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The Online Biology Guide
to Cells is a great resource for middle-school (11-13 year-old) science students that discusses the fundamentals of plant and animal cells.
The SAT Prep Plan site contains SAT practice problems, a customized SAT preparation plan, SAT problem solving videos, SAT vocabulary flash cards and free online SAT test preparation books and materials.
Dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best free educational software for Windows, Educational Freeware helps you find the software for use on the Web or to download to your PC.
SoftSchools.com provides free math
worksheets, free math games and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets
and games are organized by grades and topics. Their auto-generated math and
phonics worksheets are easily printable.
Just For Kids has a collection of articles specifically for kids related to school. Being called names, teachers who aren't nice, wearing glasses, or getting help with math are just a few examples of stuff that can really help kids in the craziness of school.
Exercise of the day: find out what the climate is like in Ireland, and what the Irish flag look like!
If you'd like an interesting set of read-along children's books for your K-3 classroom library, take a look at The Confetti Company.
The Math League provides math contests for grades 4 through 12, contest problem books, and math educational software for grades 4-8. They also let you read the contest results from their math league competitions in the U.S. and Canada.
The Cuisenaire Learning Place features exciting new resources for integrating math and literature in the primary grades. You can print out and share an intriguing story and problem from Afterwards: Folk and Fairy Tales with Mathematical Everafter, Grades 1-2 and 3-4.
A fantastic set of information by Joan Fleitas of Fairfield University, BandAids and Blackboards is intended to help deal with chronic illness, or other medical problems, in a school setting. It's written to be used by both children and adults, and tries to help sensitize children to what it's like to grow up with a medical problem.
Why'n'Not Education aims to design and develop a syllabus for elementary schools, bearing the same name as the organization ``A Why'n'Not Education''. Using the principles of integrated curriculum, they're working towards creating a syllabus which is as unified as possible---not only in terms of content but also in terms of usability. They're currently concentrating on grades 3 through 6.
its-online, by the folks who do the printed magazine iT's Magazine, is set up to provide students of English with a comprehensive online service offering e-zine material for self-study, sections where you can express your opininos on topical issues or find prenfriends, and a collection of resources that area vailable on the Net.
Beatrice's Web Guide includes an education section, with B's top picks in educational sites and descriptions on them too.
U.S. Charter Schools offers a range of information for teachers, parents, community groups, museums & others who are planning or operating a charter school.
The Online Educator Weekly Super Sites give you a weekly list of useful pages on the Internet, aimed specifically at helping teachers find the Internet to be an accessible, useful classroom tool.
The Lost City delivers a lot of good information about the red planet packaged specifically for younger children. Students will discover fun facts about the planet and have fun taking the Mars Challenge quiz.
The New Century School House project provides an opportunity for teachers from the final years of the 20th century to think about, and share with others their ideas about what schools should be like in the next century.
A reportedly fully monitored safe online community for kids, KidFu: The Way of the Kid features kids chat, a kid-written magazine, bulletin boards, games, and junior jobs. Membership is required for full access.
TCWORLD, an online resource for technology coordinators, includes articles each month of interest to educators trying to use technology in their schools.
The National Weather Service in Guam can help you do projects with typhoons.
A wide range of information is available at the Cool Safe Links For Children Parents and Teachers page. Fun and interesting places to visit, info specifically oriented to help teachers, along with a variety of topics from art to history to math to social studies are all offered. A collection of things related to homeschool education is also included.
The College Board lets you learn about SATs, registration for taking the tests, find out about financial aid, and more.
On a related topic -- yes, you can look for financial aid through the Web! fastWEB lets you search for help getting applicable scholarships and financial aid.
Online SAT Preparation is made possible by taking a look at ``WebWare for the SAT''.
Explorer is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education.
Expressions School of Art offers home school art education, which may be of great interest to all who are involved in homeschooling.
Superkids Software Review provides impartial reviews of children's educational software by parents, teachers, and kids.
Teach Your Children is a new showcase for award-winning educational software for children. The site features fun and innovative Web-based counting and coloring games for children, as well as ongoing contests and sweepstakes.
Project Open, an effort of a number of organizations and online services, provide tips for parents about keeping children safe online and also introduce them to such online issues as parental empowerment software and acceptable use policies; copyright protections; privacy; and consumer protection.
A collection of K-12 Education Resources let you do research on communications, curriculum, lesson plan sources, schools on the Web, and more.
SchoolMatch offers a free directory of all U.S. public schools. The site also offers a glossary of education-related terms, national statistics about elementary and secondary education, a state-by-state breakdown of how states organize educational resources, and news briefs about educational policy changes.
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) is the nationally recognized information source for K-12 mathematics and science teachers. It lets you search their catalog which describes all types of curriculum resources, communicate with other educators about events and opportunities, and a variety of other things!
The National School Network Exchange has over 300 participating member organizations, taking part in a variety discussions and the latest news and information. They've highlighted a number of exciting projects and discussions that you can join.
Interactive Media for Children and Teachers is a collection of essays, and a full class description, of a class that aims to teach students about media and its growing presence in day-to-day life.
The major purpose of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers, is to begin the task of making the use of the Internet for busy social studies teachers and to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching. The documents, links, and text files listed in the various categories should provide some help for classroom teachers (especially at the Middle School and Secondary level) in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
Global SchoolNet Projects Registry is a starting point for busy teachers searching for appropriate on-line projects to integrate into their required coursework.
The HP HP Telementor program creates one-to-one mentor relationships between HP employees (worldwide) and 5-12th grade students and teachers throughout the United States. HP employees motivate students to excel in math and science and improve communication and problem solving skills. In addition, students are encouraged by their mentors to pursue their unique interests and link these interests with their daily school experience. HP employees also mentor teachers who seek to incorporate current technology into the classroom.
At Planet Troll, you'll find the Teacher's Turf, which will help teachers find classroom resources, development opportunities, and intelligent fun for eduational professionals.
School may be out soon but that doesn't mean your brain has to take a vacation. This summer, Education Place will be featuring Kids' Summer Clubhouse for kids in Grades 3-8. Come join the fun! We'll be featuring a weekly brain teaser contest, a summer-long reading contest, a weekly word find, two online games to challenge your knowledge of geography and social studies facts, and more.
A tutorial for elementary teachers who are new to the Internet, the K-5 CyberTrail features elementary schools on the Web on the ``Tenderfoot Trail'', and curriculum resources for elementary educators on the ``Explorer Trail''.
NetDay96 was the first Web-based mass volunteer effort, with the goal to wire 13,000 California schools on March 9. You can find out about how the project went, and about similar work in the near future to complete the tasks involved. The schools still need help!
An inquisitive, skeptical Hedgehog collects and rates K12 links on a page of resources for the Kindergarten/1st grade classroom.
The Sunit Educational Information System Serves as a professional support group for teachers, by teachers, and helps ease the teacher into the use of the Internet in the classroom.
There's a great site related to education in Australia.
Brooke High School computer science students are developing their own HTML documents and home pages. This fall they received Internet access as part of the World School Project, sponsored by the West Virginia Dept. of Education and Bell Atlantic. As a result of the joint effort, every school in West Virginia will be connected to the Internet in the next two years.
Janice's K-12 Cyberspace Outpost has a wealth of stuff to take a look at---far more than this page does!
Gleason Sackman's HotList of K-12 Internet School Sites
The Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections project helps teachers seeking partner teachers at home and abroad for shared e-mail classroom and project activities. Currently over 2,200 university and K-12 teachers from 30 countries are participating. This Web page provides a link to IECC and other related resources, including a form for submitting requests for your own partner classrooms.
The Home Page of Minnechaug Regional High School from Wilbraham, Mass. includes pictures of the school and students, a voice welcome, student handbook, and e-mail lists from the Classes of 1963, 1991-1997. If you're alumni, submit your e-mail address and/or home page site to be entered! It is constantly being updated with photographs, newsletters, and soon the course catalog, biographies of each teacher and more.
A variety of resources for chemistry teachers, particularly secondary school teachers (K-12), is available from Lynx Academics. Offerings include labs, lecture notes, essays, chem links, and other information for class and lab use.
The server of the North Polk Junior/Senior High School in Alleman, Iowa, will feature scanned artwork by students, in addition to mundane information about the school and its fine programs. There are plans for an online school paper in the future, and other student creations may be showcased on the server.
Arbor Heights School
KidsWeb, a World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids
Scholastic Internet Center
Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project
CEARCH Collection of Educational Resources
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