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Helpful Teacher Sites

Below you will find links to web sites that offer lesson plans and multiple other classroom activities.  We are constantly updating this site and are looking for some excellent resources.  If you know of a good website and would like to share it, please e-mail us and we will add it to our list.

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General

Occupational Outlook Handbook

 

Puzzle Maker

A puzzle and games generation tool for teachers, parents and students. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.

Busy Teachers' WebSite

Provides a wealth of information for educators of all subject areas and grade levels K-12.

 

Blue Web'n 

A searchable database of over 1000 Internet learning sites.  Contains information for all subject areas.

 

Seattle School-to-Work Teachers Resource Page

Offers lesson plans and student activities to aide in meeting School-to-Work (School-to-Careers) guidelines.  Offers some very interesting lesson plans.  It is worth visiting!

 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.  It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

 

StudyWeb

A place for anyone doing research to find the information they need as easily as possible. The categories are sorted according to the approximate appropriate grade level which makes them valuable tools for teachers looking for lesson plan and curriculum ideas. The information for each topic also notes the presence of downloadable or printable images for use as visual aids of school reports or projects. The variety of subjects and categories should allow most users to narrow in on a topic for a report, find background material for a story, begin research for a paper or just increase their knowledge of a particular topic.

 

TeacherNet.com

Online community for K-8 educators sponsored by Highlights for Children.

 

The Web Portal For Educators

Offers a wide variety of resources intended to bring educators into the world of teaching with technology.

 

www.familyeducation.com

Learning Network Parent Channel

 

www.teachervision.com

Learning Network Teacher Channel

 

Math

The Math Forum

An online math education community center.

 

www.exploratorium.edu

The Museum of Science, Art, and human perception.

 

Interactive Learning Network

Focusing on K-12 science and mathematics, ILN gives students a hands-on, no-risk opportunity to compare their science and math skills with those of other students around the world.  Tutorials, quizzes, hints, practice exercises, and links for middle school and elementary students are all part of this animated site.  Materials for high school students are forthcoming.

 

Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Bill Nye's online science lab.  Offers a teachers lounge and a lot of other neat stuff.

 

Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database

Searchable Animal Information Database, educational resources and career information.

 

NASA

The homepage of NASA.

 

Periodic Table

This website is an interactive periodic table with a comprehensive database of element properties, which can be searched and collated in novel and useful ways. Pictures of elements and compounds are being taken and collected into the database. Periodic table art, music and educational games are available. A huge listing of other periodic tables on the internet is on this website, sorted and annotated.

 

www.exploratorium.edu

The Museum of Science, Art, and human perception.

 

Interactive Learning Network

Focusing on K-12 science and mathematics, ILN gives students a hands-on, no-risk opportunity to compare their science and math skills with those of other students around the world.  Tutorials, quizzes, hints, practice exercises, and links for middle school and elementary students are all part of this animated site.  Materials for high school students are forthcoming.

 

 

Social Studies

History/Social Studies Web Sites for K-12 Teachers

The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

 

Infonation

InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.

U.S. Census Bureau

Provides information collected from recent census', you select the subject, it gives you the statistics.

 

Elementary Teacher Links

White House for Kids

Provides kids virtual tours of the White House plus many more educational aspects of the White House in a kid friendly web environment.

 

The HistoryNet

Where History lives on the internet.

 

Today In History

Provides birthdates, deaths, battles and many more items that occurred on the date you access the site.  Very interesting!

 

Interactive Learning Network

Focusing on K-12 science and mathematics, ILN gives students a hands-on, no-risk opportunity to compare their science and math skills with those of other students around the world.  Tutorials, quizzes, hints, practice exercises, and links for middle school and elementary students are all part of this animated site.  Materials for high school students are forthcoming.

 

Technology

www.thinkquest.net

ThinkQuest programs encourage the advancement of education through the use of technology.

 

NetDay Compass

With the launch of  NetDay Compass, the first Web-based directory of education technology resources, educators can search the comprehensive data to help aid in technology investment decisions.  The directory lists more than 400 sites and is divided into five sections:  technology planning; infrastructure; grants and funding; classroom support; and best practices and real stories.  NetDay is a non-profit organization.

 

 

Art

Arts Wire Spider School

Designed to create an online artistic community to help artists integrate technology into their work.  Offers instructional tutorials, workshops, and advice for creating Web-based projects.

 

 

This page was last updated on 03/19/2004 by Philisha Stallbaumer