Useful Educational Sites
Click on the organizations' names to access the sites:
National Gallery of Art: An interactive site introducing art and art history.
Smithsonian Institute: A source for science, innovation, history and more.:
National Zoo: About 2,000 animals from 400 different species reside at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Our best known residents are our giant pandas, but the Zoo is also home to great apes, big cats, Asian elephants, birds, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and many more! :
CIA World Fact Book: The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
How Stuff Works: science, health, economics and much more.
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Student Center: a source for games, quizzes, homework resources and environmental information.
Tagexdo Creator: create a word cloud; the more often the word is used the larger the font will occur in your "word cloud" and vary it by color, font, etc.
Wordle: is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.