Sally Beisser

Welcome to Lesson Plans Page.Com
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Over 900 lesson plans in math, science, social studies, language arts, etc

The Teacher's Lesson Plan Bank
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
This is your opportunity to share your most precious asset -your teaching ideas and lesson plans!

Busy Teacher
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
So many lessons...so little time!

PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Lesson plans on Art, PE, Music, Social Studies, Math, Science, Language Arts.

McREL (Midwest Regional Education Lab) Educator Resources!
http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp
Hotlinks by subjects

TeachNet.Com
http://www.teachnet.com/
Smart Tools for busy teachers

SOCIAL STUDIES LINKS

The History Channel
http://historychannel.com
Use this popular site for study guides, classroom resources, multimedia exhibits, and famous speeches.

History/Social Studies Website for K-12 Teachers
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
This site encourages the World Wide Web as a tool for learning, teaching, and locating resources for K-12 classroom teachers to use the Internet in the classroom.

Heard Museum-Phoenix, AZ
http://www.heard.org/
This site promotes appreciation and respect for Native American people and their culture heritage.

Social Studies Bookmarks
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/ss.bookmarks.html
A starting point for teachers to link to 1200 sites with information about African American history, Asian, and European resources.

U.S. Census Data (A wonderful site to see!)
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
This colorful site connects students to national, state, regional information with click-on map interface.

Smithsonian Institute-America's Treasure House for Learning
http://www.si.edu/
Connect to our resource collection of American treasurehouse of historical artifacts and natural collections.

The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Find maps on national parks, countries, states, cities, coastlines, earthquake hazards, you name it.

World of Maps
http://www.worldofmaps.com/
Commercial access to thousands of maps and travel books for world-wide destinations-especially Canada.

Collection of 800 maps
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
The University of Georgia has rare historical maps spanning from 500 years ago to the present.

http://www.50states.com/
The perfect site for reports on a state. Here you can find the capital of each state, flag, bird, date of statehood, and order, state flower, tree, and song.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Maps of countries, information on boundaries, climate, natural resources, flag, terrain, gov't, economy, and transportation.

Learning Web USGS (United States Geological Survey)
http://www.usgs.gov/
Try 'ask an expert.' An excellent site for geography information and resources.

Electronic Field Trip!
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Take an electronic trip for free using this rich archival pictorial guide.

Web Museum Tour
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
This WWW Virtual Library is a link to museums all around the world. A must visit site!

WebMuseum
http://watt.emf.net/
This ever-expanding site delivers 5 million documents per week. Try out subsets and Famous Paintings.

UC Paleontology Museum
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
Ancient species-lovers will appreciate the on-line museum artifacts and geology highlights.

Polar Regions
http://www.willassen.no/guide/
A highly rated site for information on the environment, animals, science, history of exploration

Paris
http://www.paris.org/
Tour France and visit monuments, museums, schools, shops, stores, and chat on a sidewalk café

Japan Web Guide
http://www.gol.com/jguide/
This site links to the best internet resources on Japan.

Russia on the Net
http://www.ru/
The most comprehensive guide to Russia using world-wide servers for information.

Photo Vault (Of Everything Under the Sun!)
http://www.photovault.com/
This incredible colorful site is a virtual wonder of photos of animals, cities, countries, disasters, insects, plants, monuments, landforms, even reptiles & amphibians. Photography is stunning-a must see site!

E- PALS AND E PALS and CONNECTIONS

Jason Project
http://www.jasonproject.org
Join the thrill of global discovery and exploration as students and teachers participate in an amazing around the world electronic connection for classroom communication and projects.

Global School Net Foundation
http://www.gsn.org
Linking kids around the world will broaden global perspectives for projects, contests, conferences, etc.

IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections)
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
This site is a free service from St. Olaf College to help teachers and classes link with classes in other countries and cultures through e mail penpal or project exchanges.

Classroom Connect
http://www.classroom.net/
Find ideas for classroom connection with other students as well as lesson plan ideas for every grade level..

Teacher at Sea (NOAA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration)
http://www.tas.noaa.gov/
Would you like to be a teacher selected to go on a sea voyage several weeks? Connect to this site if you are intrigued about research aboard a sea-vessel and want to share it with your students.

SERVICE LEARNING

K-12 Service-Learning Literature: 1999-2003
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/331/
A list of K-12 service-learning literature published between 1999 to
2003, compiled by RMC Research Corporation

See "Connecting Thinking and Action: Ideas for Service-Learning Reflection" at
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/319/

Print copies can be obtained from RMC Research Corporation. Call 1-800-922-3636; e-mail rmc@rmcdenver.com; or by writing to 1512 Larimer Street Suite 540, Denver, CO, 80202. ($20)

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has recently developed 8 new bibliographies for service-learning programs, practitioners, and researchers in all sectors of service-learning.

These bibliographies feature hyperlinks to selected online and full text resources.

NEW SERVICE LEARNING BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Assessment, Evaluation, and Performance Measurement: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/294/

Civics and Citizenship Education: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/293/

New Service-Learning Publications and Research: 2002-2003
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/291/

School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/295/

Sector Specific Service-Learning: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/296/

Service-Learning At-A-Glance: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/292/

Service-Learning in K-12 Schools: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/297/

Youth Voice: Selected Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/298/

Community-Based Service-Learning: Recommended Resources
http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/86/
Author: Points of Light Foundation, NSLC senior program advisor

Community Education: http://www.iowacommunityeducation.org/
Service-Learning: http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/cfcs/sl/index.html
21st CCLC: http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/cfcs/21stcclc/index.html

U.S. GOVERNMENT

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Learn about quest projects, online conferencing, and new space discoveries. Ask questions or visit the chat room at NASA.

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov
Learn about publications, products, programs, services, administrative directives, and ways to communicate

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
An array of connections to legislative information, exhibitions, library services, research tools. Try the "Today in History" to see what happened on this day in our historical past.

MATHEMATICS

Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com
This site is has a math center, reading and language arts center, and social studies center

http://www.edu4kids.com/math
Math flashcards games. choose form addition, subtraction, mulitplication, and division of one-, two-, and three- digit numbers.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/arithmetic/arith.puzzles.html
Arithmetic puzzles and problems for kids from about third grade up.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/
Ways that parents can help their children so better in math.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html
Stumped on a math problem? E-mail it to Dr. Math.

http://mathleague.com/help/help.htmIn fourth through eigth grade and stumped on a math problem? Click on this site to see examples of similar problems.

SCIENCE

Ecology
http://www.ecology.com
Access to environmental periodicals, programming for the Ecology Channel, and kids can join Captain Horatio Seaweed on a voyage of environmental awareness.

Tree of Life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Great information and colorful photos of biological organisms such as whirligigs and fireflies.

U.S. Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/default.htm
This site has health statistics of all kinds directly from the U.S. government.

San Diego Zoo
http://www.sandiegozoo.org
Join in this 80th anniversary celebration of the San Diego Zoo

The Franklin Institute Science Museum
http://sln.fi.edu/
Learn about living things through this site.

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
Both young and old scientists will enjoy this exciting discovery site on Volcanoes.

LITERACY LINKS

Internet Book Information Center
http://www.internetbookinfo.com/
The WWW Virtual Library on Literature maintains this site which features book-related resources, etc.

KIDLIT
http://mgfx.com/Kidlit/
While this site is designed for kids, adults will find a good selection of literature and art by kids.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
Been assigned to write a poem? Check out the Rhyming Dictionary.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
List of children's authors and their books

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
Aesop's fables, fairy tales, and stories, Grimm's fariy tales, folklore references, information on myths, and legends.

http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jbh/author.html
Short biographical sketches of authors and links to their books on the web.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html
Full-text versions of such classics as "Little Women", "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", and "A Little Princess".

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LINKS

EdWeb
http://edweb.cnidr.org/
This excellent site explores the world of educational reform and information technology around the world. Find on-line resources with global perspectives on educational policy, computers in the classroom, etc.

The National PTA
http://www.pta.org
If you think all the PTA does is organize bake sales, guess again. This site furthers involvement of families and adults in the education of children. Learn through networking and ideas for interaction.

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/
Interested in good schools? This site is dedicated to giving the 2.2 million NEA members the chance to communicate with their peers, learn about important issues, and improve their teaching skills.

The ASCD Web (The Association for Supervision and Curriculum)
http://www.ascd.org
This international, nonprofit, nonpartisan association is committed to providing professional development in educational curriculum and supervision through articles and news, as well as the Electronic Exchange-to talk about important educational issues and concerns.

Council of Chief State School Officers
http://www.ccsso.org
This site is a gold mine of articles and papers on important educational issues. Get the latest scoop on welfare reform, concerns in your state, or how the TeleCommunications Act will be implemented.

The Academic Employment Network
http://www.academploy.com
Looking for a job? Search by state for faculty, staff, or administrative jobs OR post your own ads here. There is a collection of employment resources such as relocation and certification requirements

Classroom Connect: Internet Resources for Teachers
http://www.classroom.net
Find out about this informative, exceptional publication for educators to use Internet resources in productive, challenging ways to engage learners. Lesson plans are included monthly. Hardcopy Classroom Connect subscription is $39 per year.

American Association of School Administrators
http://www.aasa.org/
ASAA web site is devoted to articles and information on assessment. This web site is a list of hot links on various timely assessment techniques.

Center for Learning, Assessment and School Structure
http://www.classnj.org/
CLASS helps educators build school around the students' needs as learners. This site provides a variety of printed materials, publications, and video tapes on student assessment and curriculum design.

Learning Record Assessment System
http://www.electriciti.com
This web site describes the K-12 Learning Record in Literacy achievement.

National Education Goals Panel Early Childhood Reports
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/as0cont.htm
This web site includes a Trip Planner Inventory (self-assessment) on practices in your school system or class room. This site also has links to assessment web sites.

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory web site on Assessment and Evaluation
http://www.nwrel.org/eval/
This site provides hot lists on assessment topics.

GIFTED EDUCATION -SPECIAL EDUCATION

Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/
The CEC is the largest international organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, disabilities, and/or the gifted. Learn about projects, activities, student organizations, chapters, and subdivisions.

National Association for the Gifted and Talented
http://www.cec.sped.org/
Information on membership, public policy, publications, materials, and other resources.

NRC G/T (National Research Center for Gifted and Talented-University of Connecticut)
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu:80/~wwwgt/nrcgt.html
This national networking association offers informational resources, access to materials and research, and legislative updates on issues and findings in gifted education.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities & Gifted Education
http://ericec.org
ERIC EC focuses on professional literature, information, and resources relating to the education and development of persons of all ages with disabilities or who are gifted. Find a database of materials, reports, research, and bibliographic information.

Gifted Resources Home Page
http://www.eskimo.com/~user/kids.html
The site links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, government programs, and gifted mailing plus 5 yrs of mailing list archives.

Learning Disabilities Association of America
http://www.ldanatl.org
The LDA is a national, non-profit organization which advances the education of learning disabled children who manifest handicaps of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature.

Who? Where?
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Have a long-lost friend? This site helps you track down email or postal addresses of persons in English- speaking countries.

LINKS JUST FOR KIDS
Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com
Search for information at kid-level from science oddities to current events.

.Berit's Best Sites for Kids
http://www.beritsbest.com/
This site is a Web page of sites just for kids which is rated on a 5-point scale.

Kids Space
http://www.kids-space.org/
This colorful and beautifully-designed site features submission of kids art work, stories, music, etc.

NEWS AND EVENT LINKS
Newspage
http://www.newspage.com/
This site has 500 information sources and 25,000 pages refreshed daily for comprehensive news.

Current Events
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/
Find out the latest news events with this site with commentary and news analysis.

CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/
New news available, especially for late-breaking stories and topics.

Washington Post Newspaper
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
This is an archival site for past news coverage and topics.

New York Times Newspaper
http://www.nytimes.com/
Check the Tuesday section which has the science page. Its an education hit for teachers.

ACTION RESEARCH LINKS

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3act.htm

Action Research from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).

http://www.goshen.edu/soan/soan96p.htm

WEB Links To Participatory Action Research Sites-An action-research resource for both students and practitioners.

http://www.emtech.net/actionresearch.htm

An extensive list of links to project sites and resources.

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/act_res.html

Linked sites from Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver.

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html

A "front page" of a substantial action research site that connects to associated resources.

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/books.html

A resource file to support the regular public program "areol" (action research and evaluation online).

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/ari/arihome.html

Action research international is a refereed on-line journal of action research with a

distinguished international editorial board.

http://www.parnet.org/

A premier source for practitioners and scholars of action research around the world.

http://www.triangle.co.uk/ear/

Educational Action Research is a refereed international journal connecting educational research and practice.

References  

Bogdan, R. B., & Biklen, S. K. (1998). Qualitative research in education: An introduction totheory and methods. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Calhoun, E.F. (1994). How to use action research in the self-renewing school . Alexandria, VA:Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Cantrell, J. R. (1997, February). K-W-L journals: A way to encourage reflection. Journal ofAdolescent & Adult Literacy, 40 (5) 392.

Daiker, D., & Morenberg, M. (1989). The writing teacher as researcher: Essays in the theoryand practice of class-based research . Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Delamont, S. (1992). Fieldwork in educational settings: Methods, pitfalls, and perspectives .London: Falmer Press.

Denzin, N.K., & Lincoln, Y.S., (Ed.). (1998). Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.