Best of Surfing the Net with Kids

Links to Teachers' Websites

General Education sites:

Barbican - Can I have a word?
this site, which recently won the education Webby award, contains projects that include readings by British poets, visual components, and lesson plans for expanding the creative writing of students

DK free instructional clip-art

Intel Model School Program
The Model School Program provides for the use of cutting-edge classroom technology by connecting schools
with hardware and software vendors as well as application service providers via grants and discounts.

International Children's Digital Library
An initiative from the University of Maryland to create a massive collection of children's books from around the
world that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars worldwide via the Internet.

Teachers First
TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and associated web resources quickly.

Surf Report
guide to great educational sites on the Web, maintained by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board

Middle Schools Technology Forum
Dedicated to the infusion of technology into Middle School Language Arts education

The New York Times Learning Network
connections for students, teachers, and parents

Education Central.com

Education oasis
a nice collection of information for teachers including curriculum links, PDF versions of graphic organizers and certificates, pointers to relevant articles, and much more

TeachableMoment.Org
provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment. It is a project of Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area.

Best of Surfing the Net with Kids
A full page feature with three site reviews updated twice a month with
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Open Video Project
an initiative "to make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities"; excellent content here to support the curriculum

Daily Factoid
Relevant factoids that include links to recommended sites on the same topic

Evaluating websites:

Research and critical thinking

Evaluate Internet Information

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly,
Why it's a good idea to evaluate web sites

Internet hoax sites

Internet for classrooms: Webguides

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism Proofing Assignments by Doug Johnson

Folk and Fairy Tales

Multicultural:

Asian American Booklist