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This page contains links to great sites found by SED 405 students.
They are categorized by content area. Enjoy!


General Educational Sites

What Kids Can Do- This website is a non-profit project created by author Kathleen Cushman and based in  Providence RI.  There are many student produced books that can be used to encourage other students to also write and publish.  The site also includes tips and ideas to encourage student writing, teen-adult dialogue, and student centered schools.  This site can be overwhelming with all the resources but check out mentors that matter and students as allies in school reform. (DS)

Discovery School- this website was created by the Discovery Channel. It includes great educational clip art that can be used to make worksheets.  It also includes lesson plans for different content areas, and tools such as puzzle-maker which is used to create puzzles such as cross-words for students. It's a good site that you could spend lots of time exploring. (mb)  This site provides great up to date resources for teachers to help benefit the education of their students. It also provides a list of useful web sites, which enhance curriculum and professional growth. (LA)

Teachable Moment – This is a great resource for lesson plans that encourage critical thinking on important (mostly current) social issues.  Lesson plans are available for all grades and various content areas.  (pm)  This website is great for teaching and allowing students to explore controversial issues.  It was very up-to date with lesson plans on Jena 6 and the "war on terror."  I also liked it because it includes resources for educators as well as students. (DS) 

Lesson Plans- This website is helpful for anyone who is having trouble coming up with lesson plan ideas.  First you select your subject area, than your grade level.  The lesson plans are organized under categories, for example Language Arts lists drama & speech, reading comprehension, poetry, writing-persuasive, and many more. (cn)

Scholastic- this site can be helpful to teachers of any grade level or subject area.  It offers activites, lesson plans, teaching strategies, and tools that you can search for your grade level and subject area under. (cn)  

The Best Website for Teachers - This site is free and has everything a teacher may need...worksheets, clipart, in-class games and technology ideas. Not English only! (ps)

Rubistar - this is a great free site that allows teachers to create a variety of rubics for their students. You can edit the rubric as you create it or edit it after, as it downloads to an excel file. Great site, highly rated. (sp)

PBS Teachers Resource-a large collection of lesson plans for all content areas. Many  of the lesson plans are connected to specific PBS programs. This portion could be disregarded or used to make for a fun multimedia lesson (ts).

Teacher Contracts - This website posts many of the Rhode Island Teacher Contracts. There updates are usually done over the summer when the contracts are renewed.  It's great for comparing medical plans, salary ranges and other benefit information (nh). 

www.sitesforteachers.com - Like choices? This site is for you! This site offers a plethora of websites (over 1,000 and in order by rank) pertaining to all disciplines. From tips to lesson plans, this site has it all.  This site is free but some of the links might require membership. (ah)

Grade level standards - This site gives you the grade level standards for Rhode Island. The site also provides information on schools in Rhode Island such as; state approved textbooks, SALT surveys, and changes going on with education in the state. (lf)

Learning Disabilities - A great site to get information on learning disabilities. The site gives sign and symptoms along with strategies for teachers and parents. The site allows you to look up the individual disability. I found the site helpful in a recent project. (lf)

Two Steps Back - This American Life host Ira Glass finds out what happens when a struggling Chicago school takes control of its curriculum, and then what happens once those reforms are taken away. (ab)

Apple Learning Interchange - The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a social network for educators. Find a wealth of content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12 educators (rodo)

www.randomhouse.com/highschool/ - This site provides great up to date information on new books for high school students as well as teacher’s guides, articles on professional development, and lesson plans. (LA)

 

 

 English/Language Arts

Chomsky- This site is the site of Noam Chomsky, a modern and influential American linguist, philosopher, political activist and author.  The site includes his articles, debates and audio commentaries.  If your interested the present state of English, this is the author to explore.  (ga)

Kappa Delta Pi- This website is the homesite for Kappa Delta Pi (International Honor Society in Education).  Surprisingly enough, you don't need a password or log in to get to a page full of useful sites.  It has a discussion board and a great selection of resources for all content areas!  It is worth checking out! (KP)

William Shakespeare website- this is an excellent site that provides educators with a plethora of lesson plans pertaining to Shakespeare's seminal plays. These are interesting lessons that will have students engaged and eager to learn about a highly influential playwright. (bs)

A Listserv for English Educators- This is an excellent communication method that allows English educators to discuss classroom ideas, difficulties, strategies, etc. This listserv is free and any member can contribute easily to any of the postings, which are sent daily to your preferred email account. Sign up by scrolling over the word "Resources" at the top of the page and then click on "listserv options" . You can discontinue your membership at any time, so check it out and have fun!(bs)  

Web English Teacher- This is a site full of links to other helpful sites.  It has information on poetry, writing, Shakespeare, famous authors and much more.  There are links to ideas for graphic organizers, for ESL teachers and links to pages about copyright.  This website is definitely useful and interesting, it's worth taking a look at it. (mb)

MLA Format- This is a great site to use when it comes to using MLA format. Instead of having to continually buy an updated MLA handbook, you and your students can use this site and be on the same page. (kr)

Poetry Page-  This site contains an abundance of information on poets and their poetry.  You can find poems from the likes of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, etc. The site also contains literary reviews on the poems, as well as other links that contain other poems and information.  (kr)  Also, there is a list of Nobel Prize award-winners and their works on this site. (rc)

Read Write Think - This site offers lesson plans designed to help students engage with texts. It is endorsed by the National Council of Teachers of English. There are great ideas to connect reading and writing. (mh) This is endorsed by Kappa Delta Pi (International Honor Society for Education Professionals.  It has great resources and lesson plans for both History and Language Arts, using pop culture as a jumping point.  Lesson plans come complete with handouts.  This site offers lesson plans for K-12, and gives the grade levels that each lesson should be used for. (KP)

Teenreads - here you'll find an up-to-date teen literature site. This is an excellent resource to recommend to students who are looking for an interesting read. In addition to suggesting books there are author interviews and reading guides. (mh) There is a great new section titled Coming Soon that lists new books coming out in future months. Plus, a link for Books into Movies is available, but an awesome link is the Ultimate Teen Reading List: this link has a comprehensive genre list of novels complete with summaries, photos, a book review link for each book and a link to purchase the novel. This site also offers a chance to win a new novel by entering a contest which you only have to enter your name and e-mail information. You can also sign up to receive a monthly newsletter. (LR)

Free Online Texts - This site offers a collection of free online text that can easily be used in the classroom. You can download the electronic books or ebooks) for free and be able to print them out if there was ever a need to do so. (jr)

National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) - A website every English teacher should know and use. It has resources for using poetry, adolescent literature, strategies for writing, and techniques for teaching grammar. (jr)

English Club-- Great site for a wide range of English lesson plans (poetry, grammar, drama, and fiction) Includes plans that span from quick easy ideas to examples that can be carried over multiple class sessions (MA). I think this offers teachers a lot of options on how to make the class more engaging with some activities that some might not normal think of. Overall, a good resource to have ( JDS).

Academy of American Poets-- This site is an excellent resource that provides teachers with a comprehesive list of canonical poets and schools of poetry. It also suggests poems that might be suitable for teaching, tips on how to teach poetry and a teacher discussion forum (jc).

 Language Arts Lesson Plans - This site provides a substantial amount of lesson plans which include Spelling Lesson Plans, Vocabulary Lesson Plans, Reading & Writing Lesson Plans, Rubrics, Grammar Workshops, and Media Lesson Plans.  (DR)

High School Ace –Whether you need a refresher or are looking for helpful ideas for lesson plans, this site is a veritable grab bag of indispensable tools ranging from common grammar and spelling errors to poetry lessons and literature guides (dc).

teachingcomics - A website dedicated to the use of graphic novels in the classroom. Not something a lot of teachers use, but something to definately think about as a way to get nonreaders involved in the classroom. Personally, this is something I am very keen on using. ( JDS)

Literacy Matters is an excellent site for teachers complete with links on: Adolescent Literature: offers an overview of Adolescent Literature, Questioning and Response Strategies, and how to select literature.  Content Literacy: This link has reading and writing strategies for content areas of Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies. Technology: This link is a good resource for teaching in a Digital Native classroom with technology for reading and writing strategies. Student Activities: Compare & Contrast Tutorials, and Cause & Effect Tutorials. Lesson Plan links: eWorkshops, Adolescent Literature, and Content Literacy. Programs: with Webcast on Adolescent Literacy Programs, and 7 adolescent literacy program links. eTexts: complete with 7 eTexts links. (LR)

History/Social Science

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook - this is a great site for finding primary documents for history classes. Almost every primary source that you would need to teach classes can be found here. It appears that it hasn't been updated for quite a while (2001), but don't let that stop you ... it's a great site. In addition, to the Modern History Source book, links can be found to the Ancient History Source Book, The Medievel Source Book, The Global History Source book and many more. (sp)

History Matters: The US Survey Course on the Web - This web site offers great resources for teachers and students who are trying to learn American history. This site includes primary sources, images, and audio interviews. For teachers, this site also includes teaching assignments, archieved forums, teaches sharing their teaching strategies, and past posted quizzes. Almost anything you need to teach a class in American history can be found on this web site. (KR)

The Library of Congress Website - this is an awesome site for history and social studies teachers who need direct access to primary documents.  It has so many possible primary sources to use in  your lesson plans... the information is incredible!  It has other subcategories for teachers, students, researchers, etc.  There are also sample lesson plans and useful info for teachers to get ideas for their units on numerous topics in history up until present day. (bl)

White House: This website uncovers the history of many of America’s leading political figures from the start of our nation to today.  Moreover, students and teachers can become active participants in the government by sending letters and questions to the president and his staff.  This source is solid for a middle school, high school, and college level. (dp) Be careful because this is a pro-presdiential source. There is very little dissent, if any. The one particular video of Goerge W Bush's mission accomplish speech, has been edited and the mission accomplsih banner has been cropped out of the video. Any imformation found on this site should be doubl checked for factual accuracy. (MS)

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Stretching from the end of the Roman Empire to the start of the Renaissance and reformation period, the Internet Medieval sourcebook is an excellent source for primary documents.  Medieval Sourcebook provides a variety of sources including social history, gender history, political history, economic history, and military history of the Middle Ages.  This source is appropriate for a high school level as well as an undergraduate and graduate college level.  (dp)

The Library of Congress Website - this is an awesome site for history and social studies teachers who need direct access to primary documents.  It has so many possible primary sources to use in  your lesson plans... the information is incredible!  It has other subcategories for teachers, students, researchers, etc.  There are also sample lesson plans and useful info for teachers to get ideas for their units on numerous topics in history up until present day. (bl)

National Security Archive  An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. The Archive won the 1999 George Polk Award, one of U.S. journalism's most prestigious prizes, for-in the words of the citation-"piercing the self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in the search for the truth and informing us all." (MS)

CIA World Factbook- This site outlines every country in the world. Everything from demographics, people, economy, government, communication, transportation, etc. A great place to get statistical information about any country. (dk)

The Perry-Castaneda Map Collection- This is easily the best collection of maps available on the Internet. It features maps from all over the world-- geographic, historical, even maps of current world conflicts. If you're planning a lesson in history or geography, you can't possibly teach without showing relevant maps of the locations in your lesson. This site will have every map you will ever need for your lesson. (wc)This website provides a vast database of maps. It is a great tool for history/social studies teachers and students. Students can use these maps to gain a better understanding of regions talked about in class. These maps can also aid students with projects, reports, and homework. From viewing a map of your local community, to looking at maps of far off regions of Asia and Africa, this webiste provides a detailed map for every part of the world.(JS)

Kids.Gov - This website covers American history with a focus on government.  It does cover a few non-U.S. history topics however.  There are many links available on this page, most of which lead to interactive activities.  (bl)

 

Best of History Websites - This website is designed to help both students and teachers.  It has links to many other history websites and lesson plans.  These links include such helpful things as possible quizzes, activities, and games that can be used in the classroom.  (bl)

Nova/PBS - This website contains a wealth of articles, videos, and contents for both students and teachers alike regarding history, anthropology, science, technology, earth studies, and a great deal more.  If you need up to date resources or are looking to cross curriculum lines to take your students a few steps further in history, then this website will make it a pleasure to expand their knowledge and your own. (KH)

 

 

The History Guide - This website makes finding any time period in history easy and fast.  This is because of the search engine specific design of the website which allows the user to type in the event, time period, region or subject. This narrows searching qucikly and provides great links to find sources on the top. (mb)
 
The Avalon Project - A website put together by Yale Law School.  It is a collection of primary sources over the past three centuries dealing in law, history, or diplomacy.  It is great because it shows most of the important primary sources from every major event in American History. (mb)

 

 http://sacred-texts.com/ - This little gem has full text digital versions of many religious and occult texts.  Most of the worlds major Religions are represented in this site.  There are even some books written on subjects like Atlantis that get people thinking about history from different perspectives using new tools (technology) of science. (al)  I found this site relevent and offering some texts that i had not seen before in a digital format.  Great for comparative religion lessons. (DH)

Archeology This site is specifically dedicated to archeology and is excelent for teaching classical civilizations.  If you are a history teacher and your curiculum involved ancient history then this is the site for you. (DH)

Worldpress This website contains links to almost every newspaper in the world. It is a great site for history/social studies teachers. It is also a great way for any person to see an unbiased view of the news. This site is also great in allowing people to see what is making news in nations throughout the world.(JS)

 

Math

Euclid's Elements - Ever wonder where you can find Euclid's Elements? Well this is a website that lets you read the text of all 13 Books, it  is complete, and all of the figures are illustrated using the Geometry Applet, even those in the last three books on solid geometry that are three-dimensional. (AL)

Math World - This is an awesome website that is most improtantly free, it is also one of the worlds most extensive mathematics resource. It is basically a comprehensive on-line mathematics encyclopedia, anything you want to know about math is most likely on this website. (AL)

Texas Instruments - This is the Texas Instruments website for education.  It provides lots of information on TI products such as the TI-84 Plus calculator and has a download center for TI software. (ch)

 

Fantasy Sports- Why not let students delve into statistics and solve equations doing something they find interesting?  This site will allow students to choose a sport, draft a team, and figure out their own point total.  A division of Fantasy Sports in Education.  (km) 

The Math Forum – The Math Forum is a Drexel University website with tons of math resources for students and teachers.  It has answers to frequently asked math questions as well as a large archive of middle and high school math content information. (ch)

 

www.math.com - This is a great website with many different resources.  There are tables, graphs, lessons, examples, etc.  If you need help preparing for a test, this site also includes test preparation links that test your knowledge so you're not always going into a test cold. (mc)

Cool Math - This site is a very useful tool for teachers of k-12.  There are games and tests from all subjects.  There are tessellations, Pythagorean Identities, Crop Circle geometry and more.  If you ever need to think of good math lessons and games for your students, this site has them in a lot of areas. (mc)

Geometry Step By Step - This website has everything you could want to know about geometry.  There are interactive theorems, polygon principles, various sample problems and step by step proofs of these theorems.  Additionally, the site includes games and puzzles that incorporate the various types of geometry. (cab)

Free Online Graph Paper - This is a great website that has different types of graph and mathematical paper that can be used in the classroom and the best part, it is free!  For instance, this website has logarithmic paper, graph paper, polar graph paper, accountant paper, number lines, and tesselation paper. (cab)

Ask Dr. Math – A question and answer service for math students and their teachers. Students can submit questions and get answers by e-mail. The best of these questions is searchable on the website and is organized by grade level. (ks)
 
 
High School Teacher’s Place – This site has some great links for high school math teachers, including things for the classroom as well as things to help with your career. This page is for the high school level, but there are also links to information for other grade levels. (ks)

 
ATTENTION MATH TEACHERS - This website is full of rubrics, quizes, assignments and other things that will help you as a teacher. This website will help open your mind to some new ideas. It even has lesson plans that are available for you to use. (JJB)
 
MATH: A-Z - In this website, not only is it good for students, but it is also great for teachers. There is a list from A to Z  of all sorts of math terms and indentities. This a a really fun website because of how they categorize and set up everything. All secondary ed. math majors must check this site out. (JJB)
 
 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - This website is full of information for teachers.  It has Math Standards, Professional Development, Lessons and Resources, and more!  It also has job postings and up coming math conferences to continue in our own development. (AW)
 

Cool Math Websites - This website has sites for every math subject!  It has math simulations, real life math, puzzles, math history, and more.  Check this out and find all different ideas for your classroom and lesson plans. (AW)

 

High School Math Resources – This website has a variety of games, tutorials, worksheets etc for high school math courses including trigonometry, calculus, geometry and probability and statistics. (JB)

Fun Math - This is a great site for students and teachers, you can find information on all math topics, it has links to some really cool math sites as well as math games, puzzles and brainteasers.(lp) 

Math Fun Facts - This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that contains a cool mathematics idea. You'll can learn about the mathematics of things like card shuffling to poker to computer vision to fractals to music, just to name a few. This makes great enrichment material for gifted math students or problem-solving groups. (mb)

The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. (HL)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of java applets for mathematical instruction and contains dozens of various applets that can be used in the classroom. Topics range from Number and operations to Data Analysis and Probability. Contains applets for grades ranging from kindergarden to 12th grade. (JG)

Science

www.topscience.org - This website is a great resource for simple "kitchen" chemistry, physics etc.  Many of the materials are readily available to you even with space/resource limitations in the classroom.  They have many free examples of experiements but they do sell them ed experiment lab manuals for a resonable price (nh).

Explore Learning - this is an awesome website that hosts a variety of JAVA applications, which serve as interactive simulations for a wide array of content in chemistry, physics, biology, as well as the earth and life sciences.  Each application may be accessed for free for a very limited amount of time per day, however, a school may opt for unlimited use and purchase the yearly subscription.  This is a great tool for students and teachers alike. (jm)

Science Daily - this website offers a great resource for updated research and news in science.  Teachers, students, and science fanatics may find up to date reports in almost any field.  This is a great tool for teachers who wish to convey real life science with their content lessons. (jm)

National Science Foundation - this webisite is an independent federal agency that promotes the progress of science.  It focuses on a wide range of topics such as latest news, special reports, and main events that are taking place in science. (gn)

Science News -this is a great website that sums up featured articles from the week.  It includes a Table of Contents, references and summaries to provide support for the featured articles.  Those of particular interest were found to be on drug testing and controversial issues in science.(gn)

The Physics classroom - An excellent site for learning basic physics concepts; its tutorials are written esp. for HS students. Lessons and sub-lessons are well written and easy to understand, accompanied by graphics and "check your understanding" sections designed for self assessment.(acs)

Biology Corner - This site is appropriate for Biology and General Science students.  Students can take a virtual field trip to the San Diego Zoo, or create Smog City, where they manipulate variables to see how air speed, temperature, cloud cover effect the pollution levels in the city.(rw)

Biology in Motion  - Original and entertaining biology animations and interactive activities for students ranging from introductory to complex material.  Students can learn biology terms by dragging and dropping to show category relationships.  Also virtual laboratories available.(rw)

Journey North - An excellent site for the spring semester, it explores sunlight, weather and climate; what drives seasonal changes in plants and animals. Through Phenology; the study of timing, migrations and growing periods are explored and explained through engaging activities and backyard observations. (acs) 

SMILE (Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement) SMILE is a great place to find all sorts of hands-on activities to add meaning to any lesson. These types of lessons are great for a multicultural or constructivist approach.   There are Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics exercises on this website. (CS)

 

 
 Modern Languages

Learn Spanish - A site which gives basic vocabulary lists and pronunciation of Spanish words.

Francophone Current Events and Lesson Plans - This TV5 website was created specifically for French teachers.  It offers lesson plans integrated into their news services, children's shows, and science/nature offerings.  They also offer lots of video and music clips a teacher can incorporate into class and there is a wide respresentation of every Francophone country - not just France. (ach)

Super French Websites - This website, designed by a professor at the University of Northern Iowa, was created by French teachers specifically for French teachers.  It provides links to hundreds of French and Francophone websites including numerous French TV stations, Radio France, dozens of French and Francophone newspapers, French search engines, and even French Wikpedia.  It also offers French quizzes, French games, French grammar exercises, and French dictionaries.  There are lesson plans, vocabulary lists, verb conjugation charts, as well as links to interactive French websites that can be used in the classroom.  Though there does not seem to be a link to the Nouvel Observateur (another great French publication), it can easily be added , because the site also allows you to list some links that you have discovered in your online travels that you think may be useful to other French teachers.  This is an excellent resource for French teachers at all levels and best of all, it is completely free (cm)! 



Pop Culture/Media

 

Newseum -This is an incredible archive of 474 newspaper front pages from 38 countries around the world that is updated each morning. Any teacher interested in doing current events or media criticism projects will find this site to be invaluable (ts).

YTMND- YTMND (You're the Man Now Dog) is a site packed full of short clips, pics, and sounds in relation to just about any reference in popular culture. Great for satire and for a laugh. (dk)