General Resources Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- The FREE web site organizes hundreds of federally supported education resources so that they can be searched easily. Categories include arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education. TeenLit.com -- This is a site dedicated to promoting teen literacy and to helping teachers address the needs of adolescent writers. TeenLit provides a forum for teen writers to publish and discuss their writing and a place to review and discuss books they read. LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Information and Resources -- An interactive guide for parents, teachers, and children that includes general information, articles, first-person accounts, artwork, bulletin boards and online chats, links to other resources, and a newsletter Classroom Connect -- This site conducts interactive educational projects in which teams of scientists make expeditions to various locations. During each expedition, the team communicates via the Internet with millions of Americans who explore and learn along with them. Check out the most recent expedition, GalapagosQuest, as well as the upcoming AsiaQuest. wNetSchool -- Thirteen/WNET's practical service for K-12 educators is designed by teachers for teachers. The site is updated monthly and offers original Web-based lesson plans, in-depth Web site reviews, software samples, and additional resources designed to foster an online education-based community. Mr. Reed's Book Nook -- This site contains a MultiCultural Library, a Critic's Corner that invites students to submit reviews of favorite books, and a Lit Chat that allows students to respond to discussion starters and see their comments posted online. Basic Educational Materials, Publishers -- "Materials Made For Teachers!" This company offers Basic Math Skills Workbooks in the areas of computational addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills, as well as Basic Language Arts Skills Workbooks in many areas of grammar and sentence writing skills. All skill workbooks are non-graded and can be used as review, remedial, and supplemental resources. Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com -- This outstanding site, provided by the National Geographic Society, includes an atlas with nearly 1800 detailed maps you can print out; a forum for sharing ideas on geographic topics; a description of the 18 U.S. National Geography Standards, with classroom ideas and family activities for each one; and a virtual-reality Xpedition Hall that's open for exploring. Band-Aides and Blackboards -- A web project designed to sensitize people to what it's like growing up with medical problems. The site includes many stories by children and teens who are dealing with chronic illnesses and other health problems. These young people describe the physical aspects of their medical conditions as well as the social rejection and teasing that they sometimes face. History Alive! Teachers' Curriculum Institute -- An innovative, student-centered approach to history instruction designed to engage students with diverse learning styles. The site has information about curriculum materials for U.S. and world history, professional development seminars, sample activities, and more. Footbag Peace Initiative -- An interesting site that describes how a dedicated group of athletes and educators is using the game of footbag (or "hacky sack") to promote personal health and cultural healing. Definitely worth checking out! Let's Go!: Around the World -- An educational, child-friendly, and child-safe site that consists of language arts and curriculum-based "learning adventures" focusing on different regions/cultures of the world, such as East Africa and the Amazon rain forest Children's Theatre Resource Page -- Links to online resources related to theatre for young audiences Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -- Comprehensive and well organized, this is "a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth . . . updated daily." Colonial Williamsburg's Resources for Teachers and Students -- "The world's largest and oldest living history museum" tells "the story of our nation's struggle to achieve both freedom and equality." The site also has information about Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trips and some Classroom-Tested Lesson Plans. Lois Walker's Read-Aloud Story Scripts -- Devoted to Readers Theatre for students of all ages, this site provides scripts for use in the classroom and link to other related sites on the Net. PedagoNet -- A "learning material and resource center" that has a nice database of resources both offered to and requested by teachers Douglass Archives of American Public Address -- A large and well-organized archive of speeches from throughout American history. You can search by speaker, by title, by date, or by topic. Space Educators' Handbook Home Page -- The content at this site is part of NASA's Multimedia Space Educator's Handbook. It includes materials for teaching space technology through science fiction (e.g., Star Trek), QuickTime space movies, space comics, and more. The School Page -- Online help for teachers and administrators New Zealand Education Web -- An extensive collection of on-line educational resources, both within New Zealand and around the world Adult Basic Learning Center -- Created by adult students working toward their GED in Syracuse, New York Electronic Resources for Youth Services -- This site is dedicated to reviewing WWW resources related to children's literature and youth services. Mustang: A Web Cruising Vehicle for Teachers -- A site with tips for integrating Internet technology into your classroom, links to lesson plans, strategies for collaborating with other teachers via the Internet, and more From Now On -- "The Educational Technology Journal" Harnessing the Power of the Web for Classroom Use: A Tutorial -- Part of The Faculty Lounge: Tools to help you use the Internet in your classroom Newton's Apple -- "Public TV's family science show." Get a preview of this season's upcoming shows, download teacher's guides and order other support materials, and send in science questions via e-mail that might be answered in next season's shows. AskERIC -- The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. The site has several search engines to help you find the information you're looking for. Science Learning Network -- An online community of educators, students, schools, science museums, and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. Member museums include the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Miami Museum of Science, the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, the Museum of Science in Boston, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. The GLOBE Program -- Students conduct an array of measurements and observations at their schools and share their data via the Internet with other students and scientists around the world to detail an environmental picture of the globe. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature -- This site offers "a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes, and professional topics." Teachnet.Com: Teacher's Edition Online -- This newsletter has loads of ideas for activities, management strategies, and more. EdWeb -- This hypertext book has interesting and well-written chapters about Internet technology and its impact on education. Specific topics include Multiple Intelligence Theory, the Information Highway Debate, and the K-12 Internet Testbed. WWW Virtual Library -- This site lets you conduct far-reaching searches of the Web, with information conveniently arranged by subject. Internet Public Library -- This library has, among other things, a Reference Division that allows you to search the Web by subject and a Web Searching service with hotlinks to Internet search engines such as InfoSeek, Lycos, and WebCrawler. Reed Interactive's Global Classroom -- Various newsgroups devoted to topics in K-12 education Reed Educational & Professional Publishing -- The Hot Topics section at this site contains articles about resourceful kids, endangered species, global warming, tropical rainforests, hurricanes, and more. Back to Links for Teachers Small Planet Home Page Copyright © 2000 Small Planet Communications, Inc. 15 Union Street Lawrence, MA 01840 (978) 794-2201 planet@smplanet.com