On-line Teacher Resources

# 1 Place to Begin: Indices and Hotlists for Educators Here's a great list targeted for teachers who need to find good sources quickly. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. A complete resource guide for teachers categorized by curriculum content areas. http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/

Ask Jeeves for Teachers: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp

Instructional Resources http://k-12.pisd.edu/research.htm

The Gateway to Educational Materials http://www.thegateway.org/

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library. Includes a searchable database of curriculum related WWW sites and activities. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Website and Resources for Teachers. Links and lessons created by two education professors at California State University. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/index.html

Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans A collection of successful lesson plans created by teachers from all areas. These lesson plans include formal form written overview, objectives, procedures and follow up. http://www.col-ed.org/cur/

K-12 Lesson Plans A no-nonsense site offering a variety of lesson plans for all teachers. http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html

Teachers Helping Teachers A site created by teachers for teachers which offers a variety of lesson plans, along with educational links and a teacher chat line.http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/

Education Place A Houghton Mifflin sponsored site devoted to teacher resources.

4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources. An inclusive site that features student appropriate web sites by content categories. http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/

The Educator's Resource Page. Created by Dr.Janet Burke, Education Dept.,Western Connecticut State University as a resource guide for education students and teachers, this site offers a complete resource list of internet links for teachers. http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/~BURKE/homepage.html

The Library in the Sky http://www.nwrel.org/sky/redirect.html

The Children's Literature Web Guide. The site is dedicated to categorizing internet resources related to books for children and young adults. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Carol Hurst's Childrens Literature Site A collection of reviews on great books for kids along with ideas to use with them in the classroom. The database includes a quick button to access books by subject, themes, grades, and activities. http://www.carolhurst.com

Five Paragraph Essay Resources. A great source for teachers and students that features writing strategies, prompts, evaluation rubrics and tips for expository, narrative and persuasive writing techniques. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/

Educational Resources in English/Language Arts from the Community Learning Network, Canada. http://www.cln.org/subjects/english.html

Author Studies

Children's Literature Web Guide, Authors: A listing of children's book authors' web pages. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

Children's Book Council, Authors: Listings of web sites and relatedresources about authors. http://www.cbcbooks.org/navigation/author.htm

Kay Vandergrift's Site, Authors: A comprehensive listing of sites of authors and illustrators and related sites and resources. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html

CanTeach Site, Authors: Listing of Authors' and Illustrators' web sites. http://www.track0.com/canteach/links/linkspecific.html

Yahoo's listings of Children's authors' sites. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/Authors/

The American Library Association: The following two sites summarize award winning books.

Newbery Medal Books: http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

Caldecott Medal Books http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html

Great Ideas & Lesson Plans!! A consolidated list of interactive math internet sites recommended by the Blue Web N' Search Engine. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/fr_Mathematics.html

Lesson Plans for Math Education. Dedicated to just math lessons for all grades and are task specific. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/math.html

The Teacher Help Service presented by the Annenberg/CPB math and Science Project. http://www.learner.org/sami/

Big Sky Math Lessons- Math lessons by objective and grade levels gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/Educational_Resources/Lesson_Plans/Big%20Sky/math

Science Lessons. A complete list of science lesson plans categorized by subject, grade and/or age. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/subject.html

The Why Files. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this site supplies lesson plans and experiments that can be performed in the classroom. http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/

Instructional Materials in the Environment http://www.cln.org/subjects/environment_inst.html

The Best ever History resource! Created for an AP History course in Orange High School, the links here are applicable for all educators and students. http://www.orangeschools.org/ohs/teachers/TJordan/Pages/mainpage.html

Social Studies Lessons for grades 4 & 5. Itemized by topic and activity. http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/teacher.html

Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page - A comprehensive site with links for all history teachers. http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/index.html

The History Ring- A comprehensive site didicated to collecting historical oriented links for educational purposes. Author: Mr. Phil Konstanin. http://www.cl/ais.net/jkasper/amlist.html

Country Study links http://www.cln.org/themes/countries.html

Instructional Materials in History, Community Learning Network , Canada. http://www.cln.org/cgi-bin/linkto.cgi?http://www.cln.org/themes/countries.html

Speciality Areas

Gifted and Talented Home page Links to on-line gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, and odyssey of the mind. http://www.eskimo.com/~user/kids.html

National Association for Gifted A non profit organization dedicated to research and development regarding gifted children, staff development, and advocacy of improving quality education for all, this site provides links to private and public organizations, on-line research documents and data, conferences, and more. http://www.nagc.org/

University of Virginia Special Education Dept. A comprehensive resource site including links, lesson plans, current reports and data. http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/specialed/

The Special Education Home Page. Up to date facts, resources and ideas for special education students, teachers and parents. http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/specialed/

PE Central. Developed by the Virginia Tech Health and PE program, this site offers weekly activities, lesson ideas, assessment strategies for teachers, and adaptive PE practices. http://www.chre.vt.edu/~/pe.central

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This site was last revised February, 2001

Laura Luke, Instructional Technology Specialist, Somers CSD, Somers NY