MiddleWeb
http://www.middleweb.com/
MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades.


Edutopia - George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/
One of the best sites on the Web for information and ideas about cutting-edge teaching and learning.  There's an emphasis on technology, but the resources here go far beyond the tools.  You'll find stories about innovative middle schools, videos that show ideas in action, interviews with experts, and whole sets of information on topics like Project-Based Learning and Technology Integration.  Explore this site -- it's worth a couple of hours!


Education World
http://www.education-world.com/help/guide.shtml
Supported by advertising and corporate contributions, the Education World site just gets better and better -- it's both broad and deep, offering original material on important education topics, lesson plans and teaching ideas, a massive index to internet sites, and -- most important -- an energetic and innovative staff that continues to search for ways to best serve educators.  This link leads to a site guide that will ease exploration of this large site.


PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Includes more than 1,000 free lesson plans (matched to standards), teacher guides and online activities--and you can explore these resources by subject or grade level or with keywords.  The site includes information about how teachers and media specialists can legally tape PBS shows for classroom use.  The site allows you to set up a free account and receive newsletters about upcoming PBS offerings, tailored to your local viewing area.  There's also info about ordering PBS videos.  Want to learn more about teaching with technology?  PBS offers PD programs.


DiscoverySchool.com for Teachers
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/
Lesson plans, teaching tools, chat listservs, classroom customizers, a clip art gallery, a puzzle generator, and access to Kathy Shrock's famous collection of education weblinks in every imaginable category.  Then there's the brainbuster feature (great for daily startups), the Science Fair Central, etc. etc.  Impressive!


Marco Polo
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by national content experts.  Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.  A popular highly respected site among media specialists and technology integration leaders.


The Annenberg Teachers' Lab
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/
Experiment with new teaching and learning ideas in math and science -- and identify activities you can use in the classroom.  This site features four labs based on the professional development series and workshops broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project Channel.  Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites.  And be sure to visit the Annenberg/CPB homesite to find resources in every content area.


Meaningful Teaching
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/bigideas/q1.cfm
Learn how three middle grades teachers (English, history and science) strengthened their lessons and their teaching practice by applying frameworks and ideas developed by Harvard's ALPS project.  You'll find links leading to three teacher profiles -- A Year of Teaching 7th Grade English; A Year of Teaching 8th Grade Science; and The Colonial Biography Unit for 7th Grade History.  You'll find detailed information about teacher planning, lesson construction, examples of student work, and much more!


Apple Learning Interchange
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/
Microsoft Education Community
http://www.microsoft.com/education/schools.mspx
Here are materials of interest to teachers, offered by both Apple and Microsoft.  Both sites include lesson plans and other resources, often technology-oriented or web-based.  We found the Microsoft materials to be more product-oriented, but they often included more details (including handouts, etc.).  Both Apple and Microsoft include lesson plan search engines, and you can also search how-to articles at the Microsoft site.  Apple offers a free membership to the ALI Community and users can subscribe to RSS feeds that alert them when new material of interest is added.


Teach.Net
http://www.teachnet.com/
Subtitled "Smart Tools for Busy Teachers," this is certainly one of the best all-around teacher sites on the Web.  It's not only the home of several dozen great columns by Harry and Rosemary Wong, famous for their "First Days of School" materials, but there are lots of quick ideas contributed by teachers in the "Power Tools" section.

Above link descriptions obtained from MiddleWeb (www.middleweb.com).

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