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Art work by: Tawnie Goodwin, Maryetta School-Stilwell, Oklahoma
First place winner in the state of Oklahoma for the 2002 Arbor Day poster contest.
Which 5th grader will win contest 2003? Click here to find out more.
View state winners and 1st place poster!

1. Oklahoma Links: Did you know Oklahoma has more shoreline than any other state? Learn more when you visit this collection of sites with a focus on OK!

2. Handwriting Without Tears: Visit Jan Olsen's Great Site to Review and Order Workbooks, Chalk Slates, Wooden Capital Letter Pieces! View Jan's schedule of Handwriting Workshops.

3. Erhardt Developmental Products: Information about child development, children with special needs, feeding issues, hand skills, teaching videos and much more.

4. The Child Abuse Prevention Network: Internet Nerve Center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect are our key areas of concern.

5. IDEA'97 AMENDMENTS, FINAL REGULATIONS: Assistance to States for the Education of Children With Disabilities and the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities - (OSERS), March 12, 1999

6. HEAD START:
A child development program that has served low-income children and their families since 1965.

7. LD OnLine: The interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children.

8. TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS

9. U.S Department of Education Home Page

10. Visual Thesaurus
This is an endlessly fascinating site that offers an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations and a given word's relationship to other words.

11. ABILITATIONS:
Equipment for Development & Restoration of Physical & Mental Ability Through Movement

12. Girl Scouts of the USA: Official Web Site

13. bigchalk.com: The Educational Network

14. The Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) This program provides funding to help states and schools adopt successful comprehensive school reform models.

15. OSEP Office of Special Education Programs
Research, Grants/Funding, Projects, LINKS to Much More!

16. Blackboard: Bringing Education Online. Blackboard.com is a FREE service that enables instructors to add an online component to their classes, or even host an entire course on the Web.

17. Marsha's Teaching Resources: "My name is Marsha. I am a math teacher at Westview Middle School near Neosho, Missouri."

18. The National Science Foundation makes grants and awards in all areas of science, mathematics and engineering. Many NSF programs in these areas are funded through the Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

19. Sensory Integration Resource Center

20. Sensory Integration International: The Ayres Clinic

21. Clinician's View - Check out the 'Parent Resource' link.

22. PECS: Picture Exchange Communication System

23. The Autism Link Page

24. L.D. Online webpage-
Strategic Spelling Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: The results of two studies.
Journal of Instructional Psychology; Craig Darch, March 2002.

25. Reading Rockets: Learn more about research-validated instruction. WETA, through a major grant from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs started Reading Rockets, a multimedia effort to disseminate research-based information on how to help young, struggling readers.

26. What is research-validated instruction? For scientific analysis of the the role of research visit the US Department of Education's conference on scientifically based research.

27. WETA Our Nation's Station, The Community's Voice... Links to:
Reading Rainbow, Hometown Heroes, Wolf Trap, Frontline, Antiques Roadshow, Around Town, Explore DC, Washington Week, WETA Kids and much more.

28. Office of Special Education's 23rd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

29. Refdesk.com - "The single best source for facts on the Net"

30. Atomic Clock - This public service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: a Department of Commerce agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). Readings from the clocks of these agencies contribute to world time, called Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time maintained by both agencies should never differ by more than 0.000 0001 seconds from UTC.

31. RISK WATCH - The first comprehensive injury prevention program designed for use in the classroom. Unintentional injuries are the number one cause of injury and death for children under the age of 14.

32. FAST WEB is the largest online scholarship search available. It provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications, all at no cost to the student.

33. World Country Profiles
This site by the BBC, offers full profiles that provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. These profiles also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives.

34. GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING

35. Classic Reader: Read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 769 books and 1041 short stories by 211 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers.

36. The Pulitzer Prizes
You can look up each years winners, starting in 1917. More than 2,000 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made.

37. Portals to the World
This Library of Congress site contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.


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