Fred

Fred’s Collection of Educational & Online Resources

LESSON PLAN SOURCES - While many of the sites listed in other categories include lesson plans, the following are extensive collections that are grouped by level and content area, and can easily be searched by topic.

· AskERIC, ericir.syr.edu

· Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans, www.col-ed.org/cur

· EdHelper.com, www.edhelper.com

· Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/edles.html

· LessonPlansPage.com, www.lessonplanspage.com

· McREL Educator Resources, www.mcrel.org/resources

· Schoolhouse, encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse*

STUDENT RESEARCH RESOURCES - The following resources include age-appropriate sites to help students complete homework assignments, answer their own questions, and do focused research.

· Ask Jeeves Kids, ajkids.com

· Bigchalk HomeworkCentral, www.bigchalk.com*

· Britannica, www.britannica.com

· CyberSleuth Kids, cybersleuth-kids.com

· Encarta Learning and Research, encarta.msn.com

· Fact Monster, www.factmonster.com

· HomeworkSpot, www.homeworkspot.com

· Infoplease.com, www.infoplease.com

· Itools, www.itools.com

· KidsClick, www.kidsclick.org*

· The National Student Research Center, youth.net/nsrc

· Refdesk.com, www.refdesk.com

· StudyWeb, www.studyweb.com

· SurfMonkey, www.surfmonkey.com

· Webivore, www.webivore.com

· Yahooligans, the Web Guide for Kids, www.yahooligans.com

WEB PORTALS - Education portals are sites that provide integrated resources, tools and services through single locations, such as administrative applications and online curriculum options.

· SchoolTone Alliance, www.schooltone.com

· BritannicaSchool, www.britannicaschool.com

· PowerSchool, powerschool.com

· Sun Microsystems, www.sun.com/edu

· Timecruiser/Schoolcruiser, www.timecruiser.com

SCHOOL/TEACHER/STUDENT CURRICULUM SITES - Many schools and individuals offer outstanding curriculum sites, many of which are for the common educational good. The following are selected examples.

· AP Calculus, www.seresc.k12.nh.us/www/alvirne.html

· Joan Berger's Windows to the World, www.concentric.net/~Jberger5

· Busy Teachers' WebSite K12, www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt

· The Falcon's Nest, www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/upk/upk.home.html

· Keeley Library Assignment and Curriculum Resources, www.massed.net/~constant

· Les Classes de Monsieur Long, www.laconia.k12.nh.us/plong

· North Star Navigators, www.capecod.net/voyage

· B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper, school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck

· Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, discoveryschool.com/schrockguide

· Mrs. Silverman's Webfolio, kids-learn.org

· Student Web Projects, techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/web.htm

COMPANY/ORGANIZATION CURRICULUM COLLECTIONS -Most education companies and organizations offer online curriculum resources, such as the following examples.

· AOL@School, school.aol.com*

· Apple Education, www.apple.com/education

· AT&T Learning Network, www.att.com/learningnetwork

· Bigchalk.com, www.bigchalk.com*

· Classroom Connect, www.classroom.com*

· Crayola, www.crayola.com

· Disney Edu-Station, disney.go.com/educational

· EBSCO Web4School, www.web4school.com

· EdGate Copernicus Education Gateway, www.edgate.com*

· Harcourt School Publishers, The Learning Site, www.hbschool.com

· Houghton Mifflin Education Place, www.eduplace.com

· JDL K-12World, www.k-12world.com

· Knowledge Adventure, www.knowledgeadventure.com

· The Learning Company School Division, www.learningcompanyschool.com

· Learning Network, www.learningnetwork.com*

· Lightspan.com, www.lightspan.com*

· Macmillan/McGraw-Hill World, www.mmhschool.com

· Mindsurf Networks, www.mindsurfnetworks.com*

· NetSchools, www.netschools.com

· Pearson Education, www.pearsoneducation.com

· Pitsco Innovative Education, www.pitsco.com

· Riverdeep Interactive Learning, www.riverdeep.com*

· Scholastic.com, www.scholastic.com*

· Tom Snyder Productions, www.tomsnyder.com

ONLINE PROJECT SOURCES -The sites below are outstanding places to find free and fee-based online education projects, and also offer chances to propose your own projects.

· AdventureOnline.com, www.adventureonline.com

· Generation www.Y, genyes.org/genwwwy

· Global Schoolhouse (now at Lightspan), www.lightspan.com

· HighWired, www.highwired.com*

· iEARN—International Education and Resource Network, www.iearn.org

· IECC, Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections Projects, www.iecc.org

· JASON Project, www.jason.org

· KIDLINK/KIDPROJ, www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ

· NASA Classroom of the Future, www.cotf.edu

· NASA Quest, quest.arc.nasa.gov

· NASA SpaceLink, spacelink.nasa.gov

· OnlineClass, www.onlineclass.com

· SharedLearning.net, www.sharedlearning.net

· SitesALIVE, www.sitesalive.com

· Thinkquest/Thinkquest Junior, www.thinkquest.org

LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS - The following sites will link you to libraries, museums and interactive exhibits throughout the world.

· American Memory Historical Collections, memory.loc.gov

· American Museum of Natural History, www.amnh.org

· Ellis Island/American Family Immigration Center, www.ellisisland.org

· The Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu

· The Franklin Institute Online, www.fi.edu

· Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide, www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html

· The Internet Public Library, www.ipl.org

· The Library of Congress, lcweb.loc.gov

· MuseumNetwork.com,www.museumnetwork.com

· National Air and Space Museum, www.nasm.edu

· National Archives and Records Administration, www.nara.gov

· Smithsonian Institution, www.si.edu

· United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org

· WebMuseum Network, metalab.unc.edu/wm/net

ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS - The following sites offer creative child-appealing educational and recreational materials including puzzles, stories, games and interactive activities.

· Berit's Best Sites for Children, www.beritsbest.com

· Cyberkids, www.cyberkids.com

· Fun-Attic, www.funattic.com

· Funbrain, www.funbrain.com

· Global Show-n-Tell, www.telenaut.com/gst

· Headbone Zone, www.headbone.com

· Humongous Entertainment, www.humongous.com

· KidsCom, www.kidscom.com

· The Kids on the Web, www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html

· Lycos Zone, www.lycoszone.com

· MaMaMedia.com, www.mamamedia.com

· MSN Kidz, kids.msn.com

· WWW.4kids.org, www.4kids.org

· Zeeks.com, Zeeks.com

SCHOOLS ON THE WEB - One of the best ways to see examples of online assignments, activities, projects, units and courses is to visit school sites throughout the United States and abroad.

· American School Directory, www.asd.com

· CyberSchool, CyberSchool.4j.lane.edu

· HotList of K-12 Internet School Sites, connectedteacher.classroom.com/community/gleason

· Web66 Registry of Schools on the Web, web66.coled.umn.edu

PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES - The following sites offer a variety of resources for technology planning, finding grants, writing proposals, doing staff development and communicating with colleagues.

· Acceptable Use Policies: A Handbook, www.pen.k12.va.us/go/VDOE/Technology/AUP/home.shtml

· Administrators.Net, administrators.net

· AT&T Learning Network Virtual Academy, www.att.com/learningnetwork/virtualacademy

· Blackboard.com, www.blackboard.com

· Developing Educational Standards, www.PutnamValleySchools.org/Standards.html

· Educational Research Network, www.ernweb.com

· Educators.Net, www.educatorsnet.com

· Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education www.enc.org/

· ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, www.ericae.net

· Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, www.ed.gov/free

· GrantsWeb, www.srainternational.org/cws/sra/resource.htm

· Library in the Sky, www.nwrel.org/sky

· National Center for Technology Planning, www.nctp.com

· National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov

· StateStandards.com,www.statestandards.com

· TeachersFirst.com,www.teachersfirst.com

· Teachers.Net, www.teachers.net

· Teachersweb.com,www.teachersweb.com

· TeacherVision, www.teachervision.com

· Teachnet.com, www.teachnet.com

· The U. S. Department of Education, www.ed.gov

· World Class Teacher Training, WCTT.4j.lane.edu

· www4teachers, www.4teachers.org

· HireEd.net, www.hireed.net

INFORMATION INDEXES - An information index is a set of topic menus and sub-menus to narrow searches and find what you need. Yahoo is the most popular, but there are other choices, including specialized education indexes.

· Yahoo, www.yahoo.com

· About.com, www.about.com

· Education Planet, www.educationplanet.com*

· Education World, www.education-world.com*

· EduPuppy.com, www.edupuppy.com

· Galaxy, www.einet.net/galaxy.html

· HotBot, hotbot.lycos.com

· LinkOpedia, www.linkopedia.com

· Searchopolis, www.searchopolis.com

· StartSpot Network, www.startspot.com

· The WWW Virtual Library, vlib.org

SEARCH ENGINES - Search engines are online tools that find Web pages containing words or phrases that you specify—put phrases in quotes, such as "global warming." The last three below are "metasearch engines" that use multiple search tools simultaneously.

· Alltheweb, www.alltheweb.com

· AltaVista, www.altavista.com

· Ask Jeeves, www.aj.com

· Direct Hit, www.directhit.com

· Excite, www.excite.com

· Go.com, go.com

· Google, www.google.com

· Lycos, www.lycos.com

· NBCi, www.nbci.com

· Northern Light, www.northernlight.com

· Search.com, search.com

· SearchEdu, www.searchedu.com

· SearchEngines.com, www.searchengines.com

· WebCrawler, www.webcrawler.com

· Dogpile, www.dogpile.com

· FindThisPage.com, www.findthispage.com

· MetaCrawler, www.metacrawler.com

COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA - The sites below offer online communications resources including teaching and learning materials from newspapers, radio and television.

· Annenberg/CPB Exhibits, www.learner.org/exhibits

· ABC News, abcnews.go.com

· Book TV.org, www.booktv.org

· CBS News, www.cbsnews.com

· CNN.com, www.cnn.com

· CNNfyi.com, fyi.cnn.com*

· Sesame Workshop, sesameworkshop.org

· Discovery.com, www.discovery.com

· DiscoverySchool.com, school.discovery.com*

· ESPN.com, espn.go.com

· Fox News, www.foxnews.com

· HBO 4kids.com, www.hbo4kids.com