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National Art Education Association
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National Association for Music Education
National Business Education Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Council for the Social Studies
4Teachers.org - a site that helps you to integrate technology into your classroom with free online tools and resources like ready to use quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars.
abcTeach Network - is a user-friendly educational site that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers, education majors, and parents.
Blue Web'N - is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).
CyberGuides - is a site that provides supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
Community Learning Network - a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.
Filamentality - is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
High School Environment Center - a site that features a student center, teaching center, career and awards information, and community projects activities and more.
Quia - is a resource for educators with tools including assessments and analysis tools, and classroom management features, like class pages, calendars, and grade books.
Sites for Teachers - is a list of the best teacher's resource and educational sites on the net. Sites for Teachers is among the family of LearningPage websites.
TeachersFirst WebQuest Collection - a short on-line tutorial for teachers interested in creating webquests for their students.
TeachWithMovies.com a site that offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides to 270 movies.
The WebQuest Page - is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web.
Citing Electronic Resources - a page with instructions on how to cite Electronic Sources in MLA Style.
Discipline Help - provides teachers with a resource for handling student misbehavior with a complete step-by-step approach to changing inappropriate student behavior to appropriate behavior.
eHow - is the world's most popular place to find step-by-step instructions on how to do just about everything.
Michigan Virtual University - is a private corporation established to deliver online education and training opportunities to the citizens of Michigan.
Teacher Support - is a resource that provide an innovative means of transforming teacher induction and mentoring program standards into realistic materials with an on-demand delivery approach.
WebQuest 101 - an introduction tutorial to Webquests.
Wired Guide - a beginner's guide to computer help, internet help and general computing interest from chat to shareware.
WebTeacher - is a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips.
K-12 Content Standards from McREL
Michigan Content Standards & Benchmarks
Michigan Department of Education
101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer - is a list of 101 great educational uses for your handheld computer.
Backflip.com - is a site that offers a glimpse of what's hot on the web, there are also customized searches, and you can also share your own pages, with a yahoo like directory.
Big 6 - is a site that contains resources for teaching information and technology for skills in the world.
Education Planet - a site containing resources for students and teachers such as online lesson plans.
EduHound - is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - A site with more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
PBS.org - has a variety of resources by subject and grade level.
Plagiarism Checker - a site that checks for plagiarism buy searching for phrases on the web for free.
Teachers Domain - a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways that textbooks cannot.
Teachers First - a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources carefully selected and reviewed by experienced educators.
The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary - a site dedicated to educating the public about Franklin’s enduring legacy and inspiring renewed appreciation of the values he embodied.
The Learning Page...especially for teachers - a site containing over 100 collections of rare and unique items important to America’s heritage. The collections contain more than 7 million primary source documents, photographs, films, and recordings that reflect the collective American memory.
U.S. Department of Education - US Department of education web site.
Web Portal for Teachers - provides a reservoir of online resources for educators to access at any time and to provide effective tools for designing instruction that are time and energy saving.
Content Research and Reference
Awesome Library - is a web site that allows the public to gain access to the privately held databases.
High School Ace - is a the trusted web portal to free quality educational resources for teens such as subject guides, reference tools, news, puzzles, quizzes, and college information.
Librarians' Index to the Internet - is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter, containing a wide range of topics like science and social studies.
Library Spot - a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
Research It - a search engine tool to help find facts and theories about a specific subject.
The Internet Public Library - a site containing a learning/research environment from the University of Michigan School of Information.
WTS Pamphlets - a site that contains documents with subjects such as: Citing Sources, Plagiarism, How To Write a Thesis Statement, Taking an Essay Exam and more.
Coolmath.com - is a site providing popular sources for math education and activities to get kids excited about learning.
History of Math Archives - a site that contains the archive contains the biographies of more than 1600 mathematicians, articles on the development of mathematical ideas, and a collection of more than 60 articles on Famous Curves.
Illuminations from NCTM - is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
MathsNet - is an independent educational website providing free mathematics resources to the education community.
Roman Numerals and Converter - a site that will convert regular number to roman numerals.
The Math Forum - is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet.
Eisenhower Clearinghouse - is a collection of materials for math and science educators such as lesson ideas, articles about teaching practices, curriculum resources, professional development tools, and much more.
The Exploratorium Science Snacks: Snacks about Magnetism - a site that teaches you about magnets in little chucks or "snacks."
NASA - NASA web site.
NASA Explorers - is an education initiative from NASA that generates interest in and understanding of NASA's research and technology.
OpticsForTeens - a site designed for teens that contains many optical allusions.
Physics & Astronomy Links - is a comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site.
Sandlotscience.com - is a site that features the world's most mind-boggling optical illusions including games, puzzles, and artwork!
Science NetLinks - provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, and a guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students..
The Water Cycle - A lesson about the water cycle from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Windows to the Universe - is a user-friendly learning system on the Earth and Space Sciences for the general public.
CIA World Fact Book - Contains statistics and information about countries all over the world.
H.I.P. Pocket Change - A fun site for kids that has the plans for the newest 50 state quarters, and and lesson plans for grades k-12
Historic Maps - A site that contains high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history.
History of the Supreme Court - This site is the web site for a new television series The Supreme Court, the first major television series to explore the history and impact of the nation's highest court.
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation - Provides the story of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and their experiences.
Library of Congress - Web site of the Library of Congress.
Mythman.com - A site containing specific information on Greek Mythology.
Student Press Law Center - A site dedicated to defending the rights of student journalists.
The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt - Is a site that contains information of the different gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.
The History Net - A publisher of history that contains high-quality editorial content and the authoritative input of editors who are among the leaders in their respective fields.
USA.gov - The official information and services from the U.S. government.
US History Original Documents - Has digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
The White House Historical Association - Here you can find lessons for k-12 students, primary documents and hundreds of images of the white house.
Asia For Educators - Rich content including interactive timelines, historical maps, and an image gallery searchable by file type, time period, or unit.
Bibliomania - Is a superb educational resource with the full text of classic world literature and important non-fiction texts supported by an extensive reference section.
Encyclopedia Mythica - An internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby - A lesson about The Great Gatsby and author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary - A Centenary of the author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Literature Links - Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators.
Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus - RhymeZone is an online tool that aspires to be the best and fastest way for writers to find words.
Teen Reads - A site that has teen book reviews and interviews.
Vocabulary and the Classics - Is a site where vocabulary has been pulled from many recommended texts and defined.
WritingFix.com - a site dedicated to help students and teachers to better use the 6 Traits of language in the classroom.
Web English Teacher - A resource that provides lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
Essentials of Music - Provides basic information about classical music.
Museum Computer Network - Is a site that is dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies.
Worldwide Arts Resources - Is a large site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios.
Business & Consumer Res. - Is a site that provides a number of links to other Internet resources which contain information and/or links related to Business Education.
Language Links - Is a site that provides students and teachers with resources for the study of world languages.
Food Timeline - A site that contains a timeline of food history and period recipes.
Health Headquarters - Is a website that provides health teachers with critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
PE Websites - Is a list of Web Sites that have been purposefully selected for K-12 Health and Physical Educators and others in charge of providing appropriate instruction to youngsters.
Architect Studio 3D - A web site that show the basics in design of a house and includes tools to help you make your own floor plan.
Bartleby.com - Is a site that gives access to the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference books.
"Do We" Really Know Dewey - A site that provides a lot of information about and explains the dewy decimal system.
Gliffy - A free online drag-and-drop diagram editor that allows k-12 users to quickly create, edit, and share a variety of visuals.
Library Thing - An easy, library-quality catalog of books that also connects you with people who read the same things.
Reference Desk - Is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.
Resources for School Librarians - A site containing resources such as learning and teaching tools to continuing education and employment for librarians.