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Virtual Courseware for Inquiry-based Science Education
The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies.
Digital Library for Earth System Education
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels.
Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index
Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. Includes lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels
LitPlans
This comprehensive site offers more than 30,000 literature lesson plans for grades 6-12. Lesson plans are sorted by author and are very easy to find using the LitPlans directory.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The institute provides access to primary documents dealing with American history through a searchable database. The institute also provides an extensive section for teachers and students.
History Now
HISTORY NOW is a quarterly online journal for American history teachers and students, launched in September, 2004.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
The site is a collection of resources for teaching American history, from its early days through the present, capitalizing on the holdings of the National Museum of American History. Artifacts from the museum serve as jumping-off points for lesson plans and activities based on national history standards. The site can be searched by historical era, resource type, and grade level, and a time line on the home page allows for easy chronological browsing.
Google For Educators - Web Search
Google produced an initial set of nine search education lessons that cover everything from developing criteria to clicking on the right results to succeeding with the most challenging searches. The lessons will help students and educators alike to get the most of Google search in the classroom.
Illuminations
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Illuminations project provides standards-based lessons and activities for mathematics teachers.
BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources
BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Features lesson plans, video, and more.
CBBC Newsround | Teachers
CBBC Newsround site has hundreds of news-based lessons for teachers. Categories include Arts, Business, Crime and Justice, Environment and Health. The Literacy lessons cover a wide range of grammar and punctuation topics.
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!
SmartBean
Smart Bean is essentially an online magazine for parents interested in learning more about online resources for learning as well as general parenting information.
3-D Vinci Free Stuff
3-D Vinci is a math website that has a great free resources page for math teachers. The site has downloadable pdf lesson plans for using Google’s SketchUp to teach math concepts using designs such as tessilations. For students in grades k-12 3D Vinci has puzzles and mosaics that can be printed and solved.
UTeach WINGS
Out of the University of Texas at Austin, UTeach has created a valuable online data base for their students and novice teachers, but it is useful for educators at any stage of their career who are seeking professional support. UTeach provides multiple links to lesson plans, collaboration resources, classroom management advice, even inspiration and humor pages.
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