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A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets, customizable to any location and time.

Duolingo is a fantastic new website for learning languages. It offers courses in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. Each course allows the learner to progress along various logical steps towards greater fluency. Additionally, it has a cooperative, social-media aspect in that it allows users to exchange information how to best translate materials. Overall, the site is an excellent tool for students to learn a language at their own pace and in an entertaining manner.

I love this website! I am using it to brush up on my German from high school before hitting Europe again next summer!

This website has a ton of interactive exercises to help students learn grammar. It has mini lessons for students to read about and then activities for them to apply what they learned. There are also handouts teachers can print out as a supplementary assignment.

Interactive Solar System Tour, Constellations, Views from space and awesome background music

This website offers tutorials in chemistry, biology, physics, geography, astronomy, and even math topics. As you click on the different topics you come to sites that are packed with information and activities, games, and extra links for more resources.

This website is a wonderful site for many subjects in music theory. The site contains lessons, customizable exercises and other tools to help both students and teachers.

This site has tons of clip art in categories with audio and spelling if you hover over the picture. There are many different language options other than English available if you need them. Not all the topics work properly for me though--some just stream through the words instead of letting you hover over them to hear them.

The site includes several java applets to investigate Graphs of Functions, Equations, and Algebra. Topics explored are: equations of line, ellipse, circle, parabola, hyperbola, polynomials; graphs of quadratic, rational, hyperbolic, exponential and logarithmic functions; one-to-one and inverse functions and inverse trigonometric functions; systems of linear equations; determinants and Cramer's rule; inverse matrix and matrix multiplication; vectors, complex numbers, polar equations; absolute value function; slope of a line; angle in trigonometry, unit circle, solutions to trigonometric equations; graph shifting, stretching, compression and reflection.

This site explains music theory in a tiered fashion. It starts with very simple concepts and builds from there. There are different areas for lessons, exercises for practicing what is learned, and other tools.

This is a great tutorial series on how to pronounce various aspects of the English language, having this video pronounce the English alphabet. Her videos on youtube are very explanatory and she also offers a website (http://www.rachelsenglish.com/) with extra information. Perfect for ELL's wanting to perfect their pronounciation.

This website has a variety of free lessons from different universities. Some of the universities are Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and MIT. There are different categories that students and teachers can browse through. On the main page there is a tutoring link that has different videos to teach the quadratic formula and factoring. This is a great source for teachers and students.

This site offers free online classes. Their online courses feature a variety of university lectures. It is not amazing but helpful.

This website is sponsored by Scholastic and has different lessons for Math and Science. There are also tests available for the students to take.

Students can use this fun interactive recorder fingering chart to learn how to play notes correctly on the soprano recorder. The image of the recorder shows the correct fingering, along with playing the note. It also has a corresponding audio recordings for students to play along with. There are many photos for students to look at fingerings.

This instructional website makes it so much fun to learn everything about volcanoes. It gets students actively involved with learning by a few features. First, the interactive tutorials engage students by providing the graphic information of volcanoes, including the global perspective, volcano types, and geological structures inside a volcano. Second, the site has a fun game to have student build their own volcano and watch it erupt with vivid sound effect. The game is highly interactive and rich in contents. All of the features of the website have incorporated many footnotes of learning material, which really helps student to understand the subject.

Awesome interactive presentation on "mate", a popular Argentine drink. This Prezi links up to other similar interactive presentations on other related ideas to this one. There is so much that a teacher could do with these and as an extension have students create their own!

As the name implies, this is a great website that is filled with visual tutorials and games for learning different elementary math topics acros the grades. These tutorials are all tied to the math standards as well.