K-12 Instructional Web Sites

Art Education by crayola provides rich hands-on learning experiences, linked with core curriculum standards. New lessons are added each week. Colorful, creative curriculum ideas for young children. Perfect for preschools, day-care centers, and family child care providers.

ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.

ArtsEdNet enables educators and curriculum developers to create curricula that reflect a comprehensive approach with learning and teaching in and through art.

Association for the Advancement of Arts Education (AAAE)
http://www.aaae.org/

The AAAE is the direct result of a comprehensive two-year study which surveyed hundreds of superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, school board members, artists, professional arts administrators and community leaders regarding their views on arts education.

In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects—fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European Paintings—can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

NCELA, the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly NCBE, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA, formerly OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.

Bilingual Education: New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
http://www.njtesol-njbe.org/

A professional organization for those concerned with the teaching of English as a Second Language, Bilingual Education and Standard English as a Second Dialect.

The Economics & Business Education Association represents teachers and lecturers of economics, business studies and related subjects in schools and colleges throughout the UK. The prime objective of their site is to:

The growing focus on establishing a national framework for State School-to-Work Opportunities systems has led to the development of programs and policies designed to actively prepare students for the future job market.

Originally titled Home Economics Resources Online, this website has officially been renamed Family and Consumer Science Resources Online. The links provided at this web site will give insight to the many resources available on the Internet in the field of Home Economics/Family and Consumer Science.

Dr. Marty Levine is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Secondary Education at California State University, Northridge. One of his interests lies in preparing teachers to work in ESL and bilingual classrooms. He provides links to lesson plans and resources that should prove valuable in the classroom.

Health and physical education links and resources developed by the Potosi Public Schools in Wisconsin for educational use and purposes.

Prevention is the ultimate key to reversing the upward trend in the use of drugs and empowering communities to address their drug problems. Central to this effort is the development and implementation of initiatives to prevent illicit drug use, including casual use by youth and other high-risk populations. The most effective strategies for preventing drug use, keeping drugs out of neighborhoods and schools, and providing a safe and secure environment for all people are cooperative efforts that mobilize and involve all elements of a community.

Resources on this page include links to general information about vocational education, career and technical education, and workforce preparation. You will also find resources for history of vocational education, current legislation news, statistics, associations, organizations and vocational teacher preparation programs.

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 17,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

Education World, the Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident.

FamilyEducation Network has at its core one of the most valuable missions in society: the success of our next generation. They use technology -- specifically the Internet -- to bring together a caring community of parents, teachers, school administrators, and professionals whose expertise involves children. They have forged public/private partnerships that bring a uniquely powerful mix of resources to the audience. With this community, they form a supportive, helpful network of people dedicated to children's learning in school and in life.

The High School Hub/Ace is a noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features interactive learning activities, an ongoing poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, science, world languages, arts, and technology.

This site is provided to all educators as a service of ENCCARE located at East Carolina University. The goal of this project is to provide links to the most useful sites currently found on the Internet. Only sites that have been reviewed and found to contain valuable information are included. By including only the best sites, we hope to save educators valuable time. Choose a general education site or choose a specific area of interest from the menu on the left. Sites for All Educators: the sites contain information on multiple subjects and general educational topics.

This site is linked by Dr. Günter Krumme of the University of Washington as part of his Educational Resource Page. His overview of Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) is a must visit site for all critical thinkers and educational leaders. Internet links to skills and related literature can help the novice and expert alike.

This site has a multitude of resources and links for educators from N-12 through college. Administrative links include: Discipline & Management, Legal Issues, Professional Organizations, Professional Development, State Education Associations, School Safety and Year-Round Education.

The Department of Education's key statutory responsibilities include the administration of state education law as prescribed in Title 18A of New Jersey Statutes Annotated and state education regulations in Title 6 of the New Jersey Administrative Code. The department serves as the State Education Agency (SEA), provides assistance to and monitors activities of local school districts and licenses teachers and other educators. It also sets standards for school improvement and administers statewide assessments to measure student achievement.

Core curriculum content standards are an attempt to define the meaning of "Thorough" in the context of the 1875 State constitutional guarantee that students would be educated within a Thorough and Efficient system of free public schools. They describe what all students should know and be able to do upon completion of a thirteen-year public education.

The Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) provides affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible schools and libraries in the United States. Funded at up to $2.25 billion annually, the Program provides discounts on telecommunications services, Internet access and internal connections.

A comprehensive resource for information in the development of teachers: A good teacher explains.
A superior teacher demonstrates. A great teacher inspires.

This is a network that provides numerous resources to teachers and educational administrators. The partner network is The Administrators' Net linked above.

TEAMS Distance Learning brings exemplary learning opportunities to K-8 students, teachers, and parents across the United States through nationally televised satellite broadcasts and the Internet. Learners use instructional technologies to access a combination of the best features of time-dependent (synchronous) video-based instruction along with time-independent (asynchronous) computer access to multimedia and the Internet. TEAMS Distance Learning is one component of the ET&T (LACOE Telecommunications and Technology) division, a service of the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). Funded in part by Star Schools legislation through the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (O.E.R.I.).

About NCATE: Teaching children—to recognize letters, to read for the first time, to understand how a tree grows—is one of the most important jobs in America. The nation's future depends, in large part, on how well it is done. NCATE is the profession's mechanism to help establish high quality teacher preparation. Through the process of professional accreditation of schools, colleges and departments of education, NCATE works to make a difference in the quality of teaching and teacher preparation today, tomorrow, and for the next century. NCATE is a coalition of 33 specialty professional associations of teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers. All are committed to quality teaching, and together, the coalition represents over 3 million individuals.

The original U.S. Department of Education was created in 1867. It collected information on schools and teaching that would help the states establish efficient school systems. This emphasis on promoting educational excellence by collecting and sharing information remains an important role for the Department.

The mission of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is to improve the lives of their members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services they provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication! It is dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts. They have served the needs of Parents and Teachers for over 40 years.

Resources that include textbook support, Professional Development, Intervention, Author Spotlight, Wacky Web Tales, and Bilingual Resources.

Columbia Education Center offers links to lesson plans created and contributed by teachers who've used them successfully in their classrooms, web-based teaching resources created as part of the ECHO trips abroad, funding resources, math, science, equity and assessment information, and many links to great sites for educators.

The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.

Teachnet.Com was started in August 1995 by the husband/wife team of Lee Shiney (graphic designer and writer) and Lajean Shiney (4th-5th grade teacher at Lawrence Elementary School, USD 259, Wichita, Kansas.) After being introduced to the internet they immediately saw the potential for this technology as a communications vehicle for educators.

One of the best PreK-12 teacher resources on the Internet, and it's completely free! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, simply begin by selecting a subject below, or search for specific topics.

This site provides an eclectic mix of sound, science, and Incan history in order to raise students' interest in Euclidean geometry. Visitors will find geometry problems, proofs, quizzes, puzzles, quotations, visual displays, "scientific speculation", and more. Created by Antonio Gutierrez

Math Goodies is a free educational web site featuring interactive math lessons, homework help, worksheets, puzzles, message boards, and more! They have over 400 pages of free math activities and resources for students, teachers, and parents.

"This visually attractive, content-rich site provides an impressively wide range of resources to encourage understanding in math. Interactive tasks persuade you to "do some math now"; puzzles, animations, articles, links and downloadable software are also on the menu. The What's New section is updated weekly, and Daily Mathematical Facts, Hourly Puzzles and quotes make this an addictive and truly dynamic site." Educational Computing and Technology Magazine, July 2000

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
http://www.goenc.com/

ENC was originally created to collect all types of teaching materials for K-12 math and science educators and to identify and disseminate information about federally funded programs.

The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.

This webquest is designed for students with some familiarity with the use of spreadsheets for creating tables and graphs and the use of databases for gathering information. If this is not the case with your students, some class time will be needed to demonstrate the application of these tools prior to assigning the webquest project.

See how creative teachers are enhancing the learning experience for their students by integrating new technologies into classroom activities. Instructional Technology Director, Kathy D. Adkins from Midway Elementary School in Alpharetta, Georgia teaches students how to record and analyze data about their classmates!

School librarians are among the most active users of the Internet and World Wide Web. They are especially involved in bringing these resources to their students and staff. The following is a collection of Web Pages created or maintained by school librarians. Some are for entire schools, while others are for individual school libraries. Some pages are personal, while others are for professional associations, or other curriculum related resources. Also included here are a few links to helpful Web development.

The Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME) is a professional association of more than 1400 school library media professionals most of whom work in K-12 school situations. MAME members include persons with many job titles including school library media specialists, school library, media and technology supervisors and coordinators, REMC directors and personnel, EMC and LRC directors, academic library/media faculty at university level, as well as students, teachers, principals, and other persons interested in library - audiovisual - media - technology areas of education.A comprehensive list of resources for media in K-12 education settings.

Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels. Regularly updated.

Searchable database of arias including synopses, translations, and sound files. Online articles by John Koopman, Professor Emeritus of Music at Lawrence University. Site from Duke University features coverage of voice disorders, singers and singing, vocal nodules and polyps, diagnosis and treatment of spasmodic dysphonia, vocal trauma, inflammatory diseases of the larynx, and includes a glossary. Information about languages and diction for singing. It includes links to on-line sites and lists of books and other resources. Archive of texts to Kunstlieder and other art songs in Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish with English translations.

The Explorer^TM is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials for K-12 mathematics and science education.

Meet the people of NASA and look over their shoulders as they make NASA's goals a reality. Whether in the area of aerospace design or training for space walks, NASA Quest is a rich resource for educators, kids and space enthusiasts who are interested in meeting and learning about NASA people and the national space program. NASA Quest allows the public to share the excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and engineering pursuits like flying in the Shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets with amazing spacecraft, and building the aircraft of the future.

CIESE, the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education, was established in 1988 at Stevens Institute of Technology to help bring the Institute’s technology experience to the K-12 sector. Working collaboratively with K-12 schools and school districts, in concert with a variety of other partners, CIESE has helped more than 700 schools in New Jersey realize the benefits of technology. Current programs involve collaborations in New Jersey and four other states to train more than 10,000 teachers.

The Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.

The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

Since 1985, Apple has been deeply committed to helping people with special needs attain an unparalleled level of independence through a personal computer.

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This site is offers information and links regarding the developmental disabilities autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

Success for All is a comprehensive restructuring program for elementary schools, especially those serving many disadvantaged and at-risk students. Its goal is to ensure that every child becomes a confident, strategic, and motivated reader and writer throughout the elementary years. Success for All emphasizes prevention, early, intensive intervention for students beginning to have academic difficulties, and extensive professional development throughout the elementary grades. It incorporates state-of-the-art curriculum and instructional methods in reading emphasizing an integration of phonics and meaning-focused instruction, cooperative learning, and curriculum-based assessment; writing/language arts instruction emphasizing writer's workshops; and preschool and kindergarten instruction emphasizing story telling and language development.

The Learning Disabilities Association of America is a national, non-profit organization. Their purpose is to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature.

LD OnLine is an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and their children. This site is a service of The Learning Project at WETA, Washington, D.C., in association with The Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities. LD OnLine is made possible in part by generous support from The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, The Eisner Foundation, Inc., NEC Foundation of America and Long Aldridge & Norman. Web hosting service for LD OnLine is contributed by MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.

Educational Renaissance Planners was founded by Alan November to promote the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities. ER Planners includes a team of researchers, writers, and educational leaders who bring a variety of work and educational experiences, skills, and knowledge together. ER Planners hope this Web site will be a rich source of ideas, resources, and information about learning and technology. The site will also be very useful for learning more about the services and programs provided by Educational Renaissance Planners.

The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is an online resource for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration. This is the place for educators interested in professional development, creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community of people committed to finding even better ways to teach with technology.

Plugging In discusses what is known about effective learning and effective technology, and puts it together in a planning framework for educators and policymakers. After reading about effective learning and technology, educators can follow the instructions in the center insert to actually use the framework to plan technology and technology-enhanced programs that complement learning. The publication closes by proposing ways that policymakers can encourage the spread of effective technologies to more schools.

The Connected Learning Community is a simple yet powerful idea with even more relevance today than when Microsoft first introduced the concept five years ago. In our vision, the world is an enriched learning environment in which technology used well enhances and expands opportunities for learning while providing the practical technology experience needed in today's society and workplaces.

The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States. The NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use.

WestEd is a non-profit research, development and service agency dedicated to improving education and other opportunities for children, youth and adults. Drawing on the best from research and practice, we work with practitioners and policymakers to address critical issues in education and other related areas: from early childhood intervention to school-to-work transition; from curriculum, instruction and assessment to safe schools and communities. WestEd was created in 1995 to unite and enhance the capacity of Far West Laboratory and Southwest Regional Laboratory, two of the nation's original education laboratories created by Congress in 1966.

In the ever-changing world filled with new technology, our teachers and students require the right information, from the right sources, today. Having direct access to industry information gives the competitive edge needed to succeed. Student performance can be improved when the enhancement of teaching and learning using technology is adopted as the norm. This section on Why Technology? will lead you to a new understanding for how technology can impact your district, the schools, and the many lives united within your community.