For Everyone

Rubistar
Create rubrics for you project-based learning activities

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 .
 
Annenberg/CPB Channel
... online, streaming video from many popular PBS/Annenberg programs plus professional development programs for educators. Most video series also include instructional guides.
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

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.

Art

MarcoPolo
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 Marco Polo. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
 

MarcoPolo
The Kennedy Center database is seachable through MarcoPolo. The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

English

Resources for teaching Lord of the Flies

Prepared by the Springbrook media specialists.

Resources for teaching Of Mice and Men

Prepared by the Springbrook media specialists.

Resources for teaching To Kill a Mockingbird

Prepared by the Springbrook media specialists.

Resources for teaching A Raisin in the Sun

Prepared by the Springbrook media specialists.

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.

MarcoPolo
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 Marco Polo. 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
MarcoPolo
The Reading Association database is seachable through MarcoPolo. The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

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 Home Page (frameless) 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.

Food Finder
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

Parent Soup
Parenting issues and resources. Education Central includes information for teachers.

Sesame Street
This Children's Television Workshop site has games, stories, coloring pages and activities.

Foreign Languages

MarcoPolo
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 Marco Polo. 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

MarcoPolo
NCTM's database is seachable through MarcoPolo. The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

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.
 
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Check the Digital Dozen - 12 outstanding math and science web sites are featured each month. Plus math topics, lesson plans, sources of real data (in Reference Sources).
  
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

Media

These web sites are used in various teacher workshops presented by the media specialists

  • Search the web sites
  • Bells 'n Whistles
  • Blue Webn Learning Site

    • Science

    MarcoPolo
    AAAS's database is seachable through MarcoPolo. The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.
     
    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

    American memory project from John Day

    MarcoPolo
    The National Council on Economic Education's database is seachable through MarcoPolo. The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.
    MarcoPolo
    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 Marco Polo. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.


    MarcoPolo
    is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards —and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life and searchable through Marco Polo.
     
    Social Studies Bookmarks
    Prepared by MCPS
     
     
    Primary Sources

    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

    Times and Topics
     
    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 Channel School

    History Channel

    PBS

    Turner

    Thinkport is an online resource for MD educators

     

     

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