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| Getty
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| Exhibits Collection
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| ArtsEdge Instructional
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ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
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| Alma Flor Ada |
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| Jim Aylesworth |
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| Ludwig Bemelmans |
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| Berenstain Bears Home
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| Jan Brett |
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| Marc Brown |
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| Marcia Brown |
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| Eve Bunting |
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| Eric Carle |
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| Lewis Carroll |
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| Eileen Christelow |
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| Beverly Cleary |
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| Joanna Cole |
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| Tomie DePaolo |
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| Mem Fox |
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| Gail Gibbons |
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| Deborah Hopkinson |
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| Ezra Jack Keats |
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| Leo Leonni |
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| Lois Lowry |
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| Bill Martin, Jr. |
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| Mercer Mayer |
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| Robert Munsch |
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| Laura Numeroff |
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| Barbara Park |
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| Todd Parr |
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| Patricia Polacco |
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| Beatrix Potter |
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| Robert Quackenbush |
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| Peggy Rathmann |
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| Faith Ringgold |
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| Cynthia Rylant |
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| Pam Muñoz Ryan |
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| John Scieszka |
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| Maurice Sendak |
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| Dr. Seuss |
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| Gary Soto |
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| Janet Stevens |
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| Chris Van Allsburg |
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| Rosemary Wells |
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| Mo Willems |
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| Audrey Wood |
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| Childrenslit.com |
This is a fairly expensive subscription website. However, they offer some information for free. Be sure to click on the "Features" button on the menu bar. |
| Children's Literature Web Guide |
This website is a means of sharing ideas and information with all those interested in literature for children and young adults. |
| The Cinderella Project |
The Cindrella Project is from the University of Southern Mississippi's English Department. It is a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. |
| Classics for Young Children |
This provides a starting point for locating online versions of children's classics that are now in the public domain. |
| The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication |
From Indiana University School of Education |
| Cyberkids |
Cyberkids provides a voice for young people on the Internet by publishing original creative work by kids ages 7 to 12. |
| deGrummon Children's Literature Collection |
The deGrummond Children's Literature Collection is a research center in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary. It is part of Special Collections at The University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Folklore, Myth and Legend |
From the Children's Literature Web Guide, this site provides a starting point for locating public domain versions of many classic tales. Unfortunately, some of the links are out of date. |
| Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Page |
Carol Otis Hurst is a nationally-known storyteller, lecturer, author and language arts consultant. Her web site contains a collection of reviews of books for kids. She includes ideas of ways to use these books in the classroom. There are collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. |
| Internet Archive of Children's Literature |
The primary purpose of the Children's Library is to provide access to children's literature that can enable children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. The materials included in the collection reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, aspirations, and priorities of peoples around the world. Its primary audiences are children ages 3-13, librarians, teachers, parents, caregivers, and others concerned with the interests and welfare of children. |
| The Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project |
The Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project is a text and image archive containing several English versions of the fairy tale. The Jacks presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Literature for Children |
Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida. |
| The Little Red Riding Hood Project |
The Little Red Riding Hood Project is from the University of Southern Mississippi's English Department. It is a text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale. The Little Red Riding Hoods presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. |
| Imaginarylands.org |
This is Denise Matulka's website offering information and links about picture books and children's literature. |
| Planetesme.com |
Esmé Raji Codell's children's literature website exists with the goal of getting great children's books into the hands of great children. |
| Tales of Wonder |
This site is an archive of folk and fairy tales. The stories in this collection represent a small sampling of the rich storytelling art that is the common heritage of humanity. Stories from many parts of the world are included here. The owner of the site cautions: "Please note: not every story in this site is appropriate for all ages of children. It is recommended that responsible grownups preview the tales before sharing them with children." |
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| EDSITEment |
EDSITEment, The Best of the Humanities on the Web is from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom. |
| Guide to Grammar and Writing |
This handy site has been prepared by Professor Charles Darling and the Capital Community College Foundation. |
| National Center for Family Literacy |
Literacy is the change agent that inspires families and communities to raise the achievement bar. Family is the conduit for longlasting, meaningful change. Working together with families, communities and dedicated partners, NCFL's services bring about change to ensure that parents and children achieve their goals for success.
NCFL pioneered the approach that puts family at the forefront of educational reform. Since its inception in 1989, NCFL has provided the leadership to solve our national literacy problem. |
| Project Gutenberg |
Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). |
| ProLiteracy Worldwide |
ProLiteracy Worldwide champions the life-changing benefits of literacy for adults and their families
ProLiteracy Worldwide is a nonprofit international literacy organization based in Syracuse, NY, that was formed by the 2002 merger of Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. ProLiteracy Worldwide is the oldest and largest nongovernmental literacy organization in the world. It achieves its mission, championing the life-changing benefits of literacy for adults and their families, by sponsoring educational programs that help adults and their families acquire the literacy practices and skills they need to function more effectively in their daily lives. |
| Read-Write-Think |
This is an excellent site from the National Council of Teachers of English, The International Reading Association, and the marco Polo Foundation. |
| TeacherServe |
This is an interactive curriculum enrichment service for teachers from the National Humanities Center. |
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| The American Library Association |
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| S.O.S. for Information Literacy |
S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. |
| The University of Texas System Crash Course in Copyright |
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students. With 100,000 members and 250 Affiliates, NCTM is the world's largest organization dedicated to improving math education in preK-12.
Illuminations is designed to:
* Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
* Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. |
Math Goodies: Interactive Math Lessons
With A Problem-Solving Approach! |
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| This Is Mega-Mathematics! |
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| The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math |
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| Newton's Window |
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| Amazing Space Web-Based Activities |
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| American Museum of Natural History |
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| Athena, Earth and Space Science for K-12 |
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| The Biology Project |
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| CNN - Technology:Space |
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| Exploratorium |
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| The Inspire Project |
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| Mr. Nap's Excellent Earth Science Page* |
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| Projects Resource Guide |
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| Science NetLinks |
The Thinkfinity partnership provides free, Internet-based content across academic disciplines. Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of standards-based resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactives and reviewed Internet resources. Science NetLinks is a dynamic site with new content being added on a regular basis, so check back often. |
| Ultimate Science Fair Resources |
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| American Memory from the Library of Congress |
Excellent for primary sources |
| Bronx Historical Society |
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| CNN/AllPolitics |
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| EconEdLink |
A source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students |
| Everything About Kwanzaa |
This is a good resource for information about the celebration of Kwanzaa. |
| Geography World |
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| The History Net - Where History Lives on the Web |
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| Hanukkah |
This is a good resource for information about the celebration of Hanukkah. |
| Historic Sites on the Oregon-Trail* |
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| Islamic Holidays and Observances |
This is a good resource for information about Islamic holiday traditions. |
| El Museo del Barrio |
El Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969 by a group of Puerto Rican educators, artists, parents and community activists in East Harlem's Spanish-speaking El Barrio. Since then, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York's leading Latino cultural institution, having expanded its mission to represent the diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and Latin America. As the only museum in New York City that specializes in representing these cultures, El Museo del Barrio continues to have a significant impact on the cultural life of New York City and is now a major stop on Manhattan's Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue. El Museo del Barrio thrives on the sustained excellence of its collections, exhibitions and public programming. |
| Museum of the City of New York |
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| National Archives and Records Administration |
Another excellent site for primary sources |
| National Council for the Social Studies |
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| National Geographic |
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| NYCDOE Department of Social Studies |
Links directly to the NYC Department of Education's Social Studies curriculum section; there are links to support the NYS Core Curriculum. |
| New York Historical Society |
A good resource for historical information, especially concerning New York. |
| Oyate |
Oyate is an organization working to see that the lives and histories of Native American Indians are portrayed honestly and accurately. |
| Smithonian Institute - National Museum of American History |
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| United Nations Home Page |
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| United Nations Cyber SchoolBus |
The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization. The Global Teaching and Learning Project is part of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information. |
| Xpeditions |
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. |
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| Awesome Library |
The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web with 10,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a new search engine. |
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| Best on the Web for Teachers |
The authors have created a ranking system of educator web sites. |
| Black Books Galore |
The goal of this web site is to identify the best in African American children's literature. |
| Blue Web'n |
Blue Web'n is an online library of 2194 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). |
| The Bronx Zoo |
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| Channel 13 - WNET |
PBS Channel 13 offers resources for teachers. |
| Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting |
The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP) provides publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and parenting communities and contains many of the online publications and resources previously available on ERIC/EECE. |
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| Discovery Channel School Homepage |
From The Discovery Channel |
| Discovery Kids |
From The Discovery Channel |
| DonorsChoose |
DonorsChoose provides a means for teachers to provide students in need with resources that public schools may lack. Teachers submit ideas for materials or experiences that their students need to help them learn. Individuals can then make a donation to enable a project of their choice to become a reality. |
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| Welcome to EDSITEment! |
EDSITEment offers connections to some of the best of the Humanities on the Web. It has been prepared by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the classroom. |
| Education Week on the Web |
A source for education news |
| Education World |
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. |
| Educator's Reference Desk |
Contains most of the resources previously found on AskERIC. |
| Educyber: Educational Grant Information |
Information for obtaining grants. |
| Eduplace |
This site from publihser Houghton Mifflin provides K-8 resources. |
| EdVideo Online |
This site offers downloadable videos. It is free to the NYCDOE through funding by WNET - Chyannel 13 |
| Enchanted Learning |
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| ERIC Database |
This is now the principal location to search the ERIC database. |
| eSchool News Online |
Educator's Resource Center: Proven solutions tfor your most pressing challenges. |
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| Filamentality |
A variety of educational resources including ThinkQuests. |
| Free Virtual Tours |
This is a collection of tours for the World, Museums, Exhibits, and Points of Special Interest |
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| Gander Academy's Thematic Units K-6 |
Theme Pages for Elementary Students and Teachers prepared by Jim Cornish, Gander, Newfoundland, Canada |
| The Gateway to Education |
From the US Dept. of Education, The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. |
| Global SchoolNet |
This site is dedicated to partnering with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative education and cultural learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become literate and responsible global citizens. |
| Great Web Sites for Kids including Sites for Parents, Caregivers, Teachers & Others |
This site contains information compiled by the American Library Association, including listings of web sites for parents and children, along with tips for parents on guiding their children's use of the Internet. |
| Guys Read |
This site is run by Jon Scieszka tgo help boys find things they like to read. It's a useful web site for boys who are reluctant readers. |
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| Kids Bookshelf |
The goal of this web site is "to encourage parents and caregivers to help children discover the enjoyment of reading. To encourage creativity and imagination in children through reading, writing, and drawing." |
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| National Teacher Training Institute |
The National Teacher Training Institute (NTTI) provides teachers with the vision, strategies, and resources they need to make dynamic use of classroom technology. |
| New York State Education Department Virtual Learning System |
The purpose of the New York State Education Department Virtual Learning System is to encourage the use of the internet as a tool for teaching and learning and to provide help to classroom teachers in locating and using internet resources for instruction.
The VLS presents the definitive set of New York State's learning standards, including the full text of the 28 standards and their respective key ideas and performance indicators, as well as the alternate performance indicators for students with severe disabilities. |
| NYLearns.org |
NYLearns.org is a standards-based, educational website that offers resources to enhance teaching and learning. |
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| The PENCIL Box |
The PENCIL Box is an easy way for you to enhance the learning environment of students in New York City public schools. Any company or individual with gently used furniture, equipment or other quality goods to donate can list these items on the PENCIL Box website where a deserving school can access these donations directly. Books, musical instruments, computers, furniture, science equipment, and art supplies are among the resources frequently in demand. |
| PortaPortal |
Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. Now your bookmarks are no longer limited to any one machine. |
| Power to Learn |
This is an educational site prepared by Cablevision especially for schools in the New York City Metropolitan Area. |
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| Resources 2000 |
Prepared by Mr. Steve Korin, a retired Social Studies teacher at Smithtown Schools in Suffolk County, L.I., New York |
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| Scholastic.com |
The web site of the publisher Scholastic, Inc. is a good source for teaching ideas. |
| Kathy Schrocks Guide |
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. |
| Sites for Teachers |
This is a listing of additional teacher resources |
| Smithsonian Institute Education Pages |
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. The Center studies education at the Institution and builds consensus on standards for strengthening its educational programs, publications, and websites. |
| Starfall |
The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Starfall materials provide an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. |
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| TeachersAndFamilies.com |
TeachersAndFamilies.com is a web resource developed by teachers for students and their parents. The site offers free learning resources for pre-K through high school students. |
| Teachers First |
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| Teachers.Net |
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| Teaching and Learning Grant Opportunities |
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| Teachingbooks.net |
This is a subscription site that offers videos of vavious authors talking about their writing. There is DOE license covering all schools and can be accessed through the Library Media Center page. |
| Thinkfinity |
This is the website formerly known as Marco Polo. It is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the Verizon Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. |
| Thinkfinity New York |
MarcoPolo is a program of the Verizon Foundation. The MarcoPolo Consortium includes both content partners and a state network to facilitate professional development and alignment of MarcoPolo lessons to state curriculum standards. |
| TrackStar |
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too! |
| Trelease-on-reading.com |
This is Jim Trelease's web site offering many helpful ideas for teaching reading. He also offers a different perspective on the National Reading Panel and No Child Left Behind. |
| United Streaming |
United Streaming is a service of Discovery Education. It is a subscription service providing a large assortment of videos which can be streamed or downloaded onto your computer to be used with a class. Note: Many of the videos are available without cost through EdVideo Online. |
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| Children's Engineering Educators |
Children's Engineering Educators are an experienced group of elementary teachers who believe in high standards and rigorous academic instructional programs. These teachers believe that the study and use of technology provides a creative and active way to apply state and national learning standards. Unlike most technology sites, CEE emphasizes non-computer technology. Rather, thesite empahsizes hands-on designing, building and problem-solving activities for grades K-5. |
| International Society for Technology in Education |
ISTE is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K-12 education. It provides information, networking opportunities, and guidance for educators facrd with the challenge of incorporating computers, the Internet, and other new technologies into their schools. ISTE has developed and promotes national learning standatrds in technology for both students and teachers. |
| International Technology Education Association |
The International Technology Education Association (ITEA) is the professional organization of technology teachers. Our mission is to promote technological literacy for all by supporting the teaching of technology and promoting the professionalism of those engaged in this pursuit. ITEA strengthens the profession through leadership, professional development, membership services, publications, and classroom activities. Be sure to note the link to its Innovation Curriculum Online Network (direct link follows below). |
| Bernie Dodge's Site on WebQuests |
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. |
| Edutopia |
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates information about exemplary programs in K-12 schools to help these practices spread nationwide. |
| Think Quest Collection |
This is a library of student produced web lessons. |
| Think Quest Collection for New York City |
This is a library of New York City student produced web lessons. |
| MCREL's Page for Technology Integration |
The Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) uses a comprehensive approach to help schools use their technology resources to improve instruction and student learning. |
| Intel Education Destination |
Provides free tools, resources, and strategies for teaching and learning. |
| Quia Games |
Interactive Lessons |
| Effective Web Page Design - Overview |
This site is a guide to web page design for the relative newcomer who is interested in creating a well-designed, easily navigated, effective web site. |
| Mining the Internet |
Canadian version of Connected Classroom |
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