Free Teacher and Knowledge Resources
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Search
- Google -- you have the option of Safe Search (don't forget that!) and can use it in some other ways you didn't expect.
- Advanced Search -- How about searching by .ppt or .wav or .swf files (Powerpoint, .wav audio, or .swf Shockwave game applets, respectively)?
- WorldCat -- BOOKS anywhere in the world -- Expand beyond your local library and show your students that they can get to many more books than they ever thought. You also can order many of them through your local library and actually get them delivered to your hometown for a small fee, even from the Library of Congress!
- Creative Commons Search - finds CC-permitted content across wide search platforms
- Wiredkids Safe Search -- Excellent search -- by topic and age range
- TekMom's Search Tools for Students -- All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.
- Kids Search Tools -- Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.
Web Portals for more Goodies
- Internet Public Library --
hosted at Drexel University, it has shepharded links for all sorts of great weblinks and resources
- Shakespeare Bookshelf -- links to the great bard's works
- MIT Open Courseware -- Tremendous amount of MIT course material available for free on the web
- Open Yale
- Open UMass Courses
- Tufts Open Courseware
- UC Berkeley Webcast Courses
- iTunesU -- how about top colleges as iTunes downloads?
- Electronic Learning Resources (ELR) -- Searchable database of online school resources from the California Learning Resource Network
- Online Courses from the BBC (UK)
- Open University (UK) Course Materials
- MathStar -- Created for middle school teachers in association with Los Angeles County Office of Education
- History Channel World Timeline -- timeline with resources and links back in history
- Surfing with the Bard -- Online Shakespeare resources
- SchoolZone (UK) -- 50,000 web resources reviewed by UK teachers
- AOL@School -- AOL school resources
- Education World -- Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.
- SearchEdu.com -- Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.
- Teach-nology.com -- Directory of web sites for
teachers and educators.
- Surfing the Net with Kids Archive - Archived suggestions from Barbara Feldman's syndicated column.
- Teach-nology.com -- http://www.teach-nology.com/ -- Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.
- Internet Content Rating Association -- http://www.icra.org/about/
- Top Rated Sites for Children -- interesting listing of top-rated kid-safe sites -- non-profit in UK
- Family Friendly Sites -- http://www.familyfriendlysites.com/FamilyFriendly/default.asp
- Math Forum @ Drexel -- http://mathforum.org/arithmetic/arithmetic.html -- cool resources for math help -- also check out their "Ask Dr. Math" -- http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
- Children's Literature Web Guide -- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ -- University of Calgary
- Kidspace @ Internet Public Library -- http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ -- Univ. of Michigan
- NIEHS Kids Pages -- http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm -- Cool online games, songs, materials, from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Family Education Network -- http://fen.com/resources/aboutFEN.html -- Pearson's resources for families
- Childnet Academy -- http://www.childnetacademy.org/default.aspx -- Kids can win a place at an international Internet academy by submitting their own cool Internet creations
- Librarians Internet Index -- http://lii.org/ -- Publicly funded research library online with safety in mind
- Ben's Guide: U.S. Government Sites for Kids -- http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html -- Cool iste with links to all sorts of kids' sites made by different government agencies, like Agriculture, Treasury, Smithsonian, etc.
- Online History Resources from the Center for History and New Media at GMU.edu