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Google	Ask Experts Your Questions --- You can e-mail your question(s) or search other questions and see the answers that they received.	Biographies ---	Yahooligans
Teachers First --- Resources by Subject & Grade Click on a button to see reviewed web resources for the subject and grade level you teach.	Bartleby --- Search major reference books for quotations, verse, fiction and non-fiction.	Puzzlemaker ---	Graphic Organizers
Journaling	Literature ---	Rubrics ---	Grahphic Maps
Trivia	Puzzles --- You can e-mail your question(s) or search other questions and see the answers that they received.	MiddleSchool.net --- Quality, free curriculum and professional resources for the entire curriculum available. Browse around the vast categories, look up a lesson, take a quiz, or do some research!	Outline Maps
Math Practice SiteMath practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited questions on thousands of math topics, students can improve their skills and confidence.	Biology Label Me! --- Click on for elementary-level printouts of the caterpillars and butterflies, flowers, and skeleton. Print-outs include definitions and the diagrams to label.	Black History Calendar --- Print out monthly calendars.	Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library A searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites. Created by Pacific Bell.
Calendar PrintoutsPrint out monthly calendars about butterflies, weather, farm, solar system and more.	China --- Teacher lesson plans for Ancient China and links to other sites.	CyberGuides --- CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.	Earth and Moon Viewer View either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude.
Educator's Reference DeskSearch the ERIC Database, with over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.	The Gateway to Educational Materials --- Search for lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the U.S. Department of Education site.	Geography Label Me! --- Click on for elementary-level printouts of the continents, states and compass rose. Print-outs include maps to label.	Historical Treasure Chests: A Social Studies and Language Arts Activity Provides a model for students to use primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts.
The Icing on the CakeLook inside Kathy Schrock's toolbox for teachers for rubric builders, blank maps, certificate templates, worksheet generators and lots more!	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators --- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.	Kristine O'Connell George's Poetry Corner --- Ideas for teaching poetry from a poet.	Math Fact Cafe - The Fact Sheet Factory Create your own flashcards and worksheets or use theirs.
Math FlashcardsCreate electronic flashcards for students.	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators --- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.	Read Write Think --- Hundreds of lessons and resources in reading and language arts. Sponsored by the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.	SCORE Schools of California On-line Resources for Education site with links to math, science, social studies and language arts lesson plans and resources.
Smithsonian Learning and Resources PageYou can earch for science, social studies and language arts lesson plans and other resources.	What's Up In Space? --- Up-to-the-minute news and research from NASA. Click Thursday's Classroom for lesson plans and activities.	Teaching with Historic Places --- Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of lesson plans and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.	TEAMS Distance Learning Search this site from Los Angeles County for curriculum links and electronic classroom ideas and activities.
This is Mega MathematicsKnot tying, games on graphs, coloring, algorithms and much more from Los Alamos National Laboraotry.	WebQuest Home Page --- The home page site for WebQuests, inquiry-oriented activities in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.	Words Their Way --- Use the pull-down menu to find activities organized by developmental spelling stage. Also includes resources to supplement teaching with each stage.	Math Goodies Create worksheets and flashcards.