This web page will no longer be updated as of June 30 at the end of the above mentioned fiscal year (FY).

This is a collection of web pages that were posted to assist instructors during the the current school year.
It is possible that some of these links are no longer in existence.
This page has been left on our website only for reference purposes.

08/29/01

Complete Planet

Call it a directory site for databases, a sort of search engine for search engines, CompletePlanet doesn't put together a "meta-search." Instead it helps you find the right kinds of specialized search sites for the information categories on your mind. For example, clicking on the "Law & Politics" category can lead you to "International" and then to the Kimes International Law Directory. Or you can search for your search tools by using a keyword line.

09/06/01

Crayola.Com

What a nifty web site! If you can do it with a crayon, then you can do here! Create greeting cards, print out coloring sheets, and visit a whole section just for educators. Have fun!

09/27/01

Teaching Tolerance

The mission of Teaching Tolerance is to create a national community committed to human rights. Its goal is to awaken people of all ages to the problem of hate and intolerance, to equip them with the best tolerance ideas and to prompt them to act in their homes, schools, businesses and communities.

10/01/01

Halloween Resources for Teachers

For the most extensive and best organized list of Halloween online resources created specifically for teachers I recommend you visit the web site of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers. The Halloween Resources section contains hundreds of annotated links to free online resources listed under the following categories: History & Traditions - Pumpkin Patch (carving, history, recipes, facts), Language Activities (in English, French, Spanish, and German), Activities, Crafts, Game, Songs & Stories, Clip Art - Colouring Pages - En français

10/01/01

AOL@School

The heart of the AOL@SCHOOL system is a series of six online learning portals designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, teachers, and administrators. The student portals provide an easy-to-navigate environment in which students can access Web sites that have been chosen by educators as the best educational content for that grade level. Additionally, the student portals provide a suite of functional online tools such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, a calculator, and many other research and collaboration tools. The specially designed portals for teachers and administrators provide professional development and administrative help and resources, as well as the ability to search for subject and age-specific lesson plans.

10/01/01

America's Library

"America's Story from America's Library" wants you to have fun with history while learning at the same time. We want to put the story back in history and show you some things that you've never heard or seen before. The stuff you see comes from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Library is the largest in the world and has millions of amazing things that will surprise you.

You may think all those items are books, but in fact, most of them are not. They are letters, diaries, records and tapes, films, sheet music, maps, prints, photographs and digital materials. Much of what you see on America's Library will be those non-book items, and many of those materials are found only in the collections of the Library of Congress. Teachers refer to these types of materials as "primary sources."

10/01/01

Education@NationalGeographic.com

Teachers can look to this site for lesson plans, classroom activities and educational materical on a wide range of subjects. Students can visit an online museum and chec out atlases covering every corner of the earth.

10/10/01

Kid$Inve$t

Kid$Inve$t is a comprehensive guide to the stock market, investing and money management.....specifically designed for young people. The information on this site is separated according to age/grade level.

10/26/01

Kids Domain - Typing Programs

Here is a list of online typing programs. You should have a pretty fast computer and internet connection to be able to use these web sites.

11/09/01

Alice inWonderland: an Interactive Adventure

The theme for Family Reading night is Alice in Wonderland. The following website, Alice inWonderland: an Interactive Adventure, contains fun stuff which students can do on the internet, which promotes reading

11/09/01

TeacherFiles.com

Here are some of the best educational clip art images from the web. Categories with a have been recently updated. All images (with the exception of Shayni's Phrases created by myself) have been obtained from "free" clip art sites, so to the best of my knowledge they are not copyrighted and are available for non-commercial purposes.

12/04/01

Holiday Web Sites

Christmas sites:
http://www.night.net/christmas/Twas-night01.html
http://www.german-way.com/german/stille.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465/jesus.html
http://www.claus.com
http://www.northpole.com/main.html
http://santa.net.au/
http://www.santaclaus.net/
http://www.night.net/christmas/santa.html-ssi
http://www.santaclaus.com/
http://www.northpole4kids.com/2001/america/east/home.html
http://www.north-pole.net/
http://www.santaclausonline.com/

Chanukah sites:
http://www.his.com/~chabad/8days/
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/chanukah/
http://members.aol.com/LazerA/chanukah2.htm

Kwanzaa sites:
http://www.globalindex.com/kwanzaa/
http://www.tike.com/celeb-kw.htm
http://amarillonet.com/stories/112996/kwanzaa.html

12/04/01

Illinois Early Learning Project

EARLY LEARNING WEB SITE puts preschool teaching advice and materials online. Parents, caregivers and teachers of preschoolers in Illinois and beyond have a new online resource to help them educate children and prepare them for school.

12/10/01

Holt Online Essay Scoring Splash

This site is designed to help you improve your writing skills and prepare for standardized writing tests. After you write a response to one of the prompts, you will receive an essay score and some written feedback about your paper from the computer's scoring system

02/14/01

Valentines Day Facts

Facts and trivia about the United States' LOVLIEST holiday.

03/20/02

Miscellaneous Web Pages

SureMath
http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/intro_algebra.html
A great site about problem solving in mathematics. Check out the list of active links!

Famous Quotations Network
http://www.famous-quotations.com
Looking for a good quote? Trying to find who said a specific statement? Try this site! Search by category, author, or alphabetically.

The Write Source
http://www.thewritesource.com/index2.htm
A good source of ideas for the classroom, including a list of writing topics, about MLA and APA styles and more.

Weather
http://www.weather.com/weather/local/62704
Customize this site for Springfield, Illinois and get up-to-date weather forecasts. Therre's also information about weather for any area of the world!

Health Hot Lists
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/health.html
Looking for information about a health subject? This site has a
great many links about nutrition, fitness, AIDS, drugs, alcohol, and
more!

05/10/02

Build a Sentence

Click on words, make a sentence, then see it animated!

You must have ShockWave loaded on your computer for this to run correctly. See Michele if you encounter problems.

05/13/02

ESL Websites

This is a collection of web sites created for use with ESL classrooms. There are uses for many different classrooms here at LEC, though.

Build a Sentence
http://www.bonus.com/bonus/card/build_sentence.html
Click on words, make a sentence, then see it animated!
You must have ShockWave loaded on your computer for this to run correctly. See Michele if you encounter problems.

ESL Flow
http://www.eslflow.com/
Activities and lessons that can be printed out for use in the classroom.

ESL Exercises
http://webhome.idirect.com/~cclcs/eslquiz.html
A collection of interactive lessons, including writing exercises. Students can practice their knowledge of verb tenses, adverbs, abbreviations, etc.

Road Signs
http://www.csmm.qc.ca/sitsat/anglais/rsig.htm
A multiple choice exercise on identifying road signs.

Dolphinville Gym
http://college.hmco.com/devenglish/dolphinville/index.html
These exercises test your grasp of grammar and punctuation.

SOON Online Magazine
http://www.soon.org.uk/content.htm
This site has a good and interesting selection of reading exercises under the Easy English True Stories area. Students can also listen to the stories being read to them (must have QuickTime installed for this feature. See Michele if you encounter problems.) The other areas are also informative about learning the English language.