Websites for Educators (not in any particular order)
Cathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/)
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators provides an easy-to-use, subject-based list of sites on the Internet that can be used to enhance both classroom activities and professional growth. There are a lot of very nice websites collected here, as well as useful "slide shows" for teachers about using the web. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Digital Educators' Network (http://www.actden.com/)
Kiko's Digital Educators' Network is a unique community where cutting edge educators share and leverage their best ideas.
Microsoft Lesson Connection (http://www.k12.msn.com/)
Looking for lessons online? Check out Microsoft Lesson Connection Search.
Children's Picture Book Data Base (http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/)
A place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects. This site offers abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books; search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book; weblinks for keywords so you can integrate your up-to-date content knowledge with our picture book resources.
IMSA's Center for Problem-based Learning (http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/)
Learn about problem-based learning at the Illinois Math and Science academy's site.
TeachNet (http://www.teachnet.com/)
Lesson plans and resources for teachers.
Teach-ology (http://www.teach-nology.com/)
Provides links to web sites for educators including lesson plans, games, rubrics, and worksheets.
NY Times Learning Network Gr 3-12 (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/)
Free news and education resource for teachers, their students and parents. Includes lesson plans, vocabulary and geography builders, News Quiz, On this Day in History, and forums.
Big Chalk (http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/db/Home.html)
Bigchalk.com provides a broad spectrum of educational Internet services to teachers, students, parents, librarians and school administrators in the K-12 educational and public library markets.
PBS TeacherSource (http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/)
This PBS site makes it easy to locate and use the best television and Web resources available, including hundreds of ready-to-use lesson plans.
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/)
BBC site offers interactive learning resources for children at home and at school.
Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/)
Organizes reviewed resources for teachers, students, parents, and librarians.
Copernicus Education Gateway (http://www.edgate.com/)
Curriculum resources, online tools for teachers, reference materials for students, and more.
Rubistar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/)
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
Rubrics (http://www.expage.com/rubric)
Links to rubrics, assessments and exemplars.
CYBERBEE (http://www.cyberbee.com/)
Curriculum ideas, research tools, how-to's, web links and more.
Creating Web-based Lessons (http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/)
This page is designed to model how productivity tools and Internet-based research can fit into the information problem-solving process.
Integrating the 'Net into the Elementary Classroom (http://www.4forefront.com/elementary.html)
Lesson plans and links for the six levels of Internet use in the classroom.
The Invention Dimension (http://web.mit.edu/invent/)
The place for fun information about inventors, innovation at MIT, updates on the search for America's leading inventors, invention related links and resources.
Education Planet (http://www.educationplanet.com/)
An education search engine.
Primary Source Documents & Document Based Questions (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html)
A great site to find primary documents and tips on how to write Document Based Questions.
Virtual Fieldtrips (http://www.field-guides.com/)
Take or create a virtual field trip with your class Annotated field trips take students to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. Also listed are additional teacher's resources for each of the trips.
Schoolnotes.com (http://www.Schoolnotes.com/)
Post your homework here where your absent students can find it!
The History Channel (http://www.historychannel.com/)
Surf through time, listen to great speeches, witness this day in History, TV schedules, lessons and more!
International Society of Technology Education (http://www.iste.org/)
Teachers helping teachers use technology in the classroom.
Exworthy Educational Links (http://home.socal.rr.com/exworthy/)
If you can't find what your looking for on this site, it's not out there!
Education World (http://www.educationworld.com/)
A great resource for educators!
Tech Learning (http://www.techlearning.com/)
Technology and Learning Network provides you with articles, web sites, resources and more.
George Lucas Foundation (http://www.glef.org/index.html)
Documents exciting, innovative classrooms.
American Memory (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/)
This Library of Congress site 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.
How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)
Offers thousands of topics explained in a way that keeps students interested as well as resources for teachers.
How Stuff Works:free stuff for teachers (http://www.howstuffworks.com/teacher-info.htm)
Resources for teachers.
Discovery.com (http://www.discovery.com/)
Gateway to Discovery School, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and more.
Brainpop (http://www.brainpop.com/)
Movies, worksheets and experiments for students…mostly science, technology, and health but others being added.
Marco Polo (http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/
Provides standards-based content in a variety of disciplines; includes links, lesson plans, and teacher training materials.
Schoolnet (http://k12.school.net/)
Links to resources, schools, and information for parents, teachers, and kids.
4Teachers (http://www.4teachers.org/)
Online curriculum development tools, professional development resources, and more.
National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
Follow links to great resources.
The Information Age Classroom (http://angelfire.com/ny/lieez/pacbell.html)
An Internet Hotlist of Links for Educators.
Classroom Management on Athena (http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu:8001/project/teacher/manage/index.html)
Classroom Delivery Models--one computer, four computer, and lab.
Blue Web'n (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/)
Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners.
ThinkQuest (http://www.thinkquest.org/)
ThinkQuest is a non profit organization which offers programs designed to advance education through the use of technology. Library of web based learning materials.
MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com/
The Internet's most popular source for maps and driving directions.
NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/)AND NASA FOR KIDS (http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html)
National Aeronautics and Space agency sites.
NOVA (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/)
NOVA is produced for PBS by the Science Unit at WGBH Boston.
Classroom Connect (http://www.classroomconnect.com)
Resources for Teachers (free and subscription).
Global Schoolhouse (http://www.gsn.org)
Global SchoolNet is the leader in collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.
Sites for Teachers (http://www.sitesforteachers.com)
Sitesforteachers.com is a list of the best teacher's resource and educational sites on the net. Sites are ranked by popularity.
Reference Desk (http://www.refdesk.com/indxsrch.html)
Reference Desk's index of search engines.
The Gateway.org (http://thegateway.org)
One-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!
Pacific Bell's Filamentality http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities.
Primary Sources http://www.geocities.com/mhs_lee/prim_sources/
A comprehensive list of primary source material prepared by Gorman Lee of Medford Public Schools.
