FREE
STUFF
For Earth
Day http://www.earthdaybags.org/edusupport.htm
Free sample
notepad, labels, business card, or calendar. http://www.captainnotepad.com
Free downloads from
Download Learning’s Common Knowledge Series.
http://www.downloadlearning.com/free/index.html
BandTek’s
Web site- free CD’s and audiotapes of U.S. military
service bands
http://www.bandtek.com/free-cds/
SEARCH
ENGINES
Alta
Vista: http://www.altavista.com
Ask
Jeeves for Kids: http://www.ajkids.com
Ask
Jeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com
Bess,
the Internet Retriever: http://www.bess.net/
dmoz
Open Ditectory Project: http://dmoz.org
Excite: http://www.excite.com
Four
Nets for Better Searching: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
Google: http://www.google.com
Overture: http://www.overture.com
HotBot: http://dir.hotobt.lycos.com/reference
Kids
Search Tools: http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
LookSmart: http://www.looksmart.com
Lycos: http://www.lycos.com
Mamma: http://www.mamma.com
Search.com: http://www.search.com
Virtual
Reference Desk: http://www.refdesk.com
WebCrawler: http://webcrawler.com
Yahoo!: http://www.yahoo.com
Yahooligans!
(for kids): http://www.yahooligans.com
TRAINING
/ WORKSHOPS
American
Association of School Librarians- free online courses
for teachers
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/onlineco.html
American
Federation of Teachers training events
http://www.aft.org/edissues/teacherquality/index.htm
Annenberg/CPB
Channel professional development workshops
http://www.learner.org/channel/chnnl_workshops.html
Center
for Educational Technologies, NASA Classroom of the Future
http://www.cet.edu/profdev/main.html
Educational
Insights, Inc. offers help with Inspiration and more.
http://www.educationalinsights.com
MarcoPolo Education
Foundation- download training materials
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
NCS
Learn, a Pearson Education company, provides professional
development courses
http://www.pearsondigital.com/
Teacher
Created Materials
http://www.teachercreated.com
WEB
SITES FOR EVERYONE
Bartlett's
Quotations
The classic reference of quotations--online
in searchable form
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Bartleby.com
A large searchable collection of online texts
http://www.bartleby.com/
Biography.com
All you need is a name. By clicking on this website,
you
have access to a gigantic encyclopedia of important and famous
people.
http://www.biography.com
Blue
Web'n
A library of blue ribbon learning sites on
the web. Organized by subject and level.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Brain
POP
Technology,
Health, Science, English, Math, and Social Studies
http://www.brainpop.com/specials/seeall.weml
Citation
Maker:Secondary
...an
easy-to-use citation maker for middle and high school students
based on the MLA standards; also includes links to plagarism,
parenthetical citations, and more.
http://oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited/
Curriculum
Resources "for teachers, by teachers"
http://www.middleschool.net/
Exercises,
Quizzes, Tests
...links
to hundreds of online tools for assessment, quiz-making,
test-creation, and much more http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Fake
Out
Houghton
Mifflin's word definition's
http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/
First
day of school ideas
by
Sue Lebeau
http://www.suelebeau.com/firstday.htm
Fresh
Pond Treasures for Teachers
Look
through this to get lots of ideas and links
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/6-8matrix.html
Fresh
Pond Treasures for Teachers
Look through this to get lots of ideas and
links
http://www.freshpond.com/treasures/general/searching.htm
Jerrie's
Curriculum Hotlists
http://webtech.kennesaw-edu/jcheek3/curriculum.htm
a
weekly update to
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators on Discovery
Channel School
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
Knowledge
Network Explorer
Filamentality
http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/formats.html
Library
of Congress
Home page for the Library
http://www.loc.gov
Louisiana
Department of Education
Strategies
for Effective Teaching
http://www.doe.state.la.us/doe/oqe/Contents.asp
Middle
Web
teaching
resources
http://www.middleweb.com/
the
first day's of middle school guide
http://www.middleweb.com/1stDResources.html#anchor1768896
Miriam
Webster Dictionary
Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary
New
York Times Crossword Puzzle
If you like to work at crossword puzzles,
here’s one for you. The New York Times newspaper prepares
a new puzzle for children twice a month. Try it!
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/index.html
New
York Times New Summary
This site gives you a daily summary of the
news. There are links to articles and puzzles.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/index.html
Online
Dictionary
Maybe this is just what you need!
http://www.wordcentral.com/
Puzzlemaker
An incredibly fun site to make puzzles and games with
words. It takes practice to understand this site, but once you
do, you're all set!
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Research
Website The Big 6
Helps
students learn how to solve problems
http://www.big6.com/kids/3-6.htm
Roget's
Thesaurus
Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/
Teacher
Resource Sites
Sites from teachnet
http://www.teachnet.com/resources/index.html?viewcat=12
Teaching
Tips
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
My
Virtual Reference Desk
Almost 80 categories in this on-line encyclopedia.
A perfect reference site to find anything on the Web.
http://www.refdesk.com/myency.html
WEB
SITES – SUBJECT SPECIFIC
ART
Art
+ Artists
http://www.middleschool.net/curlink/art.htm
Middle
School Lessons
http://home.wi.rr.com/clipartngraphics/Lessons/Curriculum4.html
Unit
plans
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/middlelessons.html
FAMILY
AND CONSUMER SCIENCE
HEALTH
LANGUAGE
ARTS
Aesop's
Fables
You'll have access here to over 600 fables,
complete with audio narration.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop
ALA
Resources for Parents, Teens, and Kids
Recommended reading Web sites for students,
and other resources from the American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/parents/index.html
Bibliography
Format
You can use this site to create a bibliography of
resources that you have used for research.
http://www.intac.com/~aroldi/bibliography6.html
Bulfinch's
Mythology
On line text of ancient fables, medieval legends
and romances...may want to pull out a few excerpts
for kids to read. Don't use the the entire text...needs
editing .
http://www.bulfinch.org/
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site
A collection of reviews of great books for
kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and
collections of books and activities about particular
subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional
topics
http://www.carolhurst.com/
Children's
Literature List
Here's a list of top rated books for
students grades four to eight. If there's a book here
that you haven't read yet, maybe you'd like to try
it!
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/literaturelist052699.html
ClassZone
Teacher Lesson PLanner
Mc Dougall Little's lessons planner for teachers
for lit book.
http://olp.classzone.com/lessonplanner.html?ticket=2427833885035692111241680932
Clip
art
Clip art images related to language arts
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/category/lang01.html
Doucette
Index
K-12 Literature-Based Teaching Ideas: An
Index to Books and Websites
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/default.html
edHelper
Full of lesson plans, webquests, & worksheets.
Do use this one!
http://www.edhelper.com//cat109.htm
T he Elements
of Style
A review of simple editing rules and standards.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html#13
Grammar
Gorillas
*This game is a terrific activity to follow
up instruction of parts of speech.(The other games
on the links are not up and running as of 7/01)
http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html
Kentucky
Writing Project
Elements of good writing programs/portfolios
http://www.ael.org/rel/state/ky/kyexsum2.htm
Kidnews
This site is dedicated to publishing kid's writing. Why
not check it out? Even better--why not publish something that
you've written?
http://www.kidnews.com
Medieval
Storytelling Quest
*This web quest begins with the teacher presenting
a medieval story. The students then research literature
of the Middle Ages and create their own replica stories.
They study presentation skills and present their story
to the class.
http://www.iwebquest.com/middleages/default.htm
Muskegon/Collins
Center for Writing
Ideas for the teaching of writing
http://www.muskegon-isd.k12.mi.us/language/writing_strategies/index.htm
National
Council of Teachers of English
Ideas
http://www.ncte.org/teach/
Online
Glossary of Literary Terms
Here you can find definitions for terms related
to literature, such as, plot, genre, alliteration,
biography.
http://www.phschool.com/language_arts/tx_glossary_lit_terms.html
Poets
Booth
Poets reading excerpts of their poetry. See if you can
find a favorite poet of yours.
http://www.poets.org.booth/booth.cfm
Poets
Corner
http://www.poets.org
Poetry
and the Planets
webuqest for four members
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/webquest/t-index.htm
Publication
Newsroom for Middle School
Check out how this works
http://www.writesite.org/
Reading
Lessons
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/nfk/
Great for weekly reading lesson for kids. Copy article
from webpage or have kids access the article on line.
http://teachers
guide for atlanta journal constitution web site: kids
news.
Rhyme
Zone
Rhyme Dictionary.
This resource
can help you think of a variety of rhyming words when
you are writing poetry.
http://www.rhyme.lycos.com
Score
Graphic organizers for writing
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
Speech
Tips
A guide to speech writing for every occasion!
http://www.speechtips.com/
Storytelling
*An on line guide to story telling. About five pages
of great tips to prepare for telling a story to an audience.
Great for individual or small groups of students to read and
prepare a story.
http://www.spschools.org/rhem/folktales/folkindex.html
ThinkQuest
Teaching how to write opinion pieces- Fee?-
www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=50084&url=50084/index.shtml
Webquests
for Literature
+++ webquests for adolescent lit***
http://www.fsu.edu/~candi/english/web.htm
World
Literature
Classic folktales from great world literature.
Many Reader's Theatre scripts copied into Word; illustrations
and scripts available on line.
http://www.spschools.org/rhem/folktales/folkindex.html
Writers
Guide
Gives definitions of types of essays and
guides for each
http://www.clearcf.uvic.ca/writersguide/pages/essaystoc.html
MATH
Math
Forum @ Drexel
http://mathforum.com/library/levels/middle
Math
Resources (Kathy Schrock)
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html
Middle
School Math Activities
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
MUSIC
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
READING
SCIENCE
Free Garden
simulator program. Grow a virtual garden!
http://www.gardenwithinsight.com
Ocean
Quest 2001: Discover the Wonders of the Ocean
*This is a long web quest that a student might
choose to do as an independent acitvity.
http://www.iwebquest.com/oceans/oceanquest.htm
SOCIAL
STUDIES
Ancient
China
Lenghty research Internet-based project on Ancient China
for middle schoolers.
http://www.uvm.edu/~outreach/units/anchinaus.html
Ancient Egypt
*Ancient Egypt Webquest
http://www.framingham.k12.ma.us/webquest/egypt.htm
Ancient Egypt
Webquest
very possible
http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm
Ask Asia
Asia Society's link for Asian studies. Maps, projects,
and kids zone.
http://www.askasia.org
Castles on the
Web
Medieval studeis site, exploring the social and political
role of castles in the Middle Ages. Links to other castle
sites.
http://www.castlesontheweb.com
CNN
Today's news from CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/
Deserts
of the world
webquest retelling tasks
http://horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqdesertworlds_k.html
desert
webquests retelling tasks
http://horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqkids.html
Egypt
Fun Guide
Travel through time to the land of the Pharoahs--Egypt.
Archeologists have uncovered and studied a world of treasures
and artifacts, yet many questions remain about the ancient Egyptians.
http://www.seaworld.org/egypt/egypt.html
Explorations:
Ancient Greece
*A webquest to inspire good people through
the explorations of Ancient Greek myths.
http://www.iwebquest.com/greece/greece.htm
Folk
and Fairy Tales
A collection of folk and fairy tales from around the world.
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/vs/engla7.htm
Hercules
and Ancient Greece
*Web quest studying ancient Greek life, literature,
and the Hercules myth
http://topcat.bridgew.edu/~kschrock/spring98/doyle/index.htm#home
History
Channel http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/classroom.html
International
News
Links with major newspapers throughout the
world
http://inkpot.com/news/
Kabuki for
Everyone
Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater
that's been around for over 300 years. View actual plays
and illustrations, listen to music, and go behind the
scenes.
http://www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/
Kids
Page of the Atlantic Journal Constitution Newspaper
This newspaper offers a weekly Kids' Page
for kids your age. This page features several key articles
about people and places in the news. It's updated each
Friday.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/coxnet/nie/index.html
King
Tutankhamun
webquest for five members write persuasive
essay
http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/wash/webquest/
National
Geographic
Maps, photographs, exhibitions, and information
on a variety of global culture topics.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
pbs
teacher resources
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
questions
and answers about Arabs
Published by the Detroit Press, this is a comprehensive
list of Q&A about Arabs.
http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/index.htm
Resources:
History of Australia
Lots of websites to explore for activities
http://www.edhelper.com//cat114.htm
Resources:
History of Asia
Lots of websites to explore for activities
http://www.edhelper.com//cat113.htm
Resources:
History of Europe
Lots of websites to explore for activities. Includes
medieval.
http://www.edhelper.com//cat120.htm
Resources:
Medieval sites
Links with websites about Medieval times.
http://www.edhelper.com//cat122.htm
Romanian
Fairy Tales
Here are some amazing tales that have been
hidden for centuries in the old country.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/delphi/2896/
Russian
Folktales
This site stores about 20 folktales from
Russia.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/5873/
More Russian
Folktales
Check this out for more tales from Russia.
http://www.lacquerbox.com/tales.htm
Virtual Safari
Here are hundreds of links to sites where you can view
live pictures of your favorite animals and obtain information
on food, habitats, and anything else you could ever want to know
about animals and insects.
http://www.tower.org/disease/animals.html
Searching
for China
Six web searches about China! very possible
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/china/index.html
The Smithsonian Institution
Home Page
You could spend all day, if you had the time,
wandering through this treasure-house of learning.
http://www.si.edu/newstart.htm
Teach
with Movies
This website gives lesson plans for movies
that relate to middle school curriculum.
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/cry-the-beloved-country.html
Tropical
Travelers
a web quest on rainforests retelling tasks
http://www.richmond.edu/academics/a&s/education/projects/webquests/tropical/
Web
Quest: Ancient Egypt
*Ready to go! Includes daily life of Ancient
Egypt, mummies, hieroglyphics, King Tut, games, and
archeology.
http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm
Will
that Volcano Spoil our Party
volcano web quest retelling tasks
http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/volcano.htm
TECHNOLOGY
6th Grade
Computer Skills: Find
several computer lab exercises here for sixth grade, including
word processing in writing a letter or developing a PowerPoint
project, spreadsheet lessons, and internet resources for
students.
http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/6thgrade/index.html <http://info.riverdeep.net/Key=37861.CTr.Z.JNCKw6
Inspiration
+ Kidspiration Innovative
Teaching http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/inspiration.htm
Kathy
Schrock http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy
Schrock's Internet Search Engines
Several explanations of searching the web
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/yp/iypsrch.html
Kathy
Schrock Critical Evaluation of a Web site
Form kids can use to eval a web site good for searching
the web
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/yp/iypsrch.html
National
Educational Technology Standards for Teachers http://www.iste.org/
Tech
Learning http://www.techlearning.com
WEB
Basics
* This site allows students to review Web
jargon and etiquette. Includes review and final quiz.
Good activity before research or just as a general
review.
http://www.classzone.com/lol/7/teacher/unit1/index.htm
Web
Hunt
*This would be a terrrific introductory Interent
activity. Like an Internet scavenger hunt. Students
can also create their own hunt, once they've completed
this one.
http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/internet/webhunt.htm
Web Hunt template
This template can be used by teachers or students to create
a webhunt. Question: How does it link with the internet?
http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/webquest/webhunt_template.htm
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