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The purpose of A OK Teachers Stuff.com is to provide teachers, educators with resources to work with their students or children. It contains resources for reading, math, science, online reference books, special needs children information, and freebies for teachers.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

The About School site will help students, teachers and parents succeed in all school subjects.

ALPS, Active Learning Practice for Schools, is an electronic community dedicated to the improvement and advancement of educational instruction and practice. Our mission is to create an on-line collaborative environment between teachers and administrators from around the world with educational researchers, professors, and curriculum designers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero.

ASD.com is the best on-line resource to gather relevant information on over 105,000 K-12 schools in the United States. It is the most convenient and low cost method with search capabilities that allow you to view information, one school at a time.

Assign-A-Day is a free tool designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar. Teachers create a calendar for each of their classes and add assignments for the students to view. Students view their teachers' calendars in order to see assignments for classes they might have missed, or to get an overview of the class.

Awesome Library organizes 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians.

Becoming a Teacher was developed by Holly Kearny. It helps you find the teaching degree you need to become a teacher.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviors and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy describes many traditional classroom practices, behaviors and actions, but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies, infowhelm (the exponential growth in information), increasing ubiquitous personal technologies or cloud computing.

Breaking News offers English lesson plans for teaching current events.

The Center for Innovation and Engineering in Science Education sponsors sponsor global, collaborative projects in which students act as citizen scientists. Projects involve gathering, analyzing, and contributing real data from around the world relating to everything from household water usage to schoolyard habitats.

Cha Cha helps you get human-powered answers to any question - anytime, anywhere, all for free - on the web and through your mobile phone by texting 242-242*.

Class 2 Class is a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.

Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.

Cyber School Bus is a global education project of the United Nations. It includes interactive games, WebQuests, and other resources to promote global citizenship.

The primary mission of Digital Directions is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education. They cover local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade.

The Ohio Area Media Centers Digital Video Collection feature hundreds of digital videos available for download. Use the Infohio username and password for access.

The Dirksen Congressional Center's Editorial Cartoon Collection includes editorial cartoons and related lesson plans that teach students to identify issues, analyze symbols, acknowledge the need for background knowledge, recognize stereotypes and caricatures, think critically and appreciate the role of irony and humor.

Discipline Help

Discipline Help is a reference for handling over 117 misbehaviors at school and at home.

Donors Choose is a national initiative that has generated more than $36 million for 90,000 plus school projects since 2000. Public school teachers post a specific request on the Web site. Citizen philanthropists choose which requests they want to fund. Kids follow up with thank-you notes. What gets funded? Everything from musical instruments to picture books to classroom technology.

E School News is a K-12 decision makers' technology and internet newspaper.

Easy Test Maker provides a free test making site for teachers. You can create multiple choice, fill in the blank, short answer, and true and false questions. You can also edit your test at any time.

EdHelper is a top education and teacher site. It contains over 200 teacher sites and they are ranked by traffic.

The United States Department of Education website offers information on government programs including "No Child Left Behind".

Edmondo is a private social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments.

Educational Hotlists link to online resources that science educators and enthusiasts may find useful.

Education Index is an annotated guide to education related sites on the web.

Houghton Mifflin Publishers offers Education Place with lots of helpful information for teachers.

Education World is the Educator's Best Friend. This resource includes: a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; and employment listings.

The Educpics website is a collection of images from various sources. All images may be used for individual and/or educational (non-commercial) purposes.

As a leading national center for teaching about conflict and social responsibility, ESR has been providing effective and credible resources for teaching important current issues for over 20 years. The ESR Online Teacher Center provides teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.

The Educator's Reference site has great links for educators in the areas of counseling, general education, librarianship, family life, teaching, technology, subject areas, and more.

EduHound.com contains educational resources, lesson plans, clip art, worksheets, K-12 teacher websites, homework, multimedia, technology tutorials, and an education newsletter.

Edutopia contains thousands of articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources highlight success stories in K-12 education.

Epals offers a classroom matching service along with an online language translator.

4Teachers allows you to expand your curriculum with their timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels.

When you're learning about something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "Four to Explore" for each topic.

Fact Monster is a kids' reference website brought to you by the editors at Information Please.Fact Monster is an ideal reference site for kids ages 8-14 that provides entertainment and educational resources. It combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once. .

FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. It offers more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources which are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about United States philanthropy

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a one-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the internet.

Global Citizen Corps allows students to connect with other youth who share their interest in tackling global poverty, or pose questions to field experts working in hot spots around the world.

Global Schoolnet helps to find online opportunities for teachers to collaborate with other teachers and includes more than 750 online collaborative projects.

Good Character helps you find lessons and resources for teaching character education.

Graphic Organizers from SCORE contains a large selection of various graphic organizers including an Inter-action Outline, and Anticipation/Reaction Guide, Chain of Events, Compare and Contrast, and the usual Venn diagrams.

Owned by NBC, Hulu is an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips. It includes channels on special topics such as documentaries and current affairs.

I Love Schools match America's school teachers with individual, group and corporate donors of new, used or in-kind classroom resources. Donors select the classrooms receiving their donations as well as tell us how much we can use to cover our administrative costs.

I Love that Teaching Idea inspires teachers with practical, teacher-created ideas and resources that you can use in your classroom immediately.

INFOhio Online Resources provides reliable databases for information & research, including newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, and more.

Inspiring Teachers is a community of educators networking for mutual growth and support in the teaching profession. Their mission is to empower beginning teachers and provide strategies to help them not just survive, but thrive in the classroom. We also seek to encourage those who train, mentor, and lead new teachers, and offer resources to help them in their efforts.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other culture artifacts in digital form.

Jefferson County Schools Teacher Page contains a comprehensive listing of web site for teachers.

Jeopardy Labs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use their simple editor to get your game up and running. You can also browse other jeopardy templates created by other people.

T.H.E. Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.

Journey North connects classrooms from the northern and southern hemispheres for inquiry based projects that deal with seasonal migration.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

K12 Station is a free library that features over 20,000 web-based resources for K-12 students, teachers and families. Just click on a grade level and topic to view dozens of sites with tutorials, games, movies, simulations, primary source documents, and more!

Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents.

The Knowledge Loom is a place for educators worldwide to do the following: review research that identifies promising practices related to various themes, view stories about the practices in real schools/districts, learn to replicate the success of these practices in your own organization, add your own stories and knowledge to the collections, and discover supporting organizations and resources, including annotated Web links.

Landmarks for Schools is dedicated to the idea that the very nature of information is changing, practically before our eyes. It is changing in what it looks like, where we find it, what we look at to view it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. Here you will find information and tools designed to help us redefine literacy for the 21st Century.

Learn to be Healthy provides interactive student health science activities and teacher lesson plans for FREE that include: Teacher-led Activities, Student Games and Webquests.

Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here.

Linda's Links to Literature offers links to Reading Resources for free and fee. The free site offers hundreds of links to websites that provide general information about children’s and young adult literature, authors and illustrators, book of the week, and more.

Try Brain Games to improve your memory and retention try Word Sort for logical reasoning; Lost in Migration for attention and Memory Matrix for spatial areas.

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		Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.
		My Education Discount is a free website listing of companies that provide teachers and school personnel with discounts.
		My Timeline Builder will help you construct a timeline, adding events, descriptions, and images that help bring content alive.
		The National Council for the Social Studies produces this site which includes awards and grants, bookstore, discussion board, internet links, journals and publications, standards and curriculum and teaching resources.
		The National Council of Teachers of English site includes links to professional news and events; teaching ideas; books, journals and other resources; research and discussion lists.
		The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional dev elopement and research.
		The National Education Association site has links to public education; students; teaching; schools; partnerships; parents and news and issues.
		National Geographic Education provides many links to quality educational materials.
		The National Science Teachers Association site features what's hot; the science store; a legislative update; conventions; awards and competitions; journal & publications; news and information and online resources.
	Ohio Department of Education - Checklists	Kent State produced this Checklist by grade level of academic content standards from The Ohio Department of Education.
		This is the Ohio Department of Education website.
		This is the web site of the Ohio Public Library Information Network.
		The Ohio Resource Center enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resources.
		The Ohio Treasure Chest is an online collection of thousands of websites which are high-quality, teacher-reviewed, interactive, and free. Each website is aligned directly to the Ohio Academic Content Standards in math, science, language arts, and social studies, and ready for use in your classroom.
		The primary purpose of *Pathways to School Improvement* is to provide convenient access to information you can use to realize your school-improvement goals.
		PBS Teacher Source offers: free resources for teaching and learning, local resources and services, professional development, and PBS video products.
		Peak Learning System provides professional development materials for educators committed to performance excellence for all kids.
		Performance Education offers free lesson plans in the social studies area.
		Personal Educational Press is an online utility for teachers, parents, and tutors. It allows you to make flashcards, print word lists, and generate worksheets for educational games.
		Pro Teacher Directory contains a directory that covers all of the major educational areas.
		Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crisscross, math puzzles, and more—using your own word lists.
		Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 5 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.
		Quiz Revolution is THE place to create professional looking quizzes for your website, or blog. It takes just a few minutes to make a quiz and seconds to add it to your site. Any quiz you save is hosted on our site and is available to play anytime.
		Read Write Think provides educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
		Horace Mann and nationally recognized teacher, Alan Haskvitz, developed Reach Every Child which offers educational resources for teachers and students. It includes lesson plans to make reaching students and using technology easier.
		Remember The Milk reinvents the to-do list" by allowing you to manage tasks quickly and easily.
	Rubrics and Evaluation Resources	View general rubric templates as well as rubrics for multimedia projects on this Rubrics and Evaluation Resources web site. Other links will give you bookmark management tips, critical thinking resources, etc.
		Secondary Assessment Tools will help you find all kinds of product, process, and reading/writing assessments. Create your own assessment or look at other links for topics such as ESL assessment.
	Secondary School Educators Page	From About.com the Secondary School Educators Page site offers information on lesson plans, educational issues, teaching strategies and much more.
		Sites for Teachers contains lesson plans, worksheets, activities, clip art and more.
		Smithsonian Education was developed for educators to provide lesson plans, resources, a media catalog, field trips and more.
		Songs for Teaching allows creative teachers to use music to teach content across the curriculum -- to students of all ages. They offer thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.
		Stenhouse Publishing is a professional resource by teachers for teachers. The entire text of all new Stenhouse books is available for free online reading.
		Ta-da List is the web's easiest to-do list tool. Make lists for yourself or share them with others.
		The Teachable Moment site provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment.
		Teacher Files is a source of free educational resources for teachers to use in their classrooms. The pages are full of resources, ideas, clip art, activities and lesson plans.
		Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators and librarians address common questions about the use of technology in teaching and learning by providing easy access to practical, online resources and activities.
		Teacher Planet offers free access to over 10,000 theme based resources including templates, rubrics, worksheets and more.
		Teacher View is is an online community for teachers featuring free worksheets, coloring pages, lesson plans, discussion forums, teacher tools, and more!
		Teacher Vision contains over 20,000 pages of classroom-ready high school, middle school, and elementary lesson plans, printable's, and resources online. They also have ideas for great children’s activities and classroom management advice.
		Teachers Corner.net offers printable worksheets covering puzzles, brain teasers, word searches, word scrambles, match-up worksheets, crossword puzzle maker, telling time worksheets, money worksheets and printable calendars.
		Teachers.Net offers over 150 unique "channels" for teachers by grade level, curriculum, region, and dozens of special interest groups to connect with each other.
	Teachers Teaching Teachers	Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly webcast on the EdTech Talk channel of the World Bridges network.
		Teachnet.com provides lesson plans, how to projects, and power tools for education. You can also sign up for a weekly e-mail newsletter.
		TeAchnology is a web portal of educators that includes reviews of sites, teacher worksheets, downloads, rubrics and other teacher tools. You can also request a teacher newsletter delivered by email.
		Tech Trekers is a great site for teachers. It includes sites from early elementary to high school, free stuff for teachers, history, math, and science sites, simulation sites, scavenger hunts, thematic units, virtual field trips, webquests, Power Point ideas, rubrics, and web page tools.
		Find unique teaching tips written in "My teachers" on Dr. Kathie Nunley's web site for educators.
		Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers . It is designed to be a supplement to classroom instruction, not as a replacement for it. Ten Marks provides educators with an online forum in which they can assign mathematics practice problems to students and track their students' progress. If a student gets stuck on a problem he or she can open a tutorial to help him or her through the problem. Ten Marks provides teachers with the option to CC parents on the assignments sent to students. The online curriculum provided by Ten Marks can be aligned to the state standards a teacher chooses.
		Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports. Testmoz is free, and does not require you (or your students) to register. You can build a fully functional test in about a minute.
		Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Their goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.
		WWW.Teachers.com is a handy online reference guide that can assist you to incorporate blogs into your classroom projects. It is a nice collection of links to writing tools, helpful articles, aggregators, sample educational blogs, and other sites that should have you up and posting with the best of them.
		The concept of WVIZ Ideastream is to bring together a variety of educational and public service media programs to leverage creative, technical and financial assets to better serve our communities.
		Web Poster Wizard is a FREE tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages.
		Wordle is a free tool that turns a block of text, or simply a list of words, into a cloud pattern. Words that are used most frequently are displayed most prominently. You can play with layout, font, and colors to change the appearance or highlight certain vocabulary.
		Write Design is a great site that shows how to apply graphic organizers to the classroom.
		Yellowbook is a phone directory available through the internet.
		Web Quest Generator creates free web quests for teachers to use.