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One Heart
An organization that promotes tolerance of diversity and provides links to
resources for activism, education, spirituality, sexuality, and
multiculturalism.
American
Library Association Parents Page
This is a simple and concise resource for parents seeking information on how
best to exploit libraries and the Internet as educational resources.
Artists
against Racism
This site promotes the activities of this organization to combat racism.
There are educational materials, resources, and public education campaigns
in which many favorite artists participate as role models by taking a stand
against racism.
Ask
Jeeves for Kids
This kid-friendly search directory is a safe way for children to locate
sites and retrieve answers to Net questions.
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Professional development resource and links.
Bellingham
Public Schools
This site offers curriculum and lesson plans which are classified by grade
level and subject.
Blue
Web'n
Sponsored by Pacific Bell, this is a well-balanced site that
provides a searchable database of Internet learning sites categorized by
subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources,
references, or tools).
Cable
in the Classroom
Cable in the Classroom is a $240 million public service effort
supported by 38 national cable networks and over 8,500 local cable
companies. These networks and local cable companies act as a partner in
learning with teachers and parents by providing a free cable connection and
over 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming to
schools across the country.
CEC
Lesson Plans
Math, social studies, and science lesson plans.
Center
for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
Website from the University of California-Santa Cruz. Click on Related Links
and go to "Diversity/Multicultural Education."
Classroom
Connect
Classroom
without Walls
Billed as the first virtual K-12 school on the web, Classrooms without Walls
was designed by teachers, children, parents, and content experts worldwide.
Of interest to educators is a complete Teaching with Technology online
course and information on signing up classes for Multimedia Detective
Classroom Project
Computer
Curriculum Corporation
CCCnet is designed to help teachers use the Internet to its full
instructional potential. Two key features distinguish CCCnet from other
Internet offerings: SuccessMaker Online & Teacher
Link.
Computer Pals Across the World
Connections+
Copyright
Website
Provides real world, practical, and relevant copyright information of
interest to educators and others.
Crossroads:
A K-16 American History Curriculum
A comprehensive guide to teaching all grade levels. The curriculum includes
lesson plans, activities, historical background essays, and lists of
resources.
Discovery
Channel School
Created by and for educators, you will find free resources, professional
support, and connections to enhance your classroom plans.
Education
Technology WWW Virtual Library
A comprehensive listing of sites and connections dealing with instructional
technology in K-12; contains an Index and Service page.
Education
Week
Reprints articles daily from national newspapers that pertain to education
as well as this week's news from their publication Education Week. Archives
go back to 1989.
Education
World
This site lists many educational sites, all of which are evaluated. A few
are chosen for the BEST award.
EDUCAUSE
Excellent newsletter for educators. Two issues per week.
EduWeb
"Where education and the Internet converge." Contains lists of
educational organizations, online schools, various resources for teachers
and students, and technical information.
Electronic
School
This site provides access to current and past issues of the National School
Board Association's Electronic School magazine, as well as links to other
related sites.
Encarta
Schoolhouse
Encarta Schoolhouse provides a rich learning environment that not
only addresses a current topic (at the time of review the topic was Native
Americans), but also contains a topic archive where material on past topics
can be accessed. An expert on the current topic is available by e-mail and a
teacher's lounge contains a teacher bulletin board and lesson plans.
ERIC,
The Education Resources Information Center
The world's largest source of educational information with over 850,000
document abstracts and journal articles, plus an extensive list of links to
other great education web sites.
Exploratorium
Located in the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, the
Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with more
than 650 interactive exhibits.
Exploring
Multiple Intelligences: New Dimensions of Learning
A web site about Dr. Howard Gardner's revolutionary theory of eight
different forms of intelligence and/or learning modes. The site has
descriptions and lesson plans for each intelligence, as well as articles,
links, and lists of books and audiovisual resources.
FedWorld
Federal government system of over 100 government related databases. Easy to
use with lots of great information for teachers and students.
Global
School House
Interested in getting your class involved in an Internet
project? The Global Schoolhouse is your one-stop source for information
about all kinds of excellent curriculum-based projects.
Global
Show-n-Tell Museum
Global Show-n-Tell is a virtual exhibit that allows
children to show off their favorite projects, possessions, and
accomplishments to their fellow students (and adults!) around the world.
Historical
Text Archive
History teachers will find enough material on the United States, Latin
America, Canada, and Europe for several semesters' worth of lessons.
IBM
K-12 WWW Site
Products, resources, and links to a variety of
educational sites.
ICONnect
Useful for students and educators. Teachers learn to
integrate the Net into the curriculum, while students get help finding the
research resources.
Information
Please
This is an invaluable site, with so much information in
one place. Based on the popular Information Please series of almanacs, this
one-stop resource will provide everything from sports records to first aid
lessons.
Insite
- Envisioning the Integration of Technology and Teacher Education
Content area resources, educational technology
information, telecommunications and networking information, full text
journals and papers, and links to other sites which benefit teacher
education.
Instructional
Technology Connections
Excellent collection of discussion groups, e-journals,
and K-12 links for teachers.
Intercultural
E-mail Classroom Connections (IECC)
This web site permits educators to search past postings
to this mailing list to find partner classrooms in other countries. It also
has links to related mailing lists and other WWW resources.
International
WWW Schools Registry
This site attempts to keep an updated list of all the
schools in the world that have a home page on the web. Very interesting
sites, and it's just fun for kids or anyone else to visit these classrooms
and see how they're studying geography in Portugal or computers in Senegal.
Internet
Public Library
Includes links to the latest online cultural showcases,
an online classroom, original stories from children, and professional
resources. Check out the Youth Division's interactive features.
Kidlink
Children ages 10-15 from around the world involved in
global dialog.
Labyrinth
A global information network providing free, organized access to resources
in medieval studies. Valuable for "across-the-curriculum" lesson
plans and includes more than 20 lesson plans.
Learn2.com
A highly awarded site that features online lessons on
hundreds of topics, from cleaning a stereo to learning French and Spanish.
Categories: Food and Drink, Healthier Living, Hobbies, Communication,
Finance, Childcare, Cleaning, Computers, Automotive, and more.
Leonard's Cam World
Here's a useful site for students learning about the
world outside their backyard. More than 200 organized links to outdoor
cameras worldwide; Leonard's Cam World allows users to check out the time
and weather in just about any country at any point in the day!
Lesson Plans from the Awesome Library
Lesson plans on all subjects.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
The searchable index represents years of search by
librarians on the Web's most useful information resources.
LiveText: K-12 Resources
Educational project ideas and other resources abound at
this site sponsored by Columbia University.
MapQuest
Plug in a city or state and this site will produce a map
you can zoom in or out on or pan in any directions. The TripQuest section
offers driving directions between any two points in the U.S.
Marco Polo
The Marco Polo website has lessons plans, etc., and is a
valuable resource of Internet content for teachers.
MEL (Michigan Electronic Library)
For thousands in Michigan, it is the gateway to the World
Wide Web. Mel offers over 20,000 resources grouped into 14 major subject
areas. These subject areas include business, economics and labor, education,
humanities and the arts, recreation and leisure, science and the
environment, and social issues and social service.
Microsoft K-12 WWW Site
Information on Parent-Teacher Connection Server offer,
the Global Schoolhouse initiative, and more.
Minnesota Independent School Forum
Website for a non-profit consortium of private
schools. Go to "Educators Toolkit" on the toolbar and click on
"Multicultural Education" for an extended description of their
program.
MIT Tech Newsletter
Hypertext newspaper issued twice weekly.
Mrs. Donn's Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers
Very nice collection of lesson plans across the
curriculum.
Multicultural Pavilion
Resources for educators, students, and activists for
multicultural education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The NCES is a branch of the U.S. Department of Education.
The NCES gathers and analyzes data on the state of education in America and
disseminates its findings through annual publications, both on the Internet
and in hard copy.
National
Geographic Online
The best nature photography in the world is captured on
film at this site. There are also virtual tours and information on the
National Geographic Bee and other educational programs.
National
Public Radio
Realtime audio transcripts of the day's breaking stories
and features.
New
York Times Learning Network
Provides an educational service for Grade 6-12 teachers,
students, and parents. The site has a set of daily lesson plans that help to
integrate daily news articles into the classroom curriculum, as well as
quizzes, links, features, and an On This Day section.
OneLook
Dictionaries
Type it in at OneLook Dictionaries, which will instantly
search through more than 400 dictionaries and glossaries, including ones
specialized for business, sports, medicine, technology, religion, and
science.
Oz-TeacherNet
Project
This Australian project goal investigates teacher's use
of the Internet and develops resources and tools based on their needs.
Includes training guides and chat forums.
Pathfinder
& Time Magazine
Interactive link to Time, Sports Illustrated, Money, and
Vibe. Excellent site for current events projects.
Pricewatch
A very useful site for finding the best prices on
computers and accessories. Its searchable price index will return the 40
lowest prices from numerous vendors.
QUIA
QUIA is an acronym for Quintessential Instructional
Archive. QUIA provides a directory of thousands of online games and quizzes,
as well as provides tools to create your own online quizzes.
Random
House, Inc.
Choose a book at random. Author information and brief
excerpts from new releases, plus a searchable Random House database are
available.
REMC Cooperative Bid Changes
Most up-to-date version of the REMC bid.Selection Tips
Includes comparison chartR esearch It
This multifaceted research tool supplies a dictionary, a thesaurus, a translator, library tools, etc.
Researchville:
Manage Your Research Here
Type in "Multicultural classrooms" and
access more than 700 databases.
Roget's
Thesaurus
Provided by Project Gutenberg, which aims to make
reference materials available to the general public. This thesaurus is easy
to use.
Scholastic
Central
Enter essay contests like "The Great Ocean
Sweep" or take the Mount Everest adventure. The latest Scholastic news,
books, and programs are announced at this useful site.
StudyWeb
With a collection of more than 84,000
"research-quality" URL's, this site helps students excel
throughout their academic careers - kindergarten through college.
Switchboard
A telephone directory of the U.S., searchable by name,
address, city, or state.
Teacher
Talk
Teacher-to-teacher communications; an exchange of ideas
in a peer forum; you must register to access area (no charge or subscription
fee).
Teachnet.com
Information on lesson plans, bulletin board ideas, and
classroom themes and projects. Provides sources for keypals to make a
classroom-to-classroom connection.
Teacher's
Guide to the Holocaust
This is a tremendous site with very valuable information.
Teachers
Helping Teachers
Created by teachers for teachers. Includes teaching tips,
teacher networking opportunities, and new ideas in teaching methodologies.
This non-profit service is updated weekly.
Teachers.Net
Access to teacher news groups, teacher home-page makers,
and teacher discussion groups.
Teaching
with the Web
This single web page contains links to dozens of sites,
each containing a set of online activities related to learning different
languages. You'll discover online tutorials for German, French, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, Russian, Latin and even ESL/EFL. Several interactive
tutorials are also listed, which present sound files for worlds and phrases
students can use to brush up on their pronunciation.
Teaching
and Learning on the WWW
Links to more than 640 sites demonstrating just how
effective the web can be as a learning tool.
Tolerance
Education and Intergroup Relations Resources
The Southern Institute for Education and Research
atTulane University sponsors this page.
United Virtual Streaming
U.S.
Department of Education
This site is full of important materials, links, and
resources for teachers and parents.
Using
Inspiration
Use one of these Inspiration Software online tutorials
to get started or to answer your questions about Inspiration.
Using
the Internet
Phil Stohrer's site contains some pointers on web
searching, links to search sites, web site evaluation, creating proper
situations for Internet sources, and links to a few sites arranged by
general subjects.
Virtual
Haunted House
Features Halloween art graphics created by students,
including animated ones. It encourages students around the world to create
similar graphics and add them to this site.
Virtual
Reality on the Web
One of the hottest topics on the web is Virtual Reality
Markup Language, or VRML. Using this tool, schools hosting web sites can
incorporate three-dimensional graphics into their online pages.
Virtual
Reference Desk
A one-stop online reference resource.
Vose
School Educational Resources
Here's what happens when creative teachers create their
own web site. Excellent!
Web66
A terrific source for educational resources and creating
your own web page.
WebQuest
Page
A one-stop site for anyone interested in these innovative
Internet teaching tools. Here you'll find a well-organized list of WebQuest
and WebQuest collections, as well as some helpful tips on how to design your
own web page.
World
Lecture Hall Home Page
Syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, and calendars
from many online courses.
World
Village
This site has something for the entire family, including
software reviews, feature articles, great downloads, online gaming, and
daily updates. School House serves up educational software reviews,
cartoons, hyperlinks to other sites, and programs that can be downloaded.
The Idea Box contains education and activities for early childhood. There
are also favorites such as the Trivia Hound, Beanie Babies, daily contests,
and live chat.
WWF
Global Directory
The mother of all lists of environmental action groups
and global environmental resources online. Fact sheets can make you an
instant expert on 34 different topics.
WWWebster
Dictionary
An excellent online version of the popular 10th edition
of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Within definitions are plenty of
links of related words and phrases.
Updated 03/20/2007