Interesting Links of Educational Value

Great Children's Books! A list of the Newberry Medal Award-winning children's books and Caldecott Medal winners.

The Science Spot - Abundance of resources for middle school science. An example is a link to an interactive periodic table.

National Atlas of the United States - Allows you to put a variety of layers onto a map (or zoomed in portion thereof) of our country. Layers include climate, geology, transportation, agriculture, people.

Worldatlas.com - Links to wide variety of geographic and cultural information around the world. Can download wide variety of maps.

Traffic Simulation - Simulations created by researchers trying to understand the factors that lead to traffic congestion. Red squares are cars. Black rectangles are slower-accelerating trucks. Move the sliders and create chaos. Move the sliders and watch it resolve gradually into smooth flow.