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Resources for Teachers and Students: outside Australia

Indexes and Search engines

• Yahoo - Education
• Yahoo - Education:Alternative
• Yahooligans - an alternative search tool and links database focussing on subjects kids are interested in
• StudyWEB Index and Search Engine. Studyweb reviews and categorizes over 32,000 focused academic sites, all human selected and reviewed for academic content, approximate grade level.
• American Internet Publishing a global index of schools home pages
• BJ's Homework Helper lists lots of useful reference sites on the web
• Connections Plus
• Education World (tm) Search Engine
• HotList of K12 Internet school sites
• K-12+ Servers
• KEYPALS INTERNATIONAL a hot link listing of "EVERY secondary school in the WORLD that has a web page".
• My Virtual Reference Desk an organised! reference directory
• Quick Reference lets you search for acronyms, US Area Codes, thesaurus, dictionary, periodic table of elements, legal directory, US gazetteer, words, meanings
• Schoolmates indexes schools and schoolmates
• THE SCHOOLHOUSE (K-12)
• Web66 International Registry of School Web Sites

Multi-subject resources

• THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL On-line lessons in mathematics, social studies, science, language arts..............

Key-Pals and Pen-Pals resources

• Keypals Galore
• SAPE matches people -- aged 8 to 80 -- from all over the world with penfriends in the former Soviet Union and Baltic nations.)

Geography, History, Art, Culture

• Life in the Middle Ages
• American Museum of Natural History
• Career Magazine
• The Children's Art Gallery
• Effective geography educational games
• Net Trip an interactive road trip of the US, directed by web users
• Fun going back to school?: how to get kids in the mood for school, new ways to get involved in schools, and a back-to-school extravaganza.
• MayaQuest 97 Your students will probe the ancient Maya civilization...directly linked by the Internet to anthropologists and explorers at real archeological sites. Choose the link to Interactive Explorer Series.
• Nile: Passage to Egypt
• Work Studies, Society, Civics, labour relations etc.

Publications, Government

• U.S. Department of Education
• From Now On, The Educational Technology Journal
• Current Awareness, a ten year old service of North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction to keep the staff of that agency abreast of their particular area(s) of expertise
• Computer and Internet Books, FREE OnLine Editions: 220+ titles.

Language Teaching:

• English or French as a Foreign Language
• Phoenix Braintrust
• Okidoki Communications for children especially between the age of 9 to 14, offering a variety of subjects like writing letters and stories, sending in drawings and pictures, find penpals, chat. One site for native Dutch speakers and another site for native English speakers.

Education Associations, Special Interest Groups

• ASCD's homepage
• Association for Experiential Education
• The National Education Association
• LearnNet
• Multiple Intelligences

Science

• British Telecom's education services including the BP Science Across the World project
• EE Link very useful to an educator who is teaching environmental studies or who wants to integrate ecology and environmental issues into their classroom.
• Math and Science Gateway (Cornell University) "broken down into ten specific science and math categories, four more general subheadings, and then five very general topics. The options provide access to research and problem solving opportunities and activities that extend and enhance the curriculum for secondary schools."
• New Scientist magazine
• Newton's Apple Lesson Plans
• info on animals;basic facts and some quizzes
• some good space photos here
• Exploratorium
• migrations and signs of spring
• Chem 4 Kids
• Volcano World for up to the moment information on volcanoes that are currently active and allows you to explore inactive volcanoes
• Zoonet a "one stop zoo shop"

Writing

• Precis Generator - takes a web document and generates a precis of it!
• Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
• Vocal Point
• Wacky Webb Tales - you choose the words and the computer writes the stories
• Word Play for people who are into words
• Publish your child's or student's GREAT BOOK

Teachers' Resources

• Try a virtual field trip at Yahoo
• Houghton Mifflin
• Chat with fellow educators here. Many different subjects being covered.
• the Busy Teacher's Website!
• Connections+ resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources, subject area content standards.
• Tour Egypt with The Ministry of Tourism, Egypt
• Education Place - resources for teachers in grades K-8.
• Academy One Curriculum Exchange including over 500 lesson plans
• Knowlead's Information on Lead Poisoning How lead affects children; what you can do; sources of lead in the home; how to test for lead
• Moose Crossing a MUD (multi User Dungeon) designed to help kids 9-13 learn reading, writing, and computer programming.
• NIH-image software, anything from a paint/scribble drawing program to a "make the photo psychedelic" program to a nuclear medicine image analyzer.
• PedagoNet for exchanging learning materials and resources
• PE CENTRAL designed for physical education teachers
• Planet Ark recently introduced a news-by-email subscription service. If there is a headline of interest, simply go to the Planet Ark Internet site to get the full story, free of charge.
• Public School Libraries and librarians and another link here.
• Teachers Helping Teachers lots of resources (see the guest book to find teachers working in areas like yours)
• Teachers' Edition Online - many subcategories in this site, such as advice on classroom decor, getting organized, and classroom P.R. Having problems with some students in your class? Have no fear--just ask for advice from Dr. Brainstorm - some of this will make you smile (I hope)
• Teacher's Internet Pages
• UK: Superhighways for Education Consultation Paper
• TeacherTalk
• curriculum activities and Teacher Activity Guides
• Technology and Learning includes a searchable software review database, a comprehensive list of sources of projects and other teacher resources.

Information Technology and Integration Technology into the Curriculum

• The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
• CYBER STUDENTS Educating students about the Internet - Individual schools, educators and parents who are not prepared to wait for the Internet to be taught in a traditional, widespread and orderly manner have begun to teach students about the Internet in their own fashion.
• Integrating the Internet into your classroom
• Integrating Information Technology Tools in Instruction
• LANSchool software will allow you to broadcast a single computer's working session to an unlimited number of students using LAN nodes to follow along, simultaneously.
• The Teacher's Lounge providing computer teachers with new ideas. Subjects include (some are new and need people's ideas) are Keyboarding, Lab Rules, WP, SS, DB, Programming, Software Reviews, Internet activities...
• Central Illinois Teachers' Exchange -- a resource for K-12 educators interested in integrating the Internet into their curricula.
• Technology integration in schools
• Technology Education Index has ideas, lesson plans, and links

Classroom and Behavior Management:

• Classroom management and control
• Managing a classroom with attention-deficit-disorder students.
• self-study program - organization and management of the classroom, developing instructional skills, and behavior management.
• Hints on classroom management