The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides a centralized website for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
Online version of Education Week, the weekly newspaper related to K-12 education. This searchable site includes full-text articles on all aspects of education including background articles on hot topics (choice, privatization, inclusion, etc) and excellent coverage of
court rulings related to education. Also includes articles from its sister publication, Teacher Magazine. Great for graduate school papers and projects!
Hundreds of federally-supported education resources from over 45 federal agencies.
Official portal to Massachusetts Department of Education.
This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.
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.
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Free online certificate maker from Sattar Group
The largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.
Library and reference resources, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and more.
Designed for the international school community, this site offers a wealth of information for educators.
Tools and support for new teachers.
Thousands of carefully reviewed resources, including the top five percent in education.
An online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools)."
Search or browse thousands of high-quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects. A project of the U.S. Department of Education.
This site contains lesson plans, professional development, teacher tips, ideas for integrating technology in the classroom, links to teacher tools and templates, and more.
Excellent collection of K-12 sites organized by subject area, as well as information about evaluation of sites.
Highest quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development for K-12 teachers and students. Teacher resources include lesson plans, student activities, and reviewed web sites.
Collection of instructional resources for every area in curriculum at every grade level. Projects, links to curriculum resources, and other support.
Look for the subject you want, click on the grade level you need, and get an annotated list of quality sites. (Note: Since every link opens in a frame within the TeachersFirst site, you need to check the URL at the top of the frame to see the original URL.)
Teaching guides to popular films describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and helpful background. Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and links to the Internet are also provided."
National Education Association official site
Site that helps teachers use the Internet effectively.
Provides educators with resources for reading, math, science, online reference books, special needs children information, and freebies for teachers.
The ultimate teacher resource.
The ALA book and award lists.
This site is designed to help students learn to look at artwork and understand the process of making art. Click on Reviews and Resources to access dozens of activities for students to teach, review, and reinforce material presented in the three areas: the elements of art; principles of design; and the art critiquing process. Also included are an art timeline and
vocabulary section.
Lesson plans, multimedia presentations, scavenger hunts, quizzes and more for teaching an Introduction to Ceramics and Pottery course.
Look for class match based on age, geography and languages, among other criteria.
A safe way to provide students with free e-mail accounts. Allows sign-up only through teachers and schools; monitors and blocks inappropriate messages and language.
A discipline model for handling over 100 different misbehaviors at school and at home.
Shakespeare's plays and poetry from MIT’s The Tech.
Used for creating Works cited pages, plus many great links.
Teacher resources on the best ESL/EFL site. Be sure to check out the student links, too.
This large site has free English teaching and learning materials for both students and teachers. Teacher materials include handouts, tips, lessons, and textbook suggestions.
Ideas and printable materials for ESL teachers.
An excellent collection of resources pages, handouts and exercises on English grammar, especially for English language learners. From the OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University.
Excellent site "conçu pour ceux et celles qui enseignent en français dans les écoles anglaises du Québec."
General foreign language resources, French, Spanish, Italian and German language resources, plus links to
projects and activities for using them. Created by Mrs. C. B. Putnam, a language teacher at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.
Dozens of samples of graphic organizers to help students describe, compare and contrast, classify, sequence, make decisions, plus tips on how to use them in the classroom and links to more information.
From the National Center for Educational Statistics comes this site that lets you make a bar, pie, area, or line graph that you can print out or download to your computer.
A tool for spotting investment trends and opportunities, The map lets you watch more than 500 stocks at once, with data updated every 15 minutes.
Lesson plans in the arts and culture based on musical theater, opera, classical music and more, using resources of Great Performance TV programs.
Hundreds of sites for general music teachers, as well as band, orchestra and choral teachers.
An incredible resource of lesson plans incorporating music into history and English teaching.
Provides the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth. Includes lesson plans, ideas on assessment, instructional resources, a "best practices" showcase of physical education programs, links to websites relevant to P.E. teachers.
www.mvlc.org
Offers abstracts of over 4000 children's picture books, is searchable by 900 keywords, and is intended for teachers, librarians, parents, and students.
This site has been around for a long time, and has evolved into a very useful database of information on authors, classic children's books, and more. A European perspective on children's books; in French, Spanish, and now English.
Create your own rubric and save/share it on the web, or search for other teacher-created rubrics on a variety of
topics. From the Landmark Project.
A free tool to make quality rubrics.
Hundreds of rubrics for all subject areas.
Generate your own personalized rubrics from this site. In addition to subject-specific rubrics, includes rubrics for behavior, listening, and homework.
Information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support.
Extensive collection of information Internet resources relevant to special education.
Free online tools and resources designed to help teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics, classroom calendars, and more.
Check out the internet activities and projects at this site.
Links to resources on planning and implementing staff development, technology planning, media literacy , and resources for tech coordinators.
A great site that walks you through creating many types of web-based learning activities.
Excellent evaluated list of WebQuests for a variety of grades and content areas. Developed and maintained by Tom March, one of creators of the WebQuest.
A resource for those who wish to use or create WebQuests for their students. Includes an overview of WebQuests, and examples of WebQuests for all levels and curricular areas, and resources to teach others how to evaluate and design WebQuests.
Links to hundreds of great WebQuests in all curricular areas for high school students. Note: The WebQuests are listed in no particular order, so you have to work a little harder, but the sites are worth the effort. The scrollbar to move up and down the page is curiously on the left of
the screen.
Examine different types of WebQuests and find templates to design a WebQuest matched to your instructional purposes
“The Internet offers the most up-to-date information from anywhere in the world with just a click of the mouse. While we value the immediacy of the Internet, we must also evaluate the information that we obtain, because not all of it is true. Anyone can publish a website on any topic or subject. The facts found on a web page may not be accurate or edited by anyone. Excellent resources reside next to the most dubious.” Elizabeth Kirk. Evaluating Information Found in the Internet. The need for evaluation is very important. The
following websites will help you acquire the necessary skills to locate and evaluate the information you need on the Internet.
An excellent series of pages on this subject from the Milton Library at Johns Hopkins University.
A huge list of websites about evaluating websites by educator Kathy Schrock.
Great high school site that helps you understand the importance of evaluating Internet web pages.
A WebQuest developed by librarian, Joyce Valenza to strengthen your website evaluating skills.
This guide defines the criteria, documents incidents of questionable, false, or fraudulent information as reported in the news or trade literature, provides examples of websites that illustrate good or bad information, and suggests strategies that help you detect bad
information.
This site shows examples of sites and explains why it is a good idea to evaluate web sources.
There is a lot of good information on the Internet, but you will also find opinions, misconceptions, and inaccurate information. How do you judge the quality of Internet resources? Check out this site to find out.
UC Berkeley’s guide to evaluating websites.
Practice checking your evaluating skills:
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