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The Amazing Picture Machine
The Amazing Picture Machine Web site is designed to help educators find pictures, diagrams, and maps that are available on the Internet. This site include sample lesson plans that demonstrate some of the ways in which pictures and graphic resources can be used in the classroom.

American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Be World Wise
A teaching tool to help teachers and homeschooling families bring traditional subjects such as math, social studies, and geography to life.

The Best Lessons
Starting with tried-and-true lessons that work in the classroom, their Web-savvy teachers have built Web-based activities that use the rich resources of Thirteen/WNET New York and the Internet.. Each month,they create new lessons based upon outstanding PBS series and around outstanding Web resources!

Blue Ribbon Learning Sites
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level , broad subject area, or specific sub-categories. Each week 5 new sites are added. You can get a list and description of these additions sent to you by signing up below for free weekly updates!

Buddy 2 The Next Generation of Teaching and Learning
Buddy2 develops and facilitates leading edge learning projects in K-12 school communities to increase student achievement using technology in anytime, anywhere settings. Buddy2 initiatives aim to share best practices among educators, strengthen family involvement in education, and extend learning beyond the bounds of school time and place. Buddy2 values and supports equal access to learning technologies regardless of socioeconomic realities.

Cable in the Classroom
Video and online content can help you and your students make meaningful connections to new information, reinforce previous learning, interact with other learners, and create original content.

Classroom Connect Learning Resources
Classroom Connect develops original Web-based curriculum and professional development programs for K-12 educators.

Discovery Channel Online
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject, grade, or both.

Easy Bib
Free, Automatic Bibliography Formatting, Alphabetizing, and Printing.

EdHelper.com
Free Lesson Plans, WebQuests, Worksheets and Teacher Tools

Edinformatics
Edinformatics provides the most comprehensive databases in education.

Education World
Are you spending your evenings writing welcome letters to parents, carefully ruling seating charts, designing award certificates, and creating learning center signs? Why reinvent the wheel? All those printable documents are available online at the click of a mouse

Evaluating Websites
Not all of the information to be found on the World Wide Web is accurate and not all websites, no matter how attractive, are good. Thus evaluating a website becomes an important activity.

Explore Math
Developed by members of the ExploreMath community, our lesson plans provide strategies for educators to introduce ExploreMath's unique multimedia activities into the mathematics classroom, lab, or distance learning curricula.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- FREE -- Website offers hundreds of federally supported education resources from over 45 Federal agencies.

The Franklin Institute
Teachers who are working within the framework of the U.S. National Science Education Standards will find the educational resources in "Community Science Action Guides" useful.

The Futures Channel
The Futures Channel connects learning to the real world. Engaging resources, including award-winning video, for mathematics, science, technology, the arts and professional development.

ICATS
Integrating Curriculum and Technology Specialists (iCATS). Workshops and online resources.

Indiana Web Academy
Great tools for your students, plus lesson plans

Inspiration Software®, Inc. is recognized as the leader in visual thinking and learning. Visit the site to learn how to brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. Examples of concept mapping, a list of Indiana Standards that utilize Inspiration Software®, a newsletter, and much more are included.

Math Mastery
a leading website dedicated to helping students, teachers and parents learn, practice, and understand essential math skills.

National Geographic Map Machine
Locate nearly any place on Earth, find country facts, and search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas.

NetDay Compass
NetDayCompass is the first comprehensive education technology web site designed for technology decision-makers working in K-12 schools. The central feature of NetDayCompass is a directory of high-quality educational resources designed to help schools maximize technology investments.

Nobel e-Museum
Nobel e-Museum offers information on all 736 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, and Nobel events, as well as educational material and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions with Nobel Prize connection.

NSBA/ITTE Education Trends and Tools
The goal of the education technology-related sites at NSBA is to promote excellence and equity in education through the wise and innovative use of technology.

Operation Ruby Throat
Hummingbirds: The best site about attracting and studying hummingbirds, including feeders, banding, and student project.

PBS TeacherSource
Combines lesson plans and online activities found elsewhere on PBS Online with original activities and professional development opportunities. Unique "Get Local" feature allows teachers to receive information from their local PBS member station about education resources close to home.

Puzzlemaker
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

Rubrics for Web Lessons
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.

Kathy Schrock
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Shelbyville Central Schools Website
The International Association of Webmasters and Designers has awarded the Shelbyville Central Schools Website a 2002-2003 Golden Web Award. This site provides an outstanding list of instructional technology links.

WestEd Excellence in Research, Development, and Service
Contains many quality free and fee-based publications about teaching, educational leadership, integrating technology into the curriculum, and school improvement for all children.

Teacher Tap
The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.

Teachers Networking
Networking opportunities, professional development, teacher grants, lesson plans and curriculum materials.

Teaching Resources
The File Cabenet: from the classroom of Laura Chandler

Technology and Learning
Useful links to lesson plans and more from TEAMS Distance Learning.

Web Based Learning Projects
Beyond providing Internet access via the Access Indiana State Network to Indiana K-12 schools, IHETS seeks to become the premiere resource for a well-rounded integration of technology into curriculum. Through a variety of partnerships with organizations such as the Corporation for Educational Communications, IHETS is helping to bridge geographic gaps to help bring to Indiana students full access to a rich and ever-growing store of meaningful educational opportunities.

Welcome to Classroom Connect
Classroom Connect develops original Web-based curriculum and professional development programs for K-12 educators.

U.S. Department of Education
Resources produced under these efforts are presented here for seven subject areas and for more than a dozen issues and challenges.

 
 

 

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