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.
Columbia Education Center - Visit the Columbia Education Center's Web site for consistently excellent lesson plans categorized by subject and grade level. Also check out this site's helpful tips on getting funding for classroom and school projects.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - This should be every teacher's first destination when searching for ways to support your math and science curriculum. The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has profiles of innovative teachers, hundreds of links to educational Web sites, and the "Digital Dozen," a monthly feature listing the 12 best new science and math sites on the Web.
TeachNet - Want to benefit from the knowledge and experience of other teachers? TeachNet encourages you and your colleagues to send in lesson plans, "how-to" ideas (on everything from classroom decoration to discipline), and your own favorite Web links.
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.
Classroom Connect - Classroom Connect's goal is to help integrate the Internet into your curriculum. There are free lesson plans, a fact-packed monthly calendar, a Web newsletter, and links screened by a "cybrarian." For a one time fee, your class can participate in the site's upcoming "Quest," an online expedition across Australia with a team of experts (biologists, archaeologists, etc.) who send daily reports and interact with students.
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.
The WebQuest Page - The WebQuest Page is a one-stop site for anyone interested in these innovative Internet teaching tools. Here you will find a well organized list of WebQuests and WebQuest collections, as well as some helpful tips on how to design your own.
Word Play - Sites that feature fun with words
The Teacher's Desk - A collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown in, currently being utilized in a fifth or sixth grade classroom.
K-12 Online.com - FREE membership in the Teachers Corner allows you to explore the world from the classroom. Take advantage of FREE samples, outline maps, lesson ideas, and links to other geography related sites.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
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
Education Links - This database allows you to search for and find published curriculum materials. You will be provided with a list of publisher Web sites which match your keywords.
Encarta Schoolhouse - Lesson plans and resources.
A Teacher's Homepage - Resources for teachers and parents; homework links; search tools.
Montgomery County Public Schools
Montgomery County Technology Pages
CyberGuides - Teacher Guides and Student Activities
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.
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CSS Journal - Computers in the Social Studies - CSS Journal is an electronic educational journal dedicated to the promotion of computers and related technology in social studies classrooms, at all levels. It is published four times a year.
David Levin's Learning@Web.Sites - Learning@Web.Sites is an award-winning guide intended primarily for senior high school educators who would like to enhance their curriculum and instruction using the Internet. High school students will also find Learning@Web.Sites to be a rich on-line resource guide.
Electronic Elementary Magazine: "The E-LINK" - This magazine highlights Internet projects, activities, and creations of elementary students around the world
Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.)
Technology Integrations - These pages provide some of the best online resources available to help educators, administrators, and parents answer common questions and solve problems related to the implementation and use of technology in education.
Web 66 -- A K-12 World Wide Web Project - Route 66. It conjures up all kinds of images. Route 66. An artery linking much of the nation. Route 66. An inspiration to literature, music, drama, art, and a nation of dreamers. Route 66. A highway fashioned from vision and ingenuity. Route 66. It has forever meant "going somewhere."
webTeacher - a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips - just a mouse click away!
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.
Learning on the Web - This site from Canada takes the teacher from novice to expert in creating online education resources.
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
Professional Development Online
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Museum Mania World Wide Web Treasure Hunt
Claris Works & Tessellations in Color
Teaching Virginia Standards of Learning