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Links to Pre-Kindergarten through High School Educational Activities
 (some assembly required), classroom projects; cool projects
- Master Teacher, products, publications, and services for teachers
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Teacher's
Links from The Mailbox.com,
education center for classroom activities and bulletin board ideas
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Teacher's Tool Box,
mostly reading and social studies activities
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A to Z Teacher Stuff, lesson plans, units, activities, and resources
- Education World, the self-proclaimed "Teacher's Best Friend"
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Virtual Manipulatives,
interactive math for grades K-12
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20 Questions, web-based version of
the traditional category/logic game
- Math, Language, Logic, etc. tools and worksheets from SuperKids.com
- Family Education Network with Parent, Teacher, Teen, Child, and Reference tabs
- Created by Teachers, math, reading, and general daily tracking materials done by and for teachers
- Internet4Classrooms, K-7 basic skills help
- Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns; debt, doomsday, and even dead clocks
- Pet Education, powerful but easy to use database of household pet information
- Public TV's TeacherSource
- Web Resources for Teachers and Students from the Educational Testing Service
- LA Freenet Teacher's Center, teachers' stuff, but it also has similar links for students and administrators
- Teacher Talk Articles from the University of Indiana; it's geared toward teachers of adolescents
- Drug Abuse Resistance Education, some drug awareness activities and curriculum links
- Multicultural Teaching Toolbox, some awareness activities and readings
- Intervention Central, searchable behavior tools and general education materials
- Study Tools for Kids from Ask Jeeves, the search engine with the question query format
- HP Creative Projects Site, cards, games, and templates from Hewlett Packard
- Preschool Coloring Book.com, coloring pages, journal pages, and "no line" coloring sheets, arranged by themes (animals, western, sports, etc., even dental health)
- Big Chalk, a searchable network for grades K through 12
- Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia Online, a handy reference for any subject
- 4Kids.com treehouse graphic with clickable games and activities
- Worksheets4Teachers.com, searchable by grade level and topic
- 4Teachers.Org Tools, this takes a little figuring out, but you can build customizable worksheets, class calendars (and search other teacher's calendars by subject), even annotate photos, plus a bunch more
- Interactive Test.com, a site for creating multiple choice tests in various content areas
- K-12 Web Resources, for various subject areas (and the Internet itself). Also see their Math and Science links.
- Bingo Game Sheet, for a 4-by-4 round of Bingo
- Bingo Game Sheet, for a 5-by-5 round of Bingo ("free" block in the middle)
Pre-K - Third Grade Activities
- Parent Report.com does other age spans, but this link is geared to 3-5 year olds' activities
- Education World's Early Childhood Center: references, resources, and fun
- Marilee's Kidsworks and Kidspix, some neat K-2 activities
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Preschool Zone,
teaching ideas for early childhood and special education
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DLTK's Crafts and Activities, some school related, some not
- Big Idea, for fans of Veggies Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato
- Funschool Games, a lot of word, picture, and puzzle match up activities
- Kids' Domain, activities, downloads, and lesson plans
- First School Themes, activities, crafts, and lesson plans
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Crayola, busy site by the crayon people, with links for children, parents, and teachers
- A Kid's Heart.com, online games and activities, with a lot of good links for children in the early grades and their teachers
- Perpetual Preschool: themes, teaching tips, and a teacher to teacher section
- Letter Lane, an engaging alphabet-based activity page
- Dolch Words, good list with a table for each grade level's words
- Edupuppy, elementary materials for various subjects
- Early Childhood Education/Daycare, one person's short list of the very best sites
- Early Childhood Education, another view of the most important links
- Beginning Reading Worksheets, alphabet and some early Math sheets for downloading
- Early Childhood Education Listserv (discussion group) and some sites
- Journal of Early Intervention from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Early Childhood (back issues online)
- Words and Pictures, phonics builders and games for 5-7 year old level
- TumbleBooks, books online (with sounds and motion)
- Preschool Coloring Book.com, coloring pages, journal pages, and "no line" coloring sheets, arranged by themes (animals, western, sports, etc., even dental health)
- Pics4learning, a site for creating flashcard-type pictures, with many ready for downloading
- Learning Page.com has a lot of great worksheets and other materials, too
- Educational Games, Worksheets, Word Lists, etc., for teachers and parents
- Technology Resources for Early Childhood Education, some Boardmaker canned files and other software support
- Boardmaker keyboard shortcuts and a few other suggestions
- Tic Tac Toe Math Game, requires math flash cards and a 3x3 grid
- K-3 Math from the Jacksonville School District
- Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
- K-3 Language Arts from the Jacksonville School District
- 2-Week Unit on Body Parts with activities for students of various levels
- 2-Week Unit on Shapes with activities for students of various levels
Fourth - Sixth Grade Activities
- Comprehensive Activities Site (with some overlap of links referenced here)
- Brain Pop, fun site that uses short videos for lessons in Science, Math, and English based on U.S. national standard for grades 3 through 8 in these subject area
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Enrichment
Activities for Gifted students, with links to the 3rd through 8th grade
curriculum
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Math and Reading Help for Kids is an article directory full of tips and
resources for helping kids perform better at school. There is also
a homework help section for all grade levels
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Cyberbee, various elementary activities and curriculum ideas
- Kids' Freeware, a lot of free software (games and activities) for downloading
- Sentence Building Game, downloadable freeware
- All 4th and 5th Grade Subjects, useful research and homework help site
- Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
- The Internet as an Encyclopedia, and a great effort at that!
- Reading Planet, the kids' link on the Reading is Fundamental site
- Kids in the House, informative and entertaining site from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (meant for middle school-aged students)
- Virtual Science Fair, with a lot of experimental designs and ideas for Science Fair projects
- All Science Fair Projects, over 500 on this site, categorized and searchable
- Widgets, interactive problems from Washington State University (you have to have Shockwave loaded first, or download it from their site, then reboot)
- Stories to Grow By, for elementary schoolers to use (with parent and teacher links to help)
- 50 States, nicely done set of facts about each of the United States
- SodaConstructor, students can create and then move objects or set in motion objects developed by others
- Science Activities Manual
for kindergarten to 8th grade
Seventh - Ninth Grade Activities
- National Geographic for Kids. The homepage also has links for parents and teachers
- Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
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Applied Math Activities, linked to specific occupations
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SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math
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Channel One Teacher, good current events/news activities site for intermediate and early high school students
- TerrServer, from the U.S. Geological Survey; check out the advanced search to find your school or home
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
- County/City Databook, a searchable resource from Census 2000
- Country Studies from the Library of Congress
- Discovery Channel's school link. Also see BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
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PuzzleMaker, from the Discovery Channel's
school link, good for crossword and wordsearch puzzle development
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Ancient Civilizations, great site from a middle school teacher in Pennsylvania
- Basic Human Needs Course, content from a Vermont middle school teacher's course
- Aesop's Fables, nicely done collection of the famous stories with morals
Tenth - Twelfth Grade Activities
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Study Guides.net, well done collection in all subject areas
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Study Skills, suggestions
for high school students from Studyguides.net
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Digital Reference Library, easy to use source from the University of Pennsylvania
- Bulfinch's Mythology, fables, epics, etc.
- Complete Shakespeare, MIT's link to each of the plays
- List of Classic Works available for Literature.org, by author
- Bartleby, classic works and reference books online
- A Book a Minute, highly condensed classics, science fiction, and bedtime stories. Irreverent, but it's a hoot. The site even has a movies link.
- SparkNotes, better at online study aids than its more famous cousin, CliffsNotes. These sites are for students, of course. But teachers will enjoy the user's comments sprinkled throughout the SparkNotes site.
- Grammar, help at the senior high, college level
- Britannica, a searchable version of the encyclopedia
- Periodic Table of Elements, clickable, printable, and manipulatable
- Economic Overview from Economy.com
- Recent U.S. Supreme Court Cases by year
- U.S. Senate, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- U.S. House of Representatives, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, based on the year 2000 Census returns
- U.S. Government Notes on Foreign Countries, arranged geographically (by region) and alphabetically
- Country Studies from the Library of Congress
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
- Federal Statistics, U.S. statistics arranged by state or region and grouped by various topics
- Scientific American, the online version of the magazine
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Applied Math Activities,
linked to specific occupations
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SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math
- Math Links from textbook publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
- Math Prep for Standardized Tests, from Chicago Public Schools
- ThinkQuest, a searchable database of 4,500 education-related Web sites
- Schoolwork.org is for high school help
- 700+ Great Sites for History, Geology, Science, and Technology
- Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
- Delphi For Fun.Org's classic math topics
- ExploreMath.com for Math activities and lesson plans
- Hot Math.Org has odd-numbered solutions for many of the texts used in high schools
- Secondary Education Vocational Programs from the State of Tennessee Department of Education, site gives the curriculum standards for many of the areas
- Tennessee's Link on the College Scholarships Page. It also has a scholarship search link
Special Education Activities
- Quizzes and Puzzles for ESL Students in grades K through 12
- More ESL Quizzes, Puzzles, and Word Games from ManyThings.Org
- Read, Please, allows you to download a demo version (or a $70 version) of a program that will read aloud (with a male or a female robotic voice) any text you paste into it
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Preschool Zone,
teaching ideas for early childhood and special education
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CeDIR's Kids Web Page, from Indiana's Center for the Study of Disability's Information and Referral website
- Self-Study ESL Quizzes in grammar and vocabulary for English as a Second Language students
- Spanish Language Math Resources from Math Forum.org
- ESL Handbook for Teachers and Administrators, guidance from Virginia's Department of Education
- ESL Handouts from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
- Multicultural/Bilingual Education, scroll down for a great collection of sites from Weber State
- National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education's Classroom link
- Speech and Language Games from the Peoria Unified School District's site
- Widgets, interactive problems from Washington State University (you have to have Shockwave loaded first, or download it from their site, then reboot)
- Different Learning, a good variety of materials at reasonable prices
- Kaplan Company, materials for elementary and special education
- Stages Learning Materials, featuring language builder picture cards
- Attainment Company has both IEP development and assistive technology materials
- Brighteye Technology, Asheville, NC, company specializes in a computer add-on device that allows the students to hear the text as they scan over it
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K-8 Access Center, reading, math, and science activities, especially for
kids with learning abilities
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Enrichment
Activities for Gifted students, with links to the 3rd through 8th grade
curriculum
- Circles of Friends, an inclusion activity
- Shoebox Tasks, manipulatives to develop organizational skills
- Picture Exchange Communication System, for nonverbal students to make needs known via icon cards
- Eye-cons Version 2, from KidAccess.com
- Beyond PECS, good collection of picture icon sites
- School Clip Art, for schedule and activity tracking
- Chores Icons, flashcard sized, for schedule creation
- Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, Applied Behavior Analysis materials and training
- Teacher Link of the Just Free Stuff Site, a lot of materials for teachers to "borrow"
- ABA Materials, 8,500 pictures in 65 categories available for purchase on CD-ROM
- Real Life Stories, books about special needs people
- Social Stories, for students who are socially unaware or nonverbal
- Social Stories, visual stories to use in teaching appropriate interactions with others
- American Foundation for the Blind's Braille Bug Site, with info for parents and teachers and activities for kids
- Learning Disabilities Online has a good teacher link and an even better student link
- 2-Week Unit on Body Parts with activities for students of various levels
- 2-Week Unit on Shapes with activities for students of various levels
- Unit Planning Map, 10 considerations for Special Education unit planning
Activities by Subject
- Tips on How to Study Better, from St. Thomas University
- Link to Best Sites, by Subject, in the opinion of one instructor (and her students)
- Blue Ribbon Learning Sites, a database of sites sorted by subject area and type of activity
- Resources by Subject, from 7 East Nebraska county school districts
- Study Stack, java application for self-quizzing in various subjects
- Quiz Hub, like Study Stack, but this one requires a shockwave download first (and has free or membership options)
- Library in the Sky from the Northwest Regional Education Lab
- Homework Elephant, for homework help by subject
- Schoolwork.org is for high school help
- Jiskha's Homework Help, easy to
find by subject
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Shodor Interactive, Math and
Science activities (requires java-enabled web browser)
- King County (Washington) Library System Homework Help has a great breakout table by topic
- Infoplease.com's Homework Site, by subject and it also has a few neat search engines
- Helping Students with Homework, a nicely done U.S. Department of Education publication for teachers
- Enchanted Learning's Zoom School, various subjects from which to choose
- Critical Thinking.Org's Resource link; do check the "remodeled" lessons for each grade span
- TEAMS Classroom Projects grouped by subject area
- U.S. Public Television Programming by academic subject
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Social Studies
- Digital Classroom of the U.S. Archives
- Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government, a grade-specific (K-12) guided tour by Ben Franklin. Nicely done.
- Thomas, the Library of Congress' legislative information online
- U.S. Declaration of Independence, good background on the Declaration and other documents from colonial American times
- World Treasures of the Library of Congress, the U.S. government library's international collection
- American Memory, also from the Library of Congress homepage
- The White House, with a video tour and a lot of background and current information
- Education Sites in Social Studies and Science (from Hellgate, Montana)
- Recent U.S. Supreme Court Cases by year
- U.S. Senate, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- U.S. House of Representatives, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- Kids in the House, informative and entertaining site from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (meant for middle school-aged students)
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
- Country Studies from the Library of Congress
- Maps of the World from the University of Texas' Library
- Your Nation, searchable and comparable statistics from the CIA World Factbook
- 50 States, nicely done set of facts about each of the United States
- U.S. Federal Statistics Kids' Page
- County/City Databook, a searchable resource from Census 2000
- Tennessee State History, as told by state maps; very cool site with the full text of treaties with Native American tribes and details on how Tennessee's boundaries have been drawn from the 1790s on
- Tennessee History for Kids , to
supplement the curriculum on this subject
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Statistical Abstract of the United States, based on the year 2000 Census returns
- Economic Overview from Economy.com
- U.S. National Debt Tracking, and news articles on the subject
- HistoryChannel.com, as interesting as the cable television channel it comes from
- Learning Network, current events from the New York Times site
- Weekly Reader, site complementing the magazine many schools receive, with parent and teacher links, too
- Ancient Civilizations, great site from a middle school teacher in Pennsylvania
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Science
Carolina Science (and Math), includes teacher resources, science fair, and "ask the professor" links
- Getting Started on Your Science Fair Project, advice and links from the University of Southern California
- All Science Fair Projects, over 500 on this site, categorized and searchable
- Virtual Science Fair, with a lot of experimental designs and ideas
- Earth & Sky's Teacher's Lounge has a lot of lesson planning and materials links in the sciences
- Science Made Simple for easy to understand answers to life's big science questions
- Volcano World K to 12 appropriate, from the University of North Dakota
- Kids Fishin' Page, from the North Carolina Fisheries
- Math and Science Links, with a lot of good activities based on the K-12 curriculum
- Mostly Science Links, with some other fun stuff thrown in
- Franklin Institute Online, the Web version of science museum named for Ben Franklin
- Science Activities Manual for kindergarten to 8th grade
- Genome Science for K-12, an outreach activity of the University of Washington
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Shodor Interactive, Math and
Science activities (requires java-enabled web browser)
- Periodic Table of Elements, clickable, printable, and manipulatable
- Scientific American, the online version of the magazine
- Hearlihy and Company, equipment for technology, science, and engineering labs
- EdTech's Math and Science links
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Math
- EdHelper, math worksheets and various other good materials
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SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math
- Left Hand Logic, with some addition tips and other searchable, pull-down menu topics in Math
- Delphi For Fun.Org's classic math topics
- ExploreMath.com
for high school Math activities and lesson plans
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ABC Teach's Math Link, K-12 and searchable
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