Helpful Web Site Links

• AskERIC
  The AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
• The Awesome Library
  The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web.   It contains 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.   Select who you are to see an Awesome Library that is designed for you.
  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
• The Children's Literature Web Guide
  This site is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
  http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
• Classroom Connect
  Take your students on a journey, access lesson plans, review products, contact colleagues.
  http://www.classroom.net/
• Cuyahoga Heights Schools Library Media Center
  A listing of videos and CD-ROMS that can be used in lesson planning, for all subject areas.
  In process of revision by DAS Site
• The Educational Resources Information Center
  The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC, established in 1966, is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education.
  http://www.accesseric.org/
• Educator Resources - McREL
  Software reviews, Internet resources, guides
  http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/techined.asp
• Educator's Toolkit
  Includes a monthly newsletter, featuring reviews of educational web sites, themes, lesson plans, and parent and teacher resources.
  http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
  This is a new one-stop web site for teaching & learning; a place where teachers, federal agencies & other organizations can begin forming partnerships to develop new resources for teaching & learning.
  http://www.ed.gov/free
• Global Schoolhouse
  Internet resources and classroom projects for the education community.
  http://www.gsh.org/
• Houghton-Mifflin Education Place
  Resources for K-8 teachers and students, including a searchable database of lesson plans, interactive games, weekly brainteasers, and online projects for teachers.
  http://www.eduplace.com/
• K-12 Connection
  This site is designed to help teachers develop Internet content for their classrooms.
  http://www.k12connection.org/
• Lesson Plans
  This link provides a wide variety of links to many subject. This link could also be searched through any other engine.
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
• McREL
  A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education, Second Edition
  http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  http://www.m-w.com
• PBS Teacher Source
  This site makes it easy to locate and use the best television and Web resources available, including hundreds of ready-to-use lesson plans.
  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
• Teacher's Resource Center
  For primary, secondary and post-secondary educators--ideas about ways to teach award-winning books? Seeking exciting ways to bring literature alive for your students?
  http://www.randomhouse.com/teachersbdd/
• University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Science
  A site that provides links to hundreds of sources.
  http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~lsdept/links.html
• Web Sites and Resources for Teachers
  Collections of sites and curriculum resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms. These sites, organized in nine categories, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.
  http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/

Electronic resources specifically available to CHS faculty:

• Discovering Series:
  galenet.gale.com/a/acp/name
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online:
  www.infohio.org
• Grolier MultiMedia On-Line:
  www.go.grolier.com
• InfoTrac K-12::
  infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cuya77322
• MediaNet On-Line Catalog to Cuyahoga Media Center Video,
• etc., Collection:
  hcca0.hcca.ohio.gov
• NetWellness:
  www.netwellness.org
• NewsBank Science Source Collection:
  infoweb.newsbank.com
• OCLC/OhioNet First Search:
  www.ref.oclc.org
• ProQuest Direct:
  www.umi.com/proquest