Child Drama

http://www.childdrama.com/

Matt Buchanan is a drama teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, and this collection of resources is aimed at young students of drama and their teachers. There are notes on drama curriculum, monologs, pictures of productions, resources, and lesson plans aimed at a variety of ages. The site is pretty crude, but the ideas are great!

Math Lessons

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/

Don't be fooled by the cute graphics - many of these lessons are high-middle to high school. They're walk-through exercises which can be used as online activities, or the basis of lesson plans. There are also collections of links to other math resources, plus an excellent resource page called GirlTECH on the issue of getting girls interested in computers and technology. This resource is the work of former high school math teacher Cynthia Lanius, director of the Rice University Center for Excellence and Equity in Education.

Kids and the Power of Work

http://www.kapow.org/

Sponsored by the non-profit National Child Labor Committee, KAPOW offers assistance to teachers focusing on career and work topics for grades 1-6. There's a list of competency/skills, a sequenced set of lesson plans on career and work, and resources to help establish connections between classrooms and businesses.

The Calendar from Read-Write-Think
http://readwritethink.org/calendar/

When we featured Read-Write-Think in our October 25, 2002 issue of The Partnership Help Desk, it was just getting started. Since then, this project of The International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English (with funding from MarcoPolo) has really grown! In this issue we feature their calendar, a resource which ties standards-driven lessons to specific events delivered in a calendar format. Each lesson includes plans, ideas, and links to other web resources.

PhET

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/

A project of the University of Colorado at Boulder's physics department with funding from The Kavli Institute, NFS, and Nobel, this site has dozens of java simulations of scientific principles - some with tongue thrust firmly in cheek! The simulations along with teacher resources can be ordered for delivery by CD, and cost nothing.

History Matters

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

From City University of New York and George Mason University, this high school and up resource provides primary resources, documents, audio, and bunches of links on the subject of US history. There are guides to research, links to online reference resources, and articles showing the links between our past and present. 

Scholastic's Writing with Writers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/

Writing with Writers, an online service of school publisher Scholastic, showcases student writing from around the country and includes commentary from published authors and other students. The workshop setting allows students to work with authors, editors and illustrators, and then publish their work on the Web for authentic audiences. Current workshops are exploring biographical sketches (Gr. 3-8) and folktales (Gr 5-6). [Suggested by John Norton in MiddleWeb's newsletter Of Particular Interest]