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Websites for Talent Development
Information Indexes
Search Engines
Student Research Resources
Web Portals
Company/Organization Curriculum Collections
Libraries and Museums
News Sources
Television Media
Especially for Kids
Professional Resources

Websites for Talent Development

The Internet is central to every emerging scenario for K-12 education. The U.S. Department of Commerce (www.commerce.gov) reports that more than 54 percent of the national population uses the Web, and the number of Web pages is climbing in the billions. Meeting the demand for information on the latest and best online educational resources has never been greater or more complicated.

This fully-verified guide features the outstanding teaching and learning resources on the Web, including new search tools, lesson plan collections, research sites, sources for online projects, and curriculum centers in every content area.

Lesson Plan Sources
While many of the sites in other categories include lesson plans, the following are extensive collections that can be searched by level, topic, and content area.

• AOL@School Lesson Plans (school.aol.com/teachers)
• AskERIC (ericir.syr.edu)
• A to Z Teacher Stuff (atozteacherstuff.com)
• Columbia Education Center (www.col-ed.org)
• EdHelper.com (www.edhelper.com)
• LessonPlansPage.com (www.lessonplanspage.com)
• MSN Schoolhouse (encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse)

Online Project Sources
The sites below are outstanding places to find free and fee-based online education projects, including opportunities to propose project of your own.

• Educational Web Adventures (eduweb.com)
• Generation YES (www.genyes.org)
• Global SchoolNet (www.gsn.org)
• iEARN - International Education and Resource Network (www.iearn.org)
• JASON Project (www.jason.org)
• NASA Quest (quest.arc.nasa.gov)
• NASA SpaceLink (spacelink.nasa.gov)
• OnlineClass (www.onlineclass.com)
• SitesALIVE! (www.sitesalive.com)
• Teaching.com (www.teaching.com)
• ThinkQuest (www.thinkquest.org)

Standards Resources
The following sites will link you to curriculum and technology standards for teachers, students, and administrators, from state and national organizations.

• Developing Educational Standards (edstandards.org/standards.html)
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE):
  • ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (cnets.iste.org)
  • ISTE Technology Standards for School Administrators (cnets.iste.org/tssa)
  • ISTE NETS for Students (cnets.iste.org/students)
  • ISTE NETS for Teachers (cnets.iste.org/teachers)
• StateStandards.com (www.statestandards.com)

Schools on the Web
Visit school sites throughout the United States and abroad to propose cooperative projects and see examples of online assignments, activities, projects, units, and courses.

• American School Directory (www.asd.com)
• Connected Teacher K-12 School Sites (www.classroom.com/community/connection/states.jhtml)
• EduHound Schools on the Web (www.eduhoundschoolsontheweb.com)
• Web66/International Registry of Schools on the Web (web66.coled.umn.edu)

School/Teacher/Student Curriculum Sites
Many schools and individuals offer exemplary curriculum sites. The following are selected examples.

• AP Calculus (www.seresc.k12.nh.us/www/alvirne.html)
• Joan Berger's Windows to the World (users.adelphia.net/~jberger5)
• Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12 (www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt)
• The Falcon's Nest (www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/upk/upk.home.html)
• Keeley Library Assignment and Curriculum Resources (janeconstant.tripod.com)
• Les Classes de Monsieur Long (www.laconia.k12.nh.us/plong)
• B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper (school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck)
• Kathy Schrock's Guide (discoveryschool.com/schrockguide)
• Mrs. Silverman's Webfolio (kids-learn.org)
• Davidson County Schools Technology Center (techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us)

Curriculum Resource Centers
Curriculum centers may be hosted by companies, professional associations, foundations, government agencies, and individuals. The following are favorite sites in each content area.

General Curriculum

• Awesome Library (www.awesomelibrary.org)
• Beyond Books.com (www.beyondbooks.com)
• Bonus.com (www.bonus.com)
• Enchanted Learning (www.enchantedlearning.com)
• Funschool.com (www.funschool.com)
• iKnowthat.com (www.iknowthat.com)

The Arts

• ARTSEDGE (artsedge.kennedy-center.org)
• Artsonia (www.artsonia.com)
• ArtsEdNet (www.getty.edu/artsednet)
• Music Education Online (www.childrensmusicworkshop.com)
• The Puppetry Home Page (www.sagecraft.com/puppetry)
• Sapphire Swan Dance Directory (www.sapphireswan.com/dance)

Language Arts and Literature

• AskOxford.com (www.askoxford.com)
• Bartleby.com (www.bartleby.com)
• Bookadventure (www.bookadventure.com)
• BookBrowser (bookbrowser.com)
• The Children's Book Council (www.cbcbooks.org)
• The Children's Literature Web Guide (www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown)
• KidNews (kidnews.com)
• The Online Books Page (onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu)

Mathematics

• BoxerMath.com (www.boxermath.com)
• Calculators On-Line Center (www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators3.html)
• ExploreMath.com (www.exploremath.com)
• Hotmath (www.hotmath.com)
• Illuminations (illuminations.nctm.org)
• Math.com (www.math.com)
• The Math Forum (mathforum.org)
• Math Goodies (www.mathgoodies.com)

Science

• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (www.enc.org)
• Math and Science Gateway (www.tc.cornell.edu/edu/mathscigateway)
• NASA Education Program (education.nasa.gov)
• Project 2061 (www.project2061.org)
• Space Educators' Handbook (vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh Websites for Talent Development )
• StudyWorks Online (www.studyworksonline.com)
• TeachSpace (www.space.com/teachspace)
• The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (www.yucky.com)

Social Studies

• CountryWatch (www.countrywatch.com)
• EconEdLink (www.econedlink.org)
• EDSITEment (edsitement.neh.fed.us)
• EyeWitness (www.ibiscom.com)
• The History Net (history.about.com)
• History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers (execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html)
• Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers (www.csun.edu/~hcedu013)
• Social Studies School Service (www.socialstudies.com)
• Social Studies (www.kent.wednet.edu/curriculum/soc_studies)
• Social Studies Sources (education.indiana.edu/~socialst)

Health/Nutrition/Physical Education

• Healthtouch Online (www.healthtouch.com)
• Kids Food Cyberclub (www.kidfood.org)
• KidsHealth (www.kidshealth.org)
• KidsRunning.com (www.kidsrunning.com)
• Nutrition Navigator (navigator.tufts.edu/index.html)
• PE Central (pecentral.org)
• Sports Media (www.sports-media.org)
• 1Up Health (http://www.1uphealth.com)

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Information Indexes
An information index is a set of topic menus and submenus to narrow searches until you find what you need. Yahoo is the most popular, but there are other choices including specialized education indexes.

• Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
• About.com (www.about.com)
• Education Planet (www.educationplanet.com)
• Education World (www.education-world.com)
• EduHound.com (www.eduhound.com)
• EduPuppy.com (www.edupuppy.com)
• Galaxy (www.galaxy.com)
• HotBot (www.hotbot.com)
• InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)
• Linkopedia (www.linkopedia.com)
• StartSpot Network (www.startspot.com)

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Search Engines
These online tools find Web pages containing words or phrases that you specify-put desired phrases in quotes, such as "Continental Congress." The last three are "metasearch engines" that use multiple search tools simultaneously.

• Alltheweb (www.alltheweb.com)
• Alta Vista (www.altavist.com)
• Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com)
• Excite (www.excite.com)
• Go.com (go.com)
• Lycos (www.lycos.com)
• Northern Light (www.northernlight.com)
• Overture (overture.com)
• Search.com (search.com)
• SearchEdu (www.searchedu.com)
• Search Engine Watch (searchenginewatch.com)
• Teoma (www.teoma.com)
• WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com)
• Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
• MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com)
• Redesearch (www.redesearch.com)

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Student Research Resources
The following age-appropriate sites help students answer their own questions, do homework assignments and focused research.

• Ask Jeeves Kids (ajkids.com)
• Bigchalk HomeworkCentral (www.bigchalk.com)
• Britannica.com (www.bigchalk.com)
• CNN Student News (fyi.cnn.com)
• CyberSleuth Kids (cybersleuth-kids.com)
• Encarta Learning and Research (encarta.msn.com)
• Fact Monster (www.factmonster.com)
• Homework Spot (www.homeworkspot.com)
• InfoPlease (www.infoplease.com)
• Itools.com (www.itools.com)
• KidsClick! (www.kidsclick.org)
• Library Spot (www.libraryspot.com)
• The National Student Research Center (youth.net/nsrc)
• NetTrekker (www.nettrekker.com)
• Refdesk.com (www.refdesk.com)
• Surf Monkey (www.surfmonkey.com)
• Yahooligans! The Web Guide for Kids (www.yahooligans.com)

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Web Portals
Education portals deliver integrated resources, tools and services through single locations, such as administrative applications and curriculum options.

• SchoolTone Alliance (www.schooltone.com) Members include:
• PowerSchool/Apple (www.apple.com/education/powerschool)
• Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com/edu)
• Timecruiser/Schoolcruiser (www.timecruiser.com)

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Company/Organization Curriculum Collections
Most education-related companies offer online curriculum resources, such as the following selected examples.

• AOL@School (school.aol.com)
• Apple Education (www.apple.com/education)
• Apex Learning (www.apexlearning.com)
• AT&T Learning Network (www.att.com/learningnetwork)
• Bigchalk.com (www.bigchalk.com)
• Classroom Connect (www.classroom.com)
• Crayola (www.crayola.com)
• Disney Edu-Station (dep.disney.go.com/educational)
• EBSCO School (www.ebscoschool.com)
• EdGate Copernicus Education Gateway (www.edgate.com)
• Harcourt School Publishers "The Learning Site" (www.hbschool.com)
• Houghton Mifflin "Education Place" (www.edgate.com)
• JDL "K-12 World" (www.k-12world.com)
• Knowledge Adventure (www.knowledgeadventure.com)
• The Learning Company School Division (www.learningcompanyschool.com)
• Learning Network (www.learningnetwork.com)
• Lightspan.com (www.lightspan.com)
• Macmillan/McGraw-Hill World (www.mmhschool.com)
• Pearson Education (www.pearsoneducation.com)
• Pitscho (www.pitsco.com)
• Plato Learning (www.plato.com)
• Riverdeep Interactive Learning (www.riverdeep.com)
• Scholastic.com (www.scholastic.com)
• Tom Snyder Productions (www.tomsnyder.com)

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Libraries and Museums
The following sites will link you to museums, libraries and interactive exhibits throughout the world.

• American Memory Historical Collections (memory.loc.gov)
• American Museum of Natural History (www.amnh.org)
• The Exploratorium (www.exploratorium.edu)
• The Franklin Institute Online (www.fi.edu)
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide (www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html)
• The Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org)
• The Library of Congress (www.loc.gov)
• Library Spot (www.libraryspot.com)
• MuseumNetwork.com (www.museumnetwork.com)
• National Air and Space Museum (www.nasm.edu)
• National Archives and Records Administration (www.nara.gov)
• Smithsonian Institution (www.si.edu)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org)

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News Sources
The communications sites below offer news-related curriculum resources for teachers and students.

• ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
• CNN.com (www.cnn.com)
• CNN Student News (fyi.cnn.com)
• MSNBC News/Education (www.msnbc.com/news/Learning_Front.asp)
• The Nando Times (www.nandotimes.com)
• NBCi (www.nbci.com)
• The New York Times/Learning Network (www.nytimes.com/learning)
• NewspaperLinks (www.newspaperlinks.com)
• Time for Kids.com (www.timeforkids.com/TFK)
• USNewsClassroom.com (usnewsclassroom.com)
• USA Today/Education Online (www.usatoday.com/educate/home.htm)
• The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition (www.wsjclassroomedition.com)
• Weekly Reader Galaxy (www.weeklyreader.com)

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Television Media
The sites that follow offer teaching and learning materials to support and extend television programming.

• A&E Classroom (www.aande.com/class)
• Annenberg/CPB Exhibits (www.learner.org/exhibits)
• Biography.com (www.biography.com)
• Book TV (www.booktv.com)
• Discovery.com (www.discovery.com)
• DicoverySchool.com (school.discovery.com)
• ESPN.com (espn.go.com)
• HBO Family (www.hbofamily.com)
• History Channel.com (www.thehistorychannel.com)
• National Geographic.com (www.nationalgeographic.com/education)
• National Public Radio Online (www.npr.org)
• Nickelodeon Teachers.Nick.Com (teachers.nick.com); Nick Jr. (www.nickjr.com)
• PBS Online (www.pbs.org); PBS Kids (pbskids.com)
• PBS TeacherSource (www.pbs.org/teachersource)
• Sesame Workshop (sesameworkshop.org)
• The Weather Channel weather.com (weather.com)

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Especially for Kids
The following sites offer creative child0appealing educational and recreational materials including games, puzzles, stories and interactive activities.

• Berit's Best Sites for Children (www.beritsbest.com)
• Bonus.com (bonus.com)
• Cyberkids (www.cyberkids.com)
• Fun-Attic (www.funattic.com)
• Funbrain (www.funbrain.com)
• Headbone.com(www.headbone.com)
• Infogrames Kids (www.funkidsgames.com)
• KidsCom (www.kidscom.com)
• Linkopedia/Kids (www.linkopedia.com/kids.html)
• MaMaMedia.com (www.mamamedia.com)
• MidLink Magazine (longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink)
• MSN Kids (kids.msn.com)
• (www.4kids.org)
• (Zeeks.com)

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Professional Resources
The following sites offer valuable resources for technology planning, finding grants, writing proposals, preparing staff development programs and communicating with colleagues.

• Acceptable Use Policies: A Handbook (www.pen.k12.va.us/go/VDOE/Technology/AUP/home.shtml)
• Administrators.Net (administrators.net)
• AT&T Learning Network Virtual Academy (www.att.com/learningnetwork/virtualacademy)
• Blackboard.com (www.blackboard.com)
• Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (caret.iste.org)
• Educational CyberPlayground (www.edu-cyberpg.com)
• Educational Research Network (www.ernweb.com)
• Educators.Net (www.educatorsnet.com)
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (www.ericae.net)
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (www.ed.gov/free)
• GrantsWeb (www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb)
• Institute for the Advancement of Emerging Technologies in Education (www.iaete.org)
• Library in the Sky (www.nwrel.org/sky)
• National Center for Technology Planning (www.nctp.com)
• National Center for Education Statistics (nces.ed.gov)
• Network of Regional Technology in Education Consortia (www.rtec.org)
• Professional Teacher.com (www.professionalteacher.com)
• Sites for Teachers (www.sitesforteachers.com)
• TeachersFirst.com (www.teachersfirst.com)
• Teacher Focus (teacherfocus.com)
• Teachers.net (www.teachers.net)
• TeacherVision (www.teachervision.com)
• Teachnet.com (www.teachnet.com)
• The U.S. Department of Education (www.ed.gov)
• Theory into Practice (tip.psychology.org)
• HireEd.net (www.hireed.net), Chronicle of Higher Ed (chronicle.com/jobs)

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NOTE: All of the resources listed in this guide can be accessed through the District Administration Web site (www.districtadministration.com)