Teacher Resources:
Lesson Plans, Rubrics and Other Assorted Information
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab
Handouts, materials, and resources for students and teachers
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
MarcoPolo
Provides standards-based Internet content and professional development for teachers and
students K-12
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx
Kathy Schrock’s Guide
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing
curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and
learning.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
*Kathy Schrock’s Assessment and Rubric Information
A collection of assessment rubrics that may be helpful to design your own rubric for student use
and for assessment purposes
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
Sites for Teachers
A website full of websites for teachers. There are literally hundreds of different websites that are
made specifically for teachers.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Memphis City Schools Lesson Plan sites
General and specific information on lesson plans, rubrics and other resources
http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/lesson.htm
*Reference Desk.com
Busy site, but loaded with various sources of information. News, newspapers, magazine,
dictionaries, reference tools, etc.
http://www.refdesk.com/
Internet Public Library
A public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan
School of Information. Includes Reference section, subject collection, reading tools.
http://www.ipl.org/
Eric
The United States Department of Education’s website for searching the ERIC Database. Provides
the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of
more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
*The Educator’s Reference Desk
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to
Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk. 2,000+
lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
http://www.eduref.org/
*The Educator’s Reference Desk Lesson Plans
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted
by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in
GEM (The Gateway to Educational Materials-see below), which links to over 40,000 online
education resources.
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
*The Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick
and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university,
non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
http://www.thegateway.org/
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Addresses all aspects of effective teaching and learning—such as professional
development, educational leadership, and capacity building
http://www.ascd.org/
Teach-nology Rubric Makers
Rubric generators allow you to make grading rubrics by filling out a simple form
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
WebQuest
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach
with the web. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information
used by learners is drawn from the Web.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
*EDinformatics
Databases and reviewed sites by subject area. Also includes reference section and news.
http://www.edinformatics.com/
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WWW for Teachers http://www.4teachers.org/
Web Tools for Learning: http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk/tools_index.html
Trackstar: http://scrtec.org/track/
Blue Web’n: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Websites and Resources for Teachers: http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Microsoft in Education: http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/
Teacher Resources: http://user.icx.net/~campbelld/elementary_projects/teacher.htm
8. Apple Learning Interchange (Be sure to check out Units of Practice):
http://ali.apple.com/ali/
9. *Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
10. Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place: http://www.eduplace.com/
11. Scholastic: Kids, Teachers, Parents: http://www.scholastic.com/
12. FromNowOn: The Educational Technology Journal: http://www.fno.org/
13. Quiz Lab - FunBrain: http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/
14. The Awesome Library: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
15. Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers: http://www.essdack.org/tips/
16. Community Learning Network: http://www.cln.org/subjects.html
17. *McREL HotLinks by Subject: http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp
18. Taking it Global - http://www.takingitglobal.org/home.html
19. *PurpleMath - Algebra - http://www.purplemath.com
20. Air Force 2025 - http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025
21. Entrepreneurial Education - http://www.entre-ed.org
22. Genetics - http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu
23. Virtual Manipulatives - http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
24. Pedagogy - George Lucas Educational Foundation - http://edutopia.org
25. Assessment in 1 - 1: http://www.mainelearns.org/shell.cfm?uuid=B3906F2C-2B38BFEF-23BB91B15AB64197
26. MaineLearns - Our Human Network - http://www.MaineLearns.org
27. Jim Moulton - http://www.JimMoulton.org
Connecticut Specific:
1. Performance tasks, developed by Connecticut teachers and aligned to Connecticut
Standards: www.ctcurriculum.org
2. Marco Polo lesson plans aligned to Connecticut Content Standards: www.cted.org
* = Sites I’ve viewed at least to some extent and seem to be pretty comprehensive with specific
links to various subject areas (if not subject specific themselves).