Researching How to Reference Technology Resources Into Content Areas

Google For Educators
Tools for your classroom.

Google Classroom Activities
How to documents for using Google tools.

Infinite Thinking Machine
The Infinite Thinking Machine (ITM) is a Google sponsored blog designed to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century. Through an active blog, an Internet TV show, and other media resources, the ITM shares a "bazillion practical ideas" for turning the infinite universe of information into knowledge at InfiniteThinking.org


New York Times Learning Network
An online current and special events news site for grades 3-12; updated weekdays during the school year.


AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer

The AT&T family of companies has a long commitment to improving education. The Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE) is the official web site of our education program and has been on the Internet since 1995. Our mission is to help schools and libraries acquire and effectively use Internet and videoconferencing technology. We have online lessons and activities that you can easily incorporate into your classroom. Find out how you can schedule a free workshop, training, or consulting session with an Education Advocate in your area.

Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts and newspapers.

Education for Life


Center for Technology and Teacher Education

Sites for Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum

Educational Resources Directory
A directory of resources unique to the content area.

PPS Teacher Resource Page
Portland Public Schools Curriculum Resource Page

Teaching Today

A Sampling of Web-Based Resources for Content Instruction

Integrating technology into a curriculum requires that teachers and students have access to sufficient software and Internet resources which fit course and curriculum objectives. The Internet is a terrific source for materials which can be used in content-based courses. However, there are three major challenges in using the Internet as a source for classroom instruction: 1) finding (and culling) appropriate sites 2) developing classroom activities which effectively utilize the sites (for content and language instruction) and 3) providing students (and other teachers) dependable and easy access to the sites and the accompanying teaching materials. The following resources provide some help in meeting these challenges.

Great Websites for all Content Areas

Website resources for content areas

Thornburg’s Technology Resource Page

Resources for Professionals

Teaching With Electronic Technology
The World Wide Web sites collected on this page reflect the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching. They are arranged in no strict order, but tend to proceed from rather general and theoretical resources to some instructive examples of specific applications of technology to teaching and learning.

Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT)

COATT is a partnership among Michigan universities, colleges, schools, and educational professional organizations aimed at making our state first in the nation when it comes to training preservice and practicing teachers to use technology as an effective teaching tool.

Online Resources for Teachers

Misc. resources for teachers.

Think Quest

ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.

Educator’s Hot List

Technology resource hot lists.

Read, Think, Write
The Web Resources Gallery offers links to a myriad of useful English language arts resources on the Internet. You may use the drop-down menus above to sort ReadWriteThink's Web Resources by grade band and resource type. See our Resource Definitions for a description of each resource type.


Edutopia (The George Lucas Foundation)
Information and inspiration for innovative teaching in K-12 schools.

Federal Resources For Educational Excellence (free)
Free Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies

Encyclopedia of Life (Science)

Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.

Michigan Learnport
The Michigan LearnPort® professional development website is your opportunity to grow professionally with the support of exceptional online professional development and communications tools. In this time of unprecedented accountability in education, your challenge is to reach beyond traditional approaches to professional development. Michigan LearnPort will allow you to maximize your professional development activities by bringing them to you via any Internet connected computer with exceptional time flexibility. The Michigan Department of Education and Michigan Virtual University invite you to join and become an active member of the growing Michigan LearnPort learning community.