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                                                               last updated  August 25, 2003

Look below for Education liinks….and some other favorites at the end of the page J

.Read Mel Levine's book? Check out the website: http://www.allkindsofminds.org/

See the latest article about dyslexia in the July 28^th issue of Time magazine.

Check out one of my new favorites for this school year: English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Health, Technology mini-activities…get two free a day, or subscribe….BRAIN POP

Kutztown University of PA link....

                                                               EDUCATION
 

     General sites to start at:

Problem solving in mathematics link http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt725/EMT725.html

NEW! Brain teasers…by grade level http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/

NEW! Check out http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html Aunty Math! J

 NEW! Link to http://www.edhelper.com/ for all sorts of printable freebies in math and language arts… this includes math from addition/subtraction through probability and logarithms!

Check out Thinkquest library resources…all subject areas…http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

Art adventures / information online…a great resource…http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/

Try this site for printable charts, graph paper, planners, etc .http://donnayoung.org/forms.htm

 American Science Surplus---great site for hands-on goodies!
 Scientific American
 The Great Courses
 Link to graphic organizers for teachers

 Education World projects
 Creative Classroom
 Global Schoolhouse activities
 Rubrics for teachers....lots of them, well organized!
 Online expeditions/field trips
 Ask an expert in the field....great resource for educators

Daily Grammar
 Recommended by a fellow homeschooler...an AWESOME site!!
 Free worksheets
 More lessons

 Web adventures in different subjects
 
Mathematics and Children's Literature
 
 Math links on web--mega source
 gateway site
 
 motivating students in math (middle school)
 Linking math to real-life careers
 Web-linked ideas
 Mathematics Projects
 NASA lessons/mathematics
 Lesson plans mathematics
 Patterns in Mathematics

Homework help/math links/math sites....GREAT !!

Printable worksheets sorted by subject matter--Internet Educational Workbook
 Super Kids Math Worksheet Creator

 Internet unit/research math history/problem solving
     Busy Teachers Website K-12
Lesson plan ideas
Discovery Channel School lesson plans

Awesome Library--Educational Search Engine
 Math A to Z great links
Math lessons-- http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons
 Math in daily life

Education links---fabulous!

**WEBQUEST LINKS:   http://sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/webquest/
 

A 28 page listing of math sites---math.html

-  Check out the problems of the month
**http://sln.fi.edu/school

National council of Teachers of Mathematics--http://www.nctm.org/

Education place: http://www.eduplace.com/

**Math forum a comprehensive source for math ed. on the web--http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse--lesmath.htm

**Franklin Institute--maintains hot lists by subject--http://sln.fi.edu/

Internet based projects/math/science-scienceprojects.html

K-12 math generalmath.html

K-12 lessons by subject sorted by topics http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/

**http://www.coolmath.com/

**An incredible search engine; type in desired topic, click desired grade levels  http://thegateway.org/

**PBS maintains a teacher source of lessons, sorted by topic and grouped by elem/middle/high school....teachersource/math.htm

Spacelink..NASA resources for educators....index.html

**http://math.rice.edu/

FOR HOMESCHOOLERS….Many of the other sites linked are great resources…but these are specifically for homeschoolers….Need an evaluator? Contact me J Happy Homeschooling!
                                Home school.com
                              Well trained mind...classical approach to education
                               Printable homeschooling resources forms

                            Homeschool discussion boards swap/curriculum, too!

                             Science stuff
                             Science kits, neat ed. stuff
                             Plimoth Plantation links...history
                            Pennsylvania Homeschoolers
                            Learn in Freedom
                             General info
                            American Homeschool Association
                             Home School.com
                              Home School Central
                            Saxon Math
                             History kits/info/activities...neat links
 

                        The following are sorted by subject  :

                   Early Primary/KinderKorner Resources

http://www.akidsheart.com/
(Go to website, click on desired subject)
 All kinds of stuff
 Kathy Schrock's Guide

General ECE stuff by theme

 PreSchool Zone Teaching Ideas
 Early Ed resources
 First grade resources
 Kinderkorner resources, assessment, ideas
 
 

                       Special Education Links

I have two children on the autistic spectrum, so I have researched PDD, Asperger’s syndrome, autism , etc.  Check out this set of links…it’s a great special education starting spot!  SPECIAL ED LINKS

OASIS guide to Asperger's Syndrome resources for educators/parents…http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/
 Search the Awesome library==Ed. search engine
Resource room…  http://www.resourceroom.net/

Dysgraphia..http://www.resourceroom.net/myarticles/Jones_dysgraphia.HTM

Great resource learning disabilities… http://www.ldonline.com/

 Special Ed. resources
 Education World Special Ed. links
 Cooperative Ementary Activities/Special Ed

 Special Ed and Disability Resources by category **some links not working 01/15/01
Special Ed. sites  http://www.schdist42.bc.ca/ProjectInfo/sped3.html

A site to assess disability accessibility of websites-- http://www.cast.org/bobby/
 
 
 
 

                       Problem solving, reasoning, sequences

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Mathematics/Games/Puzzles/

Puzzles by tessellations--index.html

Math puzzles --puzzles.html

Goldbach Conjecture--tindex.html

Elementary math student activities...elmaths.html

Cube coloring problem..cecmath036.html

Detecting patterns lessonmath4n10.htm

Fibonacci and Nature--lots of stuff!!fibnat.html

Problem solving Math class:nf_7228.htm

                                   Set theory, logic, functions
 Venn Diagram site

Logic and Reasoning--ma9177.html

ma9008.html

phs5.html

Sorting through life..ma9506.html

Ask Dr. Math==lots of stuff on sets, definitions, problems, etc.sets.high.html

                              Numeration / Basic operations

 Click on Bricks==Multiplication
 Scholastic
 Crayola Lessons
Ask Dr . Math drmath.elem.html

Scholastic's In School math activities...http://www.scholastic.com/inschool/reproducibles/math/

Abacus--intro.html

Numbers you can count on--art/math lesson--numbers.html

Abacus--http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/

Nutrition lessons with inter-disciplinary emphasis--http://www.dole5aday.com/

Cuisenaire Rods: Intro--space, color and mathematics...rods.htm
 

                                     Integers, number theory

http://www.resourceroom.net/Math/Integers.asp

 Euclidian algorithm
 Clock arithmetic
 Integer information

 Integer lessons==sequential
Clock arithmetic/modular arithmetic:modular.html

Mrs. Glossers Math Goodies--Number theoryhttp://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/toc_vol3.shtm

                                     Rationals and Applications

 Origami
 Fractals resources
 Working with cuisenaire rods
 Introductory fractals unit
 pattern blocks and fractions

 http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/koch.html--The Koch Snowflake
 Sierpinski Triangle

 Fractal Microscope...
 Fractals---chaos, music, great pics
Intro to fractions using Cuisenaire rods...ma9313.html

Fractions unit intro..412.html

Music and Fractions--859.html

Resources on fractions: e.fraclessons.html

fractals--what_is.html

fractals--pins-guides.html

http://www.visualfractions.com/

fractions.htm

fracdec.mem.html

http://kidsmath.about.com/kids/kidsmath/

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractions
 
 

                                 Decimals, Percents, Ratios

 Prevention dimensions--a drug/crime percent lesson
 NY times lesson with percents
Global grocery project--http://landmark-project.com/CGIs/Lasso.acgi

 percent lessons, developmental

 percents household budget
Fractions, Decimals, Gravity--weight.html

Space shuttle stats.shuttle.html

Rhythm and ratio--a math/music lesson:rhythm.html

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~radams/

Latitude and Longitude--a Real life use of Pythagorean theorem...pythag.html

                                         Probability

 Simulation lesson

also use PBS teacher source to search for some neat prob. lessons for kids!!
                ** PBS stat lessons

probability.high.html

Probability of Childhood Games--ma96m3.html

Tootsie Pop probability--2.html

A concrete approach to relative frequency--3.html

The Amazing Mathematical Object Factory--info about probability well donehttp://www.schoolnet.ca/vp-pv/amof/

                                         Statistics

 National Center for Ed. Statistics
 Graphing data

 Fast Food Stats

 How Many in Your Family ? A stat lesson
Snowfall stats. for snowboarding..736.html

Finding the mean--hands on activities129.html

Real data : http://www.census.gov

http:#Descriptives

dstat.html
An online basis statistics text......sbk00.htm

                                         Geometry

 Geometry links at coolmath.com

 Geometry JAVA applets....cool!
 Curriculum extensions in math

 Interior Angles (& Other Geometry)

 Nine point circle construction
                *** more on nine point circle....definitions/resources....

 On-line math tutoring, geometry ***
 

 A great inter-disciplinary lesson about constructing pyramids

Geometry Center--http://www.ScienceU.com/geometry/

interior.htm

Geometry and the geoboardma9206.html

bubbles.html

Virtual Polyhedravp.html

http://thegateway.org/

geometry.html

geometry.htm

the Geometry Junkyard--EXCELLENT INFO!!topic.html

School Bus Geometry schbus1.html

FLATLAND.....http://www.geom.umn.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

Golden Ratio--golden.html

Again, use PBS teachersource--there are LOTS of geom. lessons!!

                                             Measurement

 Less Volume = More space
 Math and Monsters
 Pencil Perimeters

 GeometryOnline links
 Measurement

Measure Hunt

Finding the surface area of a sphere--39.html

Castle creations--interdisciplinary lesson, involves perimeter, area, measurement, graphing, Claris works,lesson6.htm

Predicting and computing area--space/math lessonX38-index.html

Resources for teachers --e.measlessons.html

Units conversions--capacity.html

netstepsmetric.html

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math/elementary_measurement.shtm

                     Symmetry, tessellations, special topics in geometry

 Totally Tessellated--History, images, Escher, mosaics/tilings, more
http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/

tessellation.html

http://www.tessellations.com/

tess.intro.html

http://www.symmetry.org/

Symmetry and art/math using space vehicles-- tomorrows_transport.htmlhttp://education.crayola.com/lessons/tomorrows_transport.html

                                                      CALCULUS

 Calculus resources
 First year tutorial help
 Mr. Calculus help site
 Calculus on the Web resources

 Dr.Math help from Math Forum--click on appropriate level and then Calculushttp://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math

                                                          Algebra
 more Algebra resources

http://www.edhelper.com/ for printable worksheets and answers

 Dr. Math resources, sorted by grade/topic
 Algebra--lessons, computers
 Algebra Online
 Algebra help
 Lesson Tutor Algebra
 Math lessons..by Cynthia Lanius
 pre-algebra
 algebra
 more resources

 Quickmath.com
 
 Local Pennsylvania German History
 Landis Valley Museum
 Geman Society of PA
 Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center
 Goschenhoppen Historical Society
 Berks County Historical Society

Alternative and Complementary Medicine

(also including food allergy links ...!)

Living Without...an allergy resource

 http://vegfamily.com/
 Living / Raw Foods site
Extensive website...veggie cooking, discussion, articles, naturopathy
 Country life natural foods...buy in bulk
 For allergen free living ideas
 Gluten Free links, recipes
 Celiac diet
 Celiac organization
 Gluten Solutions Food
 Food Allergies....a list of links and resources
 Kids and Allergies
 Alternative Medicine homepage