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Equity Resources Midwest Equity Assistance Center: provides technical assistance, professional development, and information dissemination services in race equity, gender equity, and national origin equity to public school districts and charter schools, in the States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. American Association of University Women: offers information on programs that make strides in gender equity and educational excellence. Girls Inc.: is dedicated to develop research-based informal educational programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical and emotional challenges. DiversityWeb: Learn about equity and its relation to learning and teaching. EQUITY online: lots of resources on improving education for girls and women and supporting equitable outcomes for all students. Digital Divide Network: unequal adoption of technology excludes many from reaping the fruits of the economy. Gain knowledge here to help everyone succeed in a digital age. ADA information technology requirements: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires access to electronic and information technology procured by Federal agencies. The Access Board developed accessibility standards for the various technologies covered by the law. Mentor Girls: Looking for a guide to technology-related mentoring programs for girls and women? Find information about being mentored or becoming a mentor. Top		Spanish Resources ¡Españolé! is an On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish. Learn about Hispanic countries, Literature, History, Refranes, and Art. Teachers can also visit La página de los profesores to find resources that can be used for classroom activities. Herramientas de español: includes a grammar book, a variety of exercises, and correction guidelines. In addition, there is a brief reference to Spanish accents, gender, plurals, articles, pronouns, and spell changes in English. ¡Diviértete mientras aprendes! Casa de Joanna: offers thematically organized links for both Spanish and French, web-based activities, and access to other resources to enhance your language learning experience. Check it out! Ejercicios de gramática: there are a lot of interactive exercices to practice verbs, pronouns, prepositions, and the like. The Cultura section offers different resources if you are interested in finding more details about the cultures of Spanish speaking countries. Comunicativo.net: ¿Buscas actividades para tu clase de español? There are many different kinds of activities and games divided by level and content. Spanish Unlimited: offers online lessons, quizzes, games, and even recipes. Lecturas paso a paso: gives you pre-reading exercises, reading comprehension and follow-up activities for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced reader of Spanish. ¡Disfruta! México para Niños: ¿Quieres practicar tu español o aprender aún más? An awesome site full of interactive activities. FLES: offers a great variety of language activities. Check the Sites for Students and the E-Pal exchange project. Also, visit the Teacher resources and take a look at the Student Scrapbook. ¡Diviértete! Spanish Grammar Exercises: offers a lot of interactive exercises to practice different structures; by Barbara Kuczun Nelson. ¡Aprende y diviértete! Más arriba : offers many different interactive exercises on Spanish vocabulary and grammar. It is pedagogically based on visual association. Especially Español: links to curricular sites in Spanish with suggestions given as to how they can be incorporated into a learning environment. Glosario básico inglés-español para usuarios de Internet: helps your Spanish-speaking students learn English Internet and technology terms. Top
Grants, Funding, and Resource Acquisition Inside International Education & Graduate Programs Service (IEGPS): you will find information on domestic international education programs, overseas programs, and graduate programs. These programs and grants opportunities are designed to strengthen the capability and performance of American education in foreign languages and international studies. Grants and Grant Writing: provides you with starting points for exploring grant possibilities. There is also a section for articles with tips for grant writing. NEH (The National Endowment for the Humanities): find out what grants you or your school can apply for. Computers for Learning (CFL): a program that transfers excess Federal computer equipment to schools and educational nonprofit organizations, giving special consideration to those with the greatest need. EPA: enhances the process of writing a grant proposal. Learn some of the forms involved in a grant application. Visit EPA and try their grant writing tutorial. Check out the mock grant writing activity and their glossary. GrantsNet: gives you information on how to apply grants; from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SchoolGrants offers you writing suggestions, sample proposals, and many other ideas that will help you get a grant. Polaris Grants Central: many resources on how to write winning grant proposals. It also offers on-line help. Computers for Learning: this program places computers in our classrooms and prepares our children to contribute and compete in the 21st century. Top		General Curriculum Smithsonian Education: features interactive activities and IdeaLabs for students, teaching tools, lesson plans and a database of websites for teachers. For the family, this website offers tips on how to make your visit to the museum a fun and interesting learning experience. Crool Zone?: A WebQuest Series on creating non-violent schools. The activities in this site not only provide information on safety issues but also throw you into discussions and problem-solving. BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: there are more than 700 links that can help you with your homework. Check out the Study Tools, Fun & Games, and Learning Adventures in the For Students section. Figure This!: is the math site for families. This sites provides you with a lot of interactive problem solving activities. Take one of the challenges, and let Polygon, Tessellation, Exponent, Tangent, and Axis help you solve them. Pathways to School improvement: explores ideas on using technology to enhance literacy instructions, ensuring equity with alternative assessments, establishing collaboratives and partnerships, evaluating professional growth and development, and rethinking strategies to help students succeed. KIDS.NET.AU: a search engine just for kids. Choose among categories such as Arts, People and Society, School Time, Games, and many more. Kids' Vid: an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. You can have your video class projects displayed on this site, too. Get your movie ready to premier! Quiz Master: gives you the opportunity to create web-based quiz games on the topics of your choice. You can either write your own quiz or use the ones already there. Maggie's Earth Adventures: see materials produced and designed to provide children with the knowledge and motivation to make informed decisions to protect the future of our planet. Check out the on-line activities and the printable lessons. Also in Spanish. EduHound: a great directory of resources for educators, students, and parents. Browse through all the categories and find really useful resources. Homework Help: need to know how many hours manatees spend eating, what is the name of a small creature key to life in Antarctica, or what kind of a monster Tsunami is?; from National Geographic. EDSITEment: struggling to find new ideas to teach art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign languages, history and social studies? Choose among the different subject categories, grade levels and lesson plans. BBC Schools Online: provides a great variety of very interesting, useful and entertaining resources by grade level or discipline. For teachers, students and parents. Kid Info: offers students help with their homework in different subject areas. Lesson bank: you can request your favorite lesson plan and activities; from teachers.net. PT3: offers a comprehensive list of resources on technology and how to use it more effectively; by the U.S Department of Education. Learning Page: Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers ... this is a place for lesson plans, worksheets, & activities. Getting Students Connected: this site offers elementary students and parents recommendations for Web browsing. Top
Content Area Resources The Media Awareness Network: is one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. The Parents section offers tips for talking to kids about the media, and advice on managing media use in the home. The Educators section includes teaching units and supporting materials. The Media Issues section examines topics such as stereotyping, privacy, and marketing to children. America's Story: offers you more information about important Americans such us Harriet Tubman, Thomas Edison, about types of music and unusual musical instruments, and about the events that happened when you were born. Jump back in time and enjoy! Cyberchase:introduces you to the Cybersquad characters. You will find Math challenges in the form of games or puzzles related to specific episodes. Teachers can use the lessons plans created for selected episodes to get students interested in Math, and parents can use the Family Activity Guide. Environmental Inquiry (EI): where you will find a number of resources that can help you develop your environmental science research. If you are a teacher, EI gives you ideas and other resources to use its curricula in the classroom. A Brush with Wildlife: talks about balance, contrast, movement, and proportion in composing a work of art . You can create your own work of art and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review. Teachers can find suggestions as to how to use this lesson in conjunction with Language Arts, Math, and Social Science. ScienceWorld: makes difficult concepts and ideas easier to understand by using illustrative examples. There are five major content categories: Astronomy, Biography, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics, under which you will find a great variety of resources to consult. 3d&i: offers you the opportunity to put your artistic awareness, technical mastery, and critical skills into practice by discovering how art and design become part of our daily lives. The three main sections: Discover, Design, and Discuss provide interesting activities for you to do. Check out the galleries, too. Nellie's English Projects: explores different ways to learn English through other subjects. Take a look at the Task List, where you will find a variety of tasks ranging from Youth in Advertising to Sonny's Blues. Best of History Web Sites: provides access to many history-oriented resources in a wide range of categories. Check out the special section called Teaching With Technology that contains different articles about integrating computers in the classroom. Humanities-Interactive: offers a great variety of resources to learn about history, literature, and art. Each exhibit contains an interactive game and many other useful learning activities. Bridge: is the ocean sciences teacher resource center. Find out the answers to questions like these: What is an estuarine environment? What do coastal storms bring? What is an olive ridley?, and learn other interesting facts about marine life and related topics of ocean exploration. American History: offers information on topics like The Revolution and Nation Building, The Civil War and The Reconstruction, America Today and many more. It also provides you with links to different resources including timelines, maps, and historical documents. math.com: practice fractions, decimals, square roots, and take the timed addition, subtraction, multiplaction, and division problems for basic math practice. Check out also Tablas matemáticas, the Spanish section. Reconstructors: an interactive problem-based learning adventure. Solve each of the consecutive episodes and learn to make better and more informed health choices. Aunty Math: presents math challenges to help learners become better problem solvers. Check the "Estimatating Jar" challenge where students have opportunities to employ all five process standards. PRISM Polar Explorer: find all things related to polar exploration. Keep tabs on current experiments in the polar regions. Follow the adventures of the Bears on Ice. www.actionbioscience.org: offers up-to-date information on topics and developments related to biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, and bioscience research as well as articles, lessons, and resources for classroom use. FFFBI Headquarters: This site draws students into conducting entertaining investigations with backdrops of contemporary culture. Take a look at Rainforest Undercover. Enjoy the activities! Webtime Stories: a gathering of childrens' stories for you to enjoy. Whether your interest is picture books, science fiction, fairy tales or just plain fun, Webtime Stories has something for you. Memory: offers useful information on how our memory works and how remembering and forgetting are possible. Cool Math Sites: many useful activities for algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics and probability, and many more. Global Connections: Putting World Events in Context, produced by WGBH, is a new web site designed to provide the background information needed to understand events occurring in the Middle East. This sites also includes materials and resources from public broadcasting. Color Theory: teaches you how to mix colors and put them in the right way to create great art work. Check out Carmine's Introduction to Color and the Slider Puzzles. NCTM Illuminations: gives you the opportunity to put the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics into classroom practice. Check out the i-Math and Math-lets. You'll find lots of activities and resources. African Voices: offers you useful information on how America's own history is linked to Africa, and how Africa's history and peoples have influenced global culture and thought. King's List of On-line Math Activities: offers lots of interactive activities related to factors, multiples, primes, triangular numbers and more. Living Things: learn about the anatomy and physiology of plants and animals and about systems for their classification. America's Story from America's Library. There are great stories for you to enjoy. Check out the different sections and learn lots of facts. Leveraging Learning: gives you great hands-on activities for grades 5-8 science. It also offers teacher guides and assessments. Consumer Jungle: offers interactive consumer activities and tips for everyone: teachers, parents and students. Favorite Poem Project: share views with other poetry enthusiasts and even submit your favorite poem. ExploreMath: offers highly interactive math activities to practice linear equations, quadratics, exponentials and complex numbers. Colonial America: gives you the opportunity to learn more about colonists. This site contains lessons, activities, assessment tools, and related links. Inclusion of Science Education for Students with Disabilities: promotes the teaching of science, the development of curricula and instructional materials for students with any manners of disability in the learning process. Saint Patrick's Day in the Classroom: Celebrate St. Patrick's day with a great variety of fun activities to do in the classroom. Choose among creative writing, science, math, and research activities. Jefferson Lab: provides activities, including games and puzzles, which focus on math and science. Amazing Space: know more about the Solar System, other galaxies and stars, and space exploration. MATHLETICS: offers interesting activities to learn mathematics through sports. Ancient Greek track: offers interesting facts about the Olympic Games and Ancient Greece. Kid Info: offers students help with their homework in different subject areas. History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers: a comprehensive database on many different topics. NASA Qwhiz by the NASA Johnson Space Center. Great K-12 activities ranging from integers to problem solving. There are also many science activities. Check the Kid Made and Teacher Made sections and test your knowledge. MBGnet: provides you with information on Biomes of the World, Freshwater Ecosystems and Marine Ecosystems. Cool Science for Curious Kids: offers you five informative natural science projects to help kids learn to identify, classify and observe things. Great for K-3. NASA CONNECT: a series of FREE integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 6-8. Thomas Hart Benton's Arts of Life in America: a look into the life in America in the 1930s through large wall murals. It also provides you with interesting activities to practice color and composition. MathMol K-12 Activity Page: gives you many ideas on geometric and molecular structures to use in your K-12 classes. Weather: lots of information and related resources on what forces affect our weather conditions. A+ Math: helps you improve your math skills interactively and in a fun way through games, flashcards and puzzles. Chem4Kids: lots of information and activities on matter, atoms, reactions, elements and the like. Elementary Art Lessons: a bevy of lessons and activities! Brooklyn Bridge Activities: project based learning example involving the Brooklyn Bridge Am. Alliance for Health, Phys Ed, Recreation, & Dance: organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, and education and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle. Top		Professional Development for Teachers Linda's Teacher Training: guides you through the steps to develop your own web page, provides you with sample pages so that you can see some ideas put into practice, gives you tips on how to develop a storyboard for your site, and offers a list of resources that can give you more information on how to use web pages for instruction. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: offers a categorized list of Web sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. Each of the categories under Subject Access includes a list of resources from which you can get ideas for your classes. The Teacher Helpers section offers interesting and useful information about Web page evaluation and rubrics. Classroom Connect: offers K-12 standards-based classroom learning materials in math, language arts, science, and social studies to help educators use the Internet effectively in their daily classroom instruction. CyberSmart!: explores ways to successfully integrate technology into the core curricula by encouraging an effective use of the Internet as a safe learning resource. The CyberSmart! curriculum is non-sequential and can be easily integrated and correlated with the National Educational Technology Standards. The lessons include both online and offline activities. Kidspired Tales: gives you ideas to develop new literacies into your content area instruction and helps to develop positive attitudes toward technology uses. Best Practices of Technology Integration: explores other ways to integrate visual learning and thinking skills, see resources other teachers have created, and check out the showcased lessons for educators. If you like them, you can download the files and use them in your classroom. webTeacher: if you need to know about web basics, multimedia, homepage construction, and more, this is your site. If you need step-by-step advice and guidance, visit techs4schools. Web English Teacher: offers new ideas and resources related to critical thinking, poetry, reading, speech, writing, and the like, to teach your English class. Teaching Tips: offers ideas on how to make your teaching more effective. Tips on teaching techniques, assessment, organization, and many more teaching-learning related topics. Teacher Focus: gives teachers a place to put their ideas to be discussed and answered by other educators. PT3: offers a comprehensive list of resources on technology and how to use it more effectively; by the U.S Department of Education. AskERIC: a 1100 lesson plan collection, written by teachers from all over the United States (with searchable database). Top Parenting & Community Ethics in Computing: if you are interested in finding out more about different aspects of technology and computers related to our daily lives, this site offers lots of information and resources about topics such as computer security, reliability and many other similar topics. TV411 Online: offers innovative, television-based teaching materials to make literacy relevant. It also gives you strategies for managing your family's health and finances. By The Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA). Disney's Family.com: offers different activities and new ideas to improve your parenting skills. Don't forget to check out Raising Kids and Life With Kids. SafeKids: lots of information on issues related to child safety and the Internet. Helping Children Cope: Teacher Resources for Talking about Tragedy: offers information and resources to help children cope with the events of September 11th. It includes a list of related web links. Pool Safety: an Australian campaign to promote child accident prevention awareness to both parents and children. Brief articles for parents: in plain language these six briefs state what researchers and practitioners have learned about various ways parents can help their children do well in school. Single Parenting in the Summer: an article with practical tips to assist parents during summer. Adults and Children Together Against Violence: because violence is a learned behavior, violence prevention can also be taught -- parents, teachers, and other caregivers are in the best position to teach nonviolence by modeling it in their own behavior. Top

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Equity Resources || Spanish Resources || Grants, Funding, and Resource Acquisition ||
General Curriculum || Content Area Resources || Professional Development for Teachers || Parenting & Community

Equity Resources

Midwest Equity Assistance Center: provides technical assistance, professional development, and information dissemination services in race equity, gender equity, and national origin equity to public school districts and charter schools, in the States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
American Association of University Women: offers information on programs that make strides in gender equity and educational excellence.
Girls Inc.: is dedicated to develop research-based informal educational programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical and emotional challenges.
DiversityWeb: Learn about equity and its relation to learning and teaching.
EQUITY online: lots of resources on improving education for girls and women and supporting equitable outcomes for all students.
Digital Divide Network: unequal adoption of technology excludes many from reaping the fruits of the economy. Gain knowledge here to help everyone succeed in a digital age.
ADA information technology requirements: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires access to electronic and information technology procured by Federal agencies. The Access Board developed accessibility standards for the various technologies covered by the law.
Mentor Girls: Looking for a guide to technology-related mentoring programs for girls and women? Find information about being mentored or becoming a mentor.

Top

Spanish Resources

¡Españolé! is an On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish. Learn about Hispanic countries, Literature, History, Refranes, and Art. Teachers can also visit La página de los profesores to find resources that can be used for classroom activities.
Herramientas de español: includes a grammar book, a variety of exercises, and correction guidelines. In addition, there is a brief reference to Spanish accents, gender, plurals, articles, pronouns, and spell changes in English. ¡Diviértete mientras aprendes!
Casa de Joanna: offers thematically organized links for both Spanish and French, web-based activities, and access to other resources to enhance your language learning experience. Check it out!
Ejercicios de gramática: there are a lot of interactive exercices to practice verbs, pronouns, prepositions, and the like. The Cultura section offers different resources if you are interested in finding more details about the cultures of Spanish speaking countries.
Comunicativo.net: ¿Buscas actividades para tu clase de español? There are many different kinds of activities and games divided by level and content.
Spanish Unlimited: offers online lessons, quizzes, games, and even recipes.
Lecturas paso a paso: gives you pre-reading exercises, reading comprehension and follow-up activities for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced reader of Spanish. ¡Disfruta!
México para Niños: ¿Quieres practicar tu español o aprender aún más? An awesome site full of interactive activities.
FLES: offers a great variety of language activities. Check the Sites for Students and the E-Pal exchange project. Also, visit the Teacher resources and take a look at the Student Scrapbook. ¡Diviértete!
Spanish Grammar Exercises: offers a lot of interactive exercises to practice different structures; by Barbara Kuczun Nelson. ¡Aprende y diviértete!
Más arriba : offers many different interactive exercises on Spanish vocabulary and grammar. It is pedagogically based on visual association.
Especially Español: links to curricular sites in Spanish with suggestions given as to how they can be incorporated into a learning environment.
Glosario básico inglés-español para usuarios de Internet: helps your Spanish-speaking students learn English Internet and technology terms.

Top

Grants, Funding, and Resource Acquisition

Inside International Education & Graduate Programs Service (IEGPS): you will find information on domestic international education programs, overseas programs, and graduate programs. These programs and grants opportunities are designed to strengthen the capability and performance of American education in foreign languages and international studies.
Grants and Grant Writing: provides you with starting points for exploring grant possibilities. There is also a section for articles with tips for grant writing.
NEH (The National Endowment for the Humanities): find out what grants you or your school can apply for.
Computers for Learning (CFL): a program that transfers excess Federal computer equipment to schools and educational nonprofit organizations, giving special consideration to those with the greatest need.
EPA: enhances the process of writing a grant proposal. Learn some of the forms involved in a grant application. Visit EPA and try their grant writing tutorial. Check out the mock grant writing activity and their glossary.
GrantsNet: gives you information on how to apply grants; from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
SchoolGrants offers you writing suggestions, sample proposals, and many other ideas that will help you get a grant.
Polaris Grants Central: many resources on how to write winning grant proposals. It also offers on-line help.
Computers for Learning: this program places computers in our classrooms and prepares our children to contribute and compete in the 21st century.

Top

General Curriculum

Smithsonian Education: features interactive activities and IdeaLabs for students, teaching tools, lesson plans and a database of websites for teachers. For the family, this website offers tips on how to make your visit to the museum a fun and interesting learning experience.
Crool Zone?: A WebQuest Series on creating non-violent schools. The activities in this site not only provide information on safety issues but also throw you into discussions and problem-solving.
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: there are more than 700 links that can help you with your homework. Check out the Study Tools, Fun & Games, and Learning Adventures in the For Students section.
Figure This!: is the math site for families. This sites provides you with a lot of interactive problem solving activities. Take one of the challenges, and let Polygon, Tessellation, Exponent, Tangent, and Axis help you solve them.
Pathways to School improvement: explores ideas on using technology to enhance literacy instructions, ensuring equity with alternative assessments, establishing collaboratives and partnerships, evaluating professional growth and development, and rethinking strategies to help students succeed.
KIDS.NET.AU: a search engine just for kids. Choose among categories such as Arts, People and Society, School Time, Games, and many more.
Kids' Vid: an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. You can have your video class projects displayed on this site, too. Get your movie ready to premier!
Quiz Master: gives you the opportunity to create web-based quiz games on the topics of your choice. You can either write your own quiz or use the ones already there.
Maggie's Earth Adventures: see materials produced and designed to provide children with the knowledge and motivation to make informed decisions to protect the future of our planet. Check out the on-line activities and the printable lessons. Also in Spanish.
EduHound: a great directory of resources for educators, students, and parents. Browse through all the categories and find really useful resources.
Homework Help: need to know how many hours manatees spend eating, what is the name of a small creature key to life in Antarctica, or what kind of a monster Tsunami is?; from National Geographic.
EDSITEment: struggling to find new ideas to teach art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign languages, history and social studies? Choose among the different subject categories, grade levels and lesson plans.
BBC Schools Online: provides a great variety of very interesting, useful and entertaining resources by grade level or discipline. For teachers, students and parents.
Kid Info: offers students help with their homework in different subject areas.
Lesson bank: you can request your favorite lesson plan and activities; from teachers.net.
PT3: offers a comprehensive list of resources on technology and how to use it more effectively; by the U.S Department of Education.
Learning Page: Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers ... this is a place for lesson plans, worksheets, & activities.
Getting Students Connected: this site offers elementary students and parents recommendations for Web browsing.

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Content Area Resources

The Media Awareness Network: is one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. The Parents section offers tips for talking to kids about the media, and advice on managing media use in the home. The Educators section includes teaching units and supporting materials. The Media Issues section examines topics such as stereotyping, privacy, and marketing to children.
America's Story: offers you more information about important Americans such us Harriet Tubman, Thomas Edison, about types of music and unusual musical instruments, and about the events that happened when you were born. Jump back in time and enjoy!
Cyberchase:introduces you to the Cybersquad characters. You will find Math challenges in the form of games or puzzles related to specific episodes. Teachers can use the lessons plans created for selected episodes to get students interested in Math, and parents can use the Family Activity Guide.
Environmental Inquiry (EI): where you will find a number of resources that can help you develop your environmental science research. If you are a teacher, EI gives you ideas and other resources to use its curricula in the classroom.
A Brush with Wildlife: talks about balance, contrast, movement, and proportion in composing a work of art . You can create your own work of art and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review. Teachers can find suggestions as to how to use this lesson in conjunction with Language Arts, Math, and Social Science.
ScienceWorld: makes difficult concepts and ideas easier to understand by using illustrative examples. There are five major content categories: Astronomy, Biography, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics, under which you will find a great variety of resources to consult.
3d&i: offers you the opportunity to put your artistic awareness, technical mastery, and critical skills into practice by discovering how art and design become part of our daily lives. The three main sections: Discover, Design, and Discuss provide interesting activities for you to do. Check out the galleries, too.
Nellie's English Projects: explores different ways to learn English through other subjects. Take a look at the Task List, where you will find a variety of tasks ranging from Youth in Advertising to Sonny's Blues.
Best of History Web Sites: provides access to many history-oriented resources in a wide range of categories. Check out the special section called Teaching With Technology that contains different articles about integrating computers in the classroom.
Humanities-Interactive: offers a great variety of resources to learn about history, literature, and art. Each exhibit contains an interactive game and many other useful learning activities.
Bridge: is the ocean sciences teacher resource center. Find out the answers to questions like these: What is an estuarine environment? What do coastal storms bring? What is an olive ridley?, and learn other interesting facts about marine life and related topics of ocean exploration.
American History: offers information on topics like The Revolution and Nation Building, The Civil War and The Reconstruction, America Today and many more. It also provides you with links to different resources including timelines, maps, and historical documents.
math.com: practice fractions, decimals, square roots, and take the timed addition, subtraction, multiplaction, and division problems for basic math practice. Check out also Tablas matemáticas, the Spanish section.
Reconstructors: an interactive problem-based learning adventure. Solve each of the consecutive episodes and learn to make better and more informed health choices.
Aunty Math: presents math challenges to help learners become better problem solvers. Check the "Estimatating Jar" challenge where students have opportunities to employ all five process standards.
PRISM Polar Explorer: find all things related to polar exploration. Keep tabs on current experiments in the polar regions. Follow the adventures of the Bears on Ice.
www.actionbioscience.org: offers up-to-date information on topics and developments related to biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, and bioscience research as well as articles, lessons, and resources for classroom use.
FFFBI Headquarters: This site draws students into conducting entertaining investigations with backdrops of contemporary culture. Take a look at Rainforest Undercover. Enjoy the activities!
Webtime Stories: a gathering of childrens' stories for you to enjoy. Whether your interest is picture books, science fiction, fairy tales or just plain fun, Webtime Stories has something for you.
Memory: offers useful information on how our memory works and how remembering and forgetting are possible.
Cool Math Sites: many useful activities for algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics and probability, and many more.
Global Connections: Putting World Events in Context, produced by WGBH, is a new web site designed to provide the background information needed to understand events occurring in the Middle East. This sites also includes materials and resources from public broadcasting.
Color Theory: teaches you how to mix colors and put them in the right way to create great art work. Check out Carmine's Introduction to Color and the Slider Puzzles.
NCTM Illuminations: gives you the opportunity to put the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics into classroom practice. Check out the i-Math and Math-lets. You'll find lots of activities and resources.
African Voices: offers you useful information on how America's own history is linked to Africa, and how Africa's history and peoples have influenced global culture and thought.
King's List of On-line Math Activities: offers lots of interactive activities related to factors, multiples, primes, triangular numbers and more.
Living Things: learn about the anatomy and physiology of plants and animals and about systems for their classification.
America's Story from America's Library. There are great stories for you to enjoy. Check out the different sections and learn lots of facts.
Leveraging Learning: gives you great hands-on activities for grades 5-8 science. It also offers teacher guides and assessments.
Consumer Jungle: offers interactive consumer activities and tips for everyone: teachers, parents and students.
Favorite Poem Project: share views with other poetry enthusiasts and even submit your favorite poem.
ExploreMath: offers highly interactive math activities to practice linear equations, quadratics, exponentials and complex numbers.
Colonial America: gives you the opportunity to learn more about colonists. This site contains lessons, activities, assessment tools, and related links.
Inclusion of Science Education for Students with Disabilities: promotes the teaching of science, the development of curricula and instructional materials for students with any manners of disability in the learning process.
Saint Patrick's Day in the Classroom: Celebrate St. Patrick's day with a great variety of fun activities to do in the classroom. Choose among creative writing, science, math, and research activities.
Jefferson Lab: provides activities, including games and puzzles, which focus on math and science.
Amazing Space: know more about the Solar System, other galaxies and stars, and space exploration.
MATHLETICS: offers interesting activities to learn mathematics through sports.
Ancient Greek track: offers interesting facts about the Olympic Games and Ancient Greece.
Kid Info: offers students help with their homework in different subject areas.
History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers: a comprehensive database on many different topics.
NASA Qwhiz by the NASA Johnson Space Center. Great K-12 activities ranging from integers to problem solving. There are also many science activities. Check the Kid Made and Teacher Made sections and test your knowledge.
MBGnet: provides you with information on Biomes of the World, Freshwater Ecosystems and Marine Ecosystems.
Cool Science for Curious Kids: offers you five informative natural science projects to help kids learn to identify, classify and observe things. Great for K-3.
NASA CONNECT: a series of FREE integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 6-8.
Thomas Hart Benton's Arts of Life in America: a look into the life in America in the 1930s through large wall murals. It also provides you with interesting activities to practice color and composition.
MathMol K-12 Activity Page: gives you many ideas on geometric and molecular structures to use in your K-12 classes.
Weather: lots of information and related resources on what forces affect our weather conditions.
A+ Math: helps you improve your math skills interactively and in a fun way through games, flashcards and puzzles.
Chem4Kids: lots of information and activities on matter, atoms, reactions, elements and the like.
Elementary Art Lessons: a bevy of lessons and activities!
Brooklyn Bridge Activities: project based learning example involving the Brooklyn Bridge
Am. Alliance for Health, Phys Ed, Recreation, & Dance: organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, and education and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle.
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Professional Development for Teachers

Linda's Teacher Training: guides you through the steps to develop your own web page, provides you with sample pages so that you can see some ideas put into practice, gives you tips on how to develop a storyboard for your site, and offers a list of resources that can give you more information on how to use web pages for instruction.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: offers a categorized list of Web sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. Each of the categories under Subject Access includes a list of resources from which you can get ideas for your classes. The Teacher Helpers section offers interesting and useful information about Web page evaluation and rubrics.
Classroom Connect: offers K-12 standards-based classroom learning materials in math, language arts, science, and social studies to help educators use the Internet effectively in their daily classroom instruction.
CyberSmart!: explores ways to successfully integrate technology into the core curricula by encouraging an effective use of the Internet as a safe learning resource. The CyberSmart! curriculum is non-sequential and can be easily integrated and correlated with the National Educational Technology Standards. The lessons include both online and offline activities.
Kidspired Tales: gives you ideas to develop new literacies into your content area instruction and helps to develop positive attitudes toward technology uses.
Best Practices of Technology Integration: explores other ways to integrate visual learning and thinking skills, see resources other teachers have created, and check out the showcased lessons for educators. If you like them, you can download the files and use them in your classroom.
webTeacher: if you need to know about web basics, multimedia, homepage construction, and more, this is your site. If you need step-by-step advice and guidance, visit techs4schools.
Web English Teacher: offers new ideas and resources related to critical thinking, poetry, reading, speech, writing, and the like, to teach your English class.
Teaching Tips: offers ideas on how to make your teaching more effective. Tips on teaching techniques, assessment, organization, and many more teaching-learning related topics.
Teacher Focus: gives teachers a place to put their ideas to be discussed and answered by other educators.
PT3: offers a comprehensive list of resources on technology and how to use it more effectively; by the U.S Department of Education.
AskERIC: a 1100 lesson plan collection, written by teachers from all over the United States (with searchable database).

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Parenting & Community

Ethics in Computing: if you are interested in finding out more about different aspects of technology and computers related to our daily lives, this site offers lots of information and resources about topics such as computer security, reliability and many other similar topics.
TV411 Online: offers innovative, television-based teaching materials to make literacy relevant. It also gives you strategies for managing your family's health and finances. By The Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA).
Disney's Family.com: offers different activities and new ideas to improve your parenting skills. Don't forget to check out Raising Kids and Life With Kids.
SafeKids: lots of information on issues related to child safety and the Internet.
Helping Children Cope: Teacher Resources for Talking about Tragedy: offers information and resources to help children cope with the events of September 11th. It includes a list of related web links.
Pool Safety: an Australian campaign to promote child accident prevention awareness to both parents and children.
Brief articles for parents: in plain language these six briefs state what researchers and practitioners have learned about various ways parents can help their children do well in school.
Single Parenting in the Summer: an article with practical tips to assist parents during summer.
Adults and Children Together Against Violence: because violence is a learned behavior, violence prevention can also be taught -- parents, teachers, and other caregivers are in the best position to teach nonviolence by modeling it in their own behavior.

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