- Do your teachers need some inspiration for making the curriculum come alive?
- Are teachers looking for instructional resources that support or enrich academic standards and programs?
- Would your teachers benefit from interactions and insights from educators outside of their school or your district?
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Curriki is a Web site where teachers can collect and share lesson plans, teaching activities, curriculum resources for specific subjects with teachers in their schools or educators around the world.
Footnote helps teachers (and students) find and share historic documents.
Goodreads is a site where teachers (and students) can form a book club, get great book recommendations, keep track of what they’ve read and would like to read, and discuss books with other readers.
HowStuffWorks provides easy-to-understand explanations of how the world works, using articles, graphics and videos of topics.
Panoramio allows teachers (and students) to find and share photos of places all over the world.
Quizlet allows teachers (and students) to find, create and share flash cards that can be used as a study tool for individual or group study—with a chat tool to discuss answers.
RezEd is an online hub for practitioners using virtual worlds, such as Second Life, for learning.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic, multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos, teaching ideas and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.
WolframAlpha is a “knowledge engine” that makes systematic knowledge accessible and computable.