This document provides a list of websites and resources that teachers can use to enhance their classrooms and teaching. It includes websites for lesson plans, ebooks, information on other cultures and countries, NASA education resources, tracking student demographics, textbooks and teaching materials, arts education, getting parents involved, science, physical education, technology training, school counseling, history, and sharing teaching ideas on Pinterest. The document encourages teachers to make use of free online resources and not be afraid to get help using new technologies.

1. Where Do I Find the Good Stuff?

2. As a teacher we are always on the lookout for
websites and software to make our classrooms better.
Where do I look at? This can be a difficult thing, but
we are here to help.
I NEED SOME WEBSITES TO
HELP ME IN CLASS…

3. These are Some Tried and True
Websites.
• The Educator’s Reference
Desk. More than 2,000
lesson plans, 3,000 plus
links to online education
• Department of Energy. information, and more than
Educational resources in science,
technology, energy, math, and 200 question archive
more. Even an Energy Glossary! responses. www.eduref.org
www.eere.energy.gov/kids

4. Do You Want to Teach About Other
Cultures?
www.peaceco
rps.gov/wws/
This site is
designed to
help students
gain a greater
understanding
of other
cultures and
countries.

5. Books and More!
• www.gutenberg.org • www.booksshouldbefree.c
More than 40,000 free om This site lets you
ebooks. You can listen to many classics
download them or read while sitting at your
them online. Classics computer. You can also
and more. If you don’t download the book to be
have the budget to listened to at a different
purchase the book here time on your iPod. Listen
is an option. to it while riding in your
car.

7. Walk on the Moon!
• www.nasa.gov This
awesome website covers
NASA’s extensive
education program.
They even have a
NASA kid’s club. The
games are rated “F” for
fun!

9. Know Your Students
Students In Indiana • As a teacher try to
White
understand where your
students come from and
African what their life is like.
American
Asian There might not be
much diversity in race
American
Indian but they are each
Not individuals.
Hispanic
Other Race

10. Software and Websites Don’t Have to
Break Your Budget!
There are sites that we
can purchase as a
school and all take
advantage of.
www.skillstutor.com
This is a Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt site
to use in conjunction
with our textbooks and
teaching material. The
students can even
access it from home.

11. The Arts Also Have a Place in the
Schools!
• National Gallery of Art. • National Association for
(NGA) Home to the Music Education
world’s finest paintings (MENC) Their mission
and sculptures. is to advance music in
www.nga.gov education. They want
• Smithsonian Center for to include music as a
Education and Museum core subject of study.
Studies. Lesson plans www.menc.org
and resource guides.
www.smithsonianeducat
ion.org

14. Don’t Forget
About Your
Parents!
Get your parents involved.
They need to be included
in the education process.
National PTA (PTA). This
group facilitates parent
education and involvement
in schools. www.pta.org

15. Science and Our World
• Environmental • National Oceanic and
Protection Agency for Atmospheric
Students and Educators Administration
(EPA). This site (NOAA). NOAA
provides facts provides information
sheets, interactive about the
games, and more. Kid weather, oceans, satellit
and student friendly. es, fisheries, climates, a
www.epa.gov/epahome/ nd more.
students.htm www.noaa.gov

17. Let’s Get Physical!
• National Association for
Sport and Physical
Education (NASPE).
It’s mission is to
enhance knowledge and
increase support for
high-quality physical
education among other
things.
www.aahperd.org/naspe

19. Don’t Be Scared of Technology
• If you are worried about the internet and you
need to sharpen up some of your skills, there
are options. You can go to Ivy Tech and take
some computer skills classes. Don’t be afraid
to get the help you need to keep up with the
new technology.

20. School Counselors are Not Just for
the Students.
• American School • As a teacher, we can send
Counselor Association a student to the counselor
(ASCA). This for help or we can tell the
organization provides counselor about the
information and resources student. If we have
that support school questions about how to
counselors’ efforts to help handle a situation the
students focus on counselor can help us too!
academic, personal/social,
and career development.
www.schoolcounselor.org

22. History, Don’
t Keep it in
the Past.
National Register of Historic
Places: Teaching with Historic
Places (TwHP). TwHP offers
great lesson plans and
guidance on using historic
places in teaching and
learning.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp

24. www.pinterest.com
• This site is amazing and one of the newest
fads! A content sharing service that allows
members to "pin" images, videos and other
objects to their “pinboard”. This site allows us
to share with each other ideas. Ideas from
crafting, to home decorating, to gifts. This site
is full of lesson ideas and printables. Give it a
chance and you might be surprised.

26. Don’t be scared to ask for help. If you have found a website
to be good or bad share your feelings. Technology can be a
good thing if we just give it a chance.
THE GOOD STUFF IS ON THE
INTERNET IF YOU JUST TAKE
THE TIME TO LOOK.

27. References:
www.census.gov