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