American Federation of Teachers -- The AFT Represents One Million Teachers, School Support Staff, Higher Education Faculty and Staff, Health Care Professionals, and State and Municipal Employees.
Learner.org -- Annenberg/CPB, a partnership between The Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Annenberg/CPB videos help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. The programs are also intended for viewers at home and students in the classroom. All Annenberg/CPB videos, however they are used, exemplify excellent teaching.
Busy Teachers -- This Site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.
Cool Teaching -- Designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Problem-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research. Some of these units depend on the ability of students to do interactive work with others using technology. However, even if you have one or no computer in your classroom, most of the units linked at this site can be of much help.
AIMS Education Foundation -- AIMS began in 1981 as a project funded by the National Science Foundation at Fresno Pacific College. Eighty classroom teachers and the faculty explored the effectiveness of integrating mathematics and science in grades 5-8. Even though long recommended by thoughtful educators, very few meaningfully integrated materials existed at the time. The initial AIMS materials produced such positive results that a major curriculum research and development effort was launched to fill this void. The early success of AIMS in grades 5-9 quickly caught the attention of K-4 teachers and created a widespread demand for similarly integrated materials for their use. In response, AIMS was established as a permanent program to develop integrated math/science materials for K-9.
Council for Basic Education -- An Independent Voice for Educational Excellence. The Council for Basic Education (CBE), a national non-profit organization, advocates high academic standards for all students and exemplary teaching in every classroom in our nation’s public schools.
Can Teach -- Hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources, we hope you find something useful to help you out.
Clever Teacher -- As former teachers, we know the time it takes to fully integrate technology into the PreK-2nd grade curriculum. Clever Teacher wants to enable you work smarter, not harder. To achieve this goal, we are providing free online and offline resources to help you incorporate technology into your classroom. Each month we will bring you a 5-day thematic unit complete with relevant online applications and offline activities in a safe, advertisement-free environment. We’ll also send registered teachers free offline educational mailings.
Click Teaching -- Your online resource database for primary education. All of the teaching resources available on this site have been produced by teachers who use the activities in their own classrooms. Feel free to send in your ideas to share with other teachers. Clickteaching is an approved content provider for the National Grid for Learning.
Core Knowledge -- What is Core Knowledge? An Idea. . . that for the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, elementary and middle schools need a solid, specific, shared core curriculum in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge, grade by grade.
Classroom Connect -- When you sign up for a Classroom Connect Free Membership you can begin using the free services found in our Community area immediately. In Community, educators come together to share ideas, ask experts, discover the best new teaching resources, collaborate on projects, and help each other integrate technology into the classroom.
Concept to Classroom -- Here you will find Free workshops that cover all kinds of hot topics in education today. And go to the Discussion Boards to join your colleagues around the country as they share their thoughts, ideas, and comments about what they're learning in these workshops.
Cyberbee -- There Seems to be a Lot Here for Teachers, but Very Little (in fact no) Information From Which I Could Construct This Descriptive Passage.
The Single Computer Classroom -- A Host of Ideas and Resources For Teachers Who Wish to Utilize the Computer in Their Classrooms, but Only Have One Computer Available.
Cable in the Classroom -- This $2 million-per-week effort, supported by 39 national cable networks and over 8,500 local cable companies, provides schools across the U.S. with free cable service and over 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming.
Teacher 2 Teacher -- We are both teachers with Regular Ed./Special Ed. Degrees and work in an elementary school in inclusion classrooms. There are many things that we have found useful in the classroom for reinforcement of basic skills and that the students can have available to them in writing activities and as study guides. Some things are free and we will continue to add more.
Going To A Museum? A Teacher's Guide -- This World Wide Web site includes a compilation of lesson plans written by teachers in the "Museums and Education" course offered in Northern Virginia and other resources written and compiled by a group of students in the same course offered in Charlottesville through the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
Digital Divide Network -- Knowledge to Help Everyone (Teachers Included) Survive in the Digital Age.
Drama Teacher's Resource Room -- a place where you can kick back and find some ideas for your classroom or production. At the Drama Teacher's Resource Room we are striving to make it easier for you to encourage creative and challenging experiences for students in your drama classroom.
Early Childhood -- This Appears to be a Commercial Site, But They do Have Lots of Information and Resources for Teachers.
EcEdWeb -- The mission of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels. Here you'll find exciting material for teaching economics.
EconEdLink -- A program of the National Council on Economic Education and member of the MarcoPolo consortium. Centered on curriculum standards and the essential principles of economics. Classroom tested, internet based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
Ed Briefs -- A weekly newsletter sent to subscribers via e-mail and posted to this web site. The newsletter contains a compilation of summaries of important or interesting education news stories, including the complete source citation.
Ed Helper -- Dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources. edHelper was created by a team of teachers who have edhelped (!) in its development. Thousands of Lesson Plans, in a Multitude of Subjects.
Education Week -- The Online Home of Education Week Magazine.
EducationNews -- At the click of a mouse, EducationNews.org will provide daily links to the major education news articles throughout the world. Nationally recognized figures involved in education will be providing weekly commentaries on various aspects of education. Our own EducationNews.org staff writers will be covering the latest education issues to bring you a thorough and complete analysis of events, policies, and situations which affect education today.
Ed Now -- An Online or Email E-Zine for Teachers, Librarians, and Administrators.
Teaching.com -- Many Free Services for Educators
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse -- ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
Eric -- The Educational Resources Information Center (Eric) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. Established in 1966, Eric is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is administered by the National Library of Education (NLE). At the heart of Eric is the largest education database in the world-containing more than 1 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
ESC Software Library -- Educational Software you can use now! Download demos, shareware, evaluation copies, freeware, and more from ESC members.
Essdack -- An Educational Service Center based in Hutchinson, Kansas. We provide quality staff development and other learning experiences. We are dedicated to serving learners and providing knowledge to our member districts. Browse our website to learn more about us and our members. (Editor's Note: Maybe a Little Provincial, but There are Some Free Resources Here Too.)
American Association of Teachers of French -- Our members are French teachers at all levels and include approximately 3/4 secondary teachers and 1/4 post-secondary. We also have a growing number of French teachers in immersion settings and in the elementary grades. (Editor's Note: There are some nice resources on the home page too)
Deaver Foundation -- Some Lesson Plans and Math Resources on This Home Page.
Gateway to Educational Materials -- The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!
GeekFiles -- I'm a computer teacher and a bilingual education teacher. When I started using the web, there wasn't much available for computer teachers who taught in Spanish, so I made my own pages. Here they are.
Computer Lesson Plans -- A Commercial Site From Australia but They Offer Many Computer Lesson Plans Free, Online.
The Global Schoolhouse -- Global SchoolNet is the leader in collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences. This website is free to all educators.
Schoolforge -- The Schoolforge coalition brings together the many education advocacy and development projects in the free software community. Together we can coordinate and focus to reduce redundancy and increase publicity.
International Education Daily -- Interesting, Technically Oriented Online E-Zine for Educators.
TeacherNet (K-8) -- Our online community offers an exciting array of features and resources for the dedicated teaching professional.
Useful Resources -- Lesson Plans, and Teaching Materials for Teachers from Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
Hotlist on Kindergarten -- Resources, Lesson Plans and Activities.
LACOE K-12 Lesson Plans -- From the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
Curriculum Builder -- Over 10,000 educators view this site each week.
LessonPlansPage -- One of the best PreK-12 teacher resources on the Internet, and it's completely free!
Loogootee -- Some Teacher's Resources Here, and a Very Nicely Made School Web Site That's Worth Seeing. Tips and Ideas for Your School Web Site Too.
Lower School -- Digital Library for Teachers.
Integrating the Internet -- Use this page to find primary resources, projects, a weekly newsletter, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages.
Genealogy -- Doing genealogical research is always a high interest activity for students of all ages. In addition to the rewards of a personal nature, research creates a host of opportunities to practice and integrate social studies skills learned or that need to be learned.
The Global Campus -- a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes. The goal of the project is to share resources through technology by providing a central "campus" where institutions may make their resources available on the World Wide Web. We provide easy access to high quality materials which can be used for instructional development worldwide, while respecting intellectual property rights.
The Heritage Institute Online -- The Heritage Institute since 1978 has provided continuing education for K-12 educators, offering each year over 300 field studies, workshops and distance courses to teachers in the four northwestern states of Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho, and distance courses to teachers around the US and the world. All courses are offered for Antioch University credit. (Editor's Note: This Site Doesn't Meet Our Criteria For Listing, Having no Free Resources, but I Felt That it Might be of Interest to Some Teachers)
Lemelson Resources for Teachers -- The Center's mission is to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation, to encourage inventive creativity in young people, and to foster an appreciation for the central role invention and innovation play in the history of the United States.
Learning with Technology -- An instructional website designed to help teachers integrate the use of technology into the classroom. Please feel free to use whatever you find here for instructional purposes.
MarcoPolo -- Providing no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.
Center for Technology in Education -- CTE strives to improve the quality of life of children and youth, particularly those with special needs, through teaching, research, and leadership in the use of technology. This unique partnership combines the research and teaching resources of The Johns Hopkins University and the leadership and policy support of the Maryland State Department of Education.
ABClassroom -- ABClassroom is a freeware program to help younger children improve computer keyboard skills, mouse motor skills, and computer skills in general. It can also help with learning the ABCs, Count to ten, some colors and shapes. Software, from Michael A. Shaffer.
Rubistar -- RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
Social Studies -- From the NCSS. Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.
School Express -- Our mission, is first to furnish free products to the educators throughout the world. Educators in many countries are accessing our free worksheets and software. We are especially pleased to learn that community programs in impoverished areas are able to gain access to these free materials to help educate the little ones in this world.
SchooNet South Africa -- Tons of Resources for Teachers. A Terrific Site!
RHL School -- Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Free worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
School Safety Teachers' Lounge -- We have prepared lesson plans to help teach your students about safety issues that will be both educational and enjoyable. Click on a page to enlarge it, then print it out.
N.Y. Times -- Teacher Connections for Grades Six Through Twelve.
PBS TeacherSource -- Thousands of Lesson Plans in Multiple Subjects.
Teacher Freebies -- This Freebie Site Has a Page of Free Stuff Just for Teachers.
Score -- Connecting California Classrooms to the World. Lots of Teacher Resources Here.
Scholastic.com -- Teachers Pages for Pre-K Through Grade Eight.
Teaching Tolerance -- In 1990, research from the Center's Intelligence Project and from other sources began to document both rising levels of intolerance among youth and the significant involvement of young people in hate crimes. With this information in hand, the Center realized that its mission had to expand. It would not only hold bigots accountable in court for their violent actions, but also reach out to schools and communities interested in fostering understanding of and respect for differences.
SucessLink -- Lesson plans and units! These lessons are all aligned to the Show-Me Standards, all written by Missouri teachers and many contain performance events and scoring guides.
Utah Educationn Network -- Explore Utah's Core Curriculum by grade level, subject, or type of activity. Or use our new search engine to pinpoint exactly what you want and how you want to present it.
The Teacher's Corner -- The Teacher's Corner was launched in 1998 as an online resource for educators.
Windows on the World -- A free, easy to use resource for schools and colleges seeking international links. Teachers can search the database for details of thousands of schools worldwide and may register their own school details for others to view
World School Network -- TWSN provides students, teachers and administrators at high schools with a unique new tool and new opportunities for communication. The network currently covers the schools in nine countries all using the products provided by The World School Network. [Editor's Note: This one looks a little commercial, but may be worth a look]
The World School -- Designed to be a place where young people who will be leaders in the new age, and the educators who guide them, will work together to find an ideal educational program for the world community.
The Teachers Guide -- Slightly commercial site, but with plenty of resources and freebies for teachers.
The Teachers Desk -- A collection of over 100 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in, currently being utilized in a fifth- or sixth-grade classroom.
Teacher Serve -- TeacherServe, is an interactive curriculum enrichment service offering teachers practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter to students. It is designed to deepen course content by providing convenient access to scholarship tailored to classroom use.
Teachers Net -- A large site with plenty of resources for teachers.
TeacherVision -- TeacherVision is created by teachers for teachers. Our goal is to provide you with lesson plans, resources, and materials that make your professional life easier.
TeachFirst -- Decades of research and practice affirm that the single most effective means to improve student achievement is to enhance teacher quality and competence. Building on strategies already proven successful by some of America's greatest teachers, TeachFirst offers teachers an online resource of best practices - teaching methodologies, techniques and materials - captured from award-winning educators across the country.
Teaching Tips -- Whether you are just starting or close to finishing your adventure in teaching, I hope you will find some ideas and inspiration in this website. My name is Anna Gregory, and I'm an experienced teacher with a lot of tips to share with you. The information, ideas, and techniques will target grades K-12.
World Wildlife Fund -- There's a nice list of wildlife related resources and information for teachers on this site. Click on "EDUCATORS".
Bridge -- Ocean Sciences Teacher Resource Center.
Beginning Teacher's Toolbox -- Helping new teachers with the resources they need.
U.S.Department of Education -- This one doesn't need a lot of explanation. It's big, and it has plenty of information for teachers.
A Commonwealth of Knowledge -- Lesson plans in a multitude of subjects from the state of Virginia. Other teacher resources here too.
The Worksheet Factory -- A commercial teaching software site, but they have some freebies for teachers.
Field Trips -- We have developed a site of virtual field trips on nature topics with the goal of making the best use of the web in the classroom. These annotated field trips take students to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. We have also listed additional teacher's resources for each of the trips. Our field trips format makes learning fun, and makes using the Internet in the classroom simple, efficient and focused.
Apple Learning Interchange -- Apple encourages you to use this collection of educational resources for lesson planning, research, or supplementary material.
Ayden Elementary Phys Ed -- Check out my Non-Traditional Gymnastics site for physical educators.The one and only site on the web devoted entirely to the teaching of gymnastics in a developmentally appropriate manner. It includes lesson plans , activities, assessments, routines, ideas on classroom setups, equipment, and links to developmentally appropriate sites.
National Agricultural Library -- Part of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is one of four National Libraries in the United States. NAL is a major international source for agriculture and related information. This Web site provides access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions.
Co-nect -- offering professional development and resources delivered online and onsite by a nationwide staff of educators who work directly with faculty. Co-nect schools and districts learn to integrate technology into teaching and learning, enhance the quality of student work, and integrate real-world projects into a standards-based curriculum. The result: students who exceed academic standards and are ready for a lifetime of learning and accomplishment.
Internet Detective -- Developed to benefit the academic research community in the European Union. It may be freely used for non-commercial academic and research purposes. Since the launch in 1998 they've had lots of positive feedback from all kinds of people in all kinds of places who've used the tutorial to teach and train students! Internet Detective teaches generic Internet and information skills and so can be widely applicable.
MegaEd -- This site is a search engine for online teacher's resources. It may be time consuming to use, but, if you couldn't find anything useful at one of the other sites listed on this page (as unbelievable as that seems to me, the editor of this page) then here's a place you can go to find other places to look.
Modern Language Association -- Provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For over a hundred years, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. [Editor's note: Membership in this organization is not free, but it's fairly reasonable. The site is listed here only because of it's potential value to a teacher]
Schoolhouse -- Home of the Encarta Lesson Collection and other educational resources.
Social Studies -- A collection of resources, gathered by Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge, which social studies teachers will find useful.
Social Studies School Service -- A few free and useful resources for Social Studies teachers from this publisher's site.
Texas Education Agency -- A great site for teachers in the state of Texas.
Educators Network -- Improving the way teachers access Online Resources. Thanks to the feedback of our 35,000 members, we believe that we have amassed some of the very best resources and tools for K-12 teachers across the globe.
Nova for teachers -- Nova's new Teachers site. To help serve you better, they have created a searchable database of all their educational materials, an ever-growing collection of more than 500 separate resources.
GlobeTeacher.com -- The world is about to face a major crisis. Yes, there is famine, overpopulation, human rights violations, and even global warming. But the newest crisis, and one that no one is discussing, is "Teacher Shortages". Most of the Western World will confront this head on in the next 5-20 years. At Globe Teacher, we aim to facilitate the transfer of Educational Professionals to and from all parts of the world. If you are an active teacher, a recent college graduate or an employer or school district, this is the site for you. They have compiled a list of recent articles from around the globe, all pointing to various levels of shortages now and in the future.
Beneath~The~Branches -- This is a Global Classroom Project where individuals or groups of students prepare stories about 'significant' Australian events. These stories may be factual, fictional or a combination of both. Student work should focus on environmental issues and historical events. Once the stories have been completed, they will be exchanged between the participating schools. Stories should include some form of illustration and may be presented in a multimedia format.
Global Classroom -- Allows students and teachers the opportunity and power to: collect and analyse data, problem-solve, hypothesise, predict, investigate, communicate with other students, individuals and organisations anywhere in the world, exchange ideas, opinions and experiences, create original work, such as prose, poetry or artwork and publish work on the Internet. All of these may be developed individually by students and contributed to the project, or developed collaboratively with others, either face to face or through electronic communication. It is important to remember that the focus of these tasks is on the curriculum - the technologies are only the tools that facilitate online learning!
Learn NC -- Learn North Carolina is a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, and is a statewide network of educators using the power of the Internet to improve K-12 education in North Carolina. Our Web site provides a collection of resources designed by experienced North Carolina educators for classroom teaching and learning and for professional development. Most of the site, including the Lesson Plan Database, is open to the public (and that, of course, includes teachers from anywhere).
Applets for Teachers -- Here are some Java Applets that teachers might find useful.
Teach-nology.com offers teachers Free access to lesson plans, printable worksheets, over 150,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, educational games, teaching / technology tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, teacher finance help, web quests, and teacher resources for creating just about anything a teacher could need. A Super Resource!!
A To Z Teacher Stuff -- Includes Teacher Tips, Lesson Plans, Teacher Chat, Unit Plans, And A Book Activities Index With 500+ Ideas For Teaching With Children's Literature.
Gateway To Educational Materials (GEM) -- Includes instructional materials from more than 140 federal, state, university, nonprofit and commercial organizations. The site is designed for teachers to enter a topic, grade level and other info into a search screen that retrieves lessons, instruction units and other free educational materials that fit the search criteria. Gem includes more than 7,000 items, and hundreds of new resources and new consortium members will be added each month.
Education World -- A Well-Organized Site, This Is The Place "Where Educators Go To Learn." The Site Supports K-12 School Administrators And Teachers By Providing Info On Lesson Plans, Curriculums, Books In Education, School Administration, Special Themes, And Educational Web Site Reviews. Browse Or Search By Keyword A Database Of More Than 120,000 Educational Sites.
Gradeworks.com -- A web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents, teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities in a secure environment that's available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Hot Potatoes -- With the click of a few buttons, you can create "multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises" for publishing on the web. Perfect for teachers, fun for students.
