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Lesson Connections

Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added.

Busy Teachers
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
There are links to
provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.

Content Literacy Information Consortium
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/centers/clic/
Examine literacy related to a variety of content disciplines  and find lesson plans, student centered Web sites, instructional strategies in language arts, English, mathematics, science and social studies compiled at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

Ed Hound
http://www.eduhound.com/cat.cfm?subj=Lesson%20Plans
The EduHound Category Index. is composed of  categories and is arranged in alphabetical order. 

The Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM which links to over 25,000 online education resources. 

Educator's View
http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html
This section is a topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web for teachers.  It is updated frequently.

Katy Schrock's Lesson Plans 
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers.

MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx
MarcoPolo provides high quality, standard's based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students.  It is a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/methods/resources.html
http://www.mhhe.com/
The McGraw-Hill provides a Website Gallery that gives educators links specific to content areas.

Read-Write-Think
http://www.readwritethink.org
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Teachers First
http://www.teachersfirst.org/#
Teachers First is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and associated web resources quickly.

Teacher Tap
http://eduscapes.com/tap/
 
Time saving resources for educators.  The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.

WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/index.html
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.

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