Online Resources for Teachers
4Teachers.org http://4teachers.org/
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students. Includes Rubistar, a valuable rubric creator for project-based learning activities.
The Apple Learning Interchange http://ali.apple.com/
The AIL is Apple's online educational environment designed to support professional educators as they strive to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
The advanced regional Technical Education Coalition's collection of PowerPoints and PDFs you can use to monitor and assess students' progress.
The Big 6 – An Information Problem-Solving Process http://www.big6.com
The Big6 is an information literacy model. Some people call it a metacognitive scaffold, or an information problem solving strategy. Developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. When you apply the Big6 steps, you have an essential framework to approach any information-based question
Blue Web’n http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Pacific Bell provides this library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Internet. Blue Web'n is an online library of 1983 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hot lists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). Check out the Filamentality link to learn more about creating your own Internet research project. Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way and in the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.
Character Education http://www.goodcharacter.com/ Free resources, materials and lessons for K-12
Columbia Education Center (CEC) http://www.col-ed.org/ Educational resources for teachers.
Discovery School.com http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html
The Lesson Plan Library offers K-12 lesson plans. Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers.
Discovery’s Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
This guide 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.
EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/
EDSITEment-The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
Education World http://www.education-world.com/ Links to all things education oriented.
The Educator’s Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the people who created AskERIC, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
eThemes Resources http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. Over 900 eThemes are available. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. Search by grade level.
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. GEM is sponsored by ED.gov (U.S. Dept. of Ed)
Georgia Department of Education Teacher Resource Center http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intPathID=3388
Extensive web resource lists are provided for K-12lesson plans for core subjects and more.
How to Create WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet.
LessonPlansPage by EdScope, LLC http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
2,500+ Free lesson plans for PreK-12- Making Teaching Easier! Includes special features and links to publications on teaching issues.
The Library of Congress’ Resources for Teachers http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
Jumpstart your use of primary sources with dozens of teacher-created, classroom-tested lesson plans on topics from U.S history to civics to literature are here and ready to use.
MarcoPolo http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
MarcoPolo provides the highest-quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States. Includes lesson plans, reviewed Web sites, student materials, interactive activities, assessments and more.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html Teaching history with primary documents.
New York Times on the Web - Lesson Plan Archive http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
Contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12.
PBS Teacher Source http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
PBS has aligned all its lesson plans and student activities to more than 230 sets of state and national standards! Find 3,000+ free lesson plans. Includes links on teaching with technology .
P.E. Central http://www.pecentral.org
Welcome to the premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
An amazing resource of practical ways to understand and teach writing.
Purdue University’s OWL - ESL Resources for Teachers http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html Handouts and exercises for ESL students.
Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com A hub of information promoting education.
The Science Spot: Biology Lesson Plan Links http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classbiolsn.html
A wealth of lesson links available on various science related topics.
S.C.O.R.E Cyberguides http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
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. Also available for math, science, history and social science.
Smithsonian Education for Educators http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
Online lesson plans and activities for educator’s and students.
Teachable Moment.org http://www.teachablemoment.org/
TeachableMoment.Org provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment. It is a project of Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area. Topical activities are available for elementary school, middle school, and high school levels. Topics include: current domestic & international events, conflict resolution,
intercultural understanding.
Teachers.net http://www.teachers.net The ultimate teacher resource.
Teacher’s Hub http://teachershub.com/teaching/teaching.cfm
K-12 Curriculum Resources for Classroom Teachers and Home school Parents.
Teacher’s Pet http://www.teachers-pet.org Free teacher software and resource center
Teach-nology – The Web Portal for Educators http://www.teach-nology.com/
Teach-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,300 lesson plans, 6,000+ printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction.
Compiled by Sarah Bosler, Library Media Teacher, Montclair High School, CJUHSD, Sept. 2005.
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