 Women
in World History
Deep site with lots of content and great links collection.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
This site provides useful resources and information “about women’s
history in a global, non- U.S., context” and Includes lessons, essays,
biographies, curriculum materials, and more. The site also includes products
for sale but there is plenty of free material.
 Museum
of Tolerance Online: Multimedia Learning Center Online
Impressive media archive on the Holocaust and WWII.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
The Simon Wiesenthal Center presents this comprehensive and authoritative
multimedia archive for teaching and learning about the Holocaust and World
War II.
It
All Adds Up!
Dynamic site for teens on personal finance.
Grade Level: 9-12
It All Adds Up is an engaging, interactive site for teens that helps them
understand how to responsibly manage their personal finances and how to
properly use credit. It was developed by the National Council on Economic
Education with a grant from American Express.
Dickinson
Electronic Archives
Elegant site on an essential American writer.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
The Dickinson Electronic Archives is "devoted to the study of Emily
Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work,
and critical and creative writings generated by her work."
Children's
Theater/Creative Drama
Teacher-created site for incorporating drama into the classroom.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This site, created by playwright/composer and teacher Matt Buchanan, offers
educators lesson plans and other resources for incorporating creative
art and theatre into the classroom.
Lee's
Summit, MO R-7 School District:Technology Integration
Amazing collection of links for tech integration.
Grade Level: Professional
This site, developed by a school IT team in Missouri, provides a comprehensive
directory of annotated links to any information and help you may need
to integrate technology into your classroom.
Race and
Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville,
VA
An in-depth look including multimedia.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
This collaborative project of the Virginia Center for Digital History
and the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African and Afro-American Studies
offers oral histories, political broadsides, maps, letters and photographs
of the segregation period that help visitors to understand race in the
context of place.
e-Iditarod
Online collaborative project on the "Last Great Race."
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
This online collaborative project, developed by educator, author
and consultant Walter McKenzie, is in its fifth year of implementation.
The project offers classrooms around the world to come together and follow
what has been termed the “Last Great Race”; the Iditarod Trail
Sled Dog Race that begins March 5, 2005.
NeMO:
New Millennium Observatory
Site of an undersea observatory at an active underwater volcano.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
NeMO is a seafloor observatory at an active underwater volcano.
This multimedia site from NOAA allows students to explore a seafloor observatory
geographically or by topic. It includes animations, fly-through movies
and panoramas as well as materials for educators.
The
World War I Document Archive
Strong site for secondary school use about WWI.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
This site, from the Brigham Young University Libraries, offers
this online archive of primary documents from World War I. It includes
photographs, diaries, conventions and much more.
The
Wonders of Mathematics
Inquiry-based math activities K-12.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This site offers a series of inquiry-based mathematics activities
that were created by teachers through staff development workshops delivered
by the Galileo Educational Network Association (GENA) in conjunction with
Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Elementary
Art Lesson Plans
Enjoyable art lessons from a retired teacher.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
As the name suggest this site offers elementary art lessons from
retired teacher, Sandy Meadors, who has twenty nine years of experience
working with elementary students in the art classroom. The lessons are
written for elementary students but could also be used for middle and
high school students.
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