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Surfing the Web can be time consuming.  The sites on this page can help bring materials to your classroom, look up the latest educational research articles, find new lesson plan ideas, and much more.

Site Finders

Educational Research

Online Professional Magazines

Lesson Plans/ Resources

Educational Organizations

Texas/Local   Links

Site Finders

Blue Web'n Update  -- Weekly selection of "the best" curriculum sites.

Ed Sightings  --  A free e-mail newsletter for school educators, bringing you regular reviews of the best educational Web sites.

Surfing the Net with Kids --  Weekly e-mails highlights the top five sites for kids.

Kids Klick --  e-mail newletter five days by Spike the Wonder Dog that reviews fun web sites for kids.

 

Lesson Plans/Resources

Educational Testing Service --  Applications, preparation, sample tests for SAT, AP, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, PRAXIS, SLS.

Electronic Learning  --  Resource to help integrate technology into the classroom.

Encarta Lesson Collection  --  A collection of lessons and educational resources.

Global Schoolhouse  --  Links kids, teachers, and parents around the world.

Index of Fairy Tales  --  complete texts of many fairy tales.

Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators  --  lesson plans, web links, discussions, site guide.

Lesson Plan Sites  --  Links to various sites with elaborated lesson plans for classroom use in many curriculum areas.

Outta Ray's Head  --  A collection of lesson plans with handouts for Language Arts.

Project Gutenburg  --  complete texts of books, including the works of Shakespeare, Aesop's Fables, Roget's Thesaurus,                                      Scarlet Letter, Gift of the Magi, Peter Pan, and more.

Puppets' Page  --  Ideas for different kinds of puppets and how to make them.

Purdue Writing Lab --  writing resource, lab, Language Arts handouts, help with ESL.

Randomhouse Teacher's Resource Center --  Teacher's guides and resources for primary,                                                                          secondary, and post-secondary teachers.

Story Arts Online   --  Lesson plans and activities using storytelling; includes a story library.

T-STAR  --   Satellite network programming available to Texas schools

Teachers and Librarians' Page  --  Website of the Childrens' Book Council-- for use by teachers                                                         and librarians, intended to encourage reading.

Television Series Companion Materials  --  An ERIC site, a collection of links to teaching materials                                                                     developed by television networks.

 

Educational Research

Education Index  --  Links to many educational resources.

ERIC  --   Educational Resource Information Center- professional journals, lesson plans.

Library of Congress   --  catalogs, collections,  research services, lesson ideas, educational activities.

UMI Proquest -full text articles from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals [password available in library on Caddo Mills                          Campuses].

 

Educational Organizations

IRA --  International Reading Association

NCTE  --  National Council of Teachers of English

NSTA  --  National Science Teachers Association

NCTM  --  National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

TCEA  --  Texas Computer Education Association

TEA  --   Texas Education Association

 

Online Professional Magazines

Creative Classroom Online  --   for teachers K-6.

Education Week on the Web  --  Archives of Education Week, Teacher Magazine, education news,                                                      reform, policies.

Electronic Journal of the International Reading Association

Instructor Magazine  -- found on Scholastic Inschool site, including ready-to-use reproducibles.

T.H.E. Journal   --  technology resource

 

Texas/Local  Links

Armadillo's WWW Server  --  provides Texas resources and a view of the future to the K-12                                                  educational community.

Handbook of Texas Online  --  a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and                                                   culture.

Region 10 Education Service  --  register for workshops, EXCET, check out the Teacher Job                                                      Network, and more.

TCEA  --   Texas Computer Education Association

TEA  --   Texas Education Association

Texas Education Network (Tenet)  --  provides resources for the education community, including                                                              teachers, administrators, and parents.

Texas School Libraries Page  --  Keep up with TEA, school standards, links to contents of libraries                                                      in hundreds of Texas schools.

 

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