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On-line magazine/newspaper full-text articles, Medline, Animal Encyclopedia, Biography Index, Short Story/Poem Finder, & What is a Tree
Available to Indiana residents only.
Home computers must be registered.
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Teaching Resources
Discovery School
Lesson plans & subject links from the Discovery Channel including Kathy Schrock's homepage.
First Gov
One stop source for federal and state agencies and departments
Free Resources,USDOE
More than 40 federal organizations provide free resources for teaching & learning in arts, foreign languages , language arts, math, social studies, & science.
Freshwater Fred's Lending Library
Free resource database for Indiana's teachers. Includes videos, software & curriculum materials. Covers science topics ranging from anatomy to zoology, math geography, and history. Materials available grades K-college. Must fill-out profile.
Glencoe Online
The online textbook resource for all subjects grades 6-12. Includes downloadables, teacher resources and online tools.
Global Schoolnet Hilites
Online listing of projects & activities from around the world that your class can participate in or observe via email, internet, and data gathering & sharing.
Access Indiana
Indiana Department of Education
Information on Indiana schools and teachers
Indiana Academic Standards
Textbook Adoption
Indiana State Teacher's Retirement Fund
ISTEP+ InfoCenter
PBA
Information site from IDOE on PBA
Indiana History
Indiana State Museum
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Bureau
Indiana Dept of Natural Resources
Library of Congress
Thomas
America's Library
American Memory

Lesson Plans
Marco Polo
ArtsEdge
teaching resources & lessons plans which incorporate the fine & performing arts
Educator's Reference Desk
links to free lesson plans on a variety of subjects & grade levels
CNN Student News
Guide to CNN STudent News includes discussion questions and schedule of stories. Program recorded daily by libray staff
Collaborative Lesson Plans
searchable archive of teacher-generated lesson plans. You may also submit your own lesson plans to the database
EconEdLink
teaching resources and lesson plans for economics
Edhelper.com
Lessons plans, activity/worksheets and webquest by subject.
Edsitement
site includes lesson plans, monthly calendars and web resources for the Humanties. Includes resources for literature and language arts, history and social studies, foreign language, and art and culture.
Education World
links to daily lesson plans, school issues & reference center & subject links
Franklin Institute
Lessons plans & units with links & resources for all types of science projects. Also includes puzzles & online museum
Free Worksheets.Com
Free worksheets ready for printing in a variety of subjects and grades
Futures Channel
links to lesson plans in math, science, technology and the arts with real world applications
Illuminations
Teaching resources & lesson plans for mathematics
K-12 Teaching & Learning Center's Teacher's Guide
TLC subject guides & lesson plans (Need LCS User ID)
Teacher's Daily Planner Tips
Teacher's Daily Planner & Almanac
Learning Web
Links from the USGS on geography lessons, projects & resources
Lesson Planz
Lesson plans for K-12, has grade & subject index.
National Archives
digitalized documents, records and census information some with lessons plans
National Geographic Expeditions
Resources & lesson plans for geography classes K-12
New York Times Learning Network
Lesson plans available free. Grades 3-12 in Social Studies, American History, Science, Global History, Math, Technology, Journalism, Language Arts & Fine Arts. Teachers may subscribe to receive daily lesson plans by email. You may sign up for the entire week for just
PBS Teacher Source
includes lesson plans & resources for Math, Science, Social Studies, Arts, Literature, & Health & Fitness
Prism
A review portal of middle grade math & science websites correlated to Indiana Standards. This site is free and sponsored by Rose-Hulman Institute
Pro Teacher
Lesson plans for grades k-12, includes subject listing
Science NetLinks
Teaching resources & lesson plans for science
Shared Information Services
Curriculum based resources that are available free to Indiana teachers.
Smithsonian in Your Classroom
lesson plans for Social Studies, Art, Science, & Language Arts. Also link to download current print issue
NASA Space Link
Links to materials & information related to NASA space research
Teaching Tolerance
Find lesson plans & resources for teaching tolerance through diversity
U.S. Mint
H.I.P. pocket change page has games, lesson plans and information on the new state quarters, including information on each state.
World Book.com Lesson Plans
links to lesson plans in science, social studies, math & language arts. Also includes links to project-based research units

Teacher Survival Kit
Enchanted Learning
elementary based information on animals, biomes, literature and more
Fun School
Design for preschool to grade 6, contains games, puzzle board games, a joke page and more.
Jan Brett's homepage
downloaded activity and color pages from Jan Brett's archive of lovable creatures
Puzzle Maker.com
Create your own puzzles from Discovery School. Create crossword, cryptogram, word search and anagram puzzles.
RubiStar
Create your own Rubrics for project-based learning activities
Screen It
Reviews of movies & videos, both old & new
Teacher2Teacher
Teacher created games, bookmarks, calendars, activity pages and more ready for downloading
Teaching with Movies
Provides reviews of movies that include elements of lesson plans and background materials. Films rated by age appropriateness.
TeAch-nology.com
Word searchs, weekly teaching tips, rubrics, "today in history", lesson plans, ideas, fact sheets and more!!
TV Channels for Teaching
History Channel
Food Network
CNN
Biography Channel
Animal Planet
Vocabulary.com
All types of puzzles to increase vocabulary including puzzles on Shakespeare, Harry Potter, elections, baseball and more.

Search Engines
About.com
edited guides on over 1500 topics. includes homeschooling guides
Google.com
advance search tips with selections for websites, images and mpegs
Altavista.com
advance search tips with boolean options

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