Blue Web'n Learning
Sites Library Searchable by content table, subject area and grade level. Each linked
site is rated, dated and summarized. Featured are mostly four- and five-stars
sites on all school subjects.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Mr. Donn's
Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum An excellent site with lesson plans in all subject areas, especially
Middle School Social Studies units.
http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html
DiscoverySchool.com Great site for students, teachers and parents. Browse Lesson Plans
by Grade and Subject. Puzzlemaker and Quiz Center. Homework Help includes
Dictionary Plus and Clip Art Gallery. Features alphabetical Index and a
search box for contents, Kathy Schrock's picks. Weekly lesson plans on
science and social studies complete with vocabulary and activities.
http://school.discovery.com/
Busy Teachers' Website
K-12 Direct source materials, lesson plans/classroom activities. Minimal
site-to-site linking designed to help teachers new to the Internet.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/eng.html
Federal Resources for Education Excellence
(FREE)
One of the most popular federal web sites for education, providing easy
access to hundreds of resources from more than 35 federal agencies.
http://www.ed.gov/free/
Yahoo! Education:K-12 A searchable directory on K-12 Education.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/
The Internet Public Library Teen and Youth sections. Health, dating, homework and writing in Teen
Division. Computers/Internet, Reference, Our World, Reading Zone and Math
in Youth.
Onlline Literary Criticism collection contains 4346 critical and biographical
websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title
or literary period.
http://www.ipl.org/
WPL Webliographies Multicultural, science, geography, sports, art and great links to biographies
sites.
http://www.waukeganpl.org/ysdept/weblies/webli.htm
Learningpage.com: Sites for
Teachers
Quick index to lesson plans. Collected sites and Internet curriculum resources
include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects,
and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
PBS TeacherSource Lesson Plans and Activities in Arts & Literature, Health &
Fitness, Math, Science and Technology, Social Studies. Search by keyword,
subject or grade Plus standards matching.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
AskERIC Lesson Plans
Search the collection of over 1100 Lesson Plans in all subjects submitted
by teachers
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
1999 Curriculum Administrator
Web Awards Curriculum Administrator awards sites for advancing online education,
joining curriculum and web technology, and excellence in web-based curriculum.
http://www.edmediausa.com/webawards.htm
Interactive Student Projects
in K-12 Classrooms
Thinkquest Library Has an impressive library of interactive student projects. Use the
search box of look at the directory of categories.
http://www.thinkquest.org/
Learning: U Seek U
Find: Internet Projects for Students K-12 Share ideas and solve problems with others on the Internet through
email projects, teleconferencing, newsgroups, usenet, moo, and chat rooms.
Projects categorized by subject.
http://www.useekufind.com/tproject.htm
Designs
for Telecollaboration and Telepresence in Curriculum-based K-12 Learning
Activities The three activity structures are : Interpersonal Exchange, Information
Collection and Analysis, and Problem Solving. Each term is defined, then
illustrated with examples. Targeted grade level, ongoing (yes/no) information
and project description.
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Telecollaboration/more-telecollaboration.html
Digital
Learner Portfolios of high school students
Learner portfolios are defined as multimedia web pages students create
to document their individual stories, achievement and growth. This site
offers guidelines and detailed instructions for preparing portfolios, and
presents excellent examples with student photographs, background information,
interests, accomplishments, personal thoughts, examples of academic work,
and even resumes.
http://www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us/portfolios/portfolio.html
Monster Exchange
Interactive learning site that allows K-8 students to use the Internet
to sharpen reading and writing skills and their creativity. Classrooms
worldwide are paired and students from one classroom draw and describe
a monster . Their partnered classroom reads the written descriptions and
draw a monster resembling the original one. Monsters are then uploaded
into Monster Gallery to compare and view.
http://www.monsterexchange.org/
NickNacks
Telecollaborate! Site Index
NickNacks can help you collaborate in the Global Classroom. Participate
in or develop a telecollaborative project.
http://home.talkcity.com/academydr/nicknacks/NNindex.html
Welcome to the Teachers'
Lounge Simple presentation of basics for teachers new to the Internet.
http://educ.queensu.ca/~hudsonp/
Beginning Email Step-by-step explanation on how to send an email.
http://email.tqn.com/internet/email/msub10.htm
NCSA--A
Beginner's Guide to HTML A site by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html
Puzzlemaker & Quiz Center
at DiscoverySchool.com Sign up with Custom Classroom to create and save puzzles with Puzzlemaker;
save and administer quizzes with Quiz Center; create and save worksheets
with Worksheet Generator, all for free.
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Reading Online A Journal of K-12 practice and research, published by the International
Reading Association.
http://www.readingonline.org/
LD Resources List of resources for People with Learning Disabilities.
http://www.ldresources.com/
NCREL: Pathways to School Improvement
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory site specializes in applying
research and technology to improve learning. Curriculum, Instruction and
Assessment. Literacy, Teacher comments on Teaching, Parent and Family Involvement.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/
Professional Development
TechLearning.com Contributions from K-12 teachers and administrators on technology in
learning.
http://www.techlearning.com/
United States
School Districts An alphabetical list of U.S. school districts with web servers and
electronic mail addresses.
http://www.edunet.ie/links/usdistricts.html
Educational Standards
Developing
Educational Standards: An Overview An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards
and curriculum frameworks documents. Standards are categorized under state,
subject area, national and other nations.
http://putnamvalleyschools.org/Standards.html
Connecticut Standards
Connecticut Department of Education
Homepage article: "Measuring Success" - Position Statement of
State Board
Information on curriculum and standards, as well as complete handbooks
for the Connecticut assessment, the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT, grades
4, 6, 8) and the Connecticut Achievement Performance Test (CAPT, grade
10) can be downloaded from this site using Adobe Acrobat.
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/
Capital Regional
Education Council of Connecticut (CREC)
The Capital Region Educator's portal contains numerous resources for students,
parents and teachers. It features a Curriculum Matrix which is a comprehensive
resouce developed by teachers to provide online learning resources, lesson
plans, and activities mapped to essential academic standards, as based
on Connecticut State standards.
http://www.crecportal.edgate.org/matrix/
Research On-line
AskERIC- Education Information
with the Personal Touch
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded national
information system that provides, through its 16 subject and support clearinghouses,
services and resources on education-related issues. Eric Database, the world's largest
source of education information, has over 1 million abstracts of articles
on education research and practice. Search AskERIC to access the ERIC abstracts,
also found in the printed medium, Resources in Education and Current
Index to Journals in Education. Ask an ERIC Expert
and your question will be answered with personalized resources by an ERIC
staff.
http://ericir.syr.edu/About/
OneLook Dictionaries (The Faster
Finder) For a fast word search lookup. Over 2 million words in 675 on-line
dictionaries now indexed. Browse Dictionarieshas the complete list of the online dictionary and glossary web sites.
http://www.onelook.com/
Dictionary.com Type word in search box for Dictionary or Thesaurus, and definitions
and words used in context from several sources will pop up.
http://www.dictionary.com/
IPL Web Searching
IPL's favorite search engines and catalogs. Variety of tools offered
for a comprehensive search.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearching.html
AskJeeves
Do search by asking questions.
http://www.askjeeves.com
Google Popular search engine
http://www.google.com
MetaCrawler Fast efficient search. Gives limited number of results gleaned from
many search engines.
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
Authors/Illustrators
and their Works Find authors' biographies, bibliographies and other critical information
on this site.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html
Research-It - Your one-stop
Reference Desk Not sure where to look and what type of online resources are best? This
site offers search tools for multiple topics such as language, geography,
finance, mailing and shipping, and the Internet. http://WWW.ITOOLS.COM/research-it/
