English Language Arts:
Houghton Mifflin Wacky Web Tales
Young children can create a wacky tale.
Concord Review: Get Published!
A publication accepting gifted students' history essays.
CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
Children's Literature Web Guide
Register for this free service to receive five daily writing lessons via e-mail each week. On the sixth day, you'll receive a quiz.
The extraordinary genius of Vincent van Gogh is on full display at "Vincent". An information gallery that spans 2,880 images and 3,140 pages. Includes paintings, sketches and letters.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Met):
This extensive virtual museum features many famous and classical pieces of art. The Met offers an impressive array of images along with a variety of learning activities.
Smithsonian American Art Museum:
This museum, with a focus on American artworks and artists, provides in-depth presentations of the collection and features creative, interesting, and informative multimedia exhibitions.
"Playbill" offers the definitive listing for current theater productions showing on and off-Broadway, in regional theaters, and in national touring shows.
Other Language Links:
Web Page and Interactive Text Translators
Scroll down to either the Interactive Text Translator or to the Web Page Translator. Enter the text or URL of your choice into the box, select the language pairing (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese) and then simply click the translate button.
This is a site from UCLA where you can print off stories in their original German and in the English translation. Keep in mind that grammatical differences mean that it is difficult to translate word for word because the verb will be in a different place, etc.
This site allows you to play the audio version of a word. A great way to work on learning pronunciation. Covers many different languages.