Mega Educational Website Collections

	BigChalk "Provides a broad spectrum of educational Internet services to teachers, students, parents, librarians and school administrators in the K-12 educational and public library markets. The National Community Web site, serves as a jumping off-point for school librarians, teachers, parents and students, and brings together the technology resources most critical to K-12 education. "
	Education World Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.  Subject trees in all content areas, article archives, reference center, and much more.
	Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (F.R.E.E.) "In summer 1997, more than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported education resources available at this web site. Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government are now easier to find. Subjects include: arts. educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education."
	Gateway to Educational Materials (G.E.M.) "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is a special project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. Teachers, parents, administrators can search or browse The Gateway and find thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans,activities, and projects."
	Internet Public Library  The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. Has a great reference section, links to online magazines and newspapers, and subject trees for both youth and children.
	Library of Congress  Portal to outstanding collections and websites compiled by the U.S. Library of Congress. These are: (1) American Memory Project with links to more than 5 million items relating to American history. (2) America's Library "is a new site designed especially for children and their families. This easy-to-use interactive presentation of some of the Library's most fascinating materials makes learning history fun. " Also, includes links to the U.S, Copyright Office, Exhibits, and much more.
	MarcoPolo "The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines. "
	700+ Great Sites Compiled by the American Library Association for kids and parents. Links to outstanding websites in the following categories: Arts and Entertainment, Literature and Language, People Past and Present, Planet Earth and Beyond, and Science and Technology.
	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators An outstanding "categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
	Government Information Links to outstanding U.S., Maryland, local, and inernational websites for kids. Compiled by Della Curtis, Coordinator, Office of Library Information Services.