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A to Z Teacher Stuff - This teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

abcTeach  More than 5,000 free printable pages geared to PreK-8th grades.

ABC Teach Classroom Charts 
 -Download and print several useful charts including assignment forms, award charts, calendars, reading logs, weekly planners, and more.

Adventures of Cyberbee Integrate the Internet into the classroom with excellent online resources found at this site. Resources include: curriculum ideas, research tools, treasure hunts, webquests, web links, articles, and more.

American Memory: The Learning Page The "teacher" page giving access to the millions of items digitized by the Library of Congress - "teacher-created and class-room-tested lessons." Great primary source material.
AOL @ School   Find resources by subjects for students in all grade levels. There are also educational resources for teachers and administrators.

Archive.org-
 Thousands of public domain moving images (video), audio files, and full text books.  Includes gems such as early cartoons, sound recordings of books, and much, much more.

 ArtsEdge - "Transform your teaching with arts integrated resources for the K-12 classroom."


Flickr- Share and stay in touch, upload and organize, make stuff, and explore hundreds of thousands of photos!

 

 The Big6  -Lesson plans that use the Big6 information literacy skills model created by Michael Eisenberg and Robert Berkowitz.


CEC Lesson Plans  Over 600 quality K-12 lesson plans can be found at this Columbia Education Center site.

Certificate Creator Create an online certificate or search through their templates and print them out for your students.

Create a Welcome Brochure: At this simple to use site, create a brochure that will organize all your info for back to school, set student and parent expectations, and introduce yourself. Create a brochure that offers a readily available reference for parents to keep throughout the year.

 

pinwheel button Internet4Classrooms - provides a rich list of subject-related links for K-12 teachers, Assessment Assistance, and tutorials for learning software like Excel, Inspiration and more!

 

INSPIRE Logo MIKIDS.COM - Authors, Illustrators, Best Books, Fun & Games, Stories Online, 6+1 Traits bibliography, Simple Machines, Technology

 

INSPIRE Logo 4Teachers - free tools to create rubrics, web lessons, quizzes and classroom calendars

 

Lesson Plan SitesINSPIRE Logo Community Learning Network
"A site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you'll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources."

  • INSPIRE Logo Crayola Creativity Center
    Adaptable lessons that "that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time." Don't miss the Certificate Maker.
  • INSPIRE Logo discoveryschool.com
    "Hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus to browse by subject, grade, or both."
  • INSPIRE Logo Early Literacy Technology Project
    Lesson plans integrating reading and/or writing with technology.
  • INSPIRE Logo EDSITEment
    "This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom."
  • INSPIRE Logo Education World: Lesson Plan Center
    Take time to explore the HUGE amount of lesson ideas on this site - don't miss the holiday page with ideas for holidays and special occasions.
  • INSPIRE Logo Educators' Reference Desk
    "This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world."
  • INSPIRE Logo GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials
    "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."
  • INSPIRE Logo Houghton Mifflin Education Place
    "Pre-K through 8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support."
  • INSPIRE Logo Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
    "Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
  • INSPIRE Logo Lesson Plans Page
    Over 2,500 free lesson plans that can be searched by subject - don't miss the "seasonal lesson plans" page.
  • INSPIRE Logo Lesson Planet
    To access over 40,000 lesson plans and tools, you must subscribe to this site ($14.95-$19.95/year) for access to lots of teacher reviews of lesson plans.
  • INSPIRE Logo Linda's Links to Literature
    A COMPREHENSIVE subscription site well worth the cost... "25,000+ links to literature units, lesson plans, activities, booktalks, book quizzes, puzzles, games and more." $24.95 per year or $99.95 per year for a school. Go to Teacher Tools for free tools for developing classroom materials, lesson plans, and activities.
  • INSPIRE Logo McREL
    "Links to selected lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning"
  • INSPIRE Logo Math Forum at Drexel
    1,460 lesson plans searchable by keyword, math topic, or level.
  • INSPIRE Logo Marco Polo
    An amazing site with standards-based lesson plans, activities, and high-quality Internet sites. Information is organized from a variety of excellent sources. Click on this link to go to the search screen.
  • INSPIRE Logo Microsoft: Instructional Resources: Lesson Plans
    Search lesson plans by grade level, subject, learning area, or by Microsoft product (including Encarta lesson plans).
  • INSPIRE Logo National Geographic Education
    Click the tab at the top of the page that says Lesson Plans and connect to hundreds of geography-related lesson plans - look for the "most popular."
  • INSPIRE Logo Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: Library in the Sky
    "The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites for those involved in education. Find the information you want through the Search, User Tabs, by Department, or Materials."
  • INSPIRE Logo PBS Teacher Source
    Over 3,000 lesson plans for arts and literature, health and fitness, math, science, social studies, preK-2, and library media.
  • INSPIRE Logo Physics & Astronomy Lesson Plans
    A list of over 200 lesson plans from K-12.
  • INSPIRE Logo S.C.O.R.E. Cyberguides
    "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."
  • INSPIRE Logo Scholastic Teachers
    Click on the "Lesson Plans" tab at the top of the page for access to a great selection of lesson plans in all subjects.
  • INSPIRE Logo Smithsonian Education Lesson Plans
    "Browse lesson plans by subject area or search by grade levels and keywords. Smithsonian lesson plans emphasize inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections. Each plan is print-friendly and provides you with all the materials you need: photographs, reproductions, handouts, activities, suggested strategies, standards information, and additional online resources."
  • INSPIRE Logo Starfall.Com
    Primarily designed for first grade - activities, printables, and more to help students learn to read.
  • INSPIRE Logo teachers.net
    Search or browse these teacher-created lessons, or submit or request your own! "The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans!"
  • INSPIRE Logo USGS Learning Web: Lesson Plans
    Life Science, Geography and Earth Science lessons based on national standards.
  • INSPIRE Logo The WebQuest Portal: Online Inquiry-Based Activities and Projects in all subject areas!

"Arts" Resources On-Line:

Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom

 

  • Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom What is copyright? What is considered fair use? This site's purpose is to help students and teachers make informed decisions before using materials they find on the Internet and the World Wide Web!

Early Childhood/Primary Grades Resources On-Line:

 

 

Language Arts Resources On-Line

 

 

History/Social Studies Resources On-Line:

 

 

Math Resources On-Line:

  • AAA Math Multi-level and multi-subject problems, games and activities for K-12
  • The Geometry Center Games, lessons, software
  • Math Forum A center for Math education on the net
  • Math is Fun A fun site for students with teacher resources such as free worksheets
  • Mathworld A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia for teachers and students

 

 

Multi-Cultural Resources On-Line:

 

 

Science Resources On-Line:

 

 

Social Action--Taking Care of Our Society:

 

 

Special Education/Gifted Resources On-line:

 

 

Some of the best teacher resources available on the Web:

  • Best WebQuests.Com A list of webquests available for use, all of which are evaluated for educational value
  • ClassNotesOnline A free website that allows teachers to keep students up to date and parents informed on daily work, assignments, homwork and grades
  • Ditto.com A fantastic site which searches the entire web for graphics on any subject you choose
  • Education World The heart of this site is a searchable database of over 100,000 education links for teachers, parents, and students
  • Educational Freeware Lots of links to good educational programs
  • GoodCharacter A site full of free resources on every aspect of character education in every possible subject area
  • Grade Connect A free online grade book for teachers
  • iLoveSchools.com A free matchmaking service--request materials and supplies while school supporters search for a school in need of their gifts of money, new or used goods or other educational supplies
  • KidsClick A search engine for kids constructed by librarians
  • Puzzlemaker Create your own mazes, word searches, crosswords, number blocks, math squares...
  • QuizStar Create and manage your classes quizzes online
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators A fantastic hotlist for everything
  • Schoolbug.Org Listings and information about virtually every public and private school in America
  • Substitute Teacher Survival Website All sorts of great stuff for those who work as subs
  • SuperKids Educational Software Providing reviews and comparisons by teams of parents, teachers, and kids
  • Test Prep Review Practice exercises for almost every standardized test imaginable. Great review for students (SAT/ACT) and teachers
  • Timesavers for Teachers Lots of free downloadable teacher tool forms in all different areas
  • Tutor Center Educational games, activities and lots of parent resources

Educational Videos and Clipart:

How to find something not listed here:

  • Metacrawler A fantastic search engine that searches ALL other search engines for your topic or key words. Without question, the first place to start any search.