Teachers and Staff:  General Education

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ClassBrain This educational resource site for students, parents, and teachers includes games, homework help, state reports, current news, and a free e-mail newsletter for kids. *Please note: This site contains advertising and links to advertising.  Provide direct links to content for student use. Students may not sign up for email newsletter in school.

http://classbrain.com/

CTB/McGraw-Hill Publisher of Terra NOVA and CTBS exams provides info on tests, tips and links

http://www.ctb.com/

Curricular Integration in grades k-8 is a collection of educational links organized by subject area.  Categories include art, language arts, math, music, physical education, science, social studies and special needs.  

   http://www.teachtech2kids.com/

Developing Educational Standards

http://edstandards.org/

Education Week on the Web

  http://www.edweek.org/

Education World provides lesson plans, school issue info, professional development links and tech integration

http://www.education-world.com

The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

http://www.thegateway.org/

Global SchoolNet Foundation partners with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative educational, scientific and cultural learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become literate and responsible global citizens.  GSN is a not-for-profit 501©(3) organization, that has been linking classrooms around the world since 1984. Global SchoolNet's free membership program provides project-based learning support materials, resources, activities, lessons and special offers from Global SchoolNet partners.

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators provides an incredible variety of material for classroom use covering too many topics to list!  Presented in a straight-forward, easy to use format you will find categorized lists of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel.

 http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

McREL, is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. Hot links feature lesson plans, links and resources in the areas of The Arts, Behavioral/Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Language, Geography, Health/PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

   http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp

MiddleSchoolTeacher.Net is dedicated to helping middle school teachers and students integrate technology into their daily classroom activities. It is primarily a collection of links to internet resources in the following areas: academic and exploratory subjects, search and research, professional development, school improvement, teacher timesavers, integrating technology and tutorials.

  http://www.middleschoolteacher.net/

New York State Department of Education

  http://www.nysed.gov/

The OOPS website is both a Classroom Use and Professional Development website. It offers K-12 educators with Just-In-Time resources for the chaotic or "OOPS" moments of teaching. Here you will also find activities for students, such as I'm Done, Now What, and an online scavenger hunt for early finishers. The site has search options, Bloom's Taxonomy, and curriculum materials in most core subjects.

  http://oops.bizland.com/

Picture Books: The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University (CPBD@MU) is a bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, including health education.

Our database contains abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program. Teachers, librarians, parents, students, and other professionals love this multidisciplinary, learner-centered resource.

We are continually expanding our database to include new picture book titles and content weblinks for frequently used keywords. Over 800 weblinks provide you with up-to-date content knowledge for each keyword so you can have ongoing professional development in several disciplines . In short, the CPBD@MU offers you two complementary resources: developmentally appropriate literature for use with young children and up-to-date content knowledge for selected topics concepts and skills.

http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/alpha.php

PBS TeacherSource includes more than 1,000 free teaching guides, as well as professional development resources like PBS MATHLINE and SCIENCELINE.  Resources are organized into subject areas (Arts & Literature, Health & Vocation, Math, Science, TechKnow), and can be searched by subject, grade level and keyword, and are correlated to 46 sets of national and state educational standards. The site compliments the resources that PBS provides and helps teachers to incorporate video and the Web in the classroom.

  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

Random House Teaching Guides provide many resources including a large portion of their teacher guides.  First link is for middle and high school students:                

   http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/teachers

The Resource Shelf compiled by Gary Price, this site provides professional reading suggestions, online resources and more.  Updated daily.

http://www.resourceshelf.com/

Surf Report from the Education Communications Board from Wisconsin state provides lists of online activities that your students can participate in across curriculum areas.

http://www.ecb.org/surf/

Tapped In is a free online forum for Educators. Visit the site for more information.

http://www.tappedin.org

Teaching with Movies provides guides and ideas for teaching.

    http://www.teachwithmovies.org