Search Engines: (click here for a short "how to use search engines" file)

Useful Links for Research and Homework

Three Sites for Scholarships, Colleges, and Careers

Web Sites for Families

Critical Thinking Community This site focuses on teaching critical thinking skills.

Cool Sites for Kids The American Library Association provides this for kids and their parents.

The Discovery Channel School On line This site is full of information and lesson plansfrom the Discovery Channel.

Education Index an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and life stage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

Families Connect Part of the American library Association site. It includes on-line courses on using the internet, good sites for families and other useful information.

Family Education The Family Education Company's mission is to help parents help their children succeed. They provide parents with the information and resources they need to actively participate in their children's learning process.

Federal Resource for Educational Excellence More than 30 Federal agencies form a working group to make hundreds of federally supported education resources available at this web site.

K-12 Connection This site (sponsored by the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System) provides both content and easy-to-use free internet tools and is designed to help K-12 professionals build and use internet content.

"Surfing the Net with Kids" (from the syndicated newspaper column of the same name) Ferrets out the best of the online world for students, parents and teachers. Each weekly column rates and reviews five fun, educational Web sites on topics as diverse as Stock Market Simulations, Gargoyles and Monarch Butterflies.