General Reference

Education World
Includes a lesson plan database organized by subject area; features current education news and issues and thought provoking articles; offers a valuable search engine for a database of 56,000 education-related internet sites.

Contains a valuable list of internet resources related to a variety of topics in educational psychology (Assessing Learning, Diversity, Learning Theories and Practices, Special Needs, etc.); comprehensive and well-organized.

Encarta Schoolhouse
Offers an excellent selection of resources for supplementing lessons, including graphics, maps, photographs and sound clips, all organized by topic; provides related activities to use with students; includes an Ask an Expert service.

AskERIC
ERIC (The Educational Resources Information Center) is a federally-funded national information system that provides educational information, question and answer service, a valuable virtual library and current research information; features a large, searchable lesson plan archive.

McRel
McRel (The Mid-Continent Region Education Laboratory) offers news and current issues, a searchable database of content knowledge standards and benchmarks, information on standards-based education and links to internet sources for lesson plans, activities and curriculum.

Education Week on the Web
Online magazine of educational issues, topics, and research which includes a list of education related internet links and current news; features an "In Context" section which includes background and data to ehance and support the current news and issues; offers a search engine for previously reported articles.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Serves as a guide to educational resources supported by the U. S. Federal Government; this searchable site is well-organized and easy to use.

Middle School Cybrary
Contains hundreds of links to online education sources related to U. S. history, world history, current events, mathematics, science, literature, art, music and more; easy to use and well organized.

Teachers.Net
Offers a lesson plan database accessible via search engine; includes an excellent virtual library, which provides online informatin sources for a wide variety of subject areas; features employment information and a series of bulletin boards for teachers, schools and districts to share and gather ideas and information.

Classroom Connect
Features an outstanding searchable database of education web sites and internet education resources; contains information on interactive projects for students and classrooms.