• American Library Association Resources for parents, teens and children
• The Best Information on the NET (BIOTN) Librarian's guide to the best information on the net.
• Developing Educational Standards An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents.
• Discovery Education: Free Teacher Resources Internet resources linked by the US Dept. of Education.
• Curriculum Support ProQuest tools

• Education World Where educators go to learn.
• Educator's Reference Desk Includes access to the ERIC database
• Exworthy Educational Links
• Fact Monster A mega-reference site for young students
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) The key to one-stop any-stop access to educational materials on the Internet.
• Gateway to 21st Century Skills
• Global Campus Multimedia Resources
• Internet Public Library Kids Space
• Internet Public Library Teen Space
• Kathy Shrock's Guide to Everything - Assessment and Rubrics 2000+ links to a wide variety of links for all topics
• Loyola University Chicago Internet Resources

• Michigan Electronic Library: Education Subject Index
• PBS Teachers: Resources for the Classroom
• Teacher Certification Requirements for the 50 States
• TeachersFirst: The Web Resource by Teachers, for Teachers

• EBSCOHost: ERIC provides indexing and excellent abstracts for education related journals and ERIC documents; Professional Development Collection provides indexing and full-text for some education journals.   EBSCOHost also has age-specific databases with elementary, middle school, and high school resources.
• ProQuest Education Journals Primarily full-text magazines and journals.

• Apple in Education Includes curriculum links and lesson plans (units of practice) tied to state and national standards.
• Educators Reference Desk
• Cybersafari: Educational Resources and Lesson Plans Although originating in Minnesota and thereby including some weblinks specific to Minnesota, this site includes many subject specific lesson plans.
• Lesson Plans Page
• LessonPlanZ.com Searchable database of over 4000 lesson plans by grade level and subject
• Microsoft Lesson Connection Includes age specific lesson plans, state proficiencies, educational web links, etc.
• TeachersFirst A library of K-12 educational resources and lesson plans for teacher use in classrooms, curriculum planning and professional development.
• Teach-nology.com Lesson Plan Center
• The Virtual Schoolhouse A Meta-Library of K-12 internet links.

• Chicago Tribune
• Christian Science Monitor
• Indianapolis Star/News (Available through the Journal Title search tool for IWU students/faculty.
• New York Times
• USA Today
• Washington Post

• Illinois State Department of Education
• Indiana Department of Education
• Kentucky Department of Education
• Ohio Department of Education

• American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
• American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA)
• Association for Middle Level Education
• Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO)
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
• Institute for Educational Leadership
• National Association of Elementary School Principals
• National Association of Secondary School Principals
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Parent Teacher Association
• PTO Today
• Public School Parents Network
• U.S. Department of Education

• Children's Literature
• Author's and Illustrators on the Web
• Carol Hurst's Childrens Literature Site Includes reviews of current children's books and associated lesson plans.
• Children's Book Council
• Children's Literature Website Guide
• Choices Booklists
• Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
• The Horn Book's, Inc. Virtual History Exhibit
• Joe Cottonwood's Home Page
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers: Literature and Language Arts Includes links to many good sites about authors and ideas for teaching about CL.
• McGraw-Hill Website for Children's Literature
• Newbery Medal Home Page
• Tomie dePaola Personal Website
• The Worlds of T.A. Barron: The Official Website

• U.S. News Classroom.com Connect your students to the world. Provided for teachers from U.S. News and World Report. (For full access there is a subscription cost.)

• Local Learning The National network for Folk Arts in Education

• Nation's Report Card: Geography 2010

• Access Excellence The site for health and bioscience teachers and learners
• Health Teacher from WebMD

• American Field Guide Sights and sounds from a wide variety of environments throughout America.
• America's Story from America's Library
• British Museum - Money The British Museum provides a look into the history of money worldwide.
• Center for History and New Media Hosted by George Mason University, this site attempts to bring together electronic multimedia, digital archives and new technologies.
• Conversations With History [RealPlayer]
• EcEdWeb: Economic Education Web Teaching economics to grades 1-12
• Freedom: A History of US
• The Hermitage: Home of Andrew Jackson
• The Historyproject California history social science project from the Univ. of California at Davis. Provides U.S. history images, lesson plans, primary source research materials, etc.
• Making of America Primary sources in American social history from the Antebellum period throught reconstruction
• Maps Includes games and lesson plans with maps.
• The Mint Site designed for h.s./m.s. students learning about basic economics.
• My Social Studies
• Napoleonic Guide Focusing on French history between 1796 to 1815, including extensive information about Napoleon.
• Presidents of the United States - Pathfinder from the Internet Public Library
• Speeches from the History Channel.com Requires a media player
• Teaching with Historic Places

• Homeschooling Laws and Legalities

• 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Grades: Upper Elementary Educational Resources

• LD Online Learning disabilities information and resources.

• Aesop's Fables Online collection [Java],[RealAudio] (Incl. texts of over 600 of the tales.)
• American Writers from C-Span

• Native American Geometry
• Math in Daily Life

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Multicultural Education

• Multicultural Education Pavillion
• National MultiCultural Institute Works with individuals, organizations, and communities to facilitate personal and systemic change in order to build an inclusive society that is strengthened and empowered by its diversity
• Global Views Collection

• Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education
• Multiple Intelligences

• The Heart: An Online Exploration
• Invention Dimension
• Science Education Gateway
• The USGS Learning Web Interdisciplinary studies in the natural sciences from U.S. Geological Survey

• American Folklore Includes tall tales, weather stores, ghost stories, myths and legends, etc.
• Storytelling Activities and Lesson Ideas
• The Moonlit Road - Collection of well known Southern folktales

• AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE)
• Cable in the Classroom
• Adventures of Cyberbee
  Designed to assist students use the internet for research and assisting teachers in their curriculum development.
• The Libraryvideo.com: Effective Media Collection Management
• The Ohio SchoolNet Software Review Project. Evaluates software for K-4 classrooms.
• Quia Online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas.

• WebQuest in our Future: The Teacher's Role in Cyberspace (From Discovery School.com)
• The WebQuest Page (San Diego State University: Webquests were developed in 1995 by San Diego State University)
• WebQuests (Saskatoon (East) School Division No. 41)
• WebQuests Creation Front Page
• WebQuests WebQuests! (from EdHelper.com)