Subject / Website

Description

Web Address

General Websites

http://www.nisd.net/zachry/ARList.htm (alplabetically by title)
http://www.nisd.net/zachry/ARLevel.htm (by reading level)

Your colleagues in the Apple Learning Interchange have located and cataloged thousands of Internet resources that can be valuable for teaching and learning.

http://ali.apple.com/ali/resources.shtml

Lesson Plans for a variety of curricula

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/new2.shtml

bigchalk.com uses the Internet to put everyone closer to the information they need.

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/

WOPortal.woa/wa/BCCorpDA/display?type=

Corporates&page=mission.html

Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html

If you are looking for a great web site on a particular topic or curriculum area, there are educational sites that have already done the work for you. These sites have collected and organized exemplary web sites and lessons for schools. If you don't want your students to search for information, but want to point them to specific web sites that you have already researched, then check these sites out and see which one best fits your curriculum needs.

http://buddyproject.org/less/data.asp

Share Ideas, collaborate, and make the most of the Internet in your classroom.

http://www.classroom.com/community/community.jhtml;jsessionid=

WB5LZUXUXVE2NQFIAJICFEQ?_requestid=17308

Curriculum matrix

http://www.edgate.com/site/guide/matrix/

http://school.discovery.com/schoolhome.html

Lesson Plans - Worksheets - Teacher's Lesson Plans - WebQuests - Primary Teacher Resources - Math Lesson Plans - Writing Lesson Plans - Reading Lesson Plans - Science Lesson Plans - Technology Lesson Plans - Social Studies Lesson Plans - ...

http://www.edhelper.com/

Subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Every month hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and parents visit Education Planet to find educator-approved resources and services.

http://educationplanet.com/

·         a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet

·         original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts

·         site reviews
·         daily features and columns
·         teacher and principal profiles
·         Wire Side Chats with the important names in education
·         employment listings.

http://www.education-world.com/

Ideas for web-based lessons

http://k-6educators.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org

%2Fteachersource%2Fteachtech%2Fideaswebbased.shtm

A prescreened directory of more than 20,000 links in more than 50 categories, how to create a hot list, and teacher clip art.

http://eduhound.com/

Tons of links to Educational Organizations and Government Education Sites

http://www.edu-it.com/resources.html

You’ve got mail!  10 nifty ways your teachers can use e-mail to extend kids’ learning.

http://www.electronic-school.com/0398f5.html

Enchanted learning produces children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

The museum of science, art and human perception

http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html

Seventeen resources in the arts, social studies, & science have been added to the Federal Resources for Educational  Excellence (FREE) website.  FREE makes it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others to find teaching & learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations.

http://www.ed.gov/free/

Explore Learning Goals and Activity Formats
Teachers can use Filamentality to create Web-based learning pages that include the teacher's choice of Internet links and activities focused on achieving a specific goal.

http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/guides.html#teachers

Teacher Controlled e-mail providing safe, easy to set up accounts.  Great for collaborative projects w/ other schools.

http://gaggle.net/

Global SchoolNet is the leader in collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.

http://www.gsn.org/

How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will you use today? A car? Computer? Telephone? Explore our list of the top 20 achievements, and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world.

http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/index.html

Modern day pen pals to connect students and teachers around the world.

http://www.keypals.com/

Lesson plans, cross-curricular lessons and more!

http://www.teachervision.com/?wtlAC=myschoolonline.com,LNnav

An on-line library of language arts and math exercises and activities for K-6 educators.

http://www.lessonlogic.com/

Offers over 2000 lesson plans for many different curricula.

http://www.lessonplansearch.com/

PreK-12 teacher resources on the Internet, and it's completely free!

http://lessonplanspage.com/

The LibrarySpot.com is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.

http://libraryspot.com/

GENERAL 700+ Great Sites...: "Amazing, spectacular, mysterious, colorful web sites for kids and the adults.

http://www.sru.edu/depts/library/imc/links.htm

The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts.

http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/

Internet content for the classroom.

http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/

Lesson Plans and teacher tips for integrating technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=ClassProductivity

Home of the Encarta Lesson Collection and other educational resources. You can find lessons by subject, grade level, or keyword.

http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/

District Standards

http://www.nisd.net/academicstandards/

Equip educators with "Just-In-Time" strategies for the unpredictable challenges or "OOPS" moments of classroom teaching.

http://www.oops.bizland.com/

Featured Lesson Plans and activities

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

Links to Web Quests and other lesson plans.

http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/

Free Teaching Resources: Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Free worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.

http://rhlschool.com/

Free worksheets, online activities and free software.

http://schoolexpress.com/

Provides K-12 schools with Internet enabled solutions.  Includes lesson plans and links

http://www.schoolone.com/resources.htm

Hundreds of links for teachers!

http://sitesforteachers.com/

A “spring board” to numerous preselected sites for a variety of curricula for students and teachers

http://www.lburkhart.com/elem/stud.htm

TAKS Objectives

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/taks/objectives/index.html\

TEKS

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/

Smart tools for busy teachers.  Lesson plans and links.

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/

Quality links for teachers, students and parents.

http://expage.com/teach2000

Teacher quotes, lesson plans, projects, puzzlemakers, and tons more!!

http://www.netrox.net/~labush/tchlinks.html

State of Texas Standards

http://www.teacheruniverse.com/news/standards_links_pgs/tx.html

Enhancing communications among teachers, students and parents

http://teacherweb.com/

Lesson Ideas for grades 5 and 6.

http://knownet.net/users/ackley/lessons.html

Curriculum and Lesson Plan Search

http://teachnet.org/

The resource for education technology leaders, with contributions from hundreds of K-12 teachers, administrators & other experts in the field.

http://techlearning.com/

The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!

http://thegateway.org/

The Teacher's Corner was launched in 1998 as an online resource for educators.  This site offers lesson plans for nearly every curricula.

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/

Project Labs for a variety of subjects

http://t3.thinkquest.org/projectlab/classprojects.html

Responding to the national need for sustained teacher training, Thirteen/WNET New York, PBS's flagship station, developed Thirteen Ed Online. This free service features everything from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to a multimedia primer, online mentors, and reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/

WebExhibits produces novel exhibits, to help improve cultural literacy, by promoting online exhibits and interesting the public in links between art with science. We also locate other high quality exhibits on the internet, including many subjects, from the general interest to the highly academic.

http://webexhibits.org/

Here are concrete examples of how some teachers are integrating technology into their daily classroom life.

http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/growing/works4me/tech/techclas.html#across

Lesson plans, web quests, quiz generators and more!

http://www.4teachers.org/

K-12 Reference Materials and Lesson Plans

http://d4.dir.dcx.yahoo.com/education/k_12/teaching/lesson_plans/

Internet Literacy, Sample Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/

Other School Resources

Dynamic Technology Teaching on Diverse Instruction – see Virtual Learning Environment and others.

http://ls.allenisd.org/lspace/kids+-+diverse+instruction/schedule.nsf?OpenDatabase

Teacher Integration Projects

http://www.nisd.net/jbconww/CIT/tprojects.htm

Resource and Reference Links

http://www.nisd.net/jbconww/Resources/index.htm

Middle School Curriculum-Based Modules

http://www.howard.k12.md.us/res/resmod.html

Technology Integration and Grade Level Links

http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/tech/tech.htm

Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online

http://www.pasadenaisd.org/sailon/Grade7.htm

Lesson Plans and Curriculum Links

http://www.strato.net/~sms/web2.html

Website Portal to a variety of resources

http://www.nisd.net/stinww/onlineresources/ksonlineresourcesportals.htm

Technology Integration Lessons

http://www.nisd.net/stinww/technology/kstechnologytips.htm

Web Quests

Web Quests from a variety of curricula.

http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/6_8.html

The Web Quest page for higher level thinking lesson plans.

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

Electives

Learn about ancient Chinese technology and the history of Chinese inventions and inventors. Find lesson plans for teachers. Learn about the kite, chopsticks, umbrellas, gunpowder, firecrackers, the steelyard, abacus, cloisonné, ceramics, papermaking and more.

http://inventors.about.com/cs/chineseinventors/index.htm?

iam=dpile_1&terms=%22industrial+arts%22+%22industrial+

technology%22+lesson+plan%2A

Bring out the dramatic and musical sides of your students.

http://k-6educators.about.com/cs/musicandtheater1/index.htm?

iam=dpile_1&terms=music+education+lesson+plan%2A

Links to a variety of Music Ed. Resources

http://musicians.about.com/cs/education/index.htm?

iam=dpile_1&terms=music+education+lesson+plan%2A

Links and lesson plans on Vocational / Industrial Technology

http://7-12educators.about.com/cs/lessonsvocational/index.htm?terms=%22

industrial+arts%22+%22industrial+technology%22+lesson+plan%2A

Lesson Plans, Curriculum Ideas and Image Galleries and Exhibitions

http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/

Links to lesson plans on Spanish

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/cgi-bin/listApps.pl?Spanish

This is the Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes.   Our site is a unique resource with the largest collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web --updating current cartoons from 54 newspaper editorial cartoonists are presented with the permission and participation of the creators who include the top names in the field

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/teacher/

Links to Journalism Resources

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/journ.html

The largest collection of free art lessons on the Internet!

http://www.kinderart.com/

Journalism Lesson Plans

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/journalism.html

"Smithsonian Jazz" celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month, April, by offering sound clips, information about jazz events, a directory of jazz societies (by state & country), links to other jazz websites, & four online "classes" featuring Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, & Benny Carter. (SI,ED)

http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/

Music Education Lesson Plans for Band, Choir and Orchestra

http://www.talentz.com/MusicEd/LessonPlans/LessonPlans.mv

A virtual center for fine arts teachers that extends professional development in the arts beyond the traditional teacher training workshop. This Web site is one of several tools CEDFA has developed for teachers to use in the process of helping their students demonstrate the TEKS for fine arts.

http://finearts.esc20.net/

"West Building: Then & Now" celebrates the 60th anniversary (March 2001) of the opening of the National Gallery of Art.  An online photo essay shows how the West Building & its environs have changed over the years. (NGA)

http://www.nga.gov/feature/thenandnow/thenandnow.htm

Lesson Plan and Activity Resource Links for Technology Education

http://www.camas.wednet.edu/chs/netlinks/tech/lesson.html

Gifted and Talented

For Special Ed and GT – Explore the mass of education-related resources on the net

http://www.atpe.org/TeachersToolbag/linkspeced.htm

This page contains links to lesson plans and resources for special education as well as lesson plans for students who are gifted and talented. It also contains lesson plans about individuals with disabilities (Helen Keller or FDR, for instance) and lesson plans for learning about and promoting acceptance of students with disabilities.

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edexc.htm

Research-based Resources

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/resource.html

Links to GT Web Sites

http://www.teachercreated.com/links/spedgt.html

Language Arts

Writing Resources

http://geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/index.html

Language Arts Lesson Plans

http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts

Subjects Quick List

http://teenwriting.about.com/library/blextras/blextra156.htm?

iam=dpile_1&terms=%22journalism%22+lesson+plans

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.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Lesson Plan Links

http://www.nwrel.org/sky/mat.asp?ID=3&search=2&m=23&d=6

Lesson Plans Integrating Technology: English Language Arts, Grades 5-12

http://tlcfg.tstboces.org/lessonplans/ela/ela_5-12/index.html

Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

Math

Provides a premier source of classroom tested, internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.

http://www.econedlink.org/

ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.

http://www.enc.org/

Internet resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html

Physical Education

Large database of Health and Physical Education Lesson Ideas!

http://pe.central.vt.edu/lessonideas/pelessonplans.html

This page is dedicated to providing a space for Physical Educators to share lesson ideas. 

http://members.tripod.com/~pazz/lesson.html

Activities and Links to PE Sites

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/physical_education

Reading

Writing Resources

http://geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/index.html

Parents, Kids and Teacher Resources

http://www.scholastic.com/index.asp

Science

Science Fair Central – creative investigations into the real world

http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/

ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.

http://www.enc.org/

"Global Science & Technology Week" suggests how schools & communities can use the week of April 28 - May 4 to generate excitement about disciplines that underpin breakthroughs in medicine, space exploration, & more.  That week, students can send questions (via email) that will be answered by scientists & engineers.  On April 28, a webcast will feature scientists & engineers who create visual models of molecules & Mars (using supercomputers), devise replacements & improvements in the human body, & discover scientific truths about the universe. (OSTP)

http://www.ostp.gov/html/gstw/2002/gstw.html

Space Exploration for teenagers and older… also link to NASA Kids.

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/

"Mirror Molecules" helps students see the importance & uses of "stereoisomers" -- molecules that mirror of each other. (SNMAH)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/hosc/molecule/

NASA KIDS offers a fun way for children to learn about NASA's activities and science, using interactive tools and kid-attractive pages. NASA KIDS is an on-line or printable resource designed for kids aged 5 to 14.

http://www.eduhound.com/weeklyspotlight.cfm

Their goal is to stimulate interest in science, to promote public understanding of science, and to strengthen science education.

http://www.fi.edu/tfi/info/history.html

The designer’s purpose was to develop a fun and different Web site about the Earth and Space sciences.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

Social Studies

"Asian-Pacific Heritage Month" provides information about the historical contributions of Asian & Pacific peoples in the U.S. & territories.  It includes links to Pacific Islander heritage & Asian American heritage websites.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/asia/

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 19,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.  

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Current Events written for students

http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/

Facts about the United States flag

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/flag.htm

"HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things" offers a virtual tour of selected objects not on display in the National Museum of American History.  Artifacts are presented in a dozen categories, including the arts, commerce, home, leisure, medicine, military, people, politics, science, & technology.  Among the artifacts: the

portable lap desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's camp chest & military uniform, the Star-Spangled Banner, an African American tenant farm house, the first commercially available personal computer, & Thomas Edison's electric pen.

http://historywired.si.edu/index.html

Access the K-12 Kids Voting USA Curriculum, Civics Alive!.

http://kidsvotingusa.org/teacher.html

Online Adventures, Maps and Geography, Lesson Plans, Teacher Community and Teacher Store

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/

The Educator's Guide to Learning Differences delivers concise and comprehensible information about learning disabilities, including helpful definitions, accurate statistics, the most recent research findings, and research-based classroom strategies and resources. With a special section on the issues involved in learning to read, the Guide can be an asset in your teaching practices for all your students.

http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=433&g=4

"Thank You, Mr. Edison: Electricity, Innovation, & Social Change" is a lesson in which students learn about the invention of the phonograph, the impact of electricity on Americans, & Thomas Edison's role in the electrification of America. (LOC)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/edison/intro.html

The Amana Colonies" looks at the historic utopian society established in the 1850s along the Iowa River by German-speaking settlers from a religious group known as the Community of True Inspiration.  The group, which originated in Himbach, Germany, in 1714, created a communal system of seven villages, each with mills, shops, homes, communal kitchens, schools, & churches.  This website looks at the group's history, beliefs, buildings, & more.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/travel/amana/index.htm

"The Battle at Stones River: The Soldiers' Story" provides

readings, maps, & visual representations of this battle near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which was the second bloodiest battle fought west of the Appalachians during the Civil War.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/40stones/40stones.htm

"The Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil  War" helps students place the Battle of Prairie Grove in the context of Arkansas' role in the Civil War.  Photos & readings from eye witness accounts of the battle depict the harsh realities of Civil War & its effects on both soldiers & civilians.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/70prairie/70prairie.htm

What happened this day in history, classroom activities and search engines.

http://historychannel.com/

"Thomas Alva Edison" examines several of his inventions -- the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, & electric light bulb.  Students learn about his life & how to create their own light bulb.

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/edison/html/thomas_alva_edison.html

"Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting" puts students in the role of historians as they examine a buffalo hide painting & click on areas that reveal clues to the painting's story.  The story helps students understand the role of the buffalo in the lives of the northern plains American Indians. (SNMAH)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/buffalo/index.html

Global teaching and learning project

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/

"Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890" presents letters, business papers, photos, maps, ship logbooks, & narratives that can help students understand the story of American's travel by sea to settle California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, & the Pacific Northwest.  Themes illustrated by these materials, selected from Mystic Seaport's collection, include whaling, life at sea, the California Gold Rush, & native populations. (LOC)

http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html

"What Are We Fighting for Over There? Perspectives on the Great War" is a unit in which students use primary documents to develop an understanding of the World War I era, including how the U.S. prepared for & participated in the war & how the war foreshadowed the role of the U.S. as a world power of the 20th Century. (LOC)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/lincolnm/intro.html

An online resource w/ current events from the White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/index2.html

"You Be the Conservator" invites students to play the role of a museum conservator, discovering clues about an historical object in order to preserve or restore it.  In the featured activity, the object is a "santo," a painted woodcarving of a saint in the Catholic Church. (SNMAH)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/hosc/santos/index.htm

"You Be the Historian" invites students to examine clues & determine what life was like for a family that lived in New Castle, Delaware, during the 1700s.  Students also discover what historians in the next century might learn about us if they found our homes the way they are today. (SNMAH)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer/index.htm

Special Education

The IRSC web site is dedicated to children with disabilities and other health related disorders worldwide. Their mission is to improve the lives of these children by providing valuable information to parents, family members, caregivers, friends, educators, and medical professionals who provide them services and support.

http://www.irsc.org:8080/irsc/irscmain.nsf

For Special Ed and GT – Explore the mass of education-related resources on the net

http://www.atpe.org/TeachersToolbag/linkspeced.htm

This page contains links to lesson plans and resources for special education as well as lesson plans for students who are gifted and talented. It also contains lesson plans about individuals with disabilities (Helen Keller or FDR, for instance) and lesson plans for learning about and promoting acceptance of students with disabilities.

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edexc.htm