
There is so much out there on the web to help kids learn. But it’s so hard to find! At EdAlive Top Sites you’ll find over 500 educational web sites designed expressly for, or useful to you in your quest for great resources.
We’ll be adding to it from time to time so come back again and see what’s new. There’s no other place on the web with such a comprehensive listing for teachers, parents and kids!
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Australian Centre for Photography
A dynamic conversation about images in cultureAustralia’s national organisation dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and new media. Our exhibition, education and community programs provide an opportunity to engage our audiences and peers in a dynamic conversation about the role images play in our culture.
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Britannica
The much loved encyclopedia onlineFeaturing 100,000 scholarly articles. Highly respected. Britannica online.
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British Council
Explore cultural relations and educational opportunitiesOrganization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. The British Council was founded to create a friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and the wider world. We work in over 100 countries, connecting millions of people with the United Kingdom through programmes and services in the English language, the Arts, Education and Society.
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British Museum
Online access to the treasures of agesCollection of seven million objects representing the rich history of human cultures.
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Catholic Encyclopedia
10,000 articles on Catholic history, interests, and doctrineFull and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members and her effect on science, literature and art.
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Culture Catch
Videos of great music and cultureStudents can tune into culture with Dusty Wright’s Culture Catch.
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Encyclopedia Mythica
Covers mythology, folklore, and religionPremier encyclopedia covering mythology, folklore, and religion.The mythology section covers Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands. Also features A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.
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Encyclopedia of Symbols
Ideograms, signs and symbols decoded2,500 western signs and ideograms grouped by graphic characteristics. A unique online encyclopedia that contains everything about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs arranged by categories such as culture, country, religion, and more.
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Europeana
Think cultureDigital collection of scientific and cultural texts, images, videos, and sounds. Explore millions of items from a range of Europe’s leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings, they’re all here. No need to travel the continent, either physically or virtually!
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Folkstreams
American Roots CultureA national preserve of documentary films about American roots cultures. It’s where you’ll find the best of American folklore films.
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Google Cultural Institute
Educate and inspire future generationsMakes important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserves them to educate and inspire future generations. Sources include the British Museum, Yad Vashem, the Museo Galileo in Florence, the Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
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History Matters
The US Survey course on the webAmerican history resources including primary documents, images, audio, and more. A highly regarded gateway to web resources as well as a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence for high school and college students and teachers of American history.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met online with over 400,000 entriesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially “the Met”, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Collection includes two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture.
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Pioneer Settlement Swan Hill
The history of Swan HillSet on three hectares of land on the banks of the Little Murray River, the Pioneer Settlement lets you experience Australian history first hand. Swan Hill, Open air, Features over 50 original and replica heritage buildings
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State Hermitage Museum
One of the most extensive and beautiful museums in the worldLocated in St Petersburg. Three million works of art and artifacts representing Russian and world culture.
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The British Museum: home educators
Information for homeschoolers at the famous museumThe British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,[3] is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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World Book
Up to date online version of the World BookFor nearly a century, we’ve been in the business of helping families, schools, and libraries across the world discover content that is not only accurate and trustworthy, but readable too. And now with the Internet, we’re doing it better than ever.
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World Digital Library
Archive of primary materials from cultures around the worldA project of the U.S. Library of Congress, the WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
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