Internet Resources for Teachers & Librarians

• A to Z Teacher Stuff
  http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/
  Lesson plans and ideas for a wide variety of themes. Look carefully because many of the activities are for children older than preschool.



• Idea Box
  http://www.theideabox.com/
  Activities, games, songs, and crafts. A new idea every day!



• Perpetual Preschool
  http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
  Includes songs, games, snacks, and art and science activities for 125 preschool themes.



• Preschool Education
  http://www.preschooleducation.com/
  Ideas for all of your classroom centers in one place.



• Preschool Rainbow
  http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/
  Ideas for school and home activities for preschoolers and kindergartners.



• Terrific Toddlers
  http://www.terrifictoddlers.com/
  Songs, games, snacks, and art and science activities for toddler themes.

• Federal [Internet] Resources for Educational Excellence
  http://www.ed.gov/free/
  
  
• The Gateway of Educational Materials [lesson plans]
  http://www.thegateway.org/
  
  
• Internet Public Library - Teachers &Parents Corner
  http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/tcn0000
  
  
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
  
  
• Teacher Information Network, created by a teacher, a "Best of the Web for Teachers" winner.
  http://www.teacher.com/
  
  
• Teachers Helping Teachers-large collection of teaching activites plus other helps
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel//
  
  

• How Stuff Works
  http://www.howstuffworks.com
  
  
• Chemist's Art Gallery
  http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html
  
  
• Endangered Species
  http://endangered.fws.gov/
  
  
• Zoom Dinosaurs
  http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com
  
  
• The Dinosauria
  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
  
  
• Hurricanes
  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
  
  
• Cells Alive
  http://www.cellsalive.com
  
  
• Wildlife/Environment
  http://www.webdirectory.com/Wildlife/
  
  
• Quest! NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
  http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
  
  
• Mars Pathfinder Mission
  http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/index1.html
  
  
• Magic School Bus
  http://www.scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus/
  
  
• Bill Nye the Science Guy
  http://www.billnye.com/
  
  

• The Learning Web of the US Geological Survey
  http://www.usgs.gov/education/
  
  

• The Big 6Skills Information Problem-Solving Approach
  http://www.big6.com/
  
  

• The National Math Trail
  http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/
  
  
• The Math Forum
  http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
  
  
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/
  
  

• 50 States and Capitals and other state information
  
  
• WQED Pittsburgh History Series (with Rick Sebak) Teacher's Guides
  http://www.wqed.org/erc/pghist/
  
  
• America's Story
  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/
  
  
• Ben's Guide to U.S.Government for Kids: Arranged by grade level
  http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
  
  
• Library of Congress American Memory Digital Library of photographs from American History
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
  
  
• Images from American Political History
  http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/
  
  
• The White House for Kids
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
  
  
• The American Presidents
  http://www.americanpresidents.org
  
  
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  http://www.si.umich.edu/SPIES/
  
  
• The History Channel Classroom
  http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/
  
  
• C-Span in the Classroom
  http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
  
  
• The New York Times on the Web Learning Network [grades 6 to 12]
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
  
  
• Colonial Williamsburg
  http://www.history.org/
  
  
• Pennsylvania
  http://www.state.us.pa
  
  
• The Martin Luther King Jr. Directory
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
  
  
• Country Library
  http://www.tradeport.org/countries/
  
  
• Food Timeline
  http://www.foodtimeline.org/
  
  

• Foreign Language News and Newspapers
  http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/
  
  
• ePALS Classroom Exchange - worldwide penpals on the Internet
  http://www.epals.com/
  
  
• Native American Sites
  http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian
  http://www.nmai.si.edu/
  
  

• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
  http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/
  
  
• Cleveland Museum of Art
  http://www.clemusart.com/
  
  
• The Exploratorium [San Francisco]
  http://www.exploratorium.edu
  
  
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum [Philadelphia PA]
  http://www.fi.edu/learn/
  
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  http://www.metmuseum.org/
  
  
• The National Air and Space Museum
  http://www.nasm.si.edu/
  
  
• Royal Ontario Museum
  http://www.rom.on.ca
  
  

• Aesop's Fables
  http://www.umass.edu/aesop/
  
  
• Africa Access Review: Annotations and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa
  http://www.africaaccessreview.org/
  
  
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  http://www.carolhurst.com/
  
  
• Children's Literature Web Guide
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
  
  
• de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
  http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/
  
  
• FAIRROSA'S CYBER HOMEPLACE
  http://www.fairrosa.info
  
  
• Cooperative Children's Book Center
  http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
  
  
• Grimms' Fairy Tales- based on a 1914 translation
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
  
  
• HarperCollins Children's Books
  http://www.harperchildrens.com/kids/
  See also How a Book is Made
  
  
• Scholastic Books
  http://www.scholastic.com
  
  
• BookLinks: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms
  The library subscribes to this journal. Indexes to articles and bibliographies
  http://www.ala.org/BookLinks/
  
  

• Merriam-Webster's Word Central
  http://www.wordcentral.com
  
  
• The Dewey Decimal System
  http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5002/index.shtml
  
  
• National Spelling Bee
  http://www.spellingbee.com/
  
  
• Reader's Theater Web Page
  http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/
  
  
• Foreign Languages
  http://www.travlang.com/languages/
  
  

• Crayola Art Education
  http://education.crayola.com
  
  
• A. Pintura, Art Detective: The Case of Grandpa's Painting
  http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
  
  

• School Library Journal Online
  http://www.slj.com
  
  
• Booklist
  http://www.ala.org/booklist/
  
  
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
  http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/
  
  

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