Teacher-resources

Thinkfinity Search Engine

 * Formerly called MarcoPolo, this is a search engine with a difference. Its search is limited to the educational resources, including lesson plans, created by the following highlly reputable educational websites: Artsedge (Kennedy Performaing Arts Center), Econ EdLink (National Council on Economic Education), EdSITEment (National Endownment for the Humanities), Illuminiations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), Read-Write-think (International Reading Association/National Council of Teachers of English), Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Xpeditions (National Geographic Society)

Inside Teaching: A Living Archive of Practice

 * Here K-12 teachers and teacher educators document their practice, reflect on their teaching and build on each other's work. On their multimedia records of teaching practice, you can find videos of teaching, examples of lesson plans, practitioner reflections and narratives, images of student work, and many other documents of teaching and learning.

Annenberg Media Teacher Resources

 * Many of their video programs, which offer examplars of excellent teaching in different subjects, are available to view online as 'videos on demand. Registration is free.  See such excellent series as Social Studies in Action, Learning Science Through Inquiry, Assessment in Math and Science, Engaging with Literature, etc.

eThemes

 * Links to collections of educational resources on the internet organized by a wide-variety of educational topics.

Find Sounds

 * Looking for sounds for your presentation. Check out this cool site!

University of Victoria Language Teaching Clip Art Library

 * 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. You may use GIF images from this library on your Website as long as you add an acknowledgement to the UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre and Half-Baked Software somewhere on your site.

Scholars Choice

 * Teacher Resource store with a location in Calgary.

Kids Click

 * Web searching tool for kids created by librarians

Kids Love 2Learn.ca
Links to 'the best net resources for grades 3-6 students', organized by subject area and by Alberta curriculum topic.

National Geographic Homework Help Website

 * Research for pictures, articles, maps, and more on our top subjects—perfect for reports, presentations, and more!

Usborne Quicklinks
- Return to Cool Teaching Links
 * Usborne publishes many books that contain internet links - but the links are useful even if you're not using their books. Here's a list of their titles; clicking on any title takes you to related 'kid-friendly' websites.