This web site is perhaps the most in-depth, education based web site on the internet. It has lesson plans, kids activities, and fun learning and ideas for teachers to use and incorporate into their classroom. 
 

This site contains a variety of lesson plans and activities from many different disciplines.  Some sample worksheets have also been included as reinforcement activities.  One special part of this site is the evaluation of educational software.  Along with the different types of software that is available, company information is included so that you can contact them. 
 

This is a website designed to be of help to teachers in the K-12 community.  This website provides a list where teachers can get resource materials for their lesson plans. 
 

This website contains options to search for various topics, one in particular is Lesson Plans.  Under the heading of Lesson Plan you are given the option to choose a variety of subjects and grade levels.  Once highlighted there is an expanded list of many lesson plans that describe the procedures in great detail of carrying out the lessons.  Other topics included in the website are classroom research, technology resources, professional development, educator resources, reference materials, and financial matters.  After selecting a specific topic you can choose what you want to research more specifically. 
 

The Busy Teachers' Website is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet. 
Teachers may want to direct students toward certain sites as part of their lesson plan. I have not classified the sites as to grade level since many sites have several components (i.e., pictures, text, sounds, etc). Some components may be quite appropriate for elementary students (e.g., pictures, sounds), while text in the same site may be at a high school level. As part of the annotation for each site, you will find notation as to site components, i.e., text, pictures, audio, etc. I feel that any site with the words; "direct source material", will be of great help for any professional educator.  What I love about this perticular site is the lessons plans that come prepare to help the teacher to include computers in the classroom. 
 

SPICE (Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Education), offers the beginning teacher everything you need to teach about a topic, including student handouts and lesson plans. More experienced teachers introducing a new topic or trying out a new teaching strategy will find teacher background information, interdisciplinary lessons, and tools and strategies such as cognitive organizers, simulations, and cooperative group activities. Even the most experienced teacher will find unique primary and secondary resources to enhance your teaching.  This is one of those must see sites for all beginning teachers.  The amount of resources and information is amazing. 
 

This site is useful for an overview of education.  There are vaious site for all parts of the educational community.  There are helpful lesson plans from teachers all across the country.  Articles make up a big section of the News/ Eyes on School and the curriculum sites.  Financial planning for teachers gives good ideas of ways to handle their money.  There is also a site for administrators to chat and send articles.  There is also one site that lists books in education by ages and is useful for parents and teachers to assign books to children. 
 

I liked this site great deal and found it very helpful.  The reason why I say this is because I used it to find all the sites that I used on the project.  It also had complements on what sites would be more and less helpful and it was catagorized to help you.  I thought that other then color it was kind of boring, but it was full of links to great sites so I thought that it was worth a visit.  It gave links to sites with hundreds to thousands of lesson plans, so if that is what you are looking for it is a great place to visit. 
 

There are over 2000 collections of education resources available through this site.  You can find lesson plans, curriculum units and other resources with the use of keyword browse, subject browse or simple search interface.  Selection can be found by grades, educational level and terms. 
 

This site catalogues schools, both domestic and foreign, that have web pages.  The main page includes a site map that is searchable.  You can choose between continents or, if you scroll down the page, you will find a list of countries that link you to that country's registry.  You can also choose to search for schools that cater to special interest areas.  Clicking on a region or portion of the site map sends you the registry for that region.  Best of all, you can register your own schools web site. 

As a resource, this list could be invaluable.  Web66 allows teachers and students to connect with schools that are publishing their own web site.  This could give insight into how you can use your schools web site, or even ideas that could be used to construct one.  Also, Web66 puts you in contact with other schools from around the world.  You classroom or school now has access to the resources of many countries and educational structures.  This brings the notion of global education into the classroom. 
 

This is a site that is dedicated to making educational resources on the internet easier to find and utilize.  It catalogues sites and resources that have been recommended the best for use in the classroom and even offers examples of internet use in the classroom.  Ed's Oasis provides teachers with three content areas for internet resources.  The first area, called The Treasure Zone, offers reviewed sites that are either interactive, involving student participation with other student on the web, and informative sites that can be utilized for research.  Teacher resources are available in a teacher's version of the Treasure Zone.  The area includes links to lesson plans, educational news, and curriculum resources.  The second area details the guidelines used to review sites for the Oasis.  This is very important information for the teacher.  It is important to know exactly what the curriculum that was used to review these sites and how the standards match up to your school's curriculum and mission.  The third section offers the results of the utilization of internet resources in the classroom by other teachers and students.  This can be a starting point for the utilization of the web in your classroom. 

This site takes the drudgery of searching for good sites to use in the classroom out of you hands.  Instead of being bogged down in search engines, Ed's reviews can lead you to sites that have been already reviewed by professionals.  This makes the utilization of resources easier and less time consuming.  Though you should never rely on one source for internet resources, Ed's Oasis is a good starting point. 
 

Global Schoolhouse is a great site because it provides resources for teachers, parents, and students. It allows teachers the opportunity to connect their classrooms with other classrooms around the world. Educators can either take part in or develop global learning projects. This site, also, has many articles about using technology in the classroom. This site holds contests for students and teachers. It features a resource kit that aids in using the world wide web which can aid teachers in teaching thier class how to surf the web. Teachers can become members of the Global Schoolhouse mailing list which will keep them on top of current issues in education. 
 

Virtual Field Trips is a site that I think many teachers could use in their classrooms. Many students never get the chance to visit the Great Pyramids of Egypt or even The Grand Canyon. This site would allow the students to take a virtual field trip. The field trip is designed by experts that add reality to the trip by even including pit stops. If there is a field trip that a teacher would like his or her students to take, but it is unavailable, the teacher can request that they make a custom field trip for thier class. This site, also, includes links for general teacher resources and curriculum resources. 
 

This web site is absolutely amazing!  It has so much information and links right at your hands.  This site is great for teachers and parents.  Inside it, it contains resources for teachers like how to create rubrics, ask ERIC, e-mail discussion lists for educators, and much more.  Plus, it has other links for teachers on how to use the Internet.  Among these, there are also great links and resources for parents.  There are subject links for teachers that cover a broad range: History, Humanities, Art, Music, Literature, Law, and much more.  Also, there are different links on museums which would be great for field trips.  This site contains so very much and is a wonderful site for teachers to use because everything is there for them right there.  It directs any questions that a teacher might have to another link.  Therefore, one could always get an answer!
 

This is a website created by the University of Maryland.  It is very useful because it makes numerous things available.  For instance you can click on such great links as MDK-12, which is The Maryland K-12 Community.  This site shows you K-12 resources specific to the state of Maryland.  Another example is K-12 Opportunities and Resources, which gives you opportunities, resources, and projects for students.  For myself and for teachers a website like this is rather useful. 
 

This site provides a survey of nonfiction and reference resources for  children.  It discusses awards of children's books as well as what the award is given for.  It teaches students and teachers how to evaluate nonfiction and reference materials.  This is a wonderful site not only for teachers, but for anyone who wishes to learn more about how to pick great books for children.  As a teacher, I would use this site quite often because it gives a listing of award winning books that are wonderful additions to a lesson or a classroom. 

 
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