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Core Curriculum Links - Language arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

Lesson Plans

• Discovery School's Lesson Plan Library

• Teachers Net

• Lesson Plans Page

• EdHelper

• PBS Teacher Source - lesson plans for grades pre-K through 12 in all areas of curriculum

Units

• Project-Based Learning Units and Resources
• eTHEMES  
• Greentown Elementary's Collection of Theme Units

Tools

• 4Teachers - rubrics, quizzes, worksheets, and more

• AIMS Puzzle Corner - math and higher order thinking puzzles

• Brain Booster - a new puzzle/question/stumper each week

• Puzzlemaker - create puzzles like word searches, mazes and more

• Worksheet Generator

• Graphic Organizers - tips on using graphic organizers and examples of many different kinds

• 42 Graphic Organizers

Early Childhood

• Kindergarten Kafe - this site hasn't been updated for a couple of years but the archives have some good ideas
• Tooter4Kids Preschool-K Pages
• Starfall Learn-to-Read website
• Preschool Express
• Kiddyhouse
• Inside Kindergarten  
• Julia's Rainbow Corner - educational games for preschoolers
• Nursery Rhymes Online
• Dot to dot collection

Student Research

• Research help - links to Kids Connect Tools and the Big 6 websites, and a Big 6 worksheet to guide students through the process

• Plagiarism - why we need to worry about plagiarism, links to a PowerPoint for students and teachers and a website that is a collection of links about plagiarism and the internet

Webquests

• Best Webquests

• Concept to Classroom Webquest Page

• Cyber Inquiry

• Webquest Workshop

• Rubrics for Web Lessons

• Webquest 101

• The Webquest Page

• Mrs. Proctor's Schoolpage - includes webquests on the ecosystem, Native Americans, Spiders, animals, and early America

Inclusion Strategies/Spec Ed/Gifted Ed

• LD Online

• Teaching Strategies

• Including Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms

• Strategies for Winning Over the Impossible Class

• Including Young Children with Special Needs

• Accommodating Students with Special Needs

• Hoagies' Gifted Education Page 

• Working with Gifted and Talented Students - How to identify gifted students, strategies for teachers, web resources

Clip Art

• Discovery School Clip Art

• Educational clipart

• Microsoft Office Clipart and Media

• Image Gallery

• Clipart ETC

• ClipArt, Pictures, Graphics

• Student-drawn clip art - these are really nice

• Classroom Clipart

• IconBAZAAR

• Pics4Learning - a collection of copyright-free photographs

• TeacherFiles Clipart

Classroom Management

• Teacher net - classroom management plus lots of other good stuff

• Discipline Help

• The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources

• Busy Teacher's Cafe

• Discipline

• Methods and Practice of Classroom Discipline

Sites du Jour (taken from Classroom Connect, March 2002)

• Word Central from Merriam Webster - click on Daily Buzzword
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - put a clipboard with paper and pencil next to the computer and have students try to guess what the picture is by writing their name and their guess
• Earth Science Picture of the Day - ask students to hypothesize about the picture
• Pet of the Day - have students keep a graph of the pet of the day and then use collected data to answer various questions

Sites with categorized links 

• Blue Web'n - Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).

• Educational Hotlinks for New Teachers

• Dewey Browse - websites here are categorized by subject according to the Dewey Decimal System

• Awesome Library - websites categorized by core curriculum and themes, content is also in several foreign languages

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

• Discovery School

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

• Internet4Classrooms

• Information Age Consultants  - click on Course links

General Resources

• Dositey - collection of interactive activities, worksheets and open-ended questions divided by grade level
• Monthly Holidays and Celebrations
• Today Is . . . Monthly Calendar and Related Websites

• Special Subjects - Music, Art, Physical Education

• American Indians in Children's Literature - suggestions for appropriate literature, links to tribal websites, links to native writers, lesson plans and much more reliable information  

• AOKTeachersStuff - word games, coloring pages, and websites categorized by subject

• Tooter4Kids - poetry, worksheets, themes, and more

• Articles for Educators

• Merriam Webster's Word Central

• Sheppard Software - lots of online games in different subject areas

• Teacher Files 

• Enchanted Learning - monthly activity calendar, printable books, crafts, picture dictionary and much more

• Read-Write-Think

• National Geographic

• The Question Mark 

• Inspiring Teachers

• Sites for Teachers - the top one hundred websites listed by popularity

• Bank Street Corner - a website of the Bank Street College of Education

• A to Z Teacher Stuff - lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

• Teachers.Net  - lots of printable worksheets plus other resources

• Teachers First

• Pro Teacher

• Free PowerPoint Presentations: Topics and Theme - a variety of PowerPoint slide shows for grades 5-8

• Educational Cyber Playground: Copyright Laws for Teachers

• Cyberbee

• Coloring Pages