Websites Galore!

www.creativeclassroom.org

A free online magazine packed with information for K-8 teachers.

 

www.pc.gsd.k12.ca.us/writingproject.htm

Worldwide creative writing project. An easy way to peruse tons of story starters then publish your students' work online.

 

www.proteacher.com/070039.shtml

A professional community and web directory for elementary school teachers in grades

preK-6. Early childhood, elementary and middle school lesson plans, activities,

teaching ideas and resources on the internet for the classroom teacher.

 

www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/ela_jour.html

English language arts: a curriculum guide

 

http://user.icx.net/~campbelld/elementary_projects/creative.htm

Elementary creative writing internet projects...an easy way to get your kids excited about "real" writing with boys and girls in other places, worldwide

 

www.teacher.net/lessons/posts/943.html

 

http://www.lightspan.com/common/pages/linkOut5.asp?loc=www.thegateway.org ("The Gateway to educational materials")

Type a topic, grade level, and other information into a search screen that retrieves -- from more than 140 Web sites -- lessons, instructional units, and other free, educational materials on that topic, for that grade level.

 

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A categorized, annotated list of over 1600 sites to help educators, teachers, and parents enhance instruction and support the curriculum.

 

http://resource.mediacentre.com/science/escience/lifesystems/grade1.lasso

Life Systems Characteristics and Needs of Living Things Grade 1

 

http://www.sciencegems.com/

...a useful, annotated list of science sites arranged by topic and grade level

 

http://illuminations.nctm.org/pages/illuminations.html

Internet resources for improving the teaching and learning of math

 

http://disney.go.com/disneylearning/teachercenter/main/index.html

Lots of resources for teachers including chat rooms, lessons, etc.

 

www.starsprogram.com

Links elementary-aged school children with state-of-the-art science aboard the space shuttle.

 

apelslice.com

A site designed for parents and teachers to help students experiencing difficulty with learning.

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/learning/launch

An amazing collection of websites for all academic areas and much more!

 

www.school.aol.com

A site rich with internet and interactive teaching resources. The power of AOL for free.

 

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/resources/resframe.html

Extremely comprehensive K-12 learning resources including lessons, frameworks, and additional links.

 

www.ali.apple.com

A dynamic online community where educators share, learn, and communicate.

 

http://eduscapes.com/llg/

Great resource for professional development services

 

www.brainconnection.com

Lots of great research and resources for educators, particularly on brain theory

 

www.bookadventure.org

A K-8 site dedicated to reading incentive. Over 4,000 books from which children may choose. Lots of good links to reading resources.

 

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38061,00.html

Web magazine full of ideas, news, sites for lesson planning, chat sites, etc.

 

http://www.epals.com

An excellent site featuring a huge electronic community offering many opportunities for collaborative learning

 

http://www.inspiration.com/beta.html

A powerful visual learning tool that inspires students to develop their ideas and organize their thinking

 

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm

The NASA website, managed by JPL, has interesting facts, fun activities

and contests for students in grades K-6

 

www.funbrain.com

This multifaceted site will help you create and grade quizzes as well as give your students an opportunity to review a variety of skills. When the students finish the quiz, the site automatically grades the quizzes, records the results and sends them to your email.

 

http://classroomtoday.classroom.com

 

http://www.poets.org

This site offers many resources for teaching poetry.

 

http://www.classroomconnect.com/home.asp

A wealth of resources, lessons, ideas, and distance learning projects

 

www.cln.org

CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate

technology into their classrooms including over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on

educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure.

 

www.ctaponline.org

Tons of links to educational sites. Simply click on "links" on the homepage.

 

http://www.aplusmath.com/

Math games, applications, flashcards, custom worksheets, and tons of resources for teachers.

 

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4471/

Math for Kids: A Medieval Adventure in Problem-Solving - for upper elementary kids to learn how to solve math word problems. All problems have a medieval theme. Kids can even submit their own problems.

 

http://www.mathstories.com/

Over 4,000 word problems for every elementary level

 

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/ruth/elem.pow.html

Math word problem of the week