The Academy Curriculum Exchange has lesson plans by grade level with hundreds of lesson plans which are separated by content area. It also includes lesson plans on miscellaneous topics.

ADPRIMA aims to be a source of serious, quality information. Within the site you will find detailed, practical, straightforward information on lesson planning, learning objectives, teaching methods, home schooling, instructional grouping, teaching and values, classroom management, assertive discipline, study skills, thinking skills, job searching, education reform, discussions, contrary opinions, direct instruction, and a whole lot more.

Teachers touch a student's heart every day and help shape their minds. One of the greatest joys of being a teacher is pursuing a hobby of yours — whether it be sports, history, or science — and knowing you made the difference in someone's life. Becoming a Teacher has taken the first for you by listing accredited, online programs on their site.

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.

CanTeach was created in 1997/98 to assist teachers in finding and using resources online. The resources are broken up into two categories. There is a section of Elementary Resources which consists of lesson plans and resources, as well as a section of annotated l inks.

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

Edheads creates unique, educational Web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable using the power and interactivity of the Internet. They set a new standard for excellence by delivering in-depth content in a fresh, exciting style allowing the user to learn intuitively in an online environment.

The First Days of Middle School provides tons of links dedicated to helping new teachers ease into the middle school classroom. Topics include discipline and classroom management, assigning classroom chores, time management, grading and much more!

The Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level.

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 web listing of sites for teachers

JeopardyLabs 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.

Middle School.net is the only site educators, parents and students will want to use. Quality, free curriculum and professional resources for the entire curriculum are available. Please browse around our vast categories, look up a lesson, take a quiz, or do some research!

The Middle School Resources page offers lesson plans, tips for teachers, recommended materials and more.

My Education Discount is a free service that features education discounts available from hundreds of online retailers. And these discounts aren't just for school supplies. You can save on clothing, electronics, food and drink, shoes, gifts, health and beauty, house and home, jewelry and accessories, music and video, pets, sports, fitness, toys, games, travel and more!

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.

Remember The Milk reinvents the "to-do list" by allowing you to manage tasks quickly and easily.

Teacher Vision contains over 20,000 pages of classroom-ready high school, middle school, and elementary lesson plans, printables, and resources online. They also have ideas for great children’s activities and classroom management advice.

The Virtual Middle School Library offers web sites for students, resources for teachers, parents and librarians.

Coloring pages - Edupics.com

 

Student Drawn Clip Art

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art. Browse the video channels and you'll find videos covering a wide array of topics including abstract art, European Art and Design, African Art, graphic design, glass, sculpture, surrealism, and much more.

Art on the Net is a collective of artists from around the world that share their work on the World Wide Web.

The Artist’s Toolkit lets you explore the tools visual artists use - like line, color, and balance - to create visual art.

Arts Ed Net is a national collaborative project for educators interested in Visual Arts and how to use the Internet in the classroom. Images can be sorted by title, artist and date. Lesson plans and curriculum are included.

The Getty Museum has introduced a new way to view art, augmented reality. As employed by The Getty, augmented reality creates 3D displays of art from printed PDF codes displayed in front of a webcam.

Kaleidoscope is the applet that makes it easy for anyone to be a painter.  Just drag the mouse and watch what happens.

Museum of Modern Art offers a sizable collection of online resources for teaching art lessons. Part of that collection is a series of lesson plans, but there are also collections of art for students, an art game for young (5-8 years old) students, interactive activities for older students, and podcasts about art and artists. The MOMA lesson plans collection can be searched by theme, artist, medium, or subject. If the lesson plans in the collection don't offer quite what you're looking for, MOMA has free resources you can use in developing your own plans. MOMA offers many images and PDFs that you can use in developing your own lessons and or slideshows.

MOOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is a list of museums that offer online exhibitions. In some cases the museums include virtual tours and in other cases the museums online exhibits are simple photo galleries. Some of the notable museums featured in the Museum of Online Museums include the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Smarthistory is a free online alternative to expensive art history textbooks. It was developed by art history professors Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Smarthistory features more than just images of notable works of art. It includes videos lessons, VoiceThread lessons, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history. It is a valuable resource. Students can browse all of the resources of Smarthistory by artist name, style of work, theme, or time period.

The Tate Gallery is one of Britain’s premier art museums and a showcase for British art as well as international modern art.

 World Wide Arts Resources contains professional information on art and 1000's of links. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings and more can be can be accessed from this site.

The American Council on Exercise is a nonprofit organization committed to enriching quality of life through safe and effective exercise and physical activity. As America’s Authority on Fitness, ACE protects all segments of society against ineffective fitness products, programs and trends through its ongoing public education, outreach and research. ACE further protects the public by setting certification and continuing education standards for fitness professionals.

The Family Meal is a twenty minute film about obesity in America, its causes, its effects, and the disappearance of the family meal in American homes. The film focuses on how developing the habit of eating "family meals" at home can reduce the rate of obesity in American children.

Fat World is an educational video game funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The game isn't designed to tell students what they should or shouldn't eat rather it is designed to get students thinking about the results of food choices. In the game students explore the socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural factors that influence the nutrition choices people make. Students will also explore the roles of the government and interest groups in the marketing of foods. Fat World is available as a free download for Windows and Mac users. 

Get the Glass is a game produced by the California Milk Processor Board. The game is designed to promote milk consumption. It takes students on a journey with the milk-deprived Adachi family as they try to break into "Fort Fridge" where they will find an unlimited supply of milk. Throughout the game students will learn about the benefits of drinking milk and making healthy beverage choices.

Nutrition Explorations, developed by the National Dairy Council, provides nutrition education information and resources for teachers, parents and kids. Guides, school programs and menu and games are featured.

The National Institutes of Health site has organized education resources by topics, resource formats, and grade levels.

Sugar Stacks is a good website for understanding how much sugar is in the food and beverages that we consume. Sugar Stacks lists popular food and beverage items in ten categories. Every item is pictured with a stack of sugar cubes. Each sugar cube represents four grams of sugar. This is a great way to see just how much sugar you really consume in your favorite snack or beverage.

AdLit.org is all about adolescent literature. You can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy. AdLit's strategies page also gives guidance as to the proper timing for implementing the suggested strategies.

Book Report Ideas

Bubbl.us is a free mind mapping/ graphic organization tool that allows users to collaboratively create and edit mind maps. Mind mapping or creating webs can help students develop a story outline. Bubbl.us takes just seconds to figure out and you can try it before registering for an account. With Bubbl.us users can use their keyboard or use the drag and drop interface to arrange elements in their mind maps. Publishing work created with Bubbl.us can be done by exporting the file to a JPEG, PNG, or as an XML or HTML file. Any mind map created using Bubbl.us can be embedded into a blog or website.

The English Language Arts Curriculum Resource and Guide is specifically written for middle school English teachers—a huge resource for implementing and maintaining an effective instruction strategy.

Giggle Poetry contains lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! It also has ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.

At Instant Poetry Forms you choose your poetry form from the list of links and then just add words to make the poem your own.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, or print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

Make Beliefs Comix allows you to create your own comic strips.

Read the Words creates an easy to use platform that allows users alternative methods to process written information

The Teachers and Writers Collaborative site provides a number of resources including an extensive list of links

Thumb Scribes is a platform for collaboratively creating poems and short stories. Thumb Scribes can be used in two ways. First, you can contribute to story or poem that someone else has started and placed in the public gallery. Second, you can start your own story or poem and either place it in the public gallery or invite others to collaborate with you. If you put your poem or story in the public gallery anyone can add to it. If you don't want the whole world adding to your poem or story you can mark it as "private" and invite individuals to add to it.

Visualthesaurus specialize in user interfaces and visualization mechanisms that allow end-users to more effectively browse and understand complex information. Users can sign up for a 14 day trial, after that there is a fee.

Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the dictionary definition of the word.

WritingFix is a teacher resource website that contains lessons and ideas for any educator to freely use in their K-12 classrooms. It is the home of interactive writing prompts.

At Scholastic’s with Scholastic’s Writing with Writers you can study eight different genres and practice writing them. Students complete step-by-step workshops hosted by writers, editors, and illustrators to work on one of eight different genres and then publish their own writing.

Books Should Be Free is a provider of free audio books. Books Should Be Free hosts hundreds of free audio books in a wide range of genres. All of the audio books in the collection are either public domain or Creative Commons works. All of the audio books can be downloaded directly from Books Should Be Free and or iTunes.

The University of Michigan provides this Fantasy and Science Fiction site which contains a multitude of links to science fiction and fantasy reading lists.

The Mystery Reader gives you lists of mystery genres such as the romantic or cozy mystery, tips on new books, interviews with authors and more. It is an excellent site for the mystery lover.

Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

WritingFix is a teacher resource website that contains lessons and ideas for any educator to freely use in their K-12 classrooms. It is the home of interactive writing

Billy Bug is a graphing game for elementary and middle school students.

Brain Nook is a virtual world in which students can practice their mathematics and English skills. Brain Nook provides students with a series of scenarios that they have to resolve by answering mathematics and language arts questions. Brain Nook presents students with questions based on their skill levels which is determined by a quick pre-assessment and adjusted as they progress through Brain Nook's virtual worlds. 

Cyberchase is an animated television series teaches kids aged 8–12 math and problem-solving concepts and helps build an appreciation of math as a tool we can use every day.

Figure This! demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students. 

Free Math Help offers students free mathematics tutorials. Tutorials are available as text based lessons or narrated video lessons. Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, and Statistics tutorials are available for free to students. If, after watching the tutorials students have more questions, students can head over to the message boards to ask clarifying questions.

The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.

Math.com provides links to all types of math help.

Math Goodies is a free math help site featuring interactive lessons, puzzles and worksheets. We have provided free homework help since 1999! There are more than 400 pages of activities for students, educators and parents.

Math Hunt allows you to explore amazing facts and fantastic math. They scour the web for science and social studies information to help us crack math problems.

Math Live is a very nice mathematics website developed by Learn Alberta . Math Live presents students with animated stories that teach mathematics lessons. In all there are twenty-three lessons for elementary school and middle school students. The lessons are divided into four categories; Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, Statistics and Probability. Each animated lesson is accompanied by a mathematics worksheet that students complete either while watching the lesson or after viewing the lesson. Each lesson is divided into sections and students can advance or rewind as needed

Number Nut offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It is not just of kids, it’s for everyone. Under basic math they cover: Shapes & Colors, Numbers & Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Advanced Math covers: Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Estimation & Rounding, Ratios and Money.

Yummy Math is a website designed for the purpose of sharing mathematics problems and scenarios based on things happening in the world today. For example, the activity for December 12th was based on wrapping Christmas presents. Yummy Math lists activities chronologically as well as by mathematics subject area. Two mathematics teachers, Brian Marks and Leslie Lewis, developed Yummy Math and welcome suggestions from other mathematics teachers. 

Arts Edge, produced by the Kennedy Center, is a collection of podcasts, lesson plans, and links for teaching music and culture. The podcast directory is where you will find an eclectic collection of podcasts featuring music ranging from Jazz in DC to Music from China. The "Teach" section of Arts Edge is a good place to find lesson plans for teaching music and culture.

Electronic Music Interactive is a multimedia primer for electronic music that prepares students for more advanced study.

Incredibox is a neat website that allows you to create unique rhythms and sounds from drag-and-drop menu. The sounds in the menus are recordings of a Bobby McFerrin-like artist making "human beat box" sounds. You can experiment with different sound loops, choruses, and instrumental sounds to create your own unique sound loops. To use Incredibox just head over to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the "people field." Every time you add a new sound a new person appears in the screen. Click a person to delete the sound he represents.

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.

My Files is owned and maintained by Jim Paterson, a classical and film music enthusiast living in Scotland. Each month, he features ten classical composers and sheet music for the various instruments of selected classical or film scores.

The National Association for Music Education offers lesson plans and other features. MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers.

The New York Philharmonic Kidzone is a place for kidsto come and learn about the New York Philharmonic and about the instruments, music, musicians and more.

Songsterr is a guitar service offering an extraordinary experience of playing, learning, and singing guitar online. Songsterr provides a realistic guitar sound and gives you a full control over the playback - it's up to you to decide when it's time to move to the next chord and to sing a new verse.

Biointeractive contains activities guaranteed to engage even the most disinterested and non-scientific student.  

Biology 4 Kids has information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics.

Biology in Motion provides original, entertaining, interactive biology learning activities

Brainy Kids contains online science resources for students, teachers, and parents.

CHEM4KIDS provides basic chemistry information. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone. They have information on matter, atoms, elements, the periodic table, reactions and biochemistry.

Cosmos 4 Kids provides information on astronomy basics and the science of the stars.

FOSSWeb is the official site for the inquiry-based FOSS, or Full Option Science System science curriculum. It is a place for support, resources and fun activities.

Google Body Browser gives you a 360 degree view of the human body. You can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. You can turn on all the layers at the same time and alter the transparency of each layer. Turn on labels to have labels appear each time you click on a part of the body.

NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel

Physics 4 Kids has information on motion, heat and thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism, light and modern physics topics.

Sci 4 Kids is geared to children ages 8 to 13, and is a series of interactive stories based on research projects featured in Agricultural Research, ARS' monthly publication, and other news items.

The Science of Football is a series of ten videos from NBC Learn explaining and demonstrating math and science concepts as they relate to football. Besides football, they have the science of the Olympics, Finishing the dream, chemistry now and the changing planet.

Succeeding With Science is a great resource for games, videos, and other activities for teaching and learning science. Succeeding With Science is organized by age and within each age range there is a selection of games and activities for students to use on his or her own. You'll find that quite a few of the activities are suitable for use on touch screen computers and interactive whiteboards.

At Weather Watch you can use the Interactive Weather Maker to turn a sunny day into a windy day or create a rainy day.

WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum. Your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging.

The WorldWide Telescope makes very detailed, high resolution images (scientific quality) from space available to anyone with access to a computer and an internet connection. The goal of the WorldWide Telescope is to enable users to use their computers as virtual telescopes. It can be downloaded and run on Windows-based computers. Mac users will have to use the web client to access the WorldWide Telescope. The educator’s page on the WorldWide Telescope site has lesson resources and ideas for middle school and high school use.

America ’s Story is an interactive primary source site to study American history

Geography 4 Kids has an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth's structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere

History Animated provides animations of the American Revolution, the US Civil War, and the US Pacific Campaign in WWII. In each of the three series of animations you will see the animated movement of armies displayed on a map. Each animation is accompanied by captions describing the strategies of the armies as well as the results and consequences of each battle. All of the animations on History Animated are available for free viewing on the website.

Historypin is a service developed by We Are What We Do in partnership with Google. Historypin allows anyone with a Google account to place images within the setting of current Google Maps Street view imagery. If you don't have images to add, you can simply explore the imagery added by others. To explore the imagery on Historypin, zoom in on a location then select a range of dates on the Historypin timeline.

The Natural History Museum features thousands of artifacts, top-notch exhibits, and cutting edge educational programs.

TimeRime allows users to create timelines that include text, images, audio, and video. One of the better features of TimeRime is that you can have more than one type of media for each event on your timeline. TimeRime users can also select which media type they want as the feature piece of each event. As we've come to expect with any web 2.0 tool of this type, you can embed the timeline in a blog or share it via email. TimeRime can be used in English or Spanish.

Travel Pod produced this great geography game that works well using a SMARTBoard.

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