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General Resources Blue Web’n – Educational Internet sites organized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans - Created by teachers for use in their own classrooms. Discovery School - A vast collection of links to lesson plans, teaching tools, curriculum resources, clip art, and much more. The Educator's Reference Desk - As of December 19th 2003. The Educator's Reference Desk replaced AskERIC. Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. The Gateway to Educational Materials - Gain access to lesson plans, curriculum units and other educational material. Sponsored by the US Department of Education. Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - A collection of links organized for teachers to enhance curriculum and professional development. Includes a great annotated Subject Access directory of Internet Sites. Kathy Schrock’s Online Tools for Classroom Use – “The Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning” provides links to all the essential online tools for you to create your own materials such as rubrics, worksheets, and quizzes. Learner.org - Annenberg/CPB uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. It funds and distributes educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. Annenberg/CPB's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. Annenberg/CPB video programs are streamed on demand on the Learner.org Web site. MarcoPolo - A partnership of seven educational organizations that offers lesson plans, links to top web sites, search engines that help find needed information quickly, and supplemental resources covering geography, science, the arts, economics, the humanities, and mathematics. Teachers Hub - Online K-12 teaching resources center Teachers.net - Welcome To The Lesson Bank! The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson. Features teaching ideas and lesson plans. ThinkQuest : Library - A collection of educational websites created by students through ThinkQuest competitions and programs. TrackStar - Starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. The WebQuests Page - For list of WebQuests that have been evaluated and found to have a number of good features checkout "Matrix of Examples: Middling". Webquest is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web.
EDSITEment - Valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. Integrate online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom. Access lesson plans along with teaching goals, skills, and suggested activities and web sites. EDSITEment is an educational partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Trust for Humanities and the Marco Polo Foundation. National Gallery of Art - Teaching Resources: Loan Programs - Over 120 teaching resources are loaned free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals. Programs are designed to meet national standards in the visual arts. Search the catalogue subject area such as and Asian Art, Baroque and Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, Sculpture, Techniques and Elements and presentation formats such as Slide Teaching Programs, videodiscs, videocassettes, multimedia and PDFs. Voice of the Shuttle - A directory of annotated "links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet," including disciplines that "interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media." Searchable; and browsable by discipline, and resource (including teaching resources, libraries and museums, and reference). From Alan Liu at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kathy Schrock's Home Page: Readability Formulas - Find out how to use the Fry Readability Graph and other tools for determining the reading level of a book or other piece of writing. The National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) - The following sites from the World Wide Web have been collected and annotated by the staff at The National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE). They contain information related to the teaching of English language learners. OWL Online Writing Lab ESL Resources - Resource pages, handouts and exercises from the OWL at Purdue University. ReadWriteThink - A partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. Offers access to resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content including lesson plans and web resources. Resources for Mainstream Teachers of English Language Learners - This Resource Guide Online provided by ERIC's Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics offers links to articles, digests, books, Web sites, and ERIC documents that offer information on the teaching of English language learners in mainstream classes.
Media Awareness Network: For Teachers - One of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. Includes lesson in media such as "Deconstructing Hate Sites" The New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan - Active Reading: Learning to Think Like Fact Checkers - In this lesson, students write encyclopedia articles focusing on topics in American history. They practice fact checking, assess their own ability to read actively and skeptically, and write memos that educate others on how to do so. Online Activities Promoting Information Literacy - Activities cover everything from information seeking and evaluation to ethics and rubrics. They focus learners on the process skills recommended by the American Association of School Librarians, the International Society of Technology Educators, and the American Association of College and Research Libraries. Planting the Seeds of Change: Infusing Information Literacy Skills - Teaches media specialists ways to include information skills across the curriculum. 21st Century Literacies - refer to the skills needed to flourish in today's society and in the future. Today discrete disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies.The tools presented here are intended to help teachers incorporate 21st century literacy skills into their teaching techniques. They are based on a 21st Century Literacies Framework and seek to promote the skills, knowledge and attitudes to help students develop effective lifelong literacy awareness, seeking, management and presentation strategies.
Access Science - Access Excellence is a national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. Chemistry Teaching Resources - With this Web site, Umea University attempts to present a comprehensive list of chemistry teaching resources on the Internet. ExploreLearning - Teaching resource that includes multimedia interactive activities that support math, science and Language Arts. goENC.com - A subscription K-12 math and science teacher center that includes thousands of lesson plans and activities, Web links, curricular resources, professional development information, educational articles and more. Through Cushing's subscription, Cushing teachers are eligible to set up individual accounts. Instructional Materials in Science Education - North Carolina State University maintains the IMSE.net site, providing resource links for science teachers. The Math Forum - Provides resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world. NASA Education Program - Maintains education services in the areas of aerospace technology, biological and physical research, Earth science, human exploration and development of space, and space science. NOVA - The online companion to the NOVA documentary series on PBS. NOVA offers science and nature resources including Web resources, teacher's guides, and advanced television schedule information. Also, veiw video clips or a selection of entire NOVA programs online. PBS - TeachersSource - Access to over 4,000 free lesson plans and activities in Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Physical Science Resource Center - PSRC is a project of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) with financial support from the Campaign for Physics. PSRC provides teacher resources for the entire spectrum of learners. PhysicsWeb - One of the largest collections of physics related links, from the Institute of Physics. The Science Page - If you're hooked on science, you will enjoy these science and science education sites. "The Science Page is home to the Internet's largest collection of science analogies." Scientific American - ScientificAmerican.com: Focus on the future of science and technology today! Online companion to the magazine Scientific American, bringing readers insights about developments in science and technology. Teachers'Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development - Teachers' Domain offers classroom-ready multimedia life science resources, lesson plans and professional development resources. Teachers' Domain is produced by WGBH, with major funding from the National Science Foundation.
American Memory - American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Also is a rich source of information for lesson plans, student research activities and professional development. The Learning Page - Designed to help educators use the Library of Congress American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum. NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Check out The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Digital Classroom. Discover document-based lesson plans, student research activities & professional development opportunities, and more.. Quia - Provides online vocabulary practice. "Where learning takes you." RubiStar - A free tool to help teachers make quality rubrics. Xpeditions - Home to the U.S. National Geography Standards, Xpeditions, offers online access to interactive maps of the U.S - lesson plans, activities and interactive learning tools. |
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