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A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. They offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
Apple Computer's online, educational community designed to support professional educators. Apple provides resources such as engaging lesson plans and classroom activities, innovative teaching strategies rich with technology, opportunities for professional development right from your desktop, and digital learning events and virtual field trips that bring the world to your classroom.
This site is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search. Find technology resources under Teachers & Tech. You’ll also find links to online teacher development (Pro-D) and online K-12 courses.
CNN Student News airs on CNN Headline News, Monday through Friday from 3:12 - 3:22 am ET. Educators use CNN Student News in their classrooms for the news of the day, as well as segments that encourage student participation. CNN Student News is easy to integrate into any lesson and is closed-captioned for use by hearing impaired or ESOL classes.
The Curriculum Archive is a central repository for free lessons and classroom projects.
The mission of Cyberkids is to provide a voice for young people on the Internet. Although most of the content on Cyberkids is geared toward children ages 7 to 12, parents and teachers will also find some things here of interest.
In the "Cyberviews" area, you will find movie, book and product reviews. In the "Launchpad" area, there are links, categorized by subject, to many other Internet sites useful to kids. The "Learning Center" has links to sites where your child can find online tutoring, help with homework, and information on scholarships. Finally, the "Shopping" section provides categorized links to sites that offer products for kids such as clothing, toys and games, and children's software.
DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school.
The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized Web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continual basis.
The Clearinghouse is managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with its partners and other University of Wisconsin institutions.
Education World is a resource that includes:
- a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet;
- original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts;
- site reviews;
- daily features and columns;
- teacher and principal profiles;
- Wire Side Chats with the important names in education;
- employment listings.
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
Resources include:
- professional development activities
- applied research
- strategic policy advocacy
- teaching and learning initiatives
- online information services
- print and electronic publications, including books, monographs, and the magazines EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review
- special interest collaborative communities
- awards for leadership and exemplary practices.
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
Educational games for grades pre-K through 6+.
This site offers a rich variety of guidelines of how to use networks in powerful ways for education.
This site features curriculum resources with blended software for ages 4 through 19. A library of non-fiction, digital and fiction resources for the library and classroom are also provided as well as resources for tutors, learners, and work-based trainers.
iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
The Internet Public Library is the product of the collaboration of the School of Information & Library Studies of the University of Michigan, Sun Microsystems, and Intel corporation. It exists to:
- provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever-expanding and varied community of users.
- work to broaden, diversify, and educate that community.
- communicate its creators' vision of the unique roles of library culture and traditions on the Internet.
inQuiry Almanack is a monthly magazine for educators who are interested in using the Internet to support inquiry-based learning in the classroom. It's also a place to present new stuff and to have some fun.
There are regular features each month, along with a surprise spotlight of the month. The magazine points to their five favorite sites of the month, gives the latest in science news, shows what's new at The Franklin Institute, amazes with some wild experiments, and leaves you with a puzzle to ponder.
LessonPlansPage.com has over 2,500 free lessons! There is also an educator forum where you can participate in discussions on a variety of topics.
McREL is making a difference in education by delivering the best in:
- field-based research and product development,
- workshops and training,
- technical assistance and consulting,
- evaluation and policy studies,
- information resources, and
- community education and public outreach.
The NCSA Education team will inspire and engage educators and learners to transform educational practice, facilitate inquiry, and create learning communities by adopting new ways of using technology.
Created by Montana State University - Bozeman and funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN) delivers quality teaching resources and professional development opportunities through the Internet directly to K-12 science teachers. Educators access electronic teacher resources, discuss issues with other educators online, and participate in high-quality graduate telecomputing courses, all from convenient home or work locations via the Internet. University scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and science educators teach NTEN's graduate courses. NTEN also enhances professional networking nationwide among science teachers and active research scientists.
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Learning Point Associates. As a member of the Regional Educational Laboratory Network, NCREL is dedicated to providing high-quality, research-based resources to educators and policymakers in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
A hotlist of online educational exhibits.
This site provides teachers of all disciplines and grade levels with links to resources such as:
- Lesson Plans
- Worksheets
- Activities
- Clip Art.
TeachFirst provides a model for professional development that increases the skill set of K-5 mainstream teachers and ELL specialists. We provide school districts with examples of best instructional practices that successfully support all children—especially English language learners and struggling learners.
Free, non-commercial educational Web services for educators and students. Over 1,300,000 hits per month, 89,000 unique visitors per month, over 200,000 current registered members from 112 different countries.
TEAMS created one of the first instructional Websites on the World Wide Web, to provide online support to students and teachers for its programs, as well as other K-12 links to assist teachers and students. Today, the website has transitioned into TEAMS Educational Resources, a place where teachers, students, administrators and parents can find free links to educational resources that have been researched, reviewed and evaluated by and for educators.
MyT4L is your best resource for project building with students. The MyT4L web site provides technology tutorials, online tools, and a step-by-step process for implementing successful projects.
The Texas Education Network (TENET) was established in August 1991. It was authorized by the 71st Texas Legislature and developed by the collaborative efforts of the Department of Information Resources, the Texas Education Agency, and The University of Texas at Austin. Its purpose was to advance and promote education in Texas by providing a communications infrastructure which can be used to foster innovation and educational excellence in Texas.
The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
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