email a website comment, suggestion, or problem report.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
This site shows released test questions from the 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 California Standards Tests (CSTs). This site covers all subject areas for grades K-12. Thanks for sharing this site, Kevin. |
||||||||
|
This is an web portal for grades K-12 that introduces teachers to great web sites for teaching. This is an outstanding source for lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets, learning games and activities on a range of subjects. Click on Curriculum and the world will open for you. Sites are recommended and rated by teachers. Erica, thanks for finding this. |
||||||||
|
This is an outstanding site for tech lessons for all grades K-8, on cyber safety and use of the Internet. Lessons are simple to use and very effective. Highly Recommended |
||||||||
|
According to the web designer, this is a portal to the world of children's online learning. It certainly does this. It is very good. Thanks again, Erica for finding this site. |
||||||||
|
CLRN experts have identified, reviewed and organized hundreds of Electronic Learning Resources (ELRs) in a searchable database that allows you to compare key features of selected resources. The Web Information Links (WILs) let you search or browse hundreds of free primary, secondary and reference resources. Great resource for web links connected to state standards. |
||||||||
|
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. Has Websites for all subjects and all grade levels. |
||||||||
|
The site also offers daily original content-lesson planning activities, curriculum ideas, education site reviews, worldwide education employment listings, forums and education news to assist the education community online. For all levels. |
||||||||
|
A multicultural calendar celebrating holidays all over the world presented by children Searchable by month, holiday, country, and child author Customs, foods, etc. are included. |
||||||||
|
This is a truly awesome site--filled with goldmine lesson plans---for all levels. It is mostly for Social Studies but does have some science and a lot that are interdisciplinary. The activities, timelines and almost everything else are awesome. |
||||||||
|
This page gives information on how to use primary source documents in the classroom. |
||||||||
|
|
Combines lessons on primary and secondary resources with a little US History with a smidgeon of personal history added. |
|||||||
|
|
This website was created to support the series of PBS shows on Africa. There is something for all levels of students. Teacher tools has four wonderful units on Africa |
|||||||
|
This government site is for all age levels--K-8. |
||||||||
|
This library consists of about 3000 images chosen to be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as possible. Its purpose is to provide a set of basic graphics for low-level language teaching, and to make them easily searchable. |
||||||||
|
Meet famous African Americans, listen to jazz music, and explore history with our interactive timeline. Amount of content varies by grade level. |
||||||||
|
|
E-mail Classroom Exchange (ECE) helps classrooms to meet, correspond, and interact with other classrooms through the Internet. Users can search, browse and contact classrooms listed in the online database or submit a profile of their own classroom. Great site for cultural, language, history, science, or geography projects. Some resources are available in other languages. |
|||||||
|
A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance. |
||||||||
|
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends. Students can use it to better understand graphs and the power of explaining complex data in a graphic form. Maps are used to demonstrate demographics on a county-by-county level. |
||||||||
|
Great web quest ideas written by teachers in the field. There are all kinds of web quests for all grade levels. This is an interesting site. |
||||||||
|
Create a list of the characteristics, qualifications, and skills that make an effective President of the United States. After reading a selection provided, determine the characteristics, qualifications, and skills that George Washington had that made him the right choice for President of the United States. Compare and contrast the changing needs for the job of President of the United States today and at the time of Washington. |
||||||||
|
This is a listing of what the Library of Congress has to offer teachers. |
||||||||
|
Although this particular site fits into the sixth grade curriculum, there are some great lessons that have to do with observing primary source materials--like sculpture, paintings, etc. |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Great online and offline activities that allow you and your students to solve mysteries using science. |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Lesson plans and projects for all grade levels/ |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
This site provides Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. |
||||||||
|
All types of math resources for all levels - from Drexel University. Under Resource Types, click Educational Materials, then click Lesson Plans and Activities. |
||||||||
|
Just a neat site for students, especially for those who are experiencing difficulty with math. Links for teachers, etc. |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Use these free outline printable maps for your classroom. |
||||||||
|
This geography site contains more than a hundred original lesson plans, 800 free maps designed for printing or building Web sites, forums where teachers and students can discuss geography, and a 3-D virtual museum. Excellent |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Teachers' Domain is an online library that includes K-12 classroom-ready multimedia resources from public television programs like NOVA, ZOOM, and A Science Odyssey, and resources for educators including lesson plans, correlations to state and national standards, and resource management tools. Teachers' Domain is free, requiring only a simple registration |
||||||||
|
Discover the brain, spinal cord, neurons and senses. Use the experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system. There are links to other web sites as well. |
||||||||
|
The format of this highly acclaimed, informative and entertaining site consists of alternating weekly features that key off developments that make headlines. Features are cataloged in an easily searchable archive and are regularly updated to keep pace with new developments in science. |
||||||||
|
The Bridge is a unique clearinghouse of the best K-12 ocean science education sites available online. Educators can find information on any ocean science topic, plus links to aquariums and research institutions, ocean science research data and data based classroom activities, and lesson plans. |
||||||||
|
Outstanding interactive site that includes activities related to - Our Solar System, Atmosphere and Weather, Geology, Oceans, Life and Geography, Sun and Space, weather, Physics and Chemistry, Special Curriculum from NASA. |
||||||||
|
This is a Library of weather, climate, and Earth system imagery. This site includes photographs and illustrations of clouds, lightning, tornadoes, floods, storms, air pollution, and more which can be used free of charge by educators. Every photo is clearly labeled and described. |
||||||||
|
This site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center. |
||||||||
|
Very impressive set of lessons on a wide variety of topics and grade levels--from eggs to cell division---from text to video clips. |
||||||||
|
This site has lessons for all grade levels on soil conservation. |
||||||||
|
NASAexplores provides resources that meet national education standards in the areas of space, science, mathematics, geography, and technology. Materials are adapted to different reading levels. |
||||||||
|
Great online and offline activities that allow you and your students to solve mysteries using science. |
||||||||
|
This interdisciplinary site has wonderful animation, color and sound. It contains a variety activities and lessons that are appropriate for grades K-12 |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Black History Month: Exploring African American Issues on the Web . |
This site consists of a five web sites: Hotlist, Subject Sampler, Treasure Hunt, and WebQuests. The Black History Hotlist is a starting point for anyone studying African-American events and issues. Two webquests, Little Rock 9 and the Tuskegee Tragedy, force students to think critically about these historic events and the deeper issues that triggered them |
|||||||
|
Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Included are links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages; however useful resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well. |
||||||||
|
A webquest designed to teach the students about historical writing. Excellent. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Introduction to modern art for young children ages 5-8 that has them learn about various artists like Van Gogh, Frieda Kahlo, etc. Also has an Art Safari section where children look at paintings, learn a lesson, and then do an activity that involves self-expression. Very easy to use and well done. |
||||||||
|
Look at some of Picasso's drawings so that you can use the mouse to make a drawing online. These can be printed. Great for the real little kids. |
||||||||
|
Why do Americans have a holiday to celebrate Presidents Linclon and Washington? Find out what these famous men did and decide for yourself if we should remember their birthdays each year. |
||||||||
|
This lesson supports Adler's Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln. Students can choose from a wealth of activities to learn key history-social science concepts. |
||||||||
|
Using Bernard Waber's book Just Like Abraham Lincoln, students explore other print resources and the web to create a book of facts about Lincoln to compare everyday life during his childhood with their own lives. One of the activities is to explore a virtual classroom visit to Lincoln's childhood home in Lincoln City, Indiana. |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Bilingual art activities presented by AT&T |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Although this site at the University of Kentucky deals with insects and bugs in Kentucky, it has outstanding photos and games for young children (K5), including insect theme foods. Quite cool. |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
This is an all subject lesson plan site for middle school. |
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
Updated August 29, 2008