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Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning's
Eight Questions You Should Ask Before Implementing Standards-Based Education at the Local Level
http://www.mcrel.org/standards/articles/8-questions.asp

Tammy's Tidbits
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html

University of California, Riverside
http://infomine.ucr.edu

US National Library of Education
http://www.ed.gov/NLE/index.html

Web Ring - everything under the sun
http://www.webring.org/

World Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.csu.edu.au/education/

Yahoo Education
http://dir.yahoo.com/education/index.html

Reference

Ask an Expert
http://www.askanexpert.com/

Ask Jeeves for Students
http://www.ajkids.com/index.asp?origin=4033

CIA Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Cool Fact of the Day
http://www.cool-fact.com/

Daily Buzzword
http://wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/bwwod.pl

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/

InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com

The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

National Geographic Maps
http://www.nationalgeo.com/maps/index.html

Online Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Online Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/theslimt.htm

Project Gutenberg - Fine Literature Digitally republished
http://www.gutenberg.net/

Research Paper.com
http://www.researchpaper.com/

This Day in History
http://www.historychannel.com/today/

Graphic organizers

Chain of Events
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tchain.htm

Character Traits
http://www.smcps.k12.md.us/mbms/writing/traits.html

Circular Stories
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tcycle.htm

KWHL
http://www.graphic.org/kwhl.html

KWLH
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1kwlh.htm

Spider Map
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tspider.htm

Story Boards
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tboard.htm

Story Maps
http://www.smcps.k12.md.us/mbms/writing/storymap.html

Venn Diagrams
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tvenn.htm

Organizations

Association of American Educators
http://www.aaeteachers.org/

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org/

Association for Support of Graduate Students
http://www.asgs.org/

Educators for Animal Rights
http://www.e4ars.org

International Reading Association
http://www.readingonline.org/home.html

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
http://www.nbpts.org/nbpts/

National PTA
http://www.pta.org/index.stm

Resources for Catholic Educators
http://www.silk.net/RelEd/

Welcome Catholic Catechist
http://hometown.aol.com/ruthjoec/index.html

Reading

123 Reading Road
http://library.thinkquest.org/50027/main.html

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/

Cathy's Reading Page
http://cathyep.home.mindspring.com/reading/

A Compact for Reading and School Home Links
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/

Failure Free Reading
http://www.failurefree.com/

Harvard Literacy Lab (a university-based literacy clinic/center)
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~litlab/index.html

International Reading Association
http://www.readingonline.org/home.html

Kidsreads
http://www.kidsreads.com/

Learning to Read
http://www.Toread.com/

Leveled Books
http://teachers.pps.k12.or.us:591/leveled_books/search.htm

Leveled Books
http://www.leveledbooks.com/

Look, Learn, & Do - Combine reading with hands-on activities
http://www.looklearnanddo.com

Magic Keys
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

Mrs. Alphabet
http://www.mrsalphabet.com

Parent Brochure, How Can I improve my child’s reading?
http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/reading.html

Patricia Cunningham's Reading Site
http://www.wfu.edu/~cunningh/fourblocks/

Reading Comprehension
http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm

The Read In
http://www.readin.org/

Reading Lady.com
http://www.geocities.com/~mrskteach/

Reading/Language Arts Center
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/

Reading Rainbow
http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/index.html

Reading Recovery
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d106.html

Reading: The Core of Learning
http://www.rlac.com/

Road to Reading
http://www.roadtoreading.org/

Sifting and Sorting Through the 4-Blocks Literacy Model by Cheryl M. Sigmon
http://teachers.net/FAQ/column.html

US National Institute for Literacy
http://www.nifl.gov

Whole Language Umbrella
http://www.ncte.org/wlu/

Math

A+ Math
http://www.aplusmath.com

Ask Dr. Math
http://www.askdrmath.com/ or http://forum .swarthmore.edu/dr.math/drmath.elem.html

Base Ten Count
http://www.edbydesign.com/ btcount.html

Connecting Math to Our Lives
http://equity4.clmer.csulb.edu/netshare/gdeklerk/ConnectingMATHto/projectreports.html

CoolMath.com
http://www.coolmath.com

Dave's Math Tables
http://www.edbydesign.com/ btcount.html

Figure This!
http://www.figurethis.org/i ndex40.htm

Fractal World
http://www.kcsd. k12.pa.us/~projects/fractal/

Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com/

GoMath
http://www.gomath.com/

Harcourt Animated Math Glossary
http://www .harcourtschool.com/glossary/math/index.html

Kids' Almanac - Math and Money
http://kids.infoplease. com/mathmoney.html

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Biographies Index
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html

Math Advantage
http://ww w.harcourtschool.com/menus/math_advantage.html

Math for Kids
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4 471/

The Math Forum
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

Math Goodies
http://www.mathgoodies.com/

Math Homework Help
http://users.erols.com/bram/

The National Math Trail
http://www.thefutureschannel.com

Rick's Math Web
http://www.bla ck-hole.com/users/rsch/indexnew.html

Roman Numerals 101
http://ww w.cod.edu/people/faculty/lawrence/romaindx.htm

Room 14-A: Mathematics
http://www.cccnj.net/~ durand1/mathematics/

Art

Museum Field Trips
Architecture
Cartoon Art
Fractals
Photography
Puppetry
For Teachers

Museum Field Trips
While there is no substitute for the real thing, you can take your students on field trips to some of the best museums in the world on these websites. See the works of art and read descriptions of the artists, the collections, the works, and the periods. These are high quality, easy-to-explore sites that will excite your students to learn more about art. Many of the sites include lesson plans and/or curriculum help. Tip: Clicking on an image of a work of art will often enlarge the picture for improved viewing.

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Bonn, Germany
http://www.kah-bonn.de/a/ae.htm

Kyoto National Museum - Kyoto, Japan
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/

Louvre - Paris, France
http://www.louvre.fr/

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

The National Gallery - London, England
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/information/map_index.htmll

The State Russian Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng_ind.html

Architecture
Architecture provides an opportunity to incorporate the study of art into social studies, science, and mathematics lessons

Architecture in Education
http://www.dca.net/ffa-phila/aie.html

Cities/Building Archive
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/natlist.html

National Building Museum Exibitions - Washington, D.C.
http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/index.html

Skyscrapers from the History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/skyscrapers/

Cartoon Art
Cartoon drawing can be incorporated into lesson plans in many curricular areas and at all grade levels.. From our Sunday favorites to political editorials, cartoons are a way of sharing a viewpoint on real life in a humorous or ironic manner.

International Museum of Cartoon Hall of Fame
http://cartoon.org/fame.htm

Advice on how to become a cartoonist
http://www.cartoon.org/advice.htm

Pulitzer Prize for Cartoonists
http://www.detnews.com/AAEC/summer99/pulitzer/pulitzer.html

How to Draw Cartoons
http://www.cartooncorner.com/artspage.html

Teacher's Guide to Editorial Cartoons
http://www.cagle.com/teacher/

Fractals
Fractals are geometric figures with special properties. The result is a melding of techonology and mathmatics with art and music.

What is a Fractal?
http://library.thinkquest.org/3543/fractal.html
http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/fractal/

Chaos in the Classroom
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/

Fractal Symphonies
http://www.pitt.edu/~lrhst12/fractalsymph.html

Photography
As the saying goes "a picture is worth a thousand words". Use photographic images to make history come alive for your students. Or have students develop their own photojournalism skills.

American Photography - A Century of Images
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Behind the Viewfinder
http://www.digitalstoryteller.com/BTV00/about.html

What goes into a photojournalism portfolio?
http://www.digitalstoryteller.com/BTV99/winslow/0922.shtml

K-12 Lesson Plans from Kodak
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/indices/art.shtml

Masters of Photography
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/summaries.html

Puppetry
Puppets can be used as a fun vehicle for teaching history, cultural diversity, language arts, and interpersonal skills.

The Jim Hensen Company: Q&A
http://www.henson.com/ask/index.html

Puppet Projects
http://craftsforkids.about.com/kids/craftsforkids/msubpuppet.htm?rnk=r2&terms=puppetry

Puppetry Traditions around the World
http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/traditions/index.html

For Teachers
Here are some professional development resources for getting started in incorporating art into your curriculum.

ArtsEdge for Students
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/4stu.html

ArtsEdNet
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu

National Art Education Association
http://www.naea-reston.org/index.html

National Standards for Arts Education
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cs/design/standards/index.html

Suggestions for Effective Arts Integration Lesson Planning
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cs/design/RBarron.html

Science sites

Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/index.html

Annenberg/CPB Learner.org
http://www.learner.org/

CEC
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/#Sci

Eisenhower National Clearing House for Science and Math
http://www.enc.org/classroom/index.htm

FOSS - Full Option Science System
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/FOSS/

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Nye Labs - The Internet home of Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/

River Deep Interactive Learning
http://www.riverdeep.net/html/gettingstarted_frame.html

Social Studies

American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

Aviation Through the Ages
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3785/

Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Webpages
http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html

CIA For Kids
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html

Cultural Connections
http://library.thinkquest.org/50055/index.shtml

Discover China
http://www.chinavista.com/discover.html

FunBrain: Where is THAT?
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html

Earth from Space: An Astronaut's views of the Home Planet
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Eye Witness - History through the eyes of those who lived it
http://www.ibiscom.com/

Kids' Almanac
http://kids.infoplease.com/

National Geographic for Kids
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

National Geographic Outpost
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/outpost/

National Museum of American History
http://www.si.edu/resource/tours/kidsguide/nmah/start.htm

The New York Times Learning Network. Student Connections
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/index.html

Plimoth on the Web
http://www.plimoth.org/index.html

Scholastic News Zone
http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/index.asp

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Stories in Time
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/stories_in_time.html

Wake Up World!
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/world/wakeup/index.htm

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

White House for Kids
http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html

The World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/html/schools/

Physical Education/Health

sites coming soon

Integrating Technology in the classroom

Classroom Connect on the Net
http://www.classroom.net/

Classroom Surfing by Katy Abel - Article on Internet Use in Classrooms
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,35-13136,00.html

Computers in Elementary Education
http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jallis00/

Exploring Literacy on the Internet
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/RTindex.html

Free web graphics
http://www.netins.net/showcase/phdss/busybee/

Media Literacy Online Project
http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/homepage

Mr. Fontanella's kindergarten class
http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/hbv/classrooms/Fontanella/fontanejhbvHome.html

Mrs. Seagrave's Quest Class
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5924/index.html

Mrs. Silverman's class
http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/class99/teacher.html

Ms. Klevinskas' Pages in Cyber-space.
http://www.expage.com/page/Oroom22

National School Network Exchange
http://nsn.bbn.com/

NetTeach News
http://www.chaos.com:80/netteach/

New Horizons for Learning
http://www.newhorizons.org/

Nonprint Media and Technology Literacy Standards for K-12 Teaching and Learning - Karen Swan
http://cela.albany.edu/standards/index.html

North Central Regional Educational Library
Learning with Technology - Captured Wisdom CD-ROMs
http://www.ncrel.org/cw/

Online Class - K-12 teaching units delivered in collaborative Internet classrooms
http://www.onlineclass.com/

Scot's page on educational things to do with your web page

Scot's Virtual School from Lightspan.com
http://yco.lightspan.com/scotsvirtualschool/pages/private/phome.asp

Stephenson Virtual School from Myschoolonline.com
http://familyeducation.com/site/0,1876,27050-119000-29-2353,00.html

Teaching with Electronic Technology
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html

TIES
http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/

21st Century Teachers Network
http://www.21ct.org/sit08_pub/owa/main

U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/pubsh.html

Web 66
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/

Wilburn Elementary Classroom and Internet Projects
http://schools.wcpss.net/Wilburn/projects.htm

Kid Safe Surfing

Cyber Patrol
http://www.cyberpatrol.com

Surf Monkey kid friendly internet
http://www.surfmonkey.com/safe

Job listings

MASA Jobsite Online
http://www.mneschools.org:591/masa/

NationJob Network
http://nationjob.com/

Interactive Stories and Books (from Reading Online)

There are numerous children's stories and books available to readers on the World Wide Web (WWW). Some are electronic versions of stories originally published in more traditional form. Others have been written for and published only on the Web. A growing number of these online stories and books take advantage of the electronic medium to support the text with pictures and sound, as well as to provide opportunities for other types of reader-text interaction. The following is an annotated list of a few of the interactive stories and books that can be found on the WWW. These particular sites were selected for Web Watch because they illustrate different types and levels of interaction.

StoryBook Park
http://www.planetzoom.com/St orybook/Storybook.htm

StoryBook Park is published by Planet Zoom, a student-run organization in Minnesota, USA, dedicated to quality reading and learning on the Internet. It provides readers with a variety of original interactive stories, accessed through imaginative places like Kiwi Island, Tornado Lane, and Midnight Mountain. On Kiwi Island, for example, readers can enter an Escape Your Disaster story where they interact with the storyline and determine the plot by making choices at key decision points. On Tornado Lane, readers can help create Twisted Tales by first supplying a list of requested nouns, verbs, and adjectives and then seeing their words turned into stories with improbable action and crazy story lines. And on Midnight Mountain, readers join Info-Spy and acquire a mission that can only be accomplished by reading the thriller-like text carefully and answering questions using information found at other sites on the Web.

The Global Campfire
http:www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/pcto/campfire.html

The Global Campfire is a project of the Family Literacy Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and is available through the Family Learning section of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Reading, English and Communication. Readers imagine themselves gathered around a campfire where people from all over the world are telling their stories. Four types of stories are in process, one each in the genres of science fiction, adventure, mystery, and family relationships. Each story is the cumulative offerings of other readers, or "storytellers." After reading the contributions that make up a story, readers are encouraged to build on to the story by writing and submitting their own text and then checking back in a couple of days to see if it was included. Because of the popularity of the site, not all submissions can appear, so "storytellers" are encouraged to pay attention to what others have written and make a positive addition to the plotline.

The Adventures of Banph
http://www.banph.com/

This contemporary story of an ant knight, who lives in a medieval castle and is commander of his queen's army, is gradually coming online, and readers are apparently anxious for the next monthly installment. It is a delightfully adventurous tale set in the future when insects are in control of the world. The well-written text is enhanced with charming and colorful illustrations (be patient when loading). Interactivity is restricted to selecting options outside the main body of the text, including an illustrated description of the book's characters, a guide giving readers an overview of this imaginative world, a reader's forum for comments, and "Banph Mail," an opportunity to write to the author, artist, and Webmaster.

Pride and Prejudice
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~chur chh/pridprej.html

This hypertext version of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's most popular novel, is richly enhanced by links in the text to five supporting indexes: a list of characters, a list of events in chronological order, comments on various topics mentioned in the text, a compilation of all passages illustrating the themes of "pride" and "prejudice," and a list of important places (with map). Words in the text that are linked to one of these indexes are highlighted in color, and every screenful of text has several linked words. Although the numerous links in the text can be confusing to a first-time user, one soon learns to follow only those links leading to information of interest. The hypertext version of this book is designed for studying more than recreational reading, and is probably best used after reading the story in a more traditional form.

Teacher Web Rings

The Elementary Teacher's Web ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=teachkids;list

Teacher Tidbits Web ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=teachertidbits;list

Teachers Touch Tomorrow Web ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=teachtouch;list

Teachers.net Mail Rings
http://www.teachers.net/mailrings/

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