Pender County Schools (official site for the Pender County Board of Education)
www.pendercountyschools.net/

Public Schools of North Carolina (official site for the North Carolina Department of Education)
www.ncpublicschools.org/

The @rt Room (nice site for working some art history or music appreciation into a child's world)
www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/

About.com (if you don't mind a good bit of poking around, you can usually come up with some answers from this site; there's more here than you might think)
www.about.com/

About's Urban Legends and Folklore Page
urbanlegends.tqn.com/

ACT (home site of the college admissions test)
www.act.org/

Art and Culture (just what it says, and lots of it)
www.artandculture.com/ACSniffer/index.html

Art Museum (virtual art galleries, with an emphasis on classic art by the Olde Masters, but with plenty of new and computer art on display as well)
www.artmuseum.net/

Britannica Online (fee-based home of the online version of the Enclyclopedia Britannica)
www.britannica.com/premium/

Broke Scholar (lots of info on obtaining college scholarships)
www.brokescholar.com/

Campus Career Center (lots of job info for collegiates, and allows students to post their profiles onsite for prospective employers to browse)
www.campuscareercenter.com/

CampusProgram (listing of college programs indexed by subject)
www.campusprogram.com/

Classroom Connect (large, varied educational resource site)
www.classroom.com/home.asp

College Board Online (large site focusing on SAT and financial aid)
www.collegeboard.com/

College Tip (lots of listings of various college portals, testing services, and other academic sites, but little annotation)
www.college-tip.com/

CollegeLearning (a distance-education portal with some 100 partner schools)
www.collegelearning.com/

College Net (general site combining info on hundreds of colleges)
www.collegenet.com/

CollegeXpress (lists schools that accept online applications, provides a college search engine, and info on financial aid and athletic programs)
www.collegexpress.com/

Cool Schools by Continent (home pages of schools over the globe)
www.ncsu.edu/midlink/cs/middle.home.html

CyberCampus (site to assist in picking a college)
www.hsf.net/cybercampus/collegeguide/02.html

Cybersurfari (Lycos-sponsored "Internet treasure hunt" that is suitable for school groups and individuals; currently they run a spring and fall session each school year)
www.cybersurfari.org/

Deaf Zone (large online community for the hearing impaired)
www.deafzone.com/

Degree.net Central (large info resource on colleges)
www.degree.net/

Did You Know? (cool site for lots of obscure trivia and fascinating facts)
www.didyouknow.cd/

Discovery Kids (great educational site, and not just for kids)
kids.discovery.com/

Educaid (large financial aid site)
www.educaid.com/

Education Place (resources for elementary-age kids and their teachers or home schoolers)
www.eduplace.com/

Education World (lots of teaching resources)
www.education-world.com/

Education411 (nice site for high school students looking into colleges)
www.education411.org/

EduPoint (lots of corporate and collegiate courses available)
www.edupoint.com/

Eduprise (useful for both collegiate and corporate learning)
www.eduprise.com/

Embark (tremendous resource for deciding on which college to attend)
www.embark.com/

Enchanted Learning (tons of fun things for kids on this site)
www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Exploratorium (large, highly interactive online museum)
www.exploratorium.org/

Fact Finder (one-stop source of basic trivia and facts)
www.iwon.com/home/search/factcity_tutorial

FinAid! (devoted to the fine art of nailing down financial aid)
www.finaid.org/

Find Articles (database of thousands of print articles from over 300 publications)
www.findarticles.com/

FindTutorials (both a search engine and index of Web sites that offer teaching and tutorials on everything from macrame to chaos theory) www.findtutorials.com/

FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
www.ed.gov/free/

Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
foia.fbi.gov/

Freeware Humpherlinks (good source site for kids' links, downloads, and more)
www.humph3.freeserve.co.uk/

Fun School (games for children from preschool age to sixth grade)
www.funschool.com/

FunBrain (lots of educational and entertaining activities for kids and adults alike)
www.funbrain.com/

Games Kids Play (good source to find out about all those neato outdoor kid games like Dodge Ball and Red Rover, along with car games, etc.)
www.gameskidsplay.net/

Gander Academy's Theme-Related Resources (huge, varied site with material on all kinds of topics)
www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html

The Gateway (government-sponsored source site for Internet-based lesson plans and educational resources)
thegateway.org/

Globewide Network Academy (one of the first, and largest, sources of online learning)
www.gnacademy.org/

GoCollege (another extensive info site for colleges)
www.gocollege.com/

High School Hub (large site linking to numerous sites of interest to high school students and teachers)
highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.htm

Holiday Lesson Plans and Activities
members.aol.com/Donnpages/Holidays.html

Houghton Mifflin Education Place (lots of educational activities and games)
eduplace.com/

How Stuff Works (just what it says; very comprehensive)
www.howstuffworks.com/

I Know That (good information and activities site for kids, teachers, etc.)
www.iknowthat.com/Welcome/Welcome.htm

Infoplease (tremendous information resource, whether you need an encyclopedia, almanac, dictionary, or atlas)
www.infoplease.com/

Information Outpost (good information site that lets you submit queries to human researchers)
www.informationoutpost.com/page.cfm

Kaplan Colleges (online coursework in business, IT, paralegal, and criminal justice)
www.kaplancollege.com/

Kids Domain (large fun and educational site for kids of all ages)
www.kidsdomain.com/

Kids' Space (large educational site for younger kids)
www.kids-space.org/

KidsClick (good resource site for online resources for children)
www.kidsclick.org/

The King Center (home site of The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change)
www.thekingcenter.org/

Learn 2 Type (just what it says)
www.learn2type.com/

Links to Free Teacher Resources
www.emunix.emich.edu/~vhughes/Free/

MaMaMedia (free site that lets kids create puzzles, games, pictures, and stories, post them for other kids to play with, play provided educational games, even participate in moderated message boards and go to prescreened Web sites on related topics)
www.mamamedia.com/

Martindale's Reference Desk (incredible online resource for all kinds of information -- just go!)
www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html

Mindquest (online program for those who want a high school diploma)
www.mindquest.org/

Monster Exchange (site that offers collaborative art projects for classrooms)
www.monsterexchange.org/

Mr. Donn's Pages Site Index (a large online educational resource designed and maintained by teachers)
members.aol.com/donnandlee/Siteindex.html

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (large and varied collection, and plenty of multimedia and interactive features)
www.mfa.org/

The Museum of Online Museums (it is what it says it is, and useful)
www.coudal.com/archives/museum.html

Nick.com's Back to School site (lots of fun as well as useful goodies on here -- be warned, the audio and visual content can be startling)
www.nick.com/your_world/back_to_school/

North Carolina Association of Educators
www.ncae.org/

North Carolina Public Schools Forum (consortium of business and community interests that proposes school initiatives)
www.ncforum.org/

Occupational Outlook Handbook (career guidance)
www.bls.gov/oco/

Official U.S. Time Clock
www.time.gov/

Onelook (one-stop information shopping)
www.onelook.com/

Peterson's (venerable college directory, transplanted online and very, very useful once you sort past the barrage of ads)
www.petersons.com/

Preparing Your Child for College (government publication; several years out of date, but still containing good info)
www.ed.gov/pubs/Prepare

Primary Resources (resource site for primary teachers, also useful for home-schoolers)
www.primaryresources.com/

Princeton Review Online (extensive online guide to colleges, including a tips site on how to beat the admissions tests)
www.review.com/

Quiz Master (make interactive quizzes here)
cybil.tafe.tas.edu.au/%7Ecapsticm/quizman/qmhome.html

React.com (good site for teens, with advice, contests, games, free stuff, movie and music info, and more)
www.react.com/

Refdesk (huge resource site for references and information of all kinds)
www.refdesk.com/

Research It! (bills itself as a "one-stop reference desk)
itools.com/research-it/

ResearchPaper (great source for research paper info)
www.researchpaper.com/

Scholastic Kids' Homepage
www.scholastic.com/kids/

Scholastic Parents' Homepage
www.scholastic.com/parents/

Scholastic Teacher's Homepage
teacher.scholastic.com/

Schoolhouse Tech (lots of math and vocabulary programs, some free for the downloading)
www.schoolhousetech.com/

Smithsonian Institute (online presence of the venerable museum, lots of interactive displays)
www.si.edu/

Smokey Bear (kid-oriented site that features Campfire Rules along with fun and games)
www.smokeybear.com/

So You Wanna? (a site that helps you learn to do just about anything)
www.soyouwanna.com/

TimeAndDate (comprehensive time and date site)
www.timeanddate.com/

Useless Knowledge (exactly what it says, and lots of fun for trivia buffs)
www.uselessknowledge.com/

Web for Teachers (lots of interactive educator resources)
www.4teachers.org/

What Time Is It (site that tells you the time anywhere on the globe)
www.whattimeisit.com/

Wikipedia (comprehensive and free online encyclopedia)
www.wikipedia.com/

Yahoo! K-12 Lesson Plans
dir.yahoo.com/education/k_12/teaching/lesson_plans/

Yahoo! Online Learning Section (links to 400+ Internet-based college classes)
www.yahoo.com/education/distance_learning/

More to come...