Sharp's Web Sites and Resources For Teachers K-6
Professors of Elementary Education at California State University, have collected sites and resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms. There is also a special category for children called "Just for Kids". These sites are entertaining, useful, informative, and fun. They range from lesson plans, creative classroom projects, interactive activities, visits to museums, and trips around the U.S.A. and other countries. They are organized in eight categories.

Teachnet.com
Lesson Plans, Classroom Decor, Keypals, Internet Links, and Classroom Management are just a few of the sections contained in this excellent resource for teachers.

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
The major purpose of this home page is to begin the task of making the use of the Internet for busy social studies teachers and to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching. The documents, links, and text files listed in the various categories below should provide some help for classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

PE Central
PE Central welcomes you to the ultimate Web site specifically designed for physical education teachers, students, interested parents and adults. Our goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

Phys. Ed Digest
The website of Physical Education Digest, a 36-page quarterly magazine that provides the latest ideas, tips, coaching cues and research on sports, fitness and physical education topics from around the world.

EdLinks
A collection of Internet links of interest to educators.

CLN WWW Home Page
The Community Learning Network WWW Home Page is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Over 1,200 links to educational WWWsites, links to curricular content, instructional materials (e.g., lesson plans), background information on technology integration, practical help for teachers looking for keypals/projects, internet guidebooks, software repositories, listservs, school pages, a "what's new section", and our own on-line technology courses.

Lesson Plans and Activities
From the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education for all students.

IMPACT II--The Teachers Network
On TeachNet you will find over 500 of the best teacher-designed, student-centered award-winning classroom projects that work and are available to all teachers to use immediately in their classrooms. The projects cover all subject areas. For teachers and students interested in grants, check out TeachNet's Opportunities section for the latest grants, contests, competitions, and fellowships. Let's Talk bulletin board is the place for you to participate in on-line forums on such topics as educational policymaking, redefining teacher leadership, and principal leadership, partnering with parents, and technology. TeachNet's Teachers' Store offers samplings of IMPACT II's handbooks by teachers, for teachers including the recently published Teachers Guide to Cyberspace.

NetSurfing: Maps and References
Compilation of Internet/WWW sites is intended to be an introductory guide to some of the map and reference resources available via the World Wide Web.

Busy Teachers Website
This Site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.

The Incredible Art Department
Lessons, cartoons, "Art-Site-of-the-Week", Art News, and many more items of interest to art lovers.

Teachers Helping Teachers
The Home Page by teachers, for teachers. The goal of this site is: To provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom. To provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers. To provide a forum for experienced teachers to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.

Teacher Tools, Quizmakers & Printables

Flashcard Exchange
Review online, download or print out over 50,000 flashcards. Now featuring Word Wall flashcards! You can also translate any flashcard into a sign language font. Come add some flashcards of your own and contribute to the community!

Citation Machine:
Here's a cool little tool for teaching your students how to create a bibliography for their research re ports. They will need to plug in the necessary infor mation, and the citation maker will assemble the data in the correct format, either MLA or APA style

Places To Find Internet Projects and Key-Pals

Getting Started on the Internet: The Key to Keypal Success!
Excellent article regarding keypal projects. Tips, success stories and resources galore!

Where to Find Collaborative Projects
This handout from NCCS Professional Development session on collaborative online projects is a hotlist of place to seek out collaborative projects for your classroom.

Rigby Heinemann Keypals
This publishing company offers a forum for contacting teachers and classes from around the world, or individual students (by age group).

E-Pals
The World's Largest K-12 Educational Epals (electronic penpal) Network - 15,933 classrooms from 107 countries, representing over 1 million students, are now registered!

Mighty Media Keypals Club
Resources and registry for linking students to other students for keypal exchanges.

Global Schoolhouse Internet Projects Registry
Since 1984, GSH has been a leader in collaborative learning. They continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.

NickNacks Telecollaborate
NickNacks primary goal is to encourage telecollaboration among educators and students around the world. Whether you want to participate in a telecollaboration or start your own, there's information at NickNacks to help you and exciting projects to join.

SchoolWorld
offers free programs, projects, international collaboration, keypals, and display mediums for students products. Designed by teachers for teachers.

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