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Lesson Plans

Utilities

Social Studies

Excellent source of resources by subject area (Blue Web'n)

Extensive Lesson Plans - search by subject (The Gateway)

Encarta Lesson Plan Collection

LessonStop (organized by subject)

Thematic Units by grade level

Internet Public Library - Select Teen or Youth for age appropriate materials

Discovery Channel site designed for educators - Activities plus Kathy Schrock

Busy Teacher's Web Site

Subject area links k-12

Ed's Oasis (Lesson plans and discussion groups)

Unit on Famous Historical Americans

Unit on Endangered Species

ESL lesson plans

Search Engines for Kids

Yahooligans

Ask Jeeves for Kids (Just ask a question)

Searchopolis (6-12)

Alfy (Icon driven for the younger set)

Quick Reference hotlist

Search engine for kids designed by librarians

Awesome Library (Links for everyone involved in the school)

Virtual Reference desk

Online Encyclopedia

Photo Finder - type in category or name

Web Wizard -put your lessons on the web

Teacher Vision - lots of useful features - Make a class site, online gradebook and much more

Teacher Web - create your own online bulletin board

Links for AP History Course
Useful Sites #1 and
AP History.com

Links for teachers to social studies resources, web sites - Categorized by grade level, California standards

Social Studies.com -search the online activities

Early American History (Through the media of the times)

Comphrensive Interactive History Site

Lesson plans and activities for world history (k-8)

Comprehensive Geography Site -Check it out

Create maps of any areas of the world (ArcData online) 

Time magazine - Important events & people 1900-1999

America's Story by the Library of Congress

Newspapers in Education

US Census Bureau American FactFinder

Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (k-12)

 

Language Arts Lesson Plans K-6 (Keyed to Utah standards)

Social Studies Lesson Plans K-6 (Keyed to Utah Standards)

Science Lesson Plans K-6 (Keyed to Utah Standards) (Elementary Science Teacher Resource Book)

Lesson Plan Page

Physical Education Lesson Plans

Holiday Lesson Plans & Activities

Lesson Plans by theme

Newspaper editions 
especially for schools 

USA Today  
New York Times
Scholastic Online

Newspapers on line: 
http://www.phillynews.com http://www.nytimes.com http://www.usatoday.com

Newspapers from around the world 

School Grant Database

Mock Elections online (take part in one of their elections or set up your school elections online)

Travel information - cities around the world

CIA World FactBook -  Basic facts about any country in the world

Currency converter and information about each system

This day in history. Find out what happened on any given day.

Time Capsule - Find out what happened on any given day.

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Outline Maps

Language Arts

 

EGrader - Free online gradebook

Translating utility (to and from English, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese)

Sign Language Dictionary

 Virtual tours of US government and 100 different countries

White House and links to government agencies

Great literature (cyberguides) units. K-12 and bilingual

Bantam Double Day teacher's guides to literature

Literary Explorer - English Links & guides for literature

Index of Schools on the Web

Puzzle Maker - Create all kinds of puzzles

Free Certificate Maker

Create OnLine Interactive Tests

Great site for geography keyed to national geography standards

Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Wall (Find out about the soldiers on the wall)

Shakespeare connection

On-line collection of Aesops and other Fables

How Things Work

Sports Illustrated for Kids

Time Magazine for Kids

Holocaust Resources

HyperHistory On-Line - (3000 years of World history)

Stories from around the world

European festivals and traditions

African culture with folk tales and activities

Native American web site - authentic poems, stories, crafts

Vocabulary activities middle- hs

Resource about the states

Everything about the 50 states

American Presidents, Vice Presidents and first ladies and American Politics

Library of Congress - Map Collection

Great American Speeches

 

Elementary Lessons

and Resources

Lessons for middle school writing strategies and communicating

The Drama Teacher's Resource Room

Dave's ESL Cafe (Resource for ESL teachers)

Sites that publish student work on the web

**On-Line games for elementary students 

  1. Funbrain *Super Site

  2. Bonus *Super Site

  3. Fun School

SurfNetkids - Extensive links by subject +Plus lots more

Decisions Decisions (Tom Snyder -Contemporary  issues done monthly)

Cultural Debates Online (Tom Snyder)

Kid's Space  - Creative activities for the younger set - check it out!!

Spark Notes (Like Cliff notes but free- Written by Harvard students)

About.com Arts and Humanities

Theater History on the Web

American Writers

Houghton Mifflin Education Place

Scholastic Home Page

Silver Burdett Ginn - activities for teachers

McGraw-Hill activities for teacher

Random House for Kids - Dr. Seuss and lots more

Kids Farm

NASA site for kids about space

Zoom School - subject area activities (k-3)

Holiday, season clip art and activities (Kids Domain)

Resources for elementary teachers & worksheets

SchoolHouse Rock

Printable worksheets

Very Good activities by grade level and subject. Need Adobe to read/print scroll to bottom - click on educast resources à Lesson Plans

A Plus Math for Kids

 

Little Explorers - Picture Dictionary - English plus other languages.  Super-site K-3 Links to zoom sharks, zoom whales, zoom astronomy, zoom rainforests, zoom butterfly

Kid Info - lots of links for K-6

Billy Bear 4 Kids (activities K-2)

700+ great sites for kids (and teachers)

Fourth and Fifth Grade Resource Page (Highly recommended)

Dinosaur Puzzle Put together a dinosaur skeleton and make it come alive!

 

On-Line Activities

Collaborative Projects

Science

Practice for On-line standardized tests grades 3 - 12 by subject area. Immediate feedback (needs Explorer 4.0+ or Netscape 4.5+)

Interactive activities by subject

Interactive Math Lessons

Link2Learn Classroom Activities (K-12)

Free service to hook up e-mail partnerships for collaborative projects

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connection

Web66 -Links to schools around the world

Collaborative projects from Houghton Mifflin

 

Chemistry for kids

Biology for kids

Physics for kids

Kid science

Nine Planets (junior version ) written for elementary grades.

Zoom Astronomy 

NASA site for kids about space

Practice online for different grades and subjects

Scholastic On Line Activities (by subject: math, language, science, social studies)

400+ collaborative projects

K- 4 weather project

The nine planets

ThinkQuests Created by students:
    
Interactive Chemistry

     ChemWeb Online 

General Chemistry Online

Periodic table

ChemSketch - free software

Interactive Shockwave games kids (preschool - sixth grade)

Math facts - online practice games

More Math games and activities

Middle & High School projects "Exploring the Environment"

Teachers.Net Chatboard Network (Lesson plans also)

 

 

NASA Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators

Athena Earth and Space Science Resources K -12 (From NASA)

NSF units HS science * needs adobe acrobat reader (free download)

Frog Dissection

On-line vocabulary/spelling activities Wild World of Words Challenges

Amusement Park Physics

Roller Coaster Project

   Math       The Heart - An Online Exploration

Physics 2000 - Interactive Journey through modern physics

Physics Central

Build and animate two dimensional models made out of masses and springs
Six Week On-line Literature Circles Project Connecting LA, SS, & History for 6th Graders

 

Math lessons keyed to California standards (Select grade level, then strand)

Online Math Activities (Math in context of real world situations 
Gr 3-8)

Science - Extensive materials on Space, Weather, Earth & Oceans

Extensive weather site

Kids Health

Virtual field trips

On-Line puzzles including tangrams

High School Math Project Ideas

Math activities, worksheets and Absurd Math (interactive math adventure)

Math Stories.com (word problems by grade level)

Volcano World

What is it like where you live? (Evergreen Project -Plant Biology and Internet activities for primary grades)

Build a Prairie

Art, science, nature and social studies Web adventures and online activities Probability and statistics k-12

Cool Math

Extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy
  Math activities - lesson plans- problems - discussions groups Dive and Discover - Expeditions to the seafloor

ENature - guide to 4800 North American plants and animals

 

Foreign Language

Where is your birthday in pi?

Math Problems of the Week (elementary, middle, algebra, geometry, discrete, calculus)

Art

Music

Internet activities for foreign language classes

Lemonade Stand (Business simulation) Visual and Performing Arts Resources    
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Basic words in 70+ languages with sound Credit card calculator

Car Loan Payment Calculator

 

Translating utility (to and from English, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese)

Tesselations

Fractal units for middle and high school

Math Maven Mysteries

 

 

  Stock Market Project  

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