Homeschooling Websites:
Top 100 Educational Sites

The top education websites for 2004

Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites
Sponsored By: Oak Meadow

The websites listed below represent some of the best educational sites on the Internet today. Homeschool.com based the selection on the following criteria:

Is the site educational?

Is the site well organized and easy to use?

Does the site make good use of the latest Internet technology?

Is the site interesting and informative?

After reviewing thousands of websites, the following sites have been selected as Homeschool.com's Top 100 Web Sites for 2004. These websites contain some of the best educational content on the Internet today. Almost all of these sites are free or have free sections.

Art and Music

A Lifetime of Color
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/

A.Pintura, Art Detective
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura

Children's Music Web
http://www.childrensmusic.org/

Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
http://www.wildlifeart.org/ArtTales

Arts Workshop
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/artsworkshop/index.html

ArtsEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Art Lessons for All Grades
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html

Inside Art
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart

Kinder Art
http://www.kinderart.com/

LouvreW3
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

The @rt-room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room

Webmuseum, Paris
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm

Coloring.com
http://www.coloring.com/

Cyberkids
http://www.cyberkids.com/

Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com/

It's Your Turn Online Games
http://www.itsyourturn.com/

Kids' Place
http://www.eduplace.com/kids

Kids Space
http://www.kids-space.org/

World Kids Network
http://www.worldkids.net/

Geography and Virtual Travel

Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

Colonial Williamsburg: Electronic Field Trips
http://www.history.org/trips

CyberBee
http://www.cyberbee.com/

Global Online Adventure Learning Site
http://www.goals.com/Index.htm

The Jason Project
http://www.jasonproject.org/

Virtual Field Trips
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours

Xpeditions @ National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions

History

Ancient Egypt on the Web
http://www.guardians.net/egypt

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/

Castles on the Web
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org/

History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers
http://home.comcast.net/~dboals1/boals.html

HyperHistory Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Justice for Kids and Youth
http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage

K-12 Africa Guide
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark

Life in the Middle Ages
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm

New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest

States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/

The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war

The Canada War Museum
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/kidsection/cwmindexeng.html

The Civil War Homepage
http://www.civil-war.net/

The Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

The World of the Vikings
http://www.worldofthevikings.com/

WestWeb
http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html

White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids

Homeschooling

About Homeschooling
http://www.homeschooling.about.com/

Homeschool Methods
http://www.homeschoollearning.com/approaches

Peg's Unit Study Planning Page
http://members.aol.com/PegFlint/units_how_to_plan.html

Math

Ask Dr. Math
http://mathforum.org/dr.math

Basket Math Interactive
http://www.scienceacademy.com/BI/index.html

Exercises in Math Readiness
http://math.usask.ca/readin/menu.html

KidsBank
http://www.kidsbank.com/

Math Goodies.com
http://www.mathgoodies.com/

Mega-Mathematics
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math

Purple Math
http://www.purplemath.com/

Web Math
http://www.webmath.com/

Miscellaneous

Parent Soup
http://www.parentsoup.com/

Teach With Movies
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/

The Smart Guide to Financial Aid
http://www.finaid.com/

Unconventional Ideas
http://www.unconventionalideas.com/

Reading

Audrey Wood Club House
http://www.audreywood.com/

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/

Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown

Pink Monkey
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/

Reference

Babel Fish - Language Translator
http://world.altavista.com/

Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Discovery School
http://school.discovery.com/

Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Marco Polo Education Search
http://www.meritbadge.com/

New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning

ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org/

Science

BrainPOP
http://www.brainpop.com/

Chem4Kids
http://www.chem4kids.com/

Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

HowStuffWorks
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Imagine the Universe!
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/

InnerBody
http://www.innerbody.com/

Kids Dig Reed
http://www.kidsdigreed.com/

Life Beyond Earth
http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth

Museum of Science, Boston: Online Exhibits
http://www.mos.org/

NASA Kids
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/

Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

Nine Planets
http://www.nineplanets.org/

Ocean Planet Home Page
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

Sci4Kids
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids

StarChild
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The Electronic Zoo
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

The Franklin Institute: Learning Resources
http://sln.fi.edu/

The MAD Scientist Network
http://www.madsci.org/

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/

Try Science
http://www.tryscience.org/

Writing

CRAYON - Create Your Own Newspaper
http://crayon.net/

MidLink Magazine
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink

Researchpaper.com
http://www.researchpaper.com/

Take Our Word.com
http://www.takeourword.com/

The Write Site
http://www.writesite.org/

What Makes a Good Story?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature

Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/

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