K-12 Teacher's Resources
Standards
Lesson Plans
Web Guides for Kids
General Web Guides
Fun Science Sites for Kids
Standards
Virginia SOLs (Commonwealth of Knowledge site)
Virginia SOLS (VA Dept. of Education site)
K-12 National Education Standards
NEA's Curriculum Standards links
Lesson Plans
EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Educator's Reference Desk
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
Global Schoolhouse
Lesson Plans Library - Discovery Channel
MCREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
Microsoft's Education site - Lesson Plans using Microsoft Products
NEA's (National Education Association) in the classroom
Newton's Apple
PBS TeacherSource
Scholastic Central - from the publisher
TeachNet
Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute Curricular Resources (1978+)
TIP: Many web sites from museums, science centers, television networks or programs, associations and societies, and government agencies have educational sites for kids or resources for teachers, so check these out using the web guide links below.
Web Guides for Kids
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
FirstGov for Kids
Google's Directory for Kids and Teens
Yahooligans!
General Web Guides
Internet Public Library
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Fun Sciences Sites for Kids
NASA's Education page - space stuff!
EPA's Environmental Kids Club
How Stuff Works - explanations of how common everyday things work
A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation - have a chat with ALICE, a sassy robot.
The WHY Files - answers scientific "Why?" questions
Extreme Science - the biggest, the deepest, the fastest, the -est! of
TryScience - a collaborative effort from many science and nature centers - lots of experiements, interactive exercises, webcams, etc.
National Wildlife Federation's E-Nature - animals!
EurakAlert! for Kids - AAAS science news updates for kids
Virtual Science Center - space and astronomy
Exploratorium - San Francisco's hands-on museum has a site
Virtual Field Trips -
Fear of Physics - watch a quarter fall from a building
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by Laurie Preston