Virtual Field Trips for NCTE

Here are a list of authors and poet sites that would be great to let students tour...

Edgar Allen Poe

William Shakespeare

More Shakespeare

J.K. Rowling

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Collection Sites...

Green K-12

Learning Things

Area Vibes

Find a Grave

Scholastic

New York Times

Tech Trekers

Lesson Planet

Weather Wonderful Sites!

Here are a bunch of cool sites that let you be the meteorologist, help you learn the ropes or simply show you pictures of the different weather words.

This site is full of tons of weather information. Look around to see the pictures and descriptions of all the weather terms.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

KidStorm has all that you would want to know about tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and more!
http://skydiary.com/kids/

On this site, you get to feel like you are staring up at a tornado! You have to have JAVA in order to view it. Hold on and don't get dizzy!
http://www.jaydax.co.uk/showcase/tunnel/tornado/tornado.html

Change the size and speed of a twister and see the damage it does. When it is over, try to guess what it would rank on the Fujita scale!

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/3.html

Cloud Clues lets you take a little tour of clouds with descriptions and pictures. When you are done, see how you do on the quiz!
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~elem/interactivities/clouds/cloudsread.html