Educators, here are some organizations, and Internet resources that you can use to help create an “active” learning environment for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Awesome Library Awesome Library organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Organized by classroom subjects, administrative support, and general resources, help about most any topic is available here. Topics often include lesson plans, discussions, links to other sites, materials, papers, and projects. http://www.awesomelibrary.org
Book Pals BookPALS is a unique all-volunteer literacy program. Professional actors visit public elementary schools in local neighborhoods to read aloud to children every week. The world of literacy and literature is then opened to these children by the very people who can make books come alive through their talent and training. http://www.bookpals.net
CareerZone CareerZone is the place to learn about your skills and talents and to explore many exciting careers in New York State. Students may build and store resume, explore occupations, identify strengths, skills and talents and search education and training databases. http://www.nycareerzone.org
Dirtmeister’s Science Labs Get your hands on science with a fun experiment from the Dirtmeister – and make science come alive in your classroom! http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/index.htm
DiscoverySchool You love their cable network channel – now you can love their website devoted to students, teachers, and parents. http://school.discovery.com
EBSCO Research Databases - Contact your school librarian for your EBSCO Log In Information. http://search.epnet.com
Free Lesson Plans and More A website dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources. Offers worksheets, test preparation materials, and education news. http://www.edhelper.com
Gale Group Online Research Databases for New York Residents. Contact your school librarian for your log in information. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb
HubbleSite Visit this website to view and download pictures of planets, stars, galaxies, moons, and so on from the Hubble Space Telescope. http://hubblesite.org/gallery
International Children's Digital Library The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research to create a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. http://icdlbooks.org/
Imagiverse Imagiverse.... the universe of our imaginations has no boundaries. Imagiverse believes that imagination is the key to learning. Teachers can teach, but learning comes from within. The website’s goal is to spark the flame that will lead young and old to pursue learning as an adventure through imagination. Activities, resources, and lots of information is available for all to see and use. http://www.imagiverse.org
Learning Page - Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson Plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on this site. http://www.learningpage.com/
LibriVox LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. http://librivox.org
Media PlayerWindows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home—all from one place.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
National Geographic - Homework Help - information, pictures, articles, maps and more on top subjects - perfect for reports, presentations and more! http://nationalgeographic.com/homework/index.html
PBS TeacherLine Funded by a grant from the US Department of Education, PBS TeacherLine is committed to helping educators acquire the skills they need to prepare students for the future. This website provides educators with courses developed with collaboration with organizations such as the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline
ScienceMaster ScienceMaster was formed in 1997 with one goal - to excite young minds about science. ScienceMaster brings high quality science to the Internet by providing the best science resources for teachers, parents, hobbyists, and life-long learners. The ScienceMaster web pages include links to research sites, lesson plans, activities, and project ideas. Browse our current selections, hear sound clips of audio interviews, see pictures from the NASA and USGS archives, or JPEG and GIF images you can download and keep. http://www.sciencemaster.com/jump/index.php
Starfall The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. They also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. http://www.starfall.com
Think Bright WNED’s ThinkBright Lifelong Learning includes a channel and an online service that will transform and enhance the educational experiences of teachers, students, families, and adult learners. An unprecedented grant of $2.5 million from The John R. Oishei Foundation allows WNED to harness digital technology to pioneer this landmark educational service. WNED’s collaboration with the region’s most talented and influential education technology organizations has produced a service that enriches and advances lifelong learning in the Buffalo Niagara region. http://www.thinkbright.org
Verizon Thinkfinity Verizon Thinkfinity is an innovative online resource for teachers, students and parents. Thinkfinity provides trainers and classroom teachers with training, resources and lesson plans. http://www.thinkfinity.org
The Library of Congress More than a library. . .an on-line collection of the words, pictures, and sounds of our country in a library that never closes. http://www.loc.gov
The RhymeZone An on-line rhyming dictionary and thesaurus to help you become a poet before you know it. http://www.rhymezone.com/help
Top 100 Sites for Teachers Contains lots of ‘smart tools for busy teachers.’ Links, links, and more links for teachers take you to more lesson plans than you could ever use in a lifetime of teaching. http://www.teachnet.com/t2t
Your Children Learns - huge floor maps - free to download!
