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General

Annenberg Media
Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum
 
Celebrate & Investigate Diversity
To access lesson plans, activities, reading lists to help celebrate ethnic months visit MCPS's OIPD “Celebrate and Investigate Diversity” instructional support Web site.
 
Jerrie's Curriculum Hotlists
A list of over 50 theme-related collections for the PreK to 12 educator dealing with curriculum topics and classroom technology
 
Public Broadcasting Service
Teacher activities and resources that are designed around the content of PBS shows for arts & literature, health & fitness, math, science, & social studies
 
RubiStar
Create rubrics for you project-based learning activities
 
Thinkfinity
Find Quality Internet Content for Your Classroom! The Thinkfinity Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the Thinkfinity Partners plus Partner reviewed materials. (Individual resources listed in subject areas)

Art

EDSITEment
EDSITEment, The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
ArtsEdge
The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge database is seachable through Thinkfinity.

English

Resources prepared by Springbrook media specialists for teaching the following books:
 
 
Resources for teaching Poetry
Online Poetry Classroom. Visit forums where teachers can share ideas, seek help from colleagues and explore curriculum units, lesson plans, biographies of hundreds of poets and nearly two thousand poems.
 
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general online public.
 
EDSITEment
EDSITEment, The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
National Council of Teachers of English
 
The Reading Association
The Reading Association database is searchable through Thinkfinity.
 
Illuminating Texts (English Companion)
Web companion to book by J. Burke. Excellent articles on reading the internet, texts, tests, literature, information and images and media literacy.
 
Folger Library
 
AP Central
The College Board's Online Home for AP Professionals
 
Web English Teacher
Resources, lesson plans, WedQuests, e-texts, and classroom activities
 
Writers Inc Companion Site
 
“Moby Shakespeare” from MIT: The Works
The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
 
Teaching Shakespeare
Terry Gray's incredible collection of Shakespeare links
 
Research and Documentation Online
How to document in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
 
OWL
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
 
SCORE
CyberGuides (online projects on many core works of literature taught at SHS)
 
Voices From the Gaps
Extensive research on Women Writers of Color from the University of Minnesota.

ESOL

On-Line English Grammar
The On-Line English Grammar Home Page links the user to a Subject Index or Table of Contents, these are the two major categories here. Either will send you on your way. From the Subject page (framed with a sidebar index), you can jump to the grammar topic of your choice, from "Adjectives" to "Who, Whom, Which" and "Yet as an adverb of time". Thoughtful explanations emerge when the user clicks on the hyperlink. There are also "Practice Pages" where you will find English language exercises written by a number of published English language specialists and contributing teachers. Also available (among many other resources) is a "Grammar Clinic" where you can submit grammar questions that are posted and answered within a week. This is a very thorough site which deserves a visit and a bookmark.
 
English Language Teachers
Links for ESOL teachers include a bulletin board and conference area.
 
SCORE
California provides a collection of sites for ESOL teachers.
 
Education World
A collection of everything educational. Type ESL in the text box for a list of pertinent links.

Family and Consumer Science

Native Way Cookbook: The Cookbook of the Grandmothers
Traditional and contemporary recipes organized by tribe.
 
Low-Fat Living
Addresses the need to develop a healthier life style that includes exercise as well as a low fat diet.
 
FatCalories.com
Nutritional information about fast food items.
 
Epicurious
A huge recipe database plus a dictionary and "Playing With Your Food" etiquette section.
 
The WholeFamily Center
Addresses the concerns of modern families. Features include an on-line magazine and separate marriage, parenting and teen centers.
 
LD Online
Information and ideas about learning disabilities
 
iVillage Pregnancy and Parenting
Parenting issues and resources.
 
Sesame Street
This Children's Television Workshop site has games, stories, coloring pages and activities.

Foreign Languages

EDSITEment
EDSITEment, The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.

Mathematics

Illuminations
NCTM's Illuminations is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
Math Forum
Gold mine for math teachers from Drexel University. Features include Ask Dr. Math, web units, lesson plans, the Internet Math Library, and an electronic newsletter.
 
Blue Web’n Mathematics
Collection of activities, links, lessons. Includes algebra, calculus, geometry, statistics and probability, problem solving.
 
The Math Archives
Teaching materials, links, software from the University of Tennessee. Features links to math competitions and contests and professional math societies.
 
SCORE Math Lessons
Features include assessment and examples of real world mathematics.
 
Mathematics Lessons that are Fun Fun Fun
Interactive Mathematics lessons from Cynthia Lanius at Rice University.
 
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Activities from Utah State University for all grades on Numbers, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis.
 
IFigure
iFigure provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
 
Geometry in Motion
"Daniel Scher has created this website with a collection of geometric diagrams using Java Sketchpad. Visitors can interact with the drawings online to learn about geometry. The author poses questions and invites visitors to work through the problems using the diagrams provided. In addition to these carefully organized activities, Scher has posted a variety of articles he has written on geometry"
 
WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics
Talk outline and links presented at Technology in Statistics Education by Robin Lock, St. Lawrence University

Science

Science NetLinks
AAAS's Science NetLinks is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
Science NetLinks
Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
 
NSTA
Homepage of the National Science Teachers Association
 
The Why Files
Explores the science behind the headlines
 
Periodic Table of Comic Books
A complete periodic table with links to a number of comic book covers related to each element

Social Studies

EconEdLink
The National Council on Economic Education's EconEdLink is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
EDSITEment
EDSITEment, The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities is searchable through Thinkfinity. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 
Xpeditions
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. Xpeditions is searchable through Thinkfinity.
 
Social Studies Bookmarks
Prepared by MCPS
 
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. They cover the span of history from ancient to modern times and are well-organized.
 
American Memory
from the Library of Congress
 
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
 
Historic Text Archive
 
US Historical Documents
 
Social/Studies History resources
Resources and lessons by grade and theme prepared by California schools On-line
 
McREL: History Resources and Standards
 
National Council for the Social Studies Online
 
Social Studies Activities
 
Resources for Social Studies Teachers
 
World Atlas
One of many map sites. This one is from The Mining Company and includes National Geographic and CIA Fact Book Maps for each country.
 
The HistoryNet
Weekly articles, Photo of the day, Daily questions and annotated archives.
 
U.S. Civil War Center
From LSU with indexed links to Civil War info
 
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
 
Holocaust Memorial Museum
 
Teachers' Guide to the Holocaust
from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology
 
National Geographic Online
 
Thomas
 
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
 
Fedstats
statistics compiled by U.S. government
 
Historical Census Data
An EASY to use statistical database.
Educational Broadcasting
Discovery Education
Access "School Resources" and "Educator Network" for all the resources formerly available in "Discovery School".
 
History Channel
 
PBS
 
Turner Learning
 
Thinkport is an online resource for MD educatorsThinkport
Thinkport is a resource for Maryland educators, families, and communities from Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education.