Technology Design.
QIAT - Quality Indicators in Assistive Technology
Wisconsin AT Initiative - great tools for implementation
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Please submit your favorites links to the Center for Online Educators, and we'll include them on our expanding list.
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