Week 31
4/6-4/10

Blue Mountain Cards:

Musical, Electronic Greeting Cards
to send over the Internet

http://www.bluemountain.com/index.html

Week 32
4/13-4/17

Mac Tip of the Day
from the publishers of MacWorld

(There are other good things at the ZDnet site as well!)

http://www.zdnet.com/mac/tips.html

Week 33
4/27-5/1

4th & 5th Grade Research Site

Very rich site full of links to topics for 2,3,&6 as well!

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217

Week 34
5/4-5/8

NY Metropolitan Museum of Art

as seen in The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

http://www.metmuseum.org/

Week 35
5/11-5/15

The Portland Sea Dogs Home Page

http://www.portlandseadogs.com/

Week 36
5/18-5/22

Gardening Sites:

Horticulture Online:

Horticulture's "Sites to See"
Extensive collection of well-organized links to gardening topics

Sierra's Gardening.com http://www.gardening.com

http://www.hortmag.com/

http://www.hortmag.com/cgi-bin/v2/gemag/PID=62608948341491761310922,10922&s=891

http://www.gardening.com

Week 37
5/26-5/29

IN HONOR OF
MEMORIAL DAY&endash;

Some CIVIL WAR SITES

Curtis Library Pejepscot Historical Society's

1. Joshua Chamberlain Area
2. Other Civil War and Chamberlain Resources (Links to many Civil War Pages)

http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/joshbiog.htm

http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/resource.htm

Week 38
6/1-6/5

American Library Association's

Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful
Web Sites for Kids and
the Adults Who care About Them

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html

Week 39
6/8-6/13

Maine State Learning Results

Children: 20% of our population,
100% of our future
Family & Community Involvement in Education

http://eeunix.ee.usm.maine.edu/smp/mlr/tutorial.html

http://www.ed.gov/Family/comunity.html

Week 40
6/15-6/18

National Severe Storms Laboratory's
The Weather Room
Information, Graphics, Maps, Links to other weather sites

Jim Moulton's Teacher Sites

http://www.nssl.uoknor.edu/edu/

http://www.col.k12.me.us/teachers/sites.html

Week 22
1/26-1/30

Academy of Achievement
Meet men and women who have achieved in many areas of endeavor

http://www.achievement.org

Week 23
2/2 -/2/6

Scholastic Network
Free trial subscription to kid friendly site with information and materials on many curriculum areas and topics. This privilege is extended to all BCS teachers, students, parents (Click "Come on In"/Scholastic Network Enter Here / Welcome to Internet Discovery Program/ Click Here/ Type in username IDP-K30-275 & password spool-taste )

The Winter Olympics
Official Site
Yahooligans Site:

http://www.scholastic.com

http://www.nagano.olympic.org/index.html

http://www.yahooligans.com/Sports_and_Recreation/Events/Olympics__The

Week 24
2/9-2/13

Billy Bear's Valentine Page

Yahooligan's Valentine's Day

http://www.worldvillage.com/kidz/bilybear/valentin/valentin.htm

http://search.yahooligans.com/search/ligans?p=Valentines+Day

Week 25
2/23-2/27

CYBERGUIDES for teachers and students

CyberGuides are supplementary units of instruction based on core works of literature, requiring students to use the World Wide Web.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Week 26
3/2-3/6

Two Dr Seuss Sites:
in honor of his birthday 3/2

Official Random House Site:

"Oh the Places You'll Go" Links to Other Dr. Seuss Sites

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/

http://www.evolve.com/~drseuss/seuss/seuss.links.html

Jim Moulton's
Web Wanderer:
In depth review of a family oriented site each week.List of past sites reviewed available, too.

http://www.socdeved.com/JimMoultonWebColumn.htm

St Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day -

Absolutely Green -

St Patrick's Day -

Top o' the Day To You - BillyBear's Page -

http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/stpatric/spatindx.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Green/index.htm

http://www.st-patricks-day.com/

http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/fun.htm

The Great American Web Site

http://www.uncle-sam.com/

April Fools Site:

History, Pranks, Foolish Web Sites (Brain Teasers, Tongue Twisters, Hidden Pictures)

http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/club/fool/fools.html

Week 11
11/10-11/14

Public Broadcasting
Ken Burns' "Lewis and Clark"
and other programs also
PBS For Kids; Learn With PBS; History; Technology; Science; News and Views, and more

http://www.pbs.org

Week 12
11/17-11/21

Ari's TODAY Page:
All about Today: Events in history, space, sports; significant birthdays LINKS to other Day Pages (Word of the Day, Question of the Day, Astronomy Picture of the Day etc)

www.uta.fi./~blarku/today.html

Week 13
11/23-11/24

Thanksgiving in American Memory (Library of Congress)

Thanksgiving (Yahooligans Search)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/thanks/thanks.html

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Holidays/Thanksgiving/

Week 14
12/1-12/5

Science Learning Network
Collection of "Web-based Learning Environments" to spark kids' science experimentation and exploration

http://sln.org

Week 15
12/8-12/12

Homework Heaven
Information on Arts, Biographies, C.Events, Health, Geography, History, Math, Libraries, Museums, Literature, Research, Writing Techniques, Note taking Online, and more

ALSO Links to their Top 5 Homework Sites of the Week

http://www.jumbo.com/homework

Week 16
12/15-12/19

Holidays of this Season

Christmas

Hanukkah

Kwanzaa

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Religion/Christianity/Christmas/

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Religion/Judaism/Hanukkah/

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Cultures/African_American/Kwanzaa/

Week 17
12/22-12/23

Puzzle Page

A collection of puzzles of all sorts along with links to other puzzle sites. Have Fun! (This is a very challenging site.) (I found going to "Puzzle Links" most helpful)

http://www.primenet.com/~omnibus/

Week 18/19
1/5 - 1/9

NEA Health Information Network

Devoted to health issues affecting students and school employees. (found in NEA Today )

http://www.nea.org/hin/

Week 20/21
1/12 - 1/23

COL's Ice Storm 98

Stories to share, Pictures, Classes to communicate with, Other Links

Martin Luther King

(links to several sites)

http://www.col.k12.me.us/icestorm/

http://www.yahooligans.com/ligans?p=%Martin+Luther+King%22

Week 2
9/8-9/12

Hummingbirds

Week 3
9/15-9/19

Education World

database of some 50,000 sites that can be searched by grade level. Also educational news, lesson plans, professional development resources

Week 4
9/22-9/25

Collaborations Online:

Electronic Schoolhouse
(Links to Net Projects)

Global School Net
(Internet Project Registry)

http:// town.pvt.k12.ca.us/Collaborations/e-school.html

http://www.gsn.org/project/index.html

Week 5
9/29-10/3

ONF-FAME
Maine Community Network Writers Contest "Continue the Story"
Sept.-Oct. only

http://www.onf.com/contest.html

Week 6
10/6-10/10

Multiple Search Services

Dogpile (Searches 14 of the best Search Engines, such as Alta Vista)

SavvySearch

http://dogpile.com

http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000

Week 7
10/14-10/17

Sport Science (How science relates to sports and vice versa: Athlete's first-hand accounts, interactive demos, advice and insites. "The sporting life is more technical than you ever thought."

http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/

Week 8
10/20-10/24

American Memory at the Library of Congress
historical photos, prints, documents, on many, many historic topics

http://rs6.loc.gov

Week 9
10/27-10/31

Ben & Jerry's Halloween
(Tips, Treats, Links, History)

Children's Hospital of Oakland's Halloween
(Safety Tips, Costume Ideas, History)

http://www.benjerry.com/halloween/index.html

http://www.kron.com/kidsfirst/halloween/home.html

Week 10
11/3-11/7

's Bookmarks: A huge list of sites, most of interest to educators (Just a few of the topics: Math Problems, Oceans, Space, States. Sports, Newspapers & Magazines for Kids)

http://www.wtvl.k12.me.us/ash/bookmarks