The following links represent the best among the countless numbers of
tools currently available for teachers. We are fortunate to find ourselves
in a time of open sharing and collegiality, a time when teachers and professional
orgainzations openly and gladly share their ideas for best practice with
each other not only across district but state and even international lines.
We at the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center proudly encourage you
to browse through these sites. You will find exemplary ideas which we anticipate
will energize and renew your teaching.
Exciting, locally-created web page project! Look to this page for "web-ready" earth science labs created by constituents of the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center.
NASA sponsored partnership of five outstading museums including the Lawrence Hall of Science, the Exploratorium, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Lessons on light, weather, the solar system and more.
Activities, explanations, and a teachers' guide dealing with experiments with acids and bases.
National educational program sponsored by the biotechnology company, Genentech, includes collections of biology-related activites and classroom projects developed by teachers, weekly science reports, interviews with scientists, discussions on teaching and learning and classrooms of the 21st century,
The mission of the AIMS (Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science) Education Foundation is to enrich the education of students in K-9 through hands-on activities that integrate mathematics, science, and other disciplines. Site includes the AIMS Activity Archives, the AIMS Pattern Based Curriculum, and a searchable activity database.
A huge variety of text-based lesson plans for elementary through high school.
A wealth of resources from many areas throughout the curriculum and numerous sources beyond NASA.
Serves language minority students and teachers in Missouri. Among the resources are included, teacher resources, and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
Includes primary sources and student work on colonial America, exploration and discovery, and much more, suited to elementary and middle school classes.
Part of the NYS local Goverment Telecommunication Initiative. These high quality packets are filled with primary sources and were developed by local teachers as a result of a SARA (State Archives and Records Administration) Institute.
History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Award-winning, comprehensive site with a great wealth of resources.
A new and imaginative way to access the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection. This new feature will provide historical facts related to the current date along with links to materials from the extensive online collections.
Extremely useful links to resources gathered by Dr. Marty Levine, Professor of Secondary Education at California State, Northridge.
This example of a school's web publishing at its best contains many links to student-created projects. Check this one out for exemplary work done on the recent presidential election!
Units taught and developed by the Integrated Thematic Staff at Lake Washington High School.
An interactive learning center for the use of architecture in the classroom.
This section of ArtsEdNet, created by the Getty Institute for the Arts, includes a variety of teaching and learning materials, including art images.
Includes archives of some of the most popular and active Listservs, information on how to register, and how lists can be used in the classroom.
You can become a part of a nationwide community of educators interested in mathematics reform and the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). On-line seminars for elementary and middle school teachers.
This page was last updated on November 25, 1997.
