Features quick indexes to online lesson plans and other Teacher resources.
ALFY is a free educational site geared toward early elementary students, teachers, and parents. ALFY is unique in its kid-centric design. Even pre-readers are able to navigate the site through the use of colorful graphics. With this pictorial format, students can also find their way to thousands of exciting kid-friendly links, all hand-selected by a team of educators to ensure that they are safe, appropriate, and appealing for children. It's also a terrific resource for teachers, with lesson plan ideas and theme based activities
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.
Cable networks, such as CNN, Discovery, A&E, and Nickelodeon, set aside a portion of their on-air schedule to air commercial-free programming on subjects as varied as science, art history, math, literature, and world events. Some of the programming is created specifically for a network's Cable in the Classroom offering (i.e. CNN's daily half hour CNN Newsroom/WorldView program), while other networks, such as A&E, often reformat documentaries or other programs from their regular schedule into "teacher-friendly" modules. All of the programs are copyright cleared so schools can build their own video libraries.
Tons of great stuff for early childhood education! Their "Theme" section is packed with crafts, activities and coloring pages! Good information for parents as well.
Curriculum Ideas, Research Tools, How Tos,Treasure Hunts, Web Links,CyberBee Articles, Conference Notes and "Send a Postcard!"
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Apple Computer, and AT&T have joined forces on an exciting project designed to promote accomplished teaching with technology. The Digital Edge Learning Interchange is an online library featuring National Board Certified Teachers in exhibits of exemplary teaching. Each exhibit includes an introduction, lesson plan, video clips, student work samples, assessment tools, resources, research, and teacher reflection. The lessons focus on using technology with students in a wide range of subject areas and grade levels. All exhibits include correlation to the National Board Standards and ISTE's NETS (National Educational Technology Standards), as well as to state and content area standards. These teacher-created exhibits are intended to stimulate conversation and learning in the educational community about various instructional strategies, multiple approaches to meeting standards, and ways to use technology effectively in the classroom.
Great companion site for using Discovery Channel programming in your classroom. Includes lesson plans and tools for teachers.
edHelper.com is dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources. edHelper was created by a team of teachers who have edhelped (!) in its development. At the site you will find links to lesson plans, WebQuests, the latest education headlines and business news, and tools that help you build word finds and crosswords.
EduHound.com, "For Everything Education K-12," is an excellent resource for educators, students, and families. During this time when integration of technology and the Internet has become a priority issue in education, the need for easy, safe, and accessible educational resources has never been greater. Our objective is to make the Internet a "user-friendly" place for the K-12 community worldwide. The EduHound.com directory provides a prescreened database directory of K-12 Educational Links categorized by subject, alphabetically from a list of clickable keywords, and additionally providing numerous link pages to selected pertinent resource areas.
Welcome teachers, parents, students, and life-long learners of all ages! This website is for you. Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson have designed this website to share a love of learning with others. As authors and educators, they work with teachers, parents, and children around the world to effectively integrate technology into teaching and learning environments. The eduScapes website was started in August, 1998.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation dedicated to promoting a vision of inspired learning and teaching -- where students are challenged and engaged, have access to interactive technologies, and are supported by inspired teachers and involved parents and communities.
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) is funded through a contract with the U. S. Department of Education to provide K-12 teachers with a central source of information on mathematics and science curriculum materials. ENC was established in 1992 at The Ohio State University and is located in Columbus, Ohio.
On April 18, 1997, President Clinton asked Federal agencies to determine what "resources you can make available that would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning." In response, more than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported education resources available at this web site.
Topics include: General Resources on Integration, Scavenger Hunts, Travel Buddies, Email, News Online, and Theme Pages for Research.
You can search by subject area and grade level - a great resource for finding Lesson Plans and other materials.
The High School Hub is a noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features a reference desk, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, science, global languages, arts, and technology.
Early childhood education and activity resources.
Great educational resources for educators. Usernames and passwords for home access to INFOhio's Electronic Resources have been distributed to each Ohio public and private school. Students and teachers should ask their library media specialist or technology director for a copy to take home. Many schools post this information in each library, classroom, and computer lab. There is no charge to Ohio students and teachers to use any INFOhio Electronic Resource at school or home. Educators who need up-to-date copies of their INFOhio usernames and passwords should contact their region's DASite provider. (Resource vendors change usernames and passwords from time to time.)
Lots of great links. Topics include: Resources for K-12 Teachers; Tools for Statistical Analysis; Links to Vendors and Product Homepages; Links to Evaluations and Reviews; Tools for Building Online Materials and Collaboration and Problem-based Learning.
Games, crafts, and activities. Includes a section for grown-ups with resources for math, science and more.
Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers’Ķ this is the place for lesson plans, worksheets, activities and more. All resources are downloadable and printable. The curriculum is written and designed for preschool, kindergarten, first, second,and third grade students.
Search or browse over 3500 lesson plans to find the teaching resources you need! Includes "Themes" and "Seasonal" categories.
Containing over 10,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet, The Library in the Sky guides teachers, students, parents, librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace.
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, and classroom activities. Sites include materials to help with daily classroom planning, brief and extended lesson plans, and reviewed and expert-approved links to related high-quality sites
Online Learning represents an exciting new way to structure and guide student research efforts so they will focus upon higher level thinking and rich electronic resources along with good print resources like books and live data from sources such as interviews. Research modules can be an effective way of addressing the most challenging new state standards. This Module Maker will show you how to build your own Online Research Modules that will challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking.
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.
The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science and Reading (ORC), a project of the State University Education Deans, has been funded by the Ohio General Assembly and established by the Ohio Board of Regents to: identify and disseminate effective instructional and professional development resources and best practices to schools, school districts and higher education; support sustained professional development for teachers and administrators in the effective adoption of best practices and teaching resources; and foster an integrated educational research and development capacity for Ohio through collaboration with colleges and universities involved in teacher preparation.
On the Instructional Management System (IMS), members of Ohio’Äôs educational community can find the information and tools needed to plan and implement standards-based education. You can search for model lessons and assessments by grade level, subject area or by specific standard.
The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
Here you'll find games, stories, music and coloring from PBS Kids. Also there are links to all your favorite programs from Barney to Teletubbies. Links are also provided for supplemental educational materials for parents and teachers.
Click on any of the links in the "Shared Activities" section to find practice activities for students in many categories....
Kids Hub is an online interactive learning center that features free spelling activities, educational games, puzzles, and quizzes.
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
Click on the link to "Teachers" to find online activities, lesson plans and other free tools for your classroom!
SOARWEB (State of Ohio Alliance Resource Web) is a place where you can create multimedia presentations in minutes using images, sounds, and movies available in SOARWEB and from other digital sources.
TeacherVision is created by teachers for teachers. Their goal is to provide you with lesson plans, resources, and materials that make your professional life easier.
TEAMS promotes excellence in education for students, teachers, and parents through improved instructional practices via distributed learning technologies. The TEAMS Online goals are based on the belief that technology can assist in developing crucial skills for preparing children for living and working in the 21st century. To this end, TEAMS is committed to providing links to the best k-12 educational resources on the Web for use by all educators, parents, and students.
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
hy start with a search engine, when you can find a pathfinder to fit your needs at 42eXplore? When learning something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to eXplore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic. Topic areas include Math, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Helath and Fitness and many others.
Dr. Vicki F. Sharp and Dr. Richard M. Sharp, Professors of Elementary Education at California State University, Northridge, have collected sites and curriculum resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms. These sites, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.
These are Internet projects and activities developed by our staff and students at Loogootee Elementary West. Visit our pages and see how we are integrating the Internet with our classroom curriculum!
You'll need to register and get a screen name to log in, but it's well worth the effort!