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Jan
Library Links
| Databases |
| CQPress is an electronic library with a suite of reference products. |
| Gale offers nine databases covering grades K-12 with reference content and periodicals. |
| Grolier Encyclopedia offers online encyclopedia and reference resources. |
| Today’s Science is a reference database, classroom tool, and home learning resource. This is a great database to use with your students. |
| Libraries |
| Awesome Library organizes the Web with carefully reviewed resources. |
| The Children’s Literature Web Guide offers Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. |
| FactMonster offers online almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. |
| The Internet Public Library is a great resource for a variety of collections. |
| Library Spot is a virtual library resource center. |
| LION (Librarians Information Online Network) is an information resource for K-12 school librarians. |
| The U.S. Library of Congress site is the Internet location of the largest library in the world. |
| Almanacs |
| InfoPlease is a great free online almanac. |
| Dictionaries |
| Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 269,000 abbreviations and acronyms. |
| Dictionary.com offers a dictionary and thesaurus as well as translation tools. |
| TechEncyclopedia offers definitions of more than 20,000 acronyms and other terms relating to technology. |
| yourDictionary.com provides links to specialized glossaries as well as language dictionaries. |
| Encyclopedias |
| Biography.com is a great biographical encyclopedia. |
| Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center. |
| ElectricLibrary’s Encyclopedia.com has numerous free articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. |
| Encyclopedia.com provides free encyclopedia articles along with other resources. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian is a huge resource that is free to teachers and students. |
| MSN Encarta is another online encyclopedia that has some excellent resources. |
29
Jan
Links for Kids
| Pre-Schoolers |
| Billy Bear’s Playground is where kids (and parents) can learn about Billy Bear, play games, create their own storybooks, and enjoy holiday fun pages. |
| Little Explorers lets preschoolers surf the web easily using a picture dictionary format to link to hundreds of carefully chosen fun educational activities. |
| Science |
| BrainPop contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| Gardening for Kids includes kid-friendly flowers and bulbs, a featured flower of the month, a kid critic’s comments, artwork, tips and links. |
| Horse Country contains art, history, science, hunting fanfares and home of the Junior Riders Mailing Digest, International Pen Pal list, HOCK game guide and stable list. |
| How Stuff Works explains the nuts and bolts of everyday things. |
| MaMaMedia is the place for kids on the net. |
| MBG Network is an on-line learning environment for elementary school children created by the Missouri Botanical Garden. |
| Ology is a site by the American Museum of Natural History with fun text and great graphics. |
| Yuckiest Site on the Internet is just that. |
| Language Arts |
| KidsCom lets you make keypals from around the world. |
| Kid’s Domain has game and icon downloads recommended by families and teachers, children’s software reviews, online safety tips, holiday pages and contests for kids. |
| Kids Help Phone and Bell Online has information on services provided to kids and discussion groups on kids’ issues. |
| KidWorld, from Tandem House, has artwork, writing, and ideas by and for kids. |
| Word Central is where students will go wild about words. |
| Social Studies |
| CBC 4 Kids is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio’s kids page. |
| CIA Kids Page contains games for children, historical highlights about famous Americans, a world geography quiz, and links to other Federal Internet sites with pages for children. |
| Ology is a site by the American Museum of Natural History with fun text and great graphics. |
| Search Engines |
| Ask Jeeves for Kids is a natural language question answering site for children 7-14. |
| KidsClick is a web search for kids by librarians. |
| Kid’s Tools for Searching the Internet is a great site for kids to use for searching. |
| www.4Kids.org is designed to highlight fun, educational, and safe spots for kids to visit on the Web. |
| Yahooligans! is the web guide for kids. |
| Computer Skills/Technology |
| Brain POP contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| Health |
| Brain POP contains science, technology, and health movies. |
| FEMA For Kids is filled with games, student artwork, activities, and cutting-edge graphics that deliver a serious message of disaster preparedness and mitigation for youngsters preschool through eighth grade. |
| Rainbow Raccoons promotes health and education and safety for kids with stories and pictures. |
| Games and Fun |
| Afro-America@Kids Zone has a collection of games, stories, and information about Africa. |
| Brain Quest has cool puzzles and games. |
| FunBrain provides games about language arts, math, and more. |
| Museum of Unnatural History provides facts, illustrations, photos, and other information about topics such as archaeological explorations, dinosaurs, and UFOs. |
| Nabisco Kids is the website just for kids that puts you behind the controls of the most awesome adventure in all of cyberspace. |
| WorldVillage Kidz has comics, puzzles, games, and links for kids. |
| Math |
| Cool Math is an amusement park for math. |
| Math Stories features more than 4,000 word problems categorized by topic and difficulty level. |
| Homework Help |
| B. J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper has a wealth of information for students. |
| Homeworkspot contains resources for all subjects for K-12. |
29
Jan
Portfolios
| Electronic Portfolios is a wonderful site for finding information and websites. |
| Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom is a technology article from Education World. |
| Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios is a set of web pages that describe and discuss the use of technology to support alternative assessment from a number of perspectives. |
29
Jan
Rubrics
| Assessment Strategies and Definitions allows you to develop different types of assessments. |
| Automating Authentic Assessment with Rubrics is from Stone Middle School and offers ideas for students and teachers. |
| Collaboration Rubric is a rubric for collaboration. |
| Creating Rubrics is a five-part series that explores how one teacher designs, refines, and implements rubrics in a variety of subject areas. |
| Creating Your Own Rubric offers questions to ask yourself when making your own rubric as well as other tips for rubric making. |
| Evaluating Web Quests is a good example of a template for scoring or evaluating student Web Quest projects. |
| Kathy Schrock’s Rubrics and Assessment has excellent on-line examples and articles. |
| Multimedia Project Rubric is a good example of a rubric for a multimedia project. The page also has a link to many more examples. |
| Presentation Rubric is done easily with this on-line tool for creating a presentation rubric. |
| RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. |
| Rubric for Evaluating Writing has many links to rubrics for evaluating various kinds of writing. |
| Rubric for Power Point Presentation offers a rubric for a PowerPoint presentation. |
| Scientific Report Rubric is the place to find a rubric for a fifth grade scientific report. |
| Scoring Guide for Student Products helps you evaluate the content and effective use of technology in the products that students create. |
| Student Web Page/Multimedia Project Rubric is a rubric template that is a great example to use for student web pages and for multimedia projects. |
| Understanding Rubrics is a place where you can find an explanation of rubrics along with examples and links to other rubrics. |
| What is a Rubric? is where you can learn about rubrics by reading this article. |
29
Jan
Field Trips
| Colonial Williamsburg provides you with a tour of the town. You can also go on an electronic field trip here. Click here to go there. |
| Exploratorium (find live and archived webcasts as well as much more) |
| Field Trip Factory (over 18,000 trips to choose from) |
| Franklin Institute (electricity information as well as a great online gallery) |
| Grand Canyon (a tour of the Grand Canyon) |
| Hands-On Children’s Museum (view the Olympia, Washington’s museum) |
| Museum of Science and Industry (has interactive online exhibits) |
| Science Friday (searchable archives on every science topic as well as live audio broadcasts) |
| Science Learning Network (find field trips as well as news and science resources) |
| Science Museum, London (online exhibits and interactives) |
| S.C.O.R.E. Virtual Projects/Field Trips (find various projects and/or field trips) |
| Smithsonian (find online exhibits at this site) |
| Tech Museum of Innovation (great collection of online exhibits) |
| Underground Railroad (places you in the shoes of an escaping slave) |
| Utah Education Network (offers a variety of virtual field trips) |
| The Virtual Cave (take a tour of a cave) |
| The Virtual Field Trips Site (everything from beaches to volcanoes) |
| Virtual Field Trips (an immense site with all kinds of trips to take) |
| White House (visit the White House) |
29
Jan
Projects
Projects
| Asia with Pride allows you to journey with the Pride of Baltimore II. |
| Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. |
| Discovery Channel School posts projects and activities to go along with their TV programs. |
| Flat Stanley Project is a project which involves sending Flat Stanley to another school. Writing skills are practiced with this project. |
| Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users. |
| Geogame is a project that deals with the meaning of first names. |
| Global Classroom Projects allows you to search for a specific online project categorized by subject area. |
| Global SchoolNet Internet Projects allows you to join or create collaborative projects for your class. |
| Jason Project is a multi-disciplinary program that sparks the imagination of students and enhances the classroom experience. |
| Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. |
| KidLink is a grassroots project aimed at getting as many children in the age group of 10-15 as possible involved in global dialog. |
| Letterboxing combines navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a “treasure hunt” style outdoor quest. |
| Monarch Watch is a collaborative network of students, teachers, volunteers, and researchers dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly. |
| Multimedia Mania is for students and teachers who use multimedia to teach and learn in a specific content area. |
| Parallel Problem-Solving: Math Magic is a site in which student teams telecollaborate to solve math challenges. |
| Peace Corps Volunteer lets you correspond with an overseas Peace Corps Volunteer. |
| RoadKill Monitoring Project allows students to monitor, track, and communicate with others about roadkill from all parts of the country. |
| Science Fair Central is a comprehensive guide to building a science fair project. |
| Teddy Bear Project teams pairs of schools and they exchange a “Teddy Bear”. |
| Thinkquest provide a highly motivating opportunity for students and educators to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others. |
| WebQuests is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. |
| Youth Net is a place where youth around the world can safely meet each other, and participate in discussions, interactive learning projects, and activities that meet their needs. |
29
Jan
Websites For Teachers
| Education Portals |
| AOL@school is a provider of access rather than content and connects teachers to high-quality sites. |
| Apple Learning Interchange has lesson plans as well as learning resources. |
| AskERIC has the world’s largest database of articles and abstracts on education, plus more than a 1,000 lesson plans categorized by subject. |
| Columbia Education Center is a web site that is known for consistently excellent lesson plans categorized by subject and grade level. |
| Discovery Channel Web site is packed with information for curious teachers. |
| EdHelper.com is a great site with free lesson plans, worksheets, and much more! |
| Education World has classroom activities, reviews of professional books, and news stories on education. |
| Eisenhower National Clearinghouse identifies effective curriculum resources, has high-quality professional development materials, and disseminates useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. |
| Family Education Network offers an assortment of educational resources and activities. |
| Kids Hub features free online interactive learning games, puzzles, and quizzes. This is a good site! |
| KLVX is Channel 10 of Las Vegas. This site has a wealth of information along with the television schedule of programming. |
| KNPB is Channel 5 of Reno. This site has a wealth of information along with the television schedule of programming. |
| NTTI is the site for the National Teacher Training Institute. You will find lesson plans pertaining to the use of video in the classroom. |
| ProQuest has a wide spectrum of services and resources. |
| Scholastic has a wealth of standards-based lesson plans and reproducibles. Monthly live events with award-winning authors can be find on this site. |
| Teacher’s Corner contains great online teacher resources. |
| Teachervision offers lesson plans on subjects ranging from art to physical education, recommended reading lists, discussion boards, and links to other hot Web sites. |
| TeachNet is the place to see if you want to benefit from the knowledge and experience of other teacher. |
| Math |
| The Abacus is devoted to the abacus. You will find activities using the abacus as well as the history of the abacus. |
| Addition Concentration allows children to uncover matching pairs of cards. |
| Aunty Math provides math challenges for K-5 learners. There is a new math challenge posted every other week throughout the school year in the form of a story problem. |
| Calculus-Help offers high school teachers and students calculus tutorials, explanations, and more. |
| Change Maker Game allows students to practice making change. |
| Eisenhower National Clearinghouse supports your math and science curriculum. |
| Elementary Brain Teaser Contest is designed for elementary and middle school students across the globe. |
| Math Forum: Teacher’s Place is a Swarthmore College-based site where K-12 math teachers can find lesson plans and activities. |
| Mathematics Lessons is a great site for K-8 that has terrific lessons to use in the classroom that are fun. This is a well done site. |
| Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies are self-described “Interactive Math Lessons with a Problem-Solving Approach”. |
| Problem of the Week Contest is designed to challenge advanced enthusiasts from around the world. |
| PBS TeacherSource: Math! has more than 1,400 lessons and activities, books, and other links to math sites. |
| Puzzle Maker lets you create all kinds of puzzles. |
| U.S. Mint’s 50 State Quarters Program contains lesson plans for grades K-6. These plans are related to the release of each state’s quarter. These plans are free to download. |
| Webmath provides students with immediate solutions to problems they are working on. |
| Social Studies |
| Ask Asia is the Asia’s Society’s comprehensive, award-winning source for Asian and Asian-American studies. |
| Castles on the Web is a medieval studies site that has articles, photos, and links to other castles sites. |
| The Day in History is a site that offers curricular content for historic events. There are events for each day of the year and you can send a History Greeting from the History Channel. |
| Kids and Communities is a site that lets you explore communities. Many activities are on this site. |
| Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation is a great site to turn to for maps and charts, ships, oceans, and resources. |
| Learn About Japan is a kid-friendly site from the Japan Information Network. |
| Map Quest allows you to find anyplace you need to. |
| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project is an accessible source for speeches, sermons, letters, and papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Microsoft’s Encarta Online is a great starting point for research. There are more than 16,000 easily searchable articles and clips. |
| Mr. Pitonyak’s Pyramid Puzzle is a lesson on teaching students how much it would cost to build an Egyptian pyramid in today’s world. |
| National Geographic has colorful maps, fabulous photographs, special exhibitions, and information on a variety of topics. |
| Odin’s Castle of Dreams and Legends is an archive of history and historical resources. |
| Language Arts |
| 221 Baker Street gives you more information about Sherlock Holmes, the author, and information about the stories. |
| Big Dog’s Grammar covers a range of topics from subjects to dangling modifiers. For each topic there is a clearly written explanation and a self-test. |
| Book Adventure is a Web-based reading program for children ages 5-14. |
| Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Web Site has a wealth of information about great books for kids. |
| Harry Potter is for fans of all ages. |
| Kidspace is a site where children can share their art and writings with others. |
| LibrarySpot has encyclopedias, quotes, maps, and reference materials. |
| Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center is a site that helps strengthen communication skills. |
| Poetry Forge allows teachers to view interactive poetry generators for classroom use as well as providing lesson plans, exemplars, and collaborative discussion areas. Students can take advantage of poetry generators to challenge their writing skills. This is a terrific site. |
| Wacky Web Tales is an electronic version of Mad Libs. |
| Word Central contains student dictionaries, the “Daily Buzz Word”, and more. |
| Writing Process gives you a virtual tour for writing. |
| Writing the Journey offers information about effective journal writing. |
| Science |
| The Amazing Human Body is a great site that has activities to use online about the human body. |
| A Worm’s Work! is a site in which Herman, the worm, guides kids as they learn about earthworms. |
| Bats contains resources, literature, and projects. |
| Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Nye Labs Online is a great site for real-world science. |
| BrainPop is an incredible sight with tons of things for students to do! There are movies, quizzes, and online adventures. Students are able to choose from a variety of health or science topics. |
| Bug Bios promotes insect appreciation. |
| Cells Alive is a great site about cells. |
| Chem4Kids provides a basic introduction to chemistry. |
| Cool Science for Curious Kids is designed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This site allows kids to explore biology in a fun fashion. |
| Discovery Education streaming is a fantastic site for finding video clips and online teaching resources. |
| Discovery School is full of lesson plans and links to additional sites, as well as real time learning adventures for children. |
| Earth Cams lists all the different cams around the world. |
| Eisenhower National Clearinghouse supports your math and science curriculum. |
| E-Quarium lets you visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. |
| Franklin Institute Science Museum is a terrific site for people of all ages. |
| Jefferson Labs has fun ways to test math and science. You will find terrific games and puzzles! |
| JungleWalk has great links to animal sounds as well as short video clips of unusual animals. |
| Kids Go Wild! is packed with fun-filled facts and colorful, cuddly creatures. |
| Monarch Watch lets teachers and students follow the journey of the monarch butterfly as it migrates South for the winter months. |
| NASA’s Planetary Photojournal contains images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager space probes, Mars Pathfinder, and other craft. |
| National Geographic can take you to places you have only dreamed about. |
| Pike’s Peak Cam is where you can check out Pike’s Peak live! |
| Science Adventures helps you discover exciting places that offer hands-on experiences, exhibits, and educational programs. |
| Science Affair is the place to go to if you are looking for help with science fair projects. |
| The Science Museum offers entertaining and educational online exhibits from London’s Science Museum. |
| Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains the galleries from the museum along with photos and short summaries. |
| The Weather Channel has many educational opportunities on their site. |
| Zoom Dinosaurs is a resource for kids who still want to know about prehistoric reptiles. |
| Art |
| Arts and Entertainment Channel – Biography lets you find out what is going on in the arts and entertainment world. |
| Coloring.com is an interactive coloring book for primary school children. |
| Eyes on Art provides web based lesson plans and a teacher’s guide. |
| KinderArt has art lessons for K-8 and has over 600 lessons and more than 1500 pages of information. |
| National Endowment for the Arts is a great site to explore. |
| Special Days |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff offers teachers online resources for back to school. |
| Busy Bee Activity Page contains resources for the first day of school. |
| Cinco De Mayo is a web quest that lets children learn about the Mexican heritage. |
| Columbus Navigation is a site where you can learn about Columbus’s life, ships, and voyages. |
| Education World offers 14 great activities for the first days of school. |
| Fall and Winter Celebrations is a place to find fresh activities for fall and winter. |
| Groundhog Day is a place where you can learn more about this event. |
| Halloween contains games, crafts, coloring pages, party ideas, easy costumes, and more. |
| Kim’s Corner for Teacher Talk contains icebreakers, energizers, and fun activities for the beginning of school. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. features photographs and time lines of King’s life and the civil rights movement and more. |
| Mr. Donn’s website has many activities for Thanksgiving as well as other holidays and special days. |
| Reading |
| Aaron Shepard is a site that contains books, stories, scripts, and much more. |
| The Children’s Literature Webguide provides Internet resources related to Books for Children and Young Adults. |
| Cyberguides lists several popular children’s books and activities to go along with each. It is divided into grade level categories. |
| English Basics offers all new free weekly grammar worksheets for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review. |
| Lemony Snicket offers a variety of information about the author and the books. |
| Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes is part of the superb Enchanted Learning site. |
| MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries has mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests. There is a new mystery every week — All FREE! |
| Nancy Drew has information about the Nancy Drew mystery series. |
| Quia allows you to make your own quizzes and activities or use the over 1000 already created. |
| Quiz Lab lets you create quizzes for your students to complete on-line. A great site! |
| Reader’s Theater Editions are scripts adapted from stories written by Aaron Shepard and others – mostly humor, fantasy, and world tales from a variety of cultures. A full range of reading levels is included with most scripts aimed between grades 3-9. |
| Reading A-Z provides educators with downloadable guided reading books, lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, and so much more. This site is developed and funded by LearningPage.com. |
| Reading Lady has many Reader’s Theater scripts to choose from. |
| Reading Rockets provides detailed information about learning to read and strategies for supporting struggling readers at home, at school, and in the community. |
| ReadWriteThink.org delivers excellent instructional material to help teachers. You will find standards-based lesson plans, peer-reviewed Web resources, classroom-tested activities, and much more. |
| Storytelling Activities and Lesson Plans has some simple and practical ways to integrate storytelling. |
| Wacky Web Tales lets students enter specific information to create a personalized story. A great idea to encourage reading…kids love reading about themselves! |
| Bilingual Education |
| Amigos is an interactive online site where you can share stories and find information. |
| Especially Español features Spanish language resources suitable for bilingual classes. |
| National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs contains an online library, databases, and numerous links. |
| Paso Partners provides bilingual (English/Spanish) lesson plans for K-3 students. |
| Drama |
| Drama 8 to 10 has an integrated resource package of lesson plans for teaching dance and drama for grades 8, 9, and 10. |
| ProTeacher: Drama contains links to lesson plans and activities for K-12 teachers of theatre. |
| ESL |
| ESL Party Land contains lesson plans and printable materials for teachers. |
| TESL: Lessons is sponsored by the Internet TESL Journal. This site has links to a number of lesson plans and activities. |
| English Page offers resources for intermediate and advanced English learners. |
| Everything ESL! is for ESL, bilingual and classroom teachers working with K-12 language minority students. Resources include in-service ideas and strategies, content based lesson plans, downloadable activities, tips on classroom resources, interactive discussion boards, and more! |
| Interesting Things for ESL Students contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs, and more. |
| Internet Picture Dictionary is a great online tool for students. You can search in Spanish, French, German, Italian, or English. There are also many activities that students can choose from to exercise their skills. |
| Physical Education/Health |
| Calorie Counter contains some wonderful information about food and calories as well as a great calorie counter. |
| Games Kids Play has more than 400 playground games. |
| KidsHealth is an interactive site that provides health information. |
| P.E. Central has assessment ideas, lesson plans, activities of the week, and more. |
| Special Olympics is a site where you can find out information about Special Olympics events, the athletes, and how you can participate. |
| TeachersFirst has hundreds of P.E. lessons for grades K-12. |
| Foreign Language |
| Blue Web’n Learning Applications has lessons, activities, projects, and more. |
| Journalism |
| Journalism Education Association is an independent national scholastic journalism organization for teachers and advisers. |
| Teaching Media contains lessons and units for teaching about the media. |
| Music |
| American Sheet Music is offered by the U. S. Library of Congress. Students can view scores of music. |
| Classical Archives offers full-length recordings, biographies of composers, a learning section, and much more. |
| Classical Composers’ Archive features composers. |
| Creating Music is a children’s online creative music environment for children of all ages. |
| Dallas Symphony Orchestra features activities and information for kids (K-8) as well as access to a great teacher’s lounge. |
| Instrument Encyclopedia offers the history of musical instruments. |
| Jazz Online has reviews, artist bios, radio links, and more. |
| KidzSing Garden of Songs has lots of favorite songs. You can listen to the song as well as have access to the lyrics. |
| Land of Music provides songs and activities for primary grades. |
| Medieval and Renaissance Instruments is a great site featuring musical instruments that were played during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. |
| MoJo’s Musical Mouseum contains lyrics to children’s songs. |
| Music 8 to 10 contains lesson plans for teaching music in grades 8, 9, and 10. |
| OperaGlass gives you opera resources for grades 9-12. |
| PBS Jazz is a site that features biographies of artists as well as games for students. Teachers can also find lessons and activities. |
| Playhouse Radio allows students to listen to free hundreds of original children’s songs. |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum offers music connections to engage students. |
| This Day in Music History presents daily the birthdays of well-known composers. |
| Special Education |
| American Sign Language Browser allows you to choose a word and then see it performed by a real person in sign language. |
| Braille Bug is a site created by the American Foundation for the Blind. You will find lots of great activities as well as information for teachers and parents. |
| Center for Talent Development provides information and resources for the gifted student. |
| Center for the Study of Autism gives information for professionals as well as parents. |
| The Council for Exceptional Children provides information for the gifted as well as for the student with disabilities. |
| HandSpeak is an animated dictionary of sign language. |
| Kodak Special Education Lesson Plans gives you a collection of photography lesson plans to use with special needs students. |
| National Association for Gifted Children addresses the unique needs of the gifted and talented. |
| Sign Writing Site provides sign-writing lessons as well as an online American Sign Language picture dictionary. |
| Vocational/Technical Education |
| Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive web site. |
| Microsoft in Education offers some terrific teaching tools. |
| Nevada Career Information System is a great site that is free to Nevada residents. |
| Lesson Plan Sites |
| Apple has some terrific resources for educators. |
| ArtsEdge offers access to curricula, lessons, and activities by grade level or curriculum area. |
| Crayola Creativity Central is a great site for lesson plans involving Crayola products. |
| Learning Page is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site. |
| The Gateway to Educational Materials is a free service created by the Department of Education that enables you to search for lesson plans in specific areas and grade levels. |
| The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of more than 1,000 lesson plans, primarily for the elementary level. |
| NCRTEC Lesson Planner lets you provide the content and the Lesson Planner guides you in creating lesson plans that are aligned with the standards. |
| Teachers First is a division of Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not-for-profit learning technologies corporation. |
| Book Publisher’s Web Sites |
| Glencoe Online is for 6-12 Science, math, social studies, language arts, foreign language, and vocational. |
| Harcourt Publishers covers K-6 reading, language arts, spelling, math, social studies, science, health, and art. |
| Holt McDougal covers 6-12 in all areas. |
| Houghton Mifflin has good materials for K-16 in all areas. |
| MacMillen/McGraw-Hill School has lesson ideas for K-8 reading, language arts, math, science, social studies, health, and music. |
| Pearson School carries programs for Pre-K through 12. |
| Scholastic has core and supplementary instructional materials for PK-12 in all areas. |
| SRA has activities for K-8 in all areas. |
| Software |
| Children’s Software Revue is dedicated to helping parents and teachers leverage the power of technology to support the development of children. |
| DK has interactive learning software. |
| FTC Publishing has terrific resources! Free downloads are also available. |
| Heartsoft has software that is “user friendly” for educators and parents. |
| Inspiration contains materials for lessons as well as free downloads. They will also send materials for training purposes. |
| Knowledge Adventure has great software as well as materials for teachers. |
| Learning Services is a site for software shopping. There are many publishers to choose from. |
| QuickMind carries educational tools. |
| Reallusion has some great products capable of creating professional level graphic animation. They also have special pricing for educators. |
| Sunburst is another great site for teachers. Click on the teacher resource tab and check out what is available. |
| Teacher Created Materials is a great source for teachers and parents. |
| Tech4Learning products reflect a vision of education where students are engaged in an active and self-directed learning process. |
| Tom Snyder has classroom integration lessons as well as free downloads and other materials. |
| Ventura Educational Systems is a site that contains quality educational software. |
| Visions Technology in Education has products that are thoughtfully designed to enhance the ways teachers and students evolve. |
| Web Page Making Sites |
| Angel Fire lets you create free web pages up to 20 megabytes of space. |
| EZ Class Sites offers a free version that allows you to create your own class website. |
| Google has a webpage creator that allows you to create one easily and quickly. |
| Hipero is the easiest free website builder ever! |
| Homestead allows you to make your own web page and is simple to use. |
| Moogo lets you create your own website with ease. |
| Sauropol introduces free website creation. |
| SchoolNotes is a site that lets you create notes on homework and class information. |
| SnapPages takes online website creation to a whole new level. This is fun and easy to use. |
| TeacherWeb lets you create your own web page for free. |
| Teachers.net has an easy fill in the blank form to create a home page. |
| Tripod allows you to create fun and easy homepages. |
| Webnode is a free (no ads) website creation tool aimed at helping web design novices get a modern-looking website online in minutes. |
| Webs (formerly freewebs) has a easy website builder to create a classroom website. |
| Weebly makes web creation easy. |
| Yola is where you will find all the tools you need to build a website just the way you want. |
| Publications |
| The Busy Educator’s Guide to the World Wide Web is a site maintained by an educator and also provides a newsletter keeping other educators informed of great educational resources on the Internet. |
| Educational Leadership is intended primarily for leaders in elementary, middle, and secondary education. |
| Learning and Leading with Technology is the flagship magazine of ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education), a professional society of teachers helping teachers use technology in the classroom. L&L’s articles connect curriculum and technology. |
| The Journal is a great online magazine as well as a subscription technology magazine. |
| Technology |
| Act Den has many tutorials for software programs. |
| CyberBee contains some great links to integrating the Internet into the curriculum. |
| Internet4Classrooms is a terrific site designed to help teachers use the Internet effectively. |
| Lesson Plans Integrating Technology is from the MCREL site and has many links to lesson plans. |
| Microsoft has some great ideas for technology use in the classroom. |
| Scoring Guide for Lesson Plans that Use Technology Resources allows you to be able to evaluate lesson plans that use technology. |
| Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers is a great resource for finding technology lessons. |
| Quizzes |
| Quia offers you a chance to make quizzes as well as other activities. |
| Quiz Center offers you a chance to make free quizzes online through Discovery School. |
| Quiz Hub has online interactive learning quizzes. |
| Quiz Star is a free online tools that allows you to create a quiz. |
| Museums |
| American Museum of Natural History (OLogy) in New York allows you to find out about fossils, the universe, animals, and much more. |
| Boston Museum of Science has a great Theater of Electricity online. |
| British Museum has a terrific database for objects as well as other offerings. |
| Exploratorium is engaging for children and contains exhibits and activities. |
| Franklin Institute offers information on electricity as well as great resources for teachers. |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art has great educational resources and a large portion of its collection is online. |
| Miami Museum of Science offers you The Atom’s Family site. |
| Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, offers information on Jefferson’s home, gardens, plantation, and much more. |
| Museum Guide offers links to museums and museum-related sites. |
| Museum of Science and Industry allows you to visit the museum without having to travel. |
| Museum of Science, Boston offers virtual exhibits. |
| National Gallery of Art provides teachers with the tools they need for finding resources and activities. |
| National Museum of Science and Technology, Italy provides an online exhibit on the history and science of radio. |
| Science Friday lets you search archives on every science topic as well as live audio broadcasts. |
| Science Museum, London is one of the best museums and has online exhibits and interactive exhibits. |
| Smithsonian Institution provides great educational information from lesson plans to activities. |
| Tech Museum of Innovation has a great collection of online exhibits. |
| United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., provides information for teachers as well as student resources. History is made real. |
| Miscellaneous |
| Brainchild allows you to do online assessment. This is worth checking out! |
| CanTeach supplies lesson plans, resources, and links for educators. You can also find Songs & Poems, Funtime, Recipes, Classroom Management, and much more. |
| Free Worksheets is a great site that lets you generate worksheets. |
| Good Character is a site is loaded with resources involving character education. |
| Kids Psych Games contains activities and games for younger children. There are some good whole class activities on this site. |
| National Education Association contains information for parents. |
| National PTA is a not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities. A wealth of material is available on this site. |
| Nevada Department of Education provides the latest information on what is happening in Nevada. |
| Nevada State Education Association offers tips for parents as well as other information about education. |
| Scholarship Help contains great information for students getting ready for college. |
| Teach with Movies links movies with character development topics. Learning guides are also given. |
| U. S. Department of Education has the latest information about what is happening with education. |
| Keyboarding |
| Keyboarding Lessons and Ideas is a site containing lots of tips and links for keyboarding. This is provided by Shelbyville Central Schools. |
| Keyboarding Resources provides you with some great resources for teaching keyboarding. |
| Cable in the Classroom |
| A&E Classroom is designed to enhance literature, humanities, and social studies curricula. Support material is available by request each fall and spring. Materials include program descriptions, discussion questions, and project ideas. |
| ABC Family Channel (FAM) offers 24-hour family programming including children’s shows, original movies, original series, and health and exercise programming. |
| Animal Planet (APL) features “all animals all the time”. Animal Planet Channel biologist and nature writer explains how to use a microscope, take pictures, and make videos in the wilderness. Look for Jeff Corwin on Corwin’s Quest as well. |
| Black Entertainment Television (BET) recognizes the importance of taking responsibility for our youth by providing teachers with the best educational resources available. |
| Bravo delivers the best in food, fashion, beauty, design and pop culture. |
| The Cartoon Network (TOON) offers the best in animated entertainment from the world’s largest cartoon library. |
| CNBC offers the world’s leading business news programming during the day, and broad-based news, talk, and entertainment programming during prime time. Weekends feature business, technology, and legal news magazines. |
| CNN programming includes in-depth coverage of major news stories and special reports on business, finance, medicine, nutrition, science, technology, weather, and entertainment. CNN NEWSROOM & WorldView is a news and features program designed for the classroom. |
| C-SPAN the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, is a public service of the cable television industry offering gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House of Representatives, Senate, and other public policy proceedings. C-SPAN in the Classroom is the network’s free membership service for teachers. |
| Discovery Channel (DSC) invites you to explore the world with quality, non-fiction programming. |
| Discovery Health Channel (DHN) offers round the clock health and medical information which enables people to enjoy longer, happier, and more productive lives. |
| Disney Channel (DIS), combines timeless classics with timely series and specials, features a broad range of entertainment for kids and families. |
| ESPN offers a wide variety of high-quality, exclusive, original sports programs. Scholastic Sports America (SSA) is devoted to the achievements of high school athletes, both on and off the field. An SSA curriculum guide with suggested activities is available upon request. |
| ESPN2 takes viewers out of bounds with an exciting new mix of sports events and sports entertainment. The network’s exciting fast pace puts a new spin on sports. |
| Food Network (FOOD) is for anyone who loves to eat. Programs invite viewers into the kitchen to cook fabulous meals for family and friends. All-star chefs and Hollywood celebrities share secrets ranging from barbecue feasts to chocolate desserts. |
| Game Show Network (GSN) combines education and family fun featuring live, original programming plus the greatest collection of favorite game shows. The Kids and Family block features JEP! and Wheel 2000, kid-focused versions of popular, syndicated game shows. |
| Hallmark Channel seeks to build bridges of understanding among people of different faiths and cultures with programming that empowers, challenges, entertains, and inspires. |
| HBO is the world’s leading premiere movie network. Due to the nature of this network, its educational programming can only be exhibited in schools after obtaining specific written consent. |
| The History Channel (HIST) features historical documentaries, movies and mini-series that bring history alive for both students and educators. The History Channel also offers free teaching materials each semester. The materials, available upon request, include program descriptions, discussion questions, and project ideas. |
| Home & Garden Television (HGTV) offers comprehensive programming featuring some of America’s best builders, decorators, gardeners and designers. |
| The Learning Channel (TLC) offers people of all ages enjoyable, educational television programs. TLC Elementary School, designed for use in K-6 classrooms, airs with segments appropriate for science, social studies, language arts and math curricula. |
| Lifetime (LIFE) presents contemporary, innovative programming of special interest to women. Biographies, documentaries, and current issues programs connect with a variety of curriculum topics. |
| MSNBC uses the world-class reporting of NBC News and the cutting-edge technology of Microsoft to bring you the world’s first 24-hour integrated cable and Internet news service. MSNBC is first on the scene with breaking news, and delivers in-depth coverage and special reports about health, business, politics, sports, and entertainment. |
| MTV is the entertainment and information source for young adults. Its distinctive style keeps them plugged into news and issues, as well as into music, sports and style. |
| National Geographic Channel showcases programming rich in imagery, engaging stories, and razor-sharp accuracy, including a live, daily newscast from the new studio at National Geographic headquarters. |
| Nickelodeon (NICK), the number one network for kids, is dedicated exclusively to children’s programming. Nickelodeon’s classroom programming links to elementary science, current events and astronautics. |
| Noggin is the first and only 24-hour, commercial-free kids’ thinking channel — both on-air and online — brought to you from Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop. Noggin’s mission is to serve kids’ natural urge to learn by creating a place where learning is driven by them. Noggin’s integrated television network and online service incorporates kids’ questions, ideas and stories, allowing them to be active participants in their own learning. |
| Ovation The Arts Network provides programming on music, dance, literature, visual art, and theater. Hosts Larry, Ronni, Holly and Tomas explore the lives of writers, musicians, and artists and take students behind the scenes and around the globe to experience world-class visual and performing arts. |
| Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations provide educators an array of K-12 programming and teaching resources. Programs include Wishbone, Reading Rainbow and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Check local listings for air dates/times. Support for educators is provided by local PBS stations through workshops, newsletters, guides and on-line services. Some stations offer distance learning classes, as well as college credit telecourses. |
| The Sci-Fi Channel (SFC) offers the best in science fiction, fantasy, science fact, and classic horror programming with original science fiction movies and series, memorable sci-fi classics, and popular off-network series, all suitable for family viewing. |
| Showtime (SHOW) is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, premium network featuring theatrical movies, original movies and series, championship boxing, and family entertainment. |
| The Travel Channel is the only network that provides viewers with ideas on where to go, what to do, and how to make the most of their travel dollars. Watch The Travel Channel and be a smart traveler not a tourist. |
| TruTV offers live and taped coverage of actual courtroom trials from around the country in addition to programs that focus on law, social issues, and the legal system. |
| Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a 24-hour television network that presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, un-colorized and commercial-free. Novel to Film: Designed by educators specifically for use in the classroom, this film series and accompanying curriculum materials will touch the minds and hearts of students and inspire them to read and develop a passion for literary classics. |
| Univision is the leading Spanish-language cable network in the U.S. with 24 hours of programming that appeals to young Hispanics. Galavisión’s line-up includes sports, music, bicultural shows, educational children’s programming, news, novelas, variety, monthly specials, and movies. |
| USA Network (USA) offers a broad range of quality programming for every member of the family, including exclusive original movies, dramas, and comedies, popular off-network series, big-ticket sporting events, and blockbuster films. USA produces teacher support materials to enhance its educational programming. |
| VH1 offers various music oriented programs, with a particular interest in promoting music education. |
| Weather Channel (TWC), cable television’s only national all-weather network, is a convenient, accurate source for round-the-clock weather information. Programming provides local, regional, and national weather conditions. The Weather Classroom provides a comprehensive exploration of the hows, whys, and wonders of weather. The content of each new episode of The Weather Classroom television program is integrated with TWC’s Web site. |