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General Sites & Lesson Plans                       

• A to Z Teacher Stuff A cornucopia of information for teachers, lesson plans, thematic units, tips, seasonal activities, and much more.

• Scavanger Hunts for Kids Scavenger hunts to use with your students

• AskERIC Lesson Plans Contains more than 1,100 unique lesson plans that have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.

• Awesome Library This site provides lots of categorized links to a variety of different resources, along with lesson plans and more. It also has different indexed doors for teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians, and college students.

• ~ Blue Web'n A searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites that categorizes entries by content, audience and type.

• ClassBrain.com Full of teacher tools, links to other teacher sites, monthly ideas for special events and fundraisers.

• D & W's Teacher Spot Teaching ideas for language arts, science, math, and history can be found here, along with clip art, educational links, and other teacher resources.

• Discovery School: The Teacher Channel Lesson plans, brain boosters, puzzlemaker, quiz center, and a worksheet generator.

• Ed Helper

• Education Place

• Education World

• ~ Eduscapes  Take some time to explore this site, especially the 4toExplore, Teacher Tap, and Literature Ladders. A wealth of information and support here!

• GEM  

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

• Learning Leap  Award winning K-2 teacher resource site.  Original online units, web projects, a 200+ thematic unit index, discussion forum, and much more.

• Learning Page A huge collection material to download: lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more.

• Lesson Plans Page Over 1,500 lesson plans and educational activities.

• LessonPlanz Searchable directory of lesson plans and resources for all grades and subjects.

• ~ Making Connections From the Louisiana Dept. of Education. All lessons displayed are of high quality and address Louisiana Content Standards. Also included are website resources and statewide assessment.

• Microsoft Virtual Classroom Tours

• No Child Left Behind The official site.

• No Educator Left Behind Answers to questions about NCLB and its effect on educators.

• PBS Teacher Source  

• Primary Grades  From Eduscapes.

• Quia.com Online exercises, learning games, and assessments. Educators can administer online exams and track student scores.

• RubiStar Online tool used for building rubrics and checklists for projects.

• Savings for Teachers Many free offers for teachers: software, posters, worksheet makers, and more.

• ~ S.C.O.R.E. Excellent resources of links, teachers resources, and lessons for Math, Science, History, and Social Studies. (School of California Online Resources)

• SCORE CyberGuides  Supplementary, standards-based, and web-delivered units of instruction.

• Teacher Files Filled with clip art, lesson units, and more links.

• Teacher's Net A great place to share ideas and problem solve with teachers across the globe. Check out the many chatboards and lesson plan archives.

• Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers Resources for young children.

• TeachNet Lesson plans, templates, clip art, teacher freebies, and much more.

• The Educator's Network Lesson Plans, theme units, rubrics, and interactive tools for the classroom.

• The Gateway to Education Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education, this site gives access to lesson plans, curriculum, and other resources.

• The Teacher's Corner Covers subject areas across the curriculum, technology usage, diversity, self-esteem, bulletin boards, and many others.

• The Teacher's Desk A resource for teachers of grades five and six.

• Web for Teachers Features various tools: one for creating quizzes that students can take online, another for organizing web sites, a third for developing rubrics, and more. A webzine presents brain games, web lessons, and stories about teachers and students using technology.
   

      Pre -K & Kindergarten Resources                

• The Activity Idea Place This site has free theme based lesson plan ideas for preschool and kindergarten teachers. Each theme page includes a variety of arts and crafts, games, songs, science, math, and dramatic play activities.

• Alphabet Fun Interactive alphabet game that lets students see words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.

• Between the Lions This early literacy site, for children ages 4-7, is a tie-in for the award-winning television program. Appealing characters, terrific songs and fun games combine to offer great on-line experiences.

• ChildFun This website has a variety of fingerplays, songs, game ideas and art activities that can be used in the Preschool classroom daily. It's a great website for tips on teaching the younger children.

• Children's Television Workshop Sesame Street in cyberspace, home of the Cookie Monster and the other characters of the popular CTW program.

• Early Childhood Today Research, teaching tips, activities, management strategies, and teaching updates.

• Fun with Spot Fans of Eric Hill's Spot books will enjoy playing these games and reading the animated versions of some of these books.

• Innovative Teaching - Early Childhood Resources

• Kid's Domain This is a great website for early childhood teachers. It has lots of ideas and activities that are arranged in thematic units.

• KinderArt A vast collection of art lessons, activities, resources for teachers, and a newsletter.

• Kindergarten Websites Excellent site with activities and a variety of ideas for your lesson plans.

• Learning Leap  Award winning K-2 teacher resource site.  Original online units, web projects, a 200+ thematic unit index, discussion forum, and much more.

• Learning with Dr. Seuss  Lessons, links, books, crafts, ideas, & much more.

• Little Explorers Click on a letter of the alphabet and connect to, not one, but many pictures of words with that letter and hot links to Web sites about that word.

• Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Includes activities for kids as well as show-related information for kids and parents.

• Mrs. Griffin's Kindergarten Page  A ten year teacher has her whole curriculum online!

• Numbertime The animations, games, songs, and movies at this site are so entertaining, your students won't realize that they are actually learning!

• Perpetual Preschool Themes and ideas for learning centers.

• Play Kid Games Check out math, alphabet and logic games designed for younger children and their parents.

• Ready to Learn Prepares children for success in school. Ready to Learn television service is a national effort to improve the school readiness of young children through public broadcasting.

• Sesame Street Central The kids' activities page with your friends from Sesame Street. Play games with Prairie Dawn, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster.

• Starfall.com Great interactive site for emerging readers!!

• Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers Resources for young children.

• Technology, Teachers, and Tiny Tots - A Great Combination Sites for early childhood educators and for kids.

• Teletubbies This site, featuring the four babies from the PBS series, includes videos, nursery rhymes and magical events.

• Thomas the Tank Engine Page Calling all Thomas the Tank Engine Fans! Stories, games, and fun.

• Virtual Pre-K! An interactive teaching tool for preschool teachers and parents

    Special Education                                      

• CAST  Look for the link to Universal Design for Learning (UDL).  According to CAST, UDL is a new approach to teaching and learning and the development of curriculum and assessment that draws on current brain research and new media techniques to respond to individual learner differences.

• Council for Exceptional Children

• LD Online  A good starting point for learning disabilities.

• NICHCY National information center for children with disabilities.

• Special Education Resources on the Internet  An online collection of information and resources pertaining to special education.

• Special Needs and Technology  

• U.S. Education Dept.'s Office of Special Education Programs