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Using the Internet in the Classroom
General
- Education Place for Students
- Blue Web'n
-- searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites
categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,
resources, references, & tools)
- Classroom Connect
Classroom Connect is a business unit within the publisher Harcourt.
It contains learning resources for K-12 educators and their students.
- Community Learning Network
"Welcome to the Community Learning Network, a site designed to help K-12
teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated
links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword
search."
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Core Knowledge
Contains Lesson plans from Core Knowledge Foundation national conferences
- Education Index
This is a guide to useful education-related sites on the web. Categorized by
subject and age group
- Education World
"Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet." Search engine
of around 500,000 educational Web sites. Lesson plans, articles written by education experts,
and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom
- Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Provides the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality Internet
lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. Browse subject
and keyword lists, or search The Gateway
- Government
Resources Especially for Teachers
Contains links to government agency websites designed for K-12 teachers
- Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators
This excellent site is now a part of Discovery.com. It has a
categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing
curriculum and teacher professional growth. There are lesson plans on all
subjects for different grade levels, excellent teaching tools to help you
make your own puzzles, quizzes, worksheets, and there's clip art that you
can also use
- Landmarks for Schools
A project of David Warlick, former history teacher, district level administrator,
and consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction.
Links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and collaborative online
projects. Provides elementary, middle level and secondary search. This was one of the earliest educational
websites on the Internet, and contains links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools.
- The Learning Site
This site is maintained by Harcourt School Publishers. It contains resources for grades K-8 in Reading, Language
Arts, Spelling, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health and Art.
- Scholastic for Teachers
This is the website of the Scholastic children's publishing company, and on this site you can order materials, but
there are a lot of activities, games and lesson plans that you could use in the classroom
- TeacherVision.com
This site has teacher materials and lesson plans in many subjects. It also has
resources on classroom management.
- Time (Magazine) for Kids
There is a wealth of information at this site. There is information on current events for different grade levels,
games, research aids, and teacher's resources, such as: reproducibles on many subjects, and other resources. The only drawback to the use
of this site is your institution has to subscribe to the paper edition of Time Magazine for Kids.
- Surfing the Net with Kids
This site is a guide to the best sites for kids on the Internet
maintained by Barbara Feldman. These sites are fun and educational. She has
a directory of sites divided by topic, plus, if you want to subscribe to -
the newsletter, you will be e-mailed a weekly list of fun, educational Web
sites on a different topic each week. She also has a directory of many different
types of games
- Government Resources Especially for Kids
- Kids Domain: Great Spots
on the Web
- Fact Monster
- UpToTen: The Fun Place to Learn Online
- Activities for Kids
- Embracing the Child
- Internet4Classrooms: Links for K-12 Teachers
- PBS Teachersource
Science
- Windows to the Universe
One of the best astronomy sites on the Internet. It contains information about the earth, sun, moon, planets, and stars in three
levels: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
- DragonFly TV
A science television program on PBS that has science activities for kids
- Bucket Buddies
Students around the United States and other countries will collect samples
from local ponds to answer the question: Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over
the world?
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SeaWorld Teacher Guides
teacher's guides to help teach students--in an active, hands-on way--about
how people interact with the environment and how we can best care for Earth's
resources. Integrates science, mathematics, geography, art, and language.
- Science Learning Network
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The Why Files
The Why Files is a useful resource to help students
learn about science by using news and current events as a springboard to
explore science and the larger issues it raises, and to explain the process,
culture and people that shape it. The Why Files removes the mystery
from science -- but not the excitement. To help students use our growing resource,
and to help teachers integrate our content into lesson plans and curricula
geared to the National Science Education Standards, we have linked our content
to specific standards. Sprinkled through our archive are interactive quizzes
and hands-on projects that can add depth to students' understanding of the
scientific enterprise.
-
Ranger Rick go Wild
- Science in Africa
- Iron Science Teacher!
- Bridging the Watershed
- Did You Ever Wonder?
- Scholastic's The Magic School Bus
- The Science Explorer: Exploratorium
- Funology: The Laboratory
- PBS Kids: ZOOMSci
- Easy Science Experiments with Steve Spangler
- 101Science.com: Science Experiments
- Hunkin's Experiments
- Lesson Plans Page: Science Experiments
- Science Experiments at Home
- ENC Online
History
Mathematics
English, Language, & Literature
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and
Student Activities
"CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of
instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and
teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected
web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards."
Spelling
Geography
Life Skills
- Consumer Jungle
"Everybody knows it's a jungle out there. Credit cards, car loans, even your
own checkbook - for the unguided consumer, the pitfalls abound. You never know who could be
trying to monkey with your money."
Health/Physical Education
Economics
Reading, Literacy
Politics, Government
NOTE: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy
of these pages, errors may occur on occasion. Please verify any information
obtained on these pages with the relevant department before relying on the
information for anything critical.
Maintained by Dennis
Miles , Reference/Systems Librarian
Copyright © 1997
Last Updated June 24, 2008
