RESOURCE CENTRE

Here is a collection of links useful to both Staff and Students.

Lesson Planning

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
6,000 Lesson Plans 1000 WebQuests and more!
MarcoPolo: Home
Education World¨ Where Educators Go To Learn
Connections+
Teachnet.Com > Lesson Ideas
Teachers.Net - THE TEACHER WEBSITE! Teacher chatboards & teacher chat rooms, lesson plans and teaching tools, teacher job listings and career resources, reference desk and curriculum tools, everything for the on-line teacher!
The World Lecture Hall
The Gateway to Educational Materials
tech.LEARNING

 

Teacher and Student Starting Points

NetDay Compass: Research Desk
StudyWeb
NetDay Compass: Category Page
Inspire Virtual Library Homepage
GeoHistory
Black History
Gigglepotz - Teaching and Learning for Life
Everything for Education K-12!
NEWTON Home Page
ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers
Kathy Schrock's Home Page
Yahooligans!
Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
Classroom Connect
Net-Mom Home Page
Educational Hotlists @ The Franklin Institute
Educational Resources
Education World¨ Where Educators Go To Learn
InSITE - Internet Resources
Armadillo's K-12 resources
ICONnect: Home Page
Ask-An-Expert
Bigchalk: Teachers
Scholastic's Homepage
Surfing the Net with Kids: Guide to the BEST KID SITES
CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists
The List Exchange
CNN NEWSROOM
DiscoverySchool.com
Theme Units & Online Activities - Greentown Elementary School
Parenting advice, child development and family reference
PBS TeacherSource - Site Guide
nationalgeographic.com - Adventure, Maps, Travel...
FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Teachers and Kids
Lightspan
Libraries & the Internet Toolkit
The Digital Divide Network: Knowledge to help everyone succeed in the digital age
Insectclopedia Research Portal
National Educational Computing Association (NECA)

Language Arts

 WordCentral
 Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus
 Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure!
 Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
 Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
 Readthebooks.com - Video Book Reviews for Kids!

 

Arts Education

ARTSEDGE: Ireland Online: Learn: Lesson: Magic Words, Magic Brush
ARTSEDGE: Teaching Materials: Charleston
NetLinks: The Fibonacci Series
Boundary Ballads
Learning from Lyrics/Music & Society
EconEdLink | EconomicsMinute | Online Music
I've Seen That Shape Before
Science Netlinks: Science Updates: Stone Age Tunes
Science NetLinks: The Mozart Effect
Building a Greek Subway Museum
Geography and History in Songs
ARTSEDGE Celebrates Louis Armstrong 
Exploring the Ballet with ArtsEdge 
ARTSEDGE Presents NSOnline 
NCTM Illuminations Sound Sketch Applet
NCTM Sound Wave Applet
 

Science

www.col-ed.org/cur/science.html
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
http://scitoys.com/
www.innerbody.com – anatomy of the human body
www.howstuffworks.com – describes how daily objects work
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature - elementary info on specific animals – links, pictures, maps
http://www.cet.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsys.html - science 8 - geological time scales, eras, plate tectonics – good reading level for students
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody - explores the human body
Zoom Dinosaurs - EnchantedLearning.com
GLACIER
Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page
Monarch Watch
NASA Quest > Space Team Online
Mars Team Online
NASA Quest > Solar System Online
Science à GoGo - Science with knobs on!
Welcome to the Planets
NASA LIVE Cams And Mission Displays
The Weather Channel - Home Page
Discovery.com Cams
View Nesting Birds
Black Pine Animal Park, Exotic Animal Rescue, Retirement, and Zoo
Iowa State Insect Zoo Live Camera

Math

Math.com Students
Math Goodies
Totally Tessellated
PBS TeacherSource - Math
The Math Forum: Teachers' Place

 

Social Studies

nationalgeographic.com - Adventure, Maps, Travel...
AskAsia Homepage
MarcoPolo: Home

 

Educational Games

Welcome to Lemonade Stand
Funbrain
Coolmath4kids -- Little Links!
Spelling Games
Colors And Reading Game

Webquests

Peggy's WebQuest Page
Hobart's WebQuest Page
CyberInquiry
The WebQuest Page
6,000 Lesson Plans 1000 WebQuests and more!
Building Blocks of a WebQuest
WebQuests in Our Future
Investigating Archaeotype: A WebQuest
WebQuest 2
Put What You Want to Appear in the Title Bar Here
Bob Grammens & Carol Weagel's ProjectMaker Work Page
Artists' Self Portraits
Investigating Archaeotype: A WebQuest
Hotlists and WebQuests
Searching for China: a Full WebQuest
EdFirst: Democracy & Debt, a WebQuest
Put Unit Title Here
DAMMCQs: App. C: MCQs and Bloom's Taxonomy
A WebQuest about WebQuests
Evidence of Democratic Principles and Multiculturalism in Our Schools
Put Lesson or Activity Title Here
Interdisciplinary Units
Webquest: Discovering Volcanoes

 

Search Engines

Welcome to Dogpile, the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool
The Invisible Web Home
Yahoo!
Yahooligans!
WebCrawler
Excite
AltaVista Technology, Inc.
KidsClick! Web Search
Ask Jeeves Kids
Ask Jeeves - Ask.com
Lycos
Lightspan
StudyWeb