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Sites 2 Good 2 Miss - Curriculum Resources

Reference Tools
(i.e. dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.)

Curriculum Resources
MarcoPolo	the One Stop Curriculum Resource Place - for all content areas
Middle School Technology Integration	These lessons have been developed by NISD middle school CITs and content area teachers. We proudly give you these lesson plans and materials as additional resources for your use. Do not look upon them as 'additional' work. These lessons are intended to either take the place of existing lessons or existing end-of-unit assessments but with technology integrated into them.
The Educator's Reference Desk (Used to be AskEric)	The Educator’s Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator’s Reference Desk will bring you the resources you have come to depend on. More than 2,000 unique lesson plans, which have been written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. Over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups developed by an expert team of network information specialists in response to educators’ questions. More than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice
Blue Web'N	Pacific Bell has developed an extremely organized site which is searchable by content area, grade level, or subject. Find online resources, lesson plans, and hotlists at this site. Scroll down to the grid below the main page and see exactly what is site holds for you and your content area.
Education Place Activity Search	Search for lesson plans by the type of activity the students will complete.
National Geographic Lesson Plans	The educator's section of National Geo - find a variety of lesson plans in every subject area
Scholastic Teachers	Browse through the 5 tabs at the top of the page: Teacher Home, Online Activities, Lesson Plans, Teaching Strategies, and Tools.
Discovery School	Check out the orange left panel for information on lesson plans, teaching tools, curriculum center and homework help.
Smithsonian Institute	Lesson and activity ideas in art, science, technology, history, culture, and language arts.
Education Index	An annotated guide to education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about us, and about all that the Education Index has to offer.
Education World	Contains resources in the form of lesson plans, professional development, technology integration, and much more.
SCORE: Schools of California Online Resources for Educators	Complete, high quality web-based lessons in math, science, history, and language arts. These are created by California classroom teachers.
From Revolution to Reconstruction	The main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications: An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature.
PIZZAZ Writing	People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling: PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, nonprofit use only.
Letters, Lettering Writing and other Intimate Discourse	This site not only covers the mechanics of writing but is also contains collections of letters such as those of Jane Austen, US Presidents, and much more.
The Virtual Cell Website	Teachers will find worksheets available here. These sheets help direct your students activities when using the cell tour.
Aesop's Fables	Since 1994 Professor Copper Giloth has assigned her students in Art 271, Introduction to Computing in the Fine Arts, the task of illustrating the traditional Aesop's fables along side their own retellings of the fables in a modern setting. This collection gathers together artwork from several semesters.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators	Evaluating websites: So you found a website you would like to use with your students, now what? Does it meet your intended purpose? Go to Kathy Schrock's site for help.
Best Webquests	A website with lists and lists of webquests to use. The webquests are divided up by content area and grade level. Each webquest is given a rating out of 5 stars.
Art Education	A lifetime of art: studying, creating, learning art and art games.
Web English Teacher	Don't let the name fool you. Students will find valuable information here to help with research papers, book reports, literature, mythology, vocabulary, all types of writing and much more. Teachers can sign up for a monthly newsletter.
Lanuage Arts	Huge, huge resource of all topics in the Language Arts. It is impossible to describe - LA teachers must check out this site. Also check out the link on the page at the top labeled 'Dictionaires and Other Resources.'
Children's Theatre	A site full of lesson plans, play summaries, classroom ideas, and much more.