General Reference Websites

Bibliography and Footnotes

Bibliography and footnote style: A website from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for information on the American Psychological Association (APA) format for citing sources in reports and articles: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/bibliography/apa/apamenu.htm

Children's Literature Websites

Children's Book Council: http://www.cbcbooks.org/

Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County: http://www.bookhive.org/

National Parent Information Network Virtual Library: http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/books.html

Barnes and Noble Jr. Kid's Books Website: http://r1.us.rmi.yahoo.com/rmi/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/
children/children.asp/rmivars%3ftarget=_top?userid=1FDXI1U6OH

Notable Social Studies Books for Young People compiled by NCSS with help from the American Library Association: http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/home.html

Discipline Problems in the Classroom

This website comes from the Educator's Network: http://www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.php?url=
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/behindex/main.cfm?cur_section=1

Educational Organizations

Education Week: Education Week has compiled an excellent website on educational organizations, including State Departments of Education: http://www.edweek.org/context/orgs/

Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Etc .

Biography.com: A website focused on biographies: http://www.biography.com/

Encyclopedia Britannica: A website from Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/

Information Please Almanac: An almanac website from Information Please: http://www.infoplease.com/

Thesaurus.com: A Thesaurus Website: http://www.thesaurus.com/

General Websites for Schools and for Students

AOL@School: This frequently updated website provides information on many topics for students, teachers, and administrators: http://school.aol.com/ . The website addresses all levels of education and different subjects.

BBC On-Line: This is an excellent website to find many topics from a UK vantage point: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ . This website has activities for teachers and parents to use with students from preschool through high school: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ . Check out geography and history.

Cable in the Classroom: This website provides information about Cable-TV-related programming and resources: http://www.ciconline.org/section.cfm/72 .

EduHound: The “EduHound website, with lots of good information for teachers, other educators, and kids, links to schools and classroom, and clip art. Elementary teachers might use this website to find “Martin's Fourth Grade,” which is in Lee's Summit and which has links to Missouri history topics and to topics pertaining to trails west. The site is fun to explore: http://www.eduhound.com/

Family Education.com: This website provides reference links and information of children, parents, and teachers, including activities for social studies for various grade levels: http://www.familyeducation.com/home/

Lycos Website for Kids: A Lycos website for kids to help them with homework: http://www.lycoszone.com/homework.html

Middle School Website: A website for middle school education, which has a section on lesson plans including those in social studies: http://www.middleschool.com/

Motivating Students: This website deals with motivatingstudents. Some ideas in the website strike me as being like bribery, but the site includes some interesting links http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr301.shtml

Smithsonian Website: http://educate.si.edu/ .

SuccessLink Website for Schools: The SuccessLink website with lessons for all subjects keyed to the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP): http://www.successlink.org/

Website of and For Images: A website called “The Amazing Picture Machine,” from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium: http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Glossary of Educational Terms

Education Week: Education Week newspaper has a glossary of educational terms, which should be of interest to teachers and other educators: http://www.edweek.org/context/glossary/

ASCD: This lexicon from ASCD provides definitions of technical education terms: http://www.ascd.org/educationnews/lexicon/lexiconoflearning.html

Government Websites

First Government for Kids: A general reference website made for students on homework and on many social studies related topics and topics related to other subjects: http://www.kids.gov/

Library of Congress: A general reference website from the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/library/

U.S. Federal Government Compilation of Websites for Educators and Students: Teachers, parents, students, & others are invited to search FREE for teaching & learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations: http://www.ed.gov/free/

Internet for Families (Safe, Productive Use of Internet)

GetNetWise: GetNetWise is a project of the Internet Education Foundation helping to ensure that families have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences. The GetNetWise coalition attempts to provide the resources that family and educators need to make informed decisions about young peoples' use of the Internet. This site includes popular resources, including sites relevant to social studies. The site's address is http://www.getnetwise.org/ .

Library Websites

American Library Association: American Library Association's “700+ Great Sites”: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html

Awesome Library: A website with 14,000 links in many areas, including social studies: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ .

Internet Public Library of the University of Michigan: The Internet Public Library is an educational initiative of the University of Michigan School of Information providing library services to the Internet community. Professional librarians staff the IPL with assistance from students and volunteer librarians from around the world. The library maintains a collection of online ready reference works; responds to reference questions; creates web resources; evaluates and categorizes resources on the Internet; and provides a space for exhibits. The site address is http://www.ipl.org/ref/ .

THE WWW Virtual Library: This website provides many links about many topics related to social studies: http://vlib.org/ .

Newspapers in Education

Many local newspapers have “Newspapers in Education” programs, which offer lesson plans and other resources for teachers on how to use newspapers as an instructional tool. Be sure to check to see if your local newspaper(s) have such programs. Following are some examples of NIE programs, which provide on-line lesson ideas for teachers:

•  Detroit Free Press Association: http://dnie.com/ .

•  New York Times Learning Network: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ .

•  USA Weekend: http://www.usaweekend.com/pie/teachers/ .

•  Education World: http://www.education-world.com/ .

Online Projects

Following sites for online projects were suggested by Odvard Egil Dyrli in the magazine The District Administrator :

•  Discovery.com Expedition Adventures: http://dsc.discovery.com/

•  The Global Schoolhouse: http://www.gsn.org

•  The International Education and Resource Network: http://www.iearn.org

•  Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: http://www.iecc.org

•  The Jason Project, which relates to geography: http://www.jason.org

•  KIDLINK/KIDPROJ: http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/

•  NASA Quest: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov

•  NASA SpaceLink: http://spacelink.nasa.gov

•  SchoolWorld Internet Projects: http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/projects.html

•  The WebQuest Page: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/

•  World Trek Odyssey: http://www.worldtrek.org

Following is a website that has good ideas on conducting meetings and making presentations: http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/

Rubrics for Scoring Guides

The following are rubrics called to my attention by Mary Ann Shields, Middle School Teacher from Oak Grove School District in an article she wrote for Horizon, the newsletter of the Missouri Council for the Social Studies:

•  Rubrics 4 Teachers website, which has links to many other websites of interest to teachers, such as a website dealing with discipline-related problems: http://www.rubrics4teachers.com

•  Rubistar rubrics creation website: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Search Engines

Ask Jeeves: A useful search engine, where questions are submitted as simple sentences: http://askjeeves.com/

About.com: A useful search engine: http://about.com/

Geniusfind: Another useful search engine called Geniusfind: http://www.geniusfind.com/

Google: A useful search engine, where one may type in the topic of a search and many links are shown: http://www.google.com .

HotBot: This is a useful search engine for teachers, which has no specific kid-friendly features. http://www.hotbot.lycos.com .

Internet Oracle: Following is a website that provides linkages to many other reference websites: http://www.InternetOracle.com/encyclop.htm

KidsClick: This website presents appropriate educational content compiled by librarians. One may also click on a feature called “Through a Librarian's Eyes” to obtain a catalog of sites organized by the Dewey Decimal System. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Study Skills

Study Skills: A website pertaining to study skills: http://www.how-to-study.com/

Study Skills Ideas from University of Vermont: A website from the University of Vermont with all sorts of study skill tips listed under the category of “Self-Help Information”: http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Study Skills Ideas from University of St. Thomas: A website from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, which has many ideas for study skills focused around the following topics: Preparing to Learn, Classroom Preparation, Preparing for Tests, Writing Skills, Study Skills, Math and Science, Reading Skills, Taking Tests, Writing Basics, and “Webtruth”: http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/index.htm and http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/studyskills.htm .

Writing and Reading across the Curriculum

Effective Writing: Examine lesson plans from Education World on how to teach writing in content areas: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson249.shtml

Reading across the Curriculum: ASCD has a website that has links to other websites that are focused on reading in content areas: http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/0211/thorp.html