Parents & Teachers Page
Crafts
Crafts For Kids
From the Enchanted Learning web site, search for crafts by craft type. Instructions include pictures of completed craft.
DLTK's Crafts For Kids
Features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some favorite cartoon characters.
Early Childhood
Get Ready To Read
Get Ready to Read! is a national campaign to build the early literacy skills of preschool children. The campaign brings research-based strategies to parents and early childhood teachers and caregivers for helping prepare children to learn to read and write.
Hummingbird Educational Resources
Theme based lesson plans and story time resources.
Illinois Early Learning
The Illinois Early Learning Web site is an effective means of providing evidence-based, reliable information for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in the State of Illinois. The Web site offers printable Tip Sheets for caregivers and parents, Frequently Asked Questions (and their responses), a statewide calendar of events for parents and caregivers, an easy-to-use database of links to the best of the Web on topics of high interest, and Online Chats.
Idea Box
Early childhood education and activity resources.
Kidsource Online for Preschoolers
U.S. Scouting Service Project
The U.S. Scouting Service Project collects a multitude of valuable scouting information for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Homeschool
Homeschool World
The official web site of Practical Homeschooling Magazine.
Jon's Homeschool Resources
Jon's Homeschool Resources is a source of neutral, non-commercial homeschooling information. A homeschooling dad selects resources on the basis of clarity and breadth, not politics or religion.
Parenting
Parenting Resources
A large list of reviewed web sites discussing various parenting issues and activities.
Teacher Tools
AskEric
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans that have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States and the world.
English & Language Arts
Educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance. Experienced teachers can find inspiration.
Learning Network
New York Times Learning Network is created for students and teachers in grades 3 through 12, The Learning Network is a free news service that provides news summaries, quizzes, and even daily lesson plans.
Lesson Plans & Activities
Offers age-appropriate worksheets for various topics. Contents include lesson plans, Internet field trips, Web Quests and reproducible.
Sur La Lun Fairy Tale Page
This site informally discusses fairy tales and folklore studies, featuring annotated fairy tale links.
Teachnet
Teachnet offers lesson plans, teaching tools, a daily teacher-oriented cartoon, and email lists fort educators.
The Teacher List
A subject oriented index of web sites that help teachers expand their curriculums. The site is divided into age groups and then by subject such as language arts, math, etc.
Teaching Guides
Great collection of reviewed web sites providing teaching guides, lesson plans, and other teaching materials. Listed alphabetically by subject.
Themed Subject Reviews
Popular subjects listed with a link to a subject overview and reviewed web sites about the subject.
Web Sites and Resources for Teachers
Worksheet Generator
Create customized worksheets in less than 5 minutes! Choose from several vocabulary and math worksheet templates in the "Create a Worksheet" area below. Or just use a teacher-created worksheet in our library of "Worksheets to Go"!
