KinderSite!

ASEE's Engineering K12
Center

http://www.engineeringk12.org/

From the American Society for Engineering Education comes this collection of links and information aimed at the engineering profession. There aren't a lot of original  resources on the site (mostly links elsewhere), but there is a good outreach program database for students interested in pursuing something beyond their school classroom., and a good collection of links to engineering lessons and activities elsewhere.

Harvard's
Balanced Assessment

http://balancedassessment.concord.org/

On-going assessment is important both to students, and instructional practice. This collection of 300 K-12 assessment tools were developed by a consortium of university and classroom teachers, coordinated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and thoroughly tested in practice. The results are free for download (mostly in Word format). The tasks are also excellent small projects which easily tie to standards-based school curriculum.

http://www.nationaltechcenter.org/matrix/

The National Center for Technology Innovation is funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. The Reading Matrix is a database of technology tools and programs, and reading software aimed at emerging and struggling readers. There is a checklist, and reviews. This excellent resource will help your school select support materials for your schools remedial reading programs!

Energy Kids Page

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

Reading Quest

http://www.readingquest.org/

The work of Wake Forest social studies professor Raymond C. Jones, this site is most notable for its collection of reading and writing strategies aimed at encouraging comprehension in a social studies classroom (click on the "Strategies" link). Most are derived from external sources, but all come with good descriptions and classroom plans, and many have printable support documents and black-line masters. [Suggested by Cammy Baxter.]

Blogmeister

http://landmark-project.com/blogmeister/

David F. Warlick has been on the educational scene, and on-line, for decades now. Best known for his Citation Machine (we reviewed it in our very first edition, May 10, 2002), David has been busy. He has developed an entire web logging environment (commonly called blogs) online, and it shows that this virtual journal concept has arrived for the high school classroom. His online environment allows for teachers to create secure student accounts, and provides for teacher feedback on students' online writing, with email notification of changes, and preview before public display.