| AAAS American Association for the
Advancement of Science
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is
the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the
journal, Science.
AAAS was founded in 1848 and serves some 265 affiliated societies
and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science
has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general
science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of
one million. The nonprofit AAAS
is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and
serve society" through initiatives in science policy, international
programs, science education; and more. For the latest research news,
log onto EurekAlert!, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
http://www.aaas.org/.
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| American Library Association
YALSA Young Adult Library Services Association
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The mission of the Young Adult Library Services Association is to
advocate, promote and strengthen service to young adults as part of the
continuum of total library service and to support those who provide
service to this population. http://www.ala.org/yalsaTemplate.cfm?Section=yalsa
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| American Library Association
ALSC Association for Library Services for Children
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ALA provides Great Web Sites for Kids, which features topics such as
Animals, The Arts, History and Biography, Literature and Languages, Look
It Up!, Mathematics and Computers, Sciences and Social Sciences. http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm |
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ARTSEDGE
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ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network
— supports the
placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates
creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.
ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by
providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully
integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
ARTSEDGE, which also is
partnered with Marco Polo, offers free, standards-based teaching
materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional
development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based
instruction and assessment. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
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| EconEdLink
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Centered on essential principles of economics, EconEdLink, a
program of the National Council on Economic Education and the MarcoPolo consortium, provides a premier source of classroom-tested,
Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and
students. http://www.econedlink.org/
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| EdSitement
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Provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities in
partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the
MarcoPolo Education Foundation, EdSitement claims to be the best of
the humanities on the Web. This educational partnership brings
online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums,
libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the
classroom. http://edsitement.neh.gov/
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| ERIC |
ERIC is a national information system funded by the
U. S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences
to provide access to education literature and resources. http://www.eric.ed.gov/
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| Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) |
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a consortium effort to
provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of
educational resources found on various federal, state, university,
nonprofit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Education.
Teachers, parents and administrators can search or browse The
Gateway
and find thousands of high-quality educational materials, including
lesson plans, activities, and projects from more than 320 of the 518
GEM consortium mmebers. http://www.thegateway.org/
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Generation YES Youth and Educators Succeeding |
The mission of Generation YES is to support student centered
programs aimed at improving learning through the inclusion of modern
technologies. Generation YES provides services, materials and
support for schools throughout the world in support of this mission.
http://www.genyes.org/index.php
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| George Lucas Foundation
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The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit
operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the
most innovative practices in our nation's K-12 schools. It serves this mission through the creation of
media — from films,
books and
newsletters, to CD-ROMs and DVDs. The Web site contains the multimedia content published since 1997. http://www.glef.org/
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Illuminations |
Based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics,
Illuminations provides Internet resources to improve the teaching
and learning of mathematics for all students. Illuminations also is
included in Marco Polo resources.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
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| International Reading Association |
The International Reading Association is a professional
membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of
literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction,
disseminating research and information about reading, and
encouraging the lifetime reading habit. Members include
classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants,
administrators, supervisors, university faculty, researchers,
psychologists, librarians, media specialists and parents. With
members and affiliates in 99 countries, the network extends to more
than 300,000 people worldwide. http://www.reading.org/
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The Knowledge Loom
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In October 1998, the United States Department of Education
assigned resources to the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational
Laboratory at Brown University to develop a "...sustainable,
customer-driven, distributed repository/database of information on
best practices in teaching and learning." Realizing that a
"repository" was not enough, Knowledge Loom — a comprehensive
electronic environment that moves from information delivery to
information creation, from data to people, from a learning library
to a learning community -- was created. The content and discussions
on the Knowledge Loom are public and open for anyone to read. Anyone
may also join the Knowledge Loom community as a registered user.
www.knowledgeloom.org
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MarcoPolo; Internet Content for the Classroom |
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a nonprofit
consortium of premier national and international education
organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the
highest quality Internet content and professional development to
teachers and students throughout the United States. It was first launched
in 1997 as a collection of standards-based, discipline-specific
educational Web sites for K-12 teachers. http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
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| NASA Quest
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Whether in the area of aerospace design or training for space
walks, NASA Quest is a rich resource for educators, kids and space
enthusiasts who are interested in meeting and learning about NASA
people and the national space program. NASA Quest allows the public
to share the excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and
engineering pursuits, such as flying in the Shuttle and the
International Space Station, exploring distant planets with amazing
spacecraft and building the aircraft of the future. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
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National
Geographic —Education |
National
Geographic resources that are searchable by subject, resource type
and grade level. It includes online adventures, maps and geography,
lesson plans and more.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/
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National Geographic Xpeditions |
National Geographic and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation
focus on U. S. geography standards, with lesson plans and activities
accessible by grade level. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
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Read. Write. Think. (NCTE) |
ReadWriteThink, established in April 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. http://www.readwritethink.org/
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| Science NetLinks
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Science NetLinks is part of the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
MarcoPolo partners the AAAS, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, the National
Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. The MarcoPolo partnership provides
free, Internet-based content across academic disciplines. Science
NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of resources for K-12 science
educators, including lesson plans and reviewed Internet resources.
SNL is a dynamic site with new content being added on a regular
basis, so check back often. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
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| ThinkQuest
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ThinkQuest is an international competition where student teams
engage in collaborative, project-based learning to create
educational Websites. The winning entries form the ThinkQuest online
library. http://www.thinkquest.org/ |
| The Web Quest Page
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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, teachers experimenting with WebQuests will be able to
learn from each other.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from
the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus
on using information rather than looking for it, and to support
learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and
evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State
University by Bernie Dodge and Tom March. http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
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web Teacher
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webTeacher was created in 1997 by two teachers from Tennessee,
Mike and Jo
Ann Guidry, and by TECH CORPS WebMaster
Wayne Kincaid,
who brought together their Internet knowledge and classroom
experiences to develop a training tool useful for anyone, but
designed specifically for teachers. Through extensive field tests
giving teachers hands-on use of the program, the tutorial was
refined and enhanced to address those things which would help
teachers use the Internet in their classroom. http://www.webteacher.org/windows.html
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