1. Arts
2. Consumer Issues
3. Education Resources
4. Government
5. History
6. Literature
7. Math
8. Media
9. Miscellaneous
10. Science

Links For Parents and Teachers

Arts

• All Music Guide
• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet — A search engine for fine art.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• The Getty Museum
• Glenbow Museum
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Gallery of Canada
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery New
• Virtual Museum of Canada
• WebMuseum Network (Paris)

Consumer Issues

• Better Business Bureau
• DietFraud.com - Protect yourself from diet scams
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - Canada
• Fight Spam on the Internet

Education Resources

• The Educator's Reference Desk — The ERIC database of lesson plans.
• CBE Library — Elementary, Junior High, Senior High and Professional Resource Center
• Calgary Regional Consortium — Professional Development resources for teachers and parents.
• Gateway to Educational Materials — Lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.
• Teaching and Learning with Technology — Projects, tutorials, books and resources. Alberta Regional Consortia.
• teachingsexualhealth.ca — Resources for parents, teachers and students (Alberta Learning).
• 2Learn — Tools, projects, professional development, curriculum resources. Telus Learning Connection.
• WebQuest — "An inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web"

Government

• The Government of Canada
• The Province of Alberta
• The City of Calgary
• Alberta's Commission on Learning
• Alberta Education

• Achievement Test Results
• Curriculum Handbooks for Parents
• Information and Communication Technology
• Information for Parents — Links
• School Councils — Infomation for and about school councils
• School Council Handbook
• School Council Manual
• Basic Learning Polices, Regulations and Forms Manual: School Councils
• School Act Alberta Regulation 171/98: School Council Regulation
• Guide to Education: ECS to Grade 12
• Previous Achievement Tests and Answer Keys

• Alberta Home and School Councils' Association
• Calgary Association of Parents and School Councils
• Calgary Board of Education
• Learn Alberta — Requires user ID and password (available from the school).
  • Reference Center — Requires user ID and password (available from the school).
• Statistics Canada
  • Learning Resources
  • E-Stat entry point — Requires user ID and password (available from the school).
• Environment Canada: Current conditions and 5 day forecast for Calgary
• The Weather Network: Weather Forecast - Calgary

History

• American news and lifestyle headlines from 1900 to 1999...plus a century of sound. (Archer Radio Sound Archive)
• Alberta Heritage Digitization Project — Alberta folklore, art, aerial photographs, maps, early newspapers, legal documents, and local and provincial histories
• Eternal Egypt — An on-line Egyptian museum
• GodChecker.com — Your guide to the gods — Information on various deities from Africa to the Nordic countries

Literature

• The Alberta Library Online
• Bartleby Great Books Online — Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus and more
• The British Library — Shakespeare's quartos and other digitized manuscripts New
• Calgary Public Library
• Children's Literature Web Guide — Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
• Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University — Searchable (by topic keyword) database providing descriptive abstracts of picture books
• International Reading Association — Research about teaching reading
• Library of Congress (USA)
• National Library of Canada
• Project Gutenberg — Full text of books in the public domain.
• The Quotations Page — Quotations by author or subject
• Reading is Fundamental — Information for parents and educators.
• Wired for Words — An on-line book club for kids. CBE is a sponsor

Math

• Exercises in Math Readiness (University of Saskatcheman) — High School level.
• The Geometry Center — Not for elementary students, but some neat stuff.
• The Math Forum — The main page at Drexel University
• The Math Forum's Internet Mathematics Library — Links
• NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics — Standards document, examples, resources.
• NCTM's Illuminations — Interactive multi-media math lessons, resources, lesson plans, and "mathlets".
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (Utah State University) — Interactive applets for use in math lessons.
• PBS TeacherSource: Math — Video and lesson plans, by topic and by grade.

Media

• CBC
• National Geographic Society (USA)
• PBS
• Scientific American

Miscellaneous

• Bullying.org
• The Canadian Encyclopedia

Science

• Canadian Health Network — Health Canada.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research — Research institutes.
• The Exploratorium (San Francisco) — One of the first (and perhaps greatest) hands-on science museums in the world.
• ExploreLearning — Interactive experiments (Shockwave)
• The Globe Program — A world-wide science project for students.
• National Institutes of Health (USA) — Research institutes.
• National Muesum of Science and Technology (Canada)
• Nobel e-Museum (Sweden) — Nobel Prize winners, past and present.
• PBS TeacherSource: Science & Technology — Video and lesson plans, by topic and by grade.
• Smithsonian Institutions (USA)
• Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory — You are what you eat..