Merrilee Larson’s Suggestions for
Internet Resources for Teachers | Reading/Lang.
Arts | Students
Updated August, 2002
From Now On
http://fno.org
WebQuest Site
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
From this site teachers can learn how to construct their won web-rich research
units. Also search the Examples that have been created by teachers in a variety
of levels and subject areas.
MarcoPolo (Great Stuff for
ALL Subject Areas!!)
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
A wonderful site created by educators in conjunction with the major
organization responsible for national education standards in respective subject
areas. (NCTM-math; NCSS and other organizations for Social Studies, etc...)
The Gateway to Educational
Materials (GEM)
http://www.thegateway.org
The GEM consortium is spearheaded by the ERIC Clearing House on Information
and Technology with support from the National Library of Education in the US
Department of Education. This site is designed for teachers to type a topic,
grade level, and other information into a search screen that then retrieves
from more than 140 web sites, lessons, instructional units, and other free educational
materials on that topic, for that grade level.
The Digital Classroom
http://www.nara.gov/education/classrm.html
National Archives and Records Administration
Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and Students
Amazing Picture Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
This is a searchable index of Internet graphics which will help you find
images for your lessons. (everything from historical photos to science diagrams,
lesson ideas and search tips.)
The Library of Congress/American Memory Project
http://www.loc.gov/
Click on American Memory: America’s Story in Words, Sounds &
Pictures
Then click on Enter.
Select the Learning Page for organized help for students, teachers and
life-long learners.
Smithsonian Institute Lesson Plans
http://educate.si.edu/
click on Teaching Resources.
You will find lesson plans for Arts, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
The lessons make use of the Smithsonian's vast materials and exhibits.
Two Social Studies examples:
Teaching from Objects and Stories: Learning about the Bering Sea Eskimo People
Winning the Vote: How Americans Elect Their President
FREE
http://www.ed.gov/free/
Resources from 40+ federal organizations available and searchable in one spot
for teaching and learning in language arts, science, and social studies.
EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Subject-based access to top humanities sites, lesson plans and additional learning
activities.
American Association of School Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/
Check out Kids Connect and then Favorite Web Sites.
The New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
This site posts a different news article every day with a photo and daily
lesson plans for teachers. The archives can also be searched for articles related
to specific topics you might be studying. There is also a daily news quiz and
a themed crossword puzzle.
TeachersFirst - Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers
http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm
K-12 lesson plans and web links for all content areas.
In the Content Matrix scroll to Reading and Language Arts or Social Studies.
Select from elementary, middle or high school lesson plans.
Discovery School.com
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
at this site check out:
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for educators (2000 categorized Web Links); Clip
Art Gallery; Puzzlemaker; Science Fair Central; Lesson Plans K-6 and 7-12.
Apple Learning Interchange
http://ali.apple.com
Internet resources, including documents, images, video, audio and URLS for lesson
plan handouts.
Units of Practice (integrate technology through a structured curriculum framework)
Interactive Projects
Chats and Forums
StudyWeb
http://www.studyweb.com
This site is a unit of the Lightspan Partnership. It provides access to over
118,000 “research quality URLS” with links to other education-related
sites.
ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com/
Special areas for Reading/Language Arts, history, social studies and more.
Graphic Organizers
http://www.graphic.org
From this site you can link with other sites related to graphic organizers.
Inspiration and Kidspiration (Software titles)
http://inspiration.com
This is the site for Inspiration software which is a visual mapping and
organization tool. At the site you can view examples of graphic organizers created
using Inspiration 6.0 for use in all content areas. The Pre-Elementary version
is called Kidspiration.
Edina STRP Page
http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/edinahigh/instruct_tech_specialist/strp/index.htm
NCREL's STRP Page
http://www.ncrel.org/
Click on Literacy along the left side.
Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Reading. English and Communication
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec
Click on Great Web Resources
SCORE Language Arts
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cla.html
San Diego County Office of Education
CyberGuides
(Literature Guides) and Teacher Resources
Literacy Web (University of Connecticut)
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/index.htm
It contains links to literacy resources and is organized by grade; addresses
a variety of literacy topics including: assessment,
Content Area Literacy, Connecting to Writing, Effective Teaching, Literacy Standards,
Multicultural Literacy; and links to research,
online discussions, a newsletter, and more.
The Reading Room/Doug Buehl’s monthly column
http://www.weac.org/News/reading.htm
The Reading Room features a different instructional strategy related to reading
in the content areas each month. His columns can be found on the Wisconsin Education
Association Council Web Site. Each lesson or example is easy to print out.
Select April 2000 for a lesson on using photos called, You ought to be in
pictures: Using photos to help students understand the past.
The English Companion
http://www.englishcompanion.com/
Teacher and writer, Jim Burke’s site for English teachers.
Carol Hurst Children’s Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
Thursdays Classroom
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com
This is NASA’s education site for classroom teachers. Every Thursday
a new lesson is posted with an article to read (2 versions of the same article
are included; one for grades 4-6 and one for grades 7-9), student activity sheets,
and teacher lesson plans for each activity.
Example:
The Northern Lights lesson featured an anticipation guide and a vocabulary
card sort as pre reading activities. In addition the site provides background
information, related web links, and animated visuals to help students learn
concepts.
Alfy Cool Sites
http://www.alfy.com/Cool_Sites
This is a Web directory for young children 3-9.
Guardian’s Ancient Egypt
http://guardians.net/egypt/
Guardian’s Ancient Egypt for Kids is dedicated to Kids.
CIA KIDS (The CIA’s Homepage for Kids)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/
The federal government provides this kids’ page of the Central Intelligence
Agency. Investigate the history of the CIA and famous people in espionage.
Also find an interactive geography trivia quiz and a World Fact Book
at this site.
From the index page you can access other government agency kids’ pages.
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