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LINKS FOR EDUCATORS

 

AskERIC

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, support components, and a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. Users may search ERIC's database and check the Virtual Library for lesson plans, an archive of educational listservs, information guides, and more.

 

Busy Teachers' WebSite

This site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans, and classroom activities. It is organized by subject area, with a Teachers' Reference Section.

 

Community Learning Network

This site is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms; it features instructional materials and background information on technology integration, as well as listings for keypals/projects, internet guidebooks, software repositories, listservs, school pages, and more.

 

Connections+

This is a listing of Internet resources - lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources - linked with the corresponding subject-area content standards. It also includes links to assist teachers with using the Internet in the classroom and gives examples of sites that illustrate the supplemental education resources available to teachers online. The web sites and other resources chosen have been created, maintained, and/or recommended by educators.

 

Diversity University

Diversity University MOO (Multi User Domain Oriented Objects) campuses are Internet locations for serious experimentation in network-based, interactive teaching, learning, and social services.

 

Education World

This comprehensive site includes a section for parents with resources on home schooling, along with sections for students and teachers. It also collects education organizations and other state resources

 

Global Schoolhouse

Partnered with Lightspan, developers of educational content, the Global Schoolhouse hosts a registry of lesson plans and collaborative projects and suggests Internet-related activities for educators.

 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

A classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth and updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

 

The Library-in-the-Sky for Parents, Teachers, and Students

The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory attempts to organize exploration of World Wide Web resources by anticipating the interests and informational needs of the searcher.

 

Online Education Resources

NASA Quest is dedicated to bringing NASA people and science to classrooms through the Internet. It features a variety of online resources for students and educators, including profiles of NASA experts and stories about their work days, an e-mail service in which individual questions get answered, audio/video programs over the Internet, lesson plans, and more.

 

Online Educator

The web-based version of this print publication provides ready-to-use lesson plans and pointers to Internet resources for teachers and students. OE identifies "Super Sites" on a weekly basis. Users can also search its archive of sites by grade level or subject.

 

PBS Teacher Connex

This site provides online curriculum guides, teaching tips, and other PBS-related educational resources.

 

Scholastic's Teacher Homepage

This site features lesson plans and other professional resources, information on authors and books, online activities, a web guide, and more.

 

Teachers @ Work

This site features thousands of reviewed Web sites on a variety of subject matters. It includes brief annotation and recommended age levels and also features information on Internet and other educational technology.

 

Wired Learning in the Classroom and Library

Created by the Education First Design Team, see the Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web for a searchable index of Internet sites grouped by subject and application type. This site gives a nice overview of the variety of resources available to educators.

 

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