Classroom Connect’s Teacher Contacts
Search this site by educator's name, school name, or age of students. Just fill in an area or select a category and the database will return as many listings as it finds.

Comparison of Search Engine User Interface
This is a quick reference guide for effective searching. This table gives the features of all the search engines to help in deciding which tool will be most helpful in your searches.

Education World School Directory
This site has a comprehensive World School Directory that is searchable.

ePALS Classroom Exchange
Register your class, then search the database for partner classes around the world with similar interests. Match your students up with keypals, contribute to group projects, or collaborate online in class-to-class projects.

Getting Started on the Internet: The Key to Keypal Success
This article by Gary Hopkins explores the ins and outs of keypal exchanges with lots of tips for making them beneficial to students.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock has put together this categorized list of sites to help teachers enhance their curriculum. This is one of the best-known portal sites. Links are organized by subject area, and there is an extensive list of sites that are "Teacher Helpers."

Key Pals and Correspondents Exchange
Education Place lists many projects from teachers looking for keypals.

Kid's Search Tools
Kid’s Search Tools includes links to search engines that screen inappropriate material.

Kids on the Net
This site encourages children to write and publish their works online. Have students check into the Monster Motel, a collaborative writing project for kids, and write an instant monster story.

Kidscribe
Kidscribe is a bilingual site for kid authors. Teacher Dianne E. Folkerth created this site to encourage children to write. Students can publish essays, stories, poetry, or jokes. New topics are posted periodically.

KidzPage
This site specializes in poems written by kids of all ages.

Liszt: The Mailing List Directory
Looking for an easy way to track down a mailing list that matches the wants and needs of K-12 staffers? Liszt.com to the rescue!

MetaCrawler
Gather results from the top search engines on the Web. MetaCrawler scores the results and provides the user with a list of relevant sites. Conduct research, access financial information, play exciting games, and participate in the electronic marketplace!

Michael's Internet Finding Tips
Michael Botos, a Connected University guide, has prepared this page with handy search tips. This is a fun, student-friendly page of hints for getting the most out of the Web.

The Young Authors' Workshop: Publishing Your Work
This site publishes student writing, including stories, articles, and poems.

Web 66 International WWW School Registry
After learning about different countries, take a field trip to anywhere using email. Visit the school Web pages of other countries through this site, and make some keypals!

Welcome to the Web
This Web site has tutorials for kids about searching the Net and other Internet topics.

What is a Boolean Search?
Read an easy to understand explanation of Boolean search terms. Find out how to use AND, OR, and NOT in your Internet searches.

Yahooligans! Teaching Search Strategies
Teach your students, and yourself, how to search for sites with Yahooligans! Walk through a basic search for some animal Web sites to demonstrate the best way to conduct successful searches.

Videoconferencing
How can teachers best use videoconferencing in the classroom? This site provides information on video conferencing software and ideas for classroom use. It is for both the novice and the experienced user.

Classroom Today
This online resource includes lessons and tools that can be categorized into the different models of lesson design. Sign up for a free trial to view a social studies topic, or use the sample topic available this week for activities to evaluate or select.

Tapped In
TAPPED IN™ is a growing community of over 5000 K-16 teachers, staff, and researchers engaged in professional development programs and informal collaborative activities with colleagues. Members can hold real-time discussions.

Volano
This site provides Java-based chat software. Here's one of many places available to teachers for online chat.

Yahoo! Chat
Yahoo! offers many chat rooms on a variety of topics.

AskERIC Lesson Plans
Search this extensive listing of over 60,000 lesson plans to match your curriculum.

Citing Internet Sources
Just as you must cite books and periodicals to support research, it is important to cite online sources of information. This article from the Classroom Connect Newsletter gives examples for citing all types of Internet sources.

Classroom Connect's Lesson Plans
This site offers links to other Web sites that provide lesson plans. Look for math, science, social studies and language arts lesson plans for grades K-12.

Classroom Connect: Citing Internet Resources
Just as you must cite books and periodicals to support research, it is important to cite online sources of information. This article from the Classroom Connect Newsletter gives examples for citing all types of Internet sources.

Electronic Referencing
This guide teaches how to reference electronic information in bibliographies and provides examples of print and online references.

Evaluating Web Pages for Relevance
English professor Craig Branham's site, hosted by St. Louis University, provides tips for evaluating what you find on the Net. Visit this site for a thorough listing of potential evaluative criteria.

FindSpot
Findspot boasts links to major search engines, Web directories, Usenet search utilities, and Internet resource directories. Click on Help & Tips for a good source of student-appropriate information on how to use search engines.

Global Classrooms Curriculum Guides
The Global Classroom Guides were converted to Web format and TEKS added. This guide illustrates how TEKS can fit within an existing curriculum.

Hyperstudio
HyperStudio lets students put together presentations that demonstrate what they’ve learned from their Web research. Learn about this multimedia authoring tool that allows you to easily deliver your ideas on diskette, CD-ROM, or over the Internet.

Kathy Schrock's Guide: Assessment Rubrics
Well-known educational site guru Kathy Schrock features this page on age-appropriate rubrics that students can use in evaluating Web content, oral presentations, and more.

Lessons & Activities: Microsoft K-12 Education
Microsoft offers this resource of teacher-created lesson plans, classroom activities, and teacher activity guides. Click on Instructional Resources from the menu and find lesson plans as well as tips for using technology in the classroom.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Part of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint is a complete tool for creating presentations. Learn about all its features.

NASA--Hubble Space Telescope's Observations of Comet SL9
View this website to see the Hubble Space Telescope's observations of Comet SL9.

Texas Education Agency
The TEA links to all Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and supporting documents. This site is the main source for information on the Texas state standards. It includes questions and answers, a search function, and a Spanish version.

The Information Literate School Community
Jamie McKenzie's article suggests that information literacy should incorporate three steps: prospecting, interpreting, and creating new ideas.

Yahooligans!
This child-friendly search engine was created by the makers of Yahoo. Don't miss the School Bell category. It's loaded with sites that help with homework in all subject areas.

Your Gross and Cool Body
How does my body make a scab? What are belches? Answers to these questions and more are offered in (relatively) tasteful explanations.

A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
Check out contests for kids such as Math Counts and Scripts Howard National Spelling Bee.

Apple Learning Interchange: Units of Practice
Search for detailed ideas and examples for teaching. Each Unit Of Practice was developed by an experienced teacher. The Units illustrate an approach to integrating the applications of learning into the teaching and learning process.

Backflip
This free resource lets you organize and share bookmarks.

Content Knowledge: The McREL Standards Database
The standards in this database were compiled from significant documents in each subject area. Perform a standards search for "civil rights." A click on either of the resulting standards will provide informative benchmarks and Internet resources.

ED's Oasis Teachers' Guild Lesson Plan Library
Visit this site to read the winning entries from a lesson plan contest in a section of ED's Oasis called the "Teachers' Guild."

Just Think Lesson Bank
The focus of these lesson plans is media literacy. Teachers are invited to submit their own lessons to the bank.

TEKS
TEKS offers the complete Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills in a word searchable format that can easily be searched, copy and pasted and printed.

TEKStar
TEKStar is a multimedia tool for developing a Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) curriculum. More than 600 K- 12 teaching units are available. Teachers correlate activities to Learning Styles, Critical Thinking Skills and Multiple Intelligences.

Texas Center for Educational Technology
The START Project (Sharing Technology Applications Resources with Teachers) which provides a wealth of resources for the new Technology Applications TEKS and to encourage the integration of technology throughout the curriculum.