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10 Big Ideas for Internet Education Teachers might start here for ideas when implementing a technology based curriculum, or when computers and the Internet are introduced into their classes.

50 Nifty Internet Experiences for Kids This page makes a good hand-out. Please feel free to copy and distribute it. For teachers and kids.

A List of Reward Ideas Forty-nine ideas for rewards suitable for primary and intermediate students.

A Webquest About Webquest This exercise by Bernie Dodge is an effective introduction to Webquest at different grade levels.

Academic Info Academic Info provides a directory to sites tailored to a college or advanced high school audience. It is appropriate for use by self directed, advanced high school students.

Acadia’s PowerPoint Resource Center A reference center for using Microsoft PowerPoint to develop presentations. It includes links to sound, video, and graphics archives, as well as instruction on how to accomplish specific tasks in PowerPoint.

Activity Pages Over 225 fun activities for children.

Afterschool.Gov Check out the site that connects you to federal resources that support children's' programs.

ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools Harvard's Project Zero sponsors this website to support a community of educators dedicated to the improvement of education.

Amazing Picture Machine Enter a topic, or two, and this search engine will display pictures on the Internet related to your topic. This is a service of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO (AFT) Works on behalf of teacher members and the public to influence the standards and professional practices in their members' workplaces.

Are We There Yet? Check out the "Ultimate Resource" for taking fieldtrips.

Ask Jeeves For Kids Kid-friendly search engine. A good resource.

Association for Childhood Education(ACEI) Supports the professional growth of teachers with awards & grants, conferences, journals & newsletters.

Avoid the Pitfalls of Mediocre Lesson Plans Here are suggestions for planning and writing lessons.

Beginning Teacher Tips Supports beginning teachers with information on: interviewing, 10 must do items before school starts, progress reports, open house, report cards, stress busters, beginning of the year packet, time saving tips, class management tips, etc.

Beginning Teacher's Tool Box This site is dedicated to helping new teachers with interactive resources, books, links and tips.

Blue Web'n The Blue Web'n site provides links to web sites categorized as tutorials, Web-based activities, Web-based projects, as well as the more mundane lesson plans and hotlists. Content is available that is suitable for grades K-12.

Book Adventure Book Adventure is a FREE, reading incentive program dedicated to encouraging kids in grades K-8 to read. With the help of Rex Reader and Bailey Bookmark, kids have more than 4,000 of the most popular and acclaimed titles from which to choose.

Building Blocks of a Webquest Bernie Dodge outlines the steps in developing a Webquest from the introduction to conclusion.

Bulletin Board Ideas Looking for some good ideas? Kathy Schrock offers designs from other teachers, books for inspiration, and related links.

Cable in the Classroom A partnership of U.S. cable companies, cable channels, and educators providing programming that is classroom-friendly and FREE!

CBC 4 Kids Find some lesson plans that could be helpful in your middle school classrooms.

Center for Civic Education Dedicated to fostering the development of informed, responsible participation in civic life.

Certificate Creator Customize, create and print certificates from a variety of templates.

Character Education Partnership Developing character in our youth is the main aim of this site, a good resource for both parents and teachers.

Class Trips.com This site provides middle school and high school educators with ideas for field trips to coincide with your lesson and unit plans.

Classroom Connect Classroom Connect magazine provides information about all sorts of resources for education on the world wide Web. By the way, Classroom Web at this site has links to hundreds of schools with world wide Web pages.

Classroom Internet Projects From Virginia's Public Education Network. Great ideas for teachers who wish to create projects using the Internet.

CyberSmart The CyberSmart! School Program provides five learning modules for schools to introduce the use of the Internet to elementary and middle school students and their families. Find modules on Internet safety, research, online manners, and technology.

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Online Check out this source for current events.

Democracy and Education Learn about the law and education on this digital library site.

Discipline Help Find out how you can maintain a more successful classroom.

Discovery Channel School The Discovery Channel provides television programs for students (K-12). The site contains a television program schedule and vocabulary-and-discussion questions for selected programs.

Disney Learning Center The Disney site includes a special "teachers only" area, a place to build parent-teacher-community relations, resources for parents, as well as stuff for students. Take the "tour" of the site to learn more.

EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Web Lesson plans and curriculum materials from EcEdWeb whose goal it is to provide support for economic education from K-12 to college.

Education Index Welcome to the Education Index®, an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web.

Education Resources Directory Maintained by the US Department of Education, this is an index of resources available on a wide range of topics-including a search tool to locate sources for educators from the federal government and other providers.

Educator's Net - Over 7200 Reviewed Links! Built-in search engine allows easy access to their database containing administration, career training, classroom, distance education, gymnasium, library, parents, school, school store, staff, student & industry links.

Encarta Online 16,000 subject articles, a dictionary, atlas and multimedia are available at your fingertips.

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database The Theory into Practice (TIP) database was developed to make summaries of 50 majors theories of learning and instruction more accessible to educators.

Explorers of the World Learn about the famous explorers who have opened the way for others in Land, Sea, Art and Ideas.

Filamentality Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners.

Get Net-Wise! Essential for anyone responsible for students on the Net. Also, good material to be distributed to parents at parents night!

Guidelines for Rubric Development Steps involved, terms and concepts to consider including in rubric development.

Hot Potatoes The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Great tool for teachers! (Free)

IDEA Practices This site answers your questions about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), keeps you informed about the ideas that work, and supports your efforts to help ALL children learn, progress, and realize their dreams.

Ideas for New Teachers and Education Students ADPRIMA makes available "how to information" on writing lesson plans, writing behavioral objectives, discipline, job interviews, strategic teaching and learning and much more.

Internet Guidebooks and Other Technical Support Resources This site provides links to resources to help educators understand the Internet better.

Internet Public Library A complete source of information for students.

Kids Click Kid-Friendly Search Engine A wide variety of kid-friendly sites can be found at the Kids-Click site.

Literacy Center Find out how to help literacy in the United States.

Matrix of Examples Over 200 WebQuests organized by grade levels.

National Education Association: Works4Me The NEAR has archived over 400 ideas from classroom teachers about teaching techniques, content, getting organized, managing your classroom, relationships and using technology.

National PTA Check out the PTA site that is geared toward raising drug and alcohol free children.

NCREL The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping schools & students develop their skills and abilities to their greatest potential.

NY Times Lesson Plan Archive Lessons developed in partnership with Bank Street College of Education are detailed and extensive. Lessons reference news articles, photographs, political cartoons, opinion pieces, or editorials published in The New York Times.

OneKey Kid-Safe Search Engine A newer search engine, OneKey is worth a look.

ParenTech ParenTech brings together the latest research, inspiring stories, practical tips, and places to go to learn more—all in a parent-friendly kit of resources.

Pathways To School Improvement The school improvement cycle involves a team effort. Representatives from the local communities and local schools, including individual administrators and teachers, engage in continuous cycles of improvement.

PBS Online Take a look at all of the PBS programs online! There are virtual adventures, games, lessons, stories, reference material, history, science, and math.

Portals to the World Links for a variety of countries selected by Library of Congress subject experts.

Pre-K Smarties Learn how to teach your gifted child and find out about special practices used to help you in your quest for rearing children.

Puzzlemaker 11 Types of puzzles are featured here! What else can we say.

QuizLab The QuizLab Website allows teachers to post quizzes on the Internet. Students may then login and take these quizzes. Results of the quiz are posted to a teachers email account for later review.

Recent Research on the Effects of Technology on Teaching and Learning A summary of research findings that indicates the various ways technology enhances learner outcomes.

Repositories of Primary Sources A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. For teachers.

Researchpaper.com Welcome to Researchpaper.com - the Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects.

Resource2000 Educational Website with over 1500 Links An educational Website for students, teachers, and parents.

Role models Rolemodel.net offers America's students a collection of people who demonstrate qualities that are sterling and conducive to a positive environment.

Rubrics: The Staff Room for Ontario Teachers Need a rubric? This site has sample rubrics to help you create your own.

Scholastic Find out information about Scholastic's educational magazines, shows, and more.

School Psychology Resources Online The resources included cover: learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.

School Web Clubs This Web site provides a forum for educators and parents to help build and learn about Web sites.

SchoolExpress.com School express provides free equipment and tools for teachers and students.

SchoolNotes.com Teacher, Student, Parent Communications A simple and effective means to communicate school information to your education community by allowing teachers to post school information on the world wide Web.

SpecialEdLaw.net a multidisciplinary internet resource of Special Education law materials for parents, attorneys, teachers, schools , kids & psychologists.

Stay Safe Online This is an outstanding animated show featuring Shaq and Tara Lipinski teaching kids about Internet safety. This is great for classroom too!

Strategies for Classroom Management The Florida Department of Education shares strategies for classroom management, organizational ideas, effective communication skills, monitoring and delivery of instruction.

Strategies for Teaching Children with Communications Disorders General Strategies for teaching children with communication disorders.

Student and Class Projects Using the Internet Provides information on different types of Internet projects.

Teacher Login Form for QUIA Quiz Authoring This login form will allow registered teachers to use the QUIA authoring system. See www.quia.com for QUIA homepage.

Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet This site provides ideas for collaboration and increased international understanding that can be part of virtually every curricular area (not just foreign language and social studies).

Teaching and Learning  1996 Article about inclusion of children with special needs.

Teaching Tools Look at interesting information for your classes. Fun facts included.

Teachnet This Web site is maintained by a non-profit organization and features over 500 award-winning project ideas across all curricular areas, links to other education sites, information about grants, and much more.

Teletubbies This site has been designed by BBC Education to entertain and develop the learning potential of pre-school children. Combining games with the skills of painting, music and general coordination, this site is an ideal way for children to start learning.

The Civic Mind An excellent source for civics education and information.

The Copyright Website You taped a movie from HBO and want to use a clip from it in your classroom. Is it legal? Check here!

The Lower Hudson Regional Information Center Get access to curriculum sites, learn about NY State standards, find reference material, search engines, weather sites, and technology information.

The Multicultural Pavilion Resources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural education.

The Project Approach Many teachers have found the Project Approach helpful to them in a variety of ways. Developing projects is not easy, and this site is devoted to helping teachers develop successful projects.

The QUIA Quiz Development system Homepage of this authoring tool for teacher designed quizzes & educational games. Using passwords, teachers and students can use this Web-based system at home as well as in school.

The Rubric Bank A collection of rubrics from the Chicago Public Schools.

ThinkQuest Master Index A large number of imaginative and interesting Web-based ideas can be found here.

Top 100 Family Sites Attention teachers: check out this site filled with the top 100 academic sites on the Internet.

TrackStar TrackStar automatically creates WebQuests and virtual fieldtrips for teachers by searching for links matching a subject track. Great!

UK National Curriculum Find out what educators are doing in the UK. Covers all aspects of their National Program!

Web for Teachers This site helps teachers integrate technology into instruction. It features various tools for teachers: one for creating quizzes that students can take online, another for organizing and annotating Web sites, a third for developing rubrics, and more.

Webquest Page A Webquest is an inquiry oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. Hundreds of grade and subject level WebQuests can be found here and you may add your own to the Web-Quest page.

WebQuests A useful flowchart for building WebQuests is provided and many examples of WebQuests.

WebQuests Over 1,200 Webquest links.

Webscapes For Learning This "webscape" prepares teachers for thinking and doing in new ways across traditional education boundaries.

Websites & Resources for Teachers These sites, organized in nine categories, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.

Welcoming the Internet into Your Classroom Scholastic offers information on using simple searching techniques, developing information literacy skills, and strategies to develop Internet safe lesson.

What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching Topics cover in this website are: So Much More Than A Job, Challenges, Tip and Strategies from First-Year Teachers, Principals and Administrators, Voices, The Kids, Veteran Teachers Talk and a checklist of tips.