Worlds of Web Searching
A very kid-friendly guide to finding what you need on the web. This tool walks you through the basics.

Time for Kids
The folks at Time Magazine offer this dynamic web site that helps kids and teachers explore the wide world of nonfiction, something that many students just don't get enough of. Contains games, homework tools, news, discussion areas, and much more!

Idiom of the Day
Do you ever use a common saying and receive blank looks of confusion from your students?

Expose the kids to one idiom per day and soon they'll be making the grade!

Design Your Own Tracing Paper
Create custom tracing paper using whatever words you want! Great for spelling words, thematic units, and more!

The Write Fonts
Free fonts that help you help kids learn how to write. Third grade teachers will really appreciate the cursive fonts that are ready for you to download and use in the classroom! Includes D'Nealian, Zaner-Boser, and Getty-Dubay Italic.

Classroom Clipart
Use this wonderful web site to find free clip art for your classroom projects. This searchable database is also categorized into topics, such as dinosaurs, weather, and maps.

What is the Capital of ... ?
Next time you need to know the capital of any place in the world, stop by this simple yet highly informative site. Visitors can even test their knowledge of a given place and its capitals.

EdByDesign
Discover great, practical information about helping kids to learn spelling, reading, math, writing, and more. Perfect for parents and educators alike!

WordCentral
Students can build their own dictionaries, challenge each other with new words each day, and catch the fever for words in this kid-friendly site that teachers love, too!

The Five Paragraph Essay
Discover in-depth ideas for teaching this important skill that students will use for their entire academic careers.

13 Exciting Reading Activities for Children
In a reading rut? Get inspired by this collection of easy-to-implement ways to help young readers respond to books.

MySchoolOnline.com
Thought about putting together a classroom web site? MySchoolOnline.com is the most popular way for teachers to get on the web. See how easy it can be - really! For examples of classroom web sites from around the world, visit our Class Acts section.

A-Book-A-Week Instruction
A guide to appropriate story books for each week of the school year with coordinating lesson plans and activities. Lessons are in PDF format.

StateStandards.com
12/24/00- Wow. A site that connects each state's academic standards to relevant lesson plans and resources. A must-see for the 21st century educator.

Calendar Recycling for Teachers
12/13/00- Sign up for this free program and get ready to acquire out-of-date calendars for arts and crafts projects. Especially for teachers!

Glossary Maker and Vocabulary Quiz Builder
12/6/00- Use this web page to make your own customized glossaries and vocabulary quizzes with a few simple clicks of the mouse. It couldn't be easier! From the folks at the Discovery Channel.

A Quotation-a-Day
11/29/00- Quotations are a wonderful springboard for classroom lessons and conversations. Here, you'll find 180 inspirational quotes, one for each day of the school year. How you use them is up to you!

Outline Maps
11/15/00- Look no further for blank outline maps for classroom use. Teaching geography just got a little bit easier with these handy maps just a click away.

MathStories.com
11/8/00- With over 4,000 math word problems for grade school students, this is a site that real teachers will really use! There are even problems that you can match up with literature, science, holidays, and other academic areas.

Free Things for Educators
10/23/00- Visit this highly reliable site every so often and you'll find useful goodies for the classroom. A real teacher updates the site regularly, announcing tons for freebies from all over the web.

Multiplication.com
10/16/00- This site offers tons of useful goodies to help reinforce the times tables. Don't miss the "Games" section, as well as the "Teachers" area. This is the kind of stuff you will print out and use right away!

EveryRule.com
10/9/00- Stop by this simple, yet thorough, site for straightforward rules to tons of popular kids' games. Steal the Bacon, Tag, Capture the Flag, it's all there!

Educational Web Design
10/2/00- The web can help you bring curriculum alive in the classroom! Use this teacher-friendly tool to discover a multitude of web lessons, virtual field trips, Internet scavenger hunts, and more!

A Bird's Eye View of Webcams
9/17/00- Why not show your students live pictures of the places they study? Webcams are a simple way to bring the world into your classroom, in real time! Don't miss the Olympic webcams!

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