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Alta Vista Translation Service
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
Submit text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will translate it from English to Spanish or Spanish to English with the click of the mouse! Grammar and accent marks are not perfect but a surprisingly understandable translation appears. Also translates from English to French, Portuguese, German, or Italian. 
 
The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
http://wings.ucdavis.edu
NASA's Learning Technologies Project and Cislunar Aerospace have taken a
potentially dry subject, The Principals of Aeronautics, and created this outstanding educational web site. The illustrated textbook includes sections on history, mythology, fundamentals and more. Before "opening" a chapter, visitors select a reading level, from beginner to instructor. The text is also available in Spanish. Other highlights of the site include curriculum bridges, lesson plans, activities, and an Internet guide.
 
ART Capades
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/
This site has easy, fun, educational activities for young students (K-3), including monolingual Spanish speakers. The site distributes the activity to the student without linking to external sites. Hypertext links provide flexible navigation within the application for browsing and art selection and elaboration.
 
Charles Bauer's ESL Projects and Resource Page
http://www.mind.net/pes/cuarto/bauer/bauer3.html
This site is a Bilingual, ESL, CALL, Listserv, and Internet Projects Resource Page provided by Charles Bauer of Phoenix Elementary, a dual language program in southern Oregon.
 
Hot Internet Sites en Espanol!
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listspanish.html
Created by educator Beth Bustamante with Filamentality, this hotlist includes elementary, secondary, and teacher resource links.
 
KIDLINK
English: http://www.kidlink.org/english/index.html
Spanish: http://www.kidlink.org/spanish/general/index.html
Kidlink is a non-profit grassroots organization aimed at getting as many youth through the age 15 as possible involved in a global dialog. The work is supported by 50 public mailing lists for conferencing, a private network for Real-Time Interactions (like chats), an online art exhibition site, and volunteers living throughout the world. Most of our volunteers are teachers and parents. Since the start on May 25, 1990, over 110,000 kids from 120 countries on all continents have participated in our activities. Their primary means of communication is electronic mail (email), but Real-Time Interactions (like "chats"), various types of web-based dialogs, ordinary mail, fax, video conferencing, and ham radio are also being used. Kidlink has activities in English, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish,  Italian, Danish, Macedonian, Turkish, and Nordic languages (Scandinavian language gateway).
 
NCBE Lesson Plans
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/classroom/lessons.html
This National Council of Bilingual Education site provides links to web and gopher sites containing lesson plansand classroom activity resources for a variety of subjects for K-12 students.
 
PIZZAZ!
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
This site is dedicated to providing creative writing activities and copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with ESL students of all levels and ages. The activities/lessons include poetry, fiction, and publishing. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only. 
 
UNICEF Voices of Youth WEBSITE CHILDREN AND WORK DISCUSSION FORUM
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
Students worldwide are participating in discussions about Child Labour at the UNICEF Voices of Youth Website in English, Spanish or French. Your students can get involved in these discussions simply by visiting the Children and Work discussion forum, reading what others have written, and emailing their comments directly. "Comments" forms are available onsite.
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