Helpful Websites for Teachers

Resources

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - contains more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources
• Alan November
• 21st Century Information Fluency Project - Information on digital literacy
• PowerMediaPlus.com - Access to digital video and audio organized by curriculum
• Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU)
• iSafe - Internet safety education, scroll down to the iEDUCATOR Times - a monthly newsletter (no log on required)
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) - A database of educational literature
• Primary Sources and Tools to Use Them - The National Archives
• NoodleTools: How to Create Shared Projects with Students - NoodleTools User's Guide Chapter 6
• Digitalliteracy.gov - a gateway to materials, research, online learning tools and more to help librarians and educators access
  and share materials to use when training learners of all ages on topics such as information literacy, computer skills, digital literacies and
  more.
• Slideshare: the world's largest community for sharing presentations
• School Library Research Summarized:  A Graduate Class Project

Research

• Official Statistics on the Web - Official statistics from countries, government agencies and intergovernmental organizations
• Research Guide - From Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
• National Geographic Collection - Available in the Academy of Notre Dame's Connelly Library
• Directory of Open Access Journals - Free access to full text scholarly journals

General Lesson Plans

• InfoPlease - Dictionary, atlas, almanacs, and encyclopedia
• Education Oasis - A teacher-created, independent site
• Scholastic Teachers - Lesson plans, teaching strategies and tools
• Marco Polo - Lesson plans
• Educator's Reference Desk - Links, lesson plans and question database
• Education World - Lesson plans and more
• Filamentality - A guide to creating online learning activities :  5 formats:  hotlists; treasure hunts; samplers; scrapbooks; webquests. 
• The Webquest Page - Authored by Bernie Dodge
• Reference Sites – Best free reference sites, A-Z
• UChannel - A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world

English

• Litline.org- An online resource for the study of Literature
• doollee.com - Information on over 30,000 Plays produced or published in English since 1956
• Purdue University Writing Lab - List of handouts on the mechanics of writing
• Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch) - English and American Literature
• Shakespeare Resource Center - Links from all over the web to find information on William Shakespeare

Fine Arts

• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine - A guide to museum quality art
• Classics for Kids - Music classics all genres, music dictionary, teacher resources
• Getty ArtsEdNet Home Page - Authored by the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Google Art Project - Explore museums from around the world
• Timeline of Art History - By the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Foreign Language

• Spanish Grammar Exercises
• La Gramática Española
• Learn Spanish
• E. L. Easton Online - Materials for Teaching and Learning - English and Foreign Languages
• Classics Unveiled - Latin vocabulary, mythology, and Roman history
• ePALS - a community of collaborative classrooms
• Spanish-Speaking Countries' Major Holidays

Religion

• The Catholic Encyclopedia - Interests, action and doctrine
• CyberFaith - Catholic Resources for People of Faith
• Saint Mary's Press - Nonprofit, Catholic publisher
• Catholic Online - News service
• Vatican: the Holy See - Information past and present
• The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Home page of archdiocese
• Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Homepage - Home page of congregation
• Papal Encyclicals Online - Papal and other official documents of the Catholic Church
• American Catholic - Reliable information on the Catholic and Christian faith
• Online Bible - New American Bible
• OriginsOnline - Catholic News Service database

Science and Mathematics

• Discover Magazine
• Scientific American
• ActionBioscience.org - Examines bioscience issues
• Nature Publishing Group
• MadSciNetwork - Answers to questions
• Rader's CHEM4KIDS.COM - Chemistry basics and related activities
• American Institute of Biological Sciences - Current research
• ScienceWorld - Resource for Math and Science
• National Center for Biotechnology Information - Links to the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health
• Online Periodic Table of Elements - From the Jefferson Lab, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
• Scirus - A science-specific search engine for grades 6-12. You can search by keyword, refine your search, save and/or e-mail your search results. The focus is on Web sites containing only scientific content.
• The Periodic Table of Videos - A collection of videos for each element in the table
• Science Fair Projects - From the Librarian List-Serv
• Futurity.org - News from Leading Research Universities
• 100 Coolest Science Experiments on You Tube - from X-Ray Technician Schools
• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical - searchable by people, authors, illustrators, books, periodicals, institutions, Societies, etc. 

Social Studies

• CIA: The World Factbook - Reference maps, country profiles, flags
• National Geographic
• Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library - Over 3000 images: photographs, art works, and portraits
• Voices of Civil Rights - Personal accounts of the Civil Rights experience
• The Library of Congress - History, culture, legislation information, and online galleries
• Google Search Government and Military Sites
• AmericanPresident.org - Miller Center of Public Affairs , University of Virginia - bios, time charts and organizational graphs
• U.S. Department of State - Factual publications about land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations
• Digital History - High-quality historical resources
• Constitution Day Resources - From Gwynedd-Mercy's library
• United Nations Cyberschoolbus - High quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use about international affairs
• International Crisis Group - Independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.
• US Census - Quick facts about US states
• FactCheckED - Lesson plans with tech, social studies, information literacy, and critical thinking correlations
• Constitution Finder - Offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents of countries around the world.
• Country Reports - Statistical data and cultural information
• Legal Resources from Justia.com - Federal court cases, US and State Codes, legal news
• Talking History:  Oral history website published by SUNY Albany for the purpose of sharing history lessons and audio artifacts.  Pushlishes two audio segments weekly.
• History Toolkit:  excellent Oral history "How to" and other resources, especially Primary Resources