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Arts and Crafts
http://www.theideabox.com/ - Idea Box - this site is dedicated to the education of young children. It contains ideas, articles, projects, seasonal themes, and printable pages; all to help teach your child(ren) in a fun and interesting way! This page is for Parents, Teachers, Care Givers, Homeschoolers, and their children!
http://craftsforkids.miningco.com/mbody.htm - Arts and Crafts from the Mining Company
http://makingfriends.com/concraft.htm - Free Computer Crafts for Kids! This is a "must-see" site! The site has tons of paper projects that can be printed out as well as recipes for playdough, sand dough, molding potpourri, plus many more.
http://www.crayola.com/art_education/ - The Crayola Site. Binny and Smith have produced an excellent resource for art teachers. There are directions for creating with many different types of art media. In addition, there is a history of crayons and contests that students can enter.
http://www.firstascent.com/popup/resources.html - Pop-up Cards! Directions for several different pop-up cards that you can make.
http://www.bconnex.net/~jarea/lessons.htm - KinderArt, for hours of art fun.
http://www.wwvisions.com/craftbb/kids.html - The Kids Crafts Bulletin Board is a place where you can find all sorts of craft ideas. You can even post your own ideas if you want.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7997/sherri2a.htm - The Activity Cupboard - This site is great for Preschool or early Elementary
http://family.disney.com/Categories/Activities/Features/family_1998_03/famf/ famf38paper/ - Paper Capers Over 14 paper craft projects
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Authors and Children's Literature
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/author.html - Celebrate Children's Authors. This page has links to several children's authors.
http://members.xoom.com/TammyTidbits - Calendars with Author's Birthdays that you can set as your computer background.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ - The Children's Literature Web Guide is a good starting point for any language arts teacher. Here you will find book awards, publishers, authors. illustrators, and a multitude of other links.
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ - The Doucette Index provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books. The books indexed are those held by the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, but many of these books will also be available in other libraries.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html - CyberGuides are supplementary units of instruction based on core works of literature, requiring students to use the World Wide Web.
http://nic.smsu.edu/~alh004s/stuff/literatu.html - Literature Activities A-L
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ - The complete works of William Shakespeare Online
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7eramseyil/poechild.htm - Poetry for Children - A wonderful resource for children's poetry
http://www.pbs.org:80/readingrainbow/rr.html - Reading Rainbow
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/ - Reader's Theatre
http://www.ed.gov/Family/Calendar/ - Early Childhood Activity Calendar. Great printable calendars that give activities that will encourage a love of reading.
http://www.firstascent.com/popup/resources.html - Pop-up Cards! Directions for several different pop-up cards that you can make.
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/intro.html - Intorduction to Literature Circles is a site for both Teachers and Students. Find out what they are and how to use them in your classroom.
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Geography
http://www.50states.com - This is the BEST site for information on the 50 states. Ray Weber has done a wonderful job of organizing information on this site.
http://www.mapquest.com - A wonderful resource for printing out any type of map you want. You can even get printed directions from one location to another.
http://geography.miningco.com - This site includes weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of the best sites for maps and geographical information, an online world atlas, a glossary, weekly quizzes, and much more. The site currently includes over 800 pages.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listcountryre2.html - Using the following links, you can discover amazing facts about any country in the world. There are pictures of faraway places, folklore from a foreign land, as well as sound clips of over 60 languages.
http://www.globalearn.com - Global Learn
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ - National Geographics for Kids - A great place for students to explore! They have a daily "amazing fact" and a place to get penpals for students age 6 - 16.
http://www.itw.com/~dravyk/toltour/ - Tower of London Virtual tour. The tour includes pictures,text and even sounds.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listmichigan1.html - My Hotlist of Michigan Sites. Use these sites during your Michigan Week studies.
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Government
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ - The Whitehouse.
http://thomas.loc.gov/ - Thomas Legislative Page
http://www.usia.gov/usa/oap/oagtoc.htm - USIA, An Outline Of American Government
http://www.capweb.net/classic/ - The Internet guide to the U.S. Congress
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ - The United Nation's CyberSchoolBus!
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Health
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/index.html - Here's a GREAT place for kids to learn about Health and Nutrition! This page has a LOT of graphics on it so you will need to be patient while it all loads.
http://www.kidsfood.org/ - The site is divided into sections, including "Food Keeps Us Well," "Rate Your Plate," and "Food Facts." Each features an interactive quiz with feedback to test and reinforce learning. Highlights of the site include "The Club Cookbook" where visitors are invited to send in their favorite recipes and "Books We Love to Read." A section for parents features fun and educational activities to do with children, and a downloadable Teacher's Guide (PDF) includes lesson plans and classroom activities.
http://pe.central.vt.edu/ - PE Central - PE Central welcomes you to the ultimate Web site for physical education teachers, students, interested parents and adults. Our goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
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Holidays
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays - Find tons of holiday ideas for each season of the year.
http://server2.powernet.net/~jograham/holiday.htmJo's World Holiday Page
http://www.bignetwork.com/dp/dh/ - The Daily Holiday Page. You can subscribe to receive e-mail each day telling you what holiday it is for that day. Use the information for journal starters.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html - A Hotlist of sites for Black History Month
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Languages
http://www.travlang.com/languages/ - Foriegn Lanquages for Travelers. Elementary and middle school students will love looking up common words and phrases in different languages. About 60% of the words have audio files with pronunciations.
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm - Guide to Grammar and Writing. This page gives people the rules for such things as when to use capital letters, where to put quotation marks, sentence structure, how to use commas, and a ton of other things. This site is a MUST see for students and educators.
http://www.angelfire.com/ks/teachme/teachertalk.html - Teacher Talk is geared mostly towards Middle School Language Arts.
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Mathematics
http://www.allmath.com/ - All Math- Home of flashcards, math biographies and Ask the Experts
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ - The Math Forum. Math teachers will want to begin here to find all sorts of links to math pages. Each list of links is theme based so you can browse through topics or by grade level.
http://www.angelfire.com/me/marmalade/mathtips.html - Fantastic Math Tips
http://www.edu4kids.com/ - Flashcards for Kids
http://www.accessone.com/inew/ - INEW, Internet Educational Workbook. Your students can do math problems right online at this site or you can print out math worksheets for them to practice with. This site if for grades K-6.
http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm - Dave's Math Tables - Well worth a visit!!
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Newspapers
http://www.newspapers.com/ - Newspapers Online. Here you will find newspapers from all over the world.
http://www.crayon.net/ - A fun place where you can create your own on-line newspaper to give you the information you want!
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Online Projects
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/join.htm - Join an Online Project
http://members.xoom.com/April_Shower - The April Showers Project brought students from the U.S. and Canada together in a weather related project concerning "April Showers Bring May Flowers"
http://members.xoom.com/FlatStanley - The Flat Stanley project for the 1998-99 school year brings over 110 classrooms together in a fun-filled geography/writing project!
http://www.classrooms.globalchalk.com/Clinton2nd/bats/ - Stellaluna's Friends
http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/ - SchoolWorld offers many online projects for students and classes.
http://www.gsn.org/ - The Global School Network connects students and classes around the world.
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/ - KIDPROJ is another site where you can find online projects to connect students around the world.
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Puzzles & Games
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ - "Welcome to Puzzlemaker. A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments." Take your weekly spelling list and make a word search for students or use the words from a book you are reading and put them into a puzzle.
http://www.funbrain.com - Here is an interactive site where your students can play Math Baseball, Wacky Stories and Counting Change.
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Reference
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html - Your one-stop Research tool, dictionaries, thesaruses, translators, maps, phone numbers, etc. An EXCELLENT research tool!
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html - Virtual Reference Desk
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html - Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html - Roget's Thesaurus
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ - Internet Public Library
http://encarta.msn.com/find/find.asp - Encarta On-line
http://www.geeves.com/ - Ask Jeeves Do you have a question?? Jeeves probably can show you where to find the answer and it's done instantly so you won't have to wait for someone to email you your answer.
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html - Ask an Expert get answers to your questions.
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm - Encyberopedia
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Search Engines
http://www.dogpile.com - This is a meta crawler search engine that searches several of the most popular search engines.
http://www.search.com - A good search engine
http://www.hotbot.com - And here's another
http://www.metacrawler.com - Another search engine that searches several popular search engines
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Science
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/ - Bill Nye the Science Guy... need I say more? :)
http://www.beakman.com/ - Beakman's World
http://www.nasa.gov/ - NASA's Hompepage
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html - Volcano World is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about volcanoes including the ones that are currently erupting!
http://www.seasky.org - Sea and Sky, a Web Site dedicated to our last two great frontiers. Come explore the awesome splendors of the Sea, and the endless wonders of the universe.
http://frog.simplenet.com/froggy/ - The Froggy Page
http://www.nj.com/yucky/ - Yuckiest Site on the Web
http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html - Explore the human heart! You have to see it to believe it. This is an excellent resource for studying the human heart.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html - Science "Snacks" offers tons of quick science experiments for you and your students. It list all the materials needed, step by step directions, and an explanation of what is happening and why. These are great to print out and use with your students.
http://bioinfo.kordic.re.kr/animal/ - Bioinfo Animal Pictures Archive. More than 14,000 images !!! This page has a search that allows you to type in an animal and you will be given pictures, sounds, and videos of that animal when available.
http://www.ameritech.net/users/paulcarlisle/MoonCalendar.html - Moon Phase Calendar - Moon Calendar was written primarily for elementary school students. It shows the phases of the Moon for each day of a selected month. You can set the calendar to any date from 3999 BC to 3999 AD.
http://bubbles.org/pbfa2.htm - Bubbles, Bubbles, and more Bubbles! This page offers everything you've ever wanted to know about bubbles including directions for making the "Ultimate" bubble solution and your own bubble tools!
http://www.chem4kids.com/ - The Chem4Kids site currently includes information on matter, atoms, elements, math, and reactions. There is a "Miscellaneous" site that contains information that doesn't fit into the other categories. Users can find a chemistry quiz. Viewers can use the search engine at the site to locate specific information. The newest section, "MATH," explains how math is used in chemistry. Students will find the information very useful in strengthening their chemistry knowledge, or for teaching them something new. This is an excellent site for chemistry teachers to use when creating lessons or class projects.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html - The Biology Project. A wonderful resource for 7th - 12th Grade students.
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Social Studies
http://www.peoples.net/~southbd/ - Presidents on the WWW. This site was developed by a group of 5th grade students. You can click on any of the presidents' portraits and you'll land on a page that includes that president's signature, an image of the American flag while he was in office -- and tons of facts!
http://www.gettysbg.com - Civil War Site
http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/index.html - Mr. Donn's Ancient History site. This is a wonderful site especially for 6th graders and up. http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/Washington.html - George Washington Online - Several links to George Washington sites.
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/Lincoln.html - Abraham Lincoln Online. Several links to Abraham Lincoln sites.
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday - On this Day! Choose any day then click on show events. You will quickly find names of people who were born and died on that day as well as events in history.
http://www.orangeschools.org/OHS/TeacherPGs/TJordan/Pages/APSyllabus.html - Advanced Placement US History Syllabus...this is an incredible list of sites to support a full-year US History course arranged by time peiod and category
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Technology
http://users.desupernet.net/ohora/index.html - Macintosh Tips and Tutorials. Loads of neat tricks for people who use the macs. This site also includes links to shareware and freeware for the mac that you can download.
http://www.essdack.org/tips/ - Tammy's Tech Tips for Teachers - Why didn't I think of that?? This page was done by Tammy Worcester an Instructional Technology Specialist from Kansas. She has some great ideas on how teachers can use their computers to make flash cards, lesson plans, electronic portfolios, rubics, as well as ideas for student projects and integrating the World Wide Web into your classroom.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn - Blue Webn' is set up by subject area. This is a GREAT site for anyone interested in using the web for education.
http://sln.fi.edu/primer/setup.html - World Wide Web Workbook - this is an excellent beginner for students just starting to use the WWW!!
http://www.solutions.ibm.com/k12/ - IBM's K-12 internet Website
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Teacher Resources
http://www.teachers.net - A GREAT place for teachers to find lesson plans, support, and ideas for making your job easier!
http://www.teachnet.com/ Teachnet.com - A wonderful site for educators to find lesson plans and ideas for their classroom. The site offers a free newsletter and also a mailring for educators.
http://edweb.gsn.org/lists.html "The INTERNET contains literally thousands of special interest discussion groups, each individually managed by an Internet server known as a list server (commonly referred to as a Listserv, list processor or a list)." If you are looking for ideas on a specific topic or grade level these listservs can be wonderful resources!
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html - Teachers Helping Teachers has everything from teaching tips to teaching methodologies for all teachers. They even have a wonderful set of lesson plans.
http://www.classroomconnect.com/ - Classroom Connect - "The premier site for K-12 teachers and students"
http://www.teachernet.com/ - Highlights' TeacherNet is an online network of educational publishers and teaching professionals. Participating sites offer a wealth of educational resources for classroom teachers across the curriculum.
http://www.teachnet.org/ - The Teachers Network - TeachNet supports and encourages teachers to be leaders, curriculum developers, mentors & peer, coaches, researchers & policymakers.
www.educatorsnet.com/ - EducatorsNet is the ultimate in cyberschool sites. It is a comprehensive directory to education related resources for teachers, students, parents, administrators and suppliers.
http://www.ole.net/ole/ - The On-line Educator A wonderful site for educators to share ideas and learn how other teachers are using the internet in their classrooms.
http://www.themailbox.com/ - Mailbox Magazine
http://www.eta.k12.mn.us/education/ - Here is a site that has just about everything....and it's FAST!! You won't find all the cutesy graphics but that is part of what makes this site nice. Web pages that have a lot of graphics load slower than those that don't. There are a lot of resources for teachers at this site.
http://www.education-world.com/whats_new/ - Education World On-line Magazine
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/ - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. This was one of the very first sites I used when I began using the net and it continues to be one of the best!! You could spend weeks exploring this site.
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/hotlists.html - Educational Hotlist
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Education/K-12/MDK12_Stuff/homepers/emag/ - Electronic Elementary Magazine
http://www.gsn.org/ - The Global Schoolnet Foundation - Linking kids around the world
http://mav.net/phil/ Phil's Place - Phil has put together a wonderful site for educators that list some of the best sites on the net.
http://seaesc2.sesc.k12.ar.us/hamburg/Howto.htm - How to Build a Website. A great step-by-step guide on how to build your own site on the World Wide Web.
http://members.xoom.com/TammyTidbits/backgrnd1.html - I've designed my own backgrounds for use on your webpage. Enjoy!
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Lesson Plans
gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Lesson/NewLesson - Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html - CyberGuides are supplementary units of instruction based on core works of literature, requiring students to use the World Wide Web.
http://www.alaska.net/~cccandc/free.htm - Free On-line Unit Studies. Over 150 curriculum units that are sure to help you. There are units available for preschool age children all the way through High School.
http://www.unca.edu/~srashley/lesson.html - Stephanies Lesson Plans - Stephanie has taken out the work of searching for hours to find lesson plans. She has collected some great links to the available lesson plans on the World Wide Web.
http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/support/science/tools/ooey.html - Ooey Gooey Recipes for the Classroom. Everything from "Singing Cake" to "Kool-Aid Playdough"!
http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm - Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans offers many lesson plans for grades K-2. The lessons are broken down into subject area as well as by month.
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/index.html - Teacher Views. Ideas to go along with you favorite childrens stories written by teachers for teachers. This is a MUST see!
http://www.mcrel.org/connect/ - Lesson Plans for many different subject areas
http://www.pulaski.net/HTMLPages/pes/links.asp - Theme Pages, There are well over 50 different themes for you to check out. Everything from bubble gum to flight can be found at this site. If you use themes to help teach, please take the time to look at the themes that interest you.
http://www.vbe.com/~gns/ - Welcome to Nuttin' But Kids! A GREAT site for preschool and k-1.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listlessonpla.html - Web-based resources for lesson plans in all subject areas, particularly in language arts, math, science, social studies.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/ - Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans!!! "These lesson plans were created by teachers for use in their own classrooms. We hope that you'll find some of these useful in your classroom as well."
http://essc.calumet.purdue.edu/ - Elementary Science Support Center
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2221/index.html - Addie's Inside Kindergarten - Check out Addie's units titled Wonderful Watermelon, Beary Fun Activities, Mice Are Nice, and several others that will delight your students.
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Freebies
http://members.aol.com/free4kids/ - A wonderful site for all sorts of Freebies!
http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/free.kids.html - Over 3,000 free things for kids!
http://members.tripod.com/~SJEWELRYS/newfreebie.html - Another wonderful site where you can find freebies
http://www.vpw.com/index.html VPW offers free materials and videos for your classroom.
http://www.mediabuilder.com/index.html - Free Fonts for all your computer projects.
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