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Useful Websites
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Summary Provides great learning games for students K-12; it also has free lesson plans, and professional development for teachers.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.goodcharacter.com/index.html
Summary This is a website for character education to promote positive and healthy life choices.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://eduplace.com
Summary Links and activities for four subject areas; grades K-8.
 
Category Education (For teachers: Grades K-2)
URL http://www.carlscorner.us.com/
Summary This is a great website for teachers who are planning on teaching younger grades around K-2. It had many great links for alphabet activities, reading, spelling, and many more.
 
Category Education (For creative teachers)
URL http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Summary This site is different than most of the others, it is a website for creative teachers. They can use music to teach content across the curriculum -- to students of all ages. It offer thousands of song lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.
 
Category Education (For ALL teachers and students)
URL http://abcteach.com/
Summary This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. This website offers over 5000 printable pages and worksheets for different levels and topics. It is also very helpful for homeschoolers and special education teachers.
 
Category Education (For primary teachers)
URL http://www.primaryschool.com.au/
Summary Provides sites, lessons, and numerous resources for primary school teachers. It covers every topic across the board, and has great suggestions and resources for anything you need.
 
Category Education (For crafty teachers and students)
URL http://www.abccrafts.com/
Summary AbcCrafts.com offers free arts and crafts projects, articles, craft links, and hobby resources. The goal is to provide parents, teachers, educators, and crafts enthusiasts a quality one-stop arts and crafts information portal. Great for creative teachers especially good activities for younger grades.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.thereadingnook.com/
Summary This is a perfect website for parents and teachers who are looking to enhance children's listening, vocabulary, and language skills. It provides developmentally appropriate children's books and games and also children's book related to your favorite subject!  
 
Category Education (For elementary teachers)
URL http://atozteacherstuff.com/
Summary A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
 
Category Education (For teachers and parents)
URL http://www.helpingwithmath.com/index.htm
Summary This is a perfect website for teachers to recommend for concerned parents whose children struggle with math. There's guidance together with tips and information on grade skills. It includes math worksheets and printable tables and charts.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.harmonyhollow.net/teach/
Summary This website offers freeware and shareware downloads that will be of special interest to teachers. All of these programs are free and are not bundled with software of any kind.
 
Category Education (For teachers)
URL http://www.teachertidbytes.com
Summary This site provides a collection of Educational PowerPoint's organized by specific curriculum. It is a terrific time saver for teachers, and also an excellent source for resources in the classroom.
 
Category Education (For teachers- lesson plans)
URL http://teachers.net/lessons/
Summary This is a great site that provides lesson plans for any grade level that you select, and also on any subject. This is a guaranteed way to make planning easier and more rewarding for your students.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.askkids.com/
Summary This is a great website for teachers to recommend for students. It is perfect for any unit in the elementary classroom. Since the questions may elicit a complex response, the teacher may have to clarify points that are not understandable.
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
Summary The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz to produce a website full of useful resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. There are over 5,000 resources available.
 
Category Education (For teachers- project ideas)
URL http://www.theideabox.com/
Summary This site is great for finding quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs, and seasonal projects. It also lists ideas for the day or for the week, and has links to other great websites.
 
Category Education (For first year teachers)
URL http://www.teachnet.org/ntol/
Summary This is a great website for new teachers. It provides tons of information on teaching, and also gives other teachers opinions and advice on different things. Its perfect for first year teacher's.
 
Category Education (For teachers and students)
URL http://www.middleweb.com/StntTchradv.html
Summary This website provides information for students going through the education program at any university. It isn't a huge website, but it does answer questions and give advice for students who are just getting started in the program.