Resources for K-12 Teachers
Compiled by Deborah Healey
Many of these are from Alan Stein, Leslie Opp-Beckman, and the 1997
CALL-IS Software List.
This is just the tip of the iceberg -- sites that are good and useful for
elementary and secondary school teachers.
General Information Resources - Lists of Links
- Web 66 (getting started
with the Internet)
- http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
- EdWeb
- http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb (or through CNIDR, below)
- Class IV News and
Education Network - a list of links with annotations
- http://www.classIV.com/resource.html
Projects and Lesson Plans
- Global SchoolNet - information and
projects
- http://www.gsn.org
- The Hub, part of Technical
Educational Research Centers (TERC) - issues in education
- http://hub.terc.edu
- PEP, Parents Educators
Publishers
- http://www.microweb.com/pepsite
-
Classroom Connect
- includes lesson plans and online resources
- http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/home.asp
- World
Lecture Hall - lectures and lesson plans on many topics
- http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
Activities
- Atlas
Reading on the Web - sites that connect
with the CASAS life skills competencies for emergent readers, by Samantha
Edmonds (recommended by Mary Klein)
- http://www.ace.fuhsd.org/atlasweb/default.htm
- NASA Internet in the
Classroom - great projects
- http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
- Ultimate Children's
Internet Site - projects for kids
- http://www.vividus.com/ucis.html
- Education
Place from Houghton-Mifflin
- http://www.eduplace.com/
- Online Writing Lab -
writing help
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu
- Sunspace (not confirmed)
- http://www.sunspace.com
- KidsCom
- http://www.spectracom.com/kidscom
- AskERIC Virtual Library
- http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu
Online Dictionaries and Reference Works
- Cobuild Dictionary - look for Wordwatch, the Idioms page, and the Definitions Game amid the product information
- http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/index.html
- Webster's Online
Dictionary
- http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
- List of dictionaries
- http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html
- Research-IT -
links to a dictionary, thesaurus, translating dictionary, maps, and many
other resources
- http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html
News Online
- CNN
- http://www.cnn.com
- Time Magazine
- http://www.time.com
- PBS
- http://www.pbs.org
- CLARI News Service, a newsgroup of news stories - you may need to have a subscription to see this one
- http://www.clari.net/
Keypals
-
Keypals for students from Kenji Kitao - includes 'how to' articles
- http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm
- IECC -
Intercultural Email Classroom Connections, a list of mailing lists for
keypals and exchanges
- http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc
- International
Email Tandem Network - for students learning a second language
- http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/idxeng00.html
- Classroom Connect
- keypal exchanges, among other activities
- connectedteacher.classroom.com/
If there is a great K-12 site out there, let me know! My address is
below.
http://osu.orst.edu/~healeyd/ed596/k12_links.html
Last updated 14 July 2001 by Deborah Healey, Deborah.Healey@orst.edu