General Middle School Educational Links
Funschool - Games
Funschool provides hundreds of interactive games for grades k-8. All major subjects are covered on this site.
www.ed.gov/free/
The Federal government has established this education site with thousands of resources for educators.
edsitement.neh.gov
This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
www.ncss.org
National Council for the Social Studies provides curriculum and resources to successfully teach Social Studies.
www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.
http://www.schoolmatters.com/
School Matters provides parents, educators and leaders the ability to research information about public schools.
http://www.theideabox.com/
Early childhood education and activity resources are provided through this site.
Getsmarter.org Home
Getsmarter is an interactive and animated site that allows students to compare themselves with other students around the world. The site was created to improve math and science skills in the United States.
FUNORAMA - Tangram Puzzle
This site offers fun activities and puzzles for early childhood education.
Writing Workshop
This site teaches young children how to start the writing process.
Scholastic.com
Scholastic’s goal is to help are young people learn to read. This site contains many activities and lessons to help achieve their goal.
Access Middle School
Middleschool.net is a creation specifically for the middle school teacher. Lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources can be found on this site.
www.middleweb.com
Middleweb was created in 1996 with the focus of improving middle grades education. Resources and up to date information about middle school reform are presented on this site.
Making Middle Grades Work
This site is devoted to improving middle grades education and believes that middle schools need increased attention in the over all efforts of educational improvement.
The National Forum - To Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform
The National Forum is an alliance of major education groups who are alarmed by the lack of focus on declining achievement in the middle grades. Teachers will find news updates, tools and resources for improving middle school performance.
The Lesson Plan library offers middle school lesson plans for teachers.
Discovery has provided hundreds of lesson plans covering all subjects for middle school teachers free of charge.
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English/Language Arts
AskOxford: the free online dictionary resource from OUP
AskOxford provides many English resources for educators to use in the classroom. Words of the day, famous quotes and dictionary and thesaurus use are a few of the resources available.
English Literature on the Web
This site provides links to the many different eras of literature categorized by century and author.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
This site will help students develop proper language usage and grammar. Interactive quizzes and resources are available to teachers and students to help in the educational process.
Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources Menu Page
This page focuses on children's literature in education. Teachers, library media professionals, parents and students will find information on children's literature and associated language arts.
Aardvark's English Forum: ESL, EFL, ELT, TESOL, TEFL, TESL
Aardvark provides a valuable English resource for any student, teacher or parent. There are many interactive sections that include activities and message boards.
Free interactive, multimedia resources for Learners and teachers of English
This site provides interactive exercises, videos, work skills and audio lessons for teachers, parents and students learning the English language.
Essay Punch: An Interactive Writing Tutorial
Essay Punch guides students through the process of writing a successful essay. This is a great resource for writers of all ages.
Paragraph Punch: An Interactive Online Paragraph Writing Tutorial
Paragraph Punch is brought to you by the same people that created Essay Punch. This site guides the writer through the process of writing a good paragraph.
Spellbee!
Spellbee is an online interactive spelling bee game. This site is educational and fun for all students.
Grammar games index page
Grammar games provide a fun and exciting way for students to improve their grammatical skills.
http://www.kids-space.org/
On kids-space students can write stories and have their parents or teacher place their writing online. The site has been around since the mid-nineties and focuses on world wide student communication.
Literacy Center Education Network™
The LiteracyCenter.Net serves more than a million free literacy lessons a month to children in 141 countries. It provides safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young children. All online lessons are free of advertising and free of charge.
National Council of Teachers of English
The NCTE works to advance teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels. The NCTE provides links to explore many of the programs, services, positions, and structures that the Council has established.
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Mathematics
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
NCTM is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
Teacher Tap: Internet Resources for Mathematics
Teacher Tap provides links to professional organizations, standards, and materials for teachers instructing in Mathematics.
Math Websites for Students
This website will be helpful to any young child studying math. Money games and tutorials as well as activities for all aspects of math will help any child learn to enjoy math.
Edhelper.com
Edhelper provides math printables for all ages. Math puzzles are also available to jog the mathematical mind.
AAA Math
Hundreds of pages of basic interactive math skill practice. AAA Math also provides several challenge games for the inquisitive mind.
A+ Math
This interactive site was created to help students improve their math skills interactively. Resources provided by A+ Math are flashcards, games, worksheets and homework helper.
Math Counts
MATHCOUNTS is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory.
K-12 Mathematics Lesson Plans
This site provides over 75 math lesson plans for all grades.
The Math Forum
Drexel University has provided math lesson plans free of charge to teachers for all grades k-12.
Math Archives
Math Archives has provided links to math lesson plans, software, contests, and professional organizations for math teachers.
Awesome Library
Another website devoted to providing lesson plans for math teachers. Lesson plans are divided by grade and subject.
Math Lesson Plans (Variety)
Math lesson plans for all ages and subjects are presented free of charge on this site.
The Math Lesson Index
Project interactive is profiled on this site with lesson plans and resources for math teachers.
Score Mathematic Lessons K-12
These SCORE Mathematics Lessons have been written by classroom teachers. The sites contents and links are based on California’s math standards.
Math World
Math World claims to be the world’s most extensive math resource.
Mega-Mathematics
Mega-Mathematics is brought to you by Los Alamos national laboratory.
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Index
This site is for teachers, parents and students who seek engaging mathematics. Many of the topics are accompanied by Java illustrations.
Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius
Cynthia Lanius provides fun math lessons for children learning math.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This site provides virtual lesson plans in mathematics for all grade levels.
nrich.maths.org::Mathematics Enrichment::NRICH Home Page
This site is devoted to enriching mathematical experiences for today’s students through challenging resources and lessons.
Math.com - World of Math
Online The World of Math provides lesson plans, practice, tutoring and games for teachers and students of math.
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Science
goENC.com
ENC provides the resources and support for math and science educators needed to help raise student achievement in these vital subjects.
National Science Education Standards - Contents
This site provides the standards every science teacher should know. Sample assessments and subject and grade level breakdowns of standards are provided.
ASE - The Association for Science Education
The ASE is the professional association for teachers of science. The ASE exists to improve the teaching of science.
Science Education at Jefferson Lab
“Jefferson Lab's long-term commitment to science education continues to focus on increasing the number of teachers with a substantial background in math and science and strengthening the motivation and preparation of all students. The site provides many resources for teachers and provides a student zone for interactive learning.”
TeacherSource . Science and Technology | PBS
PBS has provided thousands of links and lesson plans to help teachers motivate students in the subject of science. All subjects K-12 are covered on this site.
KODAK: Education - Science
Science lesson plans and activities brought to you by KODAK.
Science Friday Kids' Connection Archives
Science Friday can be part of your classroom any day with the Kids' Connection. Science Friday provides a free “Teacher’s Resource Guide” to enhance middle school science curriculum.
Free Resources
Fun science resources for teachers, parents, and students are provided free of charge. Teachers can also sign up for a free newsletter with updates including teacher training opportunities and new free materials.
Physics & Astronomy Lesson Plans
Hundreds of lesson plans for K-12 science classrooms.
UTM Center for Environmental Conservation and Education
The Science Activities Manual: K - 8 has been written to aid in the adaptation of the "Touch Science Concept" to the elementary/middle school classroom.
Volcano Lesson Plans
One goal of Volcano World is to provide students and teachers with lessons about volcanoes.
Science Activities
Science activities for elementary and middle school teachers and students are provided on this site.
Rain Bird - Rain Forest Curriculum Site
Using this site, you can access activities and demonstrations to use in your classroom for teaching scientific aspects of the Earth's endangered rain forests.
USGS Education
The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.
SEGway :: Science Education Gateway
SEGway provides a gateway to the wonders of astronomy and space science for educators and students.
http://science-education.nih.gov/
An abundance of science information is provided by the National Institute of Health. Teaching resources, activities, science standards and information about careers in science are all a part of this site.
Ocean Sciences Education Center
Lesson plans and activities for teaching about ocean sciences are provided by the Sea Grant Oceans Sciences Education Center.
http://www.challenger.org/
The Challenger Center seeks to motivate students in the subject of science to develop strong scientific minds for the future.
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Social Studies
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/
CNN provides resources for students studying current events.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/index.html
This PBS website provides student and teacher resources including the daily buzz.
http://teachablemoment.org/
Current Domestic and International events for K-12 educators are provided on this site.
The National Council for the Social Studies
Standards, teaching resources (internet, print and videos) and links to social studies web sites are provided on this site.
Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources
Links to sites with lesson plans for social studies.
Social Studies Theme Units
History, geography and related Social Studies topics can be found on this site.
Professional Cartoonists' Index
Political Cartoons
Geography
Education@NationalGeographic
Online expeditions, lesson plans, free printable maps, and, of course, National Geographic products for sale.
Xpeditions
Site with virtual field trips, lesson plans and maps.
News@NationalGeographic
News of geography and other social studies topics are brought to you by National Geographic.
National Council for Geographic Education
The National Council provides many resources and publications for educational use.
Geography Lesson Plans and Resources
This site provides an index of lesson plans and geography resources.
The Geography Educator's World
This site promotes the teaching of geography and social studies in schools with appropriate integration of information technology.
Retanet
Retanet is a resource for educators who are looking for help in teaching about Latin America and the Caribbean.
AskAsia
Lesson plans for Asian countries.
K-12 Electronic Guide to African Resources on the Internet
The African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania provides this site for educators.
Online Geography Games
A wide assortment of Geography based games and puzzles are provided on this site.
National Geographic: Maps and Geography
Map machine allows teachers and students to zoom in on any area of the world.
The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
This site provides a comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features.
CountryWatch.com:Website to The World
Country Information: including current political, historical, economic, environmental, demographic data is provided on this site.
Cyber-Geography Research
An initiative to map cyberspace, this site contains a variety of pages dedicated to helping the viewing not only understand "cyber geography" but to visualize it as well.
The Degree Confluence Project
The Degree Confluence Project contains photographs of the intersections of integer latitude and longitude degree lines.
Footnotes to History
Footnotes to History is an indexed reference site that provides an overview of ephemeral states, micro-nations, secessionist states and related entities. It includes links to related photographs, documents, and other resources.
Geographic.org
Learn about world geography, climate, countries, people, maps and flags on geographic.org.
The Geography Exchange
A combination of teaching resources, lessons and indexes of website links with an emphasis on physical geography can be found here.
Geosource
Web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geo-science and environmental science are provided by Geosource.
GIS and Mapping Links
Links to Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping sites on the internet. All links are verified every month.
Global Population Project
The global population project provides current population figures for cities, towns and regions of countries.
Information Please: Geography Resource
Geographic facts, lists and statistics can be found on this site.
Map Quiz - Map and Geography Trivia
This site provides map and geography trivia games. Questions include countries, U.S. States, capitals and flags.
Mega Maps - Walk through the Continents
Free PC program to print out US or world maps of various sizes, up to 7 feet across, on an ordinary printer.
National Geographic Xpeditions
Explore a virtual museum and a wealth of teaching resources.
The START Natural Language Question Answering System
A system designed to answer questions that are posed in natural language. The system is especially equipped to answer geography queries.
US Census Bureau Geography
Mapping products and services, as well as geography resources used to compile the US Census.
US State Department - Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty
This site provides a listing of nations recognized by the US government.
US State Department - Independent States of the World
The US state department provides information about independent states with diplomatic relations with U.S. and members of UN.
American Library Association for K-8
This website has a great collection of various world history websites for all grade levels.
World History
Mr. Donn's World History Lesson Plans
Mr. Donn provides many engaging lesson plans for world history teachers
History Lesson Plans and Resources
This is a great site for world history teachers with resources and lessons for all major topics in world history.
The Student's Friend History & Geography
This site was developed to help teachers of world history and geography create engaging and meaningful lessons. Lesson plans and activities are provided for various topics.
Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans
This site provides lessons focusing on teaching Egyptian history.
Ancient Egypt Web Quest
This site is geared to the elementary and middle school teacher in search of Egyptian lesson plans.
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese History
This site was developed to help teachers provide students with visual aids and materials so that they will better understand Chinese history.
Archaeology Magazine
Archaeology magazine provides various articles and materials that a teacher can use to supplement the teaching of world history.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This site provides thousands of primary sources and documents to help world history teachers.
Renaissance
This site provides a good overview of the events of the Renaissance.
World War II Resources
This site provides primary source material for those teaching World War II.
The World War II Sound and Image File
This site provides sound and image files from the World War II for purchase.
World War II Poster Collection
This government site provides teachers with excellent primary source maps produced during World War II.
Baatan Rescue
This site was created by PBS to accompany the Baatan Rescue documentary.
Japanese American Internment
This site provides links to websites and documents that tell the story of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Women Who Came to the Front (Library of Congress)
This website was created by the Library of Congress to profile women who at the front during World War II.
The Winston Churchill Home Page
This website provides a link just for teachers interested in teaching the life and times of Winston Churchill.
Master Race: 1926-1945 (PBS)
This site provides a teacher’s guide and interviews for teachers teaching about the rise and fall of the Third Reich.
Remember.org (Holocaust)
This site dedicated to the remembrance of the holocaust. Educational resources and lessons are provided for educators.
Oscar Schindler
This website discusses the life and heroism of Oscar Schindler as he courageously saved many from the Nazi’s gas chambers.
The Ancient City of Athens
This site provides photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens. It is intended primarily as a resource for students and teachers as a supplement to their class lectures and reading assignments and as a source of images in projects and presentations.
The Ancient Greeks
This educational site provides an overview of the life and times of Ancient Greece and her people.
ArabNet: Arab Countries
This website provides daily articles and updates on the Arab world.
US History
The Best of History Websites
This site provides a vast collection of history websites covering a wide array of historical topics.
History Lesson Plans
A collection of various history lesson plans divided by subject can be found here.
American Women's History : A Research Guide
This site provides historical information about the history of women in the United States.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
This site provides handouts, lesson plans and resources for history teachers.
Links to the Past
The National Parks Service provides information on our national parks and lesson materials on this site.
Crossroads
Kindergarten through high school history curriculum can be found on Crossroads.
Picture History
This site provides primary sources for over 200 years of American history.
The Age of Imperialism
Lesson plans and resources covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are provided on this site.
DoHistory
Home This website shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that survived.
World War II Sites
Various sites are provided for students and teachers that cover many World War II topics such as Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust.
World War II in Europe Timeline
This is a good site for a timeline covering the war in Europe.
Race for the Super Bomb
This site provides a teacher’s guide and activities covering the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to create the most devastating weapon in history.
Teacher's Guide: Total War
This site provides a teachers guide and lessons to teach World War II.
The Battle of the Bulge: Teacher's Guide
Lesson and resources to teach the Battle of the Bulge can be found here.
Anne Frank in the World: Teacher Book
Lesson plans and primary documents to teach about the life of Anne Frank.
Interpreting Primary Sources
Primary sources for many history topics are provided on this site.
World War II in Europe: Blank Map
Link to a blank map of Europe for classroom use.
World War II in the Pacific: Blank Map
Link to a blank map of the Pacific for classroom use.
Chronology of World War II Game - Pacific
Students can play this chronology game and refresh their World War II skills.
Identify the World War II Leaders Game
Students can test there knowledge of the major World War II leaders in this interactive game.
The Civil War
The American Civil War Homepage (U. TN)
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Civil War Resources from the VMI Archives
The American Civil War Homepage
Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance
Lesson Plan: The Civil War
Civil War Interactive
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page
This site was created to honor the memory of Vietnam veterans.
World War I: Trenches on the Web
This is a World War I site with message forums and resources for teachers.
Early America
Maps, movies and games are a few of the great resources provide on this site.
The West
This site provides resources and lessons for teachers covering America’s westward expansion.
The American 1950s
This site provides Literature and Cultural works from the time.
New Deal Network
Documents, links and message forums covering everything New Deal can be found on this site.
The 1920's Experience
Experience the people, place, events and inventions of the time through this site.
Government
U.S. Government and Civic Lesson Plans
A variety of lesson plans and activities for Government education can be found on this site.
First Gov
The US government's information site.
Constitution Day
Information about the US constitution.
The National Constitution Center
Constitutional resources and activities.
The Foreign Policy Association
Foreign policy information with a weekly quiz for teachers can be found on this site.
The Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Resources and up to date information about world topics can be found here.
The White House
The website of the White House provides historical as well as contemporary information about the historic home of the president and his cabinet.
White House Daily Press Briefing
Daily press briefings by the White House press secretary.
Annenberg Political Fact Check
Annenberg is a watch dog group that focuses on politicians.
U. S. Supreme Court
The website of the Supreme Court.
Federal Judicial Center
The Federal Judicial Center is the educational research center for the federal courts.
FindLaw.com Supreme Court Cases Search Engine
Listing of recent court decisions by year and Supreme Court FAQs can be found on this site.
Landmarkcases.org
This site provides teachers educational resources and activities to teach landmark Supreme Court cases.
The U. S. Senate
The website of the United States Senate.
The U. S. House of Representatives
The website of the United States House of Representatives.
Central Intelligence Agency
The website of the CIA.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The website of the FBI.
FedWorld.gov
FedWorld is a program developed by the department Commerce to locate government information.
FirstGov.com
The US government’s official website.
US Census Bureau
This site provides statistical information about the United States people and places.
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
C-span provides primary sources for Civics and Government Education on this site.
Links to United States Political Parties
Democratic National Committee
Green Party USA
Libertarian Party
Republican National Committee
Socialist Party
Economics
Economic Education Web
This site was developed for educators k-12 who teach economics in their classrooms. The webpage provides links to lesson and curriculum standards for economics.
National Council on Economic Education
The National Council’s site is a must see for all economics teachers. The site provides interactive lesson plans and activities that bring economics to life.
Foundation for Teaching Economics
This site states its mission is to promote excellence in economic education by helping teachers of economics become more effective educators.
Federal Reserve Bank
This site houses several interactive tools to teach economics. Teachers, students, and parents will find valuable resources on this site.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Fed of St. Louis provides many resources for economics teachers of grade levels. Lesson plans and activities are offered free of charge.
Money Matters for Young People
This is another site with goals similar to the above link. Useful resources for economics education can be found on this site.
Money Matters for Teens
Money Matters for Teens provides educational resources that are appropriate to the teen student.
Stock Market Game
Virtual Stock Exchange provides the ability for a teacher to set up a private class game where students can invest in stocks real time. Students and parents can also play on their own by joining public games.
consumeraction.gov
This website provides resources for teachers and students who are interested in answering a variety of consumer questions. This site also provides resources that will empower any consumer.
Federal Reserve System
This site is a valuable resource for teachers teaching about the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy. This site also links to FederalReserveEducation.org with more resources for economics education.
New York Stock Exchange
Information about the New York Stock Exchange can be found on its official site.
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Gifted Education
American Mensa | Gifted Children
Mensa provides many resources for gifted children, parents of gifted children and teachers. Links to lessons, materials and gifted schools and scholarships are provided.
Davidson Institute ~ Press Room
The Davidson Institute was created as a resource for gifted students and their parents. The Davidson Institute provides support and opportunity for today’s gifted child.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page offers resources, articles, books and links for Parents, for Educators, Counselors, Administrators and other Professionals, and for Kids & Teens.
Education - Gifted Index
Kid Source online provides articles and digests that provide ideas, guidance and activities for both parents and educators of gifted students.
Welcome to NAGC!
The National Association for Gifted Children provides resources to train teachers, administrators and parents how to properly educate gifted children to their fullest potential.
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Foreign Language
EspanOle! Pagina Principal
This site bills itself as THE online resources for teaching Spanish. All you need to teach Spanish and prepare students is available on this site.
iLoveLanguages - Your Guide to Languages on the Web
iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
www.parlez-vous.org/
This site provides an online resource for French students and teachers in the 21st century.
L I N G U A S C O P E
This site provides resources and activities for teachers, parents, and students teaching or learning French.
Casa de Joanna - LinguisTech
This site is for Spanish or French teachers looking for interactive lessons and activities to engage students learning Spanish and or French.
Welcome to FLTeaching using the Internet
This site provides resources for teachers of French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Hot Internet Sites ¡en Español!
This is a base site for Spanish teachers to find a wealth of resources provided via links to many Spanish based education websites.
miscositas.com
This site is devoted to educating K-5 grade students learning a foreign language.
Más arriba Home Page
This site provides interactive workbooks of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of basic vocabulary and language points.
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The Arts
www.menc.org/
The National Association for Music Education was established in 1907 with goal of allowing all to learn the joy of music. Educators and students will find a wealth of music resources on this site.
Music Education Online by Children's Music Workshop
This music site out of Los Angeles provides resources and links for music education.
Science of Music: Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist
Teachers and students will find this music site very interesting. Not only will you learn about music but you will discover the science behind the sounds.
Musiceducationmadness.com
Music Education Madness is an online community for musicians of all types and ages.
Welcome to SupportMusic.com
SupportMusic.com is dedicated to the goal of allowing all students to learn and enjoy music. The group provides resources and tips to fight against the ending of music programs in your area.
Middle School Art Lesson Plans
This site provides fifteen ready to use lessons for the middle school art class.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
This search engine allows the user to search famous works of art by artist.
Welcome to NAEA - The National Art Education Association
This national education sites provides reasons for music education along with resources to use in the class room.
Art Education and ArtEdventures from Sanford and A Lifetime of Color
This site provides resources and activities from those who are beginning artist to those who are advanced artists.
Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Play ArtEdventures!
This site provides a listing of popular online art games for middle school students.
Crayola Creativity Central
Crayola provides a variety of interactive resources for art teachers to use in their class.
Kids Domain - Crafts
This site provides resources and craft ideas for the entire year.
A+ Paper and Scissor Crafts and Art Activities for Children
This site provides amazing opportunities for craft creation with scissors and paper.
Essentials of Music
This site was created to provide basic information about classical music. Information about the different eras and composers of classical music is provided.
Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
This site is a great resource for anyone learning to read music or for those teaching another to read music.
Music Alive! - Teach with Today's Music
Music Alive’s goal is to use contemporary music to teach fundamental components of music. Bring excitement to your music classroom with Music Alive.
Teacherslounge - Middle School Music
This site provides links, resources, and lesson plans for Band, Orchestra and Chorus.
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Physical Education
www.tobaccofreekids.org/
The Tobacco free kids site wants to educate children about the dangers of tobacco use through this very thorough site with an abundance of educational information. This site is great for any teacher who wants to keep students from tobacco use.
KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health
This site is for parents, teachers and kids who want to learn about becoming physically active and healthier. KidsHealth is immensely popular with over 350,000 visits per week.
Exploratorium: Sport Science
Not only will this great site motivate students to become physically active but it will also teach them the science behind the most popular sports of the day.
BAM! Body and Mind | www.bam.gov | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has created this educational site that teaches young children about many subjects from physical education to food and nutrition.
kidsrunning
Kidsrunning.com introduces young people to the life long benefits of running as a great physical activity. Running advice, groups, and routines are some to the many resources you will find on this site.
Kids Quiz
Sign your class or school up for this site which provides a daily quiz about nutrition, health, physical activity, sports and many other topics. The quiz makes a great mental warm-up for any PE or Health class.
PE Central's Log It: Log In
This site encourages physical activity for kids by allowing them to log their mileage. Teachers can create class competitions to make the walking even more fun.
kidnetic.com
This interactive site makes learning about physical education fun. Activities include scavenger hunts, games, and fitness challenges. This site provides great ideas and activities for physical education teachers.
SIKids.com - Sports Illustrated for Kids
Sports Illustrated built this sports site to bring the world of sports to kids of all ages. Photos, videos and sports news are a few of the exciting learning opportunities kids will find on this site.
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Home School
K12 Choice
K12 claims to provide all the resources you will need to home school your child.
A to Z Home's Cool (Homeschool) - Homeschooling Information, Free Homeschooling Curriculum
Millions have visited this home schooling site with links and articles to everything a parent would need to home school their children.
CHEO Homepage
Christian Home Educators of Ohio (CHEO) is a non-profit state organization founded to serve the home school families of Ohio and to provide them with the tools to succeed.
Crosswalk.com
Crosswalk provides encouragement, curriculum and all the tools you need to successfully begin home schooling your child.
Welcome - Jon's Homeschool Resources
This was created by a home schooling dad in the mid 1990’s. The site is philosophy neutral and welcomes all ideas that contribute to the bettering of home school education and families.
NHEN - Welcome! National Home Education Network - Homeschooling Information from the National Home Education Network
The National Home Education Network exists to encourage and facilitate the vital grassroots work of state and local home schooling organizations and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level.
Unschooling
Unschooling has an interesting take on the way education should be. Check it out.
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Professional Resources
ETS Home
ETS’s goal is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research, and related services. Their products measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and educational performance, and support education and professional development for all people worldwide.
PRAXIS Home
This site allows teachers to find information and prepare for the PRAXIS series test. Locations and dates of the PRAXIS can also be found.
ASBJ Special Reports
ASBJ Special Reports provide timely, in-depth coverage of topics of particular interest in education, such as technology, urban education, and school infrastructure.
ASCD SmartBrief | Sign Up
ASCD SmartBrief is a FREE daily news briefing delivered directly to you through e-mail. Each ASCD SmartBrief takes you straight to the most salient news and trends affecting education today.
District Administration - The Magazine for K12 Education Leaders
District Administration is a popular magazine that is geared to educational leadership but also provides a wide array of information and resources for all professionals in the educational field including teachers and counselors.
Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators
Education Week provides a plethora of resources for those who want to stay up to date about all current issues in education.
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