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Please contact the Technology Support Teacher at your school for more
information
Teachers may contact the webmaster to suggest additional Internet or curriculum resources.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! was the first Web
directory and is
still the most popular search site on the Internet.
Yahooligans!
Yahoo! for kids.
KidsClick!
This search engine was
created for kids by
librarians.
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Research
Tools
Merriam-Webster
Online
Online dictionary and
thesaurus.
iCONN
The Connecticut Digital
Library provides
free access from school and home to numerous databases.
Internet
Public Library
The IPL is the first
public library of and
for the Internet community.
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Teacher
Resources
MarcoPolo
Online resources include
panel-reviewed
links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson
plans, classroom
activities and materials to help with daily classroom planning, and
powerful
search engines.
The WebQuest Page
A WebQuest is an
inquiry-oriented activity
in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from
the
Web. This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who
are
using the WebQuest model to teach with the web.
Webquest Taskonomy: A Taxonomy of
Tasks
There must be fifty
ways to task your learner. Since 1995, teachers have been adapting the
WebQuest model to their own needs and settings, and from their
collective wisdom and experience some common task formats have emerged.
bigchalk
The teacher section of
this site contains
a searchable index of online lessons.
The Educator's Reference Desk
2,000+
lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+
question archive responses.
Education World
Online resources for
educators.
Teachnet
This site contains
numerous lesson plans
in many subject areas.
EduHound
A prescreened directory
of more than
20,000
links in over 50 categories.
Global
Schoolhouse
A site that provides
online opportunities
for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning
experiences.
4Teachers
A site that provides
links to educational
resources, including a link to an online rubric maker.
Sites For Teachers
A collection of links to
useful sites for
teachers.
Pathfinder
Schoolhouse
This site contains an
enormous variety of
lesson plans and projects on every subject.
edHelper
This site contains a
variety of lesson
plans, webquests, and worksheet generators.
abcTeach
This site includes many
theme units for
elementary teachers.
Enchanted Learning
Includes a picture
dictionary for children
with links to over 1000 educational activities.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide
for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Educators is a
categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and
professional growth.
Lesson
Plans Page
This site
includes over
1,000 ready-to-use
lesson plans at the elementary level.
Microsoft Office Clip
Art and Media Home Page
A searchable
database of Microsoft clipart.
Pics4Learning
A searchable database of copyright-free photographs to use for
educational purposes.
Educational Clip Art
A nicely-arranged compilation of non-copyrighted, school-related clip
art.
Coolclips.com:
Education
Over 300 pieces of educational clip-art for use in the classroom.
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Student
Resources
Start
Squad
A useful collection of
links to sites for
students in preschool through middle school.
BrainyQuote
Over 35,000 quotes by
8,000 authors.
Browse by topic or by author.
Enchanted Learning
Includes a picture
dictionary for children
with links to over 1000 educational activities for grades K-3..
Kids
Konnect
Provides a subject index
of links to
reference sites for students.
Kidport
Kidport is an
Internet-based educational
service designed to help K-8 students excel in school.
FunBrain
Includes games that help
reinforce math
and reading skills.
Scholastic
Includes activities for
many favorite
children's books and a word of the week.
Great
Sites
Over 700 links to sites
for students.
Internet Copyright
Issues
Students may use this
interactive site to
learn more about Internet copyright issues.
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Technology
Integration
From
Now
On
The electronic journal of
technology in
education.
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Technology
Tutorials
Using Inspiration in the Classroom
How to Open an Attachment and Save It As a File
How to Use a Microsoft Access Database
Internet 4
Classrooms
This site includes
tutorials for a variety
of applications.
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Homework
Helpers
BrainMania
Homework questions
answered within 24
hours.
Afterschool
This site contains links
to many safe, fun
and enriching government web sites that let students explore the wealth
of
information that Federal government agencies have to offer, including
help
with their homework, reinforcing a skill they learned in school,
researching
a school term paper, or looking for a job.
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Just
For Fun
Puzzlemaker
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle
generation tool
for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word
search,
crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
Association for Library
Service to Children
This site contains links
to sites for
teachers, students, and parents that encourage and celebrate reading.
The Encyclopedia Mythica
This is an online
encyclopedia on
mythology, folklore, and legends.
Online!
Citation Styles
This site provides
citation styles for
World Wide Web sites, Email messages, Web discussion forum posting,
Listserv messages, and Newsgroup messages. Detailed descriptions
and examples of each are
given for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.
Read
Across America
The official web site of
NEA's Read Across
America, an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls
for
every child in every community to celebrate reading on or around Dr.
Seuss's
birthday.
Idiom
Site
This site explains the
origins of some of
our language's more colorful words and expressions.
Guys
Read
A literacy initiative for
boys from Jon
Scieszka, the author of The Stinky Cheese Man.
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Math
Figure
This!
Funded by the National
Science Foundation
and the U.S. Department of Education, this site provides interesting
math challenges that middle school students can do at home with their
families.
Getsmarter
An animated, interactive
testing and
learning site that allows you to compare your math and science
performance against students worldwide.
Math
Forum
A leading center for
mathematics and
mathematics education on the Internet.
Math
Goodies
A free math help site
featuring
interactive
math lessons, homework help, worksheets, forums and more.
Calculus-Help
A resource for high
school calculus
students who need additional practice and detailed solutions to the
types of problem they see every day in class but have trouble
understanding.
Measure 4 Measure
A collection of
interactive sites on the
web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc. In other
words, it is a collection of links to sites that actually perform
calculations, doing
the work for you.
Web Dice
A simple way to look at
the
probability behind rolling dice.
PBS Kids Virtual Coin
Toss
A simple
way to look
at the probability
behind coin flipping.
Alberta
Education Website
You will find Outlines of
Mathematics Programs of Study from K-12, and such helpful teaching
resources as
itemized specific learner expectations at all levels, as well as
detailed
outlines for program organization and program structure.
Ask
Dr. Math
This site contains an
excellent archive of questions posed by students and teachers and
answered by
the people at the Dr. Math site. You
can look in the archives for the answers to your own questions, or ask
the experts
directly if your questions have not been answered already.
Calculator
City: A Web Resource for Mathematics,
Algebra,
Science, etc.
This site has calculators
and converters that convert just about everything but cucumbers to
pickles. Convert distance, area, volume,
mass, time,
velocity, force, pressure, energy, power, temperature, or use the
calculator to
solve for two, three, or four unknowns.
CLN
WWW Navigation Map
Here is another great source
of lesson plans and resources at the K-12 level.
Collaborative
Lesson
Archive
You can click on the Math
button in the curriculum area or browse the many cross-curricular
lesson plans
and pick out the math lessons from there.
Math2.org
Here is an easy-to-use
site filled with math reference tables for general math, algebra,
geometry,
trigonometry, linear algebra, discrete math, odds and ends, statistics,
calculus and advanced topics. There is
also a message board and a chat room with a shared drawing whiteboard
to be
used for math purposes only.
Education
World – Lesson
Planning: Math Sites to Count On!
New and exciting ways to
liven up your math lessons at all levels.
Many games and fun activities, links to online Math tools, as
well as a
lot of good lesson plans.
Education
World –
Math: General Resources
You will find links to
Math Challenge, a variety of sites offering assistance in using
calculators for
various functions, and much, much more.
Fractions
This is an excellent
place for students to review and study fractions without much
assistance from a
teacher. Lots of examples and clear
explanations. The site is not interactive,
though, so the students have to be somewhat motivated to read through
the
exercises.
Frank Potter’s Science
Gems - Mathematics
This site has just about
everything a teacher or student could ever want in the field of Math,
with over
11,000 links to math resources at every level and about any
Math-related topic.
K – 8:
Math in General
Lesson Plans, Activities,
Games and many other resources for the K-8 levels.
K
– 12 Lesson Plans
A variety of mathematics
and logic lessons provided by Alan Selby, Ph.D. Links
to more than two dozen of the best arithmetic lesson plans
on the Internet.
K – 12:
Math in General
Topics from this site are
Math in general, Science Mathematics, Discrete Math, Graphing
Calculators.
Kathy
Schrock’s Guide for
Educators - Math
You’ll find a lot of
great links including an Encyclopaedia of Math, Roman Numeral
Conversion, and a
Superkids Math Worksheet Creator that really works.
Math Forum: Arithmetic Lesson Plan Sites
This site concentrates on
Lesson Plans, as the title suggests. It
contains quite a few of the most popular links on the web as well as
some you
may not see at other Math sites.
Math
Forum Internet
Mathematics Library
This is a very
well-organized and easy-to use site, with as many resources as you will
likely
need in an average lifetime. It is
organized
both by topic and grade level.
Mathematics Archives –
Topics in Mathematics
Another well-organized
site with resources listed by topic or accessible through a search
agent on the
main page. It contains some of the best
sites for arithmetic lesson plans.
Mathematics
Encyclopedia
This detailed interactive
encyclopedia should provide you with just about any information you
need to
know in the field of mathematics, including mathematical terms and
definitions,
biographies, history, and even a language translator.
The Lesson Plans Page –
Math Lesson Plans
You will be able to
select the grade level and you will be whisked to the magic land of
pre-made
lesson plans.
The Math Forum – Math
Library – Math Topics
Lots of
advanced-level
Math, but also contains the basics.
Overall it is a very thorough site.
Create A Graph
Here you will find
four different graphs and charts for you to consider. Maybe it will
help explain what you are trying to show.
Fear
of Physics
A friendly, non-technical
place for you to
come and "play" with the laws of physics for a while.
How Stuff Works
A site that explains
everything from
machines and money to computers and the human body.
WebElements
This award-winning online
periodic table
provides pictures demonstrating element structures and periodic
properties.
Getsmarter
An animated, interactive
testing and
learning site that allows you to compare your math and science
performance against students worldwide.
The
JASON Project
A web site dedicated to
inspiring in
students a lifelong passion to pursue learning in science, math, and
technology through exploration and discovery.
NASA
Space Library
This site contains a
mixture of
space-related images and programs which will help you visualize the
Solar System and NASA space missions using computer graphics.
Includes a solar system simulator!
Human
Genome Project
This site offers a wealth
of general
research information on genetics and bioethics.
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Social
Studies
EDSITEment
This site provides a
variety of online
activities geared toward educating students about different cultures.
National
Geographic Xpeditions
This site contains lesson
plans,
activities, and an atlas of printable black and white maps.
The CIA
World Factbook
An excellent resource for
country profiles
and reference maps.
Today in History
This site is sponsored by
the Library of
Congress American Memory project.
Atlapedia
Online
This site contains full
color physical and
political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the
world.
Library of Congress
Country Studies
This website contains the
on-line versions
of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research
Division
of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook
Program
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
Kids
in the House
This is an interactive
site that helps
kids learn about the United States House of Representatives and its
role in lawmaking.
U.S. National Archives & Records
Administration
One hundred years of
photography from the
National Archives.
American
Currency Exhibit
Learn how our country's
rich history is
closely tied with our currency. Discover the role the Federal
Reserve has played--and continues to play--in that history.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Teaching materials and resources.
Anne
Frank Diaries
This site educates
Internet users about
the life of Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
America's
Library
This site offers more
than 4,500 items
from the Library of Congress' collection for students to learn about
American
history and culture.
The Emergence of
Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
This is an online
exhibition of more than
9,000 vintage ads from 1850 to 1920.
The
U.S. Mint's Site for Kids
A site that generates
interest in coins,
the Mint, and U.S. history.
The
Mummy Maker
This interactive game
takes students
through the process of preparing Egyptian mummies.
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World
Language
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Art
ARTSEDGE
This site supports the
place of arts
education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and
appropriate uses of technology.
Artsonia
This is an online art
museum of students'
work.
KinderArt
The largest collection of
free art lessons
on the Internet!
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Music
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Health
Intelihealth
This site includes a
medical dictionary, a
database of medication information, and a database of disease/condition
profiles.
Health and PE
Lesson Plans
This site contains dozens
of lessons that
are grade-level specific.