| Links to Useful Web Sites A-Z |
abcteach - A quality educational site offering printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms, ideas, lessons and much more. Great for new teachers.
A to Z Teacher Stuff - Themes, 200 original lesson plans, printables, tips, articles, and lesson plan links.
Adlerian Psychology Association of BC 
Alliance Francaise Vancouver
American Journeys - This Library and Learning Center links to 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
Answers - This site provides instant reference answers rather than lists of search engine links.
Applied Language Translation - International Language Translation
Art Junction - A virtual learing environment for kids 8 and older with many useful activities and information for curriculum planning.
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory - Awesome Library organizes the Web with 22,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
Bartleby Reference Resources - A combination of one of the best of both contemporary and classic reference works on the net.
Beginning Teachers Tool Box - Links, ideas, and activities useful for beginning teachers, mentor teachers, and administrators.
Big Apple Greeter - Teachers! Planning a visit to New York City? The Big Apple Greeter organization offers a free tour guide to help you get oriented in a city that can be somewhat overwhelming if you don't know where to begin! A diverse range of volunteers are available to give you a taste of the REAL New York, the world's most exciting and diverse city.
B.C. Field Trips - The Lower Mainland Field Trip Guide website contains a listing of almost 250 individual programs offered by 50 venues in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. It contains all the information a teacher would need to know when planning a field trip. We list everything from directions to policies for each of the venues. You will know who to contact to book a program and what the cost will be. It is the most comprehensive field trip guide in the world!
B.C. School Sports - Everything you want to know about school sports.
British Columbia College of Teachers - Online Resource Centre.
British Columbia Teachers' Federation
Canada Science & Technology Museum - National in scope, this unique cross-section of Canadian scientific and technological heritage collection consists of artifacts, photographs, technical drawings, trade literature, and rare books, all of which are complemented and supported by library holdings of monographs and serials.
Canadian Council of English Language Arts
Canadian Mathematics Society
Canadian Resource Page - Everything you want to know about Canada & more!
Canadian Teachers' Federation
Census at School - An international classroom project for students in grades 4-12. Students learn how to complete a brief online survey, analyze their class results and compare themselves with students in Canada and other countries.
Clean Air Achievers - Welcome to HSBC Clean Air Achievers
Clean Air Champions - Clean Air Champions works with a large number of national, provincial and local partners to develop unique, innovative and motivating programs and to deliver these programs throughout Canada.
Community Learning Network - K-12 Resources - Integrating IT. This site is operated and maintained by the BC Ministry of Education.
Columbia Encyclopedia - Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced.
Debbie's Unit Factory - Quality elementary level theme units for elementary educators.
Discovery School Site - All kinds of useful tools can be found on this site.
EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web.
Education Canada - Canada's #1 Education Job Posting Web Site.
Education: Gifted and Talented Students - Annotated and rated links to gifted and talented articles and information for teachers.
Education Week on the Web - An online journal.
Education World - The Educator's Best Friend!
Educational Insights - EI is a free online educational journal that offers a multifaceted perspective with writing by leading edge educational researchers as well as original art, music, photography, poetry, and writing for children.
Educational Resources for Astronomy
Educators Network - Organized collection of links to teacher materials.
Educators for Social Responsibility - Provides teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
Educator's Reference Desk - This site provides access to the following resources: Resource Collection, Lesson Plans, Question Archive, ERIC Database.
Edu-Find - An excellent resource for educators.
Encyclopedia of World History Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expertise over the past ten years to perfect this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
English Gateway - English Gateway vocabulary lessons is a high quality resource for the intermediate and advanced ESL learners.
ESL Kid Stuff - An ESL resource for teachers including flashcards and hundreds of printable worksheets, games, teaching tips and more! A must see site!
ESL Lounge - Hundreds of ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative lessons in the classroom.
Essentials of Music - a site for information about classical music.
Evergreen Learning Grounds - Teacher's Corner
This is an on-line resource to help teachers get the most out of the outdoor classroom. Teacher's Corner is set up to share lesson plans from teachers across the country who are integrating school ground greening projects with their curriculum.
Everything About Learning - Books, resources, and strategies for Educators.
Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception - Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the Web. Included in the site are more than 12,000 Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics.
Explorer Educational Resources - A collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials) for K-12 mathematics and science education. You may browse through mathematics and science education curricula or conduct searches that focus on specific interests.
Family Education Network - One of the Web's leading source of educational content & resources.
Food Studies Institute - Bring Health to Our Future - Give Children a New Experience of Food.
FORED BC - Bringing the Environment to the Classroom.
Free Online Dictionary & Thesaurus - Educational Technology Journal for Literacy & Learning.
Friend to Friend Social Learning Society - Helping Children Understand Autism Spectrum Disorder.
From Now On - Educational Technology Journal.
Fun Brain - One of the Internet's best sites for K - 8 teachers & students.
Get Loud - This site offers extensive resources for educators looking to integrate global justice issues into their classes. French Version
Global Environment Change & Our Health - Journey to Planet Earth - This website features resources for educators, including a comprehensive learning experience on global environmental change and our health.
Global Coherence Initiative Project - The Global Coherence Initiative is a science-based intiative uniting millions of people in heart-focused care and intention, to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace.
Global Gateway - World Culture & Resources - World Libraries & Collections!
Global School House - Provides collaborative and community building projects. Some include an international learning challenge where students produce an educational Web site telling a story about how their local "community cares." Check out CyberFairs, Online Expeditions where you can follow explorers, and Projects Registry to find even more collaborative projects.
Google Desktop Search - Download this handy program and search for anything on your hard drive - from your desktop!
Google Scholar - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
H.R. MacMIllan Space Centre
History Sites - This 'Best of History' web site is an award winning portal created for students, history educators and general history enthusiasts.
Homelessness Hub - The purpose of this information is to raise awareness of Homelessness and to inspire individuals, classrooms and schools into action, thereby making a difference in the lives of others within local and global communities.
Info Please - A combined reference and resource site for teachers.
Inside Yahoo Education - Whether you're a student, a parent, or just plain curious, Yahoo! Reference offers a handy selection of books and materials to help you find the information you need.
Institute of Heart Math - Heart-based Education - an informative resource for parents and educators.
Instructional Intelligence - There are hundreds of instructional strategies out there. This website is dedicated to offering several each month.
International Reading Organization
Internet Public Library - The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
K-3 Learning Pages - 150 pages of different topics of interest for K-3 teachers with each page containing an average of 20 or so internet links for teachers to use in planning or with their classes with Canadian Content. http://www.k-3learningpages.net
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - 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.
Language Learning Library - Your informational source for learning a language.
Learn English - A free, on-line, educational resource helping ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases. When you click on a word or phrase you can hear it spoken. The high quality audio was created in a sound studio. The site is multilingual. The menus, transliterations and translations are in four languages: French, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish. There is an English Only menu, for those who prefer
not to use language translations.
Learning Page - Lesson plans, EBooks, and worksheets for Pre-K-3.
Lesson Plans Page - 1500 original lesson plans for Pre K-12!
Let's Talk Science! - A national not-for-profit organization striving to improve science literacy.
Librarian's Internet Index - Websites that you can trust! Users can find more than 20,000 quality sites organized into more than 14 main topics and 300 subtopics.
Library Spot - This site features a wide collection of resources available online as well as a directory of public, academic, and special libraries worldwide. Site was created to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot.
Math Goodies - A free math help site featuring interactive lessons, homework help, worksheets and forums!
Math Word Problems - Math activities for K-12 teachers.
Media Awareness Network - Media and Internet Education Resources.
Mentoring Boys - Understanding the varying needs of boys is crucial for their school success.
Mining Association of BC - Link to the Education Division.
Ministry of Education - K-12 Curriculum IRP's
MIT Open CourseWare - Welcome to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare: a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.
Most Often Misspelled Words in English - Here are the 100 words most often misspelled ('misspell' is one of them). Each word has a mnemonic pill with it and, if you swallow it, it will help you to remember how to spell the word.
National Library of Canada - Introducing a new institution - Library & Archives of Canada.
National Science Digital Library - Online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
NOVA - Science programming on air and online!
One Look - Dictionary search site.
Online Books Page - This website facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.
Paper of Record - This is a visual representation of information sources for the past 500 years.
Pathways to School Improvement - Pathways synthesizes research, policy, and best practices on issues critical to educators engaged in school improvement.
Physical Sciences International Gateway - A selection of notable events in the scientific world from prehistoric times to the present, broken down into separate subject areas. Each timeline contains dozens of key events which have shaped the world as we know it, together with suggested PSIgate searches for further information.
PhysLink: Physics and Astronomy - A comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site. In addition to providing high-quality content, PhysLink.com is a meeting place for professionals, students and other curious minds.
Planet Orange Teacher Centre - free educational materials such as lesson plans, quizzes, and other resources to help Grade 1-6 students learn the value and good use of money.
Portals to the World - Links to electronic resources from around the world.
Project Gutenberg - The oldest producer of free online books.
ProTeacher - Miscellaneous resources for teachers.
Quizam - Learn Faster...Score Higher.
ReadPrint - A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. This website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Reference Desk - Family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.
Resources for Learning - American Museum of Natural History Science Resources for educators and students.
Safe, Caring & Orderly Schools - BC Ministry of Education - Safe Schools Resources Developed by the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Safe Online Outreach Society
School Leadership Centre at UBC - School Leadership for the 20th Century
Science Learning Network - Discover many interesting topics relating to curriculum areas of study.
Science Pro-D Opportunities - Teachers' Domain Online Multimedia Professional Development introduces educators to media-rich learning environments and provides a range of strategies for use in teaching science concepts with multimedia.
Science World - Science World offers a variety of programs for students and teachers that are available throughout British Columbia.
Serious Art Lessons for Kids
Sites for Teachers - One of the Net's best resources for teachers.
Skills Tutor - Offering scientifically-based content easily integrated into curriculum.
Songs 4 Teachers - Themes including holidays, back to school, dinosaurs, insects, and more!
Speech Language Pathology Sites
Study Guides and Strategies - The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, maintained, and revised on an on-going basis by Joe Landsberger, web site developer at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. It contains a comprehensive compendium of resources and study guides for learners available in 25 languages.
Teach Net - Educational electronic magazine containing creativity tips, lesson plans, and ideas about class decor and management.
Teacher View - Online community for teachers featuring free worksheets, coloring pages, lesson plans, and more!
Teacher Qualification Service - This site is designed for teachers working, or planning to work, in the public schools of British Columbia.
Teachers Helping Teachers - A site written by teachers - for teachers!
Teacher Vision - Teacher Vision is created by teachers for teachers. Millions of teachers rely on Teacher Vision's materials to enhance their curriculum, enrich their students, and make their professional lives a bit easier.
Teach-nology - A ton of free stuff for teachers!
The Canadian Teacher - Site where educators can find the latest links to free resources, materials, lesson plans, software, samples and computers.
The Free Dictionary - English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
The Teacher's Guide - Educator's resource to lesson plans, thematic units, teacher clip art, children's songs, book activities, and more.
The World e-Book Library - The World Electronic Book Library Foundation is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Their mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing free public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic texts on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post baccalaureate studies.
Today in Literature - A calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events in literary history.
Tomatosphere - Tomatosphere is an educational outreach project that reaches over 9000 classrooms across Canada, the United States and several other nations.
VSB CE Montessori Program
Vancouver Law Courts Education Society - Links to education programs offered, including the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Vancouver Training Institute - The Vancouver Training Institute is committed to providing quality career and employment related programs.
Web Teacher - Your source for web knowledge.
Welcome to Blue Web'N - Blue Web'n is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).
Westcoast Exploration of Biodiversity - Operation West Coast Exploration of Biodiversity (Operation W.E.B.) is a WebQuest designed for Grade 7 students in British Columbia by Metro Vancouver in support of the Sustainable Region Initiative.
Windspeaker Classroom Edition - An Aboriginal Site
World Atlas - Excellent Geography site!
World Wide Learn - The world's largest directory of online education.
Yahoo Reference - Yahoo! Reference offers a handy selection of books and materials to help you find the information you need. Look up a definition in the dictionary, find map and flag images for every country in the world in the World Factbook, get in-depth information from the encyclopedia, and much more.
Your Dictionary - A language products and services site that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, and games that build language skills.
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