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- ALA Great Web Sites for Kids: "Amazing, spectacular, mysterious, colorful web sites for kids and the adults who care about them".
- Blue Web'n: Classified, searchable directory of "blue ribbon" learning sites.
- Tired Teacher's Web Site: K-12 internet resources.
- Census in Schools: Free, downloadable teaching materials for social studies and math.
- Classroom Connect: A directory of the best K-12 resources.
- DiscoverySchool.com: Extensive collection of teacher tools.
- Educators Net: Extensive classified index of educational resources.
- EduHound: A pre-screened database directory of more than 15,000 K-12 educational links.
- Edutopia: Innovation in education from the George Lucas Foundation.
- ePals Classroom Exchange: Online, global classroom community.
- Fabulous Freebies: Free Materials for Teachers! Comprehensive reviews of free educational materials and contact information... and More Fabulous Freebies
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE): Educational web sites created by many different federal agencies--from Agriculture to NASA.
- Free Worksheets : Reproduce and distribute at will!
- Future Teachers: Scholastic's site includes tips for professional portfolios, getting the most out from student teaching, writing better resumes, and presenting well in interviews.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A classified list designed to enhance curriculum and teachers' professional development.
- Kids Hub: An interactive learning center with educational games, puzzles, quizzes and activities. Good for remediation, practice, and fun!
- The Kindergarten Teacher: Over 600 links to Internet resources for present and future kindergarten educators, prepared by California State University Curriculum Librarian Mike Tillman.
- The Learning Page : Contains downloadable activity sheets, lesson plans, themed reading suggestions, Pre-K to 2. Acrobat Reader needed for downloads.
- National Library of Education: The federal government's main source for education information.
- Quia.com : Create interactive learning activities for your students using templates or use those designed by others.
- PBS Teacherline: Online professional development for pre-service and in-service teachers. Current modules include mathematics and integrating technology with classroom practice.
- Education Associations and Organizations: From the U.S. Dept. of Education.
- Random Acts of Kindness: Lesson plans, activities, teacher's guide.
- RHL Free Worksheets : Quality worksheets by subject.
- Scholastic.com: Lesson plans, reproducibles, professional resources, author information, online activities, news zone, and research tools make this a first rate site for all teachers, kids, and parents.
- Study Skills: Guides students in setting goals, managing time, and studying.
- Teach Kind: Resources for teaching kindness to animals (and humans).
- Teach Tolerance: Stop hate! Free lesson plans, activities, and multimedia kits to teach children about compassion and tolerance.
- Teachable Moment: An excellent resource for dealing with contemporary issues.
- Teachers @ Work: Internet Resources for Teachers: Contains links to over 5,000 reviewed web sites.
- Teachers Domain: Repository of multimedia files, including online video and flash, for classroom use. Free, requires registration.
- TeachNet: Impact II, The Teachers Network.
- Teach-nology.com's Teacher Rubric Makers: Rubrics for every occasion.
- Theory Into Practice: A database of fifty major learning and instruction theories, an overview with examples including graphic diagrams.
- What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching: Advice from other first year teachers and seasoned veterans.
- Yahoo! Education: Educators can create customized class web sites here, posting handouts, links to reading assignments, and class polls. Homework can also be collected through the site. (Ads)
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids: From the U.S. Government Printing Office, this site provides resources on how government works, links to U.S. government web sites for kids, and learning tools for students, parents, teachers. - The History Channel: Study guides, speeches, "This Day in History".
- Holiday Traditions: Recipes, religious practices, music, and holiday traditions around the world.
- Map Collections: Library of Congress digitized maps from 1544 to 1996 in seven major categories, including military campaigns, exploration, and cultural landscapes.
- National Archives Digital Classroom: Online historical documents.
- National Geographic: Interactive adventures, virtual expeditions, lesson plans, printable maps, and an online atlas. Coordinated with National Geography standards.
- New York Times Learning Network: Part of the Newspapers in Education initiative, lesson plans and activities are based on the daily New York Times and current events. The Lesson plan archive is searchable by subject.
- Newsweek Education Program: A site to help teachers build bridges to real-world issues.
- Social Studies: Lesson plans and resources for social studies teachers.
- Social Studies Sources: Links to resources in all content areas.
- Teachers Guide to Editorial Cartoons: An interesting site with lessons and activities using editorial cartoons with elementary, middle and high school students.
- Teachers Helping Teachers--Social Studies: Ideas, activities, lesson plans submitted by social studies teachers.
- CNN Student News: Coordinated with CNN newscasts and specials, this site includes comprehensive activities and resources for middle and high school students.
- United Nations CyberSchoolBus: Current global issues, lesson plans, teaching modules, classroom activities.
- USGS Learning Web: A site from the U.S. Geological Survey, containing study units, activities, lessons, and lists of materials in the area of biology, geology, hydrology and geography.
- U.S. News Classroom: Lesson Plans cover American Government, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, Sociology, U.S. History, and World History. Includes news quiz.
- AAA Math: By grade level, homework help, in depth topics.
- A+ Math: Worksheets, games, flashcards.
- Count On! Interactive games, brain teasers, math poems, and flash cards.
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education: Resources for the improvement, enrichment, and reform of mathematics and science education.
- Figure This! Challenges for Families: Enjoyable challenges for families (and teachers), contributed by educational organizations.
- Fraction Bars: Interactive games and activities for teaching fractions.
- MASSIVE: Math and science song information.
- Math.com: Sixty interactive, multimedia lessons in algebra, geometry, and basic math. Many other teaching resources.
- The Math Forum: Everything mathematical--an excellent resource. Check out the Teacher's Place.
- Mathematics Archives: A comprehensive source on mathematics topics, software, and teaching materials.
- Mathematics Teachers' Resource Sites: Includes sites for data and statistics to use in practice, lesson plans, quizzes, puzzles, and math games.
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics: An NSF funded project from Utah State University to provide virtual manipulatives and tutorials for mathematics instruction, K-8. Java applets.
- Teach ALL Students the Multiplication Facts: Activities, games, and worksheets.
- Big Busy School House: Teachers Guides provide reading strategies, cross curricular connections, and suggested thematic titles (from Harper Collins).
- CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities: Activities are based on children's and young adult literatures and California Language Arts standards. Good suggestions and an excellent resource.
- EdSitement : Lesson plans for literature and resource links.
- Foreign Language Lesson Plans: A large collection of modern language curriculum resources, including online exhibits.
- Language Arts: Links to lesson plans, literature, reference, ideas, activities, and organizations.
- Language Arts: Kathy Schrock's Discovery School index for language arts resources.
- Literature Lesson Plans: Middle and High School, search by author.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Excellent resource, electronic Shakespeare texts, and links to other related sites.
- New York Times Learning Network: Part of the Newspapers in Education initiative, lesson plans and activities are based on the daily New York Times and current events. The Lesson plan archive is searchable by subject.
- Parlez-Vous? A resource for French students and teachers.
- Power of Words: Teaching tolerance curriculum for multiethnic understanding.
- S.C.O.R.E.: Language art links and lesson plans.
- Smartwriters.com: Check out Teacher Resources and information about author visits.
- Teachers Guide to Editorial Cartoons: An interesting site with lessons and activities using editorial cartoons with elementary, middle, and high school students.
- Teaching Books: Excellent site with online videos of authors and illustrators, teaching guides, and lists of award books. Requires registration.
- Vocabulary University: Vocabulary puzzles, activities, themes. SAT prep.
- Web English Teacher: A rich resource for practicing or preservice English teachers.
- Amazing Space Web-Based Activities: Covers many space topics, provides fun activities and games.
- Cool Science: Activities and crafts on and offline.
- DEP Online: A site from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for kids and teachers--science project ideas, recycling programs.
- eNature.com: Nature and wildlife resource featuring the Audubon guides to plans and animals.
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education: Resources for the improvement, enrichment, and reform of mathematics and science education.
- ExploreScience.com: A multimedia site (requires Shockwave plug-in) to accompany physical science lessons. Students can create real-time experiments and teachers can build course homepages. Handouts and help links included.
- MASSIVE: Math and science song information.
- NASAexplores: Lessons and online resources for grades K-12, matched to standards and updated weekly.
- Science.gov: Check out the Science Education link on this government gateway for good science sites and information.
- Science Spot: Lesson plans and descriptions, science clip art.
- USGS Learning Web: A site from the U.S. Geological Survey, containing study units, activities, lessons, and lists of materials in the area of biology, geology, hydrology, and geography.
- Weather Channel: Online teaching resources, lesson plans, and resources--whatever the weather.
- All Kinds of Minds: Emphasizes different styles of learning.
- Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education: Background information, e-mail lists, fact sheets, and hundreds of digests.
- GT World: Gifted and talented information, links to online programs and special schools, publications.
- LD Online : Web site designed for parents provides information about many different types of learning disabilities and support agencies.
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: Dedicated to answering questions and keeping parents and educators up–to-date on laws affecting the disabled.
- National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented: Authoritative research and full-text articles on gifted education.
- Red and Green Choices: Based on the authors' intervention programs for children with autism and behavioral disorders, provides printable charts.
- SERI: Special Education Resources on the Internet: Covers a wide variety of topics, including individual disabilities, organizations, technology, and discussion groups.
- Special Education News: Covers breaking news in special education, grades pre-K through 12.
- Art Education and ArtEdventures: Play games, create art, hands-on activities, and tips for teaching art.
- ARTSEDGE: Supporting the arts as a core subject area in K-12 curriculum, from the Kennedy Center.
- Children's Music: Music activities, including creating your own radio show and sound effects.
- Kenneth Taylor's Drama in Education Site: Lesson plans by age group, links, and resources.
- Kinderart: A large collection of art lessons and activities for all ages.
- Awesome Library: Health and PE: Organized by topics such as Health, Highway Safety, Medical, Nutrition, Personal Care, Physical Education, Prevention, Recreation, Sports, and Standards.
- Body and Mind: Created by the Center for Disease Control to provide answers for kids' health issues, this site also provides activities for health educators.
- HealthTeacher.com : A sequential K-12 health curriculum with almost 300 lesson plan guides that meet National Health Education standards. SRU's Dr. Michael Cleary was a consultant to this site.
- PE Central: A searchable directory of lessons, equipment, job listings.
- P.E. Lesson Plans and Activities: A large collection of lesson plans for Physical Education.
- School Psychology Resources Online: Research learning disabilities, behavior problems, psychological assessment, special education, mental health, etc.
CyberBee: Subject specific web sites, with an emphasis on integrating technology. - CyberSmart! : A free curriculum to assist teachers in teaching Internet safety and responsibility. Aligned with National Educational Technology Standards, consists of 65 lesson plans.
- Daily Dose of the Web: Daily birthdays, quotations, vocabulary words, brain teasers, challenges, math problems.
- NetDay Compass: Intended for technology decision makers in the K-12 setting, a directory of links and the ability to post education technology questions make this site useful for all.
- T.H.E. Journal's Road Map to the Web for Educators: An index site to resources in all curricular areas and interests.
- ThinkQuest: Library of informational sites created by students and teachers. Sponsors an annual web competition.
- Web Quests: Learn all about scavenging the 'net for class projects and activities. Examples and training materials.