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Due to new technology, teachers have research tools right at their fingertips. Teachers no longer have to make weekly trips to the library because computers offer useful tools they can use right at home. Many web pages are offered online offering not only information to be used in the classroom, but also handouts that can be valuable in certain lessons. Teachers also can discuss their ideas with other teachers, which expands ideas and allows them to know what is available.

This site offers puzzles, coloring activities, portfolio covers and room signs, tons of printable sheets, theme units, and research material. This site also offers a page where student teachers or new teachers can ask questions to other student/new teachers. It is a very useful web site, especially to those who are teaching young children.

This site is similar to abcteach.com, but focuses on an older student population. The worksheets that can be printed deal with reading comprehension, English basics, research skills, and math problem solving. Answer keys are offered to benefit the teacher. This site also has a Forum for teachers to exchange their ideas with other individuals in the field.

It is a resource site for elementary and middle school English, ESL, and EFL teachers. Printable worksheets for not only children, but also Adult ESL are available. Worksheets include crossword puzzles, songs, verbs, phonics and many more. A lesson on a writing workshop is available as well as this month’s lesson plans.

This site was designed for teachers by a teacher. It was created to make it easier and quicker to find online lesson plans and resources. Online lesson plans by certain themes are available on this site. 200 teacher-tested plans are also available. Articles related to education are posted on this web site for teachers to read up on.

This site has educational news, an educational resource center, and a lesson plan library that offers other sites to obtain plans from.

This site consists of nine forums ranging from new teachers to special education. Members post questions or ideas on the boards for other members to read. Resources are also offered on various subjects in education. This site is not made up of mainly worksheets, but it is useful to share ideas with other individuals in the field.

This site includes topics dealing with administration, lesson planning, the curriculum, technology in the classroom, and school issues. This site not only covers important topics, but also offers resources and articles for various subjects.

This web page offers all URL addresses that would be useful to a teacher. It has addresses for search engines, sites consisting of dictionaries and encyclopedias, fun sites, homework helpers, subject sites (Language, Math, Science), media awareness sites, and student- authored web pages. This site is from Multi-Media Classrooms, Inc.

This home page has 33 categories with at least 30 sites under each category. Some of the categories are educational software, subjects in education, books, teacher associations, libraries, and special education. This site has a variety of sites that cover every aspect of the teaching profession.

This page offers free resources for teachers. It consists of lesson plans, children songs, a bookstore, job search, and magazines. This web site also includes classroom management, schools and violence, and education funding articles. Ideas for using technology in the classroom in virtual field trips and interactive web sites are also discussed.

Cyberschoolbus - United Nations

In this website, children have access to the world! ANYTHING they want to find out about geography, population, etc. is there. There seem to also be cool links to try such as being a “future worker” of the world, links for teachers… I really think that it is a great website to investigate for once thing as a human being!

Embassy of France in the US - Just for Kids

This is the website of the French Embassy where you also can find lots of information about France. There is this link “just for kids” with neat facts, geography, history, map, learning French and games that students could explore to their own benefit.

AFP - Accueil

As the main French News Agency, AFP is a very interesting website with the latest news from the French perspective, news flashes, videos, etc. It can be viewed in different languages (select from the top menu), one of them being Spanish.

American Association of Teachers of French

A good website for French Teachers… with on-line chat, resources, news, lesson plans, and their annual contest for K-12 students. A must…

Super French Web Sites

This is a Super-duper website linking you to all kinds of websites related to France and French. The possibilities seem endless…Beware, it takes a while to download.

BBC - Languages - Homepage

GREAT website from the U.K. . You can learn a language for FREE on-line, learn some basic “must” vocabulary and phrases for vacation purpose, test your level of knowledge as well as travel advices. For intermediate speakers of French and Spanish, news in these languages are provided.

Portail Jeunesse de l'Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie

Great website exclusively in French for young francophone people. Interesting links to francophone newspapers, radios, chat-lines, etc. Great way to explore the entire French speaking world.

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

Great website about Francophone countries in the world. News, links, events, etc. Only in French.

Francophonie

The ultime website for Francophonie. All kinds of links to explore…

Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources for Teachers

Self-explanatory.

www.awesomelibrary.org
This website is helpful when trying to create lesson plans. It offers quizzes and activities for all subject areas. It also has pictures and maps to help reinforce what is being taught.

www.teach-nology.com
This site offers lesson plans and activities for teachers. This can be very helpful in any subject area. It is very helpful and is also multicultural.

www.june29.com/spanish/lesson1.html
This site is okay. It has examples of lesson plans. One lesson plan that is helpful is one based on pronunciation of Spanish words. This is not a very detailed lesson plan but it does include some key points to proper pronunciation.

www.enchantedlearning.com
This site is absolutely great for teachers. It offers a variety of activities and exercises in virtually every topic possible when learning and/or teaching a language. Definitely check out this website.

www.seal.org/scimath/pasopartners/welcome.html
This website tries to integrate language instruction with other subjects. It has ideas on how to relate several subjects. Can be helpful when trying to work cooperatively with another teacher.

www.puzzlemaker.com
This website is awesome for creating activities based off of your lesson plans. There are many different types of games and puzzles you can make. Creating each puzzle is very easy and quick.

www.spanish.bz/teaching.spanish.htm
This website offers a lot. It rates different websites related to teaching Spanish and also has 5 new websites every week for you to explore. It offers Spanish games for both the students and teachers.

www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson023.shtml
This website actually offers weekly articles and newsletters regarding Spanish lesson plans. It is different because it has overviews of lesson plans and methods of creating lesson plans.

www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-104.html
This website has ideas on possible lesson plan topics and methods of teaching lesson plans. It is helpful and may very easily be used.

http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/Integration.htm This site provides Classroom Resources | Software Suggestions | Inspiration Resources Web Quests | Student Links | Lesson Plans | Integration Activities - Interactive Virtual Sites | Integration for K-6

http://www.bps.org.uk/search/search.cfm By its Royal Charter the Society, This site is charged with national responsibility for the development, promotion and application of psychology for the public good. This is a nice site to explore for journal article relating to children’s development and education.

http://www.cbcbooks.org/ The Children's Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books. This site provides a list of children’s books based age appropriate material.

http://www.teachrkids.com/ MATH FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS. This website provides ideas and worksheets for teaching basic math concepts to children grade prek to 6th grade.

http://www.teachingheart.net/bboard.html follow this link and you will find an organized list of some of the best teacher creations on the Web. Bulletin Board Ideas and Tips for the K-3 Teacher.

http://www.elko.k12.nv.us/nntc/rubrics.htm This link provides numerous sites to find just the right rubric to score student work encourages self-assessment and consistent grading by the teacher.

http://songsforteaching.homestead.com/Spanish.html
“Music for Learning Spanish” is a website that helps teach Spanish through song. I have browsed through the website and saw songs that help to teach such topics as numbers, animals, and the alphabet. Looks very interesting!

http://www.spanish.bz/teaching-spanish.htm
“Teaching Spanish – Lessons, Ideas & Links” is a website for online lessons and quizzes. Various quizzes are put on each week, along with ideas for teaching Spanish. The website is open for both teachers and students.

http://www.sldirectory.com/teachf/teach2.html
“Virtual Middle School Library” is a website available for parents and teachers. It contains an array of links that help in teaching different subject areas. Links include technology, art and photography.

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edwor.htm
“Resources and Lesson Plans for World Languages” provides a number of different links for teaching Spanish. Including vocabulary, art, history and culture.

http://www.musicalspanish.com/lyrics.htm
“Learn Spanish through pop-song lyrics”. Very good for middle school and high school students. Artists such as Shakira are available for translating and learning Spanish through songs.

www.songsforteaching.homestead.com
Uses songs and rhythms that students are already familiar with. Some of the topics covered saying the alphabet; time, day, months,; Spanish names; colors; numbers; counting with numbers. Each topic has several songs for each topic so that you can pick and choose.
Contains multicultural songs which can be used for teaching the language Spanish and for teaching ESL.

www.learnspanish.com
Great website if you need worksheets and quizzes for different topics in Spanish. Contains grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, verb drills, travel helper and cultural notes. It contains audio lessons that you could use along with the worksheets that are on the website.

Great website! Has many links of search engines contains lesson plan ideas for Spanish and other foreign languages. Has many internet activities that can be used. Also contains teaching resources and ready made lesson plans web links.

Immerse your students in French in the french culture by visiting many of those sites. Some sites will teach language, vocabulary and structure via realistic and practical applications in authentic cultural contexts.

Colorful expressions

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/listservs/subjectsearch.html This site provides LISTSERV list by Subject. Subjects covered:
• General Forums
• Continuing, College, and University Education
• K-12 Education
• Educational Research
• Distance Education
• Science Education
• Mathematics
• English/Language
• Miscellaneous

www.edweb.gsn.org has great ideas and many of my questions have been answered through them.

This website contains over 2,000 lesson plans that can be accessed for free. The nicest feature of this site is its organization. On the first page, the teacher chooses the subject he or she will be teaching. The website then provides a choice of grade level. After the grade level is chosen, a listing of lesson plans is provided, which is organized by category.

The Betsy Ross Homepage is a wonderful site to use with students when studying American history, Betsy Ross and the American flag. It includes a virtual tour of the Betsy Ross house, the story of her life and the first American flag, flag etiquette and trivia, and a picture gallery of American flags.

The “Weather Dude” website is a weather education website designed by Nick Walker from The Weather Channel. It includes many activities that can be used in the classroom including an online version of the book “Sing Along with the Weather Dude”, Meteorology A to Z, weather songs and books, resources for teachers, parents and students, as well as other weather-related activities.

This website was created by Georgia-Pacific Corporation as a resource for teaching children about the importance of personal hygiene and good health. It includes lesson plans, school and home activities, germ-related resources, a glossary of germ terms, and handwashing and hygiene lesson plans provided by the National Association of School Nurses.

The Mars Exploration website was developed by NASA to provide children with activities about Mars. A nice feature of this website is that it reaches children on many different levels. Students may go on a Mars adventure, weigh themselves on Mars and other planets, create paper models and maps, complete maze games, and read online stories about the Mars Rover.

This website has been provided by Carolina Biological Supply Company. The classroom activities page provides teachers with science activities that can be used in elementary and secondary classrooms. Links are also provided to purchase any needed supplies from Carolina Biological Supply Company’s website.

The Children’s Book Council website seeks to encourage literacy and enjoyment of children’s books. It provides members with information on Children’s Book Week, Young People’s Poetry Week, new book releases and more.

Enchanted Learning contains creative websites and games for children’s learning and enjoyment. The activities provided on this website are simple enough for children to navigate on their own, yet challenging enough to stimulate thinking and creativity. Activities range from games, jokes and puzzles to foreign language dictionaries.

Starfall is a fun website that has been designed to teach children how to read. There are three main sections of this website that include interactive activities for early emergent readers and advanced emergent readers, and interactive activities based on holidays and other special days throughout the year.

The Teacher’s Guide is a website sponsored by Teacher Created Materials, Inc. Some of the features of this website include lesson plans, songs, and activities that can be used in the classroom, resources and free stuff for teachers, and information on many different issues in education, special education, and technology.

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm
“Coherence: Transition Words” is the title of this website. It does not give a great deal of explanation about transitional words, however this should be the job of the educator. However, it summarizes the importance of these words and gives a list of transition words to use in writing. Too many young writers do not use or misuse transition or “linking” words so this website may be very beneficial to them.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
“Ask Dr. Math” is a fabulous website. Any age can benefit from this. You can find just about any math related explanation on this site. It covers everything from adding to calculus! Teachers can use it to enhance their lessons and college students can use it to brush up for their Praxis test! This is something that every student, parent, and teacher should be aware of.

http://school.discovery.com/students/
Here’s a great site for students: “DiscoverySchool.com”. They can research for reports, play science related games, brush up on science vocabulary for a test, get clip art, and see science fair projects. Teachers can utilize the curriculum link, shop at the teacher’s store, or get ideas for lessons and activities. It also contains links to Animal Planet and The Learning Channel, both of which air very educational shows.

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
“Hyper Grammar” This website describes the eight parts of speech, modifiers, punctuation, and more in student language. It will be easy for students to understand these terms from the definitions and examples given. This site will help them recall what they learned in the past and help them understand any new terminology. In addition, it gives a five page list of other language arts terms and their definitions! To help out even more, there are numerous examples for each term being explained.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/
This website is useful for students, parents, or teachers who are searching for a brief explanation on a certain historical issue. It is titled “Social Studies for Kids” and the site contains many topics but none go into great detail, however, it is definitely a good starting point for reports or a great site to help review for tests. It was easy to use; just click on a theme and then use the pull-down menu to find your specific topic. The site also contains book review and games.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/
“Create a Graph” is a fun site. Teachers, students, and parents can create graphs. It asks you simple questions and then compiles the answers. Pie charts, line graphs, par graphs, and area graphs can be created. What is great about this site is that we know that students love to have their names, hobbies, etc. mentioned in their word problems or stories. By polling students, teachers can put student information into the graphs they are teaching and really get the kids involved.

http://www.field-guides.com/index.htm
Being a non-member I could not do too much surfing on the “Tramline” website, however I heard this site mentioned by several teachers. This site can help bring interest to an otherwise not so interesting topic. It takes the words out of books and puts them into pictures and movies online! I was able to view the list of field trips and they are broken down into categories: science, social studies, literature, and other. Next to the title of the field trip, there is also a grade indicator. The site also contains a printable virtual field tip permission slip.

http://www.edhelper.com/
Holy Cow! This site could take a week to review! “Eduhelper.com” is all about WebQuests and there are over 1000 Webquests available for use. This would be great for teachers looking to do something bigger than a lesson. With a Webquest you can turn and idea into a thematic unit very easily. The ideas and directions are all on this website so it seems to be a very easy process to set up in the classroom. This can be used for every grade level and in fact there were kindergarten WebQuests on this site!

http://www.doi.gov/kids/
“DOI Just for Children” homepage is the US Department of Interiors website strictly for kids. It is broken down into four main categories: National Parks, US Fish & Wildlife, US Geological Survey, and Bureau of Land Management. Within these links, the students can find out more about these organizations, the employees, activities, and more. On top of these, there are articles on US budgets, US parks, and endangered species just to name a few. All articles and links are written in “kid terms” so that understanding these topics are easy.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/index.html
Here is one for those parents or teachers who may not be as technologically advances as their kids: “Web Monkey for Kids”! What happens when your students or your child wants to do something really creative on the computer? Hire a technology advisor for your 8-year old? No1 Just click on the above link! Here is a website that teaches how to create a web page, online birthday cards, slide shows, and more all in simple steps.

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm
When you do not have time to surf and surf and surf to find sites suitable for your students to research simply go to this site, “Great Websites for Kids”. All their sites are broken down by category (animals, computer, sciences, etc) so it will be easy to find appropriate materials. There is a list of criteria that this site follows before allowing any links. There is also a section to suggest certain sites for admission into this page.

Grade: 5th- 8th
This website focuses on exploring nature. It includes biology, meteorology, geology, physics and chemistry. Each topic has an experiment the child can do to explore the subject such as wind or trees. When the child has done one or more of the projects they enter it online and get a code, which will get them video hints and field notes. They use these to find out which field area what researched. They enter their answer and are entered into a drawing for a small prize.

For teachers and parents
This website is extremely helpful and offered in English and Spanish. It explains to parents in detail how help their children in math, why it looks different then the math they had, how to help the teacher and how to help their student get the most out of math. It also has different math challenges for parents to do with their child.

Grade: 10th +
This website focuses on teaching children trigonometry. It has interactive activities for the students to do to explore each aspect of trigonometry. Each activity has instructions and is good for the students to explore independently.

Grade: 6th +
This website explored everything about hurricanes and storms. There are live photographs and you can go on a “Cyberflight” into the eye of the storm. It also gives helpful links for students to use for reports or other homework. I likes that every page had a live photo of what was going on. There is also a gallery of photos to look at and movies to watch.

Grade: 3+
This website is perfect for anyone who needs help with fractions. It explores every area of fractions: adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting, etc. It has an interactive lesson for each. You have to answer questions and it comes with a button you can press to explain the problem or how you got the wrong answer.

Grade: 1st-8th
This website has cute illustrations of cats that help you through the site and give you instructions. There are “games, crafts, art, projects, story problems and much more”. Some of the art is sent in from children around the world. There is also math terminology and a link or kids to write in their questions or comments.

Grade: 11+
This website is full of mathematical puzzles. Each puzzle offers a hint, answer and solution button to use. The solution goes step by step to show how they achieved the answer. You are also able to search the site for different mathematical topics.

Grade: K-2
This website is more for younger kids. It has different “adventures” to go on that cover topics such as shapes and counting and are rated for difficulty. Each adventure has a rhyme to read and then an activity to do. The kids can post their answer along with their name and Max will congratulate them personally on their achievement.

Grade: K-6
This website has tons and tons of math games, word problems, and puzzles that cover every type of math topic. Each area is divided up by grade and level. You can go through a series of short problems to see what level you are at.

Grade: Pre-K- 12th
This website covers a plethora of topics including: life cycles, habitats, space, water, skeletons, and trees. Just to name a few. It is colorful and filled with pictures. Each topic begins by teaching the student and then offers games they can do. There is also a link for teachers’ workshops that are offered.

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, mantees, whooping cranes--and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plan, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation’s premiere “citizen science” project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate

http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/monarch.html
This website has information on many different animals. The great part of this website is that schools can be members and put up information on animals they studied. The other really wonderful aspect is that they have an “ask a Scientist a question” page where students can email their questions directly to scientists.

http://www.adver-net.com/FMonHome.html
This web page has some interesting facts and photos of the monarch butterfly, such as how to tell a male from female, photos of a butterfly emerging from the chrysalis, etc.

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/butterflies/monarch/
This website has excellent information for children to add to the lesson! It talk in more detail about the stages of metamorphosis, and the monarchs migration patterns.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Monarch.shtml
This website also has information about the monarch butterfly but the best thing here is that it has activities for children to do! They can go to a link and print out illustrations and charts to fill in information like parts of a butterfly and labeling the stages of metamorphosis.

http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/we/we.html
This is a website where students can share what they have learned by posting a page with comments, information and pictures. There are schools and student from all over the USA and other countries who have posted pages here.

http://monarchwatch.org/
This website is pretty straight forward information, but it is very comprehensive!.

http://www.mesquiteisd.org/imovie/monarchbutterfly.htm
This website has an incredibly charming, well-made movie of the stages of metamorphosis, narrated by a small child. It is actual footage of the metamorphosis. The information is very good and could be a mini lesson for students just to listen and watch!

http://www.mbsf.org/
This website is more geared for teachers. Here teachers can find conservation news and educational opportunities to bring to their classroom.

http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/cycle/morphing.htmlx
Here children report on their research on the monarch butterfly. It is a good site for kids to visit because they get to read and see what their peers in other schools are doing.

http://www.zoonschool.com/
This website has an incredible amount of information about rainforests. This would be great for a science lesson and for students to do research about the rainforest. It describes where rainforests are and what they look like. There are quizzes built from this website. There is also a math section for this website. This website is a great addition to a lesson because it gives so much additional information and it is very user friendly.

www.weeklyreader.com
This website is good for kids, teens, teachers, parents. It is great for grades K-12. They have articles and an in the news section. This would be a great website to use for language arts and social studies.

http://www.raz-kids.com/
This website is so cute. The books talk to kids as they are reading it. The computer reads along with kids when they read. The words change as they read. This is a great resource for teachers to use for children that are just learning how to read. I would highly recommend this for K-2 grades.

www.kidinfo.com
This website is great for kids, teachers and parents. There are online books, reading activities, games, homework help, reference resources, web resources, tutorials, lesson plans, help for parents that include parenting tips and college advice.

www.funbrain.com
This website is a great resource for students and teachers. There are quizzes and an online grade book for teachers. There is also a curriculum guide for teachers and exciting activities for students.

www.education-world.com
This website includes lesson plans, professional development, school issues, technology integration, there is a joke of the day, classroom management tips, and a tip of the day for teachers. Very user friendly and exiting tools for teachers.

www.zoobooks.com
This website is good for kids, parents, educators and very kid friendly. It is a website about animals. It includes educational games and fascinating information about the animals kids love. There are also quizzes linked from this website.

www.surfnetkids.com
This website includes information on language arts, math, science and social studies. There are great historical facts on the right side of the website; for example there is a calendar of birthdays for April and March. If a student has a birthday around this time of year they can see what other historical figures were born around the same time. There is also a directory of games and they offer a free trial membership.

www,crayola.com
This was my favorite website out of any of them. I was so excited when I found this I felt like a kid. This website you can make your own box of crayola crayons. There is a card creator, color activities, lesson plans and friendly to parents teachers, and kids. I highly recommend this website.

www.disoverykids.com
This website is also very exciting for children and teachers. I recommend this one for the science teachers out there. There are fun games, croc files; a link to discovery kids TV. animal planet and the discovery store.

Mummy Maker Game – BBC Website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummy_maker_game.shtml
The amazing game is contained on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) website. It is a beautifully illustrated game in which you are an assistant who has to figure out how to embalm the body of an important person in ancient Egypt. If you fail, the dead man is doomed to walk the underworld and become susceptible to all kinds of horrid things. Unfortunately, I doomed the poor bugger, and his doomed self is wandering off somewhere… . My daughter loved it.

Invention At Play
http://www.inventionatplay.org/inventors_dar.html
Another beautifully designed website. This one is part of the Smithsonian. It’s all about inventing for kids. It has a section called invention playhouse with wonderful inventing games. I’ll be able to spend hours on this one. It also has sections with bios on inventors, both old and new. Fun student site.

United Nations, Cartographic Section
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
This website is hosted by the United Nations. It’s a great source for maps you can use. You can even customize them!!! Great source for teachers and middle school and up.

US Geological Survey, Government Educational website
http://www.usgs.gov/education/
A fantastic website for lesson plans. I got a lot of great ideas from this one! Teacher site.

Library in the Sky
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites for those involved in education. Currently there are 1562 educational Web sites listed in the Library in the Sky. This site links you up to some great sites, most of which I had never come across before. I was able t download some great lesson plans (some of them even supplied Hyperstudio lessons). The site also has free publications that teachers can download on topics of interest to educators.
I found a site called: Tramline - The Virtual Field Trip - http://www.field-trips.org/- through this website, which had some free field trips on it. Great site, teachers can really get carried any in it!

Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
All around great Space website. Complete with educator’s and kid’s sections and the latest pictures from the Hubble Space Station.

Beakman and Jax
http://www.beakman.com
Cute site for kids. Has some great interactive demos on scientific principles. Also, nice hieroglyphics section, and photographs of human body cross sections.

Miami Museum of Science
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/
Cute science site for kids, hosted by the Miami Museum of Science. This particular site is call the Atom’s Family – Atom’s/Adam’s – get it?

www.lessonplanet.com
This website has tons of lesson plans. It allows you to do a search by using keywords and you are able to access the top 3 results for free. The remainder of the lesson plans is available for a fee. However, to have access to most of the lesson plans its $10 a year and to have access to everything its $25 a year. It seems worth it when you see what is available.

www.teachnet.com
This website has lesson plans as well as resources that can help a first year teacher a great year. There are several discussion boards as well as various ideas regarding Classroom management, ideas for report card comments and even job interview tips.

www.atozteacherstuff.com
This website also has great lesson plans. It allows you to search by grade and subject.
It gives some great ideas on thematic units.

www.discoveryschool.com
This website has lesson plans as well as great ideas for games. It also has several products available to teachers regarding individual subjects.

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
This is the “Yahoo” website for kids. It’s a great resource for students to use when they are doing research on certain subjects. It also provides a significant amount of links for all of the subjects listed.

www.ajkids.com
This is the kid’s version of www.askjeeves.com It is very user friendly for students. They have a list of study tools. For example, if a student wants to do a biography they can click on the biography study tool and view biographies on a variety of individuals. For the math study tool, a student can look up definitions as well as get tips on how to improve their math skills.

www.kids.gov
This website provides a variety of links to students for a variety of subjects. They are several categories in which the students can choose from. They provide links to certain career opportunities as well as fun educational games. It serves a variety of ages.

http://www.state.nj.us/hangout_nj/
This is a website about the history of New Jersey as well as certain facts on NJ. This website was designed for students. It looks as though this would be a good website for 3rd and 4th graders. It is very simple and fun. It also contains games that integrate educational facts about New Jersey.

www.4kids.org
This is a great website designed for students. It allows students to ask questions about the internet and how they can use it for research. It also posts articles on a variety of topics. There is an archive of issues from 2000-2004. It is a good resource for students to stay informed on issues.

www.kidsites.com
This is a website which contains several links to “kid approved” websites. There are educational links to a variety of subjects as well as “fun” activities for kids as well. This website is good for K-12 students; however, the most use would probably be to K-8 students.

Below are a group of websites dedicated to teaching and learningSpanish primarily at the elementary level. Some of these websiteshave great ideas for classroom activities while others have a picturedictionary that children can sign on to and click a picture to seeand hear the word in Spanish. Take a look below. Each website has abrief description so you can decide what you would like toexpore.

http://www.eleaston.com/spanish.html
Wonderful, wonderful website featuring Spanish courses,grammar, listen to & repeat Spanish, dictionaries, quizzes,tests, games, Spanish culture, holidays, music, quotes, proverbs,jokes, teacher websites, Web Quests and much, much more!

http://www.LittleExplorers.com/Spanish/
Little Explorer's by Enchanted Learning Software
This is an English-Spanish picture dictionary for children with linksto educational activities and games.

http://www.teachspanish.com
Great classroom ideas to teach elementary Spanish. English-Spanishgames along with ideas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Great Mexicanrecipes for the classroom!

http://geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6177/
"Webspanol" Spanish flashcards - click on the picture and itwill spell the word out for you in Spanish as well as give you thepronunciation.

http://www.quia.com/web/index.html
(neat interactive activities for students. Check weather terms-there are matching, concentration and word find games for students to play)

http://www.About.com-Beare
(website for ESL resources-provides lesson plans, quizzes, pen pals, to help students for whom English is a second language)

www.songsforteaching.homestead.com
Uses songs and rhythms that students are already familiar with. Some of the topics covered saying the alphabet; time, day, months,; Spanish names; colors; numbers; counting with numbers. Each topic has several songs for each topic so that you can pick and choose. Contains multicultural songs which can be used for teaching the language Spanish and for teaching ESL.

http://www.studyspanish.com/
This Website is very useful to teachers. Here you can find lesson plans, good ideas for activities, and a variety of materials.

http://www.about.com
This website offers many resources for different languages including Spanish.

http://www.awsomelibrary.org
This site is helpful for creating lesson plans it also helps for finding quizzes and activities.