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• Apple Learning Interchange - Curriculum links and lessons plans for general education and technology.
• BigChalk.com - great links for teachers! Calendar, chat, lesson plan archives, website building templates. Good for teachers, parents, students, media specialist.
• Blackboard.com - a free site to have a class website, share files and online class discussions.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Sites - Reputed to be one of the best sites for teaching using children's books.
• Children's Literature - Resources for Teachers - lists web resources useful for teaching through and with literature.
• Children's Picture Book Database - offers abstracts of over 4000 children's picture books (preschool - 3rd grade). This database is searchable and arranged in subject categories.
• Clip Art Index - thousands of original images which can be used legally for educational purposes. Arranged by topic and useful for kids, teachers, and librarians.
• Comics Get Serious: Graphic Novel Reviews - Latest graphic novel reviews are arranged by title and subject with lengthy synopses and evaluations.
• Crinkles Magazine - Practical K-8 activities and lesson plans. Has reviews, puzzles, games, and other activies for students to gain research skills.
  
• Doucette Index to K-12 Literature-Based Teaching Ideas - If you are looking for teaching suggestions related to a specific book or author, this index should help you find out what is available. Please note that this index will lead primarily to teaching ideas found in books, but also indexes some websites.
• Education Central - Michigan-specific site has instructional resources, state organizations, and professional resources.
• ERIC Clearinghouse - Documents and articles related to teaching and learning.
• Free stuff for teachers - 30 new resources per month
• Lesson Plans from AskERIC - A variety of lesson plans on a wide variety of tops.
• Lightspan.com - lesson plans, great educational sites for kids, international cyberfair competitions, web site creation resources.
• Michigan Electronic Library's Michigan Education Resources - wealth of Michigan-specific resources for teachers
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic- An 83,000 title library of textbooks on tape or computer disk for people who cannot effectively read standard print becasuse of a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.
  
• teachers@random - Bantam Doubleday Dell's site for teachers. Contains biographies of authors, and teaching ideas for several novels. Novels are indexed by grade, theme and curriculum subject.
• Web66 Michigan School Registry - lists many websites for schools in Michigan