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	was developed at the request of teachers who use hands-on craft projects in the classroom to enhance student learning. is filled with creative project lesson plans, craft tips, educational research and information about how to forge beneficial relationships with local craft retailers
Shakespeare in American Communities - From the National Endowment for the Arts, there's a teacher's guide, a classroom recitation contest, a Shakespeare timeline poster & more! You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open most of the items.
Video Placement Worldwide - Educational programs are provided FREE for use by clasroom teachers and group leaders in situations where the material can be used with new students year after year and shared with other educators.
Linda's Links to Literature - Lesson plans, webquests, links and activites for 11,000 plus books!
Infotrac		Kathy's Educational Corner
Infotrac Junior		Mathnerds
Infotrac Kids - K-12 Online Resources (InfoTrack & Worldbook) For access: USER NAME = louisiana PASSWORD = elementary, middle or highschool
K-12 Online Resources (InfoTrack & Worldbook) For access: USER NAME = louisiana PASSWORD = elementary, middle or highschool
Welcome to Louisiana's PASS Practice Assessment/Strengthen Skills - PASS is a Web-based learning tool for Louisiana students in elementary, middle, and high school. The PASS system allows students to practice skills similar to those on the LEAP 21 and GEE 21 and provides instruction to help strengthen those skills. PASS includes multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions. Look for a new test each month! Don't forget to visit the Teachers' Lounge on the Pass Web site! Log-In Directions: Go to www.LouisianaPASS.org. Use the first time Screen Name (student) and password (tiger) in the box to log in. After you log in, make up your own Screen Name. Write down your Screen Name and new password so you will remember them the next time you log in. For help with PASS: call toll free 1-877-432-4040.
KidsConnect - Are you a Kindergarten-12th grade student looking for information on the Internet for a report or project to do for school? Let KidsConnect, the on-line question answering and referral service, help you out!
KidsClick! - Web search for kids by librarians!
H A R R Y W O N G ' S F A V O R I T E S	jedarling.home.mindspring.com/index.htm
	www.teachers.net
	www.new-teacher.com
	www.glavac.com - The Busy Educators Guide to the World Wide Web
	www.education-world.com
	www.eduquery.com
	www.school.discovery.com
	www.k-6educators.about.com
	www.teachnet.com
	www.edhelper.com
	www.educationnews.org - World's Leading Source of Education News
The Math Forum Student Center - Forum Features: Search for Math or browse our Internet Mathematics Library - Ask Dr. Math - Discussion Groups - Forum Showcase - Internet Newsletter - Problems of the Week - Teacher2Teacher - Teacher Exchange
Science Whatzit! - The Science Whatzit Gremlin wants your science questions! We draw on resources at OMSI and beyond to help you conduct your own inquiry into science. Send questions and queries, thoughts and ideas (but no homework assignments, please) to find out if the Gremlin has an answer for you. We'll post the best ones on this page, with changes every week. Looking for a quick answer or an inspiration for a science project? Here you can find the most recent Science Whatzit questions and answers. Check out the science categories for earlier Science Whatzit questions and answers. So send those questions and remember, the Gremlin has an unerring ability to detect disguised homework assignments! After you finish your homework, try to stump the Gremlin with your science question. Please note that because the Gremlin receives so many questions, responses can take between 2-6 weeks to post.
The Amazing Picture Machine - An NCRTEC Index to Graphical Resources on the Internet Lesson Ideas
Refdesk.com - The single best source for facts on the Net
Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program - A children's invention competition for kids in grades 2-8, administered by the National Science Teachers Association. It is a great activity for kids as an afterschool project or as an in-class project.
CMHS Program Spotlight - School Violence Prevention August 2002 - Contains links to information for educators and others working with children, and tips for parents on dealing with behavior problems as well as coping skills for young people.
The Mona Lisa is a click away at this Louvre web site. The web site for the Louvre, arguably the most famous art museum in the world, allows students to drop in on the Mona Lisa, examine precious Etruscan artifacts, and take a virtual tour of one of the world's most celebrated cultural centers. The Louvre's English-language web site provides online access to more than 3,000 works of art and 350 exhibit halls. Through this site, teachers can expose their students to several historical artifacts and timeless pieces of art that have never been available on-line before. History and language teachers can take their classes on a tour of ancient Mesopotamia or send them to explore Middle Eastern culture, while art instructors can use their time at the Louvre to develop slide shows that focus on many of history's most awe-inspiring paintings and sculptures. Interactive options include a virtual tour of the entire museum, a library of historical facts, updated news and museum announcements, and a history page.
Earth science teachers will love the Virtual Cave web site, where students can view numerous photos of a variety of caves and cave formations, from spelunkers Djuna Bewley and Dave Bunnell. These two caving enthusiasts have photographed some amazing underground formations and have arranged their library of images under specific cave groupings. Solution caves are dissolved out of limestone by acidic water and contain an astounding variety of speleothem formations, such as stalactites and stalagmites. Caves can also be formed from superheated melted rock digging tunnels through the earth's crust, and these are called lava tubes. The lava tube section has 36 rooms to explore. Erosional caves may be carved into a variety of substances, including granite, sandstone, and even ice, by the power of water and wind-borne particles. Finally, students can safely examine the little-known and often-treacherous sea caves that are carved out of rock by the power of oceans, currents, and tides.
CyberSmart!, a new online curriculum co-published by the nonprofit CyberSmart! School Program and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, addresses the challenge of empowering children to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. The CyberSmart! curriculum teaches students what online behaviors are acceptable and appropriate, providing them with the tools they need to navigate the Internet securely, sensibly, and effectively. The curriculum consists of 65 original lesson plans with activity sheets. It is organized into five units: Safety (how to enjoy the Internet safely), Manners (social, legal and ethical responsibilities when using the Internet), Advertising (how to identify commercial messages and protect privacy), Research (strategies to mine online resources effectively), and Technology (learning about the past, present, and future of the Internet).
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress" presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the documents, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains about 2,000 items (with some 16,000 images) relating to Douglass's lie as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1864, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895, and undoubtedly will provide American history teachers with a bounty of material for their classes.
Stargazing just got a whole lot more fun with the advent of this web site. Now, you can look up at the stars and actually know which constellation you're looking at. Available at the new Sky & Telescope magazine web site, the interactive Sky Chart simulates and naked-eye view of the sky from any location on Earth, at any time of the day or night, on any date from 1600 to 2400. Sky Chart links an extensive database of celestial objects and geographic locations. Users simply enter their city and country location and their time zone to view an enlargeable and printable map of the sky visible in their neighborhood that night. It's like having your own personalized planetarium!
The Know Zone - The Know Zone is a private and protected learning environment on the Internet. Students receive direct reinforcement of classroom math and reading lessons based on the Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett Ginn, and Prentice Hall textbooks. Students' attention and imagination are easily engaged through skill review activities, games and practice tests.
Teaching Is A Work Of Heart - If you are looking for teaching ideas, inspiration, links, lessons, units, activity sheets, virtual sites, or a laugh - this is the site for you... This site is designed by a teacher as a learning and helping tool for other teachers who love teaching children as much as she does! Excellent for Grades PK - 5th Grade!
www.fonetiks.org - Your on-line language dictionary. Includes dictionaries and pronunciations from many languages! On-line activities & worksheets, information and language researchers, Cambridge International Corpus, Cambridge English Language Teaching
Knowledge Network Explorer - SBC Pacific Bell's e-learning toolbox for information and education. Find! Create! Discover!
Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks - How Stuff Works is a web site that tells you how stuff works, and it contains thousands of topics! Just about anything that fits into the form "how _____ works" is fair game for the site. From engines to sunglasses, nuclear reactors to Christmas -- there is something for everyone at How Stuff Works!
Smithsonian Center for Education & Museum Studies - Your gateway to education at the Smithsonian!
Discoveryschool.com - SOS help for busy teachers. Get daily updates of great Internet sites and teaching tips.
PinkMonkey.com - FREE study resource for junior high, high school and college students, teachers, and homeschoolers. Literary Summaries, Online Textbooks, Digital Library, Parents Central, College Planning, Electric Desk, and Test Prep: PRACTICE EXAMS for GED, SAT, ACT!
GuruNet is aimed at people who want concise answers and information but are often frustrated with the inability to get the right information quickly. GuruNet answer-engine suite makes companies or web sites even smarter, providing employees and customers with the easiest way to find highly relevant information-- giving them the information they need to know at their fingertips.
Knowledge Network Explorer - collection of resources for teachers in several different areas: Blue Web'n, Filamentality, and web-based tutorials, activities and projects.
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom - offers free Internet content for the K-12 classroom through six discipline-specific web sites that are completely free, do not require any registration, and have no advertising!
Education World - The educators complete resource guide to the Internet - where teachers can gather and share ideas. Contains a search engine for educational web-sites only so teachers don't have to search the entire web. A great source for lesson plans!
The Louisiana Library Connection - online source information - excellent complete databases free of charge.
CRAYOLA.COM IS CREATIVITY CENTRAL Looking to add color and creativity to your on-line experience? Crayola.com is the leading on-line destination for arts & crafts, printable coloring activity pages, and school supplies. Kids, kids-at-heart, parents, and teachers find Crayola.com an engaging and trusted source for making creative expression an every day occurrence. Inspiring Ideas has over 400 arts & crafts projects. Activity Book has over 800 printable coloring pages, decorations, and cut-out crafts. Card Creator has over 1,100 Crayola.com cards including Print & Color cards that kids personalize. Visit The Crayola® FACTORY virtual tour and see how crayons are made

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