Teacher Suggested Web Sites

Lesson Plans and other Resources

• Teacher Worksheets  Free worksheets for teachers in English, Math Problem Solving, and Reading Comprehension.
• 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.
  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.
  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.
  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 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.
  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.
  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
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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. 
  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.
   

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.
2. 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.

Lesson Plans for ALL Subjects:

http://www.proteacher.com - Lesson plans

 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.

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. 

http://www.dositey.com -Interactive lessons, games, exercises, printable worksheets, open-ended questions, and more…

http://www.learningpage.com - Lesson plans, books, worksheets

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.

http://www.realkids.com/lounge.htm - resources for teachers

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

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

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

Websites for Students:

        Language Arts:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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
2. http://www.mathstories.com - Math word problems
3. http://www.funbrain.com/ - This site allows teachers to enter their own quizzes and gives passwords for student access.  Great for review.
4. www.coolmath4kids.com - an amusement park of math and more!
5. http://mathstory.com/storyindex.html - Math stories including problem solving.
   

Science Websites:  

1.       http://school.discovery.com/ - resources for teachers, students, and parents 

2.       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. 

3.       http://www.americanbear.org/math.htm - This sight ties into a fourth grade story about bears.  It has general information about bears.