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• The National Archives

• TRIP: Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning

• Music - Educational resources
• National Children's Folksong Repository
• Create Your Own Hotlists! - Create a hyperlinked hotlist for a topic of your choice or browse or search hotlists created by other teachers.
• Jerrie's Curriculum Hotlists - Cheek is an instructional technology specialist for the ETTC at Kennesaw State University, which serves the 31,000 educators in the Atlanta metropolitan region. Recommended by Education World!
• Ten Cool Sites - The Exploratorium, San Francisco's interactive science museum, offers a monthly hotlist of exciting online resources. Be sure to check out the archived lists using the menu at the left.
• Resource Shelf
• The Classroom - Here is a lengthy hotlist with resources for primary-age students.
• The Franklin Institute Online: Educational Hotlists - This collection of links leads to a wide variety of interesting and useful Web sites gathered from all over the Internet. Many are helpful for homework assignments and research for course-work projects.
• The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

·         Southern Oregon Educational Service District

·         Education Statistics - Why go anywhere else? Your search for National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and US Department of Education (K-12) resources should begin and end here.

·         Ikeepbookmarks - great site for first and second grade teachers

·         I Love Teaching

·         Designs for Learning

·         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.

·         CyberBees

·         Mrs. Carters Second Grade

·         A Social Studies and Language Arts Activity - Primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past.  By looking closely for details, students can draw conclusions about the items and formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created. Further research, using secondary sources, will either confirm or challenge their ideas.

·         The Integration of Technology Across the Middle School Curriculum

·         Bembo's Zoo

·         Postcard Geography - a project that entails students exchanging postcards with other classrooms. Through what is now lovingly referred to as snail mail, these postcards allow cultural exchanges, polish writing and mapping skills. Registration runs from August 15 to September 14, 2001, with mailings happening September 17 until February 15.

·         Teaching With the Web

·         Internet Learning Network (ILN) - How are your students doing in math and science compared to their global peers? This colorful, interactive destination features free assessment tests and learning links designed to boost student achievement and promote lifelong learning. Unique sections for elementary, middle school and high school are provided.

·         Learning Page - Sites For Teachers

·         Problem Solving Links to resources

·         Bell South Education Site

·         HTML for Kids - Looking for a fun approach to learning how to make your very own Web pages with HTML (HyperText Markup Language)? Let Lissa help! She was just 11 when she wrote her first tutorial, and her amazing site has grown to include everything from how to use the most basic tags to harnessing the power of Javascript and CSS.

·         Classroom Connect - new email club (listserv) especially for K-2 educators who are interested in sharing ideas, successes and strategies. 

·         Blue W'bn A Library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web---a searchable database of online learning applications, includes annotated links to over 600 online learning applications categorized by audience, content area, and type

·         ED's Oasis - What teachers have been looking for. A comprehensive instructional resource.

·         PBS TeacherSource - One of the most comprehensive Web sites ever created for preK-12 educators - Integrating curriculum, professional development and community resources.

·         Teachers Net - Teacher Chat, Forums, News, and Resources

·         Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - List of resources arranged by discipline

·         Education Gateway - BellSouth

·         wNet School

·         COMCAST Online Schoolyard

·         Teachers@random

·         Education World - Education search engine, plus more than 50,000 links to education-related sites

·         LETS net - Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students through the InterNet (LETSNet) project home page at Michigan State University College of Education. This website is dedicated to helping teachers experience the potential value of the World Wide Web (Web) in the classroom by providing actual examples of real teachers who are using the Internet today.

·         Tapped in a Web site for K-12 teacher professional development providers, schools, teachers, and researchers, offers opportunities to explore these issues through online conferences and more.

• Teacher Tidbytes
• Getting Started with Digital Portfolios - Visit this site for information on using digital portfolios in your classroom.
• Online Portfolios - Cathleen Chamberlain takes the idea of electronic portfolios a step further by posting them online where families can easily access student work from anywhere on the Internet.
• Electronic Portfolios At-a-Glance Guides - These guides explain how to use common software tools to create electronic portfolios.
• Portfolio Assessment - Find out how portfolios allow you to document the "thinking" behind program objectives.
• Electronic Portfolios - Find out what you should include in an electronic portfolio and how to create and assess one. You can also view examples and resources.
• Digital Portfolios - Learn the purpose of student portfolios. Follow a template to select work samples to appear in the portfolios.
• NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning - What kinds of activities do you use to help students learn? The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers a profile tool to measure your visions of learning. Click the "Graph My Responses" button to create a graph representing your answers.
• Indicators of Engaged Learning - What are the optimal criteria for student and teacher roles in the learning process?
• Engaged Learning Home Page - The Leadership Institute Integrating Internet, Instruction, and Curriculum presents a learning sequence that first asks you to examine and identify effective aspects of a project. Next, you'll review examples of past projects that use engaged learning standards. Then you'll create a project proposal as well as develop a student task and assessment.
• Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students - "Schools that capitalize on the relationship between technology and education reform will help students to develop higher order skills and to function effectively in the world beyond the classroom."
• Engaging the Learner - Complete a module on engaged learning strategies that use interactive whiteboards.
• Best WebQuests.com - Use Tom March's content matrix to select WebQuests for early to adult learners.
• A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests - This page will help you to evaluate the effectiveness of your own WebQuest.
• The WebQuest Page - Explore the details of successful WebQuests. Bernie Dodge has compiled articles, templates, and training materials. Be sure to link to WebQuestNews for current views of this learning model from around the world.
• WebQuests for Kids - Kathi Mitchell has compiled a useful selection of links to Social Studies and Science WebQuests.
• SESCD WebQuests: Math - A school division from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, had organized a list of math WebQuests for elementary through high school students.
• Vocabulary University - Vocabulary University provides interactive vocabulary exercises including graphic word puzzles and games. Use these puzzles to enrich your language arts curriculum.
• Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - Play hangman, the match game, or take a quiz.
• Vocabulary Web Games - Students can increase their SAT/GRE vocabulary skills. Each quiz is a random selection of 20 words from the 720 most commonly tested words. Play an unlimited number of times. In addition, study computer or medical terminology.
• Fake Out! - Choose a word from one of three grade levels and guess its definition. Or create and send a fake definition and see if someone chooses it.
• Building a Better Vocabulary - Webster's Dictionary provides tips and quizzes to help students learn and use new vocabulary.
• NCTM Illuminations - The Illuminations Web site was developed by NCTM to help educators implement the NCTM Standards. Browse the site for lesson plans, classroom videos, and a wide range of tools and resources.
• Math Explorations - This site is for serious math hobbyists only! If you or your star pupil hungers for some really challenging math problems, this extensive collection is a valuable resource.
• Math.com - This site has organized online math resources for students, teachers, and parents. Find links to homework help, free math lessons, family math projects, and solutions for everyday math problems. Review Basic Math, Geometry, Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry, and Statistics.
• Math Problems & Puzzles - The Math Forum scouts sites to make it easy for teachers to find the resources available for their own purposes. This site contains a large collection of links to puzzles and problems.
• Real-World Math & Science - This site from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a good starting point for exploring Internet projects and other resources that bring the real-world into the classroom.
• Other Math Resources - Math Web Resources1,  Math Web Resources 2 (Elementary and Middle School),  Math Web Resources 3 (advanced Math), 

·         Curry Educational Resources

·         eSchool News.com

·         ENMU Tech/Web Examples - K-12

·         Teachers Net

·         The United Nations Cyber Schoolbus

·         Education Index - An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web, sorted by subject and lifestage.

·         Community Learning Network - A well organized resource site for teachers designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms-more than 3,100 links to educational WWW sites

·         U.S. Department of Education On-Line Educational Resources

·         Classroom CONNECT - One of the best sources for the classroom and teacher

·         techlearning.com Serving educators with ideas, tools, and resources for integrating technology into the K-12 school, classroom and curriculum.

·         Hot Internet Sites en Espanol! - Created by educator Beth Bustamante with Filamentality, this hotlist includes elementary, secondary, and teacher resource links.  Grade Level:  Elementary, Middle School, High School   Content Area(s):  Foreign Language (Spanish)  

·         The Internet Education Resource Center  IERC

·         Computer Curriculum Corporation

·         Teachers Edition Online - Links to numerous educational recourses

·         Educational Hotlists - Franklin Institute

·         Global Schoolhouse - Microsoft's education resources

·         Coquitlam School District- K-12 LIBRARY RESOURCES

·         ZUZU'S PETALS LITERARY RESOURCE - Links for creative kids, teachers, publishers, writers, artists, grant applicants, researchers, book lovers, performers, ESL teachers...

·         Vose School Education Resources Page

·         TeachNet--  is the one-stop World Wide Web site for teachers

·         ABCentral - E.J. Inglis-Arkel has, perhaps, the most extensive list of educational sites on the net.

·         ECB Surf Report - Wisconsin Educational Communications Board-How can you and your students get the most out of your time on the Internet-each month a topic or curriculum area is featured with a list well-chosen sites helpful for reference, research or teaching.

·         The School Page - The Educator's Resource - with links to all curriculum areas and lesson plans

·         The ERIC Review - contains journal articles concerning current educational issues.

·         Education World - Archive of the best educational sites on the WWW

·         Virtual Schoolhouse - A Meta-Library of K-12 Internet Links

·         Web Sites and Resources for Teachers

·         Connections+

·         TENET Web - Technology resources as big as Texas

·         Carrie's Sites for Educators

·         Kent State University Teacher Resources

·         Los Angeles County/TEAMS

·         Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments - This peer-reviewed resource for college-level writing teachers, researchers and tutors (Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature) deals with the challenges of writing in hypertextual environments.

·         Hearing, Seeing, and Smelling the World - results of current biomedical research available to readers who are not scientists.

·         The School Page 

·         Westfield High School Library: Cyberspace Branch

·         American Mathematical Society

·         MidLink Magazine  - The Electronic Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades

·         EE-Link, Environmental Education on the Internet

·         Math Resources - Math Teachers

·         Chemistry Teacher Resources

·         Space Shuttle Program

·         Southern Growth Policies Board -- Southern Technology Council

·         Ideas And Activities For Teaching Science

·         Cornell Theory Center Arts & Social Sciences Gateway

·         Resources For Teaching Science

·         Space And Astronomy Resources

·         African-American history into your classroom

·         Major Science Education Organizations

·         Classroom Management - Discipline

·         How to Create a Behavior Contract

·         Enchanted Learning

·         Scholastic Online

·         PBS Teacher Source

·         Education Planet - the education web guide

·         Games for Classroom Fun!

·         Collaborative Internet projects 

·         Middle School Links 

·         Tammy's Tidbits  links to resources, freebies, and calendars, etc.

·         Short Circuits - Schrockguide Newsletter

·         About.com Guide for Elementary School Educators

·         Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Mister Rogers' Web site includes articles for parents, activities for kids, and a booklist of stories that correlate with the television program's themes. A "sing-a-long" section provides lyrics for the songs on the television show. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"    

·         Scholastic's Teachers Resources - K-8 teaching resource

·         Project Primary -Activities in Botany, Chemistry, Children s Literature, Geology, Physics, and Zoology, are simply explained and designed to engage children's curiosity and to help them learn.

·         Education Place -- Internet resources for K-8 (Houghton Mifflin)

·         PBS Kids TechKnow - This friendly site has several activities to get kids thinking about how to use the Internet. "Get Your Web License" quizzes kids on web addresses, ethics, and safety issues, and offers feedback along the way and a certificate upon completion of the quiz.

·         Family Fun  Full of quick activities and well-written articles, this site can help keep those active minds and bodies moving in a positive direction. 

·         teachers@random - A web site with curriculum tools and aids for K-8 teachers sponsored by Random House

·         TIME for Kids - This online version of TIME magazine contains news, multimedia, and more. Articles are archived, so teachers can create stable links to curriculum-related, kid-friendly material.  

·         KidsClick:  Worlds of Web Searching  site geared to help teach students how to search the web for the information they need. 

·         Education Planet--the education web guide

·         Education Index an annotated guide to education-related sites on the Web--sorted by subject and life stage

·         Super Kids Educational Software Review  identifies and compares the newest software programs.  

·         eNature  --  National Audubon Society -- access to field  guides for more than 4800 species of plants and animals.  

·         Discovery Channel School Online 

·         FunBrain

·         ED's Oasis - A comprehensive educational resource.

·         Education World

·         A Practical Journal of Multimedia, CD-ROM, Online, and Internet in K-12

·         EDSITEment in the Humanities -   links to Web sites with current, accurate, accessible, and rich information in such core humanities subjects as literature and the language arts, history and social studies, government, and foreign languages.  

·         Assessment Rubrics -  a collection of assessment rubrics   

·         Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology  

·         WEB SITE PROMOTES DISCUSSION BETWEEN EDUCATORS AND MEDIA - This site provides information and promotes discussion between journalists and educators. The service is sponsored by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York. 

·         ERIC Digests. short reports (1000-1500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners

·         Safekids Web - a site to help parents and educators teach children the fundamental rules for safe exploration on the information highway.

·         The Gateway - provides access to  educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial websites including lesson plans, activities, ask-a-services, and projects.

·         Teaching With The Web -  Web based themes and lesson plans

·         National Student Research Center - Mandeville Middle School - information, techniques, and examples for developing student research projects for science fairs, classroom inquiry activities, and publication.

·         Learner Online- Math and science education programs.  A electronic media that shows concrete examples of good teaching and active learning in many different settings.

·         SAFE & DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS,  supports comprehensive community-wide strategies for creating safe & drug-free schools & for promoting healthy childhood development

·         Education with New Technologies

·         Resources for Educators

·         MC2 and NASA invite teachers and students to join in the designing and launching an International Space Station.  

·         Highwired.Net, the world's largest network of online school newspapers

·         Mr. Dowling Virtual Classroom for Middle Schools

·         ASSOCIATION OF UK TEACHERS' WEBSITES (ATW)

·         The Big Six - Big6 is a systematic approach to information problem solving - The website includes lesson plans, curriculum, a directory of schools and districts implementing the Big 6, tools that help to teach the Big 6, and directions for joining the electronic discussion group 

·         Thomas B. Fordham Foundation

·         Relativity: bookmarks

·         Links to Lesson Plans Online

·         COMCAST Schoolyard Online Schoolyard - links to the Arts, Computers, En