The Cyber Connection is pleased to offer a resource center for both parents and teachers. The links below offer a wide variety of information with regards to lesson plans, research information, stories, educational games and much, much more. If you find a good site to add to this list please send that information to Tera Thompson , Cyber Connection Project Director.

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Clip Art back to top
www.allclipartsite.com - Clip art selections.
www.barrysclipart.com  - Clip art selections 
www.classroomclipart.com - A former classroom teacher put together this site that is easy to use and has great images. Be sure students read the terms of use and understand that these are to be used for educational uses only. A nifty feature, if you want to browse the site, is the RAND button in the box with the category links. This brings up a page of random images, so you can get an idea of the scope of the collection.

CUSeeMe back to top
www.globalschoolhouse.org - A great place to find classrooms that use the CUSeeMe camera. It gives you email addresses to contact those schools and set up a time to video conference.

Educational Games back to top
www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html - Produce children’s educational web sites and educational games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Their mission is to produce the best educational material, emphasizing creativity and the pure enjoyment of learning.
www.scholastic.com - Teachers can find thousands of lesson plans, classroom activities, award-winning resources, special events, and experience Teacher Radio. Students can find favorite characters, the best books, educational games galore and other web wonders. 
www.funbrain.com  - This site enables teachers to integrate educational games and thousands of assessment quizzes into their daily lesson plans.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hotpicks/adventures/ - Adventures web site sponsored by Apple Computer. 
www.janbrett.com - A site developed by the artist/author that includes educational games, videos, activities, and much, much, more.

Hyper Quests back to top
http://k-12.pisd.edu/HyperStudio/HyperQuest.html   - Interactive, Student-Centered, Multimedia/Internet Investigations and Activities.

Keyboarding back to top
www.easytype.com - Learn keyboarding skills at this site.

Lesson Plans back to top
www.atozteacherstuff.com - Featuring quick indexes to online lesson plans and teacher resources.
www.myschoolonline.com/global - Good for giving teachers classroom ideas as well as web page ideas.
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html - Already made lesson plans for all subject areas. Similar to a UOP. California standards, but excellent ideas.
www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html - Great site for teachers. They can browse thousands of hand-picked lesson plans and teaching resources for grades preschool thru 12. Printables, worksheet, thematic units, songs. poems, lessons in all subject areas.
www.scholastic.com - Teachers can find thousands of lesson plans, classroom activities, award-winning resources, special events, and experience Teacher Radio. Students can find favorite characters, the best books, educational games galore and other web wonders.
www.pbs.org/teachersource/search.htm - Lesson plans and ideas.
www.k-6educators.about.com - A site for elementary educators
www.alphabet-soup.net/cgi-bin/ilink/ilink.cgi - A comprehensive list of resources and web sites for teachers. 
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/oceanpollution/introduction.html Can you figure out why the ocean's in trouble segment.

Math back to top
www.mathgoodies.com - Features "Interactive Math Lessons with a Problem Solving Approach." This sites includes puzzles, math chats, homework help, and tutoring options.
www.aaamath.com - Great for one-on-one tutoring or reinforcement of math concepts.
www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm - An animated and interactive testing and learning site. (Ex. Compare your math performance against students worldwide and access learning hints and links to help you "get smarter".

Misc back to top
www.funbrain.com - Has information on topics such as Quiz Lab, parent section, teachers section, kids section and free educational games. Also give information for infants – 17+ in age.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11922   - Take a virtual trip through a zoo! 
www.kmol.com/homework  - A site developed by San Antonio Teachers Credit Union and KMOL.
http://www.big6.com/ The Big6 is the most widely-known and used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world.
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/teacher/projectmeet/default.htm Enhancing teacher professionalism. 
http://peakview.ccsd.k12.co.us/ - Home page from Peakview Elementary - An Apple distinguished school. 
http://206.58.233.20/L&L/archive/vol28/no4/index.html - Technology and Learning magazine. 
www.howstuffworks.com  - ...a great site to help you and your students with how just about anything works--from serial ports to dieting, and everything in between; even includes a section on "how things will work" in the future.
www.factmonster.com - Has different topics such as World & News, US, people, and homework center. Access to an Atlas, Almanac, Dictionary and Encyclopedia.
www.4kids.org - Topics for this page are: Cool spots, Kid Quest, Ask Amy (questions about the web), safe surfing, and a speak out section.
www.texaskids.org - This is a website that offers information to parents of special needs children. The Texas Advocates Supporting Kids with Disabilities 
http://perpetualpreschool.com/instruments.html - Making Musical Instruments - with suggestions from teachers, find many fun and whimsical ideas at this site to create your own handmade orchestra. 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/9087/cinco.html - Celebrating Cinco De Mayo - Students can use either the internet or books to research customs and geography of Mexico. They will then complete a writing exercise on how their lives would be different should they be living in Mexico. The gist of the second activity follows Mexican victory, and asks students to examine and write about challenges they have overcome in their own lives. 
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#Introduction - A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright

News back to top
www.nytimes.com/learning - Includes news summaries, news quizzes, and crossword puzzles with an educational theme. It also includes lesson plans that relate to featured news stories. 
www.factmonster.com - Has different topics such as World & News, US, people, and homework center. Access to an Atlas, Almanac, Dictionary and Encyclopedia.

Primary back to top
www.kkafe.net - More of a Kindergarten site. Ideas for gradebooks and thematic units.
www.meddybemps.com - Books/stories readable from the web. More primary, bedtime stories and poems.
www.hpedsb.on.ca/ec/est/kprog - Site for kindergarten and elementary lesson plans, resources, and links to other sites. Mostly for Kinder.
www.edupuppy.com - A site with everything (activities, lesson plans, educational games, etc.) for early childhood education. Preschool thru grade 2.
www.kinderkorner.com - Ideas for primary classrooms.
http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/fga/academy/k1mexico.htm - Mexico mini-unit - perfect for understanding and celebrating Mexico and Cinco de Mayo--find fifteen activities for primary grades, including bulletin board ideas.

Reading back to top
www.keeboo.com - This is COOL but can only be used with a PC. It allows you to create books of your URL’s. This would be neat with research projects. You can put all your URL’s for one project in one book.
www.cbcbooks.org - Children’s Book Council. 
www.libraryspot.com - A great online library and reference information portal. 
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.
www.readingpath.org/part3.html -A very comprehensive site offering site offering site offering tips and advice for helping children with reading and writing at all ages. 
http://www.kinderart.com/across/poetry.htm - Poetry Pebbles - Painting pebbles and printing words on them are only half the fun -- making up poems with them will always provide surprises and creativity.

Searches back to top
www.lightspan.com - Features a search engine that draws from a database of grade appropriate lesson plans, encyclopedia articles, and projects.
www.ajkids.com  - Ask Jeeves for kids (search engine).
www.searchopolis.com - Search engines for kids. 
www.yahooligans.com  - Yahoo search engine for kids.
www.vivisimo.com  - ..a form of meta-search engine that clusters the results of queries to various search engines and directories; the results are grouped based on title, URL and brief descriptions found on the Web sites; best used for getting an overview of what is available

Scienceback to top
www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm - An animated and interactive testing and learning site. (Ex. Compare your math performance against students worldwide and access learning hints and links to help you "get smarter". 
www.howstuffworks.com  - ...a great site to help you and your students with how just about anything works--from serial ports to dieting, and everything in between; even includes a section on "how things will work" in the future.
www.familyplay.com/activities/dragonfly.htm - Elementary classes - if you are studying insects, or particularly dragonflies, then this craft is perfect for your unit. Adapt it accordingly for butterflies.   
http://www.kinderart.com/across/pizzagarden.htm - Pizza Garden - Your class can surely find room to create one of these wonderful little gardens at school - when ripened, be sure to create an actual pizza - perfect for an end of school year project. Have them create journals to record their activities in caring for plants and for plant growth.

Vocabulary back to top
www.m-w.com/game - A great place to go for vocabulary lessons.

Web Quest back to top
www.quest.classroom.com - This site provides web quests.

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