Teacher Suggested Web Sites

Lesson Plans and other Resources

• Teacher Worksheets  Free worksheets for teachers in English, Math Problem Solving, and Reading Comprehension.
• Alphabet Superhighway  An educational website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, The Alphabet Superhighway, assists students in creating, locating, and communicating information through on-line activities. The Alphabet Superhighway is a resource for teachers, students and parents.
• Amazing Picture Machine From the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium, Amazing Picture Machine offers a searchable index of Internet graphics for your lessons, including literature and science.  The site also includes lesson ideas and search tips.
  Annenberg Teacher's Lab: Based upon the popular math and science professional development series, Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites.
  AskEric: Most teachers are familiar with Eric, the research tool that is primarily for educators. Besides having a search tool, AskEric also posts lesson plans in its Virtual Library.
  AT&T Learning Network Resources for Teachers  From AskLN, an online mentoring program for teachers, to Internet 101 and a Web Tour, educators will find this spot useful.
  Awesome Library: This site provides a list of subject related lesson plans, including arts, science, math, language arts/English and more. 
  Bonus.com:   Bonus.com is committed to providing teachers a rich selection of kid-appropriate on-line activities designed to supplement standard classroom curriculum.   This colorful and well designed site offers activities and lesson plans. 
  Busy Teachers Web Site K-12: Developed by Georgia Tech, this site lives up to its name. Subject category links ranging from chemistry to art makes searching for education related sites easy. There is also a Teachers Reference section which lists current educational topics and additional links.
  California Distant Learning Program: While visiting the web pages, you will notice two sections Learning Resources for students and Teachers Resources for teachers. In the Learning Resources section, students will be able to read and hear short stories, answer comprehension questions and check their answers.
  Cisco’s Virtual Schoolhouse: The many hypertext links are nicely categorized for ease of use. If you are searching for lesson plans and other resources, click classrooms. They also have The Playground, a place for teachers or students to have a bit of fun!
  Classroom Connect: This is another site dedicated to the classroom teacher. Included are links to thousands of online schools, a search engine, and to the K-12 classroom. Searching is by subject category and ranges from Literature to Administration. There is also a virtual auditorium in which teachers may participate in online forums on selected topics. Check out the resource station as well to discover online materials for educators.
• Community Learning Network   If you want to explore a huge range of exemplary educational Internet resources, this site offers over 3,800 annotated links to educational resources on the Web.  This site also offers opportunities for teachers to learn the net and much more.   Check out the latest addition, CLN What's New, an area that includes all the links that were added over the summer, incorporating woodworking, music, health, nutrition, P.E., genetics, poetry, ESL and much more.
  Connections +: In addition to links to lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources, this site groups the information together with subject area content standards. Standards are from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education.
• Copyright Website:  What is copyrighted and what is free.  Be sure to click on the Internet specific copyright concerns.
  Core Knowledge Lesson Plans: E. D. Hirsch, Jr., a professor at the University of Virginia and author of m Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know founded core knowledge.  The lesson plans, labeled for each grade level, ascribe to the core knowledge philosophy.
• Cyberguides: Teacher & Student Activities:  CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. 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.
• Discovery Channel School: This redesigned web site is teacher friendly get lesson plans that have questions,   vocabulary, activities, links, and video preview.  Included are theme pages on Ancient Egypt, Astronomy, History of Science, American Revolution, and World in Conflict.
  D & W Teacher Resources:  This site, developed by two teachers, provides lesson plans, education links and advice to the new teacher.
• Edsitement Site: Sponsored by NEH, this site offers a hotlist to top humanities sites.   It offers online learning guides which include lesson plans that help students, teachers, and parents use the internet effectively.  Lesson plans are in history, social students, English, language arts, foreign language and art history. 
• EdsOasis:   Sponsored by the AT & T Learning Network, this site features stories, lesson plans, and other information geared to teachers who use the Internet.
• Education Index:  This is an annotated list of the best educational resources available on the web.  The index is easy to use--topics are sorted by subject and lifestage. 
• Education Policy Analysis Archives: If you are searching for education research or database, the Education Policy Analysis Archives provides an opportunity to search the archives for the necessary information. Browse abstracts, submit an article or commentary, and conduct searches. Articles are of a good quality, and important educational topics are explored.
  Education Testing Service—Education Testing Service provides a list of information on colleges and universities. In addition, test registration for SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEEFL, LSAT are all available. Information on financial aid and test preparation materials are also available.
  Education World: Education World has a database of over 20,000 URL’s as well as monthly site reviews of education-specific topics, a message board, a listing of K-12 school sites, as well as subject category listings. You may also subscribe to two e-mail services, one of which will enable you to receive a monthly listing of the site reviews, the other of which enables you to receive bimonthly listings of education news. Two other features of note are a Teacher Resource link to lesson plans and curriculum and a Student Resource link, which provides listings of everything from financial aid to games.
  Eisenhower National Clearing House: Nationally recognized, the Eisenhower National Clearing House is a great place for information on Math & Science. Publications, Resources, hot links, lesson plans and discussion groups are available. This is a must-visit site for the math and science educator. It is also a great site to search for ideas on integrating science and math with other subject areas.
  EvaluTech:  This site is a searchable data base of curriculum related materials for K-12.  Sponsored by SREB and the North Carolina Department of Instruction, the site offers reviews of software and a Criteria for Evaluation of Resources. 
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: This site offers o a treasure trove of historical documents, scientific experiments, mathematical challenges, famous paintings, and other tools for teachers & students. Thousands of topics can be searched -- the Civil War, the Constitution, photosynthesis, condensation, immigration, Picasso, Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Cassatt, Jackie Robinson, the Amistad Case, the America Reads Challenge, famous FBI cases, cartography, genealogy, the Renaissance, calculus simulations, "today in history," the human genome project, epidemiology, "the African American odyssey," the solar system, the microbe zoo, and others. Resources can also be viewed in 12 subject areas.
  Gander Academy's Theme-related Resources  This site is specifically created for the elementary teacher by an elementary teacher. The site starts with a list of 27 general categories of interest to elementary students (Dinosaurs, Legends, Natural Disasters, Weather). This site could save you much time if you are creating your own web resources.
  GEM: The Gateway to Educational Resources: GEM is a growing consortium of lesson plan collections on the Net. The site features a search engine.
• Global Schoolhouse: Presented by the SchoolNet Foundation and sponsored by Microsoft, this site offers education resources, activity guides, a registry for classroom projects, and a data base of schools that are on the Internet. This site provides search capacity. Other offerings are links to the Encarta Schoolhouse, which offers monthly web site topics. One of the recent monthly listings at this web site was "Life in the Ocean." You can also use Microsoft’s new Automap Road Atlas from this site (get detailed driving instructions to an address that you typed in), and download new software from Microsoft that would be useful for educators.
  Hazel's Homepage A first and second grade teacher, Hazel has links to children's' authors, web integration ideas and classroom projects. 
• Helping Your Students with Homework The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research & Improvement (OERI) produced this site. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done.
  Houghton Mifflin K-8 Activities: The Education Place Activity Search is a searchable database of 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents. You may search for activities by both curriculum area and grade level.
  Learning Page:  The Learning Page provides free, downloadable worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren. There are hundreds of pages in theme-based and basic skills categories
  Institute for Transfer of Technologies: The Education Hot Links at this site are very well done. Sample categories are education standards, grant and foundation resources, education research, curriculum development as well as specific curriculum subject areas.
  Intel in Education Home Page:   Lesson plans, primarily in the areas of science, mathematics and technology, are available at Intel's site.  You may direct students looking for science fair topics to this site, or use the Biology lesson plans for elementary teachers.  The site has many more topics available. 
  Internet Education Group:   The What On Earth-based lesson plans are integrated with the Internet and will engage student learning. The site also has compiled a list of Lesson Plan Links, where you can access thousands of online lesson plans. This is the home of Weekly Lessons, an e-mail newsletter distributed to K-12 educators that notifies teachers about online lesson plans they can use in their classrooms
  Just in Time Training: The site offers lesson plans and projects. 
  Kathy Scrhrock’s Guide for Educators: This guide for educators provides hypertext. The links are separated into subject specific areas.
  The Learning Space Learning Space was created by teachers for teachers.  The space offers online lesson plans, Internet projects, classroom web pages, a teacher chat room, tutorials and much more.
  Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk: Geared to grades 5 & 6, this site contains a collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in.
• The Lesson Plan Page: This page is a collection of hypertext links to pages that have lesson plans.
  Make the Link:Learning Standards Benchmark Grid  This site has lessons linked to Illinois Standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math, Health, PE, Foreign Languages, and Fine Arts
  National Address Server’s: The National Address Server allows you to type in an address and receive its zip code + 4. This address can then be put in MapBlast and a map of the area of the address will be drawn. It also links to Mapquest to draw a map. Students will love this site.
  New York Times Teacher Connection:   This site offers daily lesson plans (and archieve) based on current events.   Content is outstanding.  Editors link the plans to national standards.
  NoSweat.com: Teacher Resources: Home of Homework Central, this site offers teachers lesson plans, school projects, professional resources, and links to other valuable sites.  Teachers may also wish to explore the Homework Central area for students--it is separated in three areas (elementary, high school and college).
  Online Educator: This online newsletter features recommended links and articles.   It is updated weekly on Monday.
• Ozline:   Tom March, creator or co-creator of Eyes on Art, Searching for China, Filamentality, Black History Month, and the WebQuest strategies has collected many of the online activities he's developed.
  PacBell's Knowledge Network Blue Web'n: One of the finest sites for educators on the web, Blue Web'n has a searchable data based of K-12 applications. Almost everything posted is excellent and useable. The site is categorized by subject, grade level and type.
  PBS Teacher Source:  This site features a growing inventory of more than 1,000 lesson plans and teacher guides.   You'll find resources grouped by subject area. 
  Phonics Link: The Phonics Link provides a place to build your background knowledge about phoneme awareness and phonics, to discuss professional books with other teachers and to find practical classroom lessons.
  Planet K-12: This site offers a wealth of educational information.  A grants and funding page called "Finance Matters" provides links to corporate and government-sponsored programs.   The "Technology Resources" page provides information on technology planning, lesson plans, reference materials, and career planning.
• Professional Cartoonist Teacher Guide: The Professional Cartoonists' Index offers newspaper editorial cartoons. The teachers' guide helps to interest students in  current events, symbolism, satire, metaphor and irony.  Lesson plans use games to encourage students to discuss current events and explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons.
  Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab: The Purdue University Writing Lab has gone on-line with Resources for Writing that include handouts and relevant links. Information about Search Tools and Indexes is excellent for both advanced users and beginners. Since all teachers should be teachers of writing, exercises and handouts should be useful for all.
  SchoolPage:  The site offers lesson plans for specific subject areas, templates, and monthly articles. 
  Schoolhouse Encarta:   At this site, you can contribute lesson plans, check other lessons, search student resources, or explore teacher resources.  This is a very rich site. 
  Study Web: Resource links by subject area are featured at this site.  Teachers will also find integration ideas.
  Teachers First: In addition to lesson plans grouped by subject and sorted by grade level, the site has some information on using the Internet, along with a glossary of terms and a browser tutorial.  "Hot Topics"   has updated links to sites related to current education issues.
  Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: The Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust has a powerful combination of words, music, photographs and art. The site provides a factual but chilling account of the Holocaust, its victims and perpetrators. Teacher resources, classroom activities, Web links, a Holocaust glossary and timeline are   featured.
  Teachers Helping Teachers: Designed by teachers, this site has a vast amount of useful information for teachers. Among the highlights are Teaching Ideas & Tips, categorized according to subject area, an area to post lesson plans that you would like to share, and links to Educational Resources. Best of all, this site is updated, weekly, and has new information available regularly.
  Teachers Lesson Plan Exchange: This lesson plan exchange board gives teachers access to some of the best lesson plans on the Web. This is also a good place to post your own lesson plans. You will leave this site with at least one lesson plan that you’ll want to try.
  Teacherzone This site currently features articles on school web sites.  In addition, the site links to teacher lesson plans, principal vision, special reports and more.
  Teachnet: Internet lesson plans in most subject areas are provided at this site.  Look for other information, hints for teachers,  and summaries of topical concerns.
  Virtual Blackboard: The Virtual Blackboard is a free service to K-12 teachers developed by Tramline, Inc and sponsored by the ATT Learning Network. It is designed to show teachers how to develop effective Internet teaching presentations and it provides tools for doing so. All teaching materials on the site are vetted by site editors who make sure that sound teaching methods are followed and curriculum objectives are met. They also make sure the material is motivating, educational, and fun.
  Web Sites and Resources for Teachers This California State University site offers rich links to sites categorized into eight curriculum topics.
  wNet School: wNetSchool, designed by classroom teachers and technology experts, offers K-12 teachers diverse information, from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to   reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.
  World School: This site has many links to lesson plans. A wonderful feature is the rated sites for classroom use. Teachers have rated the sites as to the potential for application in the classroom. Visit it soon!

Language Arts Lesson Plans:

1. http://www.pbs.org/readingrainbow/
   From the television show, this site has activity suggestions to accompany programs that involve writing and print awareness. Site also includes links to writing contests and samples of children’s writing. This can really enrich the reading program if you follow their book lists. (Thanks Nancy!)
2. http://www.nwrel.org/sky/mat.asp?ID=3&search=2&m=23&d=6
   This page contains a multitude of resources on one page. Library in the Sky offers links to additional information as well as a list of lesson plans for the internet, creative writing, limericks, ESL lessons, poems, paragraph writing, descriptive writing, and persuasive paragraphs. There are materials for all grades K-12. This one is one of my favorites! Check it out! (Thanks Nancy!)
3. http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang-elem.html
   There are links here to mini-lessons for grade levels K-5 for many different aspects of writing. It includes whole-language experience, vocabulary development, creating books, listening exercises, photo essays, writing auto-biography, spelling, character studies, and grammatical devices. These lessons suit a wide variety of teaching and learning styles and would be useful for almost anyone teaching in an elementary classroom. (Thanks Nancy!)
4. http://www.metronet.com/~bhorizon/barn.htm
   This site is very similar to the previous listing but the activities are focused on the story, Barn Dance by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. (Thanks Nancy!)
5. http://www.teachers.net/curriculum/la.html
   This is a curriculum bank of lesson plans for language arts. It includes computer based writing lessons, class newspapers, and published books. This is a truly excellent resource for meaningful student-centered activities. I found a great number of useful activities from this page. (Thanks Nancy!)
6. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/drama.htm
   This site has many, MANY links for storytelling, drama, reader’s theater, and puppetry. It has story starters, ideas for writing dramas, and script starters. I feel that this site really has the potential to inspire creativity in the classroom. There are absolutely wonderful ideas for bringing drama into your classroom!   (Thanks Nancy!)
7. http://64.77.108.137/celebrate_poetry.htm - Ideas for poetry lessons
8. http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html- Lesson plans for  children’s books.  Many stories from our anthologies can be found here.

 Social Studies Lesson Plans:

1. http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/  - lesson plans and activities for many aspects of social studies  (Thanks Shannon!)

Lesson Plans for ALL Subjects:

9.  http://www.proteacher.com - Lesson plans (Thanks Nancy!)

10. http://www.abcteach.com-  will provide easy, online materials for immediate  use by kids, student teachers, teachers, parents and other visitors to the site.  The material can be printed directly from the screen; no downloads necessary.  Teachers have permission to reproduce these pages for classroom use.   (Thanks Nancy!)

11. http://www.rhlschool.com-RHL School, Free Teaching Resources: Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Free worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons. (Thanks Nancy!)

12. http://lessonplanz.com-LessonPlanz.com is searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects. Launched on May 1, 1999, LessonPlanz.com was designed to provide an easier way for teachers to find online lessons and teaching resources! By eliminating search results that aren't relevant to teachers, you also save time.  (Thanks Nancy!)

13. http://www.dositey.com -Interactive lessons, games, exercises, printable worksheets, open-ended questions, and more…(Thanks Nancy!)

14. http://www.learningpage.com - Lesson plans, books, worksheets (Thanks Nancy!)

15. http://quizhub.com - The Quiz Hub is a collection of fun online interactive learning quizzes that help K-12 students enhance their core knowledge of English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, geography, government, history, art, music, math, earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics. The Quiz Hub also promotes analytical, thinking, memory, and typing skills. (Thanks Barbara Linkenheimer!)

16.  http://www.realkids.com/lounge.htm - resources for teachers (Thanks Shannon!)

17. http://www.enchantedlearning.com - Enchanted Learning produces    children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. (Thanks Stacey!)

18.  http://www.atozteacherstuff.com - lesson plans

19.  http://www.scholastic.com - lesson plans, On-line book club ordering.  It is so easy and saves a lot of time!

WebQuests:

20. http://www.edhelper.com - Lesson Plans - Worksheets - Teacher's Lesson Plans - WebQuests - Primary Teacher Resources - Math Lesson Plans - Writing Lesson Plans - Reading Lesson Plans - Science Lesson Plans - Technology Lesson Plans - Social Studies Lesson Plans - ...  (Thanks Nancy!)

21. http://www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/matrix.htm - Webquests on recycling, rain forests, and more! (Thanks Nancy!)

Websites for Students:

        Language Arts: (Thanks Nancy!)

1. http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/
   This page allows children to write messages for informal purposes and formats and choose postcards on which to write them on. They may e-mail these postcards to other people who are on-line. The recipient is notified by e-mail. They can also include links and pictures on them. I think that this would be useful practice for students’ communication skills.
2. http://www.okidoki.com/en/rw/index.htm
   This page allows students to write and submit stories about themselves, pets, sports, and other topics. They can also read other children’s entries. They will get responses, after writing, via e-mail. I found this to be an innovative way to motivate students to write and boost their confidence.
3. http://www.worldkids.net/katw/katw.htm
   There are links from this page to activities for children which include letter writing projects to sick or injured children and the elderly. There is also an opportunity for creative writing about the pictures that are on the page.
4. http://www.vsa.cape.com/~powens/kidnews.html
   This is a really neat news page that allows students to read a lot about sports, news, and reviews. It also allows them to submit articles they write on their own. This would be a very interesting way to introduce children to writing for news media.
5. http://www.write4kids.com
   This is one of the most useful writing sites for children on the web. It has a free library of how-to info, a chat room for children’s writers and illustrators, writing surveys for kids, and a question board for children to ask questions to children’s authors and receive responses. There is also a link to writing tools for children’s authors including books and addresses.
6. http://www.comenius.com/index.html
   This site is a great resource for your gifted students who need enrichment in the regular classroom. It will be a little advanced in some parts, but the weekly idiom and fable are great! There are on-line exercises to do with the fable that enrich vocabulary and comprehension. It has a great deal of potential to improve writing with enrichment for style and vocabulary.
7. http://www.k14.peak.org/k14/curriculum/writing/
   This page is a starting point for students who want to work on writing. The focus is on creative writing but also offers information on different genres and illustrating tips. This is a great resource of information for your talented writers.
8. http://kids.ot.com/
   This web site can help students with typing skills by offering moderated chat which is governed by rules. This can also encourage development of writing dialogue. There is also a blank page designated for students’ submitted stories and poems. Goals are to publish something new every week. Kids can easily and safely manage this site.
9. http://www.csnet.net/minds-eye/home.html
   This site is very cool! Students try to communicate on original monsters features from an image on their screen to another child’s mind using learned writing skills and technology. This is a fabulous site, home of the Monster Exchange Project. Schools and students from around the world participate together to practice communication and writing skills.
10. http://www.toonacat.com/index.html
    This site offers many opportunities for students to use their writing skills in a context that they will find enjoyable. It offers a chance to write to Tuna Cat, ask him questions, read writing by other children, enter contests, and write stories and poems. It is definitely easy for students to navigate, no matter how narrow their knowledge of computers.
11.  http://www.manatee.K12.us/sites/elementary/palmisola/rcompindex.htm - online tutorials and quizzes.
12. http://www.ezschool.com/worksheets/ - comprehension stories to read and take a quiz.

Math Websites:

1. www.multiplication.com - tricks, rhymes, flash cards, quizzes, tests (Thanks Debby!) http://www.mathstories.com - Math word problems (Thanks Shannon!)
2. http://www.funbrain.com/ - This site allows teachers to enter their own quizzes and gives passwords for student access.  Great for review. (Thanks Terry!)
3. www.coolmath4kids.com - an amusement park of math and more! (Thanks Nancy!)  
4. http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/ashland.k12.mo.us/chance/mathematics.html - loads of math sites here.
5. http://mathstory.com/storyindex.html - Math stories including problem solving.
6. http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/mathlabtutstat1.htm - Mean, median and mode practice.
   

Science Websites:

1.       http://school.discovery.com/ - resources for teachers, students, and parents  (Thanks Shannon!)

2.       http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/kids.html - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Web page for students who’d like to learn more about oil spills and hazardous materials in or waters and along our coasts.  (Thanks Jeanette!)

3.       http://www.epa.gov/kids/ - The Environmental Protection Agency’s Explorers’ Club.  These pages are filled with interesting things kids can learn about the environment and fun things we can do to protect it.  (Thanks Jeanette!)

4.       www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/splash.cfm - a site all about the environment.

5.       http://mbgnet.mobot.org/pfg/samples/learn/index2.htm - plant/condensation experiment

6.       http://www.americanbear.org/math.htm - This sight ties into a fourth grade story about bears.  It has general information about bears. (Thanks Terry!)

7.       http://nyelabs.kcts.org/- Bill Nye the Science Guy

Social Studies Websites:

1.http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/tl/monthlyspecials/march/tldogsleddinglinks.html  - The sight is about the Iditerod.  It has interactive games about dog sledding.  (Thanks Terry!)

2. http://www.nara.gov/exhall/exhibits.html - A site where you can see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, WW II posters, and more.  (Thanks Jeanette!)