Teacher

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -- one of my all time favorites! This lady is amazing and has loads of wonderful information.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids -- This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities.

Blue N Web -- Blue Web is a searchable database of over 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). If you're looking for web based activities and projects to use with your students, check this site out.

Brooklyn Expedition to Latin America -- Good site from Brooklyn Public Library about Latin America.

Busy Teacher's Web Site -- This site is intended "to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans/classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet. Subject areas including guidance, archeology, physics and interactive web projects are included.

Education World -- "Where educators go to learn." Lessons palns, curriculum links, site reviews.

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families -- Sponsored by the US Department of Education and the NCTM, this site presents a variety of math problems in different concepts and grade levels.

Mygradebook.com -- a web-based gradebook where teachers can add classes, assignments, students and their scores to their gradebook. Students and parents can see their grading summaries online using a password.

PBS Teacher Source -- Go here to find accompanying teaching guides and materials to virtually all their programs. Also a standards-based resource section is included.

Project Based Learning Checklists -- This site allows you to find and customize project checklists to coincide with a project you're doing in class. Worth a look!

Rubric Construction Set -- Give the criteria and the web site creates the rubric for you.

School Notes --a simple and effective means to communicate school information, class assignments, and important events to parents and students.

Language Arts Lesson Plans -- Top-notch lesson plans created by classroom teachers.

Literature and Language Arts Lesson Plans - Created by the National Endownment for the Humanities and the MarcoPolo Foundation.

LitSum - Free literature summaries and study guides which includes full chapter summaries and analysis, topics for discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis.

Outta Ray's Head Lesson Plans - created by a Canadian librarian, Ray Saitz, offer teachers literature, poetry, and writing lessons, which have been honed to perfection in the classroom.

Web English Teacher - These lessons are integrated with Web sites, activities, and worksheets on spcific literature or language-arts topics. Great sites for gathering a variety of materials on a topic, but not so great if you just want lessons.

Harper's Weekly: Explore History -- Indexers have read every word and studied every illustration and cartoon inHarper's Weekly and constructed user-friendly indexes that will guide you in locating information quickly and concisely.

Do History -- A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. The Archive of Primary Sources and The History Toolkit, which is full of research tips and forms, will show students what you need to know to use specific kinds of documents and sources.