General

  • The Educators Reference Desk - 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 Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, 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.
  • The Educators Reference Desk: Lesson Plans - Ready made lesson plan for multiple subjects. Very useful.
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
  • Discovery School - Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers.
  • Scholastic -With rich educational content and classroom-tested online curriculum, Scholastic.com is revolutionizing the way teachers and students integrate technology into the classroom and work together to enhance learning.
  • S.C.O.R.E. (School of California On-Line Resoures for Education)- This site links to quality Internet resources and teacher developed lessons while supporting California's Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks. A must visit site.
  • Rubistar - great site that helps you create rubrics. Ms. Moore gives it a thumbs up.

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Art

  • Artcyclopedia - A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
  • Art Education - Art products and resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced.
  • Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist's Index - Developed lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels.
  • How to read a painting... (nice Webquest) - A simple webquest on how to see art with a critical eye.
  • Posters American Style - Brings together some of the great graphic images (posters) made in the United States over the past century.

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Mathematics

  • Create a Graph - Helps students creat all type of graphs
  • Geometry.net - A comprehensive math search engine for middle school math and above.
  • Gomath.com (Subscription)- Students can e-mail their math questions and be helped by tutors with extensive teaching experience.
  • Math.com - This site offers different sections for students, teachers and parents. The teacher area has lesson plans, classroom resources, career information, standards and free stuff.
  • Mathematics Archives - This comprehensive source covers a wide range of different topics in mathematics, software, and teaching materials.
  • S.C.O.R.E. Math - Comprehensive site offering California state standards, California frameworks, lesson plans, resources and links.

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Physical Education/Health

  • AAHPERD - American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. AAHPERD's mission is to promote and support creative and healthy lifestyles through high quality programs in health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport, and to provide members with professional development opportunities that increase knowledge, improve skills, and encourage sound professional practices.
  • California Physical Education Resources - A good site for curriculum framework information as well as physical education resources.
  • Health Teacher.com (Subscription)- Provides a comprehensive, sequential k-12 health education curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides that meet National Health Education Standards.
  • PE Central - Provides the latest information about instructionally appropriate physical education practices and programs
  • PE Lesson Plans - This site is like a community board for PE teachers. PE teachers share some of their lesson plans with everyone.
  • Sports Media - Lesson plans, tips, drills, activities and other teaching aids for the physical education teacher.

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Science

  • Amazing Space Web-Based Activities - This site covers everything from space topics to the Hubble Telescope.
  • Biology 4 Kids (Subscription)- Includes the chemistry of biology and how the world of biology is studied, as well as cell structure and function.
  • California Space & Science Center - Lesson plans and other resources for teachers with an emphasis on space exploration.
  • The Catalyst - Developed specifically for the high school chemistry teacher, to provide a place for finding relevant information for use in and out of the classroom.
  • Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Dinosaurs! Dino Don Lessem - Dinosaur expert Dino Don Lessem presents dinosaur news, art, contests, and the Lost World Jurassic Park Traveling Exhibit.
  • eNature.com - The complete nature and wildlife resource featuring the Audubon Guides to plants and animals.
  • High School Physics Resources - Resources for the students: tutorials, animations, project ideas, sample quizzes, etc.
  • Hubble Site - All Hubble pictures and news, from the latest discoveries to the earliest images.
  • Introduction to Windows to the Universe - Designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, this site is a first rate trip through earth and space science by means of multimedia exhibits.
  • Learning About Photosynthesis - Follow their links to resources that discuss photosynthesis at varying degrees of complexity.
  • Middle School Science
  • National Geographic Education - National Geographic's Web site for teachers, with lesson plans and online activities.
  • Planet Pals Earthzone - Alive with colorful cartoon characters, this interactive resource teaches about ecology, natural resources, the planet Earth and its care.
  • S.C.O.R.E. Science - Comprehensive site offering California state standards, California frameworks, lesson plans, resources and links.
  • Thursday's Classroom from NASA - NASA news and research related to the Hubble Constant and cosmology. The site provides a lasting connection between NASA's latest research and the classroom environment.
  • The Visible Human Project - The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy.
  • Weather Channel - For the weather-savvy educator, this site offers lesson plans, teacher's guides and more, including additional online teaching resources.
  • Welcome to BioTech - Extensive site that includes a useful dictionary, chemical acronym databases, directories, educational guides, science resources and articles.
  • A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions - This site provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today, with the appropriate conversion factors.

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Social Studies

  • CNN Newsroom - A free instructional program for teachers to bring the world into their classrooms with in-depth news stories, as well as world and regional events designed exclusively for students.
  • Collections - Map collections from 1544 to 1996 organized according to seven major categories.
  • CSUN - Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
  • EyeWitness - Using personal letters and essays, Eyewitness History takes a look at major events in history from the perspectives of eyewitnesses.
  • Florida Geographic Alliance Lesson Plan Collections - These geographic lesson plans are made available by year of creation and are free of cost.
  • The History Channel - Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history and music history.
  • The History of Today - Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history and music history.
  • History Place - Great online history exhibits includes World Wars, Lincoln, Kennedy
  • HyperHistory - Navigates through 3,000 years of world history.
  • Let's Go Around the World - A fun and very informative global exploration site.
  • Multicultural Teacher's Corner - Multicultural Pavilion - Conceptualizations, goals, assumptions, activities, lessons and tools of multicultural education.
  • National Archives: The Digital Classroom - This site gives teachers and students access to online historical documents.
  • Newsweek Education Program (Subscription)- A site designed to help teachers build bridges to real-world issues.
  • People's Country - PBS's People's Century discusses the "History of the People," for the people, as told by the people who lived it.
  • S.C.O.R.E. History/Social Sciences - Comprehensive site offering California state standards, California frameworks, lesson plans, resources and links.
  • USHistory.org - American History with a focus on Colonial and Revolutionary Philadelphia.
  • The Virtual Study Tour - With this architectural virtual tour, you can visit the Knossos Labyrinth or the Palace of Ramses III.
  • 50states.com - State information resource links to state homepages, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, trees, etc.

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Special Education

Language Arts

  • Acronym Finder - The Acronym finder is a large searchable database, containing about 155,000 acronyms, abbreviations and definitions.
  • Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of literature, nonfiction and reference.
  • CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide - Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
  • EDSITEment - This comprehensive humanities resource site features lesson plans for literature and links to the best resource sites on the Web.
  • The English Server - This site contains over 20,000 articles, as well as poetry, fiction, nonfiction and much more.
  • The Internet Classics Archive - Students can read many classics form the Odyssey to Plato's Apology, and they can find history on Tacitus and others.
  • Internet Public Library Reading Room - This"room" contains bookshelves for browsing and searching for entertaining reading, along with links to sites providing other full texts.
  • OWL Online Writing Lab - Learn about grammar and punctuation. Very simple and nice lessons. (Created by the Purdue University Writing Lab)
  • Poetry.com
  • S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts - Here you can access the California state standards and frameworks in language arts, with extensive resources, lesson plans and links.

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