The Best of TEACHING RESOURCES on the Internet
New York Times Learning Network
Created for students and teachers in grades 3 through 12, The Learning
Network is a free news service that provides news summaries, quizzes,
and even daily lesson plans.
www.nytimes.com/learning
Educator's Reference Desk
Formerly "Ask ERIC" Access ERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information and 200+ question archive responses. Includes a search interface to the ERIC Database.
www.eduref.org
Surfing the Net with Kids
Amid all the media attention to all the bad things that can happen to kids on the Internet,
the educational possibilities of the Web are often overlooked. Not so at Barbara J. Feldman's
Surfing the Net with Kids site. Each week she picks a single topic (such as Rainforests,
Hubble Space Telescope, Mozart, Dolphins, or Plate Tectonics) and chooses the best sites to explore.
www.surfnetkids.com
CREATE for Mississippi
This site contains over 250 technology-infused lesson plans created and field-tested by Mississippi teachers
aligned to national standards. It also contains over 150 technology how-to documents geared towards educators.
www.create4ms.org
Teaching Resources in the News
Back-to-school shopping can be a teaching tool for kids - Canton Repository -
26 Aug 2008 at 10:04pm
NEW YORK When Diamond Emory and her daughter Makaiah arrived at Wal-Mart to buy her fifth-grade school supplies, they encountered much to entice a young shopper. The aisles of the store near their home in Groveport, Ohio, displayed glittery pencils ...
Adea Explores New Opportunities for Education in Africa Offered By Digital Te... -
27 Aug 2008 at 9:15am
Today saw the beginning of the digital summer school organized by the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) and ADEA, in partnership with the government of Tunisia and with support from France's Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Agence française de développement (AFD). The meeting is being held from August 25 to 28, 2008, in Hammamet, Tunisia.
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