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Edsitement

Check out this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and lesson plans – in literature/language arts, art/culture, social studies/history and foreign language.

The National Archives’ Digital Classroom
The National Archives’ Digital Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans that make historical periods come alive for their students or choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed and are featured here.

ALTEC

Empower learners of all types and ages. That is ALTEC’s idea. Find instructional Web-based technology for students, professional development opportunities, program support, and online assessment for educators. Many teaching and learning tools are offered, and many sites and activities for the classroom are presented as well.

Tip: Take a look at all the ALTEC Star Tools.

Annenberg Media Learner.Org

Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all available on this site. Need materials for your lessons? This is the place. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all represented.

Tip: Browse by grade to find awesome classroom and lesson ideas.

ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development)

ASCD is where the information is for supervision and curriculum. This association is one of the leading groups in the field of education, supervision, and curriculum. Offering conferences and up-to-date periodicals, ASCD also provides ongoing research for the improvement of our schools.

Tip: Read sample articles based in your field under recent and past publications.

Discovery Education

(includes Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators)

Discovery Education has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation. Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests, grants, science help and more. But this site is not only for the science fields. Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Educators is also housed here. There are so many resources for educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.

Tip: Have your students create crossword puzzles for their peers.

Edutopia

If George Lucas is involved, it must be cool! Search by keyword from over 2200 features on this site or browse a collection of over 100 downloadable videos to find the tools needed to help in promoting an interactive learning environment.

Tip: Check out the weekly newsletter from the George Lucas Foundation for new ideas and resources.

EduWeb

Students may think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students work through creative learning games and activities, all the while learning in a fun and engaging environment.

Tip: Challenge students to find cool activities for learning.

Library of Congress

Need books, information, sources, or ideas? The Library of Congresswebsite has over 13 million digitized primary source items. Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find something here.

Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.

MIT Open Courseware

Don’t miss this resource created by MIT for high schools to have open courseware materials for Biology, Calculus and Physics. High School teachers can use these materials to further enhance the education of their students in the classroom.

Tip: Search for labs and video demonstrations for your classrooms.

NASA

Space, the final frontier. Or is it? NASA has a website to help your teachers and students find out. Enhance the study of science and technology by employing the diverse resources available from NASA. These include video e-Clips, podcasts, NASA television, live space station video, and blogs.

Tip: Check out the NASA Kids Club for new learning games.

Our Documents

Need a fresh new way to teach American history? Our Documents is your site. One hundred important documents from American history are featured in this site, along with specialized tools for enhancing the study of them.

Tip: Search the Teacher Sourcebook and lesson plans for social studies ideas.

PBS Teachers

PBS is a leader in programming. Make it work for your classroom or library. This site contains standards-based resources in the arts, health and fitness, mathematics, reading/language arts, science/technology, and social studies on the PBS Teachers site.

Tip: Search for lesson plans, activities and other materials that are tied to PBS programming, both on-air and online.

Read, Write, Think

Created by teachers for teachers to offer the best materials for reading and language arts education. The site focuses onlearning language, learning through language and learning about language. Great site for any Language Arts, ESL, or English Teacher.

Tip: Search for lesson ideas, Web materials, student activities, and accompanying standards.

Smithsonian Education

You can never go wrong with the Smithsonian! There is so much information on every topic. The Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families, students and educators.

Tip: The section for Educators includes a browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the use of the site.

Thinkfinity

Looking for some fresh ideas for the classroom? Thinkfinity is the place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and interactives that align to both state and national standards. They have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic Xpeditions, Smithsonian’s History Explorer, Arts Edge and other leaders in the education field.

Tip: Search for materials by keyword, subject, grade level or type of resource!

Exploratree

Create “thinking guides” using Exploratree’s endless options. You can fill in the guides online or print them out for student use–both options offer the option to save your work for future use. Thinking guides are divided into five broad categories for use by educators and students: map your ideas, solve problems, explore, analyse (they’re British!), and different perspectives.

The Jason Project
Are you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade level.

National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library includes a variety of educational resources to further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections to find just what you need to enhance student learning!