This page was updated on 01/27/08

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a weekly section published on Thursdays titled "Tech.Life" in which I have found a lot of information over the years. One column, tech.k12, is for educators and librarians. The writer, Joyce Kasman Valenza, is the librarian at Springfield High School in Erdenheim, PA.

The link below is to her column dated 8/31/00 and is titled, "Two gateway sites help teachers retrieve just what they need". There are a lot more than two sites listed! http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/08/31/tech_life/SKUL31.htm

Previous tech.k12 columns are available at http://crossings.philly.com/archive/k12.htm

These are the sites that were given in the article above. If you have a teacher site to share just send it to Mrs. Griffin and I'll post it here. Please include your comments with the URL. You can also send me your rating for any of these sites.

Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
http://www.thegateway.org/index.html

About.com Elementary Educators
http://k-6educators.about.com

About.com Secondary Educators
http://7-12educators.about.com

MarcoPolo - offers inquiry-based learning activities in art, economics, math, science, geography and the humanities.
http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/

BioTech - created by Indiana University to centralize biomedical, botany, chemistry and technology resources for scientists, educators and students.
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/scitools.html

Polyominoes - a cool math puzzle; a cross between dominoes and Tetris for grades 5-10. (Note: This is mentioned in the article, but the site was not listed. I found it by using the GEM search engine.)
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/Polys/poly1.html

Discovery Channel School's Puzzlemaker - allows teachers to create, customize and print word-search puzzles, crosswords, math puzzles and mazes using their own word lists or themes.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

FirstYears - a web site for student and beginning teachers
http://www.ametro.net/~teachers/home.html

Substitute Teacher Guide
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/hr/sub/welcome.html

Lessonplanz.com - the lesson plans search index
http://lessonplanz.com/

Education World Lesson Plan Bank - includes election activities and Icebreakers 2000 (helps students get to know each other in a hurry).
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/

More Teacher Resource Sites

Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Baltimore Curriculum Project
http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm

BBC Education Web Guide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/plsql/education/webguide/pkg_main.p_home

Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

CNN Newsroom: Daily Classroom Guide
http://turnerlearning.com/newsroom/guide.html

Curriculum Database (UtahLink)
http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/curriculum.hts

Discovery School Lesson Plans
http://www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/subjects/k-6.html

Lesson Plans 7-12
http://www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/subjects/7-12.html

Houghton Mifflin Education Place Activity Search
http://www.eduplace.com/search/activity.html

Educate the Children -- Teacher Zone
http://www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/index.htm

Encarta Lesson Collection
http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp?tr=101

Kodak Lesson Plans
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/edu/lessonPlans/lessonPlans.shtml

Lesson Plan Search
http://www.lessonplansearch.com/

Lesson Plans Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html

Lightspan Lesson Plans
http://www.lightspan.com/teacher/pages/lesplans/default.asp?_prod=LS&_nav=t3_

Link 2 Learn Classroom Activities
http://205.146.39.13/success/

Philly.com's Newspapers in Education site -- Connecting With the Classroom
http://crossings.phillynews.com/nie/indexb.html

New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

SCORE Cyberguides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Smithsonian Classroom-Ready Lessons and Activities
http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/sslist2.html#start

Teacher's First Content Matrix
http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix%2Df.htm

Teachers.net Lesson Bank
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/

Virtual Field Trips Site
http://www.field-guides.com/

Educational Technology Training Center for Burlington County (ETTC)
http://www.lr.k12.nj.us/ETTC/

Here you'll find information concerning recently televised videos and upcoming events that will be shown on PBS channels. Teacher resource materials may be downloaded periodically. (submitted by Mrs. Budden)
http://www.pbs.org

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