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There is a wealth of information out there for teachers- that's the good news. The bad news is that there is SO much out there, it makes it difficult to wade through what is helpful, beneficial, and of high quality, and what is not. This resource page will hopefully cut down on hours of wasted time looking for what you need. Of course, if you would like to see what else is out there, Sites for Teachers lists thousands of sites for you!

Art

• African Art Lesson Plans: This site includes plans on how to make masks, shields, and kente placemats.
• Art History Resources on the Web: This site is a collection of links to art resources on the web.
• Art Kids Rule!: This link is full of resources for teachers including lesson plans, art tutorials, articles, and activities.
• @rt Room: From the University of Florida, this site includes a library and ideas for lessons, galleries, artifacts and more.
• Art Safari: This is a wonderful site from the Museum of Modern Art that encourages children to make up stories on the art work they see and then submit their writing.
• Art Teacher Connection: This site includes national standards, assessment tools, and resources.
• CGFA Artist Index: Famous painters and their paintings listed alphabetically and also by nationality and time frame with bibliographies.
• CyberKids: A site for kids to publish their art, writing, and music.
• Eyes on Art: A site that explores the many different aspects and categories of art.
• Incredible Art Department: Just about everything from lessons to news with literally thousands of links.
• Integrating the Arts into the Classroom: Lesson plans on how to integrate art into your units of study in the classroom.
• Kids' Gallery: A gallery of art from students all over the world, you can post your class' artwork, too.
• KinderArt: A teacher section inludes lessons in many categories and links to articles.
• Marilyn's Imagination Factory: An environmental site that incorporates art projects with recycling.
• Monster Exchange Project: A very cool site where a student draws a picture of a monster and then writes a description of that monster. Another student at a different school any where in the world then reads the description and draws a picture of what they think the monster looks like. The students then compare the drawings.
• Scribbles: A fun site for kids to guess the Mystery Art, submit their own artwork, and learn about different artists.

• African-American Mosaic: From the Library of Congress, this is an on-line exhibition of African-American history and culture.
• Africana.com: This site is billed as the Gateway to the Black World and though most articles are on current African-American issues, it does include some links and articles on history.
• Africans in America: This beautiful site from PBS includes a teachers guide and resources.
• Education first: Black History Activities: This sites includes six different links of African-American history from the Tuskegee Tragedy, to a webquest on the Little Rock 9.
• Encyclopedia Britanica Guide to Black History: This includes a timeline, biographies, articles, and audio and video clips.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: This site is from the Seattle Times and includes audio of his speeches.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: This site from Stanford University contains King's papers such as his speeches and addresses.
• Third Person-First Person: Slave Voices: This site from Duke University documents the slave trade.
• The Underground Railroad: This comprehensive site on the Underground Railroad is from National Geographic.

Classroom Management

• Classroom Management Discipline and Organization: From the CanTeach website, this page includes a wealth of ideas.
• Classroom Management: From the Teachers Helping Teachers site, this is advice from those who know!
• Classroom Management: From Teachnet.com, this site includes articles and ideas from how to start your day, how to improve attendance, and how to deal with tattletales.
• Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site: this site lives up to its name: amazing!
• Safe & Civil Schools site: for CHAMPS and Foundations resources
• Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline: This research article is from the School Improvement Research Series and covers everything from teacher training to what doesn't work.
• Works 4 Me: From the NEA site, this is the page from their Works4Me library on classroom management.

• Grant Opportunity Resources: This site includes resoures on finding grants, writing proposals, and tools. Includes specifics for the state of California, but has many other good resources for everyone.
• Grantwriting Basics: Wonderful advice on what grantmakers are looking for in grants.
• Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Grant Application: Provides instruments to qualifying schools and students.
• School Grants: A resource for what grants are available for schools and how to write them.
• SMARTer Kids Foundation: This site provides information on available grants and grants for technology in the classroom.
• TeacherNet: This site has a link on the far right for teacher grants which provides links to grants per discipline.
• US Department of Education Grants: The site of grant opportunities from the US Dept. of Ed.
• US Department of Education Open Grant Application Packages: What is currently available.

• The Art of Storytelling: This site gives techniques on storytelling as well as provides resources.
• Book Hive: From the Public library of Charlotte, this site has many reviews of books.
• BrainPop: Awesome interactive site with Flash movies and quizzes and activities. Categories include english, math, science, social studies, and health.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Excellent, comprehensive site on children's literature.
• Children's Literature: This site includes ebooks of children's classics, but definitely check out the authors and illustrators page under the reference shelf link.
• Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom: Literature activities for books categorized by grade level.
• Children's Literature Index: Search Engine for activities and lessons for teaching with specific book titles.
• The Children's Literature Web Guide: If you're looking for something to do with children's literature on the web, then you will find it here.
• Favorite Author Sites: A great collection of links to your favorite authors.
• Gamequarium: Big fun playing games while learning. The site is divided into k-2 and 3-6. Offers learning games in LA, math, science, social studies, plus more.
• Grammar Bytes: An Interactive grammar review.
• KidBibs: Many links and resources for teaching and reading.
• KidzPage Poetry: A great poetry site with a variety of types of poetry plus student-submitted poems.
• Mighty Book: Students can read along with read-aloud stories.
• Mona Kerby's The Reading Corner: Book reviews searchable by genre.
• Read Across America: Several links for lesson plans and ideas for celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss!
          NEA: The National Education Association is the official sponsor. This site has free digital read-along versions of Dr. Seuss books!
        Seussville: the 2009 activity booklet of activities from the Seussville site
        Reading Rockets: Watch an interview with Audrey Geisel, "Mrs. Dr. Seuss!"
        Read-Write-Think: Lesson plans and activities from the international Reading Association
        RAA Ideas: link for many ideas of classroom activities to celebrate the day
• Reading is Fundamental: the official RIF site
• Reading Rainbow: The official PBS site to go along with our Reading Rainbow videos.
• Storybook Online: Collaborative story writing site for students, this site also has audio stories and classics on-line.
• Teaching Books.net: Incredible site for videos and book talks on and by favorite children's authors
• World of Reading: From the Ann Arbor District Library, this site allows students to write their own book reviews.

• Academy Curriculum Exchange: Lesson plans divided by subject area.
• CEC Lesson Plans: Lesson plans submitted by other teachers are divided by subject matter.
• Discovery Channel School: A great library of lesson plans from the Discovery Channel.
• Education World: The grand-daddy of them all.
• Lesson Plans Page: A fairly busy site, but the content is good.
• LessonPlanz: Another busy site with annoying ads, but there is a lot here to choose from.
• SeaWorld Teacher Guides: A great resource, especially for your animal and ocean units!
• Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Don't let the word primary fool you; this is a site from the UK, where primary means elementary, not just K-2. Great ideas for over on this side of the ocean, too!
• TeachNet: "Smart tools for busy teachers." A nice site.

• A+ Math: Interactive games and a homework helper
• Ask Dr. Math: A site where you can submit a question or search the archived questions under the elementary school link.
• Brain Teasers: this site offers a brain teaser each week, divided by grades.
• BrainPop: Awesome interactive site with Flash movies and quizzes and activities. Categories include english, math, science, social studies, and health.
• Cool Math 4 Kids: An amusement park of math and more
• Education 4 Kids- Math: This site offers flashcards, math tables, money problems and more. 
• Elementary Math Activities: These are web-based activities that go with the Math Investigations units.
• Fun Mathematics Lessons: Activities on everything from graphing to counting.
• Gamequarium: Big fun playing games while learning. The site is divided into k-2 and 3-6. Offers learning games in LA, math, science, social studies, plus more.
• Gordon's Games: Math activities for primary (k-3) students.
• Illuminations: A great site for skills-block lesson plans from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Kids World: Lots and lots and lots of links divided by subject.
• Lemonade Stand: A virtual game where students try to make money by running a lemonade stand for 30 days.
• Math Tables: Many tables including addition, multiplication, and fraction-decimal conversion.
• Mega-Mathematics: This site includes activities, vocabulary, evaluation, and concepts for categories such as graphing.
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: wonderful for virtual manipulatives, interactive games, and activities.

• An Inquirer's Guide to the Universe: Includes "Space Story Studio" where students can write about space, "Imaginary Planet Gallery," and a guide on how to use the site in the classroom.
• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Very cool. Fun site with many activities to explore, especially with Flash.
• BrainPop: Awesome interactive site with Flash movies and quizzes and activities. Categories include english, math, science, social studies, and health.
• Cool Science for Kids: Great for your animal and plant units!
• Dinosauria-Online: Great for the Dinosaur Picture Gallery.
• Dinosauricon: Beautiful site that is easily navigable.
• The Electronic Zoo: Good elementary site for animal studies.
• Enchanted Learning: Good site for animal, dinosaur, ocean, and plant studies. It offers a membership program, but most can be accessed for free.
• Gamequarium: Big fun playing games while learning. The site is divided into k-2 and 3-6. Offers learning games in LA, math, science, social studies, plus more.
• Exploratorium: "The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception."
• The Great Plant Escape: Students solve six cases to solve the mystery of plant life. Good for learning plant biology.
• The Heart Preview Gallery: Lots to do, see, learn, and hear that all have to do with the heart.
• JASON Project: This year, explore monster storms!
• Kids World: Lots and lots and lots of links divided by subject.
• NASA Quest: "Dedicated to bringing NASA people, space and science to the classroom."
• The -Nine- 8! Planets: "A multimedia tour of the solar system." Very indepth, informative site.
• Sea and Sky: Great site that offers a wealth of information on the wonders of both oceans and space.
• Solar System Simulator: From NASA, this site shows you what the planets look like from any given point of time and day that you enter into the form.
• Your Gross and Cool Body: The title says it all; fun site for everything the body does from earwax to dandruff.

• American Memory: From the Library of Congress, THE place for primary sources.
• The American West: Indepth site that covers not only the events of the formation of the west, but the people as well.
• The Biography of America: A companion site to the video series, this site contains transcripts, images, and maps for all segments in American history from New World exploration to contemporary history.
• BrainPop: Awesome interactive site with Flash movies and quizzes and activities. Categories include english, math, science, social studies, and health.
• Colonial Williamsburg: A great view of colonial life, the teachers' resource page offers a tour and map making lessons.
• Eyewitness to History: "Your ringside seat to history." Just as the title states, this site devotes itself to first-hand sources in history.
• Gamequarium: Big fun playing games while learning. The site is divided into k-2 and 3-6. Offers learning games in LA, math, science, social studies, plus more.
• History Channel Classroom: The speeches archive and links to teacher ideas is good on this site that is the companion to the cable channel. Also check out the "This Day in History" link.
• PBS Teacher Source: Social Studies: Easy search options through grade range and topic.
• World History- HyperHistory: Search by people, history, events, and maps.
• Inventor of the Week Archive: Search alphabetically by name for great facts on inventors, or click on the "this week" link for the current inventor of the week! 
• Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History: You name it, it's here. Created by a history teacher.
• US Historical Documents: Wonderful site that has all the historical documents (written out in HTML format) from Inaugural Addresses to Frederic Douglass's Impartial Sufferage Appeal to Congress.
• Words and Deeds in American History: Selected manuscripts from the Library of Congress.
• American Revolution Links: Wonderful page of links of all things related to the American Revolution

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Bibliographies per grade level

Click on the corresponding books for bibliographies of books in our library for Readers and Writers Workshop and Math Investigations

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