Guide to Education Research 
Education Links: Teacher Tools

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

A K-12 educational government website, Ben's Guide provides information on all three branches of government and activities for educators, parents, and students. The site also provides access to U.S. Government web sites developed for kids.

Blue Web'n: a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web
A directory of Web sites for K-12 schools and college/university departments of education.

ChildWelfare.gov formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

Columbia Education Center
Lesson plans created by teachers for use in their own classrooms.

Connection+
"Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards."

Cradleboard Teaching Project
The Cradleboard Teaching Project is a project of the Nihewan Foundation for American Indian education,

Digital Library for Earth System Education

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this site provides access to an extensive collection of  educational resources in the geosciences for all academic levels.

Distance Education Clearinghouse

Produced by the University of Wisconsin Extension, the clearinghouse provides comprehensive state, national and international resources available for distance education developers and providers.

Discovery School's: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
"Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. "

Education World(tm) Where Educators Go To Learn
"The Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet."

Educause
Educause is a nonprofit consortium of higher education institutions that facilitates the introduction, use, and access to and management of information resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and research.

EduHound.com-Everything for Education K-12!

EduHound, a division of T.H.E. Journal, is a specialized educational directory featuring free resource links to K-12 educators, parents, and students.

Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)

GEM is a consortium of over 518 organizations and individuals supportive of the mission to provide access to Internet based educational materials. The Gateway is a a catalog of metadata records from GEM Consortium members' websites. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of education, the site offers thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects.

The Global School House

The Global School House site is published by Global SchoolNet, an  international network of 70,000+ online educators, who engage in online project-based learning activities. The site offers numerous links to resources, including the Projects Registry of over 750 collaborative online projects.

Google for Educators

Google for Educators includes links to Blogger, Book Search, Google Earth, Google Sketchup, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Newsletter for Teachers.

Houghton Mifflin's Education Place

K-8 resources.

MarcoPolo

This site features standards based discipline specific educational and professional development Web sites for K-12 teachers and students. Included are seven content web sites providing lesson plans, student interactive content, worksheets, links to panel-reviewed Web sites and additional resources.

NASA's Education Program
This is a service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration including resources, news, and calendars of importance to educators and students.

National Student Exchange
Provides links to the member schools of the National Student Exchange program by state, province or territory.  Also has a direct link (via the Logo) to the national program web site.

Study Guides and Strategies

The Web site is authored, maintained, and revised on by Joe Landsberger, as an educational public service. Guides are available for a variety of subject areas, test taking, research, study skills, and project management.

Teachers.Net LESSON PLAN EXCHANGE
A place where teachers can exchange there teaching ideas and lesson plans.

Teachers Helping Teachers
Ideas, teaching tips, and more for teachers by teachers.

TEAMS Distance Learning

Published by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, this directory site offers comprehensive links to resources for K-12 distance education information, products, applications, lesson plans, parent resources and technology resources.

Thompson Peterson Syndication for Higher Education

Published by Thompson Peterson, this site provides information and links to other sites exploring research and practices in RSS, podcasting, and blogging in higher education.

WatchKnow.org

A free video contest/program to support American K-12 public education