Links of interest for Middle School Teachers

Links of interest for teachers of grades K-5

American Folklore - Search this site’s “Story Index” to find tall tales, ghost stories, campfire stories, and more.

Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans for Teachers - The Detroit Institute of Art offers a selection of cross-curricular lesson plans created by local teachers.

Ancient Egyptian Lesson Plans - The Boise Art Museum offers ideas and instructions for making Egyptian jewelry, paper making, King Tut stickers and more.

Ancient Egypt for Teachers - offers project and activity ideas and lesson plans for classroom use.

Bat Resource Area - This site is maintained by the Bat Conservation Society and includes photos, pictures, and facts about bats.

Best Friends Animal Society - Animal-related lesson plans, scavenger hunts, classroom activities, and information on community helpers are all available on this site’s “Classroom Resources” section.

Care for Animals - Learn about pets and the people who care for them at this site from the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Character Counts - This site offers free teaching tools to promote the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.

DiscoverySchool’s Puzzlemaker - Follow the easy directions, and create and print a customized word search, crossword, or math puzzle using your own word lists.

Electric Universe - Created by ComEd and PECO, this site offers information and resources for use with students in grade 1 through high school.

Great Web Sites for Kids - Children’s librarians from across the country have chosen this comprehensive list of websites on many topics of interest to children. 

Holidays for the Classroom - Kathi Mitchell has an extensive list of links, lesson plans and activities for a large number of holidays.

Insectclopedia - This comprehensive site will help you identify insects from around the world.  You’ll also find recipes on how to cook and serve insects for dinner.

Internet Classroom - Links for teachers including subjects, interests and assessment tools.

Kid’s Planet—Teacher’s Table - This site offers curriculum ideas and activities related to endangered animals.

Mathsurf's Teacher Site - contains various links for different types of math problems.

Multi-Cultural Calendar - Wonder who celebrates what when? Check it out here.

NASA Quest - Find out more about space and aviation in this site dedicate to connecting classrooms with NASA.

National Wildlife Federation - The Kids’ Page features articles in English and Spanish from Ranger Rick Magazine, a homework help section, and brief news articles on the wetlands, endangered animals, water quality, and other environmental topics.  You may even take action by sending an e-mail message to your elected representative on a wildlife topic. 

Nutty Hatch - This is a good site for all birdwatchers. 

Pete and Barb’s Penguin Pages - Browse through this site’s photographs and descriptions and find everything you ever wanted to know about penguins!

Scholastic - The sponsors of our schools’ well-attended book fairs have an excellent site which includes lesson plans, teaching strategies, and ideas for arranging author visits.

Teacheroz.com - Find what you are looking for!!! Links to everything relating to history from the Ancient World to the 1980s and everything in between.

U.S Department of Education - Find out more about “No Child Left Behind” as well as federal teaching resources and other professional development opportunities.

Links of interest for Middle School Teachers

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Cool Math  -Coolmath has existed since the spring of 1997 and has grown to be one of the most popular sources for math education in the world.

Discovery.com Curriculum Center - From the Discovery Channel.  Here you will find classroom activities supporting core curriculum topics of the most popular science topics taught in upper elementary and middle school.

Educator's Reference Desk - Get connected with AskERIC's lesson plans, links to online education information, question archive responses, and more than one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.

Internet Classroom - Links for teachers including subjects, interests and assessment tools.

Middle Web - Resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades.

Middle School.Net
A site developed for teachers by teachers. Includes links specific to administrators and support staff as well as curriculum development, lesson plans and tutorials.

National Geographic - This online teacher's helper is jam packed with activities, maps, geography resources, lesson plans, history activities, and much more!

National Middle School Association Resource Center - Find links to best sellers, curriculum case studies, parent resources and much more.

Science News for Kids  - A new Web site devoted to science news for children ages 9 to 13.

Teachers First - A collection of original content, internet resources, and lesson plans drawn from around the world.

U.S. Department of Education - U.S. Department of Education website with links specific to teachers, parents, students, and administrators.