General Resources for all grades

United Streaming has video, images and much more to use with your students. http://www.unitedstreaming.com         Fair Use Guide

EBSCO can be located from within the District U-46 computer network  http://search.epnet.com

Kane County ROE Portal  http://portal.kaneroe.org/   The Encyclopedia Britannica  can be located through the Kane County ROE Portal or use the following direct links from within the District U-46 computer network: http://school.eb.com (Encyclopedia Britannica); http://spanish.eb.com/ (Encyclopedia Britannica Spanish version); http://www.studentnewsnet.com/ (Student News Net is a online magazine geared for students); and http://search.epnet.com/ (EBSCO has many research sites for students).

Infotrac is a research venue for U-46 Middle & upper Elementary Schools  http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default/elginsdmiddle 

ThinkQuest Library is a resource of information created by students during competitions. The information is usually student-friendly and quite good.  http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

Puzzlemaker from allows you to make and print out word searches, crosswords, math squares and others.

Certificate Creator allows you to make and print certificates.

Journal Entries is a site that gives your students creative writing prompts.

4Teachers.org has many tools for teachers to use http://www.4teachers.org/  

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators has much to offer educators. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Mr. Donn's U.S. History and Geography Lesson Plans & Activities and World History and Geography Lesson Plans & Activities (K-8) are extensive lists of units and lesson plans maintained by Lin and Don Donn.

Research Help for Students from coollessons.org

Cool Lessons Resources has many online resources for all grades and subjects from coollessons.org http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm#resources

Cool Lessons Online Projects has many online projects for all grades and subjects from coollessons.org http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm#onlineprojects

Cool Lessons Assorted Teaching Resources from coollessons.org  http://www.coollessons.org/assortedteachingresources.html

Making Meaning reading comprehension resources http://www.devstu.org/making_meaning/comprehension_strategies.html

Foreign Language & ESL links put together by Brewer Technology

Physical Education and Health links put together by Brewer Technology

Grant Information from the George Lucas Foundation

Project Interactivate is a collection of math visualizations and digital manipulatives including many games.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (math)

Illuminations has math games and visuals

General Resources for Elementary School

Resources for Middle & High School

Example of a high school literature class wiki The Aristotle Experiment

Interactive Activities  for grades 5-8

Infotrac is a research venue for U-46 High Schools  http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default/elginsdhigh 

American Memory Collection from American Memory section of the Library of Congress (American Memory Fellows Lessons are quality units (the lesson are indexed by Theme, Topic, Discipline or Era or by Title) based on studies of U.S. history, government, and language arts. You HAVE to check out these wonderful units and lessons which integrate primary sources from the Library of Congress American Memory Collections. To get tips and examples of how to use the American Memory Collections, use The American Memory Learning Page.   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Learning Curve from the British National Archives is their version of the American Memory lessons. Of the different sections check out: SNAPSHOTS which has students analyze British historical photos and illustrations and synthesize meaning;  EXHIBITIONS which has students investigate themes using primary historical materials; and FOCUS ON which has students learn skills necessary to use historical primary material. The units tend to be structured, and yet still emphasize higher level thinking skills. http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/

Spartacus International is an online encyclopedia based in England which has many references to U.S. history. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

Historical Census Browser allows your students to pose questions and obtain data from historical census resources. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Project Gutenberg has over 17,000 free books on the internet http://www.gutenberg.org/

United States Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

The Digital Classroom: Primary Sources and Activities from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States has history and civics lessons based upon primary documents. http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html

Landmark for Schools has a library of links for science, social studies, literature and many other subjects. http://landmark-project.com/index.php

Martindale's The Reference Desk   includes just about everything you've ever wanted to know.

Frank Porter's Science Gems Some entries are very technical and some of the information is best suited for high school students because of reading level.

Cool Lessons Resources http://www.e-stthomasmore.org/STM/classrooms/stmteachresource58.htm Teacher resources for grades 5-8