I hope you will find the following sites useful. I have collected them over a period of time and have tried to organize them by content area or topic so I could find them when I needed them. However, several don't fit neatly into any one category. So look around. For example, you may find something in the art section you could use to support math instruction.
Many of them are classics, like the Eric Lessons, and The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection sites. Several came from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse exemplary sites archive. Others I include because they look extremely promising, but I haven't been able to "test drive" them yet. Please try some and let me know how they work for you.
I welcome your submissions, and please report broken links.
| Language Arts | |
| Literature | Storytelling |
| The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection | Storytelling in the Classroom |
| The Children's Literature Web Guide | Story Hour at the Internet Public Library |
| Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site | Dia's Story Cloth |
| S.C.O.R.E CyberGuides | Online Learning Activities |
| The Newbery Medal Homepage | Word Central Explore the world of words. |
| The Caldecott Medal Homepage | FunBrain learning activities, numbers, words, culture |
| BrainPOP health, science, technology | |
| Authors | Alfy.com |
| Suessville | |
| Tomie dePaola | For Fun |
| Judy Blume's Home Base | |
| The Official Eric Carle Web Site | Jolly Walkers Clown Shoes this would be great for a math lesson on using an order form to solve problems - go to order form. |
| Writing/Publishing | |
| ePALS Classroom Exchange | |
| Stone Soup | |
| Kids' Space submit student writing to "Story Book" | |
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| Math | |
| The Math Forum Teacher's Place | |
| Blue Chip Mathematics Sites | Visual Fractions |
| Math Stories for Children | Let's Count Pre-K and Kindergarten |
| Elementary Problem of the Week Solve problems or submit your own. | Base 10 Blocks place value, whole numbers and decimals; basic operations, (uses java) AWESOME!!!! |
| Countdown! Calculate how many seconds to an event. | |
| Exploring Geometric Solids and their Properties NCTM | |
| Developing Geometry Concepts NCTM | |
| NCTM Illuminations |
| Science | |
| Space | Life Sciences |
| Windows to the Universe Teachers Resource Pages | Teacher Center for the Yuckiest Site on the Internet |
| Windows to the Universe Main Entrance | Vertebrate Animals Hotlist |
| Thursday's Classroom | The Great Plant Escape |
| NASA Kid's Page | Cool Science for Curious Kids Very cool! |
| A Space Library | Bat Quest In Search of Stella Luna grades 2 - 3 |
| American Museum of Natural History | |
| Earth and Moon Viewer | |
| Que tal? in the Current Skies animated sky maps | |
| General/Unclassified | |
| Earth Science | Discovery Channel School |
| Geo-Mysteries Explore virtual rocks, fossils and minerals. | Beakman and Jax |
| Weather | How Stuff Works |
| Interactive Weather Information | The Franklin Institute Science Museum |
| Earth Watch | |
| Marvelous Machine Experiments | |
| Earth Science Enterprise |
| Music | Art |
| K-12 Resources for Music Teachers | Art Serve 130,000 images |
| Native American Designs | |
| Instrument Encyclopedia | Symmetry of Rugs |
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| Physical Education | Publishers' Sites |
| Scholastic Network | |
| PE Central | Silver Burdett Ginn |
| Official Site of the Olympics | Houghton Mifflin Education Place |
| Open Court | |
| Instructional Tools | |
| Quia! Create online quizzes, or access quizzes created by other teachers. | Noodle Tools It's a bibliography making machine! |
| FunBrain track each student's progress, get results emailed | My Class.net Space for teachers to make class web sites. |
| Puzzlemaker generates puzzles and learning activities | Tools for Teachers step by step directions, use a computer to make classroom tasks easier |
| Images/Clipart School Related Web Graph Images |
Handouts and Rubrics |
| A Space Library | |
| Pics4Learning | |
| Technology | Virtual Field Trips/Cams |
| Panda Cam | |
| The Virtual Smithsonian | |
| Lisa Explains it All Learn HTML | Alcatraz |
| A Virtual Journey into the Universe AWESOME! | |
| National Zoo Still and Video Web
Cameras You can see elephants, flamingos, kiwis, komodo dragons, naked mole-rats and more. |
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| Brochure Lesson Plans | |
| Basic Surfing (links going off the page might not be current, but explains navigation well) | The Virtual Field Trip Site |
| Webopedia look up technology terms | |
| 3D Dictionary another technology dictionary | |
| PowerPoint in the Classroom online tutorial | |
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| Multi Resource Educational Portals | |
| Eduhound | Global Schoolhouse/Lightspan.com |
| The Internet Schoolhouse | Classroom Connect |
| Teachers First | Teachers.Net |
| Teacher Universe | |
| Search and Reference | |
| Gale Group Database | Global Schoolhouse Link-O-Rama |
| refdesk.com | Citing Electronic Resources |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian | Ditto.com "provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text" |
| Which Search Engine? | Word Central dictionary |
| KidsClick! | |
| Yahooligans |
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