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General Resources:
4-2explore Search by subject area then topic and obtain four great sites to start your search.
ALEX - Alabama Learning Exchange From the state of Alabama comes their center for teachers and it includes lesson plans, web links, and professional development opportunities.
Awesome Library 35,000 reviewed sources including the top 5% in education.
Blue Web’n Online Library 2,137 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).
Busy Educator’s Guide to the World Wide Web
Content Colliseum from North Carolina links for lesson plans, maps, content curriculum, computer curriculum, and much more!
Doing What Works contains practice guides developed by the US Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences that evaluate research on the effectiveness of teaching practices described in the guides. The website also contains examples of possible ways this research may be used, but not necessarily the only ways to implement these teaching practices.
Education World the "educator's best friend"!
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Database of over 17,000 free educational resources.
GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) Sponsored by the US Department of Education
Ide@s or (Interactive Dialogue with Educators Across the State) is from the state of Wisconsin. There are 25 subject areas covered from pre-kindergarten through adult education. Here you will find lesson plans, resources, videos, and news events.
Integrating Technology with Marzano's Instructional Strategies Marzano, Pickering and Pollock have identified nine teaching strategies that the most impact on student learning. This site identifies the nine strategies and then links them to the technological means for integrating them into your curriculum.
Integration Is the Key! demonstrates how to integrate Inspiration, Kidspiration, Excel, Word and PowerPoint into the curriculum. Note: not all Excel uses shown here are for math classes!
Jeopardy Games for grades kindergarten through 12th grade for all subjects
K-12 Station library of over 20,000 K-12 education links. Click on grade level and the subject to find resources. Be sure to click on their Educational Site of the Day for some great links!
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators From one of the first teachers to see the value of the Internet in education.
Marco Polo Includes links to Illuminations by NCTM, Read-Write-Think by NCTE, EdSitement, EconEdLink, and more.
PBS Teachers is a collection of resources from PBS affiliates including standards-based resources for all curriculum areas.
PowerPoints for Learning PowerPoints for all curriculum areas.
Shambles An international site maintained for teachers around the world. Searchable by any curriculum area, any aspect of the use of technology in education, plus providing a wide variety of links to valuable resources.
Surf Report Annotated list of educator approved sites on a specific topic searchable by general subject area.
Teaching Today from Glencoe include professional development resources, lesson plans, and teaching tips
UEN - Utah Education Network A state run site that has definitely puts its money into education. Searchable by subject and grade level the site will then provide lesson plans, videos, and links for each area searched. Additionally, free video tutorials and links to online professional development are also provided.
Virtual Learning Resources Center a free on-line resource that indexes only websites previously recommended by librarians, teachers, and educational and library consortia.
Webucation over 200,000 resources by grade level and subject arranged as visual links! Something for everyone!
World of Teaching free PowerPoint presentations for biology, chemistry, English and social studies.
Videos:
CurriculumBits Free videos. Click on a subject area or type in a topic in the search engine. Videos come up showing with a price, however, they are all available for free preview as many times as you need to use them. The videos are appropriate for use with a data projector.
Education Planet offers an
ever-growing list of high-
Internet Video Magazine spotlights the best videos and Internet films and movies on the net, as well as great web sites that demonstrate amazing creativity and skill regarding how they integrate video into the site. The site includes a section called "Videos for Kids and Teachers - Internet Video and Multimedia Resources for Teachers, Students and Education".
Magma Among other things, it shows you a continually updated listing of the most viewed videos on YouTube, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Delicious and a bunch more sites. In addition, you can collect your own lists of the ones you want to save.
Online Video Links Collection of links from a high school of sources for free online videos.
Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH between 1968 - 1993 for individual and classroom learning. Each record includes a video description, and when applicable, program and series descriptions. Open Vault includes over 500 streaming video clips and more than 1,000 interviews.
Snag Films Free videos including National Geographic for download!
TeacherTube videos by teachers and for teachers
Teacher's Domain Free multimedia library that offers teachers access to classroom-ready video clips from public television programs such as NOVA, A Science Odyssey, and ZOOM. This site is also excellent for student research.
Teachers.TV free educational/instructional videos and resources for teachers. Videos are divided into subject areas and by primary or secondary.
WatchKnow educational videos are collected from all over the Internet, given an annotation, placed into a general category "folder" and are available from the site. They are not available for download from the site but are viewable from the site and usable with a data projector. If you want to download the video, the source is listed as well as the title.
YouTube has educational video channels including 4teachers.org, Library of Congress, University of California Berkeley, University of Southern California, MIT, Duke University, Purdue University, and others.
Created by Linda DeVore
Last Updated Monday, November 30, 2009