Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org
The Educator's Reference Desk brings you 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com
Numerous Resources for Teachers!
EduHound.com
http://www.eduhound.com
If you are looking for a HUGE list of web sites for teaching and an excellent FREE subscription to a technology magazine for educators, this is the place!
FirstGov.gov
http://firstgov.com
Links to all government web sites!
Google
http://www.google.com/
The number one search engine!
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
Resources for one of the most important activities that teachers can do with children: critical evaluation of web sites.
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Some of the web's best links and activities for both students and teachers.
SearchengineWatch.com
http://searchenginewatch.com
Everything you wanted to know about searching and search engines!
US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
Many excellent resources!
LessonPlanz.com
http://www.lessonplanz.com/
Lesson Plans Search
http://www.lessonplansearch.com
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/students/index.shtml
National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers
http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/
PBS Online'sTeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
TeachNet
http://www.teachnet.com
What are Webquests?
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech011.shtml
What is your classroom management profile?
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v1i2/what.html
Harry Wong
http://www.harrywong.com
What is your teaching effectiveness?
http://www.harrywong.com/quiz/index.htm
Classroom Management Links from the University of New Orleans
http://ss.uno.edu/SS/homePages/CManage.html
Education World's Class Management Web Site
http://www.education-world.com/preservice/learning/management.shtml
Harvey A. Andruss Library
http://www.bloomu.edu/library/
The Center for Educational Reform
http://edreform.com/
National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/
Teachersplanet.com Job Center
http://teachersplanet.com/jobcenter/jobhunt.shtml
Teaching-jobs.org
http://www.teaching-jobs.org/index.htm
Pa-educator.net
http://www.pa-educator.net/
Pennsylvania Department of Education
http://www.teaching.state.pa.us/teaching/site/default.asp
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
http://www.nbpts.org
Resources for Building a Unit
http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes
NEA
http://www.nea.org
WWW for Teachers
http://4teachers.org
You will see a list of 11 web tools for teachers on the right side of the page.
Online tools for Teachers
http://www.lite.iwarp.com/utiltools.htm
Teachology Web Tools
http://teach-nology.com/web_tools/
Scroll down to "Printable Page Builders"
Awesome Library Library Lesson Plans
http://www.awesomelibrary.org
Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons
DiscoverySchool.com Lesson Plans Library
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/index.html
LessonPlanz.com
http://www.lessonplanz.com/
Lesson Plans Search
http://www.lessonplansearch.com
Marco Polo
http://marcopolo.worldcom.com
PBS Online'sTeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
TeachNet
http://www.teachnet.com
The Gateway
http://www.thegateway.org
The Teacher's Corner Lesson Plan and Unit Resources
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
A to Z Teacher Stuff Theme Pages for Units
http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes
http://wikipedia.org/
The encyclopedia in ten different languages
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm
This site has links to tons of places where you can go to find just about anything you'd want or need for your classroom. They've done a fine job in collecting links for teachers. Check out the daily dose of the web.
http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html
What is unique about the number 1? How about the number 2? Or 15, or 26, or. . . You get the idea. This site tells you what's unique about most of the numbers between 0 and 9999. I'll bet math teachers can have some fun with this site. Did you know that the number 9973, for example, is the largest 4 digit prime number? Or the number 9841 is 111111111 in base 3. There is a bit of trivia that will separate you from the masses!
http://www.msu.edu/~reethskr/myweb/gwq/cover_page.htm
With all the attention on the CSI TV series nowadays many teachers have wished for a science course, or a math course that would be delivered in that same fashion. Solve the crime using what you've learned. Well, here is a webquest that tries to do that very thing. Does it give you any ideas?
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp
Not for the younger crowd, for sure, but this site ought to spark some sort of discussions with the older students. For example: Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. Now, let's take a few minutes to count our blessings.
http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tutorials.shtml
Photoshop is a heavy duty photo editing application used by professionals around the planet. It does it all. The trouble is it's got a major learning curve to it. This site offers some very nice tutorials on how to use some of the many tools to do some very practical things. If you don't have Photoshop get this FREE, Open Source version instead. http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
It's a great site for English teachers.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
There are lots of things to do with the younger students.
http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/index.html#index
This website lists and explains just about every idea generation method. The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organizational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts.
http://playkidsgames.com/
Games in Math, alphabet, vocabulary, memory, and geography. Even addition Pinball!
http://www.funsci.com/texts/index_en.htm
What a cool place this is to find activities that you can do with your classes. Make your own paper, build a toy cable car, and so much more. If you teach science then stop in here for a look.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Sitesforteachers.com contains only links to sites that contain teacher's resource and educational material and the sites are ranked by popularity. No more surfing countless pages to find the occasional "good" site. Also, sitesforteachers.com doesn't just allow any site on the list. Sitesforteachers.com has strict rules for the listed webmasters.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/welcome.shtml
Provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans/classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and provides an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is an online library of 2008 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions!
h ttp://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html
Education Index is an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by Education Index | Subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about us, and about all that the Education Index has to offer.
http://www.hoadworks.com/stampede.htm
Can you doggedly ferret out the answers to these verbs? Fun activity for kids. See how well you do on these first few questions. Each answer is an animal (bird or fish, too)The number at the end refers to the number of letters in the answer.
1. to score two under-par on a golf hole [5]
2. to outwit by cunning [3]
3. complain [6]
4. to defraud by cheating or swindling [4]
5. to strike with great force; move quickly [3]
http://refdesk.com
When all else fails . . . resort to the reference desk!!
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm
Free online games to learn the Periodic tables, or geography, vocabulary, or trivia. Looks like fun - and if you don't tell your students, they just might learn something, too!
http://webcollaborator.com/
This website creates a new free and easy way to collaborate. Before Web Collaborator, to collaborate on a project meant passing papers back and forth, hours of painstaking corrections, hundreds of wasted pieces of paper, headaches, and plenty of coffee. Web Collaborator coordinates collaborations automatically, keeping backups of every revision ever made to the project, letting you see who made the changes, and allowing you to focus on the work instead of managing the work. Better yet, it is absolutely free for all uses.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/264/noreal/
The World is Flat! So says Thomas L Friedman, the author of the book by the same title - a #1 book on the NYT Best Sellers List. This is a video stream of his speech. Why is the world flat? In short, "The global economic playing field is being leveled." My advice to you is to start this video sometime when you're going to be online for a while, and let it run in the background and listen. This is something that high school students should hear, too. This is THEIR world and I'll just bet this will enlighten them like NO OTHER speech they've heard to date.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
The journey of mankind, from the Bradshaw Foundation. Follow this animated migration of modern man over the last 160,000 years. (And you thought it was tough retracing your steps of yesterday. The map will show for the first time the interaction of migration and climate over this period. Fascinating!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/index.html
At the Microscope Imaging Station facility, museum visitors can use microscopes and other precision instrumentation to observe the activities of living cells and organisms. When you check out the gallery be sure to watch for the Video button under the pictures. Watch cells divide, or the immune system fight off a virus, etc.
http://www.nec-design.co.jp/showcase/#gumi
Want to know what some computer designers are conjuring up for the future? Check this site out. There are other areas at the top of that page, as well.
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
This is just a site with some very cool technology. It creates a map of the news. Larger blocks are bigger stories. The color differences reflect the "newness" of the item. Want to see the news from other countries, as well - or instead of US? Click the check boxes at the top. Don't want to see, say, the Business news included? Remove the check from the boxes at the bottom.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/index.html
An excellent site to read and learn about the ancient Egyptian culture. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/intouch/10studentsites.mspx A well written page for teachers. Ten homework helpers link is useful. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/yip05/dw.asp?nStartOn=1 Make sure you see the tabs at the top, as well. Perhaps a good writing prompt for your students?
http://www.rollingrs.com/
Get Spanish lessons as podcasts! Very cool.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/listen
There you can listen to three different speeches--Dr King's "I Had A Dream", another by President Kennedy, and a third by President Johnson.
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html
Remember cliff notes? There are several places online where you (or the kids) can find the electronic version of cliff notes - which is worse since now all they have to do is copy and paste. They don't even have to read the notes anymore, either! Well, here's another one that you may want to be aware of. And here's another one (oldie but goodie) that has undergone some big changes of late: http://www.sparknotes.com/
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/index.html
When you check out the gallery be sure to watch for the Video button under the pictures. Watch cells divide, or the immune system fight off a virus, etc. Fascinating.
FYI:
Some of these sites were taken from a “tips” blog http://tipline.blogspot.com/ This blog is authored by Jim Gates, an instructional technology trainer with the Capital Area Intermediate Unit. You can find an archive of these tips dating back to May at this blog. |