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Foreign Language: |
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• EslGames.com: A site dedicated to ESL and EFL English teachers. It includes lessons, games and songs. |
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• ESL PartyLand: ESL Students and teachers can find quizzes, online exercises, lesson plans, a job center, ESL links and more. |
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• EspanOle! Pagina Principal: The study, teaching and appreciation of the Spanish language. |
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• Dave's ESL Cafe: An excellent site for ESL/EFL students and teachers from around the world. |
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• EduHound.com Espanol: EduHound Espanol features links to the best K-12 Spanish language resources on the Web. |
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• Parlez-Vous?: A resource for Grench students and teachers. |
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Music: |
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• K-12 Resources for Music Educators: Valuable resources for music educators and for students of all areas and educational levels. |
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• Music Education at DataDragon.com: Provides tutorials, guides, information on musical genres, history of music, instruments and links to other related sites. |
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• MusicLink: Music Library Guides: Library Guides research assistance on the topics listed. These Library Guides are also available in print in the Music Library. |
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• SCHOOLMUSIC.COM: Your source for music education products. They carry a complete line of music software, printed music, instruments and accessories. |
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Theater: |
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• ARTSEDGE: Helps teachers and students share and gain access to information, resources and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. |
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• Creative Drama and Theatre Education Resource Site: Find resources on creative drama and theater education. |
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• Kenneth Taylor's Drama in Education Site: Includes lesson plans (by age), links, books and resources. |
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• Shakespeare Plays Online: First Web Folio edition is currently composed of Shakespeare's plays. |
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• The Drama Teacher's Resource Room: Includes lesson plans for various grade levels, tips on setting the perfect stage, textbook recommendations, and resources. |
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Visual Arts: |
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• Artcyclopedia: They have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives and other online resources. |
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• Art Education and ArtEdventures: With this site, students can create art through hands-on activities and technique demos. Visitors can also study art, play art games and get pointers on teaching art. |
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• Art Projects fpr K-12: A collection of art projects including stained glass, drawing, etc. |
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• How to Read a Painting: Using these techniques will enable your students to approach art with a critical eye, understanding both the principles of design and the elements of art at work. |
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• Getty ArtsEdNet Home Page (Getty ArtsEdNet): This site includes lesson plans, curriculum ideas, image galleries, a publication catalog, highlighted topics and much more. |
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• Visual Knowledge Program: VKP pairs art instructors with high school educators and their students to explore new ways of integrating contemporary art with core high school curricula. |
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Acronym Finder: The Acronym Finder is a large searchable database, containing about 155,000 acronyms, abbreviations and definitions. |
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Alphabet Superhighway Writing Center: Provides tips to get students going. The section on "Pre-writing" tells kids how to brainstorm ideas. The section on "composition" talks about different writing styles. At the end, there's a section about how to edit their work when they're done. |
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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of literature, nonfiction and reference. |
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CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. |
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EDSITEment: This comprehensive humanities resource site features lesson plans for literature and links to the best resource sites on the Web. |
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InkSpot for Young Writers: Part of Inkspot, a larger resource for writers. With information specifically for young authors, the site includes a discussion forum, resource links, market information, advice from pros, and articles. |
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Internet Public Library Reading Room: This "room" contains bookshelves for browsing and searching for entertaining reading, along with links to sites providing other full texts. |
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National Council of Teachers of English Teaching Ideas: Links to teaching ideas selected from NCTE publications, or submitted directly by teachers. |
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S.C.O.R.E.: This site houses language art links, a teacher resources section, and a vast collection of lesson plans. |
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The English Server: This site contains over 20,000 articles, as well as poetry, fiction, nonfiction and much more. |
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The Internet Classics Archive: Students can read many classics from The Odyssey to Plato's Apology, and they can find history on Tacitus and others. |
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| MATH: |
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DoYourMath: On this site you can find interactive practice and learning math tests (Pre-SAT, SAT, AP and Calculus). |
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Ask Dr. Math: A forum designed specifically for middle school math questions. An archive lists answers for most questions, but a real "Dr. Math" will e-mail answers to any new puzzlers you present. |
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Flashcards for Kids!!: Designed to allow people to practice math at various levels of difficulty. |
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Gomath.com: Students can e-mail their math questions and be helped by tutors with extensive teaching experience. |
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Geometry.net: A comprehensive Math search engine for middle school math and above. |
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Math.com: This site offers different sections for students, teachers and parents. The teacher area has Lesson Plans, Classroom Resources, Career Information, Standards, and Free Stuff. |
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Mathematics Archives WWW Server: This comprehensive source covers a wide range of different topics in mathematics, software, and teaching materials. |
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Mrs. Glossar's Math Goodies: You'll find 62 lessons on everything from statistics and pre-algebra to percentages and polygons. There are also numerous crossword puzzles and word searches with math themes for your middle grader. A "Math Homework Help" link allows kids to post their math questions and have them answered by volunteer teachers. |
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Teach ALL Students the Multiplication Facts: Activities, games and worksheets to help teach the multiplication facts. |
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Professor Freedman's Math Help: Tutorials and information about basic math and algebra to ease college math woes. |
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Maths Online: International site with math resources, links, tests and more for college and adult students. |
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Calculus graphics: Calculus may not seem as daunting after a trip through this resource. The site includes detailed graphics and explanations. |
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Health Teacher.com: Provides a comprehensive, sequential K-12 health education curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides that meet National Health Education Standards. |
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PE Central: PE Central provides the latest information about instructionally appropriate physical education practices and programs. |
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Earth / Space Science: |
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Amazing Space Web-Based Activities: This site covers everything from space topics to the Hubble telescope. |
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eNature.com: The complete nature and wildlife resource featuring the Audobon Guides to plants and animals. |
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PlanetPals Earthzone: Alive with colorful cartoon characters, this interactive resource teaches about ecology, natural resources, the planet Earth and its care. |
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California Space & Science Center: Lesson plans and other resources for teachers, with an emphasis on space exploration. |
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Internet Public Library: This online's library science fair resource site can guide your child through the whole process. Your youngster can learn about the scientific method or choose a topic and read about sample projects. The site's links offer lots of good ideas and encouragement. |
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Introduction to Windows to the Universe: Designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, this site is a first rate trip through earth and space science by means of multimedia exhibits. |
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Nasa's "Why Files": You can help your child improve his scientific investigative skills by introducing him the Nasa's "Why" files. They feature a series of mysteries that start inside a tree house. Your youngster can find answers to the mysteries by following clues and doing online research. |
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Thursday's Classroom from NASA: NASA news research related to the Hubble Constant and cosmology. The site provides a lasting connection between NASA's latest research and the classroom environment. |
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National Geographic Education: National Geographic's Web site for teachers, with lesson plans, and online activites. |
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Weather Channel: For the weather-savvy educator, we offer lesson plans, teachers' guides and more, including additional online teaching resources. |
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Dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs!! Dino Don Lessen: Dinosaur expert Dino Don Lessen presents dinosaur news, art, contests, and the Lost World Jurassic Park Traveling Exhibit! |
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Physical Science: |
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Welcome to Bio Tech: Extensive site that includes a useful dictionary, chemical acronym databases, directories, educational guides, science resources and articles. |
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A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions: This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today, with the appropriate conversion factors. |
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Learning About Photosynthesis: Follow their links to resources that discuss photosynthesis at verying degrees of complexity. |
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Biology4Kids: Includes the chemistry of biology and how the world of biology is studied, as well as cell structure and function. |
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High School Physics Resources: Resources for the students: tutorials, animations, project ideas, sample quizzes, etc. |
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The Catalyst: Developed specifically for the high school chemistry teacher, to provide a place for finding relevant information for use in and our of the classroom. |
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Current Events : |
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The Virtual Study Tour: With this architectural virtual tour, you can visit the Knossos Labyrinth or the Palace of Ramses III. |
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CNN Newsroom: A free instructional program for teachers to bring the world into their classrooms with in-depth news stories, as well as world and regional events designed exclusively for students. |
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Newsweek Education Program: A site to help teachers build bridges to real-worl issues. |
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50states.com: State information resource links to state homepages, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, trees, etc. |
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TIME for Kids: Just like TIME magazine, the news in TIME for Kids is completely up-to-date and comes from TIME's award-winning journalists and photographers around the world. |
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Geography: |
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Florida Geographic Alliance Lesson Plan Collections: These geographic lesson plans are available by year of creation and are free of cost. |
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Map Collections: Map collections from 1544 to 1996, organized according to seven major categories |
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GeoNet: Free geography resources including revision help, case studies, lesson plans and worksheets. |
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United Nations CyberSchoolBus: Provides information on current global issues, and also offers lesson plans, teaching modules, classroom activities and more. |
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Geographia Homepage: In-depth destination guides to over 75 countries, online tourist offices, travel stories and more. |
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History: |
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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's amazing site: It has many different history topics, from first settlers to first ladies. |
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Eye Witness: Using personal letters and essays, Eyewitness History takes a look at major events in history from the perspectives of eyewitnesses. |
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History Place: Great online exhibits include World Wars, Lincoln, Kennedy and more. |
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HyperHistory: Navigates through 3,000 years of world history. |
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National Archives - The Digital Classroom: This site gives teachers and students access to online historical documents. |
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People's Century: PBS's People's Century discusses the "History of the People," for the people, as told by the people who lived it. |
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The History Channel: The History Channel online includes study guides, speeches, "This Day in History" and lots more. |
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The History of Today: Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history and music history. |
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Think Quest: Did you know it used to be illegal to sing out of tune in North Carolina? Or that Alaska's official state sport is dog-mushing? Your children can find fun nuggets of information about each of the 50 states, as well as short biographies of United States presidents. |
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USHistory.org: American History with a focus on Colonial and Revolutionary Philadelphia. |
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Social Studies: |
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History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers: The History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 teachers is a good resource for social studies on the Web. |
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City Population - the largest cities in the world: Site contains the principal cities, nations and agglomerations of the world, with tables and maps. |
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World Cultures: |
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Multicultural Teacher's Corner - Multicultural Pavilion: Conceptualizations, goals, assumptions, activities, lessons and tools if multicultural education. |
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Let's Go Around the World: Let's go around the world is a fun and very informative global exploration site. |
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Multicultural Home Page: Country pages cover a wide range of information: geographical, historical, arts, weather, recipes, tourist information and so on. |
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Aztec History Mexico - The Aztecs of Mexico: An excellent site for anything at all to do with the Aztec world: medicine, agriculture, religion, sacrifices, rulers, etc. Also links to an excellent paper on Cortez, containing five of his letters. |
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World History: |
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Architecture Design Images History, 3D Models and more: Architecture around the world and across history, in an online multimedia encyclopedia of world architecture, documenting 1,200 buildings and architects. |
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| TECHNOLOGY: |
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Anti Virus Programs: |
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AVG Free: AVG is a free anti-virus for home users and it even scans Outlook emails! |
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McAfee Antivirus: Anti-virus program for home and business users. |
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Norton Antivirus: Anti-virus program for home and business users. |
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Panda Online Scan: Scan your computer through Panda's Online Virus Scan. |
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Anti Spam / Adaware Removal Tools |
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Adaware: Adaware and Spyware Removal Software. |
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Ewido Anti-Spyware: Ewido works beside AVG Free to rid you computer of Spyware. |
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SpyBot: Another Adaware and Spyware Removal Software. |
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Programs |
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Adobe Acrobat Reader: Get Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files. Free Download. |
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Mozilla Firefox Browser: An award winning browser that reduces the risk of pop-ups and spam attacks. |
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Open Office: A free alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. |
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Education Technology: |
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4teachers.org: This site addresses the issue of technology in schools as used by teachers, administration, staff and students. |
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EDUCAUSE: A great resource for information technology issues in higher education. |
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International Society for Technology in Education: ISTE provides teacher-based halp to K-12 teachers and administrators. |
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Technology Integration Projects: These detailed projects for grades 6-12 cover science, math, social studies, and language arts. |
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Clipart |
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All Clipart Site: Offers Clipart Site |
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Barry's Clipart Server: A large collection of free clipart, buttons, backgrounds, etc. |
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Continuing Education |
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Distance Education Clearinghouse: A source for national and international information. Get wise on Legislation, technologies, programs and courses. |
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Eduport: A professional development, education and distance learning portal. |
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eLearners.com: Search over 27,000 online and distance learning courses, degrees, training programs and colleges. |
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Highly Recommended for Graduate Students: Resources for graduate students: contains numerous higher education links, including career and occupational outlook, book lists, research collections and library links. |
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National Programs: A handy list of government programs for the improvement of vocational and adult education. |
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T.H.E. Institute: Offers educators a complete range of professional development services: anytime, anywhere and in any delivery medium. |
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Curricula |
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Classroom Connect's Connected Teacher - Lesson Plans: Collection of lesson plans, indexed by subject, that integrate the Internet into your curriculum. |
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Educator Resources from Computer Curriculum Corporation: Offers free educator resources and lots of good links for educators of all kinds. |
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FunBrain.com: This site enables teachers to integrate games and thousands of assessment quizzes into their daily lesson plans. |
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GOTSchool Teachers: A service that allows K-12 teachers to exchange ideas, locate and review educational resources, and align the resources to relevant standards. |
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Lesson Plan Search: Lesson Plan Search Engine. Find great lesson plans, teacher resources, thematic units, seasonal/subject activities. Find that much-needed lesson plan here! |
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LessonPlanZ.com: Search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects. |
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New York Times Learning Network: Free news and education resources for teachers, their students and parents. Includes lesson plans, vocabulary and geography builders and more. |
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Riverdeep Interactive Learning: Riverdeep brings together the world-class curricula and real-world focus with the power and flexibility of Internet delivery to create rich and effective learning experiences - improving student performance and enabling teachers to use technology to its fullest advantage. |
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Teachers Network - by teachers for teachers: Lessons, curricula and activities for classroom and online learning. |
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Early Childhood |
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A to Z Kids Stuff Home Page: Resources for educators, child care workers and others to use in a classroom, a child care center, or at home. There are lesson plan themes and fun educational activities for preschool and school-age children. |
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Earlychildhood.com - Lifelong Learning Starts Here: A complete resource for early childhood educators, brought to you by Discount School Supply. |
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EduPuppy: Everything for early childhood education (preschool - Grade 2). |
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Education News |
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American Council on Education: This site provides news related to higher education. |
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Education Week on the Web: Find the full text of Education Week and Teacher Magazine. |
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management: A large database of all things relevant to educational management. |
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: A popular source of news and job information for college and university educators, administrators and staff. |
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Government |
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Government Databases - Education & Children: Select government databases pertaining only to children's education. |
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U.S. Department of Education: Provides links to programs, policy, funding and much more. |
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Grants and Funding |
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E-Rate: The FCC's Informal Education Page: This site offers information on policy that affects educational technology. |
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Peterson's: The well-respected Peterson's Guide online. |
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SchoolGrants: Grants and Opportunities for K-12 Schools: Grant opportunities (federal, state, foundation) for K-12 schools, grant writing tips and resources, and links and news. |
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Guidance |
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College Board: Educational Excellence for All Students: Helps high school students make a successful transition to higher education. This site provides extensive information, services, and products for students and parents, as well as for professional educators in both secondary and higher education. |
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Guidance Online: A comprehensive Internet resource for high school students and their parents. Compiled by a high school guidance counselor, the site includes career and financial aid information. |
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School Psychology Resources Online: School psychology resources for parents and educators. Research learning disabilities, behavior problems, psychological assessment, special education, mental health and more. |
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Organizations |
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American Association of School Administrators: AASA, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for over 14,000 educational leaders across North America and in many other countries. |
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National Education Association: NEA is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. |
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National PTA: A nonprofit association of parents, educators, students and other citizens active in their schools and communities. |
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National School Boards Association: Encourages and prepares local school board members to become catalysts for educational change and to become agents for systemic reform in the public schools, so that all students will be prepared to meet the challenges to tomorrow. |
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Virtual Explorations |
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Classroom Connect: Programs like AustraliaQuest and AmericaQuest take students all over the world. |
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MuseumStuff.com: One of the World's largest gateways to museum related info. |
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Virtual Field Trips Site: These field trips (Web tours) take students to some of the top Web resources. Site includes virtual field trips on volcanoes, hurricanes, deserts, and salt marshes. |
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Virtual Zoo: This site was designed to bring a virtual zoo to anyone with access to the Internet, regardless of his or her location in the world. |
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Web Projects |
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ePals Classroom Exchange: An online classroom community that connects 1.9 million students and teachers from 28,747 classrooms around the world. |
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JASON Project: Its mission is to excite and engage students in science and technology, and to motivate and provide professional development opportunities for their teachers using advanced, interactive telecommunications. |
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NASA Quest: NASA Quest brings NASA prople and science to K-12 classrooms, via the Internet. |
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Postcards from America: 50 State Travel Adventure: See all 50 states through daily postcards sent directly to your e-mailbox for free. This entertaining travel Web site includes beautiful photos, special postage stamps, fun facts, travel tips and much more. |
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Standards and Assessment |
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Content Knowledge: Compendium of standards & benchmarks for K-12 education. |
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CRESST: Conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing. |
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Developing Educational Standards: An annotated list of sites with K-12 educational standards. |
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Worksheets |
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Freeworksheets.com: The Free Worksheets on this site are for anyone to use. Teachers may make as many copies of them as necessary for their students. |
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RHL School - Free Worksheeets: An enormous supply of free quality worksheets (by subject) for teaching, reinforcement and review. |
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The M-tech Worksheet Locator & Generator: A site where teachers or educators can create or find a worksheet online very quickly. |
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ERIC the Educational Resources Information Center: Has brochures for parents on everything from keeping children drug-free to learning a second language. |
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Parent-Teacher Association: Learn how to get involved at your child's school. The PTA site has great resources for parents. Go to the site and click on "Parent Involvement". |
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U.S. Department of Education: Offers parents a guide to using the Internet as an educational tool, with links to hundreds of family-friendly sites. |
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References |
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Teachers Hub: A great resource for teachers and students alike. Consists of interactive learning, quizes & lesson plans. |
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America's Library: From the Library of Congress, this site was designed especially with young people in mind, but there are great stories for people of all ages. |
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Biography Classroom: The popular show, Biography, on the Web. It's your opportunity to get even more personal with 15,000 biographies. |
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Britannica.com: Includes the complete Britannica encyclopedia, a searchable guide to the Web's best sites, articles from the top magazines, editorials, news and special features. |
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Information Please Kids' Almanac: Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health. |
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Library Spot: A great online library and reference information portal. Find top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, geneology tools and much more. |
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Michigan Electronic Library: A great source for library and reference information |
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National Archives: The Digital Classroom: The National Archives Classroom: primary sources, activites and training for educators and students. |
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Refdesk.com: This portal site contains almanacs, books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, news, maps and more. |
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Thesaurus.com: New words, new worlds. Free online Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases. |
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Too Cool For Grownups: A great online quarterly publication that features Internet-based curriculum, projects, and teacher resources. |
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Search Engines |
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Ask Jeeves!: Search the web in plain English. Ask Jeeves is a great place to find answers online. |
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Ask Jeeves For Kids: The kids' version of the popular answer site. |
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EduHound.com: Everything for education K-12. EduHound features an up-to-date database of over 15,000 education related Web sites and resources. |
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Searchopolis: The site features curriculum for all major topics as well as a great set of reference tools, including a great online dictionary and thesaurus. |
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Yahooligans!: Yahoo for students. |
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Special Education |
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education: EC provides information of the education of individuals with disabilities, as well as those who are gifted. |
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National Association for gifted children: NAGC is an organization of parents, educators, other professionals and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and youth. |
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Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP): The office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a component of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). |
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SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet: A collection of Internet-accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to special education. |