Education
Resources
Web Links to Educational Resources 
Lesson Planning--This site gives a good description of the parts of a lesson, as well as how to plan a lesson or unit.
This site of the Asia Pacific Education Office is titled--"Teaching Methods, Part 1," and that is exactly what you'll find there--Descriptions, Purposes, and Examples of Teaching Methods.
Critical
Issue: Educating
Teachers for Diversity
Teacher's
Edition Online--Tools for Teachers. This site even includes interview
and portfolio tips.
Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards (from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education). Also included in these resource packages are other links to assist teachers.
The Teacher's Lounge---"Welcome to the Teacher's Lounge! This homepage was created to recognize those teachers who contribute to the Internet community. It is also to provide links to teachers or future teachers who have done or plan to develop engaged school projects. This page is accompanied by the music from Mission Impossible—get it?
Welcome to TeacherLINK, the online teacher resource center provided as a service to public education. Here you'll find links to wonderful educational resources, lesson plans and classroom activities, NASA educational materials, and much more.
Scholastic.Com—There is a links to Classroom Magazines. When you go there, you find info on the Scholastic magazines that are available for use in the classroom. There are two for secondary social studies.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers. Lesson Plans, teaching strategies, resources, online activities, etc.
ED-scape Teacher—Instructional Resources and Lesson Plans, Basics for Teachers, Teaching with the Web, etc.
This site is a must for current events. “Welcome to the Newsweek Education Program Web Site! A site designed to help teachers build bridges to real-world issues.” There are lessons to use with actual articles from Newsweek magazine. Just click on a magazine date, and PRESTO!! Great Lesson ideas!
Prentice-Hall, the Publisher. This is their site for social studies. There are links to other sites as well as information about some of their publications and some sample activities.
Marc’s Word Search Page. Make your own word searches. This page is set up to take up to 20 of your words and create a word search.
The Early American History Crossword Puzzle--This puzzle is updated and past editions can be accessed.
Welcome to Puzzlemaker, a site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments. Create your own mazes, word searches, crosswords, number blocks, math squares, and more. Enter information and click the "Create" button; wait a few seconds; print a customized puzzle.
Hotlist of K-12 Internet School Sites
The History Of Education Site
Web Resources for Educators--a page of a social studies teacher's web site
Web Resources Helpful to Middle School Teachers---many links, divided up by core areas
The World Wide Web Education Virtual Library
The Busy Teacher's Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Lesson Ideas listed by subject. Listings in Social Studies include geography, history, personal growth, and society. There is a section for internet lesson ideas and also a section of miscellaneous.
San Jose State University’s Critical Thinking on the Web—a project of the Institute for Teaching and Learning.
CyberGuides:
Teacher Guides and Student Activities. CyberGuides are supplementary, web-based
units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed
for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a
student and teacher edition, objectives,a task and a process by which it
may be completed, teach-selected web sites and a rubric.
The
World Wide Web Workbook—“You're on the Web! Now what do you do?
Use this World Wide Web Workbook to learn the basic operating skills you'll
need to find your way around the Web.”
Education
Gateway from Bell South—Delivering Online Technology to Schools.
Great Links for Teachers, Students, Parents, etc.
The Study Skills Help Page--Strategies for Success. Getting the most from taking notes or reading your textbook, time management, setting goals, etc.
Resources related to Academic concerns of students. This is a great site with lots of links. There are links to a lot of social studies resources like news sources and historical documents or the U.S. House of Representatives.
American Universities—Looking for a particular school? Try here.
Study Web—Focusing the Web for Education. This is a searchable site with links to many subject areas.
HomeworkNOW™
is the only on-line service that keeps teachers, students, and parents
connected! HomeworkNOW™ allows teachers to post their classroom assignments
daily/weekly on the Internet and gives students and parents easy 24 hour
access to those assignments through a Web browser.
The National Center for Educational Statistics: The Condition of Education, 1997
Pathways to School Improvement
Critical Issue: Educating Teachers for Diversity
The Distance Education Clearinghouse—This site has links to articles, online journals, mailing lists, discussion groups, resources, etc.
“Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.”
GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT
Pedagonet—Learning Material and Resource Center
Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources.
I Love Teaching.Com—“Welcome: I'm glad that you stopped by. This site is dedicated to encouraging teachers. Because I am new to the profession (going on 3 years now) I am particularly interested in helping those studying to be teachers and those who are just starting their first few years of teaching.” Some things include on this page are: Internet in the Classroom, Great Links, Discipline, etc. At the bottom of the page is a connection to a Teaching Resource Ring. This is a link to more sites like this one.
E-Conflict—Anthems, Flags, Maps, Weather, and Nations of the World. Eradicate Conflict by increasing cultural awareness.
Florida Information Resources Network (FIRN)-Instructional Resources
Florida's Sunshine State Standards
Professor Pat Greene’s Site at FGCU, which contains links to hundreds of lesson plans by subject area—all indexed according to the Florida Sunshine State Standards.
Education
Week Magazine
Teacher
Magazine
Direct
links for both of these can both be found at Education
Week on the Web, as well as links to their archives, special
reports, and daily news.
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