Teacher Helps
Lesson Plans and More
These sites are an eclectic assortment of lesson plans, activity and project ideas, forms, organizing ideas and more, and usually contain links to many subjects and/or links to other sites.
About.com - Education is the entry point for a huge amount of information organized by topic, from school subjects to homework tips to current educational issues.
World Book Typical Course of Study offers outlines of material generally covered at each grade level
SuperKids Educational Software Reviews
Homeschool Christian Links is a nicely organized system of links to web sites by topic. Some overlap with what is here.
Paula's Archives of Homeschool Advice is an eclectic assortment of curriculum notes and hints on homeschooling topics like timelines and microscope selection, as well as hints for tackling laundry and quick ideas for lunches.
Easy Fun School includes lesson plans and activities for a HUGE variety of topics. Great resource for unit studies.
Angelfire Free Homeschool is a site of links to free resources. Not as well-organized as some others -- keep scrolling down for links.
LearnNC's Best of the Web links to hundreds of educational links
Educatus offers lessons on a wide variety of topics in history, science, art and more (check out the virtual dissections of a frog and a rat - formerly frogguts.com)
EduPlace is sponsored by Houghton-Mifflin and packed with themes, sctivities, games and more.
Kid Scoop offers annotated links for a variety of topics from Animals to Holidays to Nutrition
Ref Desk - The Single Best Source for Facts describes itself as "a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources." The home page is an information- packed screen with links to many news outlets, dictionary and other standard reference works, "this day in history," "word of the day," and so much more.
IKnowThat.com Online Educational Games offers a variety of multimedia games in various subject areas aimed at grades K-6.
ThinkQuest Library provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics. Featuring over 5,500 websites, the library is created by students from around the world as part of a competition.
Lesson Plan Central offers free lesson plans, worksheets, webquests, clipart, and student links arranged by subject.
School Express worksheets, lesson plans, etc. -- some free, more with membership
TeacherNet contains general links and many links to history topics
Sites for teachers is a huge site of links, ordered by popularity
Education World contains seasonal lesson plans
edHelper.com offers themed lesson plans, customized worksheet production, and much more for a yearly fee ($20-40)
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans is part of the (large) site to support the Core Knowledge Curriculum of E. D. Hirsch for grades K-8. It is arranged by grade level - you can view an outline of the year's topics by subject. Each topic has an associated PDF file with the lesson plan in a standard format. One of the best features is the bibliography that lists relevant books and web sites. This could save you a lot of time in planning unit studies.
Discovery School is part of the Discovery Channel and offers lesson plans for all ages, tools for creating worksheets, puzzles, and quizzes, a curriculum center (science) with ideas for activities and projects along with correlated videos, CDs, and books from Discovery. Homework Helper is part of Discovery School and is a list of links by subject area.
Suite 101 contains articles and mini-courses on a huge variety of topics from education to gardening, history to outdoor adventure.
Mr. Donn's Pages offers free lesson plans and activities on topics generally related to social studies- generally aimed at middle grades, but can be adjusted up or down. Provides links to many more lesson plan sites.
For the kids
Kids Konnect – Safe Gateway for Kids is a set of child-safe links of subjects of interest to kids, developed and maintained by educators.
Kids Click! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
KinderSite every link and site that the Kindersite uses has been checked as conforming to Department of Education guidelines for safe sites for children. Aimed at the younger student there are games, songs, and stories with audio and varying amounts of reading skill required. Registration allows you to customize a list of favorites. Could buy you some time while working with older students.
Brain POP has some free content, the rest is available by subscription -- online videos explain a wide variety of topics from how cars work to Mars to parts of speech and there are quizzes to review content.
Brain Food contains hundreds of puzzles of various kinds -- quite challenging!
Trivia Plaza Quizzes offers a variety of online quizzes on topics in science, geography, literature, classical music and more.
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Fields Trips are guided multimedia tours through Internet sites on particular topics from Ancient Egypt to Chemical Reactions to Shakespeare and beyond.
Utah Education Network Virtual Field Trips
WebQuests
Webquests encourage and guide Internet research into specific topics with specific educational goals designed for student use. Often include quizzes to measure learning.
WebQuest allows you to search hundreds of quests by subject and grade level.
Windaroo State School WebQuests are designed for younger students.
Spartanburg District 3 WebQuest listing contains links to WebQuests on a variety of topics of interest
Magazines
Nature Friend is a magazine for elementary students focusing on the wonder of God's creation.
Math
General sites covering multiple areas
Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service from Drexel U. for math students and their teachers with searchable archives; all levels of math - if you don't find your question answered you can submit it
Free Math Help offers lessons, games, a forum where you can ask questions, a calculator buying guide and more.
Math at About.com offers access to the usual massive amount of info from this site
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles range over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and logic. All require a certain ingenuity, but usually only pre-college math.
Online Math Learning offers interesting quizzes, practice, homework help and other materials, fun facts, games, puzzles and other cool stuff
SOS Math lets you browse more than 2,500 Math pages filled with short and easy-to-understand explanations from algebra to calculus, practice tests, and more - all for free.
The Math Page offers lessons from arithmetic to calculus
Math Nerds is a question and answer site with archives; free registration required
Math Lessons That Are Fun is an eclectic assortment of puzzle-y items with explorations and explanations; nice supplement.
Math Counts Problem Archive contains an archive of challenging Mathcounts "Problems of the Week"
Elementary
AAA Math provides free interactive lessons on arithmetic topics, incuding graph, measurement, money, etc.
Math Facts Drill is a straightforward, not fancy, but flexible drill program for +-x/
Math Stories has over 15,000 interactive and non-interactive math word problems for elementary and middle school children to enjoy.
The Magic Math Resource for the K-4 Teacher contains lessons, games, and useful links
Highline Advanced Math Program contains diagnostic quiz, lesson plans and worksheets - grades 5-7
Algebra
My Math Tutor provides free lessons in all levels of algebra and trig; good review for SAT
Geometry
Trigonometry
Dave's Short Course on Trig is a nice background and overview. Contains drawings you can manipulate to see concepts.
Precalculus
OJK's PreCalculus Study Page contains good information once you get the hang of navigating there; chapter quizzes
Precalculus Problems with Solutions contains topically arranged problems with solutions on a separate page; not flashy but useful for extra practice
Calculus
The Calculus Page offers explanations, example problems, and lots of helpful links
Science
General sites covering multiple disciplines
Science News for Kids offers timely items of interest to kids ages 9-13, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that K-12 teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
Science Education from Jefferson Lab contains homework helpers, puzzles, quizzes, worksheets and hands-on activities. Plus they have a free video lecture lending library and you can make copies of the videos for home or school use! The main Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility site is fascinating for students of physics -- just click "Home."
NASA Center for Distance Learning at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, enhances grade K-16 curriculums by providing educators with FREE multimedia instructional programs. A large collection of video is available for online viewing (broadband required) or downloading in a variety of formats.
Earth Science
The Weather Dude offers elementary level information on weather phenomena, a glossary of terms, and a sing-along weather song.
Life Science
Animal Diversity Web is sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and contains information and photos of thousands of animals as well as special articles.
National Health Museum presents virtual dissections, labs, and field trips
Center for Science and Culture supports research by scientists and other scholars challenging various aspects of neo-Darwinian theory; supports research by scientists and other scholars developing the scientific theory known as intelligent design; supports research by scientists and scholars in the social sciences and humanities exploring the impact of scientific materialism on culture. encourages schools to improve science education by teaching students more fully about the theory of evolution, including the theory's scientific weaknesses as well is its strengths.
Chemistry
Periodic Table of the Elements can be sorted and contains links to information for each element plus news on environmental chemistry.
Chemistry at About.com
Physics
Contemporary Physics Education Project information about modern physics
FermiLab Education, a project of the largest particle accelerator in the world, has information and projects in modern physics as well as their local prairie environment
Physics Education offers online simulations of classical and modern physics topics
History
General sites covering multiple time periods
History Central topics include world history chronology; primary documents; history makers biographies; America's wars; navy, aviation, and railroad history; elections; and 20th cetury almanac.
Internet History Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use.
BBC History covers topics in ancient history, social history, science, religion, wars, archeology and more, plus a section for younger children
EyeWitness to History through the eyes of those who lived - ancient to modern
eHistory contains over 130,000 pages, including timelines
Hyperhistory people, history, events and maps covering prehistory to the present, with timelines
ProjectHistory is one history teacher's searchable and crosslinked blog on a variety of history topics including current news of discoveries, etc.
The History Guide contains ninety lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989. In essence, what is presented here is an online textbook in western civilization, with special reference to the western intellectual tradition.
World History International is a collection of history-related essays, maps, historical documents, speeches and music.
Spartacus Educational (UK) provides links on wide variety of history topics
TeacherNet provides links on wide variety of history topics
Kidipede contains elementary-level history information by region with photos of historic objects
New Geneva Center offers a high-level overview of history with reference to the struggle between materialistic and spiritual points of view.
Book and Movie Lists
A Book in Time lists books to enhance your study of history grouped by time period as well as crafts, projects, links and more
Historical Fiction lists books by year story takes place
Literature to Supplement History from Paula's Archives
List of movies to supplement history study by time period from Paula's Archives (titles had been available from now-defunct Family Pass -- try libraries and Netflix)
At the Movies list of movies by time period with comments
Historical Movies by Time Period includes historical background and some reviews about quality
Archaeology
Links from dig! Magazine let young people share in the thrill of archaeological discovery while learning about the cultural, scientific, and architectural traits and beliefs of different societies.
NewsVine Archaeology News the latest in archeoplogical discovery
BibArch Learn how archaeological research illuminates the biblical text and broaden your understanding of the biblical world and its peoples.
Ancient
Ancient History at About.com contains usual massive amount of info
Earth's Ancient History contains lots of primary sources
Exploring Ancient World Cultures Note: scroll to bottom of page for index of cultures covered
Ancient Musical Instruments info and pictures with links to more
Mesopotamia/Palestine
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Medieval
The Labrynth resources for Medieval Studies
Renaissance/Reformation
Enlightenment/Revolutions
American
The History Place covers America's wars and presidents and contains the text of a good number of famous speeches.
Discovery/Colonial
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration
Revolution
Civil War
CivilWar.com is a collection of Civil War resources, including official records, battle information, photos, lesson plans, primary sources, military histories, and more
Index of Civil War Resources on the Internet
Civil-War.net has maps, photos, letters, diaries and more
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion from Kennesaw.edu has research links, lesson plans and clip art
World War I
FirstWorldWar.com a multimedia history including literature, propaganda, vintage photos and films and much more
World War II
Interactive history from History.com
TeacherNet WW II massive set of links
Cold War
Vietnam
Current Events
Geography
United States
Historic Maps provides geography and history lesson plans based on historic US maps.
U. S. Mint 50 States Lesson Plans for all ages
NetState provides almanac info, interesting factoids, and a quiz on each state.
World
Geography at About.com is a huge site with links to maps, geography news, quizzes, and much more.
CIA World Factbook provides up-to-date factoids on the world's countries.
WorldAtlas.com contains statistical information and all sorts of maps by region, including outline maps for quizzing.
Nation by Nation is a listing of countries with information about geography, government, history, new, links and more.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites includes 830 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value; includes photos and descriptions.
Geographia is a travel guide, giving cultural information as well. Links to countries' tourist information sites.
National Geographic contains articles on new discoveries, fabulous photos (great source for desktop wallpapers) and much, much more.
Mr. Dowling contains a table of nations with basic geographic information (sortable) as well as information on times and places (World Religions, African History, Africa Today, etc.) with interactive quizzes.
Sheppard Software Geography Games offers various levels of games from which to learn geographic information, from states and countries to capitals and rivers and more.
English
General sites covering multiple topics
Grammar
English Grammar on the Web is aimed at TEFL teachers but contains information of use to anyone studying English
Guide to Grammar and Writing -- the menu is a bit unusual; click on "Index" for an alphabetical list of topics if that makes more sense to you.
Writing
Learn to Write from Colorado State is a very nice site with writing guides, activities, demonstrations, links and more.
Annotated Student Writing Samples and Rubrics from a Canadian school gives examples of write assignments for various types for writing for grades 6-12 and offers rubrics for evaluating writing at each level.
Spelling
Spelling it Right offers advice on teaching spelling, free spelling worksheets, and recommends curriculum.
Vocabulary
Confusing Words helps you untangle words like affect and effect, lay and lie -- just enter all or part of a word that confuses you
Vocabulary development includes lessons, quizzes and lists of vocabulary from a variety of classic books.
Literature
Reading lists, online literature guides, etc.
Shakespeare Lesson Plans from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Art
ArtCyclopedia has “compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. The site contains a “Masterpieces” section containing "the very best art images from around the Web, updated daily.” Another section provides links to art museums all over the world and allows you to search for art by artist, title of piece, or location. Or you can browse artists by name, movement/time period, medium, subject matter, or nationality. Another feature is Art-4-2day, containing information on artists who were either born or died on any date, with links to examples of their work.
Art History Resources is a huge site of links, very nicely organized
Architecture Through the Ages discusses the many types of architecture and the many ways they have shaped our lives. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn about architecture from the great Maya to the building of cathedrals.
The Great Buildings Collection documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Canon 3D Papercraft offers downloadable patterns to make 3-d airplanes, famous buildings, animals, and more. Also clip art and photos.
Music
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures Learn about sound, music notation, text, and instruments in a fun, interactive exploration of musical repertoire. Although designed primarily for those aged 6-12, these engaging games allow both kids and adults to experience great music while learning music concepts in a stimulating environment.