4 2 Explore- a great site to use when you are looking for quality educational sites on a topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, four good starting points, and many more links and resources for each thematic topic.

ArchyTech Educational Java Games-provides educational interactive manipulatives.

American Association of School Librarians-provides news, professional resources, internet resources, and conference information. It provides links to their standards and guidelines called Information Power.

ALIS Online - Arizona Legislative Information System - provides information on the budget, information
on members and committees, status and text of bills, floor calendars, committee
agendas, and more.

AOL School – great resources for students, teachers and administrators. It has many activities including games, pen pals, puzzles, current events, stories, and more.

Arizona Department of Education - links to Educational Resources, School Web Sites, Phone Numbers, Shortage Areas, ASSET, Message from Superintendent, Academic Standards, School Report Cards, Charter Schools, AzEdLink, Teacher Certification, and Information by Department.

Arizona Technology Education Standards - provides a hyperlinked version of the Arizona Standards. The text of the standards, concepts, and performance objectives are the same as the official standards but links have been added to help you find words in the glossary or link to other content standards.

ASSET - Arizona School Services Through Educational Technology provides information about the online courses and assessment available to Arizona educators.

ASCD - The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development- provides research, professional development, and resources for teaching and learning.

The Awesome Library - an alphabetical list of links to site with search engines in topic specific areas. For example, links to Barnes and Noble Book Search, Clip Art Search Engine, Student Scholarship Search, Lesson Plan Search, and more.

AzTEA - The Arizona Technology in Education Alliance - provides information about membership, conferences, contests, and technology happenings in Arizona.

Baseball Coaches Page - provides resources for coaches of all levels on pitching drills, throwing drills, fielding drills, hitting drills, base running drills, camps, organizations, and more.

B.E.S.T. Best Education Sites Today - links to educational sites.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications - provides a library of Internet-based instruction sites including lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools in a variety of subject areas.

California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse - provides recommendations to over 2000 high quality instructional technology resources that support California's curriculum frameworks.

Can Teach - provides hundreds of lesson plans,thousands of links, and tons of other resources for teachers.

Caught in the Web: Online Advertising Targets Kids
- provides lesson plan ideas for elementary, middle and high school students about advertising aimed at students.

CEO Forum on Education and Technology- The CEO Forum on Education and Technology helps to ensure that American's schools effectively prepare all students to be contributing citizens and productive workers in the 21st Century. The Forum issues an annual assessment of the nation's progress toward integrating technology into American classrooms. They have the Star Chart Diagnostic tool for schools to self assess.

Children's Medical Center - provides information about children's health. The site has multimedia tutorials on Asthma, cerebral palsy and gastroesophageal reflux.

Children's Software Revue - an independent newsletter designed to help teachers and parents find quality software for children. The site boasts reviews of over 2880 titles to search. 

Citing Internet Resources - Classroom Connect article that provides examples on how to cite Internet sources.

Classroom Connect - provides lesson plans, links to educational sites, calender, newsletter, Internet tips and more.

Creative Classroom Online - provides ready-to-use ideas, time-saving tips, and practical advice from experts to keep teachers current and inspired.

Consumer Information Center - CIC distributes millions of booklets published by federal departments and agencies with the goal of providing consumer information to the public. This site provides the full text of most booklets about cars, children, health, nutrition, employment, housing, money, travel and hobbies, small business, money, environment, and more.

Craft Recipes - gives the recipes for creating bookbinding glue, bubble solution, classroom paste, cloud dough, crystal gardens, a variety of different types of Playdough, and more.

Discovery School Teaching Tools- provides tools for educators such as Puzzlemaker, Worksheet Generator, Quiz Center, and Clip Art Gallery.

Early Childhood - provides articles, resources, and arts and crafts ideas for K-3 educators. In addition there is a place to post questions and share your ideas.

EdHelper.Com- provides free worksheets and tools for math and language arts.

Education Resources - provides a wide variety of resources related to education.

Education World - links to discussion lists, early childhood development, projects, libraries, museums, teacher resources and more.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse of Math and Science-a great selection of K-12 mathematics and science curriculum resources and Internet activities.Be sure to click on Digital Dozen for outstanding math and science activities.

ERIC: the Educational Resources Information Center -a federally-funded national information system that provides research and support components on a broad range of education-related issues.

Evaluating Internet Sites - provides surveys for elementary, middle and high school students to help them evaluate Internet sites for authenticity, applicability,
authorship, bias, and usability.

Find Articles - an online article-search service with articles from more than 300 reputable magazines and journals.

Find Law - provides law resources including a legal subject index, US Federal resources, state resources, cases and codes, and more.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum - provides an organized list of Internet Projects divided by subject area.

FreePolls - allows you to create a free poll to add to your web page. You select a question and up to eight possible choices. You can also select the Survey tab and create surveys. 

Georgia Learning Connections –provides lesson plans and activities tied to Georgia State Standards. The site has teacher and student resources that open in Microsoft Word or Claris Works that can be modified and saved to meet your needs. Some of the lessons include Power Point presentations you can adopt as well.

Greenleaf 's Technology Education Resources - includes links to educational web pages, Microsoft Office in the Classroom,Higher Level Thinking Skills, TLCF Home Page, Class Materials, Developing Rubrics and more.

HPR*TEC - the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium provides resources for teachers to make rubrics, checklists and online worksheets with links to web pages.

Infomine - provides scholarly internet resources from the University of California.

Integrating the Internet- provides an excellent source for finding primary resources, projects, complete units of study and a weekly newsletter.

Interactive Word Games- provides crossword challenge, Boggler, puzzle tools, and more.

the International Society for Technology in Education- provides links for professional development, standards, teacher resources, research projects, and more. The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) can be obtained online at this site.

Internet Lesson Planning - a Classroom Connect Article describing how to effectively create lessons using the Internet.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - list of Internet sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.

Kinder Art - art lesson plans for Kindergarten teachers

LD Online - an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children. Provides links and information on ADD/ADHD, assessment, social skills, speech and language, teaching techniques, self-esteem, I.E.Ps, reading, math skills, technology, and more.

NCRTEC Lesson Planner - provides guiding questions for teachers and allows them to fill in answers. It then creates a lesson plan that they can save and and print.

Library of Congress - provides links to American Memories, Copyright Office, Thomas Legistlative information, and more.

Marco Polo – provides standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. 

Math.com - provides lesson plans, curriculum resources, career information, standards, and worksheets for math teachers.

MedicineNet - provides information on diseases and treatments, side effects of medicines, current medical news, Poison Control Centers in your area, first aid issues and more.

Microsoft in K-12 Education - provides guides called In and Out of the Classroom which are self paced tutorials designed to help teachers integrate Word, Excel, and Power Point into the classroom. In addition, they provide lessons for using Microsoft productivity programs in the classroom, articles on networking, and templates, wizards and activities.

Milken Exchange on Education Technology- The Milken Exchange accelerating a national agenda for technology in schools, connecting policy to learning research to practice and public investments to student performance. They have links to discussions, projects, resources, tools and frameworks, public awareness, public policy, teaching and learning, and more.

My Compass- a technology assessment program for Arizona educators.

NAETS- the National Association of Education Technology Specialists provides uselink links and technology tips for educators.

NetTech: The Educational Technology Coordinator Website - provides information on curriculum integration issues, professional development, technical issues, and more.

NWREL Six +1 Traits of Writing-support for teachers, and administrators on the 6-Trait Writing process and includes teacher activities, ideas for introducing traits to student writers, practice papers, prompts and more.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - provides the following information about occupations: nature of the work, working conditions, employment, training, other qualifications, and advancement, job outlook, earnings, and sources of additional information.

Online Educator - an online newsletter providing ideas for making the Internet an accessible, useful classroom tool.

OOPS: Our Overnight Planning System - provides useful links and information for students and teachers.

P.E. Central - includes lesson ideas, assessment ideas, top P.E. web sites, weekly activities, and more.

Perpetual Preschool -provides holiday ideas and learning center activities for art, blocks, dramatic play, math, quiet time, and science.

Power Point in the Classroom-provides information on creating Power Point presentations and using them in the classroom.

Publications for Parents- The U.S. Department of Education places it popular pamphlets about parents' concerns about their children's education online, examples include Helping Your Child Learn Math, Helping Your Child with Homework, Como ayudar a sus hijos a usar la biblioteca, y Como ayudar a sus hijos a aprender ciencia.

Puzzlemaker - allows users to create a variety of puzzles. You can create word searches, criss-cross puzzles, number blocks, math squares, cryptograms, and more.

Quia - allows users to create a variety of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory, word search, hangman, challenge board, and trivia games for free.

Reading Online- the Internation Reading Association presents this page with articles, information on critical issues, research, reviews, the electronic classroom and more.

Savvy Cyber Teacher- a workshop to help teachers effectively integrate the Internet into the curriculum.

SAzTEA.org- the Southern Arizona Technology in Education Alliance.

Scholastic Teacher Resources - provides outstanding standards based lesson plans and resources for free.

School Notes.com- a free site for teachers to post homework and other school information on the web.

School Psychology Resources Online - links to web sites that deal with specific conditions, disorders and disabilities of students. It provides information on anxiety disorders, suicide, attention deficit disorder, medical conditions, substance abuse, learning disabilities, behavior disorders and more.

Statistical Abstract of the US - provides United States Census information.

SURWEB - allows students and teachers the ability to create multimedia presentations using images, sounds and movies from SURWEB or other sources.

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers- provides ideas about classroom management, classroom projects, nuts about the net, electronic portfolios, and more.

Teacher's Edition Online - provides teaching tips and lesson plans.

Teachers First - a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, students, and families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and web resources quickly.

Teacher Tid Bytes - web resources for students and teachers, tutorials, integrated lesson plans, and homework help.

Teacher Vision - provides lesson plans, materials, classroom management tips, ideas for enhancing relationships with parents, and more.

Teaching with Technology - provides information about conferences, publications, and general discussions of teaching with electronic technology.

Teaching with the Web - provides Internet links to be used by teachers. The site is very well organized and broken down by grade level and then thematic topic.

Tom Snyder Online - provides online activities and lesson plan. Decisions, Decisions Online presents a current controversial issue for students to discuss in a role-playing environment.

Survival Guide for New Teachers - provides ideas for surviving your first year and working with veteran teaches, parents, principals.

NoWonder! Free Tech Support - 24 hour technical suppport for your computer hardware and software. There are no charges for the service that provides personal support that allows a user to submit a question and one of the experts will answer in under 24 hours. There is also a group message board to post questions and receive answers from people who visit the site. The site provides help on Macintosh, Windows, Be, Unix, OS2 and WebHTML.

UnCoverWeb - a database of current article information taken from over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals that contain brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000. You can order the articles to be faxed to you for a fee.

USA Today Classline Online - provides daily activities linked to the day's top news stories to educators free of charge. It provides activities in the four core subject areas, tips for teachers, and more.

U.S. Department of Education - provides news and information from the Department of Education.

Venn Diagram - allows users to create Venn Diagrams or to view the data base of Venn Diagrams created by other users.

Well Connected Educator - an on-line publishing forum for educators to read, write, and talk about educational technology.

Xcursion Central - a site that provides teachers with resources and the ability to create Internet lessons.

Zoomerang - an on-line survey program that allows you to create surveys and view the results. It is ideal for schools because the same IP address can submit responses.