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INSTRUCTION - Web Resources

 
 
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Colonial Williamsburg An interactive tour of Williamsburg, online museum exhibits and slide shows about life in colonial Williamsburg, and more.  Award winning teacher resources can be accessed through the Kid Zone portion of the site.  Ranked Best Virtual Field Trip in Edutopia, Spring 2007.
Smithsonian Institution Tour fifteen Smithsonian museums and view current exhibitions or follow links to online resources from Smithsonian in art & design, history & culture, and science & technology.
The Louvre View 35,000 works of art housed in the Louvre.  Search the collection by theme, movement, or time period.
   
TEACHING RESOURCES
Thinkfinity Home page provides links to myriad lesson plans and interactive student learning activities for all grades in many subjects.  Includes a powerful education search engine linked to high quality materials.     (formerly marcopolo)
PBS Teachers Standards-based resources for the arts, health and fitness, literacy, math, science, social studies, early childhood, library media, and technology integration.
WGBY Education Services A wide range of Massachusetts-based opportunities as well as online resources.
Teachers' Domain Free instructional resources for science teachers by WBGY Boston.  Short film clips from PBS science programs, written information that supports differentiated instruction.
Teaching Tolerance Classroom activities, web information, and free resources on a range of diversity issues.
Curricki A curriculum wikki that is a repository for open source K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages.  You can contribute.  Your students can contribute.
Teach Ade Online community for teachers.  You can sign up to receive free online materials in areas of interest to you.
Fun Brain This site for the K-8 set offers dozens of problem-solving games involving math, science, and language.
Glossopedia This free multimedia, interactive environmental science encyclopedia from Globio is designed specifically for children ages 7-12 with no ads.