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• Economics
  • Young Inventor provides resources for parents and teachers to educate young people about finance, including information about money management and investing.
  • The U.S. Mint is geared toward younger children and provides numerous resources, games, and teacher lesson plan ideas to educate children about coins, the Mint, and U.S. History.
  • The National Council on Economic Education offers resources to improve the economic literacy of young people.
  • The U.S. Treasury Department provides a link to Money Math: Lessons for Life, a paper that provides tips and lesson ideas to better educate children about saving, budgeting, and other financial tools.
  • PBS, provides resources to educate children about advertising techniques and being smart consumers.
• Math
  • The Math Forum @ Drexel: Teachers’ Place provides resources for teaching math at all levels. This space is not only for teachers, but has also been built in part by teachers.
  • The Innovative Teaching Newsletter is an online newsletter that offers a multitude of math sites that will help to explore new and different ways of learning math.
  • Math Playground is an action packed site for students in grades K to 6. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
  • Tech Trekers – Teaching Math with the Net discusses the advantages of using the Internet in the math classroom
  • King’s List of Online Math Activities obtains links to many different mathematical activities beneficial to students of all ages.
• Science
  • Ethos is an Indiana based company that strives to develop hands on science curricula for students
  • Indiana HOSA is a career and technical student organization for students interested in health science.
  • The Health Science Career Cluster is a study integrating academics, specific health science technology courses, along with a variety of problem–based and work-based learning opportunities. Work-based learning may include job shadowing, internships, and other clinical experiences that allow students to observe and learn from healthcare professionals. Students in the Health Science Career Cluster leave high school better prepared for further education and/or immediate employment in the healthcare field. Health Science focus pathways include: Therapeutic Services, Diagnostic Services, Health Informatics, Support Services, Biotechnology and Research Development.
  • Web Weather provides a resource for young students and their parents and teachers to learn about weather, including weather-related experiments, games, stories, and safety tips.
  • NASA provides satellite images of earth, including detailed land surface, oceanic, and atmospheric pictures.
  • The U.S. Geological Survey provides information for teachers and students about the natural sciences. This site includes ideas for classroom lesson plans and experiments.
  • The American Field Guide, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting, features more than 1,400 video clips of outdoor programming from public television stations around the country.
  • ActionBioscience.org is an educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy by providing the public with information and resources about the biological sciences.
  • The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory provides up-to-date information about volcanic activity at Yellowstone National Park.
  • The Skyscraper page provides statistical information for skyscrapers across the world, and can provide resources for teachers to teach about science, architecture, and geography.
  • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides information about the history and technology behind ocean exploration, and includes video animations and photographs of oceans and ocean life throughout the world.
  • MAPS provides historic maps from around the world to be used for teaching students about geography.
  • The Biology Corner provides lesson plans, lab ideas, and workshops to educate students about biology.
  • EdHeads provides activities to teach students about general science concepts.
  • The U.S. Department of Energy offers facts, games, and lesson plans to educate young people about energy.
  • Engineering is Elementary provides information about engineering and technology for children.
  • The Exploratorium delves into the science behind everyday life, from sports science to the science of gardening, to microscopic imaging.
  • Court TV offers information for teachers to educate students about forensic science.
  • The National Science Foundation provides information about the lastest scientific discoveries, and student resources.
  • NASA provides current information on astronomy, shuttle information, the international space station, and photos from the Hubble Telescope.
• History and Social Studies
  • The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia provides presidential transcripts and recordings from 1943-1976, highlighting historical events during the presidencies of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
  • The White House website offers information about the current presidential administration, including recent press releases, executive orders, and issue positions. The site also provides links to the Office of the First Lady and the Office of the Vice-President. The site also includes a children’s page.
  • Western Trails: An Online Journey provides information and some lesson plans about westward expansion in the United States.
  • The Valley of the Shadow compares two counties during the Civil War, one South, and one North. The information provided includes church records, actual letters and diaries, and newspapers.
  • The Holocaust Memorial Museum provides educational tools and resources for students of all ages to learn about the Holocaust.
  • User’s Guide to the Declaration of Independence provides information about the history behind the signing of the Declaration of Independence, as well as other important documents in American history.
  • For more than 40 years, the Academy of Achievement has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age.
  • American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. It provides eyewitness accounts of North American Exploration.
  • The United States Senate provides information about Senate history and procedure, as well as links to Senator and Committee websites and current legislation.
  • The United States House of Representatives provides information and history about the House of Representatives, including Representative and Committee websites, and access to current House legislation and procedure.
  • This Nation was created by a university professor as a resource for teachers and students eager to learn more about American government, politics, and current issues. The site includes free access to many political documents, speeches, and articles, as well as general information about such things as the Constitution and each of the three branches of government.
  • George Washington University provides this Cuban Missile Crisis site with actual photographs, audio clips, timelines, and declassified documents pertaining to the events surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index provides lesson plans and other resources for those who wish to use political cartoons to teach the social sciences, journalism, and English.
  • The American Presidency online exhibit information about the presidency as taken from an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
  • The Leaning Page uses the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress to provide a variety of information and lesson plans for teachers educating their students about American history.
  • The FBI webpage, through games, investigative activities, and puzzles, helps students learn and teachers teach about the FBI.
  • The Dirksen Congressional Center provides lesson plans and project ideas for teachers to educate students about Congress and American government.
  • The CIA World Factbook provides statistics about countries throughout the world, including up-to-date maps, flags of the world, and country profiles.
  • The Bill of Rights Institute provides lesson plans for teachers educating students about civics, with a particular emphasis on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  • History Matters is geared toward high school and college educators to teach students about American history.
  • Kids.gov, maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center, provides links to kids’ websites on a number of topics ranging from plants and animals, geography, money, and careers.
  • The Smithsonian Museum of American History traces the history of transportation in America.
  • The History Channel has a number of historical archives and references.
• Music and Arts
  • The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, a nonprofit institution committed to enriching the lives of children which is the largest children’s museum in the world. The Arts Workshop included on the site encourages students' creativity by providing the tools for creating an online multimedia production and activities that can be done at home.
  • The American Music Conference encourages students to build credibility for music and music education, especially at an early age, and to expand that portion of the population that enjoys and makes its own music.
  • Art Access examines objects from various areas of the Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent collection to enrich visitors' understanding of their content, style, and historical context. Included in this site is a variety of online resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young people, including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home.
  • Art Explorer highlights the Art Institute of Chicago's Impressionist and Postimpressionist collections.
  • Arts Connected is produced by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and MCI with the goal of making "arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages."
  • ArtsEdge features Artsedge, a program that supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.
  • The National Gallery of Art Classroom, offers lesson plans, activities, worksheets and other resources for teachers and students to integrate the arts into the curriculum.
• Reading and Language Arts
  • Vocabulary University provides resources to improve vocabulary education for high school students through links to lesson plans, games, and SAT preparation, and recommended readings.
  • Reading is Fundamental provides information about Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), which is an organization that “provides 4.5 million children with 16 million new, free books and literacy resources each year.” RIF encourages children to read as well as help to formulate literacy programs within communities.
  • This Summer Reading link has several reading lists for your child to choose from a wide variety of books.
  • Child 2000 offers advice for parents working to facilitate their child’s reading. The site also provides tips for storytime and the library and lists several other links regarding literacy.
  • The Library of Congress (LOC) and its literacy program that seeks to bring their collection and services to the constituents. The LOC’s collection contains more than nine million historical items. LOC has made reading and literacy programs available for Indiana and other states through the Center for the Book office, available to review at http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/ctr-bro.html.
• Career and Technical Education
  • America’s JobBank offers a database of career information ranging from employment opportunities to employer resources.
  • JobCorps provides information about Job Corps, an education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor for adolescents and young adults.