The websites listed below represent some of the best educational sites on the Internet today. You'll find websites with:
- online quizzes,
- printable worksheets,
- free online books
- online Spanish lessons and reading lessons
- online games for extra practice with math facts, state capitals, etc.
- science lessons you listen to online, and
- free online lessons and lesson plans for every subject
After reviewing thousands of websites, the following sites have been selected as Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites for 2008. These websites contain some of the best educational content on the Internet today. Best of all, almost all of these sites are free or have free sections.
Reference
Gateway Educational Materials
http://thegateway.org
Ed Helper
http://www.edhelper.com
Learning Page
http://www.learningpage.com
Britannica
http://www.britannica.com
Discovery School
http://school.discovery.com
Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
Merit Badge Research Center
http://www.meritbadge.com
New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org
Miscellaneous
Autism Today
http://www.autismtoday.com
BBC Online Learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/basic_skills.shtml
Ideal Lives
http://www.ideallives.com
Tutor.com
http://www.tutor.com
Math
Ask Dr. Math
http://mathforum.org/dr.math
The Math Worksheet Site
http://www.TheMathWorksheetSite.com
Math Goodies.com
http://www.mathgoodies.com
Math Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com
Mega-Mathematics
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math
Purple Math
http://www.purplemath.com
Web Math
http://www.webmath.com
Science
BrainPOP
http://www.brainpop.com
Chem4Kids
http://www.chem4kids.com
Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu
HowStuffWorks
http://www.howstuffworks.com
Imagine the Universe!
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov
InnerBody
http://www.InnerBody.com
Kids Dig Reed
http://www.kidsdigreed.com
Life Beyond Earth
http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth
Science Friday
http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids
NASA Kids
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Nine Planets
http://www.nineplanets.org
Ocean Planet Home Page
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
Sci4Kids
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids
StarChild
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov
The Electronic Zoo
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
The Franklin Institute: Learning Resources
http://sln.fi.edu
The MAD Scientist Network
http://www.madsci.org
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com
Try Science
http://www.tryscience.org
Arts & Crafts
Arts Workshop
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/artsworkshop/index.html
ArtsEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
Art Lessons for All Grades
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html
Inside Art
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart
Kinder Art
http://www.kinderart.com
Crayola
http://www.crayola.com
Kids Space
http://www.kids-space.org
Reading
Starfall
http://www.starfall.com
How To Learn
http://www.howtolearn.com
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
Pink Monkey
http://www.pinkmonkey.com
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net
Wowio.com
http://www.wowio.comWriting
ABC Teach
http://www.abcteach.com
CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper
http://crayon.net
Free Rice
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Maggies Earth Adventures
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm
Online Writing Guide
http://oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wg/para.htm
Take Our Word.com
http://www.takeourword.com
The Write Site
http://www.writesite.org
What Makes a Good Story?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature
Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com
Geography and Virtual Travel
Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Colonial Williamsburg: Electronic Field Trips
http://www.history.org/trips
CyberBee
http://www.cyberbee.com
Global Online Adventure Learning Site
http://www.goals.com/Index.htm
The Jason Project
http://www.jasonproject.org
Virtual Field Trips
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours
Xpeditions @ National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
HyperHistory Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
K-12 Africa Guide
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark
Life in the Middle Ages
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm
New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest
States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com
The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
The Canada War Museum
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/kidsection/cwmindexeng.html
The Civil War Homepage
http://www.civil-war.net
The Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
Geography Worksheets
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/qt/geogprintables.htm
White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids
Homeschooling
About Homeschooling
http://www.homeschooling.about.com
Homeschool Learning Network
http://www.homeschoollearning.com/approaches/
A to Z Home's Cool
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/
Homeschool Blogger
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/home.php
Homeschool Buyers Co-Op
http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/
Homeschooling Forms
http://www.donnayoung.org
Homeschool Oasis
http://www.homeschooloasis.com/
The Well Trained Mind
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/
Educational Games
I know that
http://www.iknowthat.com
Study Stack
http://www.studystack.com
Family Fun
http://www.familyfun.com
Teach With Movies
http://www.teachwithmovies.org
The Smart Guide to Financial Aid
http://www.finaid.com
Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com
Study Spanish
http://www.studyspanish.com
By Kids For Kids
http://www.bkfk.com/
Family Travel
http://www.familytravel.com
