Canada's Digital Collections
Canada's Digital Collections showcases over 400 websites celebrating Canada's history, geography, science, technology and culture.
Histor!ca
Historica is dedicated to increasing knowledge among Canadians of their heritage and to re-igniting a passion for the study of history.
National Atlas of Canada Online
Learn about Canada's geography through texts and maps; access datasets; use our interactive mapping tool; meet our partners; try our quiz and consult our teaching resources section.
Our Roots
Canada's local histories online. "Local histories can often be the raw materials of manufactured histories. By providing wide access to the raw materials, people will be able to derive meaning in new and important ways, through synthesizing viewpoints that sometimes conflict with each other, and through listening to the pioneer voices that speak through these pages."
Alberta Source
This is the gateway to the Heritage Community Foundation's collection of online learning resources. These websites present Alberta's historical, natural, cultural, scientific and technological heritage - a media-rich source for facts, stories, images and interesting things to do and places to go in Alberta.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
The Children's Literature Web Guide contains a wealth of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
MapQuest
MapQuest is easy to use and offers the most comprehensive coverage of the globe.
Media Awareness
First rate site for media education and media issues.
What Kids Can Do
What Kids Can Do combs the country for compelling examples of young people working with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most.
Mathematics
Mathematics Resources Online
As part of our initiatives have compiled a list of excellent online math resources.
Science
The Annenberg Foundation
Uses media and telecommunications to advance Excellent teaching in American schools.
Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency is committed to leading the development and application of space knowledge for the benefit of Canadians and humanity.
Discovery.ca
Current science stories from the Discovery Channel.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency's direction for education is set forth in the NASA Strategic Plan as one of the Agency's five contributions to the Nation's science and technology goals and priorities.
NASA Classroom of the Future
The Classroom of the Future™ (COTF) program is helping to bridge the gap between America's classrooms and the expertise of NASA scientists, who have advanced the frontiers of knowledge in virtually every field of science over the last forty years.
Real Time Data Sites
This page contains links to some of the most compelling Internet web sites for educational use.
General
Alberta Learning
A set of illustrative examples have been developed to further clarify the intent of the technology outcomes and to convey how students might demonstrate their competencies in a variety of contexts and across all grade levels.
Blue Web'N
A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.
Everything WebQuest
Bernie Dodge and Tom March have been working since early 1995 to develop the WebQuest as one strategy for effectively integrating the Web into classroom instruction. This page gathers Tom's work in creating and teaching WebQuests.
Grassroots Projects
Get involved or start an interactive learning project on the internet.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.
Learnalberta.ca
The goal of the LearnAlberta.ca project is to support lifelong learning by providing students, parents, teachers and others in the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) community with access to learning resources via the LearnAlberta.ca portal. These learning resources will be in the form of multimedia learning objects that directly relate to the Alberta programs of studies and will be made accessible anywhere, anytime via linked databases and portals on the Internet. Requires district password.
Refdesk
Refdesk.com is an excellent source for facts on the Net; a one-stop site for all things Internet: news, weather, sports, reference, encyclopedia, facts on file, FAQs, tutorials, search engines, Win95/98/2000NT, free stuff, games and much more.
SchoolNet
Canada's SchoolNet is designed to promote the effective use of information technology amongst Canadians by helping Canadian schools and public libraries connect to the Internet.
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada actively supports education in Canada by developing and offering easy access to a wide variety of statistical products and services which have been specifically designed for students and teachers.
TEACH: Education for today and tomorrow
You will find a series of practical teaching units for your use in class. You may work with the units online or download and print.
TLT Homepage
Home site of Teaching and Learning with Technology in Alberta
WebQuest Site
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. There are at least two levels of WebQuests that should be distinguished from one another.
Web Page Resources
A Beginners Guide
Many people use the NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. It is an introduction and does not pretend to offer instructions on every aspect of HTML. Links to additional Web-based resources about HTML and other related aspects of preparing files are provided at the end of the guide.
Web Design on the Fly
A useful, step-by-step resource for individuals who are designing web pages.
Webmaster Tools
Resources of available Webmaster Tools and accessible Online Tests on the Internet free of charge