Homeschool.com's
Top 100 Educational Web Sites
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Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites
Sponsored By: Oak Meadow

The websites listed below represent some of the best educational sites on the Internet today. Homeschool.com based the selection on the following criteria:

• Is the site educational?

• Is the site well organized and easy to use?

• Does the site make good use of the latest Internet technology?

• Is the site interesting and informative?

After reviewing thousands of websites, the following sites have been selected as Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites for 2004. These websites contain some of the best educational content on the Internet today. Almost all of these sites are free or have free sections.

Art and Music A Lifetime of Color http://www.sanford-artedventures.com A.Pintura, Art Detective http://www.eduweb.com/pintura Children's Music Web http://www.childrensmusic.org

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Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
http://www.wildlifeart.org/ArtTales

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

LouvreW3
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

The @rt-room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room

Webmuseum, Paris
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm

Fun Coloring.com http://www.coloring.com Cyberkids http://www.cyberkids.com Fun Brain http://www.funbrain.com It's Your Turn Online Games http://www.itsyourturn.com Kids' Place http://www.eduplace.com/kids

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Kids Space
http://www.kids-space.org

World Kids Network
http://www.worldkids.net

 

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

 

History Ancient Egypt on the Web http://www.guardians.net/egypt Biography.com http://www.biography.com Castles on the Web http://www.castlesontheweb.com Family Search http://www.familysearch.org

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History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
http://home.comcast.net/~dboals1/boals.html

HyperHistory Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Justice for Kids and Youth
http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage

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

The World of the Vikings
http://www.worldofthevikings.com

WestWeb
http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html

White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids

 

Homeschooling

About Homeschooling
http://www.homeschooling.about.com

Homeschool Methods
http://www.homeschoollearning.com/approaches

Merit Badge Research Center
http://www.meritbadge.com

Peg's Unit Study Planning Page
http://members.aol.com/PegFlint/units_how_to_plan.html

 

Math

Ask Dr. Math
http://mathforum.org/dr.math

Basket Math Interactive
http://www.scienceacademy.com/BI/index.html

Exercises in Math Readiness
http://math.usask.ca/readin/menu.html

KidsBank
http://www.kidsbank.com

Math Goodies.com
http://www.mathgoodies.com

Mega-Mathematics
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math

Purple Math
http://www.purplemath.com

Web Math
http://www.webmath.com

 

Miscellaneous

Parent Soup
http://www.parentsoup.com

Teach With Movies
http://www.teachwithmovies.org

The Smart Guide to Financial Aid
http://www.finaid.com

Unconventional Ideas
http://www.unconventionalideas.com

 

Reading

Audrey Wood Club House
http://www.audreywood.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

 

Reference

Babel Fish - Language Translator
http://world.altavista.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

 

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

Museum of Science, Boston: Online Exhibits
http://www.mos.org

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

 

Writing

CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper
http://crayon.net

MidLink Magazine
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink

Researchpaper.com
http://www.researchpaper.com

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