TEACHER RESOURCES

• All 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.

• Apple Computer's Home Page That's Just for Educators

• 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 an Expert"

• 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).

• Busy Teachers Website

• 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 Online

• 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.

• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Digital Curriculum Lab

• 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.

• Family.com Education
  This site is a helpful resource for parents, full of good articles that can assist them with their children's education.

• 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.

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator

• 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.

• NCREL, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

• 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 

  • 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

• University of Michigan
  

• 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.

• Yahooligans: The Web Guide for Kids
  

Updated 03/20/2007