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| Education Week | Find out what colleagues and movers and shakers in the ed business are up to this week. |
| Middle Web | Choose your index style (hi-lo graphics) and then click on any of the boxes to learn about curriculum links, news items, and more. |
| Educational Listservs | Reach out to other teachers across the world by joining an e-mail based listserv. Great way to share ideas. |
| Virginia PEN | Remember to check with the VDOE Web site for current news and views. |
| Inspirational Teaching Stories | Take time to find about the good things going on in classrooms. You can even contribute your own positive story. |
| ERIC | ERIC Digests and current information for educators is available for research and perusal. |
| WWW 4Teachers | zine reports on how to use technology in your teaching. |
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Gateway to Educational Materials
| A large and healthy database of lesson plans and resources that you can search by grade, subject and keyword. |
| K-12 Lesson Plans
| Click on the subject of your choice and link out to inspirational lessons on the Web.
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| Lesson Planz | A large but useful gateway to lessons of every size, shape, and orientation. Pour a cup of joe and read with interest. |
| NWREL Lesson plans | NWREL has put together a highly useful nest egg of lessons. |
| McREL Educator Resources | McREL offers lots of lesson plans for teachers to utilize. Investigate the hot topics page and state resources links available when you click on the table on the left. |
| Ask ERIC | ERIC is a valuable source for all educators. Although there are many facets to this organization, Ask ERIC enables teachers to search for lesson plans and more. See the link under "professional resources" above. |
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| Puzzle Maker | Enter your vocabulary words to create the crossword or word search puzzle of your dreams.. |
| Quia | Games are a fantastic way to introduce or close a lesson. There's nothing that beats a game in motivating students, this site will give you lots of ideas for educational games.. |
| SchoolExpress |
Access to free worksheets, thematic units, and activities to use in your teaching. |
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Math Stories | Stories to write problems by. |
| Cable in the Classroom | Love it or hate it, TV is an American staple. The folks at CIC provide educators with this very attractive site full of ideas on how to use cable television's best shows in the curriculum. |
| Filamentality | Using the good advice from this site, you will find out how to link the sites that make sense to your educational objectives. |