Educators’ Links
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources
This is a great resource for information about history and culture around the world. Contains links, database and resources from the Library of Congress.
Also includes bilingual, multimedia digital libraries.
www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/
Ohio Department of Education/Academic Content Standards. Content standards for each academic area, including English Language Arts, Mathematic, Science, Social Studies, Arts, Foreign Language, Library and Technology.
National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement.
This focuses on the success of students in reading and writing.
National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template
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American Library Association: Great websites for kids
Database
Children’s Literature Web Guide
Includes links to valuable resources for Children’s Literature
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
Includes recent news, feature article and research for teachers
Electronic Journal of the International Reading Association
A searchable database with articles relating to reading education.
Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science and Reading
The Internet Public Library
The Education link under “Subject Collections” contains list of headings, such as Early Childhood and Pre-school, K-12 Education, Special Education, etc. Each heading gives web sites containing valuable information for teachers, as far as how technology fits into the classroom, issues to discuss with colleagues, lesson plans and more.
NEA’s Read across America.
A website the promotes reading every day.
Gives teachers ideas for events, free resources to print and use to encourage reading in their classroom, such as free bookmarks.
A teacher’s guide to important events in history. Popular links include: History, World War 2, Civil War, Black Death, 1900, 900s, Japan at World War 2, Slave Auction, D-day and The Murder of Thomas Beckett.
A Maryland based site. “Think Classroom” includes useful tools for teachers, such as lessons, online field trips, reading tools and more.
Mendelsons Liquidation Outlet
“World’s largest surplus store”. Everything a teacher could possibly need to fill a classroom.
U.S. Department of Education
Offers the latest press releases about education to parents, students, teachers and administrators. Also offers the press releases in Spanish.
A great resource for educators. It offers ideas for lesson plans, field trips, websites and more. It is searchable by grade level, subject or keyword.
Columbus College of Art & Design
This is a great resource for teachers to use in incorporating the arts into the learning environment. Workshops are available for art educators. Credit and non-credit courses are offered for adults.
US government portal to other government websites. Government information: statistics, maps, economics, census bureau, etc.
This provides a broad spectrum of news stories. Also has the news in Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Arabic and Japanese.
Informs teachers and parents about what is going on in the Education field across the country.
“A Service of the Chronicle of Higher Education”
Arts & Letters Daily: Articles of Note, New Books, Essays and Opinion. Links to other major news services: News Papers, Magazines, Weblogs and Book Reviews.
A UK site. This site focuses on “Making Classics Available to All”. Three main areas: Latin and the Roman World, Myths and Storytelling and Publications and downloads. The first focuses on learning Latin and suggests activities for teachers. The second offers advice on what stories to include and audible performances. The third includes downloadable vocabulary tests as well as other resources.
Great resource for teachers! Early childhood through high school. It offers free screened and evaluated lesson plans which are searchable by subject and grade. Includes a “first year teacher” resource page.
A site for Middle School/High School teachers. “This site links students to a vast collection of educational online materials directly related to chapter content.” Areas include: Language Arts, Science & Health, Social Studies, World Languages and Mathematics.
www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
The Educators Reference Desk. This resource has over 2,000 lesson plans, which are organized by subject and grade level, more than 3,000 links to online educational information and over 200 answers to questions asked.
http://international.loc.gov/intldl
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources. A great collection of information from around the world. This resource contains multimedia digital libraries, and is great for information about history and cultures around the world. Also has a link to the “World Fact Book”.
Up to date information for educators. Includes Week’s Top News in Education, including news from all over the country, and some world news. Current news and past issues in education. Includes resources such as: Educator’s Resource, Professional Development, Reader’s Choice Awards, Forums and many more.
This site offers a featured article, suggests ideas for a productive classroom, a featured resource and a place to give your own questions/ideas.
www.responsiveclassroom.org/articlelibrary/index.asp
This is an archive of articles related to classroom management.
All about Greek Mythology. It is an interactive site designed towards children and includes story time, games, who’s who, history and more.
This site is from Oracle. It gives 7-14 year olds tools to communicate and create websites.
Resources for mathematics:
http://www.algebra-online.com/
Algebra Online: Students can receive assistance for free from math teachers
www.scienceacademy.com/BI/index.html
Basket Math Interactive: Practice problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rounding, writing numbers, order of operations, common factor, word problems, exponents, reasoning, and map reading.
http://learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
Math in Daily Life. A great demonstration for how math is used in every day life. Ideal for all grade levels.
Math Realm. This site provides hundreds of award winning math lessons and learning tools. Teachers can create worksheets and tests for students to complete online and are graded automatically. Ideal for grade levels 4-12.
Resources for Reading and Language Arts:
Inkspot: The Writer’s Resource. Ideal for grades 8-12. Great for aspiring authors. Gives students contact with authors and writing experts.
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/index.html
Poet’s Corner. This is a great resource for poetry. It has thousands of poems from hundreds of poets. Ideal for all grade levels.
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak
Public Speaking Website. Also has a great section on how to research a topic. Ideal for grades 4-12.
TheCase.com for kids. Ideal for grade levels K-6. The aim of this site is to encourage kids to read more.