(These resources have been
suggested by students and others over the years. Some links may be
dead. Please let me know if you find any dead link or new links you
think should be added.)
EduRef, a national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
Teaching Channel, The
tagline of Teaching Channel is "Great Teaching. Inspiring Classrooms."
Educators from kindergarten to college will find hundreds of resources
here, including fact sheets, lesson plans, videos, and blogs to help
them in the classroom.
American Educational Research Association: Division K (Student Teaching) Usenet Newsgroup Archive
Minnesota Department of Education
The Online Schoolyard, created by Comcast Online Communications "to help students, teachers, and parents get to the best education-related sites on the Internet."
EdWeb. This award winning site explores technology and school reform.
North Central Regional Education Laboratory: researches best practices in public schools to increase student achievement. Their site has links to a lot of math and science resources.
Toolkit for Digitally Literate Teachers Website developed by the University of Southern Calfornia's Rossier School of Education
U.S. Department of Education: you'll want to explore this site with numerous types of information for educators.
Instructional Resources
www4teachers. How to use technologies in effective teaching.
The Aframian WebNet, "virtually Afrocentric" links and resources.
African and African American Curriculum Resources, located at the University of Wisconsin's African Studies Department.
AskERIC's Virtual Library: over 1000 lesson plans (!) and other resource material for educators.
Bartleby Library High school English teachers should be sure to bookmark this site, which features classic 19th- and 20th-century English and American literature. Also available are handy, well-known references such as John Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" and William Strunk's "The Elements of Style."
Chicago Systemic Initiative: has implemented programs and assessment tools to produce major system wide reform in mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning in the Chicago Public Schools.
The Children's Literature Web Guide Resources for teachers, parents, writers, etc.
The CIA: Little to see, but a world of information from our spies.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare Online.
CNN Interactive. News on the web--can be used for current events, social studies, etc.
Create Your Own Newspaper. Classes can create their own newspaper at this site. Imagine the possibilities!
Classroom Connect, an extremely comprehensive starter site for teachers.
The Clubhouse. Located at Idaho State University, this is a great collection of links in the categories of Reading and English, Math, Geography and Social Studies, Government, History, Communications, Computers, Science and Teacher's Apple.
Digital Education Network. Four sites for students seeking knowledge and fun. MathDEN presents a weekly set of competition-level questions for exceptional math students. GraphicsDEN shows students how to create cool computer graphics using an easy and affordable utility called Paint Shop Pro. NewsDEN presents local, national and international currents events in exciting new ways. InternetDEN offers on-line lessons that explain basic Internet tools and navigation. Soon will include: WritingDEN, SkyDEN, ChineseDEN and CultureDEN.
Discovery Channel Online,. This award winning site is packed with information. Look in the "Discovery School" for teacher resources.
Eastman Kodak Co.: Terrific photos of the world's favorite tourist spots. Also digital photographic resources.
ED's Oasis. To help teachers use the Internet as an integral tool for teaching and learning.
Education Place, "free internet resources for K-8" from Houghton Mifflin publishers.
Education World, This site is a great place to start, with its search engine for educational Web sites, lesson-planning center, feature articles on hot educational topics, advice on using technology in the classroom and employment listings.
Ed-U-Tech is an initiative of the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development that is designed to conduct and disseminate the results of applied research in the area of technology and learning as well as develop a wide range of capacity-building activities that connect the technology and learning resources of the University of Minnesota to Minnesota's pre K-12 community and beyond. The overall goal of these initiatives is to improve the use of technology in Minnesota's schools.
FedWorld: The U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have established a website called FedWorld, an electronic marketplace for federal program information. The USDA's sub-section has a number of resources for health education teachers.
The Field Museum of Natural History: The Chicago museum offers a tour of its exhibits.
The Gateway. Provides one-stop, any-stop access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.
GirlTech, a page with games, book reviews, chat space for girls, and links to other girl-friendly sites on the Web. Designed to increased girls' interest in and use of technology.
The Global Schoolhouse is packed with interactive projects to advance learning.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation: "The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) creates media that promote a vision of learning where students are challenged and engaged, have access to interactive technologies, and are supported by inspired teachers and involved parents and communities."
Highwired.Net, Using our free and easy-to-use web publishing tools, educators and students can create Internet sites to build their own newspapers, virtual classrooms, and student clubs and activities.
The History Channel Online, features a classroom page, which provides television programs that middle school, junior high and high school teachers can videotape and keep for up to a year -- along with support materials to help with lesson plans and class activities.
Homework Central: Teachers' Resources Students aren't the only ones who can find help at Homework Central--it's great for teachers, too. Beyond the extensive lesson plans available for all grade levels, there is information on classroom management, learning disabilities, technology integration, educational organizations, career development and much more.
The Human-Languages Page, where you can find online language lessons, translating dictionaries, programs to aid you in learning a language, and more.
Infoshare Educational Courseware: free, online educational courseware.
KidsConnect. Volunteer cybrarians respond to kids' questions to help them with school work, research papers, etc. Isn't that sweet?
Learn Vocabulary Syndicate. Learning vocabulary can be fun for everyone! Also includes writing activities.
The Louvre: The famous French museum puts great artists online.
Math Forum, features classroom materials, lists of workshops for math teachers, professional organizations, and more.
Mega-Math. Fun and challenging math lessons for kids.
The Minnesota Electronic Curriculum Repository is the State of Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning official web site for performance packages and other curriculum materials which support the Minnesota Graduation Rule.
The National Institute on Media and the Family runs a nice web site with information for parents and educators about media literacy and how to deal with media saturation of young people. It bills itself as "a national resource for research, education and information about the impact of the media on children and families." Their home page is at: <http://www.mediafamily.org/home.html>. Their Educator's Forum is at: <http://www.mediafamily.org/ef.html>.
The Minnesota Library Information Network (MnLINK) is a statewide virtual library that is funded with a $12 million appropriation from the Minnesota legislature in 1997. It is a collaborative effort among libraries throughout the state. MnLINK is made up of two components: System X and the Gateway.
System X is a shared library automation system (software and hardware) for the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the Minnesota State Agencies. Other participating libraries include some private colleges, public libraries, K-12 school libraries, and special libraries.The MnLINK Gateway is software that facilitates electronic access a multitude of different types of library resources. The Gateway links the libraries in System X with up to 20 other library automation systems in the state so that they appear to a user as a single source of information. Interlibrary loan capabilities will be available in the winter of 2000.
Both of these resources may be accessed at: http://www.mnlink.org/
MSNBC's interactive pages. Useful for current events, social studies, etc.
NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative: lots of resources for teachers about space-related science.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Cool pictures of the planets.
NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Home Page Explore the capabilities of imaging radar, the applications to which it can be put to use, and the characteristics of the data itself. View the picture gallery of images, play videos and animations, and find out about the Space Shuttle missions that carried the Spaceborne Radar Laboratory! A section devoted to Radar remote sensing education describes t the SIR-C Educational CD-ROM, and where you can view it on-line over the World Wide Web.
National Women's History Project. "History looks different when the contributions of women are included." This project was founded to provide teachers of history with resources and information about women's contributions.
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet. Includes topics such as culture, history, art, media, education, etc.
PE Central--Web Site for Best Practices in Physical Education: An award-winning web site developed by the Health and Physical Education Department at Virginia Tech. Examples include: creative and unique curriculum units, family fitness nights, open house programs, after school programs, field trips, and Internet projects.
Psychology Online: Both the American Psychological Association (APA) and Society (APS) have home pages. Look for links to other information resources, including a link to PsychLit. APS: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/ and APA: http://www.apa.org/.
School Library Hotspots. Numerous links and resources for teachers.
Science Man. High school science resources for teachers and students. Advice and help for technology integration. Useful links correlated with curriculum. Workshops, software and hardware reviews. Help for busy and demanding science educators.
Scientific American: Ask the Experts As Bill Nye the Science Guy says, "Science Rules!" Nowhere is that clearer than at Scientific American, with this specific section that focuses on readers' questions. Ask the Experts answers queries such as, "Why does a ball go farther when hit with an aluminum bat?" Curious teachers can send in their own questions or check the archives (arranged into nine topics) to see which stumpers the experts have already explained.
Social Sciences Data Collection (UC--San Diego) Currently, SSDC has hundreds of study descriptions of social science studies, fully indexed and searchable, a page with links to other social science data on the Internet, and a page featuring links to other social science data archives, social science data libraries, and social science gateways.
Social Studies Sources: a great starting off point for social studies teachers.
www.4teachers is a Web-based publication, and new features, interviews, Web lessons, and surveys are added every month. www4teachers provides a space where educators and others with a stake in K-12 education can come to encounter new ideas about technology's role in education, express their opinions and share experiences, and be inspired and educated by other teachers' narratives about using technology in educational settings.
Teacher's Edition Online offers lessons, teaching tips, and advice.
Teachers Helping Teachers. Designed To provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom. Also provides a forum for all teachers to share methodologies.
Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange. Gives teachers access to lesson plans on the Web. You can post your great lessons, too!
TechLearning High-tech is no sweat at this site that focuses on integrating technology into the K-12 classroom. Read up on success stories of teachers in the tech trenches, check out recommended Web sites, sift through software reviews or learn about professional development.
United Nations On-line: You can learn about the programs, policies and activities of the UN Development Program.
U of Minn. Resource for K-12 Teachers--Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project
The goals of this project are:
The Web66 server includes:
This project is an extension of the Hillside Elementary cooperative project with the University of Minnesota College of Education and the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement.
The Virtual Schoolhouse Visual thinkers will love the Virtual Schoolhouse; its site map is cleverly designed to look like a school's floor plan. Enter a classroom, and you'll find an alphabetical listing of sites with information ranging from aeronautics to zoology.
Voycabulary This innovative site takes virtual dictionaries one step further than you ever would have imagined, by turning every word on a Web page into a clickable link to its definition. References include Merriam-Webster Online, a thesaurus, medical and computer dictionaries, and 20 language translation sites.
Units
of
Measurement Don't know your
machs from your knots? Look no further than this resource of
measurement units.
yourDictionary.com A veritable encyclopedia of online dictionaries, this site includes links to more than 800 dictionaries and thesauruses in more than 160 languages, from Afrikaans to Yiddish. There are also more than 60 specialized dictionaries that cover such topics as law, medicine and slang. And if you just need to look up a word quickly, enter it in the main page's top menu and you'll link to Merriam-Webster Online, the quintessential virtual dictionary.
Looking to join a professional association?
American Federation of Teachers
Association of Teacher Educators. Devoted to the improvement of teacher education for both school and campus-based teacher educators.
International Reading Association
International Society for Technology in Education
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Teachers of English. This site includes teaching ideas and resources.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Science Teachers' Association
What's your favorite web site for teachers? Let us know, and we'll put a link to it here (and give you credit, of course!) Send email to Joseph Erickson at: .
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