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(Virginia's) Algebra Readiness Initiative

Virginia's Standards of Learning Algebra Readiness Initiative was approved by the General Assembly for implementation during the second year of the 2000-2002 biennium. The purpose of the Algebra Readiness Initiative (ARI) is to assist school divisions in preparing students for success in algebra.

Awesome Library

Links to lesson plans and information for use in teaching all subjects.

Blue Web'n

Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). Subject-based access to top humanities sites from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Commonwealth of Knowledge

This website was created to provide resources to Virginia teachers for teaching the Virginia SOL. Lesson plans created by Virginia teachers are available here.

Discovery School

Access to Curriculum Center, Teaching Tools, Homework Helpers, Lesson Plans, Brain Boosters, Clip Art Gallery, Puzzlemaker, Study Starters, and Science Fair Central. Links to Discovery Channel Programs.

Education World

Resource for lesson planning, technology integration, professional development, includes information about school issues.

Eduplace

Online test prep practice by Houghton Mifflin.

Edutopia Online

George Lucas' Educational Foundation's Web site provides resources and information for teachers.

Find It Virginia

A Library of Virginia service through which Virginia citizens can find magazine and newspaper articles, online encyclopedias and other reference sites, radio and television transcripts, company information and investment reports, health and wellness information, literary criticism, homework help, photos, maps, diagrams, and illustrations. A Virginia public library card is required to use this resource.

History Globe

Interactive web site, Jamestown Online Adventure, You are the Captain of the Jamestown Colony: Can you do any better than the real colonists did?

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

This resource is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Harcourt School Publishers

Science, Reading, Spelling, English, and Writing resources that correlate to the Harcourt textbooks for grades K-5. Harcourt Science and Harcourt Trophies-Reading.

MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other Marcopolo resources. Links to Marcopolo partners: Arts Edge, EconEdLink, EDSitement, Illuminations, read*write*think, Science Net Links, Xpeditions, and the MCI Foundation.

NCTE Teaching Ideas

National Council of Teachers of English. Links to teaching ideas selected from NCTE publications.

Newbery Medal Home Page

Information about the Newbery Medal award and the books that have won the award, links to Caldecott Award information and winners, and other book awards.

Reading Online

A journal of K-12 practice and research, published by the International Reading Association.

Rubistar

Create rubrics for your Project-Based Learning Activities.

SOL Practice Online-Third Grade

Mrs. Wilborne of Danville, Virginia created this website to prepare her third grade students for the Virginia SOL tests. Mrs. Wilborne's SOL testing page.

SOL Links

This site is the host for connecting to many other resources on the web for teaching the Virginia SOL.

SOL Practice-Interactive Quizzes

Interactive quizzes can be used to practice for SOL tests grades 3-12. These quizzes were developed using released test items from the Virginia Department of Education.

State Alignment Report Overview

This report is designed to detail the coverage of each state's standards on various College Board Examinations.

Teachers First.com

Content specific resources for teaching grades 1-12, includes activities for teaching ESL students.

Teachnology.com

A web portal for teachers, includes lesson plans, printables, web sites, teaching ideas and teacher tools.

Technology in Education

170 Ideas and Resources for Teachers for Integrating Technology into Planning and Curriculum.

United Streaming

Unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by United Learning. United Streaming provides the largest and most current K-12 video/video clip library available today. The only standards-based video-on-demand application shown to increase student achievement, includes practical teacher and student learning resources.

Virginia's Community of Learning

Virginia's Community of Learning is a curriculum, instructional, technology and professional development resource for Virginia and worldwide educators designed to support classroom and learning activities for teachers, students, administrators, parents and future educators.

Virginia Department of Education

Provides links to the Virginia Department of Education's Division of Instruction Standards of Learning Resources for Instruction, Training, and Assessment.

Wacky Web Tales

Interactive creative writing site. Students use parts of speech to create "Wacky Stories" online.

Webquests
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to provide instruction using the Internet.

Writing Resource for the Virginia SOL Writing Tests.

A Teacher's Resource Notebook developed by the Virginia Department of Education for Enhancing Writing Instruction and Improving Scores on the State Assessments.