Useful sites for teachers
General resources
Worksheet Library is a nicely done site by a group of teachers, with
a large collection of free and paid worksheets for grades K-6
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/
Happy Child, who have a lot of good stuff on their own account, also
provide a list of links to various good educational sites
http://www.happychild.org.uk/pottedlearning/index.htm
the Gateway to Educational Materials: a directory to high
quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education
resources on the Internet (and you can specify that you only
want free stuff)
http://www.thegateway.org/
A to Z Teacher Stuff: a directory of online resources for
teachers
http://atozteacherstuff.com/
Charles Sturt University's Education Virtual Library is a great
starting point to any search. You can specify your general
educational level (primary, secondary, tertiary).
http://www.csu.edu.au/education/
PBS offer a directory of lesson plans
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
LessonPlans4Teachers claims to have created the best lesson
plan directory and search site on the Internet
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/lessonindex.htm
a directory of Internet resources for the classroom, complied
by the University of Otago, New Zealand:
http://education.otago.ac.nz/NZLNet/home.nclk
"worksheet factories" - programs to enable you to produce
customized worksheets - are available from Schoolhouse
Technologies
http://www.schoolhousetech.com/
Abiator's Active Classroom: a New Zealand teacher's site for
his Year 8 class, with lots of resources in most curriculum
areas, regularly added to
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/
Education World offers lesson plans and professional advice to
teachers (U.S.; elementary level)
http://www.education-world.com/
Study Stack: flash cards in various subjects
http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp
Teach-nology offers a lot of resources to subscribers, but also
has a number of free worksheets, worksheet makers, graphic organizer
makers, and rubric makers
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/
"About" have a good homework site for high school students.
It's ruined somewhat by ads and sponsored links cluttering up
the page, but the actual content is quite impressive. Make sure
you keep your eyes on the left for the options available to you,
and if you want to go back to a page, use the dropdown menu
(click the downward pointing triangle to the right of "Back"),
don't simply click the Back button (there's a couple of hidden
ad pages in there that make you think nothing's working).
http://home.about.com/homework/index.htm?PM=59_0235_T
The
BBC site is broken down into age-groups: Preschool; 4-11; 11-16; 16+. UK
students can also find several revision guides for different exams (including a
Welsh one, and guides for Scottish exams)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Kid Info calls itself a reference resource
for teachers, parents and students, and seems to have an impressive number of
links, categorized on simple, clutter-free pages. [American]
http://www.kidinfo.com/
The "Middle School Cybrary" is a bit out of date
(last updated 2003), but most of the links still work
http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6617/
"Teachers at work" is a New
Zealand site, with thousands of reviews of educational web sites (categorized
and rated).
http://teachers.work.co.nz/
Education Atlas is an extensive directory of education sites,
covering early childhood through to college
http://www.educationatlas.com/
Language
English Zone: grammar, spelling, vocabulary, advice on writing.
Includes a section for teachers, with worksheets, lessons,
quizzes, classroom games and activities, etc.
http://www.english-zone.com/teach/index.html
History
Best of History Web Sites is " an
award-winning portal created for students, history educators,
and general history enthusiasts"; sites are rated for usefulness
and accuracy
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
History Matters: "the U.S. survey course on the web". Designed
for high school and college teachers of U.S. history
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Genealogy for kids: article on how children can participate in
genealogical research, with links to helpful sites
http://www.genealogyspot.com/features/kids.htm?newslib
A teacher's guide to the Holocaust: An award-winning site about
the Holocaust, packed with information, photographs, movie clips
etc.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/
A visual sourcebook of Chinese civilization: designed to add to
the material teachers can use to help their students understand
Chinese history, culture, and society
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/
A guide to K-12 Medieval studies: from the Labyrinth, a
Georgetown University sponsored site on Medieval Studies, a list
of links for students and teachers, including sample lesson
plans.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/pedagogical/k12/k12.html
The Online Reference for Medieval Studies is a serious academic
site. However it also provides links for "those whose interest
in the Middle Ages has been spurred by popular representations
of the period in movies, television, and historical fiction",
and these may be of use in the classroom.
http://orb.rhodes.edu/media.html
History/Social Studies for K-12 teachers: from a "teacher of 32
years" (U.S. of course), links on a wide variety of subjects,
including history, archaeology, religion/philosophy, media
studies, critical thinking, geography, government.
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
The British Museum has an extensive site on ancient Egypt
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
Here's a specialized directory of web resources about voyages of discovery and exploration
Mathematics & Science
Mathcasts provide screencasts for mathematics, math movies if
you like
http://math247.jot.com/WikiHome
Math Forum: search the Internet Maths Library by grade level
http://mathforum.org/library/levels/
Go math: online maths help with interactive quizzes and tutorials http://www.gomath.com/members/test/tutorial/body.html
an eclectic mix of sound, science, and Incan history intended
to interest high school students in Euclidean geometry
http://agutie.homestead.com/files/index.html
Mathematically Correct is a U.S. site "devoted to the concerns
raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of our schools
by the New-New Math (The current
revolution in mathematics curriculum, akin to the
Whole Language experiment, that emphasizes group discussion,
essays, calculators and guessing and de-emphasizes basic skills and
direct instruction) and the need to restore basic skills to math
education."
http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/
Worseley School Science Files: science and math resources for
all grades from middle elementary through senior high school
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/sciencepg.html
NIH Office of Science Education has lot of resources for
teachers
http://science-education.nih.gov/
ASPIRE - Astrophysics interactive labs for teachers
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/
Science, Optics & You - teacher resources, student activities and interactive
java tutorials in light, optics and color
http://www.molecularexpressions.com/optics/activities/teachers/index.html
The Exploratium has a "Cool Sites" archive at:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html
Spacelink: instructional materials from NASA
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/
Ocean Sciences Teacher Resource Center
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/
NOAA Ocean Explorer has lesson plans available
http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/
Biotech-Adventures: an educational web site designed to present
the factual information regarding biotechnology in a way that
will entertain both students and adults.
http://biotech-adventure.okstate.edu/
The Earth Science World ImageBank has photographs of all
aspects of Earth Science, climate data from weather stations
around the world, and an interactive game to discover oil
http://www.earthscienceworld.org/
Geology.com has some useful resources for teachers, with
teaching ideas, articles, and maps linked to satellite images
http://geology.com/
Hands on CERN is aimed at teachers and high school students
studying natural sciences. Its purpose being to increase
understanding of the most fundamental processes inside matter,
and to explain modern research about particle collisions.
http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/index.html
Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids
"How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone
fun adventure accessible to all, including the pre-literate.
http://www.howtoons.net/
The Missouri Botanical Garden has
quite a nice site on biomes and ecosystems
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/
National Public Radio have a " Kids
Connection" - linked to a weekly radio program on science news, it offers
discussion ideas, activities, selected resources, and related science standards,
linking programming to the classroom curriculum (middle school).
http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids/
Understanding evolution is
a website for teachers, aimed at explaining evolution, pointing out relevance,
misconceptions, pitfalls, and so on.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
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