Middle School Student Resources

Math Sites

Euclid's Elements  Middle and high school students can get a visual feel for geometry

Gallery of Interactive Geometry  Students can review concepts through a variety of student and teacher-created activities

Computer Related

Netscape 
Microsoft Home 
realAudio Homepage (Free helper that plays real-time audio) 
ZDNet (by Ziff Davis) 
Bitpipe (index of analyst groups and consulting firms)
EoCenter (aggregator of the technical news and analysis on the Web)
CyberAtlas (your first stop of Internet statistics)
Netcraft (find out what Web server platform and public Web site uses)
Internet Wire (best way to find the most interesting new Web sites)
Normos (Internet Engineering Standards Respository)
ZD Webopedia (Online encyclopedia of computer technology)
TechEncyclopedia (computer terminology with extensive use of graphics)
Urban Legends and Folklore (check the veracity of Internet information)

Research Tools

Hotbot (the most powerful search engine available) 
Alta Vista (recommended for complex searches) 
Yahoo's Search Site 
Deja News ( Searches usenet news groups) 
Ask ERIC (Includes ERIC search engine) 
CIA World Factbook (2000) 
Census Bureau (Streams of interesting facts) 
Bartlett's Quotations 
The Web Cybrary 

Government Sources

White House Page
United Supremes Court
U.S. House of Representatives | U.S. Senate
Congress Text Search 
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet 
U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory 
Governement Printing Office
Library of Congress Country Studies 
U.S. State Department 
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments 
Freedom of Information
Project Vote Smart 
CA Dept. of Education | California State Government 
Library of Congress 
U.S. Department of Education 
IRS 
U.S. Geological Survey 

News Resources

ABC News 
MSNBC News
FOX News
CBS News
CNN Interactive 
Los Angeles Times 
San Francisco Chronicle (Searchable) 
Washington Post
Time Magazine (Searchable) 
U.S. News and World Report 
Universal Press Syndicate (and more comics...) 
Yahoo's Full Coverage  (search for particular stories or scan the news categories for relevant news)
1stHeadlines (Indexes 300 newspapers and wire services)
Northern Light Current News Search (free, searchable two-week archive)
Individual.com (breaking news site)
InfoBeat (delivers headlines to your e-mail)
Excite's NewsTracker (learns your news preferences)
Opinion-Pages (index 600 op-ed pages from English language papers)
SpeechBot (index 22 popular radio shows and allows the use of RealAudio to listen to the entire program)

Sports

ESPN (Sports scores and features) 
Sporting News 
National Football League
National Basketball Association
Major League Baseball
Skiing 
NCAA 

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