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Also visit Kids & Teens: Links which
include interactive enrichment units for a variety of grade
levels, in more subjects than you can think of!
Collections (grades K-12
unless specified)
- Annenberg/CPB
Learner.org
- Instructional series for college and high school
classrooms and adult learners. Subjects include Arts, Education, Foreign
Language, Literature, Math, Science, Social Studies & History, and more... Available via digital cable channel,
purchased videos, broadband simulcast, or video on demand (broadband)...
- Also includes
grade 5-12+ Interactives
interactive curriculum units, including strategies, content and activities...
Centre
for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
Research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning,
with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and
colleges...
Comprehensive
School Mathematics Program (CSMP) Preservation Project Entire K-6
math curriculum, including masters and workbooks...
Connexions
A rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials...
Crayola
Central
Lesson plans for grades 1-12 in language arts, math, science, social studies and
visual arts
EconEdLink
A premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials
for K-12 teachers and their students...
EDSITEment
from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The Best of the Humanities on the Web... Art & Culture, Literature &
Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies
Flinn
Scientific
Science activities in Chemistry, Biology, Physical and Earth Sciences...
Free Online Language Courses from Ainu and Albanian to Welsh, Wollof and Xhosa
Including more mundane languages like Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and more!
The Global Schoolhouse
Clearinghouse of more than 900 online collaborative projects, organized by
topic, grade, and project date. Find partners or join projects from around the
globe...
Harvard@Home
Rich in-depth exploration of a wealth of topics through Web-based video programs
of the highest calibre; Harvard@Home enables you to experience some of the
exciting teaching, cutting-edge research, and noteworthy events that define and
distinguish the University today—right from your desktop. Subjects range from
the arts to social sciences, from history to current affairs, from literature to
science and math...
Heartland
Truly Moving Pictures F.I.L.M. (Finding Inspiration in Literature and Movies)
ProjectMovies featured here
include downloadable curriculum guides, encouraging viewers to read the book, watch
the movie, and experience the adventure! Over a dozen
F.I.L.M. projects are available
so far, including Ratatouille, Charlotte's Web, Amazing Grace, Nancy Drew,
August Rush and more...
Highlights
for High Schools from MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and
teachers...
Illuminations
principals and standards for school mathematics
From
Amazing Attributes – Sorting and Organizing Objects to
Modeling Orbital Debris Problems, lesson plans for math from K-12 and across
grades
iTunes
U the campus that doesn't sleep
Search thousands of audio and video files from schools across the country.
Already, more than half of the nation’s top 500 schools use it to distribute
their digital content to students — or to the world...
Jetstream
Online school for weather, by the National Weather Service. From the
atmosphere to oceans, global circulations to synoptic metrology, tropical
weather to remote sensing, and much
more...
The
Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
To help artists, teachers, and students
gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the
arts as a core subject area
MarcoPolo
The umbrella to many of the other fine curriculum libraries linked here, but
also home to on-line professional development courses for teachers...
Mathematics
Enhancement Programme
(variety of grades K-12)
Complete years 1-8 and high school, plus A-level mathematics courses,
available in combination of interactive and pdf format on the 'net...
Microsoft
Education: Lesson Plans
Hundreds of full lesson plans for grades K-12, subjects include Arts,
Mathematics, Philosophy, Science, lots more
MIT OpenCourseWare (college level)
Free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students,
and self-learners around the world!
Master Course List
NASA
Educational Materials Finder (grades K-12 plus higher education)
Express lessons and on-line resources! Check out
Telescopes from the Ground Up (grades K-4),
World Wind 1.4 (grades 5-8) - visit
any place on earth in 3-D, or
Exploring Space through Algebra (grades 9-12) plus higher education and lots
more...
NASA
Quest (grades K-12)
NASA Quest allows educators, kids and space enthusiasts to share the
excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and engineering pursuits like flying
in the Shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets
with amazing spacecraft, and building the aircraft of the future. Visit the archives for even more!
National Geographic Lesson Plans
Geography, Social Studies, Science, and more! (grades K-12 and family activities K-12),
plus X-peditions and more...
Newton's Apple Teachers' Guides
9 seasons of PBS' hit show's teachers' guides, try-its, and more...
New
York Times Learning Network (grades 3-12)
Lesson plan of the day, plus archives; daily news quiz, word of the day,
science Q&A, and lots more... "Connections for Students,
Teachers, and Parents"
Nova
Science Programming On Air and Online
From America's Stone Age Explorers (Anthropology), to Decoding Nazi Secrets
(Physics & Math), to Animal Hospital (Health) and many more... Check the TV
schedule, borrow the video from your public library, or watch the show online,
and explore the corresponding website...
Open
Courseware Consortium (OCW)
Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide
through OpenCourseWare. Includes major universities in 19 countries,
including Johns Hopkins, MIT, UC Irvine, Harvard Law, Tufts, Notre Dame, and
UMass Boston in the U.S., University of Southern Queensland in Australia, and
many others...
OpenLearn
live launch scheduled for October, 2006!
OpenLearn, supported by
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will make educational resources
freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and
collaboration tools to connect students and educators. Location should
be no barrier to a desire to learn
Open
Yale
Yale courses online, from departments including Astronomy, English, Philosophy,
Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religious Studies...
PBS
Teachers
Vast array of resources, including: resources by curricular subject, topic
and grade level and standard; in-depth online professional development through
PBS TeacherLine; details on PBS station outreach activities; tips on how to
effectively teach with technology; PBS programs with extended taping rights for
educators; recommended books and Web sites; interdisciplinary teaching
suggestions; free electronic newsletter highlighting new TV and online
programming from PBS; and more...
Proquest
K-12 Standards Based Learning Activity
Collection methods for integrating use of eLibrary resources into classroom
instruction
ReadWriteThink
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and
resources in reading and language arts education
Science
NetLinks
a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, your guide to
meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students
Scholastic
Internet Field Trips
Language arts, science, social studies, math, and a special K-2 section,
with a tour of good internet sites for each topic. Wonderful World of Whales
(K-13),
Folktales on the Web (elementary), and many more...
Smithsonian Education
Great teaching materials, hundreds of online resources, and access to
everything the world's largest museum complex has to offer...
Teachers
@ Random
Book discussion guides for hundreds of Random House titles, from K-12...
ThinkQuest! Library Internet educational sites awards program
Award winning Internet based projects, created by students!, on subjects from Volcanoes to DNA, Literature Cafe to Music Magic, Arts & Entertainment to Science, Society and Culture, and LOTS more!
UC Berkeley Webcasts
and UC Berkeley
on YouTube
Webcasts and/or podcasts of current UC Berkeley courses on, biology,
psychology, discrete event simulation, nutrition, non-violence, and more.
Download and watch on your PC or IPod, or watch classes on YouTube!
VisionLearning
peer-reviewed learning modules written by professional educators and scientists
Lessons in General science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and more, even
Toxicology & Pharmacology. Also includes MyClassroom, a customizable
course management system... (also en español)
Xpeditions
by National Geographic
Geography standards in your classroom, including lesson plans, activities,
and hundreds of printer-friendly maps...
Young
Epidemiology Scholars
Epidemiology Teaching Units for the High School Classroom, in Biology,
Social Science, Math, Environmental Science, Health, Statistics, English and
Chemistry...
Lesson Plans
- Access
Excellence (high school)
- Interactive mysteries, with science-based clues...
Advanced Light Source
Classroom activities on electricity, magnets, and polarized light created for
that workshop, and several other fact sheets about the ALS (requires Adobe Reader)
Also...
Micro Worlds Electrons
racing at nearly the speed of light? Find out how and why...
Algebra Lessons (Algebra I)
Subject modules, including practical tips, hints, and examples, and point out common mistakes; some modules contain "quizlets" to help check understanding
Amazing Space
Anatomy of a Murder: A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System
The events of a CRIMINAL PROSECUTION as they would actually unfold...
AstroVenture (grade
5 to 8)
Search for and design a habitable planet...
Bens' Guide to
Government (four different levels from K-2 through 9-12)
Branches of government, elections, how laws are made, and lots more!
Book Adventure
(K-8)
Free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8 (similar to AR)
The Center for Science Education U.C.Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Chickscope
EggMath (K-12)
A collection of web modules (including many interactive applets) covering
different topics in mathematics related to eggs...
Choices and Consequences by Court TV
Learning materials and curriculum provided by Court TV for guided discussions on... Violence, Shoplifting, Smoking, Drinking, Pranks, and more
Color
Mixing
Mixing colors using different colors of light, and using different colors of
paint, what happens, what's different, what's the same?
C.O.O.L.
Classroom
from Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences Center (middle & high school)
The Coastal Ocean Observatory Laboratory room (aka
COOLroom) is where a group of scientists are collaborating to develop a
three-dimensional understanding of the ocean over time...
Detectives
in the Classroom (6-12)
Epidemiology curriculum in math, science and health. Why are students
getting sick? Why are students having back pain? When is risk
acceptable? and other questions are evaluated...
DNA Interactive
from Dolon DNA Learning Center
DNA! Online teaching community,
includes 15 lesson plans, teachers guides, student worksheets
EarthStorm
Lessons are available as part of the OCS Weather Series. Most materials are
aimed at the middle school grade level, but many can be modified as desired. The
lessons typically require environmental data and many can be used with recent or
real time data...
EduStock
What is the stock market? How can it work for you? Plus real-time stock simulation!
Exploratorium Science Snacks
and more!
Hundreds of easy to do science experiments, from Anti-Gravity Mirror to Whirling Watcher, plus new Snacks including the Condiment Diver and Seeing Your Blind Spot. Great for science fair projects, too!
Explorers of the Millennium
Discover the greatest adventurers of the past 1000 years, including Hernando Cortez, John Glenn, Sacagewea, Leif Eriksson, and lots more
Forensics
in the Classroom by Court TV (high
school, and now middle school science)
Developed as part of a continuing educational partnership with the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences. Each unit includes at least two different
lab activities...
Forest Puzzles
What happens in forests, why do we need them and how should we manage them? Explore these questions in the Pacific Northwest
Franklin Institute's Science Activities
Science activities for grades K - 12, in subjects from bioscience to communications to energy to transportation...
h.i.p. Pocket Change (grades K - 8)
History through U.S. coins... covering history, language arts and mathematics
IMAGERS
(U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)) (elementary grades)
Indigenous
Peoples
There are an estimated 300 million indigenous people in more than 70
countries worldwide. Indigenous peoples are the inheritors and practitioners of
unique cultures and ways of relating to other people and to the environment.
Indigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political
characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which
they live...
Inside Art
In this unique Web adventure, students get sucked into a Van Gogh painting and must climb their way out of his masterpieces by completing mini-lessons on color, brushstroke, style, and more
Internet4Classrooms
(i4c)
Interactive enrichment activities for kids from K-8 in math, reading, and
language mechanics (click on the purple arrows to move up a grade, or scroll to
the bottom and select a grade)
Journey
of Democracy Jamestown Virginia 1607-2007
Official curriculum website of America's 400th Anniversary marking the
founding of the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown in
Virginia in 1607
Living & Learning With Overexcitabilities
by Cindy Strickland
a teaching unit for gifted middle school students, full of teaching aids,
and ready to roll
MATHManiaCS
(variety of grades K-12)
Engaging, "hands-on" educational activities that focus on discrete
mathematics and foundations of computer science, including lessons on binary
numbers, Boolean logic, minimum spanning trees, and lots more...
Merlin's
Science Academy (high school +/-)
The Academy currently offers three courses - Principles of
Alchemy (Chemistry), Principles of Astronomy and Principles of Genetics
(currently 1/4 of each course is free, the rest is available at small charge). Also enjoy the FREE web-based,
self-learning minicourse in evolution
Mount Everest Expedition
In honor of climber Ed Hommer, the first double amputee to reach the summit
of Mt. Everest, follow this expedition's climb through activities including Math
Mountain, Reading Trail, Science Summit, and Social Studies Trek
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies (grade K-12)
Probability, integers, understanding percents, number theory, circumference & area of circles, perimeter & area of polygons, and more...
Music
Composition (middle school)
Covers elements of rhythmic, melodic, and
harmonic composition (9 week unit, click on "view full lesson" for each
individual lesson)...
Mysteries of Deep Space Based on PBS series (high school)
Lesson plans: To the Edge of the Universe, Exploding Stars and Black Holes, The Search for Alien Worlds
National
Ocean Service (NOS) Discovery Classroom
Lessons based on the major thematic areas of the National Ocean Service (NOS),
with hands-on activities using on-line data resources, correlated to National
Science Education Standards. Topics include Coral Reef Conservation,
Marine Protected Areas, National Marine Sanctuaries, Ocean Exploration, and
more...
Odyssey Online
Explore Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and sub-Saharan African cultures; make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets
Patterns
of Communication (upper elementary)
Begin to recognize more clearly that
codes and symbols are used in our everyday lives, and realize how these codes
assist in communication and living...
Philosophy
for Kids (elementary)
Ever thought of using children's literature to
teach elementary school children philosophy?
The pH Factor (elementary and middle school)
Excite Explore Explain Expand Extend Exchange Examine...
Quest by classroom connect
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Peace
Corps Language Lesson
Podcast or computer audio based introductions to a variety of languages...
The pH Factor (elementary and middle school)
Excite Explore Explain Expand Extend Exchange Examine...
Rainforest
Maths (K-6)
Fun interactive math activities that add up to a full K-6 math curriculum!
Read·Write·Think
Writing tools elementary to middle school
Scholastic's Teacher Features
Visit Teachers' Internet Field Trips, and Ready-to-use Reproducibles for good low elementary science, math, and other curriculum features
The Science Learning Network
Shakespeare
Learning Commons secondary
Study and teach about Shakespeare's work and their cultural effects.
The first course is designed around
'Speare:
The Literacy Arcade Game, including Shakespeare
Trivia, Timeline, Romeo & Juliet in Space, and lots more...
Shodor
Education Foundation
Interactive activities and instructional materials for students, educators,
and parents, to advance science and math education through the use of
computational science, modeling and technology...
simCEO
Dynamic, interactive stock market simulation, where students create their
own companies, research each others' companies, and trade shares to influence
prices (free for a limited time)
Spaghetti Book Club (elementary and beyond)
Pick a title, read the book, and visit the Clubhouse to discuss it!
Starfall.com
Where children have fun learning to read!
Take a trip to the online planetarium or movie theater, and learn about about stars, black holes, the sun, and more
Stars: A Mystery of Space (12 and under or 13 and over)
Take a trip to the online planetarium or movie theater, and learn about about stars, black holes, the sun, and more
Stephen's
Guide to the Logical Fallacies
Logical fallacies are errors of reasoning,
errors which may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers. This site
indexes and describes all known logical fallacies...
Teaching 9/11
For those
grappling with the challenge of helping their students to confront, and make
sense of, the horrific events of that day
University of Minnesota Calculus Initiative (Engineering Calculus Sequence)
Rainbow Lab, Numerical Integration Lab, Beams, Bending, and Boundary Conditions Lab and Modeling Population Growth
U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Learning Web
Virtual
Skies (high schools and flight technology programs)
Explore the exciting worlds of aviation technology, air traffic management,
and current aviation research...
Water
on the Web (WOW) (high school and college)
Understand and solve real-world environmental problems using advanced
technology. WOW is a complete package containing two sets of curricula,
data from many lakes and rivers nationwide, extensive online primers, data
interpretation and Geographic Information System Tools, and additional
supporting materials...
World
Builders
Have you ever wanted to build your own world? From choosing (or
creating!) your solar system,
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