SUMMARY: Looking at some WEB sites (AskEric, PBS, KidLink, Interactive Frog Dissection, Hillside Elementary School and Dade County Schools) this article examines how the WEB is used in elementary schools. Furthermore, this paper addresses some controversial issues that arise when the WEB is used in elementary classrooms. The development and growth of the Worldwide Wide Web has had a huge impact on several areas including government, business, and even education. The WEB facilitates the quick and easy exchange of information between millions of people. Due to the increasing availability and use of computers in classrooms, many of these WEB users are students. This increase in usage is due in part to programs like IBM Teacher Preparation Grant Schools. This program “aims to promote technology growth in classrooms and assist teacher education programs in providing quality technology education” (Larsen, 2). Teachers use the WEB in the classroom in three ways: as a resource for teachers, as a resource for students, and as a way for students to create resources on the Internet. The WEB contains a variety of resources for teachers. These can be sites aimed specifically at teachers or sites made for everyone. The WEB allows teachers in isolated districts to reach the best sources from around the world. An example of this is AskEric (http://ericir.syr. edu). This is the home page of the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is the largest source of educational information in the world. It houses more than 750,000 documents, including lesson plans, government information, publications, and educational documents (Doty, 78). Before the WEB, ERIC was primarily available as a database only in schools of education, where many teachers could not conveniently access it. Now all teachers with access to the WEB have access to ERIC. There are many more specific ways in which the WEB serves as a resource for teachers. An example of this is the PBS home page (http://www.pbs.org/Welcome.html). This provides lesson supplements for use with many popular children's programs including Reading Rainbow, Newton's Apple, and Bill Nye the Science Guy (Doty, 79). A teacher can record segments of TV programs for use in the classroom, then follow the suggestions posted on the home page. The WEB doesn't just offer resources for teachers. The WEB also contains services that students can access on their own and use to connect to other people and information.