http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
This website is great for those interested more with teaching about social sciences. The website has information about animals, daily news, environment, history, maps, music, people and places, photography, science and space. For teachers, this website is useful because there are many classroom resources with lesson plans dealing with endangered animals and ancient Chinese civilizations to name a few. There are amazing photos that are beautifully enhanced and global sites for those who chose to coast around the world. The National Geographic website helps those who want to get an inside look on what is happening around the world.
This website is a great resource for teachers, especially for those just entering the field. It divides each section in grade levels and has various grade level appropriate activities for each subject in school. It also has multicultural activities for things like: Black History Month, St. Patrick’s Day, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The website has Pre-K through high school lesson plans as well as read and color pages. There is also numerous pages for ESL teachers who themselves are learning a new language or are teaching it to their students. Not only does this website have lesson plans, but there are various test prep activities and puzzles that can help teacher’s asses their students with their critical thinking skills.
http://www.education-world.com/
This website is has many tools for teachers. For example, a piece on professional development includes things like organizing a classroom and promoting parent involvement. Also, there are sections on technology integration in the classroom and how to teach children to be safe on the Web. Teachers can also access information about other school issues like NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and the benefits of integrated schools. There is also a section about including education in the home. Parents can access information about ways to save recess or tips on saving the planet all from home! An interesting part of this page is a Education World Mini Site Guide that links to hundreds of other websites like it for teachers to access classroom resources and materials. A fun tidbit about this website is that they have new lesson plans for each month. For example, in January, teachers can to a wintery weather and winter arts activities with their students!