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General Resources

Student Publishing Sites
 
Citation Machine
A free Web tool that creates properly-formatted MLA or APA citations. You may or may not want to share this with your students (why it is on the teacher page and not the student page).

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best new sites to support teaching and learning.

CyberBee
http://www.cyberbee.com/

Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org
Search or browse thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and

Classroom Connect http://www.classroom.net A great technology starter site for teachers.projects. A project of the U.S. Department of Education.

Early Childhood Ed & Family Web Corner http://users.sgi.net/~cokids Educational Index, Teacher & Parent Web Pages.

Education World http://www.education-world.com Links to many resources including administration and special education

Worksheets and Certificates

Certificate Creator
http://www.CertificateCreator.com
Kids Certificates
http://www.kidscerts.com/free.php
Custom Classroom: Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Custom Classroom: Worksheet Generator
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/
Personal Educational Publisher
http://www.educationalpress.org
Blank and Outline Maps 
http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/
abcteach.com
http://abcteach.com/

Free Educational Worksheets

Free Lesson Plans, WebQuests, Worksheets and Math Problems
http://www.edhelper.com/
Graphic Organizers
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm

Links Collections

Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Project Based Learning Checklists
http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml
Question Builder
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/question_builder.php3
Trackstar
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
Web Worksheet Wizard
http://wizard.hprtec.org/
Grade 2 Internet Resources
http://perrynet.sparcc.org/webunits/Grade2/Resources/
Bell Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web.
MSMLA Selected Best Websites
http://www.mslma.org/selection/bestwebsites.htm
Early Childhood Education Online http://www.ume.maine.edu/ECEOL-L This site is a resource exchange area for early childhood education ideas such as observation and assessment, curriculum and environment, and professional development. There is also a listserve.

Curriculum Specific Sites

CuClass 2 Class
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/class2class/
A clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.rriculum Specific Sites
Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Internet resources on books and literature for children and young adults.
Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Find and Create Jigsaw Puzzles
http://www.jigzone.com/
Fun Math Lessons
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties
http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/3-5/GeometricSolids/student/index.html
National Coucil of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org/
Teaching Time
http://sln.fi.edu/qa00/attic3/
The Franklin Institute offers a considerable resource for educators on teaching time. Classes can participate in global online time and clock projects, and students can experiment with online activities in gears, sundials, calendars, and more.
Best History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
Exploring Explorers
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtml
Ideas and recommendations for a unit on land, sea, and space exploreres. Classroom activities, virtual field trips, and a list of sites about explorers.

Rubrics

RubiStar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Rubric Builder
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php3
Rubrics
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html
Rubrics, Rubrics and more Rubrics! http://www.uni.edu/profdev/rubrics.html

Lesson Plans

Educator's Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org/
This is THE place to go when researching educational topics. AskERIC is a comprehensive Internet-based service providing education information to educators, librarians, parents, and others. Through the Virtual Library you will find links to tools, classroom materials, facts, papers and experts.

The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans! Now your genius and creativity can be used to touch lives around the world, and to help teachers reach students in ways they had never imagined before!

Ask Jeeves for Kids-Teacher Resources-This site contains lesson plans, interactive class projects, glossaries and quizzes for teachers' use.

Academy Curriculum Exchange- Lesson plans to teach science and other subjects at all levels.

Educator's Choice Search This site has indexed thousands of educational pages and broken them down by topic.

Free Lesson Plans, WebQuests, Worksheets and Math Problems
http://www.edhelper.com/

Lesson plans and worksheets from LearningPage
http://www.learningpage.com/

Education World®
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson243.shtml

Cyberguides http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric. Listed by grade level, then title.

National Teaching Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English The official home page for this organization.

National Science Teacher's Association The official home page for this organization.

National Council for the Social Studies The official home page for this organization

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The official home page for this organization

National Council for Geographic Education The official home page for this organization

The Teacher's Corner
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/seasonal/backtoschool/index.htm

Articles

Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression

Top Ten Reasons to Create a Classroom Web Page
http://www.kinderart.com/teachers/webpage.shtml

Teacher Resources - Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html

Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences
http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/curriculum/MISmart/mi_smart.htm

 

Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsn.org High quality online projects for students... Linking Kids Around the World!

Houghton Mifflin's Education Place http://www.eduplace.com Resources for teachers. students and their parents.

Instructor Magazine http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor.htm Includes strategies for integrating the curriculum, professional development, and ready to use units for specific grade levels including K-1; text of selected articles

International Society for Technology in Education http://www.iste.org/resources Look under curriculum for ways to integrate technology into your class.

Learn With PBS http://www.pbs.org/teachersource Explore the wealth of educational resources available from PBS Online in the Adult Learning Neighborhood, Teacher Source, and in Ready to Learn!

Learning Space http://www.learningspace.org For teachers, created by teachers, and about teachers. This site includes telecollaborative projects.

Marco Polo http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

Read, Write, Think http://www.readwritethink.org NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Teaching With Folklore http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/folklore/index.htm Cross curricular activities based on folklore genres.

Teachers'Corner http://www.theteacherscorner.net/ Many excellent resources including lesson plans, seasonal activities and experiments for both primary and intermediate teachers.

Teachers Helping Teachers http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/ This site is by teachers for teachers, to provide teaching tips to inexperienced teachers, to provide ideas that can be used immediately in the classroom, and to provide new methodology ideas for all teachers.

WebQuest Page http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet." Excellent guidelines and examples.

Wired Learning http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/wired.html This organizations mission is to support teachers and librarians achieve meaningful, technology-infused learning environments.