SUMMARY: By examining selected WEB sites (AskEric, PBS, KidLink, Interactive Frog Dissection, Hillside Elementary School, and Dade County Schools), this article examines how the WEB is used in primary schools. Additionally, this article 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 fields, 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 such as the IBM Teacher Preparation Grant Schools. This program “aims to promote technology development in classrooms and to help teacher education programs provide quality technology training” (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 designed for everyone. The WEB allows teachers who live in isolated districts to access 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 Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is the world's largest source of educational information. It houses more than 750,000 documents, including lesson plans, government information, publications, and educational materials (Doty, 78). Before the WEB, ERIC was only available as a database in teaching schools, where many teachers could not easily access it. From now on, all teachers with access to the WEB have access to ERIC. There are several more specific ways in which the WEB acts as a resource for teachers. The PBS home page (http://www.pbs.org/Welcome.html) is an example. This provides lesson supplements for use with many popular children's shows, including Reading Rainbow, Newton's Apple, and Bill Nye the Science Guy (Doty, 79). A teacher can record segments of TV shows to use in class and then act on the suggestions displayed on the home page. The WEB does not only offer resources to teachers. The WEB also contains services that students can access themselves and use to connect to other people and information..