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Internet
Cybersmart.org - Provides a free K-8
curriculum for teaching Internet skills.
CYFERNET- Children, Youth and Families
Education and Research Network - A wealth of practical, research-based information
relating to children, youth and families.
GetNetWise - Resources for parents who
want to protect their kids from inappropriate material online, as well as links to other
information helpful to parents whose kids use the internet.
ALA Great Web Sites for Kids - American Library
Association with links to over "700 Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious Web Sites for
Kids and the Adults who care about them."
Wired Safety - The world's largest internet safety, help and education organization.
This site includes information about talking to your children about downloading
music.
Parents
KidsHealth.org - Expert
health information for families from the Nemours Foundation.
National Association for Gifted Children - A non-profit organization of
educators and parents united to address the unique needs of gifted and talented youth.
National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
- A non-profit foundation which provides information and guidance to parents and educators
of gifted and creative children.
National Institute for Child
Health and Human Development - A resource for
online publications on a wide range of subjects.
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Education
The Educator's
Reference Desk - You can access the resources of the ERIC database, and print up abstracts of
articles submitted to ERIC.
FCAT Explorer - FCAT
Explorer is a practice and skills reinforcement tool based on Florida’s Sunshine
State Standards. Public school students, teachers, Charter Schools and Homeschools can use
the FCAT Explorer free of charge. To acquire a sign-in name and password, contact your
teacher or the FCAT Explorer Support Services Team at 1-888-750-FCAT (1-888-750-3228).
Florida Department of Education -
A good resource for press releases, publications, statistics and reports.
Sunshine State
Standards - Florida Department of Education K - 12 grade level
expectations.
4C
School Readiness - For information on central Florida
coalitions.
Global Locator -
Search this database to find schools, colleges and libraries.
Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators - Updated daily, this page lists sites on the Internet found
to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
National Library of Education,
Washington D.C. - The Federal governments main
resource for education
information.
National Science
Teachers Association - For more teaching resources.
Sites for
Teachers.com - Lots of links to helpful stuff for teaching.
Sunlink
- Florida's K-12 union catalog
Teacher Tips -
Resources, ideas and Web sites for teachers.
Teachers.Net - A resource on a variety of
topic for teachers including web tools.
Team Florida
Partnership - A good resource for information concerning children
in Florida.
U.S. Department of Education - An
excellent resource for all facets of Government sponsored education, from financial aid
for college to ERIC Digests, Educational Research and Statistics, and Useful Publications
for Parents.
Home Schooling
A
to Z Home's Cool - A home schooling website with
tons of useful links.
Florida Home
School Network - A good resource for information and internet links.
Florida Parent Educators Association -
Another good resource for information and internet links.
Home Education Magazine
- A commercial site put out by Home Education Press with links to articles on
home schooling.
Home Schooling
Resources - This page gives mostly science resources, but also lists many
home schooling discussion groups found on the web.
Learn In Freedom - This site discusses the
many advantages of home schooling and uses many of John Holt's ideas. There are many links
to other discussion and resource pages.
Teach-At-Home - Another
good commercial resource for internet links.
Reading
Resources
Florida Center For Reading Research - Information
and resources for parents and teachers.
Get Ready to Read - A program
of the National Center for Learning Disabilities with tools to help build early
literacy skills.
The International Reading
Association - An 85000-member nonprofit professional
organization dedicated to improving reading instruction and promoting literacy
Jim Trelease Home
Page - Jim Trelease is the author of the Read-Aloud Handbook.
This is a good resource for reports on reading research and other information.
National Right to Read Foundation
- For information on reading research.
ProTeacher.Com -
Check out this site for more links to reading and language arts.
Reading Is Fundamental - RIF is the
nation's largest nonprofit children's literacy organization.
Reading Online -
An online journal of k-12 practice and research published by the International Reading
Association.
Reading Rockets
- Features information about how to help children learn to read and is for parents,
teachers, librarians, tutors, literacy coordinators and others.
Reading Tips for Parents - Great tips to help your child learn to read
from the U.S. Department of Education.
Children's
Literature Review Sources
Book Links - An
excellent resource for articles and reviews of children's literature.
Children's Literature Web Guide - A
good place to start for the topic of children's literature. This web site provides
links, lists, and discussion boards.
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
- A good resource for finding just the right award winning book to complement your lesson
plans.
Horn Book Magazine - Provides articles and
reviews of children's and young adult literature.
School Library Journal - Provides
articles on new trends and issues concerning school libraries and reviews of children's
literature and media submitted by librarians.
Last updated: September 1, 2005
