Education related links

Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education website provides information about education news, legislative updates, and teaching resources.

Florida Legislature
Provides information about Florida statutes, bills, employment opportunities, and links to legislative-related sites.

Discovery Channel Guide for Educators
This site, published by the Discovery Channel, offers an extensive network of teaching resources, video on demand, homework help tools, lesson plans, downloadable worksheets and activities, along with information on popular Discovery Channel shows.

Teacher Resources

Apple Learning Interchange
Rich with digital media, Apple has a website featuring free online resources for educators.

Blue Web and Learning Site 
A library of blue-ribbon learning sites by AT&T.

Classroom Connect's Monthly Technology Integration Calendar
This is an online interactive monthly calendar with educational facts.

Curriculum Integration Web

Education World
An extensive site including lesson plans, activities, website links, education-related articles, and professional development.

EduPlace
Textbook support materials from Houghton Mifflin.

FREE Teacher Materials

Gateway to Educational Materials  
This site is an effort to provide educators with quality materials and tools found on Internet sites.

Global Schoolhouse
This is a resource for global project-based learning, problem-based learning, and online collaborative learning.

Marco Polo Network
Marco Polo Network: This site is published by Verizon wireless and includes lesson plans, activity ideas, teacher training and materials, and much more.

Microsoft Innovative Teacher Program
Tutorials and lesson plans by Microsoft Corporation.

PBS TeacherSource
A site published by Public Broadcasting Service, this web site has standards-based resources for educators.

Teach Net
This site has lesson plans and reviews of educational shows.

Internet Tools for Teachers
A site devoted to rating education websites.

TeacherTid Bytes
This site features teacher resources, homework help, web-integrated lesson plans, and tutorials.

TeacherVision
This site has lesson plans, downloadables, and much more; organized by grade level and subject area, this site has extensive resources.

Welcome to EduHound
An extensive site that has collected websites and organized them according to subject.

Lesson Plans

Ask Eric 
Over 2000 lesson plans created and submitted by teachers. Arranged by subject area.

CyberGuides
Language Arts teachers of any grade level will find this site useful when teaching units on novels. The site includes hundred of novels, including ones in foreign languages.

Ed Helper
Mostly for elementary and middle grades, this site has lesson plans in every subject area, including foreign languages. Also includes downloadable worksheets.

Internet Lesson Plans
These easy-to-use lesson plans teach students about the Internet, including its history, uses, proper way to research, and much more.

Math, Science and Technology Lessons
The University of Illinois produces this website, collecting a wealth of on-line resources for math and science. Many of the lessons are web-based and interactive.

Scholastic Lesson Search

Scholastic Teacher Corner
This site is easy to use with a search engine to find lesson plans based on the content teachers need.

Sunshine State Standards In-Tech 2000
Created by top Florida educators, this site looks at SSS for each subject area as they relate to technology in the classroom.

Search Engines

Kids Click - Safe Internet Searching
An inventory of web sites arranged by subject area reviewed by librarians.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world. Every Thursday morning they send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.

Search Engines
Browse the kids sites, free kids games, view the inspirational Light an Educational Fire movie, subscribe to my free website reviews newsletter, and take advantage of a free trial membership in the Surfnetkids Printables Club.

Interactive Projects

Global Grocery List
Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines. Global Grocery List is a long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines.

Journey North
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes — and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context.

TEAMS Projects
Collaborate with other virtual classrooms for a variety of on-line projects in a variety of subject areas.

The JASON Project
For middle-grade students, JASON's real-time, interdisciplinary science Expeditions offer a unique opportunity to participate in real, standards-based, multidisciplinary research directed by leading scientists.  For educators, JASON provides the content and tools to effectively teach middle-grade science. The JASON Professional Development program offers accredited online professional development courses in science, math, and non-fiction literacy instruction as well as on-site workshops and coaching to help teachers become highly qualified and make the best use of JASON programs in the classroom.

Virtual Field Trips
A virtual field trip can quickly transport your students to a national museum or even a dinosaur dig. Bring content experts into your classroom to enrich special units of study or let one of our fun and informative Education Series become a standard part of your instruction.