Teacher/Staff Websites
About.com Secondary Lesson Plans
This site offers information on 450 poets and 1200 poems. Some are available in audio format.
This site has over 7 million documents, photos, maps, films and audio recordings. There are lesson plans, features, activities and tips for using these collections in your classroom.
This comprehensive site offers lessons plans for students studying dance, music, theater, and visual arts. You can search for lessons by arts topic, and specific subject area.
This site is a general gathering place for arts educators. Lots of educational resources and links. Hosted by the Getty Museum.
A simple, free web based calendar that makes it easy for teachers to create class activities and assignment schedules. Students, using a password, can view the calendars.
Ben's Guide to American Government for Kids
This guide provides learning tools for students, parents, and teachers. These resources teach how the government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO access and how one can use GPO to carry out civic responsibilities.
This site offers more than 2000 free texts. There are study guides and reference resources. There are also lesson plans for teachers.resources
Blue Web'N is a searchable database of over 1200 selected Internet sites of value to educators and students. Resources (lessons, activities, projects, references and tools) are categorized by subject area, audience and type.
This site offers internet resources selected and organized by BUBL in England. A great place to start for resources on Europe. This site has a very friendly layout of its resource links.
Librarian Jan Ross of Dixie Elementary is Lexington,KY has collected and posted a variety of PowerPoint reviews and lessons on her school website.
Civic Literacy Initative of Kentucky
This site is dedicated to increasing civic awareness across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. There are curriculum and lesson plans included.
This is a free web based service that allows users to cut, paste and store online content.
Cyber-LC: Webcasts from the Library of Congress
This site offers 100's of webcasts on a variety of subjects and can be chosen to be used by teachers, students, etc..
A Librarian's choice of the Best of the Web. Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, NY.
Discovery School Lesson Plan Library
Discovery School Teacher Tools
Dreamweaver and Fireworks Website Templates
This site offers fee based templates by Entheos Web Design Services for those who like a fill in the blank approach to creating a website.
ECB Surf Report: Web Sites for Teachers
This site offers a collection of pre-selected and screened links for use by Wisconsin's students and teachers. Provided by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Subject categories are on the upper left.
Lessons, webquests and worksheets
Education@National Geographic.com
Education World Teacher Resources
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
This site offers hundreds of federally supported educational resources from more than 30 Federal agencies.
A very comprehensive guide to federal or government information. Created as a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy and intended to be an inclusive site for Federal Government information on the Web.
This website offers information about nutrition including dietary guidelines, the food pyramid, food composition and dietary supplements. It also includes information about food allergies and sensitivities and specific health issues and how nutrition pertains to them.
The Gateway to Educational Materials
Created to provide educators with quick and easy access to collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites. Users may browse by subject, keyword, and grade/educational level.
Greece Athena School District: English Language Arts
Created by a former high school teacher, this site has lots of pre-selected links for high school use.
A resource for US History students and teachers.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center Lesson Plans
This site offers an extensive scholarly internet resource collection of various topics.
Instructional PowerPoint Collection
Jefferson County, Tennessee Schools offers a collection of PowerPoint lessons by grade level and curriculum area.
Ideas for teaching journalism.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This is a highly acclaimed, well organized and categorized list of sites on the internet.
An excellent site for teachers and students. A Web Guide and Search Tool, Kids Click was initiated under a Federal Library Services and Technology Act grant obtained by the Ranapo Catskill Library System.
This site has over 7 million historical documents, photos, maps, films and audio recordings. There are lesson plans, features, activities and tips for using these collections in your classroom.
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 10,000 internet resources. Offers an excellent, regularly updated collection of links to Web information resources.
The entry point to the Library of Congress, our nation's leading library. Lots of full text and graphical resources, exhibits and databases.
This site combines the vast historical treasures from the Library's collection with music, dance and dialogue.
A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
Offers research and practical guidance for educators
This site offers a large general collection of links to information resources about myths and legends. Includes teacher lesson plans and teaching ideas.
National Archives Gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This site offers online math manipulatives with explanations on their use and expamle problems. Math standards are included.
National Science Digital Library
An online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
North Central Regional Educational Labratory
New York Times Learning Network
New York Times Teacher Connections
This site offers online Jeopardy powerpoints. Created by Hardin County School teachers to support the curriculum.
This site offers free basic or subscriber level tools for posting or emailing an online survey.
Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer
This site contains over 3000 lesson plans and activities for students from preschool to high school. There are ideas and sample plans for arts and literature, health and fitness, math, science, and social studies.
Physical Education Lesson Plans
Plagiarism Websites:
The Definitive Guide to Internet Plagiarism
Tips for teachers. Includes a list of annotated links including cheating sites.
Plagiarism Court: You Be the Judge
A plagiarism avoidance tutorial.
The site includes detection tips, prevention and training.
Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
Offers plagiarism explanations and samples in this pamphlet from Indiana Univeristy's Writing Tutorial Services.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
A handout designed to help writers develop stategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.
Explains often misunderstood concepts like fair use, public domain, and copyright laws. The site offers suggestions for integrating plagiarism education into lesson plans, tips for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism and encourage critical thinking. Offers help identifying plagiarism from the Internet and provides printable handouts for students on plagiarism, proper citation and paper writing.
More Physical Education Lesson Plans
This site offers a poem a day for high school students and offers a poetry and literature center with ideas for teacher use. These peoms are currently being put in the Male High school elevator and on the wall by the library weekly..
This site offers five pages of free backgrounds for powerpoint presentations.
This site offers templates for Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Prints, Photographs Division Guides, Reference Aids and Finding Aids.
This site offers 1000's of digitized prints held by the Library of Congress. All content areas are included. An excellent resource.
Print and Photograph Reading Room
This site provides access through group or item records from the Library of Congress. There are about 1 million digital images.
Editorial cartoons with lesson plans
This is a subscription based website that provides tools to create and share games and learning activities, however you can access the recent top activities for free.
Resources for School Health Educators
A site providing a wealth of resources for science educators, NetLinks is a guide to meaningful standards-based internet experiences for students.
This search engine specializes in searching for teacher websites.
Smithsonian Education : Teaching Resources
Social Studies School Service Online Activities
S.O.S. for Information Literacy
This web-based multi media resource can be used to enhance the teaching of information literacy and skills and promotes collaboration. There are previewed lesson plans and best practice video clips.
This site offers interactive resources for information skills lessons.
This easy to use calendar is designed specifically for classroom teachers. Registration is required, but the site is free. You can create, edit and web publish class calendars. The e-calendar comes in daily, weekly or monthly views.
Teachers First Professional Resource Matrix
Teachers Guide to the Holocaust
Teacher's Guide to the Professional Cartoonist's Index
Teachers Helping TeachersTeaching History Online
Lots of simulations
This site is a free worksheet, quiz and game generator.
Teach with Movies: A New Tool for Parents and Teachers
An online magazine written by teens. Different sections include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, opinion, art/photography, reviews and sports. There are also writing contests that pay cash awards. Teens may submit work for review and possible publication.
This site offers a look at American History on the day chosen. It offers information for several different years for any given date.
Tom March's New Best Webquests
This site is for Jefferson County public School Teachers and has audio, video and graphics. You may search by topic or subject. You do have to register. See Mrs. Reinhardt for the initial registration numbers. An excellent site!
Many different sources and resources for the english teacher.
World Mythology: Myths and Legends
Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and look at this great collection of images from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and China. There is a glossary, teacher lessons, curriculum and other information.
This collection was started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. It is run by volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert.