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Union
California Teachers
Association
National Education
Association
Local and state
District web site
Ed
Fund
County
Dept of Education
County
library system
State
Dept of Education
State
Education Code (check Ed Code box)
California
PTA
KQED
Instructional TV
General
Blue
Web'n offers links to resources in many subjects.
Busy
Teachers Website offers links on a wide variety of subjects.
Children
Now advocacy group
CTW Workshop
The folks who brought you Sesame Street offer activities for
younger children and advice for parents in a colorful format.
Ed-Data
offers stats on California schools.
EdSource
includes information on education in California.
Education
Week is an on-line education newspaper. Great place to go
in you are interested in current events and newsy discussion
of issues.
Educational
Resources Information Center is a good place for researching
an issue. Don't miss the parent Brochures
which cover all the hot issues like standardized testing, computers
in education, and school safety.
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian, organizes some of the wonderful information
available from the Smithsonian and is especially useful as a
science and social studies resource.
Fairtest
is an advocacy organization working to end the misuses of standardized
testing
Family
Education Network provides news and resources aimed at helping
parents take an active role in their children's education.
Free
Worksheets offers just what the name implies. The worksheets
cover a variety of subjects, from the basics to Be Kind to Animals.
Graphics
for teachers
GreatSchools
offers guide to California schools.
HipMagazine
for deaf and hard of hearing kids and their pals.
Internet
Public Library Youth Division is a well organized directory
of carefully selected links on a variety of subjects, including
math, reading, social studies, science, health, music, art,
sports and fun stuff.
Library
of Congress is organized and informative and more fun than
you might think. It includes interesting on-line exhibits and
links quickly to Congressional information and the patent office
and to hundreds of other libraries.
National Center
for Ed Stats
NEA
Resources for Low-Performing Schools
PTA provides
news and tips from the long-standing parent organization. Be
sure to check out Helping
Your Child Learn
Quia --
provides online games and quizzes, and tools and templates to
create learning exercises such as flashcards, puzzles, and games.
Teachers can also create their own classroom Web pages.
Schoolgrants.org
School
Wise Press articles and data on California schools.
US Department
of Education provides pointers to other sources as well
as news of the federal department's doings. Make sure you check
out Links
to Other Online Educational Services which includes connections
to state departments of education.
Reading
Allwords
has an online dictionary, word of the week and a feature to
help you when you get stumped on a crossword puzzle.
Aesop’s
Fables provides the full text of hundreds of Aesop’s Fables,
as well as works by other writers such as Hans Christian Andersen.
Authors/Illustrators
directory gives links to the pages of various children's
authors and illustrators.
Bartleby.com:Great
Books On-line
Caldecott
Medal Home Page includes names and summaries of current
and past winners of the prize.
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site offers information on
a variety of children's books and authors.
Database
of Award-Winning Children's Literature lets you build a
list of award-winning books based on criteria such as multi-cultural
representations, gender of protagonist, age of reader, etc.
Good
Books for Children compiled by the Berkeley Library.
Jan Brett's
Home Page offers a printable set of alphabet and number
cards 1-10 for display in a classroom or use at home, as well
as other activities and news of the children's book author.
Newbery
Medal Home Page includes names and summaries of current
and past winners of the prize.
A
Scientific Approach to Reading Instruction tells what research
has told us about teaching reading and how to put it into practice.
Vocabulary
game from Education for Kids gives player a word for which
they must select the correct definition from several choices.
The site says its best for grades 6-8.
Math
Algebrahelp.com
includes general tips as well as tools that will do calculations
for you such as factoring, adding fractions, and percentages.
Allmath
Simple and easy-to-use site that gets you right into useful
math learning tools such as a multiplication table, square puzzles,
on-line flash cards, metric conversion, math biographies, and
glossory.
Jan
Brett's Numbers are printed cards of the numbers 1-10 to
use as flashcards or display at home or in the classrom.
Math
in Daily Life explains why we need to know this stuff, with
hands-on activities.
Math drill
activities from Education for Kids cover adding, subtracting,
multiplication, money, time, and more.
The
Math Forum is hosted by Swarthmore College and includes
problem of the month and discussion
MathStories
offers word problems for all ages. groups.
Plane Math
offers cute and easy-to-use math activities kids can do on line.
Top
10 Tips for Parents for making your child mathematically
proficient from a coalition of national education organizations.
Science
Bug
Club includes information on how to keep insects as pets
and an on-line insect identification guide.
DNA
for Dinner is a genetic engineering activity by high school
and college teacher William Peace. See Mr.
Peace’s page of education links
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian, organizes some of the wonderful information
available from the Smithsonian and is especially useful as a
science and social studies resource.
"Family
of the Sun" song teaches about the planets and is sung
to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell.
Lawrence
Hall of Science Kids’ Corner offers a variety of on and
off line activities for kids.
National
Geographic for Kids has lots of activities and information,
especially in the science and social studies areas.
National Air
and Space Museum features on-line exhibits on travel, from
the early days of flight to space trave.
National Museum
of National History offers research information from the
museum's seven scientific departments, such as the Mammal
Species of the World data base .
National
Zoo ranks high on the cute factor and has facts as well
as photos and videos.
Reeko’s
Mad Scientist Lab is a great source of experiment ideas.
Straus
Kid's Page offers information on cows and how to make butter
and practice milking at home.
USGS
Learning Web is a portion of the US Geological Service web
that is dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long
learning. Topics include plants and animals, land, water, and
maps.
Social studies
A
History of the Pledge of Allegiance
National
Geographic for Kids has lots of activities and information,
especially in the science and social studies areas.
Thomas
provides Congressional information and gets right to the point
with a home page that gets you straight to tons of information
and tools including searches of bills and the Congressional
Record. Be sure and take a look at the links on the left including
government offices and historical
documents
United
Nations CyberSchoolBus carries on-line activities and resources
about the United Nations and the world.
White
House includes a special section for kids.
Writing
Allwords
has an online dictionary, word of the week and a feature to
help you when you get stumped on a crossword puzzle.
Advice
for Young Writers is written by Elizabeth Winthrop, whose
books include “Castle in the Attic.”
Inkstop.com
is an on-line resource for writers. Look for the special areas
for young
writers and for teachers.
Merriam-Webster
Online has a dictionary, thesaurus, word of the day, and
word games.
Read
Kids Real Adventures Club is a friendly, supportive site
for young writers with tips and success stories.
Rhyming
dictionary also includes related tool
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