Fleetwood Elementary School - Teacher Resources

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)

NOVA Teachers Teacher's guides, resources.

Lesson Plans

Alabama Learning Exchange
ArtsEdge Lesson Plans
Columbia Education Center Curriculum Units Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute.
CyberSmart! Free curriculum and lesson plans to extend students' learning into cyberspace.
Daily Life Online History and culture.
Discovery Channel School
EconoEdLink
EdSitement
Education Oasis
Eye on the Sky: Lesson Plans for the Elementary Classroom Sun and weather lesson plans.
The Gateway to Educational Materials Portal to lesson plans.
Great Performances: Educational Resources for Teachers
Illuminations National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Intel Units and Project Plans
KinderArt Lesson Plans
Layered Curriculum
Learn NC
Lesson Plans Page by Hotchalk
Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plans Page List of links.
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
The New York Times Learning Network Lesson plans, news snapshots, more.
read-write-think
Science NetLinks
Smithsonian Education
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Teacher's Net Lesson Bank
Teachers Network
Thinkfinity Portal to lesson plans and more.
ThirteenEd Online Check out the lesson archives.
Xpeditions National Geographic.

Art

Art Room

ArtEdventures and Color of a Lifetime

ArtLex: 3,300 Art Terms Defined

Arts Education Partnership

ArtsEdge

ArtsEdNet

ArtsWork: Arts Resources for Teachers and Students

Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures

Color Matters

Crayola Kids

Eduweb

Freer Gallery of Art Online Asian Collection

Hands on Crafts for Kids

KinderArt

Metropolitan Museum

Museums in the USA: Links to Online Museums

National Endowment for the Arts

National Museum of Africa Art

Perseus Digital Library

Photo Galleries from National Geographic Kids

SmARTkids An interactive investigation of ways of looking at, think about, and respond to art.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Web Museum, Paris

WebExhibits

Assessment

Assessment and Rubric Information List of links.

Assessment Tools Grades: K-3

Creating Rubrics for a Given Task

Rubistar Awesome site!

Beginning Teachers

AdPrima

Beginning Teacher's Toolbox

Beginning Teachers from Education Oasis Links to resources.

Scholastic's New Teacher Survival Guide

Bulletin Boards

Beginning of the Year Bulletin Board Ideas Elementary

Boards Galore Church and school board ideas.

Bulletin Board Pro

Bulletin Boards for Business

Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom

Bulletin Boards for P.E. and Health

Classroom Displays and Bulletin Boards

DLTK's Bulletin Board Ideas

Garden of Praise: Halls, Walls, and Bulletin Boards

Interactive Bulletin Boards for Secondary Math

Kim's Korner

KinderArt

NEA's Bulletin Board Ideas

Teacher Tools

Teacher Vision's Bulletin Boards

The Teacher's Corner

Teaching Heart Ideas for K-3.

TeachNet.com

Teacher Certification by State

Choose a state below. Click on the link.

Children's Book Publishers with Educator Sections

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Harcourt Children's Books

HarperCollins

Hatchette Book Group

Henry Holt and Company Books for Young Readers

Houghton Mifflin

Hyperion Books for Children

Penguin Group

Random House Children's Books See Teachers @ Random!

Simon & Schuster

Classroom Management

Classroom Management in a Nutshell

Setting Up Your Classroom Elementary.

You Can Handle Them All!

Computer/Internet/Blogs/Podcasts/Technology

4Teachers.org

C-Span in the Classroom

Center for Digital Storytelling

Edublog.org Free blogs for you and your students.

Education Week Blogs

Edutopia.org

International Association for K-12 Online Learning

International Reading Association Podcasts: Ideas for Teaching Reading and Writing

Tech & Learning

Video Conferencing for Learning

A Visit to Copyright Bay

Web Style Guide

WebQuest Page

Directories

Blue Web'N

Child and Family WebGuide: Education and Learning Tufts

Discovery School's: Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators

Edsitement.com

EduHound

Education Index

TEAMS Educational Resources

Education News

Education Week

CNN: Education

New York Times: Education

U.S. Department of Education Press Room

U.S. News and World Report: Education

USA Today: Education

Education Reform

The Center for Comprehensive School Improvement and Reform

The Center for School Improvement AFT.

Coalition of Essential Schools

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning

National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching

National School Reform Faculty

Public Education Network

The Fordham Institute

Education Research

American Educational Research Association

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center

Google Scholar Easily search for scholarly literature.

The Nation's Report Card NAEP

National Institute for Early Education Research

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

U.S. Department of Education: Research and Statistics

Early Elementary and Elementary

Brain Breaks: Physical Activity Idea Book

Can Teach

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Teaching Kindergarten

Virtual Vine

English as a Second Language (ESL/EFL/ESOL)

About.com: Teaching English as a Second Language

Center for Applied Linguistics

EFL/ESL Lesson Plans for Current Affairs

The Internet TESL Journal

The Internet TESL Journal: Links

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition

TESOL

Geography

50 States

About: Geography

The American Geographical Society

American Mile Markers

Association of American Geographers

Canadian Geographic Online

Country Studies

EarthCam for Kids Various live cameras.

Explore the States: America's Stories from the Library of Congress

Florida Geographic Alliance

Geographic.org

Geography Lesson Plans McREL.

GeoNet Interactive game.

Greatest Places

Helping Your Children Learn Geography

Map Collection Perry-Castaneda Library.

Map-Zone.net

National Council for Geographic Education

National Geographic Bee

National Geographic: Geography Action

National Geographic: MapMachine

National Geographic: XPeditions Lesson plans, activities, maps.

National Geography Standards

Searching for China Webquest

U.S. Geological Survey Educational materials and teaching packets.

What's Up With the Weather? Nova: Frontline.

World Fact Book CIA.

World Map Collection

WorldAtlas.com

Grant Information

AT&T Aspire

Best Buy Teach Awards

e-grants U.S. Department of Education

Grantionary: Glossary of Terms

Grants.gov Source to find and apply for government grants.

IBM Education Grants

Intel Grant Information

National Geographic Education Foundation

NEA Foundation

Target

Toshiba America Foundation

Toyota Tapestry Grant

History/Social Studies/Social Science

American Centuries: View from New England

American Historical Association

Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History

African Studies Center

American Civil War Home Page

Biography A&E

C-Span in the Classroom

Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures

Colonial House PBS

Country Studies Library of Congress.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

ExplorePAHistory

Federal Court Concepts

Feudal Life

Go for Broke National Education Center Japanese American WWII veteran site.

The History Channel

History Matters U.S. Survey Course on the Web.

HyperHistory Online

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Justice Learning: Civic Education in the Real World

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Living Room Candidate More than 300 commercials from every presidential election since 1952.

Meet Amazing Americans

Mr. Donn's Pages

Mughal India

National Council for the Social Studies

Net Serf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources Links, glossary.

Odyssey Online

The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

The Ottomans.org

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow PBS

Sacred Contexts: Discover What We Share Video, audio, and sacred texts.

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches Audio clips from 1895 to present.

Smithsonian Latino Center's Kids Corner Take a virtual tour through the museum. Amazing!

Teaching about the Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Teaching with Historic Places National Park Service

The Story of Africa BBC

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection

World Fact Book CIA

Youth Leadership Initiative Nonpartisan site where students can learn about the political process.

Language Arts/Reading/Writing

6+1 Trait Writing

A+ Research and Writing for High School and College

A Celebration of Women Writers

ABC Centers Ideas for Kindergarten.

Acrostic Poems Interactive generator from read-write-think.

Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables Online Collection

Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker

American Rhetoric: The Top 100 American Speeches

American Verse Project

Anagram Server

Bartleby.com

BBC Skillwise Online games, activities, and more for your students.

Between the Lions: Get Wild About Reading PBS

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

Biography Maker

Book Adventure

Book Hive Children's literature and books.

Book Talks Quick and Simple Nancy Keane

Bulfinch's Mythology From Bartleby.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Children's Book Council

Children's Book Reviews

Children's Literary Links

Children's Picture Book Database Miami University

Citation Styles for Research Papers

Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the WWW

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart

English Literature: Early 17th Century

EServer: Accessible Writing Alternative niche for quality work, particularly in the arts and humanities.

EServer: Fiction Collection

Four Blocks Literacy Center Teachers.net

Fun With Words!

Geoffrey Chaucer

Grimms' Fairy Tales National Geographic

Guys Read

The Horn Book

In Search of Shakespeare PBS

Instant Poetry Forms

kidbibs.com

Library of Congress Digital Collection Historic newspapers, rare books, and more online.

Literary Criticism From the Internet Public Library

Literature: What Makes a Good Story?

Literature Lesson Plans from Discovery School

Look Smart Project: 12 Principles of Media Literacy in the Classroom

Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature

Making Meaning in Literature

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

Odyssey Online

Online Books Page Listings of free books on the Web.

Online Speech Bank

OWL: Online Writing Lab

PBS Kids Zoom Playhouse Plays for elementary students.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Poem Hunter

Project CRISS Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies

Project Gutenberg A collection of free electronic books.

read/write/think

Reading Lady

Reading Online International Reading Association.

Reading Rockets

Reading Today Daily International Reading Association's blog.

Representative Poetry Online

Starfall: A Learn to Read Web site

Surviving Dickens' London Flash game; Dare you take a tour of Dickensian London?

The Textmapping Project

Teachers @ Random: Teacher's Guides & More

TeenReads

Web English Teacher Wonderful site chock full of links!

Writing Handbook The Writing Center-University of Wisconsin-Madison

Librarian's Links

American Library Association

Children's Book Council

Google Scholar Easily search for scholarly literature.

Internet Library for Librarians A portal for Internet resources.

Libdex A directory of libraries around the world.

Librarians Index to the Internet

Library of Congress Online Catalogues

LibrarySpot

Reviewer's Checklist

Mathematics

American Mathematical Society
Coolmath
4Kids.com
Math Counts
Middle School Portal Links to science and math resources on the Internet.
The Mint
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics Awesome!
Science U Geometry Center

Middle School

The First Days of Middle School from MiddleWeb

National Middle School Association

Middle Web

Music and Dance

A Dancer's Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham

Baroque On

Great Performances Educational Resources for Teachers PBS

Idea Bank for Music Teachers K-8

Music and Musical Instruments at the National Museum of American History Search topics.

Music Teachers National Association

The National Association for Music Education

National Dance Association

Smithsonian Global Sound Download and learn about traditional music from around the world.

Smithsonian Jazz

Professional Magazines, Newsletters, and Journals

Comprehensive List of Education Journals

E-Journals in Education

Education Week on the Web

Professional Organizations and Associations

American Federation of Teachers

American Association of School Administrators

American Association of School Librarians

Assocation for Childhood Education International

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Coalition of Essential Schools

Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders

Council for Exceptional Children

International Reading Organization

International Society for Technology in Education

International Technology Education Association

Music Teachers National Association

National Art Education Association

National Association for Beginning Teachers

National Association for Elementary School Principals

National Association for Gifted Children

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Association of Biology Teachers

National Association of Secondary School Principals

National Association of Test Directors

National Catholic Education Association

National Center for Education Statistics

National Council for the Social Studies

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Council of Teachers of English

National Education Association

National Middle School Association

National School Boards Association

National School Reform Faculty

National Science Teachers Association

National Substitute Teachers Alliance

North American Montessori Teachers' Association

Parent Teacher Organization

Southern Early Childhood Association

Reference Resources

All-in-One Reference Search

Amo's Online Crossword Dictionary

Answers Fast facts.

Biographical Dictionary

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Citation Styles for Research Papers

Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the WWW

Currency Converter

Dewey Numbers Guide

eHow Clear instructions on how to do (just about) anything.

Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia Smithsonian Art to Zoology.

Find Law

Google Scholar Easily search for scholarly literature.

How Stuff Works

InfoPlease

Internet Public Library

iTools: Research Tools

Kid's Click Web search for kids by librarians using the Dewey Decimal System.

Legal Information Institute from Cornell

Library of Congress Online Catalog

LibrarySpot

Merriam-Webster Online

Occupational Outlook Handbook U.S. Department of Labor

OneLook Dictionary Search

Online Dictionaries List of online resources.

Online Speech Bank

refdesk.com Terrific all around resource.

Robert's Rules of Order

Science Made Simple: Online Conversions

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Statistical Resources on the Web

SuperPages: Search for U.S. Businesses

Switchboard.com Yellow pages, white pages, more.

Thesaurus.com

United States Patent and Trademark Office

University of Texas Map Collection

YourDictionary.com

Science

Adventures of the Agronauts Grade: 3. Curriculum. Space science and plant biology.
Alaska SeaLife Center Satellite telemetry in rehabilitation and research.
Amazing Space Teaching tools, online explorations, homework help, and more.
American Astronomical Society
Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Butterflies of North America
ChemiCool Periodic Table
Cornell"s Science and Arts Gateway for Education
Creative Chemistry
CritterCam
Chronicles Darwin American Museum of Natural History. A plethora of information about Darwin. Darwin 200 Natural History Museum.
Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
Dinosaurs by SEDL Curriculum and lesson plans.
DNA Interactive
Earth and Moon Viewer
Earth Sky Podcasts e
Nature
EPA Environmental Center
EurekAlert! Science news portal.
Exploratorium
Exploring Time Time-lapse videos of a wide variety of events.
Extreme Science
Frank Potter's Science Gems: Great Links to Great Science Resources
Franklin Institute of Living Things
Galileo Project
Health Science Curriculum
Infrared Astronomy Tutorial
Instructional Materials in Science Education Links.
Jason Project Kid's Planet Wolf curriculum, otter unit, black bear curriculum, wildlife biography.
Microbial Ecology Home of the MicrobeZoo.
Middle School Portal Links to science and math resources on the Internet.
Monarch Watch
National Air and Space Museum
National Science Foundation
NASA Earth Observatory Check out the images available!
NASA Education
NASA Human Space Flight
Ocean Themed WebQuests
The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
A Private Universe Project
Putting DNA to Work
Rockets Away
Science Education Gateway
Science Fair Theme Page
Science Fair Topics
Science Friday: Kids' Connection Grades: 6-8.
Science Lessons by Grade and Subject
Science Made Simple: Online Conversions
Science Net Links
Science News for Kids
Science of Hockey
Scientific American
Scientific Biography
SciNet Science Search
Smithsonian
Strange Matter
Superfund for Students and Teachers Effects of pollution from the EPA.
Teacher's Guides Sea World and Busch Gardens.
Teacher's Lab
USGS The Learning Web
Understanding Evolution One-stop source of information on evolution. Lesson plans included.
Weather Calculators
The Weather Channel
Wild Birds Unlimited

Search Engines

ResearchBuzz Search engine happenings and news.

WebCrawler

Yahoo

Special Education

Center for Talent Development

Council for Exceptional Children

GreatSchools: Your Child with Learning Difficulties

National Attention Deficit Disorder Association

LD Online Learning Disabilities Online

U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Standards

Center for Civic Education

Council for Economic Education

International Society for Technology in Education

National Association for Music Education

National Association for Sport and Physical Education

National Center for History in Schools

National Council for Geographic Education

National Council for the Social Studies

National Council of Teachers of English

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Dance Association

National Fine Arts Standards

National Science Standards

National Standards for Foreign Language Education