WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS
Teachervision - Teachervision, hosted by the Family Education Network, offers lesson plans on subjects ranging from art to physical education, recommended reading lists and discussion boards.
The Discovery Channel - The Discovery Channel Web site is packed with information for curious teachers. View photographs of Mars. See what dinosaurs might have looked like. Check out the "animal-cams" to see what naked molerats and other creatures are up to. Be sure to drop by the "Discovery School House" which has lesson plans for teachers, homework help for kids, and tips on integrating technology into your classroom.
National Geographic - A brilliant use of satellite and Internet technology. This site can take you places you have only dreamed about. Fantastic to explore with students, this site has much more than articles from it namesake magazine. Here, your class can read actual dispatches sent in by National Geographic explorers on expedition around the globe. Your students will learn what it's like to face down an elephant in the Congolese jungle and how it feels to climb Mount Everest in the middle of a snowstorm. The "Education" section, has downloadable maps, as well as science and geography study guides.
Lightspan - This is a treasure trove of indispensable resources for K-8 teachers with more than 1,500 lesson plans, teacher discussion boards, and a collection of thematic units designed by curriculum specialists. That is not all. There are printable awards certificates, collaborative learning projects, a "Homework Zone," and interactive games for your students.
Earth and Space Science Units and Lessons for Grades 7-9
Fraction Lesson Plans
What's Cooking?: A Culinary Curriculum for Cultivating Foodie Kids
Theater Class: Emergency Lesson Plan Activities
The Story Of Building & Rebuilding The White House
Banking Lesson Plan for ESL and EFL Students
The Educator's Guide to Real Estate Lesson Plans
The Awesome Libraray
Puzzlemaker! - A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments.
Education Resources - Lesson Plans and Activities
"Academic Career Resource Guide"
"The Ultimate Teacher Resource Guide"
Teachers.net - Teacher chatrooms, lessonplans
Education Place by Houghton Mifflin
The Education News Center for Teachers and Administrators
The Learning Space - An online learning community
Visions - Technology in Education
Class2Class is a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.
E
Pals unique convergence of technology
and community lets students of all ages work together. Open doors to new
learning opportunities and friendships. Join today. (It's quick, easy and
free.) Visit ePALS for teacher-designed interactive projects, monitored
email, instant translation, discussion boards, private chat, maps, e-cards,
international weather and more. You'll stay for the friends you can make
and the world that our global community opens up to you. It's safe. It's
easy. It's educational. And it's fun.
Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.)
Harnessing the Power of the Web: A Tutorial - This guide will help you to understand collaborative, project-based learning on the Internet. We use the term NetPBL (Networked, Project-Based Learning) to describe this kind of learning. These resources will help you introduce your students to powerful educational experiences grounded in student-centered, project-based learning well-supported in the literature. Whether you're just starting out or ready for advanced levels, this guide will help you.
Horizon - This site provides a meeting place for educators interested in technology issues. Also available are articles about educational technology research.
Intel in Education - From the chipmaker Intel, this site offers resources for teachers wishing to integrate technology into their classroom. There are also lessons on how a computer works and how various parts of the computer are made. Information on Intel's grants, donations, and scholarships is also available.
Reinventing Schools - From the National Academies of Science and Engineering, comes this companion Web site to the historic convocation that sought to inform the technology/education debate by "laying out a vision of what could be."
bigchalk -- The Education Network
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Claris Works & Tessellations in Color
Teaching Virginia Standards of Learning