Important Education Websites
We consider these links to be especially important for our students and other North Carolina educators.

Google
Don't forget to use google searches to find educational material.
Check out the maps for social studies. Download Google Earth.
See the search link below for more resources.

InfoWeb
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction information system includes the NC curriculum, lesson plans, licensure and employment information and other resources.

KidsKonnect.com is a site for students with loads of educational information.

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Discovery Kids

Games Online has games for kids, some of them educational.

Discovery Education Unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.You will need to go to the class Appalnet Web site to get the login instructions.

The Futures Channel offers streaming video that has educational value and lesson plans. Thanks Robbin Houser!

PBS.org offers many educational resources. PBS Teachers is a collection of multimedia resources for educators.

BBC.com offers many resources on many topics.

Teaching Tools is an educational Web site maintained by ConocoPhillips that offers free educational videos and teaching material.
Thanks Teressa Laramie!

NORTH CAROLINA WISEOWL
To access the NC WiseOwl resources, the URL is http://www.ncwiseowl.org/ If you are challenged the password is wiseowl. Check the magazines and the resources that Grolier Online has. Fantasitc!

SAS
A high school curriculum that is completely online. You need to check this out. You will need a password to get into it. E-mail your instructor and ask for the password. SAS Information Kit.

Marcopolo Education Resources are part of Thinkfinity, the Verizon Foundation’s signature digital learning platform designed to improve educational and literacy achievement.

EdSiteMent
Educational Resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Read, Write, Think
This is a great place to begin to search for lessons with language arts strategies in them. Use the advanced search tool--great stuff here.

Smithsonian Education is the central education Websiteof the Smithsonian Institute. The Smithsonian Institution is making curriculum planning and teaching easier for teachers across the nation by offering over 1,200 free educational resources online. Smithsonian Education now includes a feature that aligns those resources to standards of learning in every state. Teachers can enter the name of their state into the search engine and find lesson plans, virtual exhibitions, photographs and artwork, and databases of research information that apply to their curriculum.
Thanks Nichole Chapman!

Internet4classrooms is a comprehensive site that offers many educational resources for teachers.
Thanks Deborah Gantt!

McGraw Hill Glencoe eSolutions: Search for your content area.
Thanks Tamera Eller!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This is an extensive list of content and methods resources for teachers of all subject areas. You could spend weeks looking at this site.

Educators Reference Desk
The Educational Resource Information Center is a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.

Sites for Teachers
This is an extensive index of resources for teachers with a search feature.

ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.

Educational Websites for Teachers is a collection of quality Web resources for teachers.

Scholasitc Teachers is a teaching resource site from Scholastic Books

The Teacher’s Corner is a collection of resources for practicing teachers.

Education World is a site that contains searchable list of teaching resources.

Educational Resources & Lesson Plans
A comprehensive list of resources for teachers of many curriculum areas.

teachers.net
This is a searchable database of lesson plans for various subject areas.

Pete's Power Point Station
K-12 PowerPoint presentations on many topics.

Flash Card Machine
Makes flash cards and allows you to share cards with others.
Thanks Meghan Gaffney!

teAchnology online teacher resources
Thanks Meghan Gaffney!

Graphic Organizers
A collection of various graphic organizers--downloadable.
Thanks Robbin Houser!

List of Educational Standards and Resources

Organization for Community Networks (OFCN) Resource Center

Homework Hotline

Websites Organized by Subject

Websites Organized by Topic

CLiC
The original "Content area Literacy Information Consortium" developed by Professors Trathen and Moorman (Stephen Bronack served as the technical consultant). The site is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes. It contains extensive links to content area websites, but many of the links may have expired.