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The following are links to other sites on the Internet that are of educational interest to students and teachers.  This site is updated often.  If any link doesn't work, has content that you feel is inappropriate, or if you have suggestions for other educational links, please email the webmaster.  Thank you!

Teacher Resources

 

Alphy: the Kids' Portal Playground
http://www.alfy.com/teachers/index.asp
Thematic units, lesson plans, brain teasers, links and more. 

The Tired Teacher's Website K-12
 
http:www.teachercertification.org/teach/tired-teacher-website-k12/
The objective of this site is to provide teachers with source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities for grades K-12.

Children's Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com
Activities and books for themes, curriculum ideas

Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/
Gives teachers a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects. Includes abstracts of over 4500 children's picture books
and search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book.

Cyberbee
http://www.cyberbee.com
Some great curriculum ideas for using the Internet in your classroom.  Also Treasure hunts--use the Internet to find the answers.  Ex.  Election 2000, Favorite authors, Wonders of Science...

Discovery Channel School Online
http://school.discovery.com
Printable worksheets, links to other great sites, theme-based lesson plans, etc. Includes a puzzlemaker that allows you to create and print customized word search, crossword, and math puzzles using your own word lists.

Economic Education Web

http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
The mission of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels. Includes resources for K-12 teachers.

Edhelper
http://www.edhelper.com/
10847 Lesson Plans , 1201 WebQuests, 679 File Downloads, 8641 Additional Educational Sites, 4200 Free Worksheet Generators, 1000 Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests, Educational News Updated Daily!

Education Oasis
http://www.educationoasis.com/
A great website for various graphic organizers.  It has tons of resources including lesson plans.

Global Schoolhouse

http://www.gsh.org/

A great source of online collaboration projects

Internet Keypals
http://www.cln.org/int_keypals.html

Look for  keypals for your class

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Billed as "a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth."

KERA Professional Lists
http://www.uky.edu/Education/kylists.htm
Discussion lists (listservs) are a great way for educators to communicate information with each other.  It's easy to subscribe.  Just follow the directions at this site.  There are listservs for math, science, and social studies teachers, to name a few.

KET (Kentucky Educational Television)
http://www.ket.org/education/
Go here for all the latest KET resources, including KET-On Demand, KET Encyclomedia, lesson plans, teacher's guides, and other online resources.

KET Encyclomedia
http://www.ket.org/encyclomedia
This is the portal to United Streaming where you can download hundreds of educational videos.

Literature Links
http://www.loveland.k12.oh.us/district/technology/ITech/LES/Reading/A.htm
Looking for lesson plans and extension activities for a particular book?  This site has hundreds from A-Z.
  
Math Goodies
http://www.mathgoodies.com
A huge math resource of interactive math lessons

NASA K-12
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov
Lots of online interactive projects

National Geographic Education site
http://nationalgeographic.com/education
Lesson plans, activities, maps, photos, flags, bookmarks and more.

Random House Teacher's Resource Center.
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/
Looking for new ideas about ways to teach award-winning books? Seeking exciting ways to bring literature alive for your students?  Just click on the alphabetical title index to get lesson plans for many titles.

TeAchnology.com
www.teach-nology.com
Lesson plans, freebies for teachers, journal articles, site of the week, current trends, etc. 

Woodford Educational Education Foundation (WEEF)
http://ilearn.woodfordschools.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=222 
Staffed entirely by volunteers, the mission of the Woodford Educational Endowment Foundation is to ensure innovative, high-quality education is delivered to public school students throughout the Woodford County School system.

Worksheets

LearningPage Worksheets
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/gallery.html
Basic worksheets for most subjects.  Of special interest are themed worksheets on creatures, including dinosaurs, insects, fish, and reptiles.

Free Teacher Worksheets
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com
Worksheets, Worksheet makers, and Rubric makers are linked.

Worksheet Generator
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator
You can create your own unique worksheets.

 

Bulletin Boards

Teacher Helper Bulletin Board Ideas
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/bulletin
Kathy Schrock's site is a well-maintained list of links to bulletin board sites.

Classroom Decor Ideas
http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/decor
More bulletin board and whiteboard ideas.

Ideas for Bulletin Boards
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/classmanagement/bulletinboards.html
Bulletin board topics as well as backgrounds and borders.

A to Z Teacher Tips--Classroom Decor
http://atozteacherstuff.com/tips/Classroom_Decor
Practical ideas, such as trompe l'oeil windows, seasonal themes, and tips on embellishing doors, desks, etc.