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Online Collaboration Projects
		Online Projects allow you to not only teach a concept in your classroom but then enables you to share your results with other classrooms all over the world and compare/contrast with your own results! Students LOVE online collaboration!!
		CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
		Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children.
For Educators	Google Lit Trips
Schools of California Online Resources for Education Aligned to the California Content Standards		Classroom Learning 2.0

The Guide on the Side Project / Inquiry-Based Learning Resources
Create your own rubric			Internet Scavenger Hunts	Web Knowledge (Scavenger) Hunts for Elementary Education

Apple Learning Exchange		Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction

Great Teacher Sites

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/kne_search.html#fil
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listread.html
http://storytrain.kids-space.org/index_main.html
http://www.intel.com/education/designprojects/index.htm
http://www.mindtroopers.com/
http://alexandria-es10.lausd.k12.ca.us/Staff_Pages/Henry_Anker/Mr_Anker_Tests_New/indexAllTests.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/php/search.php?search=search&keywords=&show_title=The+Seedy+Side+of+Plants&search=Search
http://oswego.org/staffdev_frameset.htm
http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/vocab.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/
http://storyarts.org/sitemap.html
http://kids-learn.org/

Typing practice online

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/typing/index.htm
http://www.mrkent.com/kb/kbtest.htm

Effective Internet Search Strategies

Using the search challenge

http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/KeywordChallenge.swf

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Finding pages that are no longer available on the web

http://web.archive.org/

Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

http://rollyo.com/

Search the on-line versions of print books, magazines, etc.

Books:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Newspaper/magazine:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/

Government documents:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedexec.html

Using track pak-track star to share URLs with students

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/

Features of the New Yahoo!®

Features of a Yahoo! Question

http://yq.search.yahoo.com/

Little Known Google™ Features

Using language tools

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Using Google news search

http://news.google.com/

Using other free news sites

http://news.yahoo.com/

Using the more button

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

http://labs.google.com/

Learning how to use Google earth

http://earth.google.com/

Searching catalogs

http://catalogs.google.com/

Using the directory

http://www.google.com/dirhp

Using the book search

http://books.google.com/

. Using Google scholar to search scholarly texts

http://scholar.google.com/

Searching for video

http://video.google.com/

Using other sources to find video on the web

http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture

Search Engine Shortcuts

Yahoo! shortcuts

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/

Google shortcuts and helpers

http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Portals & Directories

http://www.kartoo.com/flash04.php3 Search engine with a mind map tool

Specialized Search Engines and Directories
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html

Using Wikipedia® and Answers.com™

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.answers.com/

Using the Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

Using Internet reference sites

http://www.libraryspot.com/

http://www.refdesk.com/

Using Internet reference sites

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Using Internet-based directories

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

http://dmoz.org/

Clustering Search Engines

Understanding clustering search engines

http://clusty.com/

Exploring clustering search engine examples

http://www.killerinfo.com/

http://search.ask.com/

http://vivisimo.com/

Kid's Search Engines

Kid's Click http://www.kidsclick.org/
http://www.amadorcoe.org/student_resources.htm
http://www.factmonster.com/
http://www.tekmom.com/search/

Images

http://www.pics4learning.com/?view=sub&cat=Animals