Teacher Specific Sites
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eNotes - Literature, Science, Law & Politics, History, College Prep, etc.
Social Studies Sites for Teachers:
- Educator's Reference Desk: Social Studies
- EconEdLink - a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic education lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students
- EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web
- The Learning Page... especially for teachers
- National Geographic Education Guide--teachers, lesson plans
- Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index
- Activities - Social Studies School Service
- "Teach With Movies"
- Teaching with Documents
Science Sites for Teachers:
- National Geographic Education Guide
- Science Lesson Plans - NY Times
- SEGway :: Science Education Gateway
- NASAexplores Index: Express Lessons and Online Resources
Research
Do you have a research project coming up? Check out the following research models to help your students presearch, research, create, and present interesting, informative, inquiry driven projects!
Read the following article to get the lowdown on Research Models: "Destination Information: A Road Map for the Journey"
Pick a Model - Approaches to Information Inquiry
A little help with finding the information - Four Nets for Better Searching
More help with searching - Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
Evaluating Web Sites
Evaluation Tools:
Using Bogus Sites to Teach Evaluation of Web Sites - To find out how see Mrs. Scott
Search Engines
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KartOO - Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces.
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Mooter - The power of relevance - A clustering search engine.
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Vivisimo - Internet Directories - A meta-search tool.
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Clusty - A clustering search engine.
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Go.com - Indexes every word of each Web document in its database. Great for checking originality in student work.
Subject Directories
Specialized Searching/Gateways
- World News Digest
- World Book Online
- Magazine & Newspaper Articles
- Magazine Portal
- National Science Digital Library
- Complete Planet
Library Sites