This member based site's goal as a research society, is to help educate, promote inquiry, and to aid in the bettering of education. In order to help achieve this goal, this site deals with such aspects of education from meetings and events to employment.

Here is "...a fast, east and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Designed to be a fun destination site focused on learning and 'edu-tainment," Ask for Kids uses natural-language technology that allows kids to ask questions and perform web seearches...."

Acting as an online library, this website which has additions every month, is divided by subject, grade level, etc... The user can obtain tools, references, lessons, resources, tutorials, and other useful information. One can subscribe to this site for regular updated information.

Here, children can come to find books that they are intersted in by type, title, author, and even illustrator. Children also have the option to listen to a story over the internet. Summer recommended reading lists can also be found. There is also an option for children to write and share their own stories.

This site offers a plethora of information about children's literature. "This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and colelctions of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics." One can browse the following areas: search, what's new, books, subjects, curriculum areas, authors, and many more.

The goals of this association are "To encourage serious scholarship and research in childrens's literature. To enhancethe professional stature of the graduate and undergraduate teaching of children's literature...." In this site, the user can find information about conferences, grants, jobs, people, study programs, etc....

"The Curriculum Archive is a central repository for free lessons and classroom projects. You can earn extra income while contributing your ideas to this collective resource."

"Welcome to the Community Learning Network, a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you'll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search."

"The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) is a unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is an noncirculating examination, study, and research library for Wisconson school and public libraries, teachers, early childhood care providers, university students, and others interested in children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) School of Education (SoE, and recieves additional supposrt fromt he Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

This "Study Hall" was created in order to assist children with their homework including many disciplines. The site is broken down to help assist not only children but also teachers and parents. Ther is a wealth of helpful information on this site.

In this site one can find the following: what programs are on the discovery channels, lesson plans, a store for teachers, and educator's guide by Kathy Schrock, teaching tools, and homework helpers.

This site is considered the "Educator's Best Friend." It contains lesson plans, professional development, an administrator's desk, technology, school issues, and Ed World.

This online reference desk provides lesson plans, numerous links to online educational material, and responses to past questions.

Contains a variety of resources, including essays, syllabi, and bibliographies, for teaching United States literature

This site offers a wide variety of resources for instructors in geology. The resources can be used in classroom demonstrations, added to a syllabus, or recommended to students for homework help or further study.

This website is geared towards youth and is divided into the following categories: animals, the arts, history & biography, literature and languages, reference desk, mathematics and computers, sciences, and social sciences. The general categories contain different websites that give the user useful websites dealing with more specific topics.

This site is broken down into subject guides, daily information, puzzles & quizzes, featured sites, guidance, colleges, reference sites, reference tools, directories, health, and the online academic hub fabout teen related information about academics.

Contains the items found in the Kent State University College of Education Instructional Resource Center.

The site is geared to help aid in research, reading, writing, or "new literacies" developed fromt he internet. The site is broken down into portions of the association dealing with topics such as membership to the IRA, meetings and events, and even awards and grants. One can also find such things as publications, books, journals, grants and awards, as well as web resources.

This site is a product of the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET®). It contains topics and resources for teaching meteorology as well as downloadable training/ education modules. Topics include fire weather, coastal weather, basic climate, space weather and all aspects of weather. Site is designed for instructors, but has areas that younger users could be directed toward.

"The puropse of this page is to create a qualitative list of multicultural literature for K-12 educators. We would like to avoid presenting just lists of books, but instead give educators a chance to find out a little more information about multicultural literature others have used successfully."

Collects, collates, analyzes, and reports complete statistics concerning the state of American education. Also reviews and reports on trends in international education.

Founded in 1901, the NSSE is an organization of scholars, professional educators, and policy makers dedicated to the improvement of education research, policy, and practice. Includes searchable archives of over 100 years of NSSE yearbooks and chapters.

This is "...a resource designed to support students, teachers, and professionals that support K-12 environmental ediucation. Browse and search this site for a wealth of information and links on Environmental Education!"

This website provides information of not only basic information of the Ohio Board of Regents and their actions, but also news, information about universities in Ohio, the K-16 system, financial aid, legislative services, etc.

The mission statement of the OCIRA is as follows: "The Ohio Council of the International Reading Association supports and promotes literacy to help all Ohioans reach their full potential and develop a life-long love of reading." This site deals with such things as newsletters, a calender of important events, and local council collections.

This (Aft, AFL-CIO) federation's member based website allows educators the chance to learn about news, upcoming events, professional development, and other relevant information.

This site is part of the Ohio Department of Education website and provides the user with 2004-2005 local report card data as well as data from Ohio school districts. The data is broken down by building.

"Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud in pediatric exam rooms. Doctors and nurses know that growing up healthy means growing up with books. The ROR program provides the toolds to help promost children's developmental skills and later school success."

At this website, teachers are able to retrieve lesson plans in many different disciplines from art, to the internet, and many other content areas.

"The Teachers.Net Lesson Back is your opportunity to share your most precious asset-your teaching ideas and lesson plans! Now your genius and creativity can be used to touch lives around the world, and to help teachers reach students in ways they had never imagined before!"

Here one can recieve news that is relevant to the classroom. There is a teacher's guide, an archive of past news, classroom resources, ways to use U.S. News, and many more helpful tools. The website helps bring both current and past news into the eyes of students so that they can be more aware of what is going on in the world.

Here one can find a more child-friendly search engine from its parent site yahoo.com. The sited is updated daily and allows children to explore anything that is on their minds.