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A-Z Internet Search Engines
Adult Education |
Diversity in the Classroom |
Health News
Language & Literature |
Laws, Regulations and Standards
Magazines, News & Weather |
Media Savvy: Links for Media Teachers
Reference Tools (Biographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias) |
Research Skills
School Funding |
Special Education |
Sport And Coaching |
Technology
Lesson Planning |
Lesson Planning for Specific Subjects |
Resources & Services |
| This list of resources has been compiled with grateful acknowledgement to Teacher Created Materials and Educators' Road Map to the Web published by T.H.E. (Technological Horizons in Education) Journal. |
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Recommended:
Ask Jeeves |
Google |
Google / UncleSam
Alternatives:
Directhit |
Dogpile |
Excite |
HotBot |
Infoseek |
Mamma (Metasearcher)
MetaCrawler |
Northern Light |
Profusion |
WebCrawler |
Yahoo
Specialized Search Tools:
Academic Info Educational Subject Directory
Complete Plated Deep Web Directory
Genius Find
IncyWincy Invisible Web Search Engine
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Profusion Invisible Web
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| Back to College |
Excellent adult education resource providing access to information about internships, online degrees, etc. |
| GRE Online |
Provides examples of verbal, quantitative and analytical sections of the test, as well as information on the scoring process and score reporting. |
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| African-American Mosaic |
Online exhibition from the Library of Congress that explores the study of black history and culture.
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| Africana |
Companion web site to Encarta Africana CD-ROM. Contains many articles and multimedia presentations on Black history. |
| Band-Aids and Blackboards |
This site is dedicated to sensitizing students to what it is like to grow up with a medical problem. |
| Black History Activities |
Six web sites on African-American history, including Black History Hotlist, etc. |
| Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research |
Created by the University of Southern California. Provides current news, as well as categorical lists of links to other Internet sites. |
| Center for World Indigenous Studies |
Presents documents and resources related to the nations of the Fourth World, e.g. information on traditional healing, employment resources, etc. |
| Cultural Orientation Website |
This website was established to create linkages between overseas providers of cultural orientation and domestic resettlement programs. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History |
Extensive site featuring hundreds of articles, biographies and images. The hyperlinked time line is particularly good. |
| ELL/ESL Resources |
Activities for ESL Students
Boggle's World ESL Resources
CanTeach
ELC Language Zone
E.L. Easton Materials for Learning
English As Second Language
English Exercises Online
English Idiom Resources
English Lesson Plans for ESL/EFL
EnglishPage
English Writing Skills
English Zone
ESL Go
ESL Bears: Guide to English
ESL Gold
ESL Lab
ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
ESL Lounge
ESL Monkeys
ESL Online Resources
ESL PartyLand
ESL Resources
ESL Teacher Connection
Free ESL
Guide To Learning English
Interesting Things for ESL Students
Internet TESL Journal
Online Library and Language Lab
TOEFL Writing Topics
Using English
Web English Teacher
Writing Lessons
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| Equity and Access | In-depth information on the issue of equity and access as it pertains to women, minorities and people with disabilities. The web site also offers links to resource guides and annotated bibliographies. |
| K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet | This guide aims to assist teachers, students and librarians in locating online resources on Africa for research and studies. |
| Let's Go Around the World! | Combines cultures in other parts of the world with language arts instruction. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | An in-depth look at the life and impact of Martin Luther King Jr. Includes clips from I Have A Dream and Promised Land speeches. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project | A comprehensive site that provides both papers written by Martin Luther King, Jr. and secondary documents about his life. |
| Mathematicians of the African Diaspora | This web site provides biographical information on great black mathematicians. |
| Slave Voices | This site is from the Special Collections Library of Duke University. An excellent site that retells the story of slavery with documents of the period, including bills of sale, newspaper advertisements, diaries, etc. |
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| Mind Tools: How to Master Stress | Learn how to better manage personality traits that generate unhealthy stress. Provides insight into the environmental, lifestyle and job related factors that can cause tension. |
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| Bartleby's Great Books Online | This site provides free access to online literature, poetry and reference works. |
| Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation | Use this site to answer questions about English grammar and punctuation. |
| English Server | Contains more than 20,000 articles and files, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction and more. |
| Literary Resources on the Net | A good place to start research on literary resources, e.g. Renaissance, American, Theater and Drama, Women's Literature, etc. |
| Literature and Language | Compiled by a division of the American Library Association, this site provides links to hundreds of literature and language sites. Categories include Favorite Children's Stories, Expanding the Classics, Authors and Illustrators, etc. |
| Mythology Links
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Ancient World Web
Encyclopedia Mythica
Magic Web: Myth and Folklore Links
MythingLinks
Myths & Legends |
| Project Gutenberg | Online books, short stories, etc. Project Gutenberg was originally conceived as a computer repository of printed material, and their database keeps growing and growing. |
| Vocabulary University | This web site offers free, interactive vocabulary word puzzles, as well as lesson plans, worksheets and monthly thematic features. |
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| EdLaw | Extensive and well-maintained site containing laws and other documents related to education. Categories: IDEA Regulations, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Related Education Resources. |
| Internet Law Library | Offered as a free service of the U.S. House of Representatives, this site features an exhaustive list of federal and state laws in full. |
| National Standards for Art Education | Provides summary statements about the standards, and ordering information to obtain copies of the documents. |
| National Standards for Math Education | The NCTM Standards provide guidelines for building high-quality mathematics education programs. |
| National Standards for United States History | This web site provides the complete national standards for U.S. History for grades K-4 and 5-12, and the national standards for World History. |
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| Educational Journals |
Classroom Compass
Classroom Connect
Education Review
Educational Technology Journal
Electronic School
Instructor Magazine
Journal of In-service Education
Journal of Technology Education
Multimedia & Internet Schools
Teacher Development
Teacher Talk
Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.)
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| Journals |
Business Week
Discover
Forbes
National Geographic
Nature
New Scientist
Newsweek
Scientific American
U.S. News & World Report
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| News: Publications |
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
Los Angeles Times
London Daily Telegraph
London Mirror
New York Times
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post |
| News: Radio and Television |
CNN
KARE-11
KMSP
KSTP
KTCA
WCCO |
| Weather |
Weather Channel
Weather Events (Severe)
WeatherNet |
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| Associations |
American Library Association
American Association of School Librarians |
| Banned Books | Part of the American Library Association's site. Includes information about how books are banned, the most challenged and banned books, and the most challenged and banned authors in the U.S. for 2004. |
| Big Six (Information Literacy Skills) |
Big6 Newsletter
Savvy Steps to Research Success
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| Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Site |
A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. |
| Children's Literature and Language Arts | This site, part of the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) web site, focuses on children's literature in education. |
| Children's Literature Web Guide | A good site featuring information on award-wining children's books. The web site includes a list of categorize links for teachers, parents and storytellers.
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| CyberSmart | An excellent resource to use when teaching safety, responsibility and use of the Internet. |
| EasyBib | Free bibliographic service that adheres to the 5th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers and Researchers and the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual. |
| enGauge | This site is designed to help districts and schools plan and evaluate the system wide use of educational technology. |
| Evaluation of Web Sites |
ABC's of Web Site Evaluation (Kathy Schrock)
Park Center's Internet Quality Checklist
Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources |
| iMovie Links | Apple iMovie Web Site |
| Information Literacy Skills |
Bibliography, Compiling of
Big6 Skills
How to Search
Savvy Steps to Research Success
Teaching Research Skills
WebQuest Design |
| Information Literacy Skills, Evaluation of | Assessment Rubrics (Kathy Schrock) |
| Information Literacy Standards |
American Association of School Librarians
Association for Educational and Communications Technology
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| Internet2 |
Internet2 is a consortium led by universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies. |
| Internet Public Library Reading Room | Freely available books, magazines and newspapers from around the world, and links to other online resources. |
| Internet Skills |
CyberBee Internet Guide for Teachers
Global Schoolhouse
Real Research on the WWW
Savvy Steps to Research Success
Searching the Web (PowerPoint Presentation)
Surfing Safari Internet Tutorial
Teaching Research Skills |
| Librarian's Index to the Internet | This web site is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 6,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians. |
| Library of Congress | Provides online access to a multitude of very useful resources such as American Memory (US History & Culture), Global Gateway (World Culture Resources), etc. |
| Stumpers-L | Stumpers-L, sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, was founded as an e-mail based resource where reference librarians can help one other find the answers to difficult questions. |
| Sunlink Weed of the Month |
Provides guidance and suggestions for weeding media collections, as well as adding quality materials. Suggestions provided via LM NET, a listserv for library media specialists. |
| Technology Know-How (Resources and Tutorials for Teachers) | Atomic Learning Library |
| Web Quest Design | Web Quests: Overview
Web Quests: PowerPoint Presentation |
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| Biographical Dictionary | Over 25,000 names of notable men and women. |
| Gallery of Achievement | Collection of facts on people who have shaped the 20th Century.
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| Web of Online Dictionaries |
This web site indexes online dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica's free Internet guide organized by topic. |
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| Infoplease.com | One-stop reference site which includes access to Almanacs, Webster's College Dictionary and Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| My Virtual Reference Desk | Useful list of ready-reference tools. |
| Rivendell Educational Archive | Original articles, graphical and textual exhibits, bibliographies and WWW research links for various curriculum areas. |
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| Bibliography, Compiling of | Compiling a Bibliography, PCSH Guidelines |
| Internet Strategies | Strategies and tutorials to assist students in using the Internet effectively. |
| Researchpaper.com | A large collection of topics, ideas and assistance for school related projects. |
| Writing Center | Practical guide to writing research papers, reviews, etc. |
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| Foundation Center | An online orientation to the grant-seeking process, a comprehensive user-friendly guide to funding research, as well as a searchable list to grant-making organizations. |
| Grant Opportunity Resources | A good collection of links on finding money and writing proposals. |
| Grantwriting Basics | A description of the ins and outs of the grant process, how the proposal will be reviewed, etc. |
| Grant Writing Made Easy | Excellent article published in the School Library Journal on writing grants. Provides helpful links to other sites on the same topic. |
| IRIS Funding Opportunities | A searchable database of over 7,000 grants. |
| School Grants | Helps educators locate federal and local grants, in addition to providing advice on how to write grants. |
| U.S. Department of Education Funding Opportunities | Information on applying for grants and contracts. |
| Writing a Successful Grant Proposal | The Minnesota Council on Foundations provides tips on writing effective grant proposals. |
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| Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) | Membership required to get the full range of CEC resources, but freebies include articles focusing on the Web and special education, plus tips for teaching exceptional children. |
| Learning Disabilities Association of America | LDA is a national, non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families through advocacy, education, research and service. |
| Learning Disabilities Online | Interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children. Provides an informative primer about LD basics, materials from leading organizations and professionals, LD news, etc. |
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| Educator's Toolkit | Easy access to teacher resources, libraries, technology and lesson plans. |
| E-TEAMZ: Instruction | Tips, drills and articles on motivation and philosophy for coaches who are seeking for new ideas. Includes usual sports, as well as some lesser known ones such as water polo. |
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| TechLearning | A comprehensive site that focuses on integrating new technology in K-12 classrooms. |
| WWW4Teachers | The Tech-Along section features how-to advice for teachers. Includes topics on managing a one computer classroom and building a web site. |
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| Assessment, Graphic Organizers and Rubrics | A valuable resource for teachers who use graphic organizers or rubrics. |
| Discovery Channel School | Lesson plans for every grade level to complement the cable network's shows on animals, economics, history, literature and science. |
| Education World | Provides resources necessary to effectively integrate the Internet in American schools. |
| Educators' Road Map to the Web | Hand-picked links for educators by T.H.E. (Technological Horizons in Education) Journal. |
| Educator's Toolkit | Easy access to teacher resources, libraries, technology and lesson plans.
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| English Second Language | See resources listed under "Diversity in the Classroom"! |
| FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) | FREE, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, brings together resources for teaching and learning created with federal support. |
| Free Worksheets | Thousands of free educational worksheets categorized in to subjects of science, math social studies, etc. |
| Gateway to Educational Materials | The goal of this web site is to link teachers to educational materials on federal, state, university, nonprofit and commercial web sites. Simple and easy-to-use interface using subject lists or keywords. The web site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. |
| Global Schoolhouse | The mission of the Global SchoolNet Foundation is to "harness the power of the Internet" by providing ongoing opportunities to support learners. Includes links to projects, programs, resources and tools for teachers. |
| History Channel | Rich resource of teaching tips, activities, study guides and classroom materials, including a searchable database of noted historical events which occurred on each day of the year. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators | A classified, annotated, award-winning site with over 1200 links to help educators enhance curriculum and expand their professional growth. |
| Links for Teachers | Accesses educational software, home schooling resources, lesson plans and other helpful web resources for teachers. |
| Math/Science Gateway for High School | Curriculum ideas from agriculture to chemistry and physics, ask-an-expert links, conferences, etc. |
| Mathematics Archives | K-12 Teaching materials, lesson plans, software and topics for all math levels. |
| Multicultural Pavillion | A collection of multicultural resources for teachers. Particularly helpful: Teacher's Corner |
| New York Times Learning Network | Incorporate current events in classroom activities and keep up with education news using this site. Features daily lessons, as well as materials lists, discussion questions, vocabulary list, etc. |
| PBS TeacherSource | 1,300 activities and lesson plans to accompany familiar PBS programs. Divided into five categories: Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science & Technology, and Social Studies. |
| Puzzlemaker | Allows teachers to create their own puzzles, e.g. criss-cross puzzles, cryptograms and letter tile puzzles. |
| Scholastic Network | This leading Internet subscription service for teachers and students is FREE for educators. Includes free lesson plans, teacher guides, online tutorials, directory of teacher-reviewed web sites, etc. |
| SCORE | Over 3,000 web resources containing lessons, projects, electronic fieldtrips, etc. Searchable by grade level or topic. |
| Teachers Helping Teachers | By teachers, for teachers. Features lesson plans, book reviews and useful web sites categorized by subject. |
| Teachnet | How-to information on a variety of subjects such as classroom management and classroom decorating, as well as lesson plans and quick activities. |
| Teachers' Net | A comprehensive site with lesson plans, bulletin boards, job listings and sites that sell educational material. |
| Virtual Field Trips | Take students on a trip to the desert, the ocean or a volcano without leaving the classroom. |
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| National Arts Education Association
| The NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization that promotes art education. |
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| CAS | The mission of Indiana University's Center for Adolescent Studies is to advance the understanding of the physiological, biological and social characteristics of normal adolescence. |
| EDSITEment | Online humanities resources for lesson planning from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities. |
| Education News | This addition to the Washington Post web site dedicated solely to education topics. |
| Funderstanding | Information about learning and technology for teachers; allows teachers to explore, discuss and apply ideas about learning. |
| Internet Skills | Collection of web sites that focus on integrating resources on the Internet. |
| New York Times Learning Network | Incorporate current events in classroom activities and keep up with education news using this site. Features daily lessons, as well as materials lists, discussion questions, vocabulary list, etc. Created together with the Banks Street College of Education. |
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