Resources on the Net

Resources on the Net

Taken from the Technology Resource Guide (K-6)

Kathy Schrock’s guide for educators - this is probably the most comprehensive site for education

CCC net

CISCO virtual schoolhouse

Classroom connect

Lesson plans and activities

Direction: A Guide to Learning on the Internet

Discovery Channel School

Early childhood

http://www.earlychildhood.com/index.cfm

Annotated subject guide

http://www.hopkins.k12.mn.us/pages/Bookmarks/EducationStaff.html

Science/math

Other Sites of Interest

big6.syr.edu - Big 6 is a systematic approach to information problem solving useful whenever an individual has an information-oriented problem. This Big 6 web site includes lesson plans, curriculum, a directory of schools and districts implementing the Big 6, tools that help to teach the Big 6 and directions for joining the electronic discussion listserv. This site is useful for all grade levels, particularly in the areas of English and Mathematics.
bms.westford.mec.edu/infolit - The home page for Westford Public Schools, this site contains many educator links.
crayon.net - Have your class create their own online newspaper at this site. Step-by-step instructions make for painless teaching.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/storyhandbook.htm - This handbook for storytellers is filled with practical advice for storytellers on choosing, learning, and telling a story. The site also includes background information, a list of references, and more. This site is part of the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Children’s Literature and Language Arts page by Inez Ramsey of James Madison University. It is geared to Early Childhood and ELementary Education teachers.
i-site.on.ca/Isite/Education/Bk_report/ - At this book nook, there are reviews by and for kids. It is recommended as a good place to send kids for suggestions on what to read.
http://www.kids.infoplease.com/ - This is a kids’ almanac, dictionary, and encycopedia.
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/Lessons/IBDolphins.htm#dolphin - This site includes chapter study guides and author information on Island of the Blue Dolphins.
http://www.nav.webring.org/cgi-bin/navcgi?ring=roalddahl;list - This is a link to two Roald Dahl Webring sites.
http://www.schoolexpress.com - This is a free site that offers worksheets for all grade levels, plus ages 3-6.
http://www.teachersplanet.com - This is a commercial resource with classroom supplies, education news, and curriculum resources to support teaching. Find lesson plans, conduct research, check out continuing education opportunities, buy classroom supplies and software, and share your successes. It is geared to helping professionals at all levels. Elementary through Adult.
http://www.thefreesite.com - This site provides links to free software, clipart, and sound files, etc.
www.4forefront.com/home.html - This K-12 web site has all types of curriculum suggestions and ideas for different subject areas.
www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html - You are about to enter the world of Cyber Seuss, with a variety of links to Dr. Seuss, his writing, and underlying adult morals in his books. For a Green Eggs and Ham lesson plan, consult http://tlc.ai.org/lessons/egghamlp.htm .
www.ajkids.com - "ajkids" stands for Ask Jeeves for Kids. This is a search engine to access a variety of information for children. Although a useful site for uncovering relevant curricular information, be careful when composing your own questions. They must be very definitive.
www.ala.org - This is the home page for the American Library Association. There are links to numerous web sites, including over 700 for kids and appropriate parent web sites.
www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
- ALA’s Booklist Magazine of reviews is now online and includes reviews of books for adults, youth, audiovisual media, reference materials, best books lists, and more!
www.amazon.com/childrens - This site is geared to children’s books as listed and reviewed in amazon.com.
www.amered.com/curr/mwspt.html - There are 24 lessons at this site based on Patricia MacLachlan’s novel, Sarah Plain and Tall, including writing a final sequel chapter.
www.ask.com - Type in a question and this site will send back a list of possible web sites that answers your question. It appears to be basically the same as Ask Jeeves for Kids (www.ajkids.com) although the layout is different.
www.audreywood.com - This is a wonderful link to Audrey Wood books and activities.
www.authorsillustrators.com - This site contains detailed information about a variety of authors and illustrators.
www.avi-writer.com - Avi has a web site, with information about his books and personal life.
www.ayles.com - This is the web site for Jim Aylesworth, his books, and school visits.
www.bdd.com/teachers - This web site for Bantam Doubleday Dell books is an excellent source for information on book titles, authors and illustrators, and lesson activities for teaching and using a variety of books. Many titles are included for the intermediate grades, but the site also contains useful information for primary teachers. Site address takes you to Random House.
www.bookwire.com/bbr/children/children.html - Book Wire contains reviews of children’s books for Grades K-6. Site originates in The Boston Book Review.
www.books.com - This is a definitive web page for anything and everything related to books. All types of books are featured, including books for children and teens. There is also an author’s section, containing more than 1000 author bios, many with links to homepages and e-mail addresses.
www.capecod.net/schrockguide - This is a categorized list of sites on the Internet Kathy Schrock has found useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. There are a number of detailed subject links, plus definitions of computer terminology, bulletin board ideas, recommended software, assessment rubrics, and a host of other informative links.
www.carolhurst.com
- Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site contains fairly extensive reviews with activities and links to either the author’s or the publisher’s homepages.
www.carr.lib.md.us/authco/index.htm - This is an excellent author source containing biographical information, web pages, discussion groups, new book information, and ideas and activities from favorite book titles. Some web pages are monitored and/or maintained by the authors.
www.cbcbooks.org - This is the web page for Children’s Book Council, which provides information and activities for National Children’s Book Week. There are pages for publishers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents, authors, and illustrators.
www.coreknowledge.org - Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization with lesson plans, articles, and other resources.
www.crinkles.com - This is an online web site to complement the bi-monthly kids periodical, focusing on people, places, events, and things, explorations of books, videotapes, audio sources, and the Internet, applications for critical thinking and problem solving, and reading and research.
www.cs.cmu.edu/web/booktitles.html - Search for books online, with over 500 listings.
www.cslewis.org - This is the homepage for the C.S. Lewis Foundation, where the quote changes daily.
www.cyberbee.com/ - CyberBee lists web-based curriculum ideas on everything from art and science to Internet safety and P.E. There are sounds, art, how-to pages, and much more. It is mainly geared towards elementary and middle school, but can be adapted to any grade level.
www.disney.com - This is a guide to everything that’s Disney, including computer software, television movies, the Disney Magazine, and many other topics.
www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/young.html - This site contains activities from the U.S. Department of Education to encourage young readers to further develop their reading skills.
www.edu4kids.com - Education 4 Kids contains drill games in Math, Social Studies, Language, and Science.
www.edu.yorku.ca/word/ - This web site has a "Word of the Day" that is complete with definitions, pronunciation, part of speech, etc., that may be fun to share with your students.
www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ - This K-12 site offers various resources for a lengthy list of novels in all grades, with teaching guides, activities, lessons, units, etc. Enter the title and author (and/or illustrator) to search for teaching ideas on the book you are studying. For internet-accessible sites, make sure you check "Show Websites Only" box.
www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionary.html - A set of 5 worksheets for each grade, with the online site dictionary as the resource, leads young learners on an interactive dictionary/reference web hunt. The Little Explorers Picture Dictionary contains many links and Internet training.
www.freefoto.com/ - This is a nice site for free photos to use in Hyperstudio, Powerpoint, etc. It is free for non-commercial use.
www.freeworksheets.com - This elementary site offers educational worksheets in a variety of subject areas, including math, phonics, language arts, reading, science, social studies, and much more.
www.friend.ly.net/scoop/ - This site contains reviews of children’s books, activities for children, information about books and activities for teachers, educators and homeschoolers, special interviews with authors and illustrators, and links to other sites.
www.funschool.com/ - FunSchool contains free interactive, educational software for kids, with numerous activities and curricular links for Preschool through Grade 6.
www.historychannel.com - This is an online guide to a variety of history topics, with links to current news from related items in history as appropriate. Not all of the information would be for children, but this is a great source for teachers and parents. There are frequent topic changes. If you like the History Channel on TV, you will like this online guide.
www.hpdigitalbookclub.com - This web site offers free activity books and tips to reading.
www.infobear.com/kids.shtml - This web site contains numerous web guides and search engines for kids, including Disney and Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guides.
www.infoplease.com - This web site has information/facts on just about any subject you can think of. This would be a great place to find "stumpers" for your kids! There is an online dictionary, Internet encyclopedia, and an almanac reference.
www.ipl.org/youth - This site for the Internet Public Library Youth Division contains links to authors and a variety of reading sites.
www.ipl.org/reading/books - There are over 9500 titles online at this wonderful site.
www.janbrett.com - Jan Brett’s page contains a variety of activities and book links.
www.kidsdomain.com/kids.html - Kids domain contains games, contests, craft ideas, programming, and links to a variety of other kid sites.
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn - This library of Blue Ribbon sites on the web covers a variety of recommended educational web sites for all content areas.
www.knowledgehound.com/ - Get the how-to on a number of topics, including many on-line tutorials. You can find practically any topic here.
www.libraryspot.com - This library resource was designed to "bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, use-friendly spot." The site includes a reference desk (links to general reference tools), a reading room (links to journals, magazines, and newspapers), and libraries (links to library catalogs). Special resource guides are provided for parents, students, and teachers. This is geared to Middle School and higher.
www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Unitlink.htm - Thematic units for Primary Grades are listed, through the University of South Carolina.
www.liunet.edu/but08/ajc/ajc.htm - AJC stands for American Juvenile Collection and is a research collection that contains children’s fiction and folklore printed by American publishers from 1910-1960. You can search database records by keyword.
www.mamamedia.com - This guide to the Internet for kids showcases some interesting web sites, provides simple web tips and definitions, and explores a variety of subjects appealing to kids and supportive of curriculum endeavors.
www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/lesson_abc_book.htm - This wonderful site has emergent first grade writers creating their own ABC classroom book, with their own pictures, objects, and sentences.
www.mesc.usgs.gov/butterfly.html - This children’s butterfly site contains links to books, videos, and other web sites.
www.mmhschool.com - Information received from Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Division states that this web site will be devoted to product information, teaching resources, and technical support. Learn about their existing products, read new product announcements, discover lesson plans and mini-projects linked to web sites, plan future teaching resources, and more.
www.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapskills - This web site contains classroom ideas and family activites for the world wall map from National Geographic which is in the Sycamore Media Center. It also contains publisher information about other online maps.
www.netguide.com/ - This is a wonderful guide to a variety of sites for children and adults. The sites for kids are good and there is a K-12 education section.
www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/oks/WEBKIDS/index.html - WEBKIDS.
www.parentsplace.com/readroom/childnew/index.html - This children’s literature site has an impressive list of reviewers. Software reviews are included, with links to notable lists.
www.pbs.org - This web site features a "constantly-growing inventory of more than 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides and online activities, most designed to complement PBS television programs." Resources are grouped into six subject areas -- Arts and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health & Vocation, and TechKnow for Teachers, with subject, grade level and keyword searches in each. PBS also offers web sites for science, math, and reading rainbow; there are links to each from pbs.org. Scienceline is geared for teachers in Grades K-5.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/ - This is the official Arthur web site as maintained by WGBH in Boston, and contains information about the show, special parent and teacher corners, games, episode descriptions, teacher’s guides, Arthur books, videos, and CD-ROM’s plus much more.
www.pilkey.com - Check out Dav Pilkey’s web site, complete the games, jokes, and information about his books.
www.pinc.com/~jenslegg - This is a "Little House on the Prairie" home page and contains a great deal of information on the "Little House" books, Laura Ingalls Wilder, "Little House" sites, and pioneer activities, costumes, and artifacts.
www.poetry4kids.com - Children’s poetry is contained at this site.
www.randomhouse.com/kids - This is the web site for childrens’ books published by Random House. It also provides links to many other web sites of interest, including Dr. Seuss, consists of educational games and activities, and contains information about Random House authors and illustrators.
www.randomhouse.com/teachersbdd/gyps.html#ideas - This site includes teaching ideas for the two novels by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The Egypt Game and The Gypsy Game. There are also clickable and related internet resources.
www.randomhouse/com/teachers/rc/rc_ab_mbr.html - This web address contains biographical information on Marc Brown and contains a link to Arthur’s web site at http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/arthur. The latter web site has links to Arthur books, videos, CD-Roms and Arthur activities. For some other Marc Brown and Arthur sites, please consult the following web addresses: http://magic.usi.edu/class97/214lamb12pm/s19/ebiltz2.html/ (Note: This is not a corporate or business maintained web site, but rather it is created and maintained by a Marc Brown and Arthur aficionado. http://www.pathfinder.com/twep/lb_childrens/authors/marc_brown/
www.rti.santacruz.k12.ca.us/firstaid/comp_pg.htm#topcomp - This article addresses how to increase reading comprehenshion, with strategies and activities also suggested. Assessment tools are also analyzed. The site provides a quality guide for reading, comprehension and literature activities.
www.rylant.com - Cynthia Rylant’s web site is currently under construction.
www.scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus/index.htm - The Magic School Bus site contains a wealth of curriculum information. Notice also the parent site, www.scholastic.com with links to books, authors, and additional curriculum notes.
www.schoolgrants.org - This site is aimed at helping educators and parents find grant opportunities (federal, state and foundation) for those special programs at K-12 schools. In addition to grant opportunities, you’ll find grant-writing tips, legislative and education news, links to helpful resources, and more. A free monthly newsletter is also offered that is filled with grants, tips, and resources!
www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html - This is a site for learning about authors and illustrators and contains links to 500 authors and illustrators. It is similar to the print source Something About the Author, except it is online.
www.seussville.com - The definitive link for Dr. Seuss, this web page focuses on the new book, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, provides information on a variety of Dr. Seuss favorites, and showcases a number of educational games and activities for many Dr. Seuss books. You can also access this site at www.randomhouse.com/seussville.
www.surfnetkids.com/ - This search engine for kids also contains numerous links to children’s games, activities, and numerous topics covering all curricular areas.
www.talkcity.com/educenter/features.htmpl - This site schedules on-line chats for kids with authors of children’s stories. Although not updated for fall yet, it should be soon.
www.techlearning.com/content/reviews/articles/features.html - You will find a wealth of online riches at this site, including links to a variety of other web sites.
www.techlearning.com/content/working/ - This site provides links to a variety of educator-authored articles, including methods for integrating technology and tips on learning Excel.
www.techlearning.com/events.html - Numerous events are included, for the immediate period and beyond. Complete a submission form online and include your event in their database.
www.techlearning.com/grants.html - This is an extensive database containing over 100 funding and recognition programs. New announcements are added monthly.
www.techlearning.com/review.html - This site contains articles and new product announcements, with reviews to over 1,700 products and descriptions, all searchable by subject or title, plus many other ways.
www.techlearning.com/content/reviews/articles/hotlist.html - Here you will find links to a variety of other topics and ideas. This site is similar to http://www.techlearning.com/content/reviews/articles/features.html.
www.teleport.com/~authilus - This web site claims to be the source for authors and illustrators who visit schools. Currently there is only a list of 15 authors, but they will assist in directing an individual to a specific author/illustrator and will provide general information.
www.theideabox.com/ - This early education web site contains daily and weekly ideas, activities, games, crafts, recipes, music, and songs.
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/bookread.txt - The Book Read Project connects classrooms who are studying the same texts. It also connects the classes to the author in many instances. This project helps to improve the appreciation, discussion and understanding of literature, while also promoting telecommunications as an effective learning tool.
www.ucet.ufl.edu/~jbrown/chauth.html - This site for children’s literature authors and illustrators contains links to author’s pages or biographies about the authors. This is a quick resource as it just lists the authors and takes you directly to the link.
www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=kidlit&list - This source contains more than 130 sites related to children’s literature.
www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/kidshome.html - White House for kids.
www.whitehousehistory.org - This site includes historical information about the White House and an online catalog of the White House Historical Association’s publications and educational products.
www.wishbone.com - Web site for everyone’s favorite dog sleuth, Wishbone.
www.worldreading.org/ - At this World of Reading web site, there are book reviews for and by kids with 30 different categories of books. There are also links to many books that are available online.
www.yahooligans.com - Billed as a web guide for kids, this site contains a search engine and links to information in a variety of subject areas. There are some very good links to many subjects of interest to parents, teachers, and children.
www.zooweb.net/ - This great site contains links to many other zoos and zoo/animal references.
www.pburg.k12.nj.us/Green/Staff/Ball/math.htm
www.domath.com
www.geom.umn.edu
www.middleweb.com/index.html
www.middleweb.com/homework.html - links to other sources, news articles related to middle school
www.woi.com/ - world of interest
www.eduplace.com - brain teachers
www.superkids.com - worksheets and other things
www.masterteacher.com
www.educast.com
www.schoolnotes.com/

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