www.dole5aday.com

Dole Corp. website

www.fitness.gov/funfit/10tips.htm

Fitness Tips website

www.kidshealth.org

Kids Health Home Page

www.panaonline.org

PA Advocates for Nutrition & Activity

www.cdc.gov

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

www.paaap.org

American Academy of Pediatrics-PA Chapter

www.keepkidshealthy.com

www.eatright.org

www.win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/child.htm

Weight Control Information Network

www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/

Surgeon General's documents

www.healthierus.gov/

President's initiative to improve health

www.eatright.org

American Dietetic Association

www.obesity.org

American Obesity Association

www.bcm.tmc.edu/cnrc/index.htm

Children's Nutrition Research Center

www.extension.iastate.edu/food/

"Pick a Better Snack and Act" Campaign

www.intranet.cps.k12.il.us

Rubrics, test prep information, assessment information, lesson plans K-12, Curricula K-12, teaching strategies, online services, etc.

www.PDE.PSU.edu

Access on this site ranges from services or information available at PDE to linkages to many sites public and private that provide a vast array of materials and services. State regulations State In-Service information

Act 48 transcript Certification status and requirements

Sites for: Pictures

Tours

Games

Contacts to companies

Lesson plans

Free stuff, etc., etc., etc.

www.ed.gov/free/

U.S. Department of Education site which links you by subject to many other sites with subject areas of:

Art Ed. Technology

Foreign Languages Health & Safety

Math Physical Education

Science Social Studies

Vocational

This is very good. All linked sites are linked to Government departments and reflect a good deal of free materials or displays. A brief review of Social Studies materials demonstrated that there are literally hundreds of sites with a mass of usable research and teacher materials. Other categories appear equally as rich. The arts area is also huge and filled with high interest materials.

www.eduplace.com

This is the Houghton Mifflin site. At this site there are three main theme areas: Education Place, Kids Place and Parents Place. These provide useful ideas, materials, directions, plans, and practice work to support textbooks. It will also provide updates to add to use of texts as they develop. (Math is a 2002 series).

For example: Sample letters you can send home telling parents chapter by chapter what their children are studying in English and Spanish language. Kids Place presents brain teasers and practice tests – every chapter.

www.math.com

Tremendous math tutorial/interactive site – broken by subject with many sub topics in each.

www.africana.com

Website to provide lesson plans to help educators teach the content of Black History, both African and African American.

www.vpw.com

Video Placement Worldwide provides free videos on many subjects for teachers who register and complete requests. These are provided via corporate or service organization sponsorship.

www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm

Provides math problems of the week, enrichment and challenge – elementary through post high school.

www.teachers.net

Literally hundreds of topical lesson plans posted by teachers from all over the map. Plans are indexed by grade levels (El, MS, HS) and by subjects (history, art, etc.). Includes teacher chat areas for advice and profession related literary columns.

www.edhelper.com

Vast resource of ideas and plans – thousands of them.

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu

Amazing Space Web-Based Activities – very nice site for students and teachers – science based.

www.enature.com/

eNature.com -- Excellent biological science site with many field guides and excellent pictures.

www.planetpals.com

PlanetPals EarthZone: Teachers about ecology, natural resources, the planet Earth and its care. Very good environmental site. Student interactive.

www.teachspace.org

California Space & Science Center: Lesson plans and other resources for teachers, with an emphasis on space exploration. Good interactive site reflecting current materials and articles regarding space.

www.windows.ucar.edu

Introduction to the Windows of the Universe: Designed for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, this site is a first rate trip through earth and space science by means of multimedia exhibits.

www.weather.com/education/index.html

Weather Channel – all weather information

http://archives.math.utk.edu

Mathematics Archives WWW Server – good site for materials to supplement math instruction.

Http://gomath.com

Gomath.com – students can e-mail math questions and be helped by tutors with extensive teaching experience. A very large site.

www.multiplication.com

Teach ALL Students with Multiplication Facts – provides activities for parents, students, teachers, worksheets, resources, etc.

http://edu4kids.com/math/

Flashcards For Kids!

http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/default.html

Learning about photosynthesis

ASU Photosynthesis Center

http://school.newsweek.com/

Newsweek Educational Program

www.50states.com/

50states.com

www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

TIME for Kids

www.geographic.com/

Geographic Homepage - - purchased service site

www.ibiscom.com/

EyeWitness History through eyes of those who lived it.

www.archives.gov/

National Archives: The Digital Classroom – This site gives teachers and students access to online historical documents for National Archives. Tremendous database.

www.hyperhistory.com/

HyperHistory – link to a purchase site for timelines

www.on-this-day.com

The History Channel – great site for everything that happened on that day in history.

www.historyplace.com/

History Place – lots of timelines and primary source material

www.ushistory.org/

USHistory.org

www.citypopulation.de

City Population – the largest cities in the world

www.ccph.com/

Let’s Go Around the World - World activities site – user friendly.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

EDSITEment – significant site for links to sites re: Humanities

From National Endowment for the Humanities

www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~ dkbrown/index.html

CLWG:Children’s Literature Web Guide – links to many sites

http://classics.mit.edu/

The Internet Classics Archive

www.bartleby.com/

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Great reference area.

www.ncte.org/

National Council of Teachers of English Teaching Ideas – great site for plans to teach specific subjects

www.acronymfinder.com

Acronym Finder: unusual but very helpful

http://datadragon.com/education/

Music Education at DataDragon.com

www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

K-12 Resources for Music Educators

Massive number of music links.

www.healthteacher.com/

Health Teacher.com

www.refdesk.com/

Refdesk.com

Great fact source.

www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

America’s Library – great site for kids

From Library of Congress.

www.libraryspot.com/

Library Spot – provides access to tremendous number of sites

www.thesaurus.com/

Thesaurus.com

www.aetv.com/class/

Biography Classroom

Great site for biographical information.

www.britannica.com/

Britannica.com – paysite for full access

www.nagc.org/

National Association for Gifted Children

www.allclipartsite.com

All Clipart Site

www.connectedteacher.com/lessonplans/lessonplans.asp

Classroom Connect’s Connected Teacher – Lesson Plans: Collection of lesson plans, indexed by subject, that integrates the Internet into your curriculum

www.lessonplansearch.com/

Lesson Plan Search Engine: Find great lesson plans, teacher resources, thematic units, seasonal/subject activities. Find that much needed lesson plan here! Excellent!

www.funbrain.com/

FunBrain.com: This site enables teachers to integrate games and thousands of assessment quizzes into their daily lesson plans

www.gigglepotz.com

Very nice site with many teacher resources available

http://www.illuminations.nctm.org

Illuminations: This National Council of Teachers of Mathematics site "illuminates" its newly revised math principles and standards through Web-based multimedia activities, video vignettes of teaching and learning, lesson plans, and a rich network of links. Here, a 2^nd grader can learn about distance and angles as he figures out how to map a turtle’s path to a pond, or a high schooler can test her conjectures about why crows usually drop whelks from a certain height to break them open for food.

http://www.enc.org

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC): The ENC identifies effective curriculum resources, creates high-quality professional development materials, and offers information to benefit teachers, students, and families interested in K-12 math and science teaching and learning. Go to this site to find descriptions of hundreds of math-related Web sites, details and links about the Third International Math and Science Study, math history, lesson plans, and professional development resources.

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics: "Hands on" gets virtual at this site, which collects uniquely interactive, Web-based manipulatives or concepts tutorials aimed at K-12 math learners. With the aid of Java applets, students can visualize such concepts as the Pythagorean Theorem, tessellation, base 10, or comparing fractions.

www.hbschool.com

Harcourt School Publishers – help site for many subjects.

Harcourt Multimedia Math Glossary: Use this site to help students in elementary and middle school visualize challenging math ideas. Illustrations and animations of concepts such as sums, ordinal numbers, and telling time are available for young students, while items such as alternate interior angles and congruency are depicted for older students. The descriptions are categorized by grade level.

http://www.figurethis.org/index40.htm

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families: "Mark McGuire’s 70^th home run ball sold for $3 million in 1999. If Babe Ruth’s 60^th home run ball was worth $3,000 in 1927, and doubles its value every seven years, which would be worth more today?"" This site features real-world math questions designed to motivate middle school students to learn higher-level math operations involving concepts such as angles, volumes, and number patterns.

www.exploratorium.edu

The Exploratorium

This site is an online arm of the world-famous Exploratorium museum in San Francisco. It is also targeted to helping people nurture their curiosity through innovative environments, programs and tools. The Exploratorium offers some of the most creative interactive activities on the Web in science, math and human perception, including opportunities to follow expeditions online, visit the Hubble telescope, look through live cameras, participate in Web casts, build projects and explore the science behind topics such as baseball and cycling. The site also includes a subject index and selects "Ten Cool Sites" each month.  (This is a tremendous high interest site that will interest young and old alike.)

www.howstuffworks.com

HowStuffWorks is an amazing site where people can get clear, straightforward information complete with colorful animated illustrations on how things work, from car engines and television monitors, to aspirin and breathalyzers. The expanding site already offers more than 2,500 articles with 2,000 graphics, and receives 6,000 questions a month asking for additional explanations. The content is organized by category – such as computers & Internet, body & health – but also offers a powerful search engine and daily features including "Gadget of the Day," "Question of the Day" and a Top 40 list of articles.  (Tremendous resource on looking at "How Things Work" – generally free – but advertisements exist to buy stuff.)

www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org

ArtsEdge was established under a cooperative agreement between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts to support art at the center of the curriculum through the use of technology. The site offers a wealth of K-12 Web-centered curriculum units, lessons, activities and resources grouped by grade level for integrating the arts into every content area.  (Fantastic links – great inter-disciplinary teaching ideas. Search by subject and grade.)

www.space.com/teachspace

TeachSpace is a comprehensive source for space science content targeted to upper-elementary and middle school students and teachers. This includes a library of inquiry lessons, themed monthly modules, online photos and movies, and links to related multimedia sites including SpaceKids, with news, virtual tours, games, activities, question-asking services and homework help.  (Particularly good materials focused for grades 3 – 9.)

www.econedlink.org

Offered by the National Council on Economic Education, this site provides classroom-tested, standards-based educational materials for K-12 teachers and students that cover the essential principles of economics. These include: lesson plans, which can be searched by title, concept, grade level or standard; news and information on current events; case studies and data on key economic indicators; and links to related economics education sites.  (Outstanding link for Social Studies, Family and Consumer Science and relations to math and other subjects.)

www.kidshealth.org

Sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth is designed to provide accurate, up-to-date and jargon-free health information for kids, teenagers and parents. The site offers thousands of original articles, animations, interactive activities, games and resources developed by health experts on topics that include growth and development, first aid, allergies, nutrition and medical care.  (Wonderful site for answering those unique questions parents and children have.)

LESSON PLAN SOURCES

INFORMATION INDEXES

SEARCH ENGINES

STUDENT RESEARCH RESOURCES

WEB PORTALS

SCHOOL/TEACHER/STUDENT CURRICULUM SITES

COMPANY/ORGANIZATION CURRICULUM COLLECTIONS

ONLINE PROJECT SOURCES

CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTERS

LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS

COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA

ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS

PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES