Starting Points

Discovery School
This site has a library of creative curriculum resources, including Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, a puzzle maker, worksheet generator, and lesson plans. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel, it also provides information on television resources.

abcTeach-Elementary
abcTeach provides helpful educational ideas to teachers, kids, and parents. Forms and letters can be printed directly from the screen and teachers have permission to reproduce these pages for classroom use.

Education World
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. They provide a search engine for educational Web sites, lesson plans, site reviews, and online forums to discuss important issues in education.

TeacherVision.com
TeacherVision is created by teachers for teachers. It provides free high-quality materials to help teachers with planning and preparing teacher materials. You must be a member or use a free-trial membership to access some parts of the site.

RubiStar
This 4Teachers site features a flexible tool that generates ready-made rubrics for numerous performance competencies (oral presentations, products, multimedia use, etc.) and subjects. Teachers choose rating scales and assessment criteria, and may add, delete, or change any text.

FunBrain.com
FunBrain has a host of educational games and quizzes for children of all ages. Use the teacher resource pages to find games appropriate for your students age level.

The Daily Dose
Provided by the Memphis City Schools, this site provides resources to start each day using an Internet resource. You will find "question of the day" sources, daily math problems, and more.

TeachersFirst.com
TeachersFirst is a division of Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not-for-profit learning technologies corporation.

ENC
Located at Ohio State University, ENC provides the most comprehensive collection of mathematics and science resources on the Internet. The resources include lesson plans and professional development resources for teachers. Information is now subscription only, except for searches for curriculum materials and kits.

Blue Web'n
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1,200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools). You can search by grade level, broad subject area, or specific sub-categories.

ProfilerPRO: Personal Growth Surveys
ProfilerPRO provides comprehensive surveys that help educators measure the impact of technology integration. The service is free but requires registration.

ETSC Pilot
A professional development resource to help educators identify their strengths and weaknesses in educational technology and chart a course for improvement.

Students’ Classroom
A user-friendly site that lets you search the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) database by school. Offers tools for students to make graphs, play games, and take quizzes, and provides a place to post or read technology or arts reviews.