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Australian Teachers Net
This newest resource in the Teachers.Net family of Internet services for educators world wide has been created as a support system especially for teachers in Australia.

The Global Schoolhouse
For more than 15 years, the Global Schoolhouse has served as "training wheels" for teachers, as well as offering programs that showcase emerging technologies. Our Internet-based learning activities include:
• projects for beginners, advanced users, and power users
• the use of email, the web, online multi-media, & video-conferencing
•projects that start and end at different times throughout the school year activities for all ages and grade levels

Indigenous Education Worldwide
This site contains listings of materials, contacts, links and other resources related to Indigenous education issues, policies and practices as experienced by Indigenous people in other parts of the world beyond Alaska

BBC OnLine - Education
BBC (England) Education site is an excellent source. Changes regularly with links to up-to-date news stories and more.

EARTH CALENDAR
http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php
The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. The purpose of this web site is to recognise any day that signifies a cultural event.
Teachers Helping Teachers
The Goal of this Service is:
To provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom.
To provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers
To provide a forum for experienced teachesr to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S.Federal government are now easier to find. Subjects include: Arts, Educational technology,Foreign languages, Health and Safety, Language arts, Mathematics, Physical education, Science, Social studies,Vocational education

EdView
A collection of over 7 million teacher-reviewed web pages, safe for kids and categorised by subject and grade level

OzTeacher Net
This site is a starting point for Australian teachers who want to use the Internet for professional development and curriculum purposes.

Online Projects
Great online projects for your class to participate.

Awesome Library
Over 12,000 sites specifically organised for teachers, students and parents

StudyWEB
Looking for an academic or research site? Editors here have reviewed over 70,000 sites. Ratings by grade level.

Community Learning Network
CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure. Excellent Canadian site!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Discovery Channel School
A very interesting site with some exceptional links.

Teaching and Learning Exchange
The first stage of a new on-line professional resource Teaching and Learning Exchange (TaLE) went live last week on the DET intranet.
The e-based information exchange, teacher resource and professional support will give teachers a one-stop-shop to browse, use and share an abundance of teaching and learning resources.

ePALS Classroom Exchange
The World's Largest K-12 Online Classroom and electronic penpal network - Connecting 1.5 million students and teachers in 22,601 registered classrooms from115 countries.

InfoVison - Useful Resources
There are many places on the Web to obtain information about Multimedia. We've decided to put some of our user known favourites. By this
we hope it will assist you in generating new ideas and to incorporate them in your school activities.

Sea and Sky A site rich with news, photos, scientific information about the Sea and Space. Excellent resource or just good for a browse. Very interesting!

National Institution for Community Innovations
The mission of the National Institute for Community Innovations is to foster local economic and social well-being through educational innovation, especially in economically distressed communities. US site covering Equity, Libraries, Technology, K-12 Schools, Higher education, Rural, Banks, Business and Metro Center

Santa sites for that Christmas unit
a number of Santa Claus and other related Christmas sites to help with that unit for the end of term.

Christmas Around the World - a great resource. This is a huge list of links to sites all over the world with information, web quests etc etc about Christmas. Have a look, bookmark it and use it when planning for that end of year activity.

Classroom Clip Art

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 just 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.

OnLine Clickable Worksheets Glenn Allan, the Computer Co-ordinator at Lake Munmorah Public School has offered CAP a link to his school's Online Worksheets.
Online worksheets are designed as a short research activity, a quick and easy way to get your students on the internet. User friendly, informative and interesting site!

ed-u.Com
ed-u.com is a huge education resource that has moved all of the Web addresses that you will ever need, to just one address - and we'll be adding colossal amounts of searchable information over the coming months.

How Stuff Works TEACHERS CORNER
The Teacher's Corner is where teachers and parents can find valuable materials for classroom or home-school instruction.
How Stuff Works Express is designed as a stand alone resource requiring little additional classroom instruction. Three sections of the publication provide "teacher-ready" materials. These are available for free to teachers and parents simply by registering.

Imagination at Work!
I had lots of fun with this one - very simple but has many applications for classroom use.
This is a very innovative Flash application. You can "draw" out ideas, using felt markers, save it, and send it to others to replay as you drew it! Be sure to update your Flash players!
The URL: http://www.imaginationatwork.com/Imagine?

Create a Timeline
This web site generates truly fascinating personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.You can generate as many timelines as you like. If you're into creating web pages, you can even take the timelines we generate for you here and put them on your own pages - an unmatched personal touch everyone will enjoy. In addition, you can insert up to ten custom, color-coded personal time segments (events or ranges) in a time line. These might include schooling, marriages, job assignments, military service and so forth.

Nation Master

http://www.nationmaster.com/

The Nation Master is an excellent resource for finding out any number of current details about just about any country in the world. For easy reference, the main Web page features the most frequently requested stats, such as televisions and military expenditures per capita. Nation Master also allows visitors the option of creating their own graphs in order to effectively compare different nations. The site also has links to national profiles. Additionally, the site has a search engine, and a place where visitors can read short facts on the different countries.
Apart from being interesting to browse through, the site will be helpful for students looking for basic statistics on the world's different countries.

Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional

Aneki.com: Country Information, Regional and World Rankings
Aneki.com provides a site that can be very helpful for middle and high school students doing research on countries around the world. This site is easy to navigate and provides statistical facts, figures, rankings and general information for over 190 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Oceania.
Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional
Content Area: History & Social Studies (Geography and Cultures)

A Packet for Substitute Teachers
If you are a casual teacher (or know one) this site could be very useful as there are some great ideas and resources to be found here

SMARTBOARD RESOURCES
Does your school have a SmartBoard? If so, I'd like to point you to this EdCompass website. Many of the Smartboards that I see get used once in a while then sit unused in labs and classrooms. Why not visit this site to gather some free lessons from their idea-bank. If you have a great lesson you've done with your SmartBoard, feel free to share it. You'll find Lesson Activities, Web Resources, How To topics, Tips and Tricks and research regarding the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom.

WEATHER ZONE - an Australian site which will provide the weather forecasts for almost any town. A Great resource for a unit on weather providing satellite and radar images, past weather data, maps and lots more.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au

ODDMUSIC
Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments. So whether you play stalagmites in a cave, the kaval, bow telegraph wires across the Nullarbor Plain, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or just love listening, this site is for you.

Showcasing the sounds, music, and instruments of artists and artisans from around the globe. From gourd music to electronic odysseys, harp guitars to industrial insect metal, from the beautiful to the bizarre.

Primary Games - Curriculum Guide

Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use the Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom needs.
The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. Within each subject area, a checklist shows the skills and grade level appropriateness of each activity. The games were assembled and evaluated by Susan Shuey Beasley, Technology Support Specialist at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA. Requires Flash and Shockwave.

Weather Scope: An Investigative Study of Weather and Climate

Weather Scope is a new educational project that uses online real time data investigations and hands-on activities to guide student discovery of the science behind the factors that affect weather and climate. After completing this project, the students will learn how to how to record weather data and represent it in graphs and maps, how to compare weather in different places and different times, and ultimately be able to identify and explain the factors that affect temperature and current weather conditions, and possibly forecast future ones. Weather Scope is recommended for students grades 5 through 8 and can be implemented on the 9-12 grade level. (note: US levels)

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AUSTRALIAN SITES	INTERNATIONAL SITES	LINKS LINKS LINKS	AND MORE LINKS
Australian Teachers Net This newest resource in the Teachers.Net family of Internet services for educators world wide has been created as a support system especially for teachers in Australia.	The Global Schoolhouse For more than 15 years, the Global Schoolhouse has served as "training wheels" for teachers, as well as offering programs that showcase emerging technologies. Our Internet-based learning activities include: • projects for beginners, advanced users, and power users • the use of email, the web, online multi-media, & video-conferencing •projects that start and end at different times throughout the school year activities for all ages and grade levels	Indigenous Education Worldwide This site contains listings of materials, contacts, links and other resources related to Indigenous education issues, policies and practices as experienced by Indigenous people in other parts of the world beyond Alaska	BBC OnLine - Education BBC (England) Education site is an excellent source. Changes regularly with links to up-to-date news stories and more.
	EARTH CALENDAR http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. The purpose of this web site is to recognise any day that signifies a cultural event.	Teachers Helping Teachers The Goal of this Service is: To provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom. To provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers To provide a forum for experienced teachesr to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.	Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S.Federal government are now easier to find. Subjects include: Arts, Educational technology,Foreign languages, Health and Safety, Language arts, Mathematics, Physical education, Science, Social studies,Vocational education	EdView A collection of over 7 million teacher-reviewed web pages, safe for kids and categorised by subject and grade level
OzTeacher Net This site is a starting point for Australian teachers who want to use the Internet for professional development and curriculum purposes.	Online Projects Great online projects for your class to participate.	Awesome Library Over 12,000 sites specifically organised for teachers, students and parents	StudyWEB Looking for an academic or research site? Editors here have reviewed over 70,000 sites. Ratings by grade level.
	Community Learning Network CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure. Excellent Canadian site!	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.	Discovery Channel School A very interesting site with some exceptional links.
Teaching and Learning Exchange The first stage of a new on-line professional resource Teaching and Learning Exchange (TaLE) went live last week on the DET intranet. The e-based information exchange, teacher resource and professional support will give teachers a one-stop-shop to browse, use and share an abundance of teaching and learning resources.	ePALS Classroom Exchange The World's Largest K-12 Online Classroom and electronic penpal network - Connecting 1.5 million students and teachers in 22,601 registered classrooms from115 countries.	InfoVison - Useful Resources There are many places on the Web to obtain information about Multimedia. We've decided to put some of our user known favourites. By this we hope it will assist you in generating new ideas and to incorporate them in your school activities.
Sea and Sky A site rich with news, photos, scientific information about the Sea and Space. Excellent resource or just good for a browse. Very interesting!	National Institution for Community Innovations The mission of the National Institute for Community Innovations is to foster local economic and social well-being through educational innovation, especially in economically distressed communities. US site covering Equity, Libraries, Technology, K-12 Schools, Higher education, Rural, Banks, Business and Metro Center	Santa sites for that Christmas unit a number of Santa Claus and other related Christmas sites to help with that unit for the end of term. Christmas Around the World - a great resource. This is a huge list of links to sites all over the world with information, web quests etc etc about Christmas. Have a look, bookmark it and use it when planning for that end of year activity.	Classroom Clip Art 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 just 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.
OnLine Clickable Worksheets Glenn Allan, the Computer Co-ordinator at Lake Munmorah Public School has offered CAP a link to his school's Online Worksheets. Online worksheets are designed as a short research activity, a quick and easy way to get your students on the internet. User friendly, informative and interesting site!	ed-u.Com ed-u.com is a huge education resource that has moved all of the Web addresses that you will ever need, to just one address - and we'll be adding colossal amounts of searchable information over the coming months.		How Stuff Works TEACHERS CORNER The Teacher's Corner is where teachers and parents can find valuable materials for classroom or home-school instruction. How Stuff Works Express is designed as a stand alone resource requiring little additional classroom instruction. Three sections of the publication provide "teacher-ready" materials. These are available for free to teachers and parents simply by registering.
	Imagination at Work! I had lots of fun with this one - very simple but has many applications for classroom use. This is a very innovative Flash application. You can "draw" out ideas, using felt markers, save it, and send it to others to replay as you drew it! Be sure to update your Flash players! The URL: http://www.imaginationatwork.com/Imagine?	Create a Timeline This web site generates truly fascinating personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.You can generate as many timelines as you like. If you're into creating web pages, you can even take the timelines we generate for you here and put them on your own pages - an unmatched personal touch everyone will enjoy. In addition, you can insert up to ten custom, color-coded personal time segments (events or ranges) in a time line. These might include schooling, marriages, job assignments, military service and so forth.	Nation Master http://www.nationmaster.com/ The Nation Master is an excellent resource for finding out any number of current details about just about any country in the world. For easy reference, the main Web page features the most frequently requested stats, such as televisions and military expenditures per capita. Nation Master also allows visitors the option of creating their own graphs in order to effectively compare different nations. The site also has links to national profiles. Additionally, the site has a search engine, and a place where visitors can read short facts on the different countries. Apart from being interesting to browse through, the site will be helpful for students looking for basic statistics on the world's different countries. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional
	Aneki.com: Country Information, Regional and World Rankings Aneki.com provides a site that can be very helpful for middle and high school students doing research on countries around the world. This site is easy to navigate and provides statistical facts, figures, rankings and general information for over 190 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Oceania. Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional Content Area: History & Social Studies (Geography and Cultures)	A Packet for Substitute Teachers If you are a casual teacher (or know one) this site could be very useful as there are some great ideas and resources to be found here	SMARTBOARD RESOURCES Does your school have a SmartBoard? If so, I'd like to point you to this EdCompass website. Many of the Smartboards that I see get used once in a while then sit unused in labs and classrooms. Why not visit this site to gather some free lessons from their idea-bank. If you have a great lesson you've done with your SmartBoard, feel free to share it. You'll find Lesson Activities, Web Resources, How To topics, Tips and Tricks and research regarding the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom.
WEATHER ZONE - an Australian site which will provide the weather forecasts for almost any town. A Great resource for a unit on weather providing satellite and radar images, past weather data, maps and lots more. http://www.weatherzone.com.au	ODDMUSIC Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments. So whether you play stalagmites in a cave, the kaval, bow telegraph wires across the Nullarbor Plain, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or just love listening, this site is for you. Showcasing the sounds, music, and instruments of artists and artisans from around the globe. From gourd music to electronic odysseys, harp guitars to industrial insect metal, from the beautiful to the bizarre.	Primary Games - Curriculum Guide Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use the Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom needs. The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. Within each subject area, a checklist shows the skills and grade level appropriateness of each activity. The games were assembled and evaluated by Susan Shuey Beasley, Technology Support Specialist at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA. Requires Flash and Shockwave.	Weather Scope: An Investigative Study of Weather and Climate Weather Scope is a new educational project that uses online real time data investigations and hands-on activities to guide student discovery of the science behind the factors that affect weather and climate. After completing this project, the students will learn how to how to record weather data and represent it in graphs and maps, how to compare weather in different places and different times, and ultimately be able to identify and explain the factors that affect temperature and current weather conditions, and possibly forecast future ones. Weather Scope is recommended for students grades 5 through 8 and can be implemented on the 9-12 grade level. (note: US levels)