Electronic Resources
 

Oklahoma PASS Projects:  PASSPORT http://www.sde.state.ok.us
(Registration and password required)  A searchable database of Oklahoma’s Priority Academic Student Skills by subject matter and grade level.  A MUST for all teachers.  As you address a PASS objective, go to this site to find a project/lesson to enhance the teaching of the objective.  Free registration.

Standards-based Projects:  MarcoPolo  http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
Main page of MarcoPolo. High quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development for K-12 teachers and students.  Explore this extensive site, or if you would like to begin directly searching for projects, you can go directly to the MarcoPolo search pages at http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp

 Every Resource Imaginable! Kathy Schrock’s “A Guide for Educators.” http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/   Part of Discovery School. Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.  Updated often. A one-stop shopping site!

TPS Online Library Resources  http://www.tulsaschools.org/libres.htm    IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION!!  Reference sites sorted by age level.  TPS subscribes to many excellent online resources.  Be sure to check these out.  You will need a password, which can be gotten from your Library Media Specialist in your building.

Study Works Online
Great source of interactive lessons across the curriculum.  Be sure to choose your content area in the left navigation bar.  Take a visit!

No Child Left Behind!  http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/ESEA/ESEA_best_of_web_index.htm A site all teachers need to be familiar with. 

Learn How Your State Matches Up With NCLB
http://nclb.ecs.org/nclb/
The Education Commission of the States has created a website that provides policy makers, staff and the public with an up-to-date database for learning the status of how state policies match up withNCLB requirements. The site features a national grid, a state-by-state status, and state comparisons. ECS also provides additional web-based NCLB resources pertaining to consequences for schools, assessment and adequate yearly progress

Microsoft-Made Lessons  http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=MSEducation  Great site with lesson plans and tutorials based on content and grade.  Explore the many branches of this site.  This is a great site if you have a certain topic to teach and you want to decide which parts of the Office Suite (Word, Excel, Frontpage, Publisher, etc.) you want to incorporate into the project.  Great Site!!!  Be sure to see this page on Microsoft's site:  http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Tutorials

Funschool Pre-K to Gr. 5  http://www.funschool.com  Original activities designed for younger students.  There's lots of familiar game formats here and great use of JAVA applets for interactive uses of technology.  Some activities are for upper elementary.

Mrs. Gaines' Kindergarten Links  Pre-K to Gr. 5 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2221/gainesgang.html  Includes interactive games for nonreaders.  The site is full of themed units categorized by the month with each unit giving websites to go with the theme.  Well done.  It's an all-in-one package.

The School Bell Pre-K to Gr. 4  http://www.theschoolbell.com  Themes categorized by the month or alphabetically.  Also provides web links for each theme.

Sue Lebeau's Teacher Page  http://www.suelebeau.com  Easy navigation for webquests and other projects.  Very well-done and worth visiting.  The links are all there for topical virtual trips.

Every Teachers’ Best Friend!  PBS’s Teacher Resources  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/  Great, high-quality material.  Animations to teach almost any theory or topic.  A must to check out!

Another Everything Site!  ClassBrain  http://classbrain.com/index.htm  This is just awesome.  Don’t overlook the “Jump to” bar on the left.

Internet Scavenger Hunts  http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/index.html  Provides more than 60 inquiry-based activities which direct the student’s use of web sites.  At the end of each hunt, there are suggested websites for further exploration of the topic.

SuccessLink Gr. K-12  http://www.successlink.org/   Great lessons on all curriculum areas.  Excellent site to find lessons on cross curriculum teaching.  Highly recommended site to visit.

Dr. Sharp's Collection for Teachers Gr. K-12  http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/index.html Great resource to check out!

E-Pals in All Areas:  The Classroom Exchange  http://www.epals.com  Your class as a whole can select an e-pal and communicate through the teacher's e-mail address.  It is recommended that teacher-to-teacher e-mail, with student's doing the typing but using the teacher's address.

Educators Reference Desk  http://www.eduref.org/  Lessons in all subject areas.  MANY, MANY interdisciplinary lessons.  Lessons are well-constructed and very specific according to timeframe and  grade levels.

Technology Integration Projects Gr. K-12:  International Society for Technology in Education  http://www.iste.org/resources/    Go to “Teacher Resources” section to find rich and interesting links.  In the categories, you will find hundreds of educational websites.  “Curriculum Links”

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ Grade resources for the educator.  You can search for resources by content, subject, and grade.  Even has it broken down by web-based tutorials and web-based projects.  Check this one out.

Kids’ Castle of Smithsonian Institute  http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/  A fun, educational website for kids.

Nick Jr.  http://www.nickjr.com/index.jhtml?&TimeZone=-1  A little bit of everything.  Plenty of activities and printables.  If your students watch Nickelodean, then they will love the activities here.

All in One  http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edres.htm 

American Teacher.com  http://www.americanteachers.com/  Great resource for lesson plans, etc.

The Educators’ Network:  http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/  Great link to everything you will need.  Free membership.

Movies in the Classroom:  http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/  Capture the students’ interest in the latest movies by applying teaching opportunities using these lessons.  Great site.

Education World  www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/internet.shtml    Great links to the best collaborative projects, tutorials, WebQuests, Scavenger hunts, etc.  A site you don’t want to miss.

Everything in One!  Education World  www.educationworld.com  Lesson plans, parent contact ideas, worksheets, web quests, teacher templates, Internet scavenger hunts…you name it, it’s here.

Berit’s Best Gr. PreK-6  http://www1.smsd.org/staffdev/gradelevel/teacher_resource_sites_for_early.htm  A full collection of the best sites by each grade level.

Research Channel  http://www.researchchannel.org/schedule/  Broadcasts that can be shown from your computer through Media Player.  Broadcasts in most curriculum areas.  Interesting topics.

Website Central  Sites for Teachers  http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html  A collection of 409 of the best websites for teachers.  If you can’t find it here, it’s not out there! 

Webs Galore!   Pacific Bell  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/  Using the “Knowledge Network Explorer,” follow the link to WebQuests.  Also, this site has great resources for collaborative projects with students and classrooms across the globe.

Kidsworld - Great Collection  http://now2000.com/kids/index.shtml 

School Notes  www.schoolnotes.com 

Electronic Books  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/  Read books online.  These are electronic versions of hundreds of the “best public domain books, available in easy-to-read format.”  Because the site limits each screen to a brief amount of text, readers can bookmark where they left off in the text so they can get back to it easily.  Listed by author and title, with recent additions noted on the main page.

Education World’s Archives of Past Best Websites  http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/internet.shtml   An extensive list of great websites all categorized.

Special Education Gr. K-12: http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/teacher.html#GEN  One of the most comprehensive resources for special education on the Web.

Smithsonian Center  http://educate.si.edu