Websites That Work Compiled by Vermont-NEA member Judith Steffens
These sites provide wonderful FREE, easily accessible resources for teachers of students in grades 4-12.
GENERAL RESOURCES
www.ofsd.k12.wi.us/osseo/Teachers.htm
Teacher’s Corner
This site is a compendium of many, many educational sites. It’s notated so you’ll know what each site contains.
www.eduhound.com
This phenomenal site has built in resource links for teachers. It includes an incredible variety, including lists of active, content-specific sites, lesson plans, clip art, worksheets, puzzles, etc. The site, on-line since January of 2000, was created by two former k-12 educators.
www.edupuppy.com
This is the junior version of eduhound.com and very appropriate for pre-k and early elementary teachers. It includes age appropriate activities, clip art etc.
www.funbrain.com
This site provides all kinds of learning games for teachers and parents. You can select games for a particular age, by content area, or by theme or topic.
www.scholastic.com
This site is wonderful. It provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels. Each section has a teacher’s guide with suggested activities. It also has a KIDS section which your students can use to access videos of conversations with well known authors, games, puzzles, articles, and more.
www.learningcompanyschool.com
If you click on Resource Center, you’ll find all kinds of resources for teachers and students.
www.DiscoverySchool.com
This Discovery Channel site has many wonderful resources for teachers, along with guides for programs they’ll be airing.
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
Teacher page which includes lesson plans (sorted by topic and by grade level) clip art (including animations) , games, a list of resource sites, teacher’s guides etc.
www.puzzlemaker.com This is a part of the Discovery site- let’s you make puzzles and mazes with minimal effort.
www.learningnetwork.com/
This site provides activities, curriculum materials, games, quizzes and parent and student resources.
www.steckvaughn.com
In addition to materials related to their product list, this publisher provides both teacher resources and specific classroom plans.
www.owl.org
NEA’s website with lesson plans, classroom tips and feature stories.
www.lessonplanz.com
Lesson Plans: search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans.
www.teachnet.org/
Teachers network: lessons, curricula and activities from teachers..
www.educationalpress.org
This site create word searches, word lists, flashcards, puzzles etc. and provides really valuable lists of word families, short vowel words, rhyming words, etc.
AND NOW – JUST A SAMPLING OF SITES IN A VARIETY OF CURRICULUM AREAS…
SOCIAL STUDIES
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
This is a resource site sponsored by the USA Library of Congress. It has wonderful photos, lesson plans, and links to other sites. It has over seven million original documents, photographs, etc that you can use.
www.pbs.org/
Provides resources related to the programs they’re broadcasting and can be”localized” to fit your local channel.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
This month’s suggestions for teachers and kids . It’s got some interesting sites included; for example, one in which kids can download copies of the signatures of all of America’s presidents
www.cnnfyi.com
This is the Student Main page of the CNN site for kids. It’s excellent for current events instruction in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Mars Exploration Rover Mission
"With exploration of Mars, the Red Planet, a fact, NASA has had to create a special site just to provide Mars exploration updates. There has been so much traffic on NASA's sites that this one is just for those hooked on Mars. As NASA's official Mars site there is new information and photographs constantly appearing as a result of Spirit's ongoing photographic transmissions. (Spirit, for those who don't recognize the name, is the name of the rover that is to conduct analysis of the Mars soil. Its partner is Opportunity, slated to explore a different area of the Red Planet. As photographs come in, NASA posts them making these stunning images available as an online resource. There are different links for kids, students, educators and press. (There are separate links for students and "kids".) NASA offers more than different images and descriptions about Mars. They have animations of Mars and of Spirit. The website also tells you about different projects scientists conducted. The descriptions of Mars are reasonable in that kids can understand them and the explanations are accompanied by activities that you can do to learn more about Mars. The website gives an overview and features of the planet. They give programs to explore and there is a data team. The games are a great deal of fun, but you'll have to set your computer to accept popups, which is the how the animations appear.”
www.chemheritage.org
Chemical Heritage Foundation’s site with resources to help you teach the history of chemistry.
www.techlearning.com/
Visit TechLEARNING.com's pages for teachers, tech coordinators, and administrators to find the resources you need when you need them. Choose the latest from Technology & Learning magazine, reader-written articles, TechLearning tips, databases, and special features just for you.
Geocaching: www.geocaching.com/ Geocaching asks students to find objects using GPS coordinates and verbal clues which are filled with plays on words. The following sites are helpful in planning a geocaching activity.
www.ESLgo.com
ESL teachers can find activities for teaching English in the classroom, links to English teaching sites, links to commercial products related to teaching and learning English, and more resources.
LANGUAGE ARTS
www.webenglishteacher.com
This site has lesson plans, web quests, and many different activities for teachers of grades k-12. It includes a link to a site of free resources for teachers.
www.ncte.org/teach
This site has links to all kinds of teaching ideas submitted by teachers.
MATH
Math Goodies www.mathgoodies.com
Math Goodies is a free math help site with more than 400 pages of activities for students, teachers and parents. Our award-winning site features interactive lessons, homework help and worksheets. The unique design of our 70 self-paced lessons makes them ideal for all types of learners. You can print puzzles and worksheets for use off line. You'll also find educational software, books, and articles. Join the discussions in our moderated Forums. We strive to connect math to the real world in a child-safe setting!
ART
Art Teacher on the Net www.artmuseums.com This is a wonderful site, providing project ideas, art links and many other resources for the 4-12 art teacher.
Masters of Art History www.yahoo.com/Arts/Artists/Masters This Yahoo site is an index of links to the works and lives of famous artists from around the world.
Educational Topics and Resources
Schrock’s Guide http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
A wonderful clearinghouse for all kinds of websites for educators. It offers a categorized list of sites useful for curriculum and professional growth with curriculum and general resources. The site is frequently updated..
Blue Web’n www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
“This is an online library of 1800+ Internet sites organized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added.”
www.teacher.work.co.nz
Collection of educator’s tools with reviews of over 5000 sites. Mark Treadwell
The Classroom Flyer Digest is a weekly , on-line publication filled with sites, timely lesson plans, and activities. It’s free to teachers from the Learning Company. Just send a blank email to join the classroom flyer digest@list.learningcompany school.com
Eduhound also publishes a newsletter on line which is free. To sign up, go online at www.thejournal.com/magazine/subscription/sub.html and complete the information. You’ll also be eligible for a free magazine which is excellent. It’s called T.H.E. Journal (Technological Horizons in Education).