Kathy Shrock's Guide For Educators
This site could be best described as a clearing house of information, ideas and access to other educational sites through links. It is quickly becoming one of my favorites when I need information or ideas pertaining to educational topics. A must see! -Jamie Ingalls, 1997.
Classroom Connect
Billed as the premier Web site for K-12 educators and students, this site lives up to its name. You name it, if it pertains to education it is either here or you can link to it from here. If you can not find a link directly from this site, you can connect to a search tool. -Jamie Ingalls, 1997.
Blue Web'n
One of the best groups of lesson plans that I have found on the web. Plans are laid out in a table that clearly specifies the focus and scope. Once you see it, this will become one of your most often used bookmarks. -Jamie Ingalls, 1997.
The EXPLORES!
An excellent web page for all teachers who may be planning a unit or lesson on weather. FSU has many weather related Web sites and links to countless others. This one has ideas, references, satellite and weather links and much more. -Jamie Ingalls, 1997.
GALAXY
This site contains a database of world community facts, maps and collections of other useful stuff for the geology teacher. This site contains even more information about all parts of the world!-Jamie Ingalls, 1997.
The K-12 Outpost
http://www.noah.cuny.edu/
Health Education
wide variety of health topics. Links include information about nutrition, diseases, fitness, etc.
rls.net/education
This site, the Educational Resources Directory, contains links for ECE, k-12, higher
education, and home schooling. Also has a teacher's lounge.
education.indiana.edu/cas/Hforum/lessons.html
Lessons and activities on all subject, including icebreakers. Includes a list of other lesson plan databases.
faldo.atmas.uiuc.edu/w_unit/Science.html
Fourteen lessons for a weather unit for the fourth grade.
gopher://ericir.syr.edu
Education Literature, Curriculum materials, Lesson Plans.
gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/77/lesson/.lesson/lessons
This has all types of lesson plans that you might use in your classroom.
gopher://gopher.schoolnet.carleton.ca
Canadian Government Schoolnet Project: Internet Scavenger Hunts. This site contains many projects for students and educators to involve themselves in Interactive activities designed for searching the WWW.
gopher://info.asu.edu
Examples of the new advances in technology and their various utilizations.
http://lcweb.loc.gov OR http://www.loc.gov
Library of Congress Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library.
An interesting combination of Museum, Library, and Information Database.
gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu
Grants and other funding.
gopher://wiretap.spies.com
A tutorial for repairing and troubleshooting IBM PC's.
http/www.kidscom.com/
A great place for kids to interact as well as explore and ask questions.
http:// ps.superb.net/FAQ
Frequentrly asked questions aboutthe following topics: animals, art, computers, countries, education, food, games, health, hobby, Internet, lifestyles, literature, music, people, politics, law, and technology.
http://'www.youcan.com/
K-8, 6-8 science experiments
Named the best kids' web site by "The Net" magazine, Beakman & Jaxanswer questions and provide interactive demos. It includes timely photos like those from Hubble Telescope and links to other useful WWW sites.
http://agora.unige.ch/tech/welcomeframe.html
This is a great site for linking with others to facilitate all educational technology.
http://bigmouth.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/kidstuff/underwater/album/albumO.html
At this address the students will find a fun game where he/she will go through the
fish's family album and attempt to place the correct name to the unusual fish.
http://bvsd.k12.co.us
This site contains educational resources for teachers. For example, you can download
software and can find lesson plans and activities by subject topic.
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet
This site gives up-to-date weather information, with forecasts, images and weather
maps.
http://crayon.net
Excellent web site for students to create a newspaper using the Internet. You can
have students use the Internet to find their topics.
http://detnews.com/nie/
This web sight is updated weekly with new lesson plans that are current with today's
news.
http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University Library
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v1il/winning.htm
This is an excellent site for building good rapport with students. It speaks to
"democracy for all" in the classroom.
http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/lessons/results.asp?subject=science
To demonstrate to the students the direct effects of pressure and temperature on cloud formation.
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Twenty Eric Clearinghouses--separate databases. This is the "main" ERIC clearinghouse web site. Search the database, AskERIC, tour the virtual library, find lesson plans for the newest and a collection of others. Links to other resources and up-to-date research capabilities
****-This site contains great information for teachers. It has lesson plans , recent
research related to education, special projects, and conference dates just to name
a few things.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT 0007.html
Various activities that have material where the student is to use their imagination.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/lessons/Mathematics/Geometry/GE00001.html
This allows sutdents to understand why Pi works in solving problems dealing with finding circumference.
http://ericir.syr.edu/virtual/lessons/mathematics/geometry/GE00006.html
Provides students with some insight as to how the tangram pieces fit together, and
to simulate their interest in forming shapes and exploring patterns using the tangram
pieces.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/lessons/social_St/State_history/STH0005.html
Students will learn to do research while comparing their state with one of the states
of the US. Graded on information, drawing, art work, spelling, etc.
http://execpc.com/~dboals/k-12.html#GENERAL K-12 RESOURCES
Contains links to over 250 sites of an educational nature.
http://ftphome1.gte.net/jwagner/edujump.htm
The Science Educator's Jump Page
is a list of many science education related web sites. Topics for aquarium to zoological parks. Also customized search help for teachers or students,
http://george.lbl.gov/itg.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html
This is a pretty cool page! It is virtual cyber dissection of the frog. This page
could accompany a classroom dissection or replace it for your weak stomached students.
http://gnn.com/gnn/wic/wics/teach.10.html
This site gives you a list of resources, philosophies, social science. There are
over 50 links at this site.
http://gopher.ed.gov/#Teach
A Teachers guide to the U.S. Department of Education.
http://info.asu.edu
This is in classroom examples of new advances and utilization of the computer and
other technology.
http://info.pps.pgh.pa.us/k12/culture.html
Great place to learn about different cultures, make a pen pal, etc. Good teacher/student resources.
http://instruct.ride.ri.net/ride/files/policy.html
This is a site that gives information about Authorized Use Policies (A.U.P.). It
gives good examples of what should be contained in a policy.
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/classroom/lessons/archive.html
This is an internet lesson on how to use the internet, very helpful- will save a person
a lot of trial and error.
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/WorldReading
Explore literature sites. It has a variety of topics, and you can do book reports,
book reviews, and author reviews.
http://kids.ot.com/
This site is geared towards kids. It has puzzles for them to do, hangman, Kids Speak,
which is where kids can talk and exchange ideas. Kids Speak has areas for younger
crowds to chat and older crowds to chat. Links to help kids surf the web.
http://members.tripod.com/~pazz.lesson.html
This site contains tons of pe lesson plans. There are many game variations. These
are very creative ideas.
http://nikolai.com.nnn.htm
This site is a real fun and exciting. It has games, patterns and crafts, strokes,
great graphics and more. It is for elementary classes, K-6, teachers and parents.
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/
The homepage of Bill Ny the Science Guy consists of listings for the show, subjects
of the episodes, and the "Demo of the Day"
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst003.html
Gives infromation about the past which is essential to understanding the present as
well as the future.
http://pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html
It provides teaching tips for teachers. New ideas for teachers. It also provides
a formum for experienced teachers.
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Tree of Life
contains information about phylogenic relationships characteristics of organisms, illustrates the diversity and unity of organisms and links to other biological info.
It is a map of biological information.
http://pluto.njcc.com/~harris
Site designed by Paul Harris, a teacher from Robbins Elementary, in New Jersey. Easy
to get around. Has +9,000 educational links, homework help, searches, parent/teacher resources, lesson plans, etc.
****This is an excellent source for teachers and parents. It has numerous teacher
and parent resources as well as great homework links and search tools.
****A teacher writes this site and it is everything a teacher could want. It has sites
for lesson plans, a search engine, ideas for parents and teachers, Web news and Hot
Spots on the web, Links to great resources, teacher and school homepages, current
event news, and Carrie's Crazy Quilt. She is another teacher with great ideas . A definite Bookmark.
http://school.discovery.com/
Discovery Channel School announces and provides resources for programming on that TV channel and The Learning Channel. You can order an Educator Guide with programming info, download supplementary materialsto use w/ the programs, get on a listserve, and access the channel's archives, among other stuff. Another good site!
http://scssi.scetv.org/mims/lessplns.html
Great lesson plans in science and math
http://sd-wwww.jhuapl.edu/near/education/
Background information and lesson plans related to Nasa/Jhuapl's Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous Mission.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nneplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
This site gives an illustrated tour of all the planets and moons of the solar system.
http://sln.fi.edu/
Museum of Science. This site contains lots of data about their museum as well as
lots of current events data.
http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
This is the NASA site. You can obtain information, statistics, curriculum materials,
instructional materials, lesson plans, etc. It even categorizes the instructional
information by subject matter. This is a great site for any study of space exploration.
http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/Questacon/
This site is called "Questacon." Questacon is a hands-on science and
technology center for children and is located in Australia. In this site you will find
artwork by children, different activities that can be printed out on paper and used
(of dinosaurs), different pictures and information on solar systems, and much more.
http://swcc.cc.sd.us/homepage.html
A look at the history and culture of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe.
http://ucmpl.berkeley.edu/expo/dinoexpo.html
It allows you to explore, compare dinosaurs, discover locations, and dates of important events in discovery of dinosaurs.
http://volcano.ujd.nodak.edu
You can see which volcanoes are currently erupting, look at pictures of volcanoes and read about them, and you can even learn about volcanoes on different planets.
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html
You can look at pictures of different kinds of clouds.
http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc/education-collection.html
SERCC Education Collection Page links to various weather related activities and information for kids.
http://web66.coled.umn.edu
Setting up a web site. Lauded as Cookbook instruction. Just as U.S. Highway Route 66 was a catalyst for Americana, we see the World Wide Web as a catalyst that will integrate the Internet into K12 school curricula. The goals of this project are:
1.To help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers.
2.To link K12 WWW servers and the educators and students at those schools.
3.To help K12 educators find and use K12 appropriate resources on the WWW.
http://webcrawler.com.select.teach.12.html
This site contains a directory for great sites on the web.
http://webcrawler.com/select/ed.54.html
This site contains information on how to create your own web page plus much more.
http://webcrawler.com/select/ed.58.html
This site contains a set of resources for teachers who are working with children who
have been through a disaster.
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/CTS/Ocean.html
Students will be able to understand the terms "crest" and "trough"as related to waves.
Students will use the hands-on method to become aware that waves are in air, water,
and light.
http://www. research.apple.com/go/acot/twtbook.html
Teaching with technology, teaching do's and don'ts with technology projects. It talks
about the book Teaching with Technology.BR>
http://www.actweb.com/crafty/crafty.htm
This site is a children's craft magazine which gives a sample of a craft that a
student can do and information on how one can order the magazine.
The magazine not only has crafts but also recipes, advice, and party themes.
http://www.adventureonline.com
Adventure Onlineallows students to follow various ongoing explorations or travels. Newsletter and lesson plans can be ordered. Current adventures are Cancer Survivers Climb Denali, Running the Nile, Project Central America. Includes a "Teacher's Lounge" for trading tips and comments.
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/alsc/notbooks.html
This site is created by the American Library Association and consists of lists of
books which they recommend for reading. There are 3 or 4 different lists for the
various age groups.
http://www.arrowsmithschool.org/descrpld.html
This location is useful in that it gives descriptions of certain kinds of dysfunctions
that students may have. Even though the teacher can not diagnose, this could possibly
help the teacher to understand why a student is having trouble with school.
http://www.auntannie.com
This site is called "Aunt Annie's Craft Page". Each week it shows a different
craft project that your class can do. As the Aunt Annie's page states "this page
is on learning, creativity, and problem-solving while doing craft projects".
http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld
This is a site that provides information about animals, educational resources and
information about zoological careers.
http://www.birdseye.com/pyramid_lgr.html
This site introduces the food pyramid to students. Great resource for teachers to use
while teaching nutrition units.
http://www.bookwire.com/pw/best/childrens.html
Here is another site that has lists of recommended books for children.
This site is created by Publishers Weekly.
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/index.htm
Resources in every curriculum area, easy to find search engine and directories, lessons
about using the internet and more. This is a classified list of sites for educators
on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. Contains webcrawlers and site links for everything you may need. This
site was mentioned in several resources I used and looks to be a good one to bookmark.
http://www.ce15mc.gatech.edu/BusyT/
Links to all subjects including recess. Includes a teacher's resource section. Easy-to-use source of materials, lesson plans, classroom activities. Top 5% Web site, 3 star Magellan site. Another good Bookmark
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/Education/lessons/sellons_teacherdeveloped.html
This is a collection of teacher-developed lesson plans in the subject of Science.
They range in subject and grade level.
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