Teacher Resources

 A great site with many different lesson plans for teachers.

Alphabet Superhighway   An educational website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, The Alphabet Superhighway, assists students in creating, locating, and communicating information through on-line activities. The Alphabet Superhighway is a resource for teachers, students and parents.

Amazing Picture Machine  From the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium, Amazing Picture Machine offers a searchable index of Internet graphics for your lessons, including literature and science.  The site also includes lesson ideas and search tips.

Annenberg Teacher's Lab: Based upon the popular math and science professional development series, Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites.

AskEric: Most teachers are familiar with Eric, the research tool that is primarily for educators. Besides having a search tool, AskEric also posts lesson plans in its Virtual Library.

Awesome Library: This site provides a list of subject related lesson plans, including arts, science, math, language arts/English and more.

 Bibliography on Evaluating Web Resources Compiled by the Library Instruction Coordinator at VPI, this bibliography, originally created for a panel discussion at a regional conference in Wisconsin, has grown with the increasing number of documents which address the problems and issues related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet resources.

Bonus.com:   Bonus.com is committed to providing teachers a rich selection of kid-appropriate on-line activities designed to supplement standard classroom curriculum.   This colorful and well designed site offers activities and lesson plans.

 Busy Teachers Web Site K-12: Developed by Georgia Tech, this site lives up to its name. Subject category links ranging from chemistry to art makes searching for education related sites easy. There is also a Teachers Reference section which lists current educational topics and additional links.
California Distant Learning Program: While visiting the web pages, you will notice two sections Learning Resources for students and Teachers Resources for teachers. In the Learning Resources section, students will be able to read and hear short stories, answer comprehension questions and check their answers.

Cisco’s Virtual Schoolhouse: The many hypertext links are nicely categorized for ease of use. If you are searching for lesson plans and other resources, click classrooms. They also have The Playground, a place for teachers or students to have a bit of fun!

Classroom Connect: This is another site dedicated to the classroom teacher. Included are links to thousands of online schools, a search engine, and to the K-12 classroom. Searching is by subject category and ranges from Literature to Administration. There is also a virtual auditorium in which teachers may participate in online forums on selected topics. Check out the resource station as well to discover online materials for educators.

Connections +: In addition to links to lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources, this site groups the information together with subject area content standards. Standards are from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education.

Copyright Website:  What is copyrighted and what is free.  Be sure to click on the Internet specific copyright concerns.

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans: E. D. Hirsch, Jr., a professor at the University of Virginia and author of m Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know founded core knowledge.  The lesson plans, labeled for each grade level, ascribe to the core knowledge philosophy.

Discovery Channel School: This redesigned web site is teacher friendly get lesson plans that have questions,   vocabulary, activities, links, and video preview.  Included are theme pages on Ancient Egypt, Astronomy, History of Science, American Revolution, and World in Conflict.

The Dolly & Buster K-4 Resources Page This site, primarily designed for elementary teachers, contains a K-4 teachers page with useful links, and a classroom page that has age-appropriate links.

D & W Teacher Resources:  This site, developed by two teachers, provides lesson plans, education links and advice to the new teacher.

Ed Helper:  The site lists over 1,000 Webquests and 6,200 Lesson Plans.  

Edsitement Site: Sponsored by NEH, this site offers a hotlist to top humanities sites.   It offers online learning guides which include lesson plans that help students, teachers, and parents use the internet effectively.  Lesson plans are in history, social students, English, language arts, foreign language and art history. 

EdsOasis:   Sponsored by the AT & T Learning Network, this site features stories, lesson plans, and other information geared to teachers who use the Internet.

Education Index:  This is an annotated list of the best educational resources available on the web.  The index is easy to use--topics are sorted by subject and lifestage. 

Education Policy Analysis Archives: If you are searching for education research or database, the Education Policy Analysis Archives provides an opportunity to search the archives for the necessary information. Browse abstracts, submit an article or commentary, and conduct searches. Articles are of a good quality, and important educational topics are explored.

Education Testing Service—Education Testing Service provides a list of information on colleges and universities. In addition, test registration for SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEEFL, LSAT are all available. Information on financial aid and test preparation materials are also available.

Education World: Education World has a database of over 20,000 URL’s as well as monthly site reviews of education-specific topics, a message board, a listing of K-12 school sites, as well as subject category listings. You may also subscribe to two e-mail services, one of which will enable you to receive a monthly listing of the site reviews, the other of which enables you to receive bimonthly listings of education news. Two other features of note are a Teacher Resource link to lesson plans and curriculum and a Student Resource link, which provides listings of everything from financial aid to games.

EdUniverse Lesson Plans:edUniverse has nearly 1,000 lesson plans developed by teachers in Intel's ACE (Applying Computers in Education) summer institutes. All do incorporate educational technology; not all incorporate the Internet. There are plans for all grade levels.

EdWeb Home Page: This site includes interactive lessons on using the World Wide Web, Information on creating home pages, history and more, more, more. Created by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, this site has a great group of links to other sites. There are links to an online discussion group that explores the role of the World Wide Web in education as well as links to other education related sites. The site also features an interactive dictionary that provides definitions of net language as well as educational topics, i.e. Charter Schools.

Eisenhower National Clearing House: Nationally recognized, the Eisenhower National Clearing House is a great place for information on Math & Science. Publications, Resources, hot links, lesson plans and discussion groups are available. This is a must-visit site for the math and science educator. It is also a great site to search for ideas on integrating science and math with other subject areas.

EvaluTech:  This site is a searchable data base of curriculum related materials for K-12.  Sponsored by SREB and the North Carolina Department of Instruction, the site offers reviews of software and a Criteria for Evaluation of Resources. 

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: This site offers o a treasure trove of historical documents, scientific experiments, mathematical challenges, famous paintings, and other tools for teachers & students. Thousands of topics can be searched -- the Civil War, the Constitution, photosynthesis, condensation, immigration, Picasso, Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Cassatt, Jackie Robinson, the Amistad Case, the America Reads Challenge, famous FBI cases, cartography, genealogy, the Renaissance, calculus simulations, "today in history," the human genome project, epidemiology, "the African American odyssey," the solar system, the microbe zoo, and others. Resources can also be viewed in 12 subject areas.

Gander Academy's Theme-related Resources  This site is specifically created for the elementary teacher by an elementary teacher. The site starts with a list of 27 general categories of interest to elementary students (Dinosaurs, Legends, Natural Disasters, Weather). This site could save you much time if you are creating your own web resources.

GEM: The Gateway to Educational Resources: GEM is a growing consortium of lesson plan collections on the Net. The site features a search engine.

Global Schoolhouse:

Great American Cram Site The Great American Cram, developed by Ron Urwongse, 18, and Daniel Liebling, 17, lets students review U.S. government and history, economics, calculus and biology. It provides the same type of information that most review books do -- mock quizzes and course outlines -- but also offers audio files of teachers' lectures, chat rooms and database searches.

Hazel's Homepage A first and second grade teacher, Hazel has links to children's' authors, web integration ideas and classroom projects. 

Helping Your Students with Homework The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research & Improvement (OERI) produced this site. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done.

Houghton Mifflin K-8 Activities: The Education Place Activity Search is a searchable database of 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents. You may search for activities by both curriculum area and grade level.

Learning Page:  The Learning Page provides free, downloadable worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren. There are hundreds of pages in theme-based and basic skills categories.

IBM K-12 Home Page  IBM K-12 resources include links and lesson plans.

Institute for Transfer of Technologies: The Education Hot Links at this site are very well done. Sample categories are education standards, grant and foundation resources, education research, curriculum development as well as specific curriculum subject areas.

Intel in Education Home Page:   Lesson plans, primarily in the areas of science, mathematics and technology, are available at Intel's site.  You may direct students looking for science fair topics to this site, or use the Biology lesson plans for elementary teachers.  The site has many more topics available.

 Internet Education Group:   The What On Earth-based lesson plans are integrated with the Internet and will engage student learning. The site also has compiled a list of Lesson Plan Links, where you can access thousands of online lesson plans. This is the home of Weekly Lessons, an e-mail newsletter distributed to K-12 educators that notifies teachers about online lesson plans they can use in their classrooms.

Just in Time Training: The site offers lesson plans and projects.

Kathy Scrhrock’s Guide for Educators: This guide for educators provides hypertext. The links are separated into subject specific areas.

The Learning Space Learning Space was created by teachers for teachers.  The space offers online lesson plans, Internet projects, classroom web pages, a teacher chat room, tutorials and much more.

Lesson Plan Launchpad: This site is designed to give educators help in organizing lesson and unit plans and in finding both collections of plans and hotlinks to plan collections. It is made up of three parts: Sample Lesson/Unit Plans and Planning Aids, Collections of Original Lesson/Unit Plans, Hotlists of Links to Lesson/Unit Plans and Related Resources.

Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk: Geared to grades 5 & 6, this site contains a collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in.

The Lesson Plan Page: This page is a collection of hypertext links to pages that have lesson plans.

Make the Link:Learning Standards Benchmark Grid  This site has lessons linked to Illinois Standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math, Health, PE, Foreign Languages, and Fine Arts.

NAA Hotlinks: Hotlinks to United States and foreign newspapers are listed. This site has a clickable map. Click on a state and all of the online newspapers will be linked. Excellent resource for current event and others to use.

National Address Server’s: The National Address Server allows you to type in an address and receive its zip code + 4. This address can then be put in MapBlast and a map of the area of the address will be drawn. It also links to Mapquest to draw a map. Students will love this site.

New York Times Teacher Connection:   This site offers daily lesson plans (and archieve) based on current events.   Content is outstanding.  Editors link the plans to national standards.

New Teacher's Page: Look at this site for advice, ideas, and lesson plans for "education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those who think maybe, just maybe, they'd like to be an educator someday. "

NoSweat.com: Teacher Resources: Home of Homework Central, this site offers teachers lesson plans, school projects, professional resources, and links to other valuable sites.  Teachers may also wish to explore the Homework Central area for students--it is separated in three areas (elementary, high school and college).

On Assigment:   Updated every week, this web-based assignment is designed to challenge elementary students.  The activities include pre-thinking and post-thinking questions and extensions.  Modifications of the assignment are available for younger elementary students.  An archieve lists past activities.  One week's assignment was "Gears, Levers, and Pullies, Oh, My." 

Online Educator: This online newsletter features recommended links and articles.   It is updated weekly on Monday.

Ozline:   Tom March, creator or co-creator of Eyes on Art, Searching for China, Filamentality, Black History Month, and the WebQuest strategies has collected many of the online activities he's developed.

PacBell's Knowledge Network Blue Web'n: One of the finest sites for educators on the web, Blue Web'n has a searchable data based of K-12 applications. Almost everything posted is excellent and useable. The site is categorized by subject, grade level and type.

PBS Teacher Source:  This site features a growing inventory of more than 1,000 lesson plans and teacher guides.   You'll find resources grouped by subject area.

Phonics Link: The Phonics Link provides a place to build your background knowledge about phoneme awareness and phonics, to discuss professional books with other teachers and to find practical classroom lessons.

Planet K-12: This site offers a wealth of educational information.  A grants and funding page called "Finance Matters" provides links to corporate and government-sponsored programs.   The "Technology Resources" page provides information on technology planning, lesson plans, reference materials, and career planning.

Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab: The Purdue University Writing Lab has gone on-line with Resources for Writing that include handouts and relevant links. Information about Search Tools and Indexes is excellent for both advanced users and beginners. Since all teachers should be teachers of writing, exercises and handouts should be useful for all.

Putnam Valley: The Putnam Valley School District home page has many useful links for students and teachers. They also list reference sites, research and educational study, sites for teachers, and other useful links. You may also research Developing Educational Standards, a listing of K-12 curriculum frameworks throughout the country.

Schoolhouse Encarta:   At this site, you can contribute lesson plans, check other lessons, search student resources, or explore teacher resources.  This is a very rich site. 

Study Web: Resource links by subject area are featured at this site.  Teachers will also find integration ideas.

Teachers First: In addition to lesson plans grouped by subject and sorted by grade level, the site has some information on using the Internet, along with a glossary of terms and a browser tutorial.  "Hot Topics"   has updated links to sites related to current education issues.

Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: The Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust has a powerful combination of words, music, photographs and art. The site provides a factual but chilling account of the Holocaust, its victims and perpetrators. Teacher resources, classroom activities, Web links, a Holocaust glossary and timeline are featured.

Teachers Helping Teachers: Designed by teachers, this site has a vast amount of useful information for teachers. Among the highlights are Teaching Ideas & Tips, categorized according to subject area, an area to post lesson plans that you would like to share, and links to Educational Resources. Best of all, this site is updated, weekly, and has new information available regularly.

Teachers Lesson Plan Exchange: This lesson plan exchange board gives teachers access to some of the best lesson plans on the Web. This is also a good place to post your own lesson plans. You will leave this site with at least one lesson plan that you’ll want to try.

Teacherzone This site currently features articles on school web sites.  In addition, the site links to teacher lesson plans, principal vision, special reports and more.

Teaching Media (Elementary): With access to such a huge amount of information, it is important that students learn to evaluate news sources.   This site includes teaching lessons, classroom activities, and supporting resources.

Teachnet: Internet lesson plans in most subject areas are provided at this site.  Look for other information, hints for teachers,  and summaries of topical concerns.

Time for Kids: An online version of the magazine Time for kids contains articles and multimedia. Articles are archived so that teachers can create many links for students.

Tried 'N' True Lesson Plans The lesson plans at this site are organized by grade level and matching curriculum areas. You may also find a lesson plan by specific grade level and curriculum area in the Standard Course of Study - Curriculum Matrix.

Utah Links:  Resources for Public Education This site features some outstanding core curriculum activities, lesson plans, and features.  Career planning information is also available.

Virtual Blackboard: The Virtual Blackboard is a free service to K-12 teachers developed by Tramline, Inc and sponsored by the ATT Learning Network. It is designed to show teachers how to develop effective Internet teaching presentations and it provides tools for doing so. All teaching materials on the site are vetted by site editors who make sure that sound teaching methods are followed and curriculum objectives are met. They also make sure the material is motivating, educational, and fun.

Web 66: This is a must visit site for teachers and students. Wonderfully arranged, and witty, the site contains information on technology, lesson plans separated into subject area categories, an e-mail discussion group of educators, and an interactive map that has a comprehensive list of K-12 WWW sites. There is also an absolutely marvelous kid’s page. For ease of traveling, they have created the mustang, a web cruising vehicle which links you to what appears to be limitless resources. If you want lesson plans or you want to find out how to publish on the web, this site is for you.

Web Sites and Resources for Teachers This California State University site offers rich links to sites categorized into eight curriculum topics.

wNet School: wNetSchool, designed by classroom teachers and technology experts, offers K-12 teachers diverse information, from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to   reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.

World School: This site has many links to lesson plans. A wonderful feature is the rated sites for classroom use. Teachers have rated the sites as to the potential for application in the classroom. Visit it soon!

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