Educational Links
Lightspan - http://www.lightspan.com/ With over 56,000 online links in its database, Education World (now part of Lightspan) boasts the most comprehensive database for education links on the Internet.

Health
American Heart Association - http://www.amhrt.org This is the official site of the American Heart Association (AHA). Here you will find plenty of information about healthy living and lifestyles, including tips on nutrition and fitness.

CBSHealthWatch http://cbs.medscape.com HealthWatch's 46 channels tell you everything you need to know about asthma, cancer, diabetes plus a medical test handbook and drug directory.

Food Finder - http://www.olen.com/food/ With a database of more than 1000 items from 19 fast food chains, you can specify the maximum caloric, fat cholesterol, or sodium contents of your meals, and let the program find good choices for you.
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Lesson Plan Goldmines
Academy Curriculum Exchange - http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/elem.html This site houses a large collection of lessons on all subjects submitted by a consortium of teachers.

AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons An excellent collection of more than 1000 creative lesson plans that can be searched by topic or keyword.

Collaborative Lesson Archive - http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/ This collaborative archive presents lessons on a wide range of topics, organized by specific grade level and subject matter.

Columbia Educati on Center Teacher Resourses http://www.col-ed.org/lessons_page.html Not to be confused with Columbia University in NYC, the Columbia Education Center has over 600 lesson plans. Materials are sorted by subject matter and age group.

Connected Teacher http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/home.asp Sponsored by Classroom Connect, a one stop source of the best educational material on the internet.

The Gateway to Educational Materials. www.thegateway.org This is a keyword-searchable database that offers more than 12,000 lesson plans, activities and projects

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Literature

Author Yellow Pages http://www.authoryellowpages.com/ searchable directory of author websites

The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html Includes links to children’s authors, reviews, "best book" lists & more.

Children's Picture Book Database http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ A keyword searchable database of over 4000 picture books, includes abstracts, subject classification and web links

Imaginary Lands http://www.imaginarylands.org/ Author and illustrator sites, sites about illustration, award sites and used and rare children's book dealers

Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners - http://www.ala.org/alsc/nquick.html List of award winning books.
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Professional Organizations, Publications and Groups
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - http://www.ascd.org The ASCD provides professional development, initiates and supports activities that provide educational equality for all students, and serves a leader in educational information.

Education Week - http://www.edweek.org/ Don't get left behind on current issues that affect your career. Get the latest on educational reform, schools, policies, and other hot topics in education through this complete online newspaper.

Education World - http://www.education-world.com/ With thousands of online education links, this comprehensive database is searchable by keyword or topic, and has reviews of the latest education sites.

International Society for Technology in Education - http://www.iste.org/ ISTE's mission is to help teachers and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies. Check out the technology standards.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - http://www.nctm.org/ Join NCTM, participate in the forum for the development of new math education standards, find out about job openings around the world.

National Council of Teachers of English - http://www.ncte.org/ The National Council of Teachers of English has a selection of resources dealing with the NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts. These include a list of the
twelve ELA standards, selections from the organization's book about standards,
and a link to a discussion forum.

New York State Education Department - http://www.nysed.gov/ The New York State Education Department has a number of useful pages spread throughout its web site.

The U.S. Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/ Find out the goals set by the Department of Education. Click on New Online for recent reports, funding opportunities, and publications from the Department. View past EdInfo or
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Reference
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - http://www.colubia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ The online version is searchable by keyword.

CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.census.gov Gather population statistics of all the states.

Computer Virus Myths - http://www.kumite.com/myths/ Check here to see if the virus warning you received was real or just a hoax.

ERIC & Ask Eric - http://ericir.syr.edu The Educational Research Information Center is a clearing house from the National Library of Education. Information is organized into 16 specific subject areas and provides online support and resources for educators.

Maps - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ The National Geographic Society has brought its map-making wizardry to the Web with a site that allows users to create, find and download maps of every description. The interactive Web atlas allows users to pan and zoom from global to local scales and search an index of 2 million place names. Maps can be created and printed by choosing theme, scale and area of coverage. The maps can be emailed to others all without charge. There are other nuggets of information such as locations of recent earthquakes. Check it out at the URL above.

Putnam/N. Westchester BOCES School Library System Union Catalog http://www.pnwboces.org/library.htm Tap into a database containing the holdings of school libraries in Putnam and Northern Westchester.

The Reference Desk - http://www.refdesk.com/ A comprehensive site with links for newspapers, weather, and search engines to name a few.

This Day in History - http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/ . What historical events happened on your birthday? Enter a month and a day for a list. What Else Happened Today? lists memorable events with details just a click away. The search engine includes links to related people and historical places.
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Standards
McREL - http://www.mcrel.org/ Excellent site when working with standards. Browse this database for standards and benchmarks for all K-12 subject areas. The Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) based in Aurora, Colorado, is a private non-profit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development.

Technology Tutorials
On-Line Technology Tutorials http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm On-Line tutorials on many technology programs including Hyperstudio, Inspiration, Front Page and Microsoft Works plus many more.
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Weather
National Weather Service http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/current.htm - More than just weather, you can determine the temperature, sunset and sunrise of any city in the country.

The Wild, Wild Weather Page - http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/ The Wild, Wild Weather Page was created by the chief meteorologist at an Alabama television station. The information and activities at the site are for students between 6 and 16 years old. Users will find information on a variety of weather topics, including El Nino, climate, lightning, and tornadoes. Educators will find links to complete classroom weather units and other weather resources.
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Web Creation (all these sites are free)
Filamentality - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ Allows you to build a list of web links and post it on the internet for your students to access in under an hour! You cannot add graphics but a perfect spot for a beginner.

Homestead http://www.homestead.com Build your own site with superb drag and drop interface and add images, sound and special effects with ease. You can even create your page with a web editor and FTP it to Homestead.

My School OnLine http://myschoolonline.com Another easy to use web creation site especially made for teachers.

Webmonkey http://www.webmonkey.com Webmoney is a vocational school for web designers. Tutorials start with the fundamentals of HTML and help you create your own Web site through forms, style sheets and progamming languages.

Web Evaluation
Internet Source Validation Project - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~dfurey/validate/ Here's an excellent site for educators who are concerned about information literacy. Students learn the proper questions to ask when examining a Web Page in order make sure the data they retrieve is accurate, relevant, and appropriate. Go to 'validity'.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ Kathy provides evaluation tools for teachers and students along with a listing of her best web sites.

Web Searching
Spider's Apprentice http://www.monash.com/spidap.html An excellent guide to help you understand how the search engines work and what you can do to target specific searches to get the best results

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This page revised on 12/30/01