Internet Resources for Educators

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Corporate/Nonprofit Education Sites

• American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
• American Roots Music
  http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/
• Apple Education Site
  http://www.apple.com/education/
• BBC Online Education Site
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/
• Benjamin Franklin--PBS Site
  http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
• Digital Classroom
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
• The FBI Youth: Grades 6th-12th
  http://www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/6th12th.htm
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
  http://www.ed.gov/free/
• Glencoe Online
  http://www.glencoe.com/
• Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/
• High School Environmental Center--EPA
  http://www.epa.gov/highschool/
• Houghton Mifflin Education Place
  http://www.eduplace.com/
• Modeling and for Understanding in Science Education
  http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/muse/
• A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/index.html
• National Geogprahic.com Educational Materials
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/index.html
• North American Slave Narratives
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html
• PBS Digital Divide
  http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/
• PBS Teacher Source
  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
• Scholastics
  http://www.scholastic.com/
• Women's History Month
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/

Grants Identified by both Educational and Corporate Organizations

• General Grants Information on Apple Web site
  http://www.apple.com/education/k12/curriculumsolutions/funding/
• Grants Identified by American Federation of Teachers
  http://www.aft.org/edissues/teachers/grants.htm
• Grants Identified by Eduhound.com
  http://www.eduhound.com/cat.cfm?subj=Grants%20%26%20Funding
• Grants Identified by the EPA--For Environmental Education
  http://eelink.net/grants-eespecificresources.html
• National Council of Teachers in Mathematics Grants
  http://www.nctm.org/about/grants.htm
• National Education Association Grants
  http://www.nfie.org/grants.htm

Grant Search Engines and Information

• Deconstructing Grants--An article in techLEARNING.com
  http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200106/deconstruct.html
• eSchoool News Online
  http://www.eschoolnews.com/erc/funding/
• National Science Foundation
  http://www.nsf.gov/
• Polaris Grants Central
  http://polarisgrantscentral.net/
• The School Funding Center
  http://www.schoolfundingcenter.com/
• The SchoolGrants
  http://www.schoolgrants.org/
• U.S. Department of Education Grants and Contracts Information
  http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=rt

Online Dictionary/Encyclopedia

• AskOxford.com
  http://www.askoxford.com/
• EDUHOUND
  http://www.eduhound.com/
• Fact Monster
  http://www.factmonster.com/
• Merriam Webster Online
  http://www.m-w.com/
• Microsoft Encarta
  http://encarta.msn.com/
• Roadmap of the Web for Educators
  http://www.thejournal.com/highlights/roadmap/

Online Museums/Libraries

• American Centuries: Views from New England
  http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/
• The Exploratorium
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/
• HistoryWired
  http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
• The Internet Public Library-Presidents of the United States
  http://www.potus.com/
• Inventors Museum
  http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/
• The Nineteenth Century in Print
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
• Online Tornado Museum
  http://members.aol.com/tornadfoto/
• The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html

Professional Development Tools-General

• ENC Online
  http://www.enc.org/
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
• LessonPlansPage.com
  http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
• TAPPED IN
  http://www.tappedin.org
• The Learning Page
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
• www.4teachers.org
  http://www.4teachers.org

Professional Development Tools-Technology Integration

• Learning to Teach with Technology Studio
  http://ltts.org/index.html
• Microsoft Education Site
  http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=schools
• Riverdeep
  http://www.riverdeep.net/
• TCET Instruction Page
  http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/index.htm

Professional Organizations

• AECT
  http://www.aect.org/
• ISTE
  http://iste.org/
• NBPTS
  http://www.nbpts.org/
• NCATE
  http://www.ncate.org/
• SITE
  http://www.aace.org/site/
  

Search Engines

• AltaVista
  http://www.altavista.com
• Ask Jeeves
  http://askjeeves.com/
• Ask Jeeves for Kids
  http://www.ajkids.com/
• Ditto.com
  http://www.ditto.com/
• Google
  http://www.google.com
• Yahoo
  http://www.yahoo.com
• Yahooligans
  http://www.yahooligans.com/

Web Authoring

• About.com Web Design Page
  http://webdesign.about.com/
• Little Things that make a Big Difference
  http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/finepoints/index.htm
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
• Web Authoring Resources from TICKIT Web Site
  http://www.indiana.edu/~tickit/resourcecenter/resource12.htm

If you have any questions e-mail Lisa.Yamagata-Lynch@ed.utah.edu

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Last Updated November 11, 2005