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ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields. ARTstor consists of: A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and A restricted-usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

Adobe® Buzzword® is a FREE, new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there's no installation required. You can create print-perfect documents - What you see on the screen is what you'll get when you print. Fonts, letter spacing, colors, and graphics are all reproduced exactly.\n

This Edutopia article discusses using virtual field trips in the classroom and gives links to Web resources related to virtual field trips.

A free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations. The perfect study site for high school, college students and adult learners. Get help to do your homework, refresh your memory, prepare for a test. Browse the more than 2,500 Math pages filled with short and easy-to-understand explanations. Click on one of the following subject areas: Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Variables, Matrix Algebra, or Mathematical Tables. You can find topics ranging from simplifying fractions to the cubic formula, from the quadratic equation to Fourier series, from the sine function to systems of differential equations - this is the one stop site for your math needs.

A collection of Web resources provided by the federal government for educational use. Divided by subject area.

This site allows students to collaborate online for educational reasons. Features include online whiteboards, "dweeb" competitions, message system, learning style profiles, friends lists, links and more!

A social website that connects youth and helps them get homework done faster by working with their school friends online.

An Web page that guides students through identifying context clues and unknown words using an interactive game.

Step by step guide with interactive activity.

Search for information on Pennsylvania academic standards, assessment anchors, and eligible content by subject area and grade level.

Search Supreme Court cases and opinions.

A large number of links to free and public domain images, sound clips, and video clips from Springfield Township, Pennsylvania.

A virtual chemistry textbook. Provides an interactive guide for HS chemistry students. CHEMystery further expands chemistry knowledge by letting user interact with other Internet resources.

A one page interactive tool that creates a bar graph representing 6 things. You can print it when it is done.

Visit this Web site, presented by NASD and the National Institute for Consumer Education, to access objective information for teaching basic personal finance planning, saving, and investing.

A series of self-paced, online courses to teach how to use the ActivBoard. The first course covers basic skills and is FREE.

A structured approach to inquiry-based learning that uses the World Wide Web as a primary information resource.

Designed for med students, gives a detailed description of the sounds of the heart & lungs, including disorders, while playing audio of those sounds with each description. Suitable for upper level HS.

Part of the New York Times website.Based on the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

Interactive physics demonstrations. Some links are broken, but there are still some links that are worth checking out.

Select the type of graph, enter your data, label the axes, click a button and you have a graph!