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• A Math Dictionary For Kids
  An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language.
• actDEN (Digital Education Network): Software Tutorials and Online Courses
  High-quality software tutorials and online courses for educators, parents and students of all ages.
• Activites for ESL Students
  Over 1,000 activities in 28 different languages to help students learn English. Activities include games, puzzles and quizes.
• ADA Technical Assistance Program
  The ADA Technical Assistance Program has been in existence since 1992, shortly after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Since its inception, the Program has consisted of a diverse array of projects to further the understanding and implementation of the Act.
• Alaska Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
  Alaska's PT3 project.
• ALPS: Active Learning Practice for Schools
  ALPS, Active Learning Practice for Schools, is an electronic community dedicated to the improvement and advancement of educational instruction and practice. The mission is to create an on-line collaborative between teachers and administrators from around the world with educational researchers, professors, and curriculum designers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
• American Memory: Historical Collections
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
• Appetizers and Lessons for Mathematics and Reason
  A huge collection of activities, study tips, video clips and on-line books designed to develop skills in mathematics and reasoning.
• Artic Studies Center
  The Arctic Studies Center is the only U.S. government program with a special focus on northern cultural research and education.
• AskA+ Locator
  AskA+ LocatorThis directory of online question answering services (AskA) is "designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet." Each service listing includes identification information (e.g., publisher, e-mail address, contact name, and links), scope, target audience, and a general description of the service. Searchable and browsable.
• Assessment Rubrics
  When using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important to address assessment. A usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes.
• Assessment, Assessment Rubrics and Evaluation Guidelines
  This website is a collection of assessment tips and tools, to help in developing, adapting, and adopting assessments that detail what teachers expect students to learn and evaluate what they have mastered for any given lesson.
• Assessments of Multimedia Technology in Education
  This is a Bibliography of a growing body of research devoted to assessing the effectiveness of multimedia in all levels of education, including corporate and military training.
• Beginning Teacher's Tool Box
  Website of the National Association for Beginning Teachers. The site is dedicated to helping new teachers with the tools they need such as interactive resources, books, links, tips, free webpages, and a newsletter.
• Best of History Web Sites
  This site provides categorized links to hundreds of "history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Sites with engaging content and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included.
• Black History Pages
  The Black History Pages contains links to African American resources from early times to the present.
• Black History Treasure Hunt & Quiz
  Centered around a 12-question quiz, this website encourages users to explore other Internet-based resources related to each question in order to try find the answer to each question.
• Building a Digital Workforce
  Taking action to close the IT skills gap in the current and future workforce is a critical challenge for business, labor, education, government, and the nonprofit sector that requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. This report sets out NPA's Digital Economic Opportunity Committee's recommendations for increasing the number of U.S.
• CA Dept. of Ed: Education Technology Office
  Provides guidance and assistance to districts and schools in managing their technology.
• Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology
  CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions.
• Center for Women and Information Technology
  Website contains numerous resources for increasing the number of women in technology.
• Chinatown Banquet
  Chinatown Banquet A community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese banquet raising awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown, the city's most densely populated residential neighborhood.
• CIESE Online Classroom Projects
  CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
• CIMEL
  CIMEL is an acronym for Constructive, collaborative Inquiry-based Multimedia E-learning and results from an NSF-funded project at Lehigh University. Site provides a prototype of media-based computer course.
• Circle of Stories
  Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.
• Classroom Connect's Connected Teacher - Lesson Plans
  Printable documents of standards-based curriculum resources and assessment tools organized by subjects (math,language arts,American history,sciences, and social studies) and grade level. Additional classroom learning and professional learning resources.
• Classroom Corner: Productivity in the Classroom
  This site contains lessons and activities designed to help elementary, middle and high school students use new technologies for learning.
• Classroom Support
  Classroom SupportThese resources help education professionals assess skill levels for both teachers and students, and set grade-appropriate goals for students. This section also includes links to education information, provides teachers with ideas for technology-based lesson plans, and includes the tools necessary for creating appropriate use policies for these new technologies.
• Collaborative Lesson Archive
  A web site repository devoted to the creation and collaboration of educational lessons and curriculum. Search by grade level and submit lessons.
• Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?
  Explore the fall of civilizations through four examples: the ancient Maya, Mesopotamia, the Anasazi, and the medieval African empires of Mali and Songhai. Learn about important concepts in archeology such as interpreting evidence and dating artifacts.
• Community Technology Centers' Network
  Use a national map to locate the closest Community Technology Center (CTC) near you. CTC can help provide access to students to computers for doing research and homework.
• Congress for Kids
  An interactive site with quizes and tours that are designed to make learning about Congress fun for students.
• Consortium for School Networking
  The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization, promotes the use of information technologies and the Internet in K-12 education to improve learning.
• Dewey Browse
  The Dewey Browse contains web sites classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System, for K-12 Curriculum Resources.
• Digital Divide Resources
  Resources, articles, projects, people and businesses that help define the breadth of "digital divide" and gain an understanding of what needs to be done to increase digital equity. Includes background documents, statistics and fact sheets.
• Digital Divide Series
  Based on a two-part series for PBS about the digital divide, it is possible to explore the issues of classrooms, gender, race and at work through interaction, voices and links.
• Digital Equity Tool Kit
  The Digil Equity Toolkit points educators to free, high quality resources that help address the digital divide in the classroom and community.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
  DLESE is a grassroots, community-based effort involving teachers, students, and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and services to support Earth system science education, at all levels, in both formal and informal settings.
• DNA from the beginning
  An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes and heredity. Includes sections on classical genetics, molecules of genetics, and genetic organization and control.
• E-Math: A Guide to E-mail Based Volunteer Programs
  This Guide includes descriptions of e-mail based programs that connect students and professional adults in order to improve education. Chapters are included on telementoring programs, Question&Answer e-mail programs, and other e-mail based programs.
• EconEdLink
  EconEdLink is a program of the National Council on Economic Education. Centered on curriculum standards and based on the essential principles of economics, EconEdLink provides a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
• Economics Resources for K-12 Teachers
  Extensive curricular materials to support teaching economic concepts. Includes fundamental concepts by grade level; on-line lessons and activities; Standards alignment; and suggestions for creating web lessons.
• Education Technology Integration Principles - eTIPS
  The eTIPs Campus is an online learning environment that supports individual and team growth in the content and pedagogy of effective teaching with technology.
• Educational Technology
  This PT3 project site at the University of Colorado School of Education offers resources and tools to aid in the total infusion of technology into the curriculum.
• EduHound.com
  Extensive collection of briefly annotated links for teachers, administrators, and parents, organized into categories, or browse an alphabetical subject/keyword list. Includes specific subjects (animals, science, etc.) as well as specialized educational resources (home schooling, standards&assessment, etc.).
• EduPuppy.com - Everything for Early Childhood Education Preschool - Grade 2
  Designed to assist early childhood professionals, links to resources are grouped into categories that include subjects, software, projects, role groups, etc.
• Edutopia On-line
  The Foundation documents and disseminates the most exciting classrooms where innovations are taking place. It is hoped that by spotlighting inspiring teachers and students, others will consider change.
• EdWeb Home Room
  A guide to education-related issues concerning the Internet, and to educational resources available on the Internet. Contact information for districts involved.
• Electronic Emissary Project's WebCenter
  Prototyped in 1992,The Electronic Emissary is the longest-running telementoring and research effort serving K-12 students and teachers. Connections are available to resources realted to Teachers; Mentors; Teamwork; and Research.
• Empowering 21st Century Teachers
  Home page for Milwaukee Public School's PT3 project. Includes project information, reports, activities and resources.
• Encarta Schoolhouse
  Encarta SchoolhouseThis MSN Encarta site offers resources for teachers, including lesson plans, educational sites, and educational technologies.
• ESL Independent Study Lab
  The ESL Center, housed at Lewis and Clark University in Portland, OR,contains speaking and listening exercises and activities that promote learning English as a second language.
• Gallery of Interactive Geometry
  A collection of interactive geometry activities developed by the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota.
• Gender and Science Digital Library
  The Gender & Science Digital Library aims to provide high-quality digital resources to 1) help educators promote interest and engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics education by learners of all ages, particularly females, 2) encourage learners to pursue science education and future careers in science, 3) provide an inter-disciplinary examination of the role of gender in the creation, teaching and learning of science, and 4) build community among all interested users.
• Google Labs
  This experimental site from the Google search engine "showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time." Play with keyboard shortcuts, telephone searching, a glossary (thesaurus), and more.http://labs.google.com/.
• Homepage for New Math Teachers
  This homepage was created to give new math teachers ideas and suggestions to help with their teaching. Loaded with excellent math resources.
• Instructional Module: Assessment
  This module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.
• Intel Education: Design & Discovery
  Design and Discovery is a free curriculum and supporting resources for implementing a program to interest youth ages 11-14 in design and engineering. The curriculum provides a hands-on, inquiry-based experience with identifying and designing creative solutions to everyday problems in the designed and engineered world.
• Intel Education: It's A Wild Ride
  Follow three successful teachers as they plan, implement and assess an effective, technology-rich project related to designing a roller coaster ride.
• Intel Education: Seeing Reason
  Seeing Reason is a classroom workspace for investigating cause and effect relationships in complex systems. At the heart of Seeing Reason is an interactive mapping tool that helps students map relationships and construct models of their understanding.
• Intel Education: Unit & Project Plans
  Get ideas to engage students from unit and project plans developed by teachers in the Intel_ Teach to the Future program.
• Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
  This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other study materials.
• International Education and Resource Network - iEARN
  iEARN is a non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. Site contains student magazine and examples of projects.
• Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education
  The Center for Technology in Education (CTE) strives to improve the quality of life of children and youth, particularly those with special needs, through teaching, research, and leadership in the use of technology. This partnership combines the research and teaching resources of The Johns Hopkins University and the leadership and policy support of the Maryland State Department of Education.
• Kidlink's KidSpace: A Place for Students to Publish and Share
  KidSpace is a creative, innovative environment developed by teachers working in Kidlink for many years. Teachers and students who participate in Kidlink activities publish and share their work in this for the dynamic, template driven, collaborative community.
• Lego Robolab
  The ROBOLAB software, jointly developed by National Instruments, Tufts University, and LEGO Dacta, is engineered for the classroom and teaches basic computer programming, robotics, and automation skills.
• Lesson Plan Library
  Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject, grade, or both.
• LeTUS Curricula
  Project-based science curricula for 4th - 9th grade.
• Lovin Learning: Video Production
  This is the introduction to a series of workshops designed to help educators implement filmmaking in the classroom.
• Maryland State Department of Education PT3 Home Page
  Home page for the Maryland State Dept. of Education's PT3 project.
• Maryland Teacher Technology Outcomes
  Technology competencies that all teacher candidates need to achieve prior to graduation.
• Math in Daily Life
  Explore how math can help us in our daily lives. This exhibit looks at the language of numbers through common situations, such as playing games or cooking.
• Math WebQuests
  A presentation from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual meeting. Includes math projects which use Internet resources to obtain relevant data.
• Museum-School Connections in the Digital age
  Article describes different ways museums are enhancing classroom learning via virtual experiences.
• NASA - MSU/Bozeman CERES Project
  Faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation have developed an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy.
• National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers Project
  National Educational Technology Standards for teachers identifies what teachers should know about and be able to do with technology. Provides models for incorporating technology in teacher preparation programs and promising practices for preparing tomorrow's teachers to use technology effectively for improving learning.
• National Institute for Community Innovations
  The mission of NICI is to foster local economic and social well-being through educational innovation. Contains resources related to equity, higher education, banks, business, K-12 schools, libraries, and technology.
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:Interactive Mathematics
  An extensive collection of Standards-based virtual math manipulatives with activities, organized by grade level and math topic.
• Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
  A lesson with activities designed to develop in students an appreciation of the diversity of Native American cultures.
• Native American Indian Themes in Children's Books
  Managed by children's book author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this site offers original articles, bibliographies, interviews, publishing community news, an online quarterly newsletter, and curriculum information. Information deals with depictions of Native Americans in literature in user-friendly manner.
• NET Database
  A comprehensive database of Lessons and Units designed to help students learn how to find, access, and assess information to address issues, some of which are yet to be defined. Database can be searched by lesson title, grade level, subject area and key words.
• NetDay Compass
  NetDayCompass is the first comprehensive education technology web site designed for technology decision-makers working in K-12 schools. The central feature of NetDayCompass is a directory of high-quality educational resources designed to help schools maximize technology investments.
• Ology
  A cleaver, animated site with activities related to "ology", the study of something. Website includes activities about genetics, paleontology,astronomy and biodiversity.
• Oregon Teaching and Learning Resources
  The Oregon Teaching and Learning Resources web site provides teachers with easy access to resources that are strongly matched with Oregon academic standards. Resources help teachers understand the standards, design effective instruction, and assess student learning.
• Oregon Technology in Education Council (OTEC)
  A comprehensive site designed to improve Oregon's formal and informal education systems. Includes menu choices for news;ideas for integrating information technology into subject areas;preservice teacher education; continuing professional development; parents and children; school administrators;organizations;annotated references; and "Ask Dr.
• Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology (PT3)
  Site of University of Arkansas at Little Rock's PT3 project, which is working to build strategies for improving the technology proficiency of future teachers.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
  Includes the full-text of "Principles and Standards"; examples of interactive activities that support standards; a search engine; and resources.
• Project SITE SUPPORT
  A education/business community partnership to train, and retain teachers in the K-12 urban environments.
• Project VIEW
  Project VIEW, a Federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant is led by the Schenectady City School District. This program is designed to open the classroom door so that students and teachers can engage in an array of learning opportunities by utilizing interactive education technology which accesses content-rich resources, activities and the exchange of ideas.
• Project-Based Learning: A Primer
  An article from TechLearning about project-based learning -- what it looks like, the role of technology and how it relates to school reform.
• PT3 Grantees Intranet
  Comprehensive information about PT3 program including grant projects and tools, calendar, evaluation, forums and resources.
• Reality Check 2001
  This "Reality Check" survey was done in 2001 and asked questions of students, parents and teachers about standardized testing.
• Rethinking Schools -- Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2
  On-line educational journal focusing on urban educational issues.Site includes links to supplemental materials, resources and links to selected articles.
• River of Song
  The Mississippi: River of Song is a Smithsonian series on contemporary music along the Mississipi River.
• SchoolTech Expo - Professional Development for Education Technology Leaders
  Highlights upcoming professional development conferences for education technology leaders. Also includes handouts from past conferences.
• SchoolWorld Internet Education
  SchoolWorld Internet Education site was developed in 1996 to provide schools need the opportunity to participate in a wide range of programs and projects, not always available locally. SchoolWorld offers the opportunities for direct interaction with schools from around the world and provides a platform for using the Internet for educational enhancement.
• Science Is Fun
  The master of chemical demonstrations, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun of science through home science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books.
• Science&Technology Education Program
  STEP is designed to be a resource to students and teachers by facilitating research interaction with Lab facilities and staff.
• Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology:Measuring Impacts and Shaping the Future
  Summary of discussion at the second national conference held in Sept. 2000, dealing with the questions: What constitutes effective use of technology in learning?;Will we recognize effective uses of technology when we see them?;What conditions must be in place in schools?;How to report progress?; What policy roadmap will help?; What can we learn from business and industry?.
• Secrets of Great History Teachers
  Interviews questions for distinguished history teachers address why and how people teach history. Teachers using this resource can get new ideas, as well as honor outstanding people.
• Seeing Past a Child's Disability: One Parent's View of Universal Design for Learning
  Through efforts by her mother,Kathryn,a child with numerous disabilities, was able to use technology to explore her world, learn at school and home, and to be creative.Her mother continues working with schools to help disabled children.
• Show-Me Tomorrow's Teachers Using Technology
  Show-Me Tomorrow's Teachers Using Technology is a three-year grant project shared by Southwest Missouri State University's College of Natural and Applied Sciences and College of Education.
• Skillful Educators
  Showcases professional development programs where educators develop and refine the ability to be successful "digital age teachers.".
• Surfing for the Best Search Engine Teaching Techniques!
  Learn how easy it is to teach your kids how to surf the Web, painlessly! Strategies for teaching the skill of Internet searching.
• SWE Guide to Sharing Engineering With Girls and Young Women
  Guide provides ideas and information on presenting "engineering" to students, such as speaking tips,safety, and students' maturity level in each grade.
• Teacher Preparation STaR Chart
  Interactive Teacher Preparation School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart, is a self-assessment tool designed to enable schools, colleges, and departments of education assess their level of readiness in preparing tomorrow's teachers to use technology. Complete an online, multiple-choice questionnaire that will provide you with instant feedback on how well your teacher preparation program is doing in this process.
• Teacher Technology Leaders (PT3)
  Teacher Technology Leaders (TTL) Project prepares tomorrow's teachers to use technology, emerge as technology leaders and bridge the digital divide.Links to related resources.
• Teaching History in Inclusive Classrooms: Technology-Based Practices and Tools
  An 8-page document describing ways to use technology when teaching history.
• Technology & Innovations in Education (TIE)
  Technology and Innovations in Education is a statewide project providing leadership for So. Dakota schools in technology and school reform.
• Technology Counts '98
  
• Technology Counts '99: Building the Digital Curriculum
  
• Technology Education Research Center (TERC)
  TERC is a not-for-profit education research and development organization dedicated to improving mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning.
• Technology Foundation Standards for Students
  The technology foundation standards for students are divided into six broad categories. Teachers can use these standards and profiles as guidelines for planning technology-based activities in which students achieve success in learning, communication, and life skills.
• Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress
  The seven dimensions provide a road map for using educational technology to maximum advantage in the classroom.
• The Educator's Reference Desk
  This collection contains more than 1100 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.
• The FUTURES Channel
  The FUTURES Channel is a content service for educators which gives users direct access to outstanding video, sound, image and print resources. The FUTURES Channel is an extremely powerful and convenient tool for creating and delivering effective, exciting lessons.
• The Northwestern University Collaboratory Project
  The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern University initiative that provides project consulting, training, technical advice, and Web-based resources and services to K-12 teachers and their students who are interested in using Internet technologies to advance education.
• The Quality Information Checklist
  This website is designed to help determine if information found on the Internet is quality information. There is an interactive quiz with examples.
• The Search for Bias-Free Educational Software
  An elementary teacher tells why and how she got involved in gender equity issues related to technology. She also provides guidelines for teachers for selecting equitable software.
• The Teachers Internet Use Guide
  This Web site helps teachers design, develop, and implement Internet-based lessons that are aligned with Texas state standards.
• Think.com
  Think.com is a free service from Oracle designed for teachers. After registering, services include a place to build a school website; tools for conducting on-line discussions; integrated e-mail designed for a school; and administrative tools.
• Thirteen Ed Online
  Starting with tried-and-true lessons that work in the classroom, Web-savvy teachers have built Web-based activities that use the rich resources of Thirteen/WNET New York and the Internet.
• Visual Thesaurus
  An experiment in language and interface, Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.
• West Georgia PT3 Grant
  Site describes State University of West Georgia's PT3 project. Includes "Background", "Partners" and links to related websites.
• What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology!
  All kinds of resources, mentoring programs, projects, and links for helping girls using science, math, technology, to cross that digital divide.
• Will New Teachers Be Prepared To Teach In A Digital Age?
  A 57-page document showing the results of a survey of teacher training institutions and their efforts to prepare today's teachers for the classroom they will enter.