Here are some sites we’ve found interesting, useful, or fun:
Ebooks, free:
Economics Education:
EconEdLink Prepared for K-12 teachers and students but free for all, this is a solid selection of materials, links and resources for teaching economics.
National Council on Economic Education
The Mint provides tools to teach children (of all ages) how to manage money and develop good financial habits.
English
Charles Darling’s Guide to Grammar and Writing
English Club for English as a second language.
Sen Draw– a free program for sentence diagramming.
Film History
The American WideScreen Museum Exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) site dedicated to the development of color and sound on the wide screen.
Early Cinema aims to provide an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures.
Film Sound is an excellent resource on the art of sound in film. Spend a few minutes exploring the craft of designing film sound and you’ll never hear a film the same way again. Good links to free databases of sound effects.
The Greatest Films is an extensive guide to cinema. Parental discretion recommended.
History and Current Events
Ask Asia– the Asia Society’s educational resources for k-12 pupils.
Calendars through the Ages explores calendars from the Ancient Maya to the present, including not only the global standard calendar but also the ancient and still-used Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish calendars.
Castles of the World– learn all about castles, and visit many virtually. Warning — site may be slow to load.
Circle of Stories offers an introduction to indigenous American storytelling traditions.
Cold War History: The Berlin Wall
Eyewitness to History first person accounts, of livinghistory.
Future History: Tales of Future Past opens a window on how people of the past imagined the future — which is, of course, our present.
Hyper History offers 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Meso-American Ball — The Sport of Life and Death no sporting diversion, the world’s first team sport was played for ultimate stakes.
Theban Mapping Project — mapping Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
Transportation History — the NY City Subway
Languages
A Database of Free Online Language Courses, very extensive, with resources on a remarkable variety of languages.
Ancient Scripts is a Ffantastic site, a labor of love by a devoted student of linguistics.
BBC language courses in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, etc.
China Radio International course in Chinese.
Deutsche Welle offers an amusing German language course and other resources.
Fun with Arabic is a beautiful site for those interested in learning the language or just dabbling.
Ukindia offers courses in Arabic and Hindi.
Music
Ancient Greek Music offers Recordings of every fragment of ancient Greek music. Great links to sites on Homeric singing, ancient Greek pronounciation and ancient near Eastern music.
Play Music is a beautiful interactive site created by the American Symphony Orchestra League in partnership with Parsons School of Design. Outstanding!
Science
The Magic Mirror of Life: A History of the Camera Obscura
Math and Logic
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